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- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technologyBut why?I'm all for alternative energy but I still don't understand why solar is becoming popular. Solar energy seems to be the least efficient. And it seems poised for quantum jumps in efficiency in the near future. So why...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, solar technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- High-tech trifecta dabbles in solar technology
- High-tech trifecta dabbles in solar technologybigger pictureRoof-top solar array + plug-in electric car = gasoline-free commuting. Woohoo!RE: High-tech trifecta dabbles in solar technologyYou missed Google dumping a ton of money into solar last week ....
- Tags: solar technology, High-tech
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Which solar technology will survive?
- Which solar technology will survive?Practical considerations to start a discussionSolar technologies that will make it in the long term will have to be low maintenance. That means strong materials that don't have to be cleaned, few if any moving parts, cheap to make, and will still put out some power...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, solar technology, storage
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
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- Telltale signs of SOA governance deficit
- Are there any "telltale signs" that an organization is missing the governance boat when it comes to efforts to effectively deploy SOA methodologies? Todd Biske, enterprise architect extraordinaire and author of the recently published work on SOA Governance, observes that many organizations may have conflicting priorities that emerge when it...
- Tags: SOA, SOA Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- SOA eased the way for recent shotgun financial mergers
- These are times that try banks' souls. Over the past few months, some financial services companies have been vaporized, and others have been absorbed or merged to save their skins. It's possible that SOA efforts that have been underway at these organizations in recent years may have...
- Tags: Bank, Merger, Financial, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Has technology evolved our language beyond recognition?
- You pick up your Blackberry in the morning because your notebook has a virus. You connect to your cloud storage and retrieve a few documents to store on your drive, and grab yourself a cup of Java. I get emails every day, mostly ordinary commentary from like-minded...
- Tags: Legend, RIM BlackBerry, Virus, Computer, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, Handhelds, Online Communications, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- What a difference one atom makes
- A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting in the Nov. 26 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Yang Yang, a professor of materials science...
- Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Solar Cell, Polymer, Solarmer Energy Inc., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Using TREES to save the forest
- Lots of green building news bouncing around in the past few weeks, which simultaneously disheartening and heartening because of the state of the real estate market. The biggest deal, perhaps, is the fact that the U.S. Green Building Council is updating its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design guidelines. (Here's...
- Tags: Software, Power Consumption, TREES, Tools & Techniques, Real Estate, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Would you lie to get your project funded?
- 83% of cost/benefit analysis supporting IT proposals is a fiction I was reviewing an academic manuscript, Managing the Realization of Business Benefits from IT Investments (published in (MIS Quarterly Executive, March 2007) by Professors Joe Peppard, John Ward and Elizabeth Daniel, when a footnote really caught my...
- Tags: Information Technology, Benefit, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Clearwire-Sprint make it official, pave way for WiMax rollout
- A mobile WiMax service, called Clear, will soon be here, now that Clearwire and Sprint-Nextel have completed a $14.5 billion joint-venture deal that was announced in May. The new company formed by the deal, which will retain the Clearwire name, will create a 4G nationwide broadband wireless network that will...
- Tags: Clearwire Corp., Sprint Communications, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- The widget conundrum
- There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100 million. That sounds like a chunk of money, and especially one for an industry that...
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, AdAge, Widgets, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Survey: CIOs 'out of the loop'
- CIOs are often seen as "glorified IT directors", looking after the day-to-day running of IT systems, instead of being used to align IT with business aims. Chief information officers are "out of the loop", according to a survey carried out by London-based Deloitte and the Cranfield School of Management....
- Tags: CIO, Role, Strategy, Management, IT mangement, survey, IT systems, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-01
- Waking up, calming down
- Fujitsu is working on a steering wheel-mounted drowsiness sensor that will detect subtle changes in the driver's heart rate and respond with various wake-up calls, including opening the windows, blasting the radio and jolting the wheel. Seriously unconscious drivers might get all three at once. (Here's hoping that sheer surprise...
- Tags: Car, Window, Sensor, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Canada not the solution either
- Canadians have access to less medical technology than patients in other countries, even though the computer networks handling back-office functions may be more effective. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Canada, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Virtualization and Emulex
- Although I wouldn't have thought of Emulex and virtualization technology at the same time, a conversation with the company changed my viewpoint. How did Emulex achieve the improbable? Read on. Here's what Emulex says about itself Emulex makes a wide range of enterprise-class products...
- Tags: Emulex Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Distributed and Parallel Database Systems
- The maturation of Database Management System DBMS technology has coincided with significant developments in distributed computing and parallel processing technologies. The end result is the emergence of distributed database management systems and parallel database management systems. These systems have started to become the dominant data management tools for highly data-intensive...
- Tags: Database Management System, Database Management, Database System, University Of Alberta, Databases, Storage, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Aclara application provides consumers with hourly visibility into electricity usage
- Want to find out how that cold snap last night is going to affect your monthly utility bill? Or whether or not you should do your wash in the morning, afternoon or night? If you're one of the 1.4 million customers in Pennsylvania served by PPL Electric Utilities, you can...
- Tags: Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Internet, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Keeping clean for clean energy
- Got solar panels on your home or business? Keeping them clean is necessary if you want to get efficient conversions of solar to electricity or even to heat water. Some roofs are less that congenial palce for a person with a sponge mop. I recently heard a...
- Tags: Solar Panel, Roof, OCS Energy, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Catholic Church flirts with green tech of the solar sort
- Poking around the Web looking for green technology news on an otherwise quiet Thanksgiving weekend, when I came across this item about solar panels being installed in Vatican City. Apparently, the new Roman Catholic pope has a green bent. According to news reports,...
- Tags: Green Technology, Catholic Church, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-29
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