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Portugal's wave farm may be sunk

Portugal's wave farm may be sunkPlease ZDNET, do something about this guy...Harry Fuller rarely does any research as evidenced by his posts, his grammar and spelling are poor at best, and he tends to push his eco-nazi propaganda with a religious fervor. This particular post only has one of his...

Tags: wave farm, farm

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

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Resistance to change: The real Enterprise 2.0 barrier

Vive Le Resistance!Michael - Resistance to Change, Immunity to Change - there is a lot of activity on the "real work" beyond tech and into enacting and leveraging change agents of Enterprise 2.0 lately... great that we're all surfacing these issues in increasingly large forums.For a bit more flavor on...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, transparency, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets. Those are some of the takeaways from a Gartner presentation at the IT Symposium in Orlando. The spiel by Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin revolves...

Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Information Technology Department, Discontinuity, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

SharePoint Statistics: The Real Reason Behind SharePoint's Price Tag

Governance and TrainingFrom my experience, the technology is not expensive, when compared to most DMS / ECM / portal solutions. The costs come later, further down the road, when mistakes have already been made and the reputation of the solution is allready marred.It's almost too easy to get a...

Tags: Collaboration, Content management, Groupware, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, SharePoint Statistics

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Dead-finger tech: Google Apps

Dead-finger tech: Google AppsIt's a Google world...I can't imagine living without Google.Not that there is anything wrong with Microsoft. I doubt whether I would trade in Windows for Chrome OS. In short, nothing beats a good Windows-based PC (especially Win7) combined with a lot of Google stuff and a few...

Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., Google Apps

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

News to know: Botnets; Adobe patch day; NetApp; Craigslist

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. Dancho Danchev: Inside the botnets that never make the news - a gallery Images: Inside the botnets that never make the news right ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NetApp Inc., Craigslist, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., Robots, GPS, Document Management, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Portugal's wave farm may be sunk

Slow deployment, bankrupt owner, perhaps a wave or two too far. The Portugal offshore wave farm to generate electricity may go the way of the Cray computer and the Edsel automobile. Or hydrogen powered cars. Back when I first blogged about the Pelamis tech...

Tags: Portugal, Pelamis Co., Litigation, Outsourcing, Personal Finance, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-20

iMilk 2.0.4 (Mobile)

A portable dairy farm for your iPhone and iPod touch. Drink milk and whip cream from the comfort of your pocket. This hilarious sight-gag is fully interactive and behaves like a real glass of milk thanks to the iPhone sensors and our spare time. Tilt to sip, shake for foam...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Apple iTunes, Hottrix, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-10

America's lag-time in alternative energy

I just blogged about San Francisco applying for a permit to build an offshore wave farm to generate electricity. That's but the second step after deciding to try this tech. It's many more steps before anything is actually placed in the Pacific. And this is San Francisco, positioned next...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Portugal, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-01

San Francisco turns from foggy gray to bright green

The foggiest city in America has no oil and no nearby coal deposits. It has little open space for turbines to capture all that ocean wind. And the frequent fogs would greatly reduce the usefulness of solar. But waves, ah, there's the action. All the time,...

Tags: San Francisco, City, Outsourcing, Telecom & Utilities, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-01

Wave of the future for alternative energy?

Courtesy: Pelamis Get out your atlas, see if you can find Agucadoura, Portugal. Just three miles offshore there, these big metallic sea snakes are bobbing in the ever-restless waves of the North Atlantic. And they're generating electricity for over a thousand homes on...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Portugal, Pelamis Wave Power, Venture Capital, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, Finance, Financing Startups, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum

Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February. The...

Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Computing Unit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond

Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...

Tags: Olympic Games, Network, Server, Akamai Technologies Inc., Content, Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Data Centers, Networking, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-18

(Photos: Hydrogen Road Tour gets into gear)

(Photos: Hydrogen Road Tour gets into gear)Where's the Hydrogen?I'll tell you how to get enough hydrogen to run the world for millenia. There are certain, very large areas of the world, typically volcanic, which have a massive heat gradient. One such is Kamchatka, on the Eastern border of Siberia. Here...

Tags: hydrogen, Hydrogen Road Tour, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Doubletake Customer Profile: Chickasaw Nation

I recently had the chance to communicate with Rob Jacks, Chief Information Technology Officer for the Commerce Division of the Chickasaw Nation. The Commerce Division uses Double Take's data protection software and was willing to speak about their experiences with the technology. About Commerce Division...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Casino, Technology, Rob Jacks, Commerce Division, CNDC Core Competency, H/A, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Games, Storage Management, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Personal Technology, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-04

Two small countries thinking big, and green

Two small nations on opposite sides of the globe are building world class renewable energy proejcts. In Portugal they're constructing what will become, temporarily at least, the largest solar generating plant on earth. It's going into eastern Portugal near the town of Moura. This photovoltaic farm is...

Tags: Turbine, U.K., Portugal, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-08

Wavering on waves in Northern California

We are stuyding it. That's Pacific Gas & Electric's firm decision on trying to capture wave energy to generate electricity, or maybe not. Using a grant from the State of California, the utility, based in San Francisco, will study the feasability of an offshore warm energy farm...

Tags: Energy, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating system

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating systemIn the long run, Live services...will not make the big splash everyone is hoping for. Individual consumers may find it useful but Enterprises will move the services back in house. Especially with Open Source providing more and better services that can...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Game players, Internet, Yahoo! acquisition, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, cloud computing, Google Inc., computing, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

New wave energy to hit Washington

State, not Washington D.C. Nothing newunder the sun in THAT Washington. But there is a plan afoot for a Canadian fimr to build an offshore wave energy plant to generate electricity. You have to forgive the Seattle reporter who gushed about this being the world's first, etc....

Tags: Washington, Portugal, Outsourcing, Blogging, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-22

<b>Microsoft Predictions for 2008: Games group housecleaning continues</b> (Microsoft in 2008: 10 Predictions)

Microsoft Predictions for 2008: Games group housecleaning continues (Microsoft in 2008: 10 Predictions)As my rep says, 2008 will be great!!!!My rep and I are continuing our year end strategy sessions and 2008 will be another banner year. We just finished figuring out different ways to procure financing for more product...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, game, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Predictions, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-12-18