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- Module Solutions Case Study: PPL Electric Utilities
- PPL Electric Utilities distributes electricity to approximately 1.3 million commercial and residential customers in eastern and central Pennsylvania. Its objective was to improve retrieval of data from remote meters and automate data reporting to facilitate business processes, system reporting, and customer response time. PPL Electric Utilities deployed 6,200 automated meter...
- Tags: Kyocera Wireless Corp., M2M, PPL Electric Utilities
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- Qualcomm Case Study: PPL Electric Utilities
- PPL Electric Utilities distributes electricity to approximately 1.3 million commercial and residential customers in eastern and central Pennsylvania. PPL Electric Utilities needed a better way to retrieve data from the commercial electrical meters in the field. The company also wanted to automate data reporting to improve business processes, system reporting,...
- Tags: M2M, Qualcomm Inc., PPL Electric Utilities
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- A $1 billion plan for car-charging network
- BetterPlace founder Shai Agassi plans $1 billion network for electric charging network in California. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Car, Network, Battery, Bay Area, British Petroleum Co Plc, Shai Agassi, Engineering, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- SF Bay Area plugs in
- The mayors of the San Francisco Bay Area's three largest cities gathered Thursday to announce their ambitious new initiatives to make the region the electric vehicle capital of the country. CNET's Kara Tsuboi has this report.
- Tags: Electric Vehicle, News, kara tsuboi, gavin newsom, electric cars, hybrid cars, san jose, oakland, san francisco, green, environment
- Videos 2008-11-21
- Bay Area mayors want to electrify their commuters
- The three major cities in the San Francisco Bay Area want to lead the nation in electric autos. Today they took another big step in that direction. The mayors of San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland listed in order of population announced a plan to make battery-powered cars...
- Tags: San Jose, Battery, Bay Area, Better Place, Coulomb Technologies, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Mini E, electric vehicle
- BMW/Mini unveiled an all electric version of its Cooper, the Mini E. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Cooper, Electric Vehicle, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-11-20
- What's blowin' in the wind? Alternative energy in China
- A new study of the Chinese wind energy market finds the country's growth will likely continue despite the global economic spasms. EER's report finds China will be #1 in generating electricity from wind by 2011. As much as the once communist state now embraces a brand of capitalism,...
- Tags: China, Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, EER, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Coal strikes back
- An electric utility is suing the state of Kansas for denying said utility the permit to build more coal-fired electricity generation facilities in rural western Kansas. It's been thirteen unhappy months for Sunflower Electric Power since Kansas refused them the air quality permits for the additional coal-burning plants. ...
- Tags: Permit, Kansas, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Collision course for American-owned car makers
- America's auto makers were very handy in protecting themselves against having tougher fuel efficiency standards. Just this past year as fuel prices spiralled ever upward the feds finally increased the fuel efficiency standards after thirty years of stasis. So now those auto makers in America and elsewhere are...
- Tags: U.S., Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, U.S. Congress, General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- New carbon monitoring resources available via the Web
- If one of your near-year-end resolutions is to build out the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions reporting for your company, there are a couple of new resources that have been released in the past week. First off, Sun Microsystems has updated the tools that are available on...
- Tags: Web, Monitoring, Greenhouse Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Oerlikon Solar sees a shining future despite dark clouds over Wall Street
- Wafer processing equipment and personnel. Courtesy: Oerlikon I blogged about Oerlikon last summer. Now the publicly-traded, Swiss-based company has come out with a new version of its turn-key thin solar panel manufacturing gear. Oerlikon Solar has developed new equipment that promises 50% more...
- Tags: Solar Panel, Tax, Manufacturing, Oerlikon Solar, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Will General Motors go the way of Philco and Studebaker?
- The battle in Washington is on: what, if anything, to do for, or with, the big American auto makers. That's "big" as in "big trouble." And the battle's outcome may have a huge effect on what the fleet of American-driven cars looks like in three to five years....
- Tags: Car, Detroit, General Motors Corp., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Host suspected of serving spam, child porn cut off from Net
- The Internet has at least partially disconnected itself from McColo, an ISP suspected of providing hosting services to criminals serving kiddie porn and selling Viagra and fake security software. According to PC World, Hurricane Electric, which had been peering with McColo disconnected Tuesday night. Global Crossing also peered McColo and...
- Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Child Pornography, McColo, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spam, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .
- I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Poverty, Bangladesh, Mr., Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- NetSuite and HP
- Will you NetSuite take this partner from HP into prospects..... I took a call Monday from representatives of NetSuite and HP. The two firms had just announced a partnership and were kind enough to brief me. Unfortunately, I had to do the call at a boarding gate...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., NetSuite Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales Strategy, Smb/Sme, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Steve Jobs for President. Of GM?
- The old joke went something like this: If auto manufacturers improved their products as much and as fast as American designers and makers of microelectronics have theirs, a car today would be capable of speeds in excess of 1,000 miles an hour, go 650 miles on a gallon of gas,...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Car, General Motors Corp., Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Alternative energy still powerful, says report
- Don't give up on alternative energy, says EER. They cite three long-term trends that mean a long and successful future for effective producers of electricity and energy not based on fossil fuels: "The globe is still warming, the earth's fossil fuel resources are still being depleted, and the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Fossil Fuel, EER, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- CNET Download.com not so 'spyware-free'
- On its home page, CNET's Download.com promises that all software available on the site "has been tested to ensure it's 100% free of spyware, viruses, and other malware." Â Â Unfortunately, there appears to be a kink in the system that allows the display of a known adware program called...
- Tags: Adware, Kaspersky Lab, Malware, CNET Download.com, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?
- Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?Gore MistakeAl is making a big mistake with marketing this plan.Power transmission is extremely inefficient, and the infrastructure is very costly to maintain. This cannot change with a ‘smart grid’, because no grid is smart enough...
- Tags: Al Gore, vision, Power Transmission, POWER LINES
- Discussion threads 2008-11-09
- Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?
- This week's Web 2.0 Summit was characterized by some very big picture ideas culminating in final keynote speaker former US vice president Al Gore laying out his vision for a 'Unified National Smart Grid': a new, state of the art integrated electrical infrastructure for the...
- Tags: Web, Vision, Al Gore, Grid, Web 2.0 Summit, Michael Wesch, Web 2.0, Transportation, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
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This video provides an overview of Intel's Unit Level Traceability (ULT) system, a technology developed to address the complexities that exist with the introduction of new manufacturing technologies in Assembly/Test in Intel. Video playing time is 4 minutes.
