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- Walters-Dimmick Petroleum Secures Store Broadband With Safe@Office and SMP On-Demand
- Walters-Dimmick Petroleum, Inc. WDP is a marketer of Shell petroleum products with a primary focus on the distribution of Shell fuels across Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. WDP manages more than 58 locations, each of which requires an Internet connection for secure email access and corporate communications. When the company replaced...
- Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Broadband, Walters-Dimmick Petroleum, WDP, Telecom & Utilities, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies 2008-05-05
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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
- Drill, baby, drill: cheap gasoline, oil a-plenty! Whoopee!
- Drill, baby, drill: cheap gasoline, oil a-plenty! Whoopee!Nice spin, as usual.2025? The CEO of Transocean (the world leader in deep-sea drilling) was questioned about timeframes for drilling sites to come online. He said in no case could he see it taking longer than 5 or 6 years,...
- Tags: cheap gasoline, Whoopee, gasoline
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Drill, baby, drill--revisited
- Despite the House having approved a new bill on ofshore oil drilling, it now appears unlikely there will be a change in the law. That means the current offshore moratorium on driling expires at the end of this month. Then it is presumed the government will...
- Tags: Offshore, Oil, Petroleum, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- One, long unbroken string of weather records--what do they tell us?
- One, long unbroken string of weather records--what do they tell us?Still it is insufficient evidenceAt least for the hard line Republicans it is.Over a hundred years of data? Wow, that's like...Standing in your front yard for one minute between 0742 and 0743 while smoking a cigarette and extrapolating the next...
- Tags: Climate Change, cigarette, weather record
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- The pain moves up the chain
- The pain moves up the chainI guess I'm not an American.But I am. The time for $10/gal gasoline was back in the late 1980s. Yes, you heard right. We would pay $1.50 for the gas and $8.50 tax. Then in the late 1990's we would have paid...
- Tags: Taxes, Big Corporations
- Discussion threads 2008-09-07
- Data center energy use
- Data center energy useHmmmm....1. It's still a positive contribution, even if it is a small one. 2. And I think real enterprises are seriously eying desktops a real money sinks when it comes to power.3. The same argument could be applied to oil. We shouldn't...
- Tags: Data centers, Operating systems, Servers, hardware, Data Center Energy, Sun Microsystems Inc., data center, Process Protection
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War
- Cummings of the Daily Express, 24 August 1953, "Back to Where it all Started" The events of the last several weeks surrounding Russia's invasion of Georgia and its recognition of the rogue provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have threatened to...
- Tags: Russia, Russian, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?It is an apt comparison>Your Ubunutu/Vista comparison doesn't pass the common sense test. Think about what you can get with Ubuntu-- Compiz Fusion for eye candy, drive encryption, MythTV DVR app, OpenOffice.org, ect. You have to get Ultimate Windows to get all...
- Tags: Construction, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), pricing strategy, window, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- There's one fossil fuel that is becoming more abundant, thanks to technology
- It's long been a popular fuel for industrial use, and even got some play in the transportation market. Now natural gas will be even more popular in America because IT'S ACTUALLY BECOMING MORE PLENTIFUL. U.S. oil production has been dropping annually since 1970. Natural gas production is...
- Tags: Petroleum, Natural Gas, Fossil Fuel, Natural Gas Production, Renewables, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality....Look, our resident troll is back! ]:)OK everybody!Shut everything down. Open Source doesn't work. Go back to proprietary because they never have any security breaches. How many repositories are we talking about? You site one breach and declare the Open...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- What's future proofing worth? Analyzing the Verizon FiOS bet
- What's future proofing worth? Analyzing the Verizon FiOS betcoax vs fiberNo brainer, but if Verizon thinks this is a 10-year ROI or something, think again.Cable has enough bandwidth to satisfy any residential / home-office use for the forseeable future. Heck, phone companies can now cram 3 or 4 high-def video...
- Tags: Network technology, bandwidth, Verizon Communications Inc., cable, Verizon FiOS bet, Verizon FIOS, Analyzing
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- The Death of Plastic Bags (exe)
- Since the 1970s the petroleum-based plastic bag has been at the checkout lane in grocery stores, retail stores, and restaurants. In 2006 there were over 88.5 billion plastic bags being consumed in the United States, with less than 1% of those ending up being recycled. The book is about some...
- Tags: Indiana, E-books, Retail, Food & Beverage, Telecom & Utilities, Personal Technology, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2008-08-12
- Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaks
- Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaksWe certainly do know what to do with the waste.The waste from fission reactors can be reprocessed to recover unused fuel, while the rest can be condensed and stored. We have a waste repository waiting in Nevada (you know, the place...
- Tags: leak, renaissance, nuclear energy, Nuclear renaissance, Nuclear Waste
- Discussion threads 2008-08-10
- Internet brand-jacking: What can be learned from Exxon Mobil?
- Exxon Mobil got "brand-jacked." About two weeks ago, someone named "Janet," believed to be a spokesperson for the oil company, started posting one-liner comments about the company on Twitter. There was no reason to doubt the legitimacy of the Twitter account. There are a lot of big-named...
- Tags: brand, internet, exxon mobil corp., twitter, janet, branding, marketing, sam diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- A gasoline quiz--where is this image from?
- A gasoline quiz--where is this image from?This was an easy guess.The language is Spanish.Puerto Rico is definitely out of the question, because they are seriously corrupt over there.Being that it's in South America, that petroleum is coming from Venezuela.Makes you wonder why we are paying so much for it?Clue;Crooked &...
- Tags: gasoline, image, petroleum, oil, pinch
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?
- Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?I for oneI for one welcome our new giant rubber snake overlords.RE: Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?I woke up one morning and my friend was hitting my forehead with a giant rubber snake...at least I think that's what it was.1 MW powers...
- Tags: rubber snake, snake, Giant rubber snake
- Discussion threads 2008-07-06
- Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4
- Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.Get the environazi boot of our neck.Build more refineries.Reduce government regulations.Eliminate the Endangered Species Act.Build more dams for flood control.Build more highways to relieve traffic congestion.Relax nuclear power plant requirements to build more reactors.Your mindset is...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, vision, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Do feds track cell users illegally? Legal groups want to know
- Do feds track cell users illegally? Legal groups want to knowDoes a bear crap in the woods?Is a frogs a*****e watertight?Does Barbara Walters talk funny?Seriously I believe most law enforcement people have little inclination to do so, especially the heavy data mining nonsense the neocon-spooks are crazy about gathering. ...
- Tags: cell user
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past
- To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...
- Tags: Oil, Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuel, Chris Nelder, Nelder, IEA, U235, Corporate Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
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