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(Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?): (Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?)Oh my what will the utility companies have to say about this?I am sure the utility companies will find reasons to downplay or eliminate this concept. Just like they make it financially impossible for the average American to afford to put up windmills for...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind generator, solar dish, dish, photograph, utility company; Discussion threads 2008-06-23
Sensor-o-rama Part 2: Green vending machines: I actually found a vending machine last week that provided me with diet caffeine for a mere 25 cents. But I never realized just how many of those machines are out there until I spoke the next morning with Barbara Scott, a product manager for USA...; Tags: Utility Company, Cold Calling, Beverage, Machine, Sales Tools, Food & Beverage, Telecom & Utilities, Sales, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-11-03
Discover How Automated Meter Management and SOA Can Light the Way for Utility Companies: Establishing the Necessary Infrastructure to Maximize Flexibility and Component Reuse: Many utility companies have unintegrated systems that use a silo approach, with applications "Burying" information. Business processes can't see or reuse data or components. The introduction of Automated Meter Management AMM has intensified the need for corporate-wide visibility of all systems that provide reuse and integration. Service-Oriented Architecture SOA can...; Tags: Utility Company, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Telecom & Utilities, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-10-17
Utility Company Increases Desktop Security With Updated Operating System: Hawaiian Electric Company HECO is the primary resource for electricity and energy on the Hawaiian Islands. As a major utility company, HECO understands the need to address network security concerns proactively. To that end, HECO participated in the Microsoft Technology Adoption Program and evaluated an enterprise-level prerelease version of Microsoft...; Tags: Desktop, Utility Company, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Software; Case studies
Intel, Southern California Water Company and GST: Bringing PC-Platform Stability to One of the Region's Largest Utility Companies: Southern California Water Company SCWC, a subsidiary of the American States Water Company, is a public utility company engaged principally in the purchase, production, distribution, and sale of water to over 240,000 customers. SCWC wanted to replace their existing technology base with a more powerful, economical and reliable platform for...; Tags: Utility Company, Intel Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; Case studies

Utility Company Manages Distributed System With Avaya Interactive Response (IR) and RSI's Remote Administration Tool: A Midwest-based utility company provides utility services to three Midwestern states. The utility company was using a highly distributed system with interactive response systems deployed in three different sites. The company wanted to ensure that the Avaya systems could be remotely managed. As the requirements for the contact center kept...; Tags: Utility Company, Remote Administration, Distributed System, Avaya Inc., RSI, Telecom & Utilities; Case studies

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Texas Instruments pulls power management efforts under new division: Quick update on Texas Instruments TI, which looks at power management from the guts of the chip level. Here's the blog I wrote last week describing some of those efforts. I wasn't all that surprised to hear that the company has pulled all its power management and...; Tags: Power Management, Texas Instruments Inc., Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-05
Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea: Click on any image to see the whole picture. These are just three of the images from our local Fourth of July Parade today. We happen to live in a state which does not produce much...; Tags: Subsidy, Denmark, Natural Gas, Taxes, Free Trade, Telecom & Utilities, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-07-04
MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about search: The recent $100 million acquisition of Powerset, the semantic search engine company, by Microsoft looks to be more to do with advertising than beefing up the software giants' search capabilities. So far, Powerset has only demonstrated its technology against Wikipedia. It's a neat exhibit but it is...; Tags: Acquisition, Yahoo! Inc., Contextual Advertising, MSFT, Search, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-04
$34m VC round for Spanish SaaS venture: $34m VC round for Spanish SaaS ventureSaaS - not quiteMy feeling is that this company is not SaaS. Specificlly because it is a service company relying on human labour. To double revenues you need to double people utilisation rates assumed constant. Yes there is a web front-end but this alone...; Tags: Spanish SaaS; Discussion threads 2008-07-04
TechForward advocates the cause of temporary ownership: I have been MEANING to write about the Los Angeles-based start-up TechForward for weeks now, but felt like I didn't have enough time to write the truly thoughtful post that it deserved. Now, I'm forcing myself to get off my butt, strangely enough, because I'm having a moral dilemma over...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Electronics, TechForward, Lebovitz, Retail, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-04
Stolen: Google employees' personal data: Stolen: Google employees' personal dataCould be worse...Having them stolen isn't as bad for reputation as losing them... yes, I'm looking at you, British Home Office...RE: Stolen: Google employees' personal dataWow, they can't even secure their own data yet they want you to trust them with your email, documents, and health...; Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, Google Inc., Google Employee, personal data; Discussion threads 2008-07-04
As you sow...: Not quite off topic but something that cuts Oracle a break and shows us here at ZDN to be as capable as anyone of getting things messed up. Check this post from our mutual friend Jake Kuramoto.To selectively quote: A few things were wrong about this whole thing. First,...; Tags: Finger, Podcasts, Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-04
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Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery (exe): Recover retrieve formatted fat 32 16 file system files folders corrupted logically damaged bad sector hard disk drive windows XP 2003 2000 me repair deleted master boot record MBR dos boot record DBR root directory software supports crashed IDE EIDE ATA SATA SCSI laptop desktop pc undelete unformat backup overwritten...; Tags: Hard Drive, Data Recovery, Data Recovery Software, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-07-04
MyText TopSecurity (rar): Encrypt your text or html file in the easiest way, just 3 or 4 clicks and your files will be in a top security and protection environment. You have just to choose a key and its done. MTTS encryption method is named "Confusing", in fact this utility confuse file information...; Tags: HTML, Key, IlyeSoft, MTTS; Software downloads 2008-07-04
5gws (txt): 5gws is a wrestling simulator that allows you to be the boss. Book tours, hire and fire your favorite or least liked superstars, send them to star in movies to earn your company some cash. Remember, to be the man, you gotta beat McMahon. This version is the first release...; Tags: Superstar, 5gw; Software downloads 2008-07-04
Flash Video MX Std (exe): Flash Video MX Std is to help you to place your video on your personal web pages, eBay auctions, company Web sites and blogs with ease. In addition to convert video to Flash swf, Flash video flv, this program provides a Flash Player with various skins, dazzling video effects, subtitling,...; Tags: Video, Moyea Software, Corporate Communications, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-07-04
Das Professional Keyboard: Anyone who remembers when a "laptop" computer looked more like a suitcase-size nuclear weapon may recall the old IBM Model M-style keyboard. With its distinct "clacky" sound and the amazing responsiveness of its buckling spring keys, many typists, gamers, and enthusiasts lament that that old design has become more-or-less instinct....; Tags: Keyboards, Games, Das Professional, keyboard; Product reviews 2008-07-03
2009 Acura TSX: Photo gallery:2009 Acura TSXBecause of its solid and comfortable everyday driver demeanor, buyers of the new 2009 Acura TSX will probably opt for the five-speed automatic transmission, for ease of driving in traffic and urban settings. And that's unfortunate, because to appreciate Honda's capability to build truly efficient engines that...; Tags: Acura, Acura TSX; Product reviews 2008-07-03