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- PVC
- Permanent Virtual Circuit A point-to-point connection that is established ahead of time. A group of PVCs defined at the time of subscription to a particular service is known...
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- Apple's Jobs throws HP and Dell under the Prius
- Apple has taken its share of environmental hits and CEO Steve Jobs has had enough. And hes willing to throw HP and Dell under the Prius while hes at it. In a blog post dubbed "A Greener Apple" Jobs outlines...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, Green Tech, General, Dell, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Greenpeace, Apple clash over toxic waste
- Greenpeace, Apple clash over toxic wasteGreenpeace is worthlessThey are a overgrown ape that needs to be put down. All they do is hype up junk science and try to pass it along to fellow congressmenHoly S*** !Greenpeace is targeting PVC , what a kick in the pants . All...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Greenpeace, PVC, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-08-29
- Pepsi Volume Controller (exe)
- PVC has all the features of the traditional Windows Volume Control plus following features. PVC is Graphical. Volume level is displayed in numbers: (Min=0 Max=100) . A Real Pepsi Pouring Wave file for Sound Testing. Unlike windows Volume control you can keep PVC Volume Controller window on top of all...
- Tags: Volume Control, Window, PepsiCo, Zamaan, PVC, Construction, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2006-06-05
- Microsoft to phase out toxic plastics
- Microsoft to phase out toxic plasticsMicrosoft to phase out toxic plasticsGood job Microsoft! I'm glad to see Microsoft extending their contributions beyond just a single entity and looking out for the whole world. We need a lot less toxins in this world. Although I'm not...
- Tags: PVC, plastics, toxic plastic, Microsoft Corp., ABM
- Discussion threads 2005-12-07
Additional Resources
- Finally, an Apple notebook built with green credentials in mind
- I've been writing stories about Apple products for longer than I care to enumerate here, and have always been agog over the sheer creativity that's associated with its product design. Too expensive, yes. Too heavy, absolutely. Self-indulgent, probably. But my second-hand, three-year-old PowerBook G4 notebook still draws comments (not all...
- Tags: Green Technology, Light-emitting Diode, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-18
- Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?
- I have to get a new MacBook Pro. I need to find a way to convince my wife that one of my kids needs my MacBook and I must therefore have one of the latest MBPs introduced today. Because seriously, folks, if you haven't checked out coverage of...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Graphics, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Apple's Let's Rock event wrap-up
- The following is a wrap-up of Apple's Lets Rock media event today in San Francicso which began at 10:00 am PT. iTunes Stats: 8.5 million songs 125,000 podcasts 30,000 TV shows 2600 movies 3,000 apps for iPhone and touch ...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Battery, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Genius, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Wirelessly networking cows
- U.S. researchers have developed a Walkman-like headset for cows. This device enables them to 'whisper wireless commands to cows to control their movements across a landscape -- and even remotely gather them into a corral.' In fact, it could help farmers to maintain cows behind virtual fences. According to the...
- Tags: Animal, Network, Cow, GPS, Handhelds, Productivity, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-08
- Apple moving up in green rankings
- Apple moving up in green rankingsEnvironmental FascistsJust in my 30 years on the planet...Gum never came in blister packs that people throw out.Pop came in glass bottles.You never saw crazy packaging like those for memory cards that have like 50 x more plastic than the card that is housed inside.Groceries...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, hydrogen fuel, Apple Inc., bottle, hydrogen, glass bottle
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- Apple moving up in green rankings
- When Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air at Macworld Expo in January 2008, he promoted its environmental benefits including being completely mercury and arsenic free, exceeding European Standards. In May 2007 Apple also promised to completely eliminate the use of Polyvinyl Chloride PVC and Brominated Fire Retardants...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-03-30
- One tempting little green Apple
- Just when I had convinced myself I could live for at another year with my mother's cast-off PowerBook, the ever-charismatic Steve Jobs has to go and do it again: Introduce a teeny tiny little Mac notebook that will both give my middle-aging shoulders (not QUITE middle-aged please) shoulders a break,...
- Tags: Green Technology, Apple Inc., 64G-byte Solid State Drive, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-20
- MacBook Air - First thoughts
- At Macworld 08 Steve Jobs introduced us to Apple's latest addition to the Mac family - MacBook Air. What's so special about the MacBook Air? It's the world's thinnest, most portable notebook. The dimensions of the MacBook Air are unbelievable - 0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm) high by...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- Can chemicals in iPhone headphone cable ruin your sex life?
- According to "independent laboratory" tests cited on Greenpeace's International's website this morning,about half of 18 tested internal and external components of the iPhone contain bromated compounds. "An independent scientific laboratory tested 18 internal and external components of the iPhone and confirmed the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Headphone, Chemicals, Headphone Cable, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Zune2 is no iPod killer, or even iPod competitor
- Zune2 is no iPod killer, or even iPod competitor"iPod'd"????I don't think I've heard ANYONE use that term, including my 15 year-old daughter and her friends . . .iPod isn't used as a 'transition' term in your example, either. You could put 'Zune' or 'MP3 player' in that sentence and...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Zune, Zune2, Apple iPod, iPod-killer
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- Data compression you can see
- Data compression you can seepaper can scratch the the heck out of cd'sI tried storing cd's in a similar way to this in a zippered cd case.Sliding the cd's in and out repeatedly scratched the cd's very badly against the paper inserts.I'd suggest instead using a narrow jewel case, since...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, data compression, music, FLAC, CD
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
- Dell to sell advanced cooling systems for servers
- Dell to sell advanced cooling systems for serversThanks for the commercial. And people who have worked with Dells knowthey shouldn't be trusted with the quality of the hardware they sell.This is sillyIBM and HP don't use tap water to cool their computers. Perhaps this stuff is superior, but...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., server, Now IT
- Discussion threads 2007-06-29
- Greenpeace speaks: We want more from Apple
- Follow the bouncing Green Apple. Apple CEO Steve Jobs pens a blog noting that the company is green and getting greener. He then throws rivals under the Prius. Now Greenpeace, which goes unnamed in Jobs post, responds. As outlined...
- Tags: Hardware Infrastructure, Green Tech, General, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Greenpeace on Apple: It's not everything we asked for
- Yesterday Apple made a commitment to be greener. Greenpeace says "we are cheering!" but goes on to say that the statement is "not everything we asked for."In the statement released yesterday by Steve Jobs, Apple is doing something that it doesnt do that often - that is, talk about...
- Tags: Eco-friendly, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Apple's Jobs throws HP and Dell under the Prius
- Apple's Jobs throws HP and Dell under the PriusElitismLeave it to Mr. Elitist himself to make comments like this. There are people who simply can't afford a flat panel display, but of course Sir Steve has never been interested in those on a limited budget. There are also...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Toyota Prius, Apple Inc., CRT, job
- Discussion threads 2007-05-02
- Deployment Guidelines for QOS Configuration in DSL Environment
- This paper provides the guidelines for the QOS implementation in the DSL environment. It also demonstrates the auto-degradation of the Service category/Class of Service parameters or the Service category/Class of Service itself on the PVC using different scenarios when the DSL line trains at a rate lower than the configured...
- Tags: QoS, Cisco Systems Inc., DSL, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking
- White papers 2007-05-01
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