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- A flip of the on switch: Utah wind project goes online
- Seems wasteful to send the energy 2 states away...Very cool to see a big wind farm come online, but most of that energy is going to be wasted on transmission line leakage by the time it gets to California. We really need to get to the point of highly-localized power...
- Tags: power generation
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Images: Distributing wind power in the neighborhood
- Some wind companies are building mid-size turbines for on-site power generation for schools, businesses, or farms. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Power Generation, Wind Energy, Telecom & Utilities, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-06-03
- Doors that 'revolutionize' power generation
- The energy you expend at the gym, on the nightclub dancefloor, and now, pushing a revolving door are sources for capturing electrical energy that is reusable. Fluxxlab, a design firm aiming to convert small amounts of human energy into electricity has created The Revolution Door and Powerslide, two prototype...
- Tags: Power Generation, Energy, Engineering, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Yangtze Power Improves Business Intelligence With Integrated Database and Analysis Tools
- China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd is China's largest publicly listed utility. Yangtze Power relies heavily on technology to support smooth operations. To gain a coherent view of its operations, Yangtze Power had to consolidate data from these systems, a time-consuming task that hindered timely decision-making during critical periods. The company...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Analysis Tool, Information Management, Oracle Corp., Power Generation, Tool, Yangtze Power, Storage, Databases, Strategy, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Red shift meets event horizon
- I was amazed to read reports of a dinner last week at which top Sun executives sitting around the same table seem to have made statements that totally contradict one another. On the one hand, Greg Papadopoulos, Sun CTO and executive vice president of R&D, was telling...
- Tags: Danger, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Solar Energy, Power Generation, Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- When it comes to electrical grid, smarter is greener
- Got a dispatch out of Rosemead, California: “Southern California Edison Unveils Nation’s Smartest Neighborhood Electricity Grid.†The document goes on to cover what the utility calls the “Circuit of the Future,†a project serving 1,420 homes and businesses in an area called the “Inland Empire.†The project is designed...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Fiber-optics, Power Generation, Grid, Southern California Edison, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Networking, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
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- Will the GPU become the new CPU?
- No mention of OpenCL?Oh well...Not right now, but will come soon.Not right now, but maybe will come soon.The current generation of GPUs are fantastically powerful, BUT:-Current GPUs use a technology called "stream processing," which essentially pre-loads the instructions into the processors and starts streaming data.This is unlike CPUs, where both...
- Tags: Processors, GPU, CPU, NVidia Corp., OpenCL, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-27
- GoPro Motorsports HD Hero
- GoPro had a hit on its hands with the first-generation GoPro Hero. The small camera combined decent video quality and rugged reliability in a small package that was easy to use in action-based scenarios. However, the Hero wasn't without its flaws. Finicky battery choices that often cut recording sessions short...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Engineering, battery, video, camera
- Product reviews 2009-11-24
- What open source can teach medical practice
- Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Creative unveils third-gen Vado HD mini-camcorder; selling at $179.99
- In case you're looking to give a camcorder for this holiday season and haven't found the right one yet, there's a new option in the mix: the new Creative Vado HD (3rd Generation) mini-camcorder. The upgraded camcorder will feature Creative's new 3.0 software,...
- Tags: Camcorder, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- A Chrome OS Video Tour
- Microsoft: Watch Out, We're Coming to Getcha!Open Source is like water, you can't stop it.Bwahahahahahhhhhhhhhh................Man this OS is a POS.There is nothing this OS can do that I can't do already with Windows 7. It looks like a piece of crap and I really wanted to give Google the...
- Tags: Operating systems, INTERNET, NaCl, Chrome, Chrome OS, Chrome OS Video Tour, operating system, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- MSI Factory 2.1.1009.0 (Windows)
- MSI Factory is the first visual setup builder to fully leverage Microsoft's next generation Windows Installer XML WiX compiler technology for creating 100% pure MSI format installer packages in a faster and more intuitive way. What makes MSI Factory different is our unique file-centered design view. Software developers aren't forced...
- Tags: Microsoft Indigo, Compiler, Microsoft Windows, Indigo Rose Software, MSI Factory, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
- HP Envy 15-1050nr
- A big brother to HP's 13-inch Envy 13, this upscale 15-inch model crams more computing power into a midsize laptop than anyone outside of Alienware's m15x. And while that system is a 10-pound monster, the Envy 15 manages to be both slim and reasonably lightweight, partially by ditching the internal...
- Tags: Blu-ray, Notebooks, DVD, Branding, Consumer electronics, Envy 15, Hewlett-Packard Co., laptop computer
- Product reviews 2009-11-19
- 2010 Honda Fit Sport
- Photo gallery:2010 Honda Fit SportSince its introduction to the U.S. market in 2007, the Honda Fit has endeared itself to small car lovers with its economical engine and flexible interior. The car received an update for 2009, gaining size and an optional navigation system. Those updates came just in time,...
- Tags: Saving Grace, Scion xB, Honda Fit, Honda Motor Co., car
- Product reviews 2009-11-19
- IBM feels cozy on sidelines as Oracle-Sun deal languishes in anti-trust purgatory
- IBM should thank M$for activating its agents in the EC and stalling the Oracle-Sun deal.MySQL/MariaDB may be where most of the data residesYes, Oracle and DB2 have a significant market share of large DB installations, but most of the data in the world isn't aggregated by a few large companies,...
- Tags: Corporate law, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- 2010 Audi A5 Cabriolet
- Photo gallery:2010 Audi A5 CabrioletThe Audi A5 is a stunningly beautiful coupe with excellent power and performance. Unfortunately, the 2010 Audi A5 Cabriolet is not that car. In an effort to please drop-top lovers, Audi cut the roof off of the A5 Coupe, an element that accounted for the majority...
- Tags: Audi AG, A5 Cabriolet
- Product reviews 2009-11-16
- More evidence of the coming collision between home broadband and the smart grid
- Collision?Not the word I would have used.In any event, I think this is a positive and necessary direction to go. In order to manage more diversified, less dependable/consistent sources of energy, the demand side HAS TO be managed. Without it, we are just setting ourselves up for a lot of...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, collision, home broadband, grid, smart grid
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Don't envy the ENVI. GM re-VOLTing other brands
- Cool.Thanks for the news, I'm watching the electric market carefully, as I think that it may be the future. Maybe not in a pure form (the Volt is really a plug-in hybrid), but it's coming.. . . and Ford is interestingly enough advertising like crazy right now. I forget for...
- Tags: Podcasts, General Motors Corp., brand, Volt
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations
- In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...
- Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-11-11
- Intel e-reader combines Atom processor and accessibility
- Intel announced an innovative e-reader today that wants nothing to do with being a Kindle-killer. This e-reader, in fact, arguably has more educational implications than the current generation of e-readers. Intel's product, demonstrated below, is designed to turn written text into spoken words and can convert either text...
- Tags: E-reader, Processor, Intel Corp., Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
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