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- Smart grid grants
- Over $3 billion dollars worth of federal money will be awarded to smart grid projects in the U.S. today. President Obama has chosen a Florida solar power plant as the location for making his announcement. He'll be in Arcadia, Florida, at Florida Power and Light Co.’s...
- Tags: Grant, Monitors & Displays, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Components, Wireless And Mobility, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customers
- Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customersWhy, just Why?Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to becoming Comcast customers? Where I live even DSL is not available so my only choice is Comcast and they are terrible, their customer service is terrible, their installers are unreliable and they...
- Tags: INTERNET, Cable, Network technology, TVs, Broadband Internet, comcast, Comcast Corp., voice customer
- Discussion threads 2009-08-06
- Miami's smart grid no-brainer
- It's a city that must have air conditioning to survive. Clothes dryers and dehumidifiers are a fact of modern life. So it's smart of Miami to enlighten its electric grid. And they're planning to use federal stimulus money to do just that. GE CEO Jeffrey...
- Tags: Miami, Grid, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Report: Android sales to outstrip iPhone's by 2012
- Report: Android sales to outstrip iPhone's by 2012RE: Report: Android sales to outstrip iPhone's by 2012Google has an opportunity. I use an iPhone and consider myself a typical adopter. We like the slickness of the iPhone, its thin and light slips into the pocket easily and "just works"....
- Tags: Sales strategy, sales, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Android sale, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-09
- Rail--even more controversial than nuclear?
- Rail--even more controversial than nuclear?Sorry HarryYou're in the wrong place if you expect reasonable discussion based on facts. The majority of responders here start from ideology, not facts.Nuclear fission, of course, is still the same ideology that got us here in the first place. Use a scarce, incredibly...
- Tags: ideology, car, bus system
- Discussion threads 2009-02-25
- Windows 7 Starter Edition on a netbook
- Windows 7 Starter Edition on a netbook You can run any edition up to ....... and including Ultimate. You don't have to limit what gets loaded only what you run concurrently. I have tested Ultimate on a netbook with 512MB and Office 2007. It wasn't stellar but...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, iPhone is Apple, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-02-09
- Smart grid tech player Silver Spring receives a cool $75M
- Despite the ongoing financial meltdown, people still are throwing money around for greentech/cleantech companies. For now, at least. Silver Spring Networks, which develops Smart Grid technology, said it has received an additional $75 million in funding intended for global expansion. The investment round was led by Kleiner...
- Tags: Financial, Venture Capital, Financial Accounting, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Financing Startups, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Silver Spring Networks boasts smart grid network in action
- OK, oil just hit another high today, and it's getting easier and easier to cash $100 bills at my local gas station. They used to give me trouble for changing a $50. Harry does a much better job of blogging about energy sources than me (because IT is my thing...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Network, Utility, Technology, Networking, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Did Chinese copy unattended U.S. laptop?
- Did Chinese copy unattended U.S. laptop?RE: Did Chinese copy unattended U.S. laptop?US Customs can look through and copy just about everything they want from laptops or PDA's of visitors too whenever they feel like it. Not saying they -are- spying, but they could just as easily.I never ever leave my...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Chinese copy
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?
- Chinese hackers may have been behind power blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to a report in the National Journal. The report, penned by Shane Harris for the National Journal, lays out a lengthy case that China has deployed hackers working unofficially and officially for the...
- Tags: U.S., China, Blackout, Hacker, Intelligence Official, Takeaway, Government, Hacking, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Lose your VoIP in today's massive South Florida blackout?
- (via South Florida Sun-Sentinel) Quoted on the website of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper, Florida Power & Light spokeperson Aletha Player estimated that some 700,000 South Floridians lost power due to a shutdown at an FP&L nuke plant today. Power...
- Tags: Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- "Sunny day, chasing those clouds away." (Or Ausra teams up with utilities for solar thermal development)
- Another amazingly sunny, potentially thunder-y afternoon out here in Jersey. Which is probably why I noticed this particular set of energy news out of the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York this week… Three companies -- FPL Group (the parent company of Florida Power & Light,...
- Tags: Team, Turbine, PG&E Corp., Plant, FPL, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- E-voting
- E-votingSo that's why PJ bans "politics"Not that it works, of course, but boy if you want to be provocative you've succeeded. I won't argue the Democrats have clean hands. There is the old story of how after his death William F. Buckley's grandfather switched from Republican to Democrat....
- Tags: Vertical industries, Keyboards, e-voting, government, VOTING MACHINES
- Discussion threads 2006-11-14
- Let there be light, optical cables included
- New company Sunlight Direct looks to commercialize a system for piping daylight into buildings through fiber optic cables. Photos: Sunlight's system Office workers toiling under eye-tiring fluorescent bulbs have hope for a brighter day. A company called Sunlight Direct is developing a hybrid...
- Tags: Benefit, Fiber-optics, Sunlight Direct, Office Building, Fiber Optics, Network Technology, Cable, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Networking, Personal Technology, Martin LaMonica, Technology News
- News items 2006-08-30
- Is DC the power to solve heat problems?
- Problems keeping data centers cool lead some to try direct current. But some say it's a bad idea. Thomas Edison lost the war when it came to his advocacy of direct current as the best way to distribute electricity. But his ideas are now winning battles as a solution...
- Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Rackable Systems, Power Supply, DC, AC, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Stephen Shankland
- News items 2006-03-02
- Lawmakers to act on ChoicePoint ID theft
- Lawmakers to act on ChoicePoint ID theftIronic" A Nigerian man was sentenced to 16 months in prison..."Gee, maybe he was the one that started the original Nigerian scam still running around the Internet? :-)Seriously though, as it is with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, we should hold the ChoicePoint executives personnaly responsible for...
- Tags: ChoicePoint Inc., identity theft
- Discussion threads 2005-02-24
- FCC gives nod to ultrawideband wireless
- The agency finally gives the green light for companies to start selling ultrawideband wireless gear, despite complaints from the U.S. military that the signals cause interference. The Federal Communications Commission in a controversial decision on Thursday approved the commercial use of "ultrawideband" technology. ...
- Tags: UWB, FCC, Wireless, UWB Technology, SkyCross, Ultrawideband (UWB), Federal Government, Wireless And Mobility, Government, Ben Charny
- News items 2002-02-14
- States balk at settlement proposal
- State attorneys general are not expected to sign a settlement agreement hammered out between Microsoft and the Justice Department--at least, not in its current form. The 18 state attorneys general who are co-plaintiffs in the...
- Tags: Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Antitrust, Settlement, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department Of Justice, Decree, State, Litigation, Business Operations, Joe Wilcox, Technology News
- News items 2001-11-05
- Where is the Web when we need it most?
- In times of great stress, people need facts and information to calm them. In times of great technology, there is no excuse for leaving the public stranded in an information void. Guest columnist Joyce Bosc says this is why governments need local Web presence. COMMENTARY-- Not surprisingly in the...
- Tags: Web, Government, E-government, Vertical Industries, Joyce Bosc, Technology News
- News items 2001-10-12
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