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In core wars, AMD carves out some open field

AMD added a triple-core processor to its desktop roadmap and could find itself with some open field in the core wars. The processor, the AMD Phenom, has three brains--computational cores on a single die of silicon. AMD says it plans to offer the chip beginning in the first...

Tags: Desktop, Processor, AMD Phenom, Dual-core, Mercury Research, Quad-core, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-18

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Could you green the world brick by brick?

It's a brick."Well, the mainstream bricks boys do not like CalStar and want to prevent from the use of the very word 'brick.'"Oh, puh-lease. Even when people in third world countries put mud in molds on the ground and use sunlight to bake it, we still call them bricks.Yes, it's...

Tags: CalStar, Oak Creek, ash, fly ash, Oak

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?

Recycling is part of our daily lives. We do it everyday with plastics, newspapers and other general household things. Cars are now recycled throughout North America and Europe at high efficiency rates. Everything seems to be covered, right? Computers and batteries face recycling problems. We already know that...

Tags: Landfill, Computer, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Government, Hardware, Components, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-18

Printable batteries

Printable electronics have taken off in recent years, and there are now industrial-scale printing machines that can efficiently deposit a variety of flexible electronic components onto flexible substrates to create wearable sensors, displays, smart packaging labels, and other printable products. However, developing printable, flexible energy-storage devices, such as supercapacitors and...

Tags: Battery, Printing, Engineering, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-07-17

To the Moon: Rocketdyne, Keeper of the Flame

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Engine, Moon, Aerospace & Defense, Workforce Management, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-15

LEDs get royal treatment, will they save the planet?

Hey, even Buckingham Palace, seat of the one of the most traditional, old-fashioned, archaic, medaeval institutions--that being British monarchy--has converted to LEDs. Can Congress and Exxon be that far behind? Of course the royal family can do such things by fiat, they need not appeal to investors, lobbyists...

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-31

How that mercury gets into your salmon

A study of mercury pollution finally shows how mercery from natural and human-controlled sources gets through the rain cycle and into the ocean and its inhabitants. The research shows mercury levels in the Pacific rose 30% in the fifteen years prior to 2006. Also, much of the mercury...

Tags: Coal, Pollution, Mercury, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-03

New atomic clock loses only a second every 300 million years

The quest to create the perfect scientific timepiece has led to the development of an atomic clock that researchers from JILA claim to be fifty percent more accurate than results reported last year. JILA, is a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST...

Tags: Clock, Atom, NIST, JILA, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Wolfram Alpha: A model for data jobbing?

Wolfram Alpha: A model for data jobbing?It's just yes or no.To review (in response to http://tinyurl.com/cel9p5)...You bet that "Kimball's ruling" would be overturned on appeal. I bet it won't. In context, this would be the ruling we're talking about: [b][i]"But in August of 2008, Kimball granted Novell's request for summary...

Tags: Wolfram Alpha

Discussion threads 2009-03-24

Believe in evolution? Edison, incandescent, flourescent, halogen, LED, then OLED

From staid and traditional industries the once-separate world of flat screens and lighting have merged to form one of the most exciting frontiers of innovation and new tech. CRTs are now museum pieces. Cathode ray tubes? Supported by both corporate and consumers' desire to save on energy bills and save...

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Organic Light-emitting Diode, OLED-A, OLEDS, OLED Screen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-05

A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panic

A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panicWhere to start?[i]Dr. Andrew Wakefield, whose study, trumpeted on 1,000 Web sites, claimed the preservative in MMR (Mumps, Measles and Rubella) vaccines given to infants contains mercury which causes autism.[/i]Wakefield never claimed that preservatives in MMR caused autism; this may be due...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine, mercury, MMR, autism

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

Legal shoe drops on vaccine-autism link

Legal shoe drops on vaccine-autism linkIt will never endtoo many parents see their autistic kids as "broken" and want something or someone to blame.Having said that, there are varying levels of autism, and I can't help but wonder if some of the higher orders of autism the primarily manifest as...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, autism, vaccine, ADHD, Autism, Wakefield

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

WSJ downgraded; Are layoffs next?

Is it wrong to keep believing in newspapers? Apparently Wall Street thinks so. And this time, the target is planted straight on the back of News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch and his Wall Street Journal. Peter Kafka reports on his Media Memo blog, which is...

Tags: Layoff, Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Blogging, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-30

Can someone make my cell server, please?

Can someone make my cell server, please?BumpIgnoreTry this blokeDr. Gaurav KhannaHe might be able to helphttp://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputerWell.. there is the QS22..Well MurphyIf you want to build a supercomputer of cell processors you'd prob' want more than good single precision floating point performance, hence you'd want the version 2 of the CELL...

Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, Processors, blade, IBM Corp., Cell, Sony PlayStation 3

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

Why "cheap" energy is really costly in the long run

The TVA coal sludge mess is like most disaster stories. In the first days estimates get continually worse until something close to realistic appraisal is reached. Then the lawsuits and finger-pointing begin. We've just hit that stage. TVA is now facing lawsuits. ...

Tags: Ash, Coal, TVA, Coal Ash, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Needed: a truly green source of light (besides the sun). Any bright ideas?

Fossil fuel prices are dropping so all the folks who rushed into the alternative energy branch of greentech are going to be slogging up a steep and slippery slope for some time. But can't somebody come up with a good idea for artificial lighting that is both more efficient...

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Fossil Fuel Price, CFL, MERCURY, Worldwatch, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displays

Within the next 12 months, Dell plans to adopt displays that use light emitting diodes as a standard feature across its entire notebook product line. The first milestone in this transition will come on Dec. 15 of this year, when the company estimates that about two-thirds...

Tags: Notebook, Dell Computer Corp., Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Russia, Georgia and NASA

Russia, Georgia and NASASelf reliance is a good thingLet's be really glad we're not dependent on Russia for more important things... and yes, I do think that foreign countries should be wary of over-dependence on the US works both ways.I think Bill Nelson has done a good job over the...

Tags: Self-Reliance, COTS, SpaceX, Orbital, NASA

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Disaster averted: But (sob) my next notebook might not be an Apple one

I'm thinking I owe GreenTech Pastures readers an update on the state of my Apple PowerBook G4, which now is resting comfortably on the desk behind me, although it's in a bit of rehab with some applications that have disappeared. (Yes, I have two computers, so shoot me.) One of...

Tags: Toshiba Tecra, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-05-17

HP's bid for EDS: Opportunity costs loom

The debate around Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Electronic Data Systems follows three primary questions. Is the EDS acquisition another Compaq--a deal that will take years to pay off? Is EDS the right acquisition for HP? Are there other places where HP should spend its money? HP on Tuesday...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Dennis, Tools & Techniques, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-13