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- Power Management
- Retarding energy use by using low-voltage CPUs and being able to slow down or temporarily disconnect electronic circuits that are inactive. Power management is vital in laptop computers and...
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- News to know: Open Office; Google; Security metrics; IT jobs
- Notable headlines: Dana Blankenhorn: What could Open Office do with a business model? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex. Gallery right Paul Murphy: Internet abuse and Cloud Computing An IT productivity horror story ...
- Tags: job, security, google inc., power management, information technology, photograph, openoffice, office suites, software, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Far out! Another power management option for my Mac
- Far out! Another power management option for my MacFaronics is also based in Vancouver, BC... with affiliated office in San Francisco. The company's founder is also my next door neighbor.
- Tags: far-out, power management option, power management, apple macintosh, faronics
- Discussion threads 2008-07-06
- Far out! Another power management option for my Mac
- The marketing and communications types over at developer Faronics of San Ramon, Calif., very gently informed me a few weeks ago that they have a very well established power management utility for the Macintosh platform. I had despaired of the few choices for the Mac a few months back when...
- Tags: software, apple macintosh, power management, power save mac 2.0 software, report generator, tools & techniques, desktops, management, hardware, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-06
- Texas Instruments pulls power management efforts under new division
- Quick update on Texas Instruments TI, which looks at power management from the guts of the chip level. Here's the blog I wrote last week describing some of those efforts. I wasn't all that surprised to hear that the company has pulled all its power management and...
- Tags: power management, texas instruments inc., heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-05
- Texas Instruments strives to make power management more intuitive, deep within its processors
- Before I get into the guts of this post, a special thank-you to the team at Texas Instruments (Bill Krenik, CTO of the wireless business unit, and Dave Freeman, Texas Instruments Fellow, Analog & Digital Power Control Products) who were patient enough to brief me weeks and weeks and weeks...
- Tags: processor, power management, texas instruments inc., heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- More on iPhone G3, GPS and power management
- One of the big concerns about the iPhone G3 before the announcement was how it might handle the power drain from the global positioning chip and the software that might use it. But Apple is taking a less is more battery life approach. by David Morgenstern
- Tags: apple iphone, power management, network, battery, unit, apple inc., wi-fi, gps, ask, battery life, battery test, engineering, 3g, wireless lans, wireless, cellular phones, consumer electronics, personal technology, david morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software
- Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....
- Tags: software, power management, pc, power consumption, survey, verdiem, desktops, hardware, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Dell: We're greener than HP
- Dell said Wednesday that it is designing its laptops and desktops to consume up to 25 percent less energy by 2010 compared to today. Welcome to the latest in the "we're greener than you" game where green technology intersects with marketing-speak. Green IT is fashionable, but increasingly...
- Tags: dell computer corp., power management, hewlett-packard co., green technology, desktops, hardware, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Verdiem gives you more power over your power consumption. And, inquiring minds wonder whether power management might not be Vista's holy grail?
- Did you know that PCs and computer monitors account for roughly 13 percent of the total electricity used each year by commercial enterprises? That statistic from the Department of Energy, which actually is pretty outdated at this point, is just one of the arguments used by power management software company...
- Tags: power management, data center, holy grail, power consumption, microsoft windows vista, verdiem, electricity consumption, data centers, storage, hardware, data management, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- Disk power-management is on Microsoft's green agenda
- Microsoft has been turning up the volume on its green initiatives across the company, as of late. I recently stumbled onto yet another one: DiskEnergy. DiskEnergy is a Microsoft Research project headquartered at the company's Cambridge, U.K. research facility. So far, there's very little public information about...
- Tags: power management, disk, data center, microsoft corp., disk power-management, diskenergy, data centers, storage, hardware, data management, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Auto Shutdown Manager (exe)
- Saves up to 80% of your power costs - Network Ready. AutoShutdownManager is a professional power management tool that helps reducing the power consumption of Laptops, tablets, PCs and servers running Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, and XP by bringing the machines down in a controlled and managed way. You have...
- Tags: power management, autoshutdownmanager
- Software downloads 2008-01-16
- Turn off the lights! And the PCs, and printers, and the ...
- Here's a thought. If your office is shutting down for a four-day holiday weekend, you can bring a little extra cheer to your boss by remember to shut off all the equipment that will be sucking up power when you're not there. According to 1E, which makes...
- Tags: printer, power management, pc, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- Optimize to Save Time & Resources/HP: Power Management & Virtual Machines
- The presenters of this webcast explain the advantages of ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack and power monitoring & control with HP Insight Power Manager.
- Tags: power management, hewlett-packard co., servers, hardware
- Webcasts 2007-12-01
- DeskScapes (exe)
- Stardock DeskScapes is a program for users of Windows Vista Ultimate who have the Ultimate Extra Windows DreamScene installed. DeskScapes extends Windows DreamScene to support dynamic (real-time) animated wallpaper, wallpaper with triggers, and adds support for the .DREAM animated wallpaper format. Version 1.02 adds more power management options, fixes a...
- Tags: power management, wallpaper, stardock deskscapes, microsoft windows, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), operating systems, software
- Software downloads 2007-11-29
- System Power Management Support in the IBM POWER6 Microprocessor
- The IBM POWER6 microprocessor chip supports advanced, dynamic power management solutions for managing not just the chip but the entire server. The design facilitates a programmable power management solution for greater flexibility and integration into system- and data-center-wide management solutions. The design of the POWER6 microprocessor provides real-time access to...
- Tags: power management, ibm power6, microprocessor, ibm corp.
- White papers 2007-11-01
- More on making your PC greener through power management
- This just in ... The folks at iYogi called me to respond to yesterday's blog about Support.com and its free Green Computer service. Word from iYogi President Vishal Dhar is that he is thrilled to see consumer awareness building for power management issues. He applauds his competitor's...
- Tags: power management, green technology, pc, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Are screensavers endangered? Support.com offers tips on better PC power management
- Are screensavers endangered? Support.com offers tips on better PC power managementRE: Are screensavers endangered? Support.com offers tips on better PC power managementReally interesting article; It's about time there was a service with tips on PC management!This truly is long overdue... well done, Support.com!RE: Are screensavers endangered? Support.com offers tips on...
- Tags: desktops, support.com, pc power management, power management, screensaver, pc
- Discussion threads 2007-10-25
- Are screensavers endangered? Support.com offers tips on better PC power management
- Heard this week that tech support company Support.com has come out with a free "Green Computer" service that will customize the power management settings on your PC. According to the company, the process takes about 15 minutes to activate. (Should be interesting to see if this announcement...
- Tags: power management, screensaver, pc, u.s. environmental protection agency, computer, productivity, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- VirtualPower: Coordinated Power Management in Virtualized Enterprise Systems
- Power management has become increasingly necessary in large-scale datacenters to address costs and limitations in cooling or power delivery. This paper explores how to integrate power management mechanisms and policies with the virtualization technologies being actively deployed in these environments. The goals of the proposed VirtualPower approach to online power...
- Tags: power management
- White papers 2007-10-17
- Auto Power-on and Shut-down (exe)
- An easy to use application that allows you to control your computer resume from power-off state hibernation or wake up from sleep mode stand by. It is a good power management application, which has a clean and easy-to-manage task schedule that allows you to open files, play sounds, run programs,...
- Tags: power management, mouse, keyboards, mice, productivity, hardware, peripherals
- Software downloads 2007-09-04
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