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- Progress Energy Reduces Costs and Enhances Customer Service With Integrated Electronic Billing
- Progress Energy is a Fortune 250 vertically integrated electric utility company with more than 22,000 megawatts of generation capacity. The company's holdings include two electric utilities serving approximately 3 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida. The challenge was to create a single, enterprise-wide, and integrated customer experience...
- Tags: Customer Service, Payment, Oracle Corp., Electronic Billing, Progress Energy, Operational Accounting, Finance
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- Canada adds another city to LED City list
- Welland, Ontario, is the latest municipal government to commit to the LED City initiative, under which cities from around the globe are converting lighting to light-emitting diodes. A retrofit of all streetlights is under way -- 50 have gone up so far and 50 more are...
- Tags: City, Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.
- National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...
- Tags: Turbine, Renewable Energy, Borland Delphi, Financing, Programming Languages, Financial Accounting, Development Tools, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Preview: Plusmo Pro Football Live app (updated)
- As you already know I really want a good NFL application for the iPhone. Now that it's NFL season and it would be great to track teams, players and games in progress – especially when you can't be in front of a television. As I've I mentioned...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, NFL, App, Plusmo Pro Football Live, Plusmo NFL App, Games, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Yes, we know it's a problem. No, we have no budget.
- A survey by data center infrastructure company Voltaire indicates that while a vast majority of data center professionals believe that running a green data center will become a mission-critical agenda item, they haven't set aside the money to support it. Close to 90 percent of the executives...
- Tags: CIO, Data Center, Voltaire Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- LHC scientists get death threats
- LHC scientists get death threatsIgnorance produces fear...And issuing death threats is not the christian thing to do. And $10.00 to a donut will get you that a religiously motivated faction is behind the threats. Something to research further.RE: LHC scientists get death threats - is it because Roger Federer lost...
- Tags: Anti-Matter, LHC, death threat
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- LHC scientists get death threats
- So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University,...
- Tags: Black Hole, Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- What the fight against cancer really needs
- What the fight against cancer really needsSadly this is where a problem existsCuring cancer would be great on the human level. But it doesn't make good business sense for doctors and pharmaceutical companies that rely on patients to make money. Much like many other diseases, it's more profitable to keep...
- Tags: cure, pharmaceutical company, patient, government
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List
- Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with Firefox
- IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with FirefoxIE8 BetaIE8 is in Beta, it is not the finished product. There will be issues adn problems. I am currently using it as well, and the problems I do have, I have let Microsoft know. It is a work in progress.That's...
- Tags: Web browsers, IE8, beta, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Video: Does Green IT matter for business?
- Video: Does Green IT matter for business?My tip? Follow the moneyIMHO, being "green" has become little more than a shakedown that industry is happy to play along with. After all, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all could get laws passed that mandated that our customers purchase more...
- Tags: Does Green IT, carbon dioxide, video
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates
- Something in the air: Several random wind energy updateswindso what happens when the wind stops blowing?i see you still have not got an honest job!Keep an eye on KansasKeep an eye on KS - a governor up for election is pushing hard on creating more wind farms as part of...
- Tags: wind farm, wind energy
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates
- It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, mW, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking
- Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinkingI wonder -- would others please weigh inOk, your stats here are out to lunch but I wonder about your basic point.I think it's wrong - that almost any non OS specific programming language can be used to produce a standard code base from...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, operating system, Linux, Google Inc., IE8, Chrome, longer-term, COBOL, window
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?
- I have seen an internal Oracle email that confirms persistent rumors that Jespers Andersen, SVP Application Development at Oracle has left for Cisco. The email says: "You may well have heard today, the rumour mill has been very busy that Jesper has resigned from Oracle. ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Jesper, Team Management, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- HP ditches the box for Walmart notebook promotion
- Which notebook would you rather buy as a consumer, one that comes home with oodles of styrofoam and cardboard and plastic. Or one that ditches the cardboard altogether and even comes with its own messenger bag for you to carry it home in? Both Hewlett-Packard and...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Linksys Inc., Notebooks, Home Networking, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Networking, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn
- Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burnRE: Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burnThe key reason they developed their own browser was for mobile browsing, which is expected to be more and more dominant in coming years. Chrome would be a good browser for the Google Android...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn
- Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Google, browser, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Firefox, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-09-03
- DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabs
- DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabsChrome will have security problems, and they will NOT all of a sudden gainshare. That said, the Google brand is very powerful, and people use it every day to search, and there will be lest resistance to trying Chrome than there was...
- Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Google Chrome, Chrome, DoS vulnerability, Google Inc., DOS, vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
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