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The extended spell of dry, hot weather across the northeast United States has spotlighted the urgency need for better systems to manage peak demand. This week, one of the players in the demand response market, EnerNOC, announced a massive deal with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) that will provide demand response services around up to

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Demand response gets hotter in dog days of summer

Haven’t written about the paper management side of green IT in a while, so this item comes at a great juncture: The Rialto Unified School District in California believes it will cut nearly $500,000 from its printing budget — and seriously consolidate the number of devices it is supporting — through Xerox Enterprise Print Services. The

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School eliminates 400 ‘phantom’ devices with Xerox managed print services

Over a million bats have fallen victim to White Nose Syndrome, a mysterious fungus that first appeared only 4 years ago outside Albany, NY, and has now spread across most of the eastern United States. United States – White Nose Syndrome – Albany New York – Health – Conditions and Diseases

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Mystery Plague Killing Bats; Bugs Rejoice

Last week Calvin Klein kicked off its 2010 Fall advertising campaign in NYC and LA. For one short week, Calvin Klein Jeans replaced three of its billboards—two in downtown New York and one on Sunset Boulevard in LA—with a bright red QR code under the words “Get It Uncensored.” View the billboards at: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/13/calvin-klein-qr-code-billboard/ Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/5587753/nycs-sexiest-billboard-doesnt-care-for-dumphones Those with Smartphones—a limited market at present—could scan the QR code and view a 40-second Calvin Klein commercial

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Calvin Klein, QR Codes, and You

We’re starting to see the first signs of serious discounting in 3D Blu-ray player pricing. To track the price performance of this new state-of-the-art technology, we launched our PriceSCAN 3D Blu-ray Player Index back in April. Our index held pretty steady until mid-June, but then, as noted in our recent press release , a 2.35% decline in the first week of July capped an early summer slump in 3D Blu-ray player prices that has brought our index down about 10% since inception.

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3D Blu-ray’s Price Decline Seems To Jump Right Off The Screen!

A vaginal gel containing an HIV medication prevents women from being infected. South African women who used a vaginal gel infused with the antiretroviral drug tenofovir reduced their likelihood of getting the disease by about 50 percent, according to a two-year study published today in the journal Science .

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New Hope for Preventing HIV Transmission

If you’re planning to attend SGIA Expo in Las Vegas in mid-October, you can save $35 if you register online before September 10, 2010. SGIA Expo, which covers the latest and greatest in large-format printing, screen printing, digital embroidering, garment decoration and other graphics technologies, has evolved with rapidly changing times to become the principal

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Free SGIA Expo Floor Pass for Online Registrants before Sept. 10

By Art Lambert Every day at LexJet, we discuss how we can enhance our Customer’s LexJet Experience–to make it the best buying experience in our industry.  In fact, that is our #1 priority.  We figure that if we do this right, it’s good for our Customers and LexJet and bad for our competitors.  There is

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Enhancing the LexJet Customer Experience

We interrupt your website browsing for this important interruption: As some of you (okay, everyone) may have noticed today, the site was hit by a redirect hack/bug. This would bring your browser to a different website entirely, which has nothing to do or is affiliated in any way with the forums. The problem has been fixed, and the provider notified

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Site Redirect Problems

A new report from Global Industry Analysts, Inc. in San Jose, CA projects that the global market for commercial photography will reach $10.7 billion by  the year 2015. The report, entitled Commercial Photography: A Global Strategic Business Report, contends that commercial photography is indispensable to many types of marketing and ad campaigns, such as promotions

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Report Predicts Global Market for Commercial Photography to be $10.7 Billion by 2015

If you’re new to professional photography or can’t attend one of the national conferences and shows every year, you will find some top-notch education and networking opportunities at one of the regional conferences and trade shows conducted by regional affiliates of the Professional Photographers of America (PPA). Plus, you can see how your own photography

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Meet Photo-Printing Experts from LexJet at Regional Photography Shows

Inspired by Silveroxide, I’ve decided to start a build record of the paper model’s I’m building to support my (as of yet) burgeoning Imperial Guard army. I currently intend to focus my $ efforts on Infantry and use solely paper models for the Armoured elements, with the intent to match at least in part the level of detail possible with the plastic kits.

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Model Of The Week: Imperial Guard Armour Builds

Along with its Raster Editor and Page Layout CS5 suite-mates, Photoshop and InDesign, Illustrator (version 15) has a mature appetite for system resources. The application is much speedier than previous iterations, especially on 64-bit systems, but that…( read more )

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Adobe Illustrator CS5: When Is a Vector Like a Raster?

The relatively young company has both good points and coming challenges in common with the software giant. One is worth an estimated $50bn, the other is 26 year old CEO of a company oft accused of lacking a business model, yet Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg have a lot in common. At least, that what I heard from one time Fortune writer David Kirkpatrick, speaking at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club last night about his new book, The Facebook Effect .

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Why Facebook is like Microsoft

Just as the sun climbs high in the summer sky, eBook reader prices are taking a plunge. This week occasioned dueling sharp price cuts in both Amazon’s Kindle 2 and Barnes & Noble’s NOOK 3G+Wi-Fi , which may now be had for only $189 and $199, respectively.

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With Arrival of Summer Beach Reading Season, eBook Reader Prices Dive

The infamous rock star is paying Cambridge-based Knome to sequence his genome. Last week, my brother informed me of some strange genome news he had heard on his favorite morning radio show. Ozzy Osbourne, front man for Black Sabbath, is going to have his genome sequenced in order to figure out how he is still alive after decades of legendary drug use.

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Will Ozzy’s Genome Reveal the Secret of Rock Star Resilience?

Here’s my latest: the Orion/ Cousteau Near-Earth Object Mission spacecraft. It is loosely based on an actual proposal by Lockheed-Martin to dock two Orion spacecraft nose-to-nose and send it to rendezvous with a near-Earth object, i.e., an asteroid. I decided to take a different approach, making the mission an international one

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Model Of The Week: Orion/Cousteau NEO Mission

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 15 June 2010 at 00:04:00 Parallel processing standard approved by Khronos Group An update to the OpenCL parallel processing standard has been ratified. Standards organisation Khronos Group said that it was releasing the OpenCL 1.1 certification…

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OpenCL 1.1 gets the go-ahead

First Look Over in Singapore Nokia is getting busy announcing a whole host of new midrange handsets at its Connection event. So the Nokia bods thought it was only right that it gave ample airing to its flagship smartphone, the Nokia N8, over here in Britain.We’ve seen the hardware before , when we showed it off in glorious lime green. Pocket-lint was on hand once again to give it a going over to determine whether or not Nokia’s new star player has a chance of competing with Apple and Android in the heavily contested smartphone market.The main selling point of the N8 is that it is the first Nokia handset to feature the Symbian^3 operating system

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Nokia N8 – First Look

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 15 June 2010 at 03:09:00 Art museum seeking out user videos for new exhibit The iconic Googenheim art museum is looking to produce a new feature based on YouTube videos. The video sharing service said that it would be partnering with the art museum..

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YouTube videos to be featured by Googenheim