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Got waste? Feed it to the algae. Presto chango it's valuable.

Helix bioreactor. Courtesy Origin Oil. For a healthier environment today, tomorrow and in the distant future: algae. That's the belief of Riggs Eckelberry, CEO of OriginOil, in Los Angeles. Sound like just another bodiesel start-up? No way, this is a company that...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-27

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Cheap jibe sullies SAP's SaaS strategy

Cheap jibe sullies SAP's SaaS strategyYou got it TOTALLY wrong!"The message this sends is that Wookey?s initiative doesn?t have the wholehearted support of SAP?s board."No, that's not it at all. [b]The message this sends is that Force.com from Salesforce.com is not a viable competitor in the large enterprise.[/b] Are you...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, Leadership, SAP AG, software-as-a-service, SaaS strategy

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

Surviving and thriving: or why MISO has it (mostly) wrong

Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle collectively make up what Irregulars call MISO. Harsher critics might think they are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Whichever your chosen position I am coming to the view that the way they are going to market is wrong for the conditions in which we...

Tags: CIO, Oracle Corp., Social Computing, SAP AG, IBM Corp., MISO, Vendor Response, David Dobrin, Vertica, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarks

SAP is always a bit of a conundrum to me. They have extraordinarily talented people, an incredibly deep product portfolio that they are always extending, more often than not make good acquisitions that take some time but work out all in all, and seem to be actually dedicated to transforming...

Tags: Sustainability, SAP AG, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Planning on buying a high-end graphics card soon? DON

Planning on buying a high-end graphics card soon? DONAnother reason to avoid SLI/CrossfireOne of the main reason's I haven't taken advantage of Dual GPU setups is the power required for these setups. Even with a high end GPU you can get away with a 450W or 500W PSU but if...

Tags: Video cards, card, high-end graphics card, video card, Planning, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-02-19

News to know: Perfect Windows storm; Nokia; SugarCRM; Google Earth

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 delayed again Mary Jo Foley: XP, Vista, Win 7: The brewing of a perfect storm...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Google Earth, SugarCRM, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Smb/Sme, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-02-03

Might the SAP Mentors inherit the earth?

Rather than attending last week's SAP TechEd in Berlin as a 'pure' blogger, I was also wearing my SAP Mentor hat. Unlike SAPPHIRE, where the exec team gets down and dirty with the press, analyst and blogger contingent from the business perspective, TechEd is all about the 'make guys.'...

Tags: SAP AG, Hervé, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-20

News to know: Google; AMD; Desktop Linux; Green IT; Psystar

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google delivers; Maybe paid clicks weren't such a big deal Charles Cooper: Google settles a score with ComScore Techmeme AMD posts loss; sees seasonally down quarter ahead Sixth straight quarterly loss for AMD...

Tags: Desktop, Google Inc., Red Hat Inc., Green IT, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Desktop Linux, Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source, Web Services, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Wintel+Vista+conspiracy+screws+customers%3A+Another+win+for+Apple

Wintel+Vista+conspiracy+screws+customers%3A+Another+win+for+AppleWhat's your vector Victor?Apple doesn't have a chance of moving into business class Windows/Linux territory unless they OEM OSX and open up their proprietary ways.Windows Server 2008 shares the same kernel as Vista SP1, but, interestingly 'retreats' from registry-based gui 'click next' configuration to a command-line interface 'Linux modular approach'...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating systems, Wintel Vista, Wintel Vista conspiracy, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., liar, Wintel, crook, PC, Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

Human-hair sized aluminum foil lamps

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have built 'aluminum foil lamps that outshine incandescent lights.' Their panels of microcavity plasma lamps can contain today 250,000 lamps. These thin panels -- 1 millimeter thick -- are more efficient than incandescent lights and soon will surpass the efficiency of...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment

Blog posts 2007-06-05

Will nanogenerators replace batteries?

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built prototypes of a nanogenerator providing continuous electrical power by "harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic waves, mechanical vibration or blood flow." According to the scientists, the prototype could produce as much as 4 watts per cubic centimeter. This...

Tags: Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment

Blog posts 2007-04-09

SAP: Opportunities lost?

I developed a spark of admiration and foresaw vast opportunity when SAP embraced SOA at the Boston Sapphire event two years ago. But the departure of Shai Agassi, president of SAP’s product and technology group and architect of SAP’s NetWeaver software, calls into question whether SAP will now hunker down...

Tags: Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SAP AG, software

Blog posts 2007-03-29

4GHz Dual Core Game PC at $825!

I came across an article at TomsHardware where they did an over-clocking review of the Intel Pentium D 805 where they took a 2.66 GHz $130 budget CPU and turn it in to a 4.1 GHz monster. At 4.1 GHz, the Pentium D 805 could beat some of the...

Tags: CPU

Blog posts 2006-05-12