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Verne Global pledges greener cloud: No cost premium attached

Why cloud computing will inspire even more attention to green IT. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Green IT, Pledge, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-13

Microsoft Joins the Great Tech Carbon Telethon

Today is Red Nose Day in the UK, a day when you are supposed to do something 'funny for money'. People in offices all over the UK will don a plastic red nose and raise money to provide financial relief for Africa. Tonight the BBC will run a telethon and...

Tags: Baseline, Emission, Carbon Dioxide, Pledge, Microsoft Corp., James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-03-13

MembershipPro Finance 7.02 (Windows)

A complementary application to MembershipPro for complete financial management by churches, synagogues, and clubs. Integration with the MembershipPro database associates members with contributions and pledges. Full financial support including income, contributions, pledges, dues and expenses. Powerful and flexible finance reporting shows expenses and income for up to 5 years of...

Tags: Accounting, Financial, Pledge, Income, Microsoft Windows, Coon Creek Software, Operational Accounting, Financial Management, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Financial Planning

Software downloads 2009-02-11

ChurchInfo 1.2.11 (Windows)

ChurchInfo is a church database Web application to help churches track members, families, groups, pledges, and payments. ChurchInfo includes features to track pledges and payments by family, generate reminder and tax letters, automate donations by bank draft and credit card, create groups, schedule meetings in WebCalendar, generate maps, and facilitate...

Tags: Payment, Pledge, Microsoft Windows, ChurchInfo Open Source Team, ChurchInfo, Taxes, Free Trade, Operational Accounting, Web Servers, Financial Planning, Finance, Internet

Software downloads 2008-06-11

Blackboard's Groundhog Day pledge to open source

Blackboard Inc. has issued an open source patent pledge that may not be worth the virtual paper its printed on.Here is what the companys general counsel, Matthew Small, told Inside Higher Ed:“The pledge covers anything anyone is realistically worried about in the e-learning community. Any school can look at this...

Tags: General, Applications, Software Licensing, Legal, Patents, education, educational groupware, pledge, groupware, open source

Blog posts 2007-02-02

Bradley Kuhn rips Microsoft's patent pledge to shreds. But should we be surprised?

Yesterday, in reponse to Microsoft’s Patent Pledge for Non-Compensated Developers which was an integral part of last weeks pact between the software giant and Novell, Software Freedom Law Center CTO Bradley Kuhn issued a tersely worded warning to the Free and Open Source Software FOSS community that the pledge is...

Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Legal, F/OSS, openSUSE.org

Blog posts 2006-11-10

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Copenhagen will hear first U.S. pledge to cut emissions

U.S. President to pledge the nation to 17% reduction of greenhousegas emissions, comparingv 2020 with 2005 as the base year. by Harry Fuller

Tags: U.S., Emission, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-25

Washington: lots of talk about global warming

Lots of talk around the American capital today on the topic of global warming. The CO2 emissions from various political factions and lobbyists alone could raise the global temp another degree or two. And that's not counting the carbon footprint of all the plane travel involved in moving...

Tags: U.S., Republican, Climate Change, U.S. Senate, Global Warming, European Union, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-03

ICANN, US government splitting up - slowly

Well, this is a somewhat amorphous development: The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. government is now "loosening control" over ICANN, the semi-private "director" of DNS addressing. The move is seen as a stamp of approval for the private-sector approach and will mollify European governments who have long been...

Tags: ICANN, U.S. Government, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-09-30

EPA to schools: Cut energy costs, have more budget for education

Now that school is back in session across most of the United States, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is challenging administrators to address energy efficiency as part of its Energy Star Challenge pledge. The agency estimates the annual cost of electricity for primary and secondary schools at $8 billion. Wouldn't...

Tags: Education, School, Energy Efficiency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Another torrent site slapped down

Scandinavian courts continue their smackdown of torrent sites. PC Mag reports that a Dutch court has given Mininova.org 30 days to clean the site of trackers linked to copyrighted files. The problem with Mininova's case was evidence that moderators actively filtered and purged malware disguised as movie...

Tags: Site, Mininova, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Viruses And Worms, Security, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Crime in Focus

Crime mapping has become part of an official UK Government 'pledge'. This should provide the public, press and politicians with important insights into the crime profile of their neighbourhood. Crime mapping will also be an important channel through which to broadcast and exemplify law enforcement successes. However, there are a...

Tags: Crime

White papers 2009-08-24

Juniper offers up white paper on energy efficiency for networks

The efforts of Cisco and IBM to extend the energy efficiency debate out of the data center and out into the network have been highly publicized, but I've made a pledge to myself to actively explore what other networking equipemnt providers are doing in this area. (Note to any networking...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Network, Juniper Networks Inc., Networking, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Report: Americans dumber than a box of rocks about spam

When it comes to spam, we Americans are quick to point our fingers at Russia, China and eastern Europe as the regions responsible for the bulk of it. But a new report issued today found that Americans are largely to blame - not because we create it, but because we're...

Tags: Spam Message, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Greek Life 1.1 (Mobile)

Greek Life provides easy access to Keeping up with pledge's and member's detailed information. Everyone who has been in a Frat or a Sorority knows that information such as hometown, contact info, and classification is necessary to have available. In the Greek Life iPhone application, for each fraternity and sorority...

Tags: Mobile, Member, Hometown, Vurgood Apps, Greek Life, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-07-20

JEFF BEZOS IS WATCHING YOU

Amazon's removal of George Orwell ebooks from every Kindle with a paid entitlement is not only ironic in context but has frightening ramifications in terms of privacy and content ownership. Without warning or any sort of advance notification on Friday, Amazon...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-18

BookKeeper 3.0 (Windows)

This time-saving software helps your non-profit organization easily manage received contributions. Bookeeper 3.0 will generate detailed reports and provide individual statements to contributors for tax purposes. This intuitive and fun-to-use bookkeeping software application will assist you with building pledge campaigns by offering a way to record commitments and building fund...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Contributor, Mud Pie Creations, Taxes, Free Trade, Tools & Techniques, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-15

Tsk, tsk: Greenpeace scolds HP, Lenovo and Dell on latest green electronics listing

Yes, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo have been doing plenty in the area of power management. But all three just got dinged on the latest of Greenpeace's ongoing Guide to Greener Electronics. The link that I've just given you provides very details specifics on why each company has received the company...

Tags: Greenpeace, Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Lenovo Group Ltd., Electronics, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-10

Firefox 3.5 final prepped to ship early next week

The Mozilla team made available another release candidate of Firefox 3.5 last night. But RC3 is of little interest. What's most exciting is news that Firefox 3.5 will ship early next week. That's the pledge of the development team, which indicated its final ship...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Open Source, Open Source Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-06-25

NOAA's prophetic pronouncements get reax

From Greenpeace, hated by global warming deniers--Greenpeace USA Climate Campaign Director Damon Moglen issued this statement: “The White House report on climate change is a stark confirmation of what scientists have been saying for years: unless we dramatically curb our emissions, the world will face unprecedented climate...

Tags: U.S., President, NOAA, Climate, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-16