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- Is greenhouse gas reporting about to become the next SOX-like IT problem?
- The last two weeks have brought a whirlwind of news, from both a global and domestic perspective, that suggest things are about to get really tricky for businesses that have been ignoring the little matter of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions reporting. I couldn't possibly list everything but...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Information Technology, Greenhouse Gas, Climate Change, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Verdantix, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Help your company, help the earth
- According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average office worker in the US uses 10,000 sheets of paper, which comes out to 4 million tons of copy paper used annually. I want to share with you all the handy dandy Environmental Defense Fund Paper Calculator, which easily allows you to...
- Tags: Savings, Paper Calculator, Document Management, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Doc
- Sponsored content 2009-09-18
- National Archives: What, Me Worry?
- National Archives: What, Me Worry?Legitimately do us harm??wtf do u mean"Granular levels of Access" - probably notFor the record so to speak, there is no "National Security Administration". There is the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA - the National Archives) and the National Security Agency (NSA - the communications...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, National Security Archive, National Archives
- Discussion threads 2009-05-26
- Teflon: is it safe?
- A comment to one of my recent posts said: "Hey you wanna do a story? Try researching Teflon and what the FDA's special group studying it has been up to and what the manufacturer has been doing. Then think about all the teflon coating in fast food, popcorn and cooking...
- Tags: FDA, DuPont Co., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Teflon, Federal Government, Food & Beverage, Government, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- News scraping: Are bloggers doing more harm than good?
- News scraping: Are bloggers doing more harm than good?Sources and attributionin many cases the newspapers need to remember that it is not their own words that they're guarding. It is the words of their sources. In most cases the plain facts and the words of a third party can be...
- Tags: Blogging, blogger
- Discussion threads 2009-03-02
- Court's decision is boon for alternative energy
- Good news for alternative energy technologies: An environmental review board has shot down EPA approval of a new coal plant, saying that the Environment Protection Agency needs to come up with nationwide standards for dealing with carbon dioxide. Wired reports that the decision means lengthy and stricter...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Out of our hands, but not out of our lives. New info on green tech dumping
- We've all heard the horrible stories about discarded tech from the United States that has shown up across India and Asia. Because the coverage of this topic has gotten better, you may have been lulled into thinking that the situation has gotten a whole lot better. But this ongoing blog...
- Tags: Green Technology, Tech, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Malware detected at the International Space Station
- Malware detected at the International Space StationBetter use Linux next timeI'm amazed that anything M$ is allowed into space. It's totally insane. What next - avionics powered by Windows? That's one flight I won't be going on :DRE: Malware detected at the International Space StationNorton Anti-virus updates on a daily...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Linux, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, malware, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, worm
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Today's assignment : Coding an undetectable malware
- Today's dynamic Internet threatscape is changing so rapidly, that the innovations and creativity applied by malware authors can easily render an information security course's curricular on malware outdated pretty fast, or worse, provide the students with a false feeling of situational awareness about today's malware that's driving the entire cybercrime...
- Tags: Malware, Antivirus Software, Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your business
- Of course our government cannot really tell us the truth about things like "weapons of mass destruction," or the true costs of various wars and occupations, or the size of the CIA's budget, because we're so silly and can't be trusted to understand. Turns out, we can't be told...
- Tags: Chemicals, Health Care, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, European Union, Government Accounting Office, Naphthalene, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Some thoughts from Intel's green queen: Lorie Wigle
- Here's a stat about Intel that you might not have heard: The company is currently the largest purchaser of alternative energy: an estimated 1.3 BILLION (yes, billion with a B) kilowatt-hours in annual green power usage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's latest Top 25 list. That's roughly 46 percent...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, KWh, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Podcasts, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- When should you tackle that data center rationalization project?
- So here's a question: When, exactly, should a data center be overhauled? What is the best rational for a data center manager to use with upper management to undertake such a project? And just how big of a deal should said data center manager make out of the green element...
- Tags: Data Center, Server, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-13
- Headaches in Armonk but will green lose out?
- No doubt the IBM top team will be passing around the Tylenol today in Armonk as they figure out what to do next after their temporary exclusion from further contracting with the US Federal government. Sadly it is not an April fool's joke - the US Attorney's office for the Eastern...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, IBM Corp., FCW, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Management, Government, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- A surprise in nature's operating system
- A surprise in nature's operating systemGenetic manipulation"Can we encode the HIV virus into the human genome, rendering it harmless, and should we?"I know it's "too geeky" for some, but in the Star Trek Deep Space 9 series they had a character, Dr. Bashir, who had been born with abnormally low...
- Tags: Biotechnology, RNA, DNA, antibiotic, bacteria, genetic manipulation, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-11-29
- Goin' green: About that Energy Star sticker on your frig? PCs and maybe servers are next.
- Yesterday, I posted two blogs here and here regarding an AMD-hosted panel discussion that I attended in Cambridge, MA. Execs from AMD, EMC, HP, and APC were there to talk about short term measures that can yield savings in energy expenditures and green house gas emissions today, and then...
- Tags: ICF Consulting, PC, Server, Procurement, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- No Macs meet stricter Energy Star specs
- Greenpeace is going to have a field day with this one.The love/hate relationship that environmentalists have with Apple Inc. took a turn for the worst on 20 July when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy tightened their requirements for their Energy Star program. The bad...
- Tags: Hardware, Environment
- Blog posts 2007-07-29
- FTC nails online music store vendor BurnLounge as pyramid
- FTC nails online music store vendor BurnLounge as pyramidFTC/BurnLounge - Follow the MoneyWhenever a government agency like the FTC goes after someone like BurnLoungeand before you make a personal judgment about the merits of the underlying issue; it's always best to ask yourself: "If the FTC is successful in shutting...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, online music, BurnLounge, food, McDonald's Corp., Apple iTunes, FTC, Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
- Microsoft asking EC for more details on licensing fees
- Microsoft asking EC for more details on licensing feesIs 0.0% a permissible amountwhy even call it a fee if that number was granted? Just say the penalty applied is freely licensing.Talk about blowing smoke..."The Commission will review Microsoft's response and will ultimately make a formal decision on whether Microsoft...
- Tags: Sales force management, Microsoft Corp., Kroes
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
- RSA 2007: DHS's Greg Garcia gets organized for cybersecurity battle
- At a town hall meeting at the RSA 2007 Conference in San Francisco, Greg Garcia, the Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications, described the environment in which his agency operates:"The next ten years there will be a single integrated IP network that serves all needs," Garcia...
- Tags: General, Security, Government, Greg Garcia
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
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