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- World's most boring TV show to measure energy use
- World's most boring TV show to measure energy useWAIT!I thought LCD displays consumed LESS energy the CRT displays!I know plasma displays use just about as much energy as CRTs.What gives? Unless the "savings" are used up by the increase indisplay size. I assume a 65" rear projection tube...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, energy use, TV-show
- Discussion threads 2007-10-02
- Is using less energy actually green?
- Everyone says so, but in reality the more likely answer is no - the greenest thing you can do in areas where regulatory constraints limit electrical power generation and delivery is to use more of it.Notice that this isn't about about dollar costs -everyone knows that using less costs you...
- Tags: Paul Murphy, pollution, energy use
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Will emotion or policy drive clean-tech movement?
- Will emotion or policy drive clean-tech movement?Amazing Anti-Profit Article!Here is a newsflash: if alternative fuels or energy was profitable we would see it all over the United States and the world! But it is not because not even fat subsidies from the US government can make it work. In fact...
- Tags: Benefits, Telecom & Utilities, benefit, energy use, speed limit, environmental
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
- Start-up cools data centers, cuts energy use
- Start-up cools data centers, cuts energy useEnglish spoken here!There is an increasing tendency to mix singular subjects with plural verbs out there! Please!! In paragraph 4 "The core of the system are "intelligent fan tiles" should read The core of the system is "intelligent fan tiles", (is matching core, a...
- Tags: Data centers, energy use, data center
- Discussion threads 2006-01-04
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- Small differences can make a BIG difference
- I recently got a chance to talk with one VC firm that's focused some of its attention and money on cleantech. One of their investments is in OPX, which seems to have a unique approach to solving some of the energy and raw material supply issues facing the planet....
- Tags: Chemicals, Clean Technology, Costs, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Photos: Where the building is the network
- The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...
- Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-14
- Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.
- The U.S. Department of Interior has just listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species, that is legally and technically different than being listed as "endangered." The Feds based their announcement on studies by government scientists. Global warming is reducing Arctic sea ice off...
- Tags: Bear, Global Warming, Bloomberg News, Wetzler, Kivalina, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- OK, Dell. Maybe your tech's greener, but what about green services?
- Great timing on Dell's part. Wait until arch-rival or at least one of them Hewlett-Packard is busy chatting up the press about a minor (ha!) services acquisition, and then WAY up the ante when it comes to an energy-efficiency proclamation. Here's the thing: While other vendors, including...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Dell: We're greener than HP
- Dell said Wednesday that it is designing its laptops and desktops to consume up to 25 percent less energy by 2010 compared to today. Welcome to the latest in the "we're greener than you" game where green technology intersects with marketing-speak. Green IT is fashionable, but increasingly...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Power Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green Technology, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- First, a game of green. Then, fade to black
- It is truly astonishing that I mention the word Apple in a post and I get more talkbacks than pretty much anything I write about. Puh-leeze, get a grip. Anyway, just back from reluctantly leaving my old PowerBook G4 with the kindly (actually, can someone half my age be kindly?)...
- Tags: Brain, Query, Apple Inc., Games, E-mail, Web Site Development, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Satellites seeing clearly despite clouds
- Two researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL have developed a mathematical tweak which dramatically improves air pollution detection on cloudy days. They've found a way to reduce cloud-induced glare when satellites measure blue skies on cloudy days, by as much as ten-fold in some cases. 'Because clouds represent one...
- Tags: Wavelength, Pollution, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Is wireless mesh a game-changer?
- Is wireless mesh a game-changer?*huge* potentialThe future of networking is not by using networks that are controlled by a select few, but by alrge scale networks distributed over many owners interconnecting with each other.Telecomms have managed to keep the wire to themselves, and paid handsomely to keep the likes of...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, wireless, game-changer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- New AMD Opterons are good news for schools
- AMD, a company that has been struggling to compete meaningfully with Intel in the last year, announced new "highly efficient" quad-core processors for blade and rack servers. With energy costs increasing drastically and no relief in sight, schools looking to shave costs, as well as green their IT departments,...
- Tags: Desktop, Data Center, Performance, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Thin Clients, Performance Management, Storage Management, Storage, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Combined HP-EDS can explore missing methodology around how to offload IT to the cloud(s)
- HP's now official pending EDS buy for just shy of $14 billion positions the combined companies to organize and manage the hosted/on-premises mix to maximum efficiency and lowest TCO. It's a great goal to shoot for because all they have to do is beat IBM. With this...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., End Goal, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- THE SUN FIRE X4600 M2 SERVER AND PROVEN VIRTUALISATION SCALABILITY
- Nearly every Information Technology organisation is using consolidation, or is considering using consolidation, as a way to reduce both capital and operating costs. IT organisations with a number of applications running on older, inefficient, and under-utilised servers can consolidate them onto a smaller number of high-performance, energy-efficient servers that can...
- Tags: Virtualization, Information Technology, Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-05-13
- Creating an Energy-Efficient Datacenter : Consolidate with Sun technology
- Consolidation and hardware technology refreshes enable datacenters to provide more applications and services in less space and at less cost.This in-depth report shows how by moving to high-performance, energy-efficient Sun servers and storage systems, IT organisation can take advantage of the latest advancements while saving on power and cooling.
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-05-13
- SUN FIRE X4150 AND X4450 : SERVER ARCHITECTURE : Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology
- In recent years, emerging applications and expanding Web services have fuelled an escalating demand for mission-critical IT resources, with increasing numbers of collaborative business initiatives focused on information sharing and continuous data availability. As a result, IT data centres experienced rapid growth as the number of applications, the population of...
- Tags: Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Intel Corp., Real Estate, Strategy, Servers, Business Operations, Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-05-13
- WorldWide Telescope (exe)
- The WorldWide Telescope WWT is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine...
- Tags: Environment, Sky, Web 2.0, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-05-13
- Is it RIP for my aged Apple laptop?
- OK. I may just have found a very relevant reason to go out and buy a new computer: I think I have officially killed my four-year-old Apple notebook. And, yes, I will lose data if I can't recover the hard drive. And, yes, I am traveling as this discovery is...
- Tags: Thin Client, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, IGEL, Thin Clients, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Toshiba Regza 32CV510U
- One of Toshiba's least expensive flat-panel TVs for 2008, the 32-inch 32CV510U defines the phrase "good enough." Its picture outclassed that of the cheapest such set we've tested this year, the Insignia's NS-LCD32-09, but many people buying at this screen size are probably shopping more on price than picture quality...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba 32CV510U, picture setting
- Product reviews 2008-05-12
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