Thursday - May 1, 2008
A new study by McKinsey & Company, a global management consultancy, has found that data centers are one of the fastest growing and largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Sponsored by the Uptime Institute and released Wednesday at the Institute Symposium: Green Enterprise Computing, the study attributes the increase to the growing demand for digital processing as Internet users conduct business daily online. The tasks run the gamut from online banking to online auctions, e-tail sales, Web searches and music and video downloads, according to the institute.
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Thursday - May 1, 2008
The next five years or so will spell big trouble for data centers. About 46 percent of more than 150 IT professionals and executives surveyed earlier this year by the Business Performance Management Forum said they're running out of space, power and cooling infrastructure for their data centers.
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Friday - April 25, 2008
The hottest gadgets of today will look old and tired a year from now. Sellers of mobile handsets, smartphones, MP3 players, gaming consoles, camcorders, digital cameras and laptops constantly push the latest and greatest technology, leaving yesterday's choice items in the dust. Then there's the fact that this stuff is pretty easily broken.
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Wednesday - April 23, 2008
IBM on Wednesday unveiled a new category of server designed specifically for cloud computing and Web 2.0 applications. The iDataPlex system builds upon IBM's blade server background and more than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single IBM rack. It also uses 40 percent less power while quintupling the amount of computing that can be done.
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Friday - April 18, 2008
Renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and hydropower are increasingly becoming more popular. In fact, wind power is the fastest-growing energy source in the world. Presently, there are about 30,000 wind turbines operating worldwide, and that number is ever increasing. While this is very encouraging news for our environment, the fact remains that the world will be heavily relying on oil for some time to come.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
When the former vice president of the United States gives a speech at a major technology conference in San Francisco, you'd expect to see a story about it the next day, or -- since it was a technology conference -- later on that same day. You'd see a run-of-the-mill story in the Chronicle, marvel that Gore's still going on about that global warming stuff, then move on to the sports section.
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Thursday - April 10, 2008
How green is your computer equipment? The answer could provide insight into how much electricity you aren't buying each month to run your computers and peripherals. It can also provide a clue to how much long-term harm your computing activity is having on the world around you. The question of green computing becomes more intense as energy issues move from the home office to the corporate office.
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Saturday - April 5, 2008
In a sign of accelerating progress on plug-in hybrids -- the 100 mile per gallon vehicles you can't yet buy in showrooms -- electric utilities quickly are linking with automakers and tech companies to develop "smart-charging" technology that controls when and how fast a vehicle is recharged.
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Monday - March 31, 2008
Too many of us -- and I include myself -- are too willing to go to war and not willing enough to find harder, but often more successful, collaborative ways to solve problems. I often look at both the U.S. and Microsoft as similar entities in their respective spaces, and I'm often fascinated by how examples of good and bad judgment can be applied to both.
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Tuesday - March 18, 2008
Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley electric-car startup, said Monday it has begun "regular production" of its first car, the 2008 Roadster. The car is being assembled at a Lotus factory in Hethel, England. Tesla said it has taken more than 900 deposits for the $100,000, two-seat, zero-emissions Roadster.
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Sunday - March 9, 2008
As I grow older, it seems like I get ignored more often. Much more. My wife, who used to be so attentive to my needs, barely listens to half of what I say. My kids, now in middle school, stare at me blankly when I ask about their homework. The guy at the Verizon Wireless store couldn't care less when I complain that not as many people can hear me now. It's no different at work.
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