Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 03:16:00 Company enters the computer big league Apple’s iPad sales have lifted the company into the top five PC manufacturers, according to the latest figures from Canalys….
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IPad pushes Apple into top five PC vendor list
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 01:30:00 Slot allocations and standards allow huge storage systems Oracle has announced a series of improvements to its StorageTek tape storage line, expanding the size of possible systems to 150 petabytes….
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Oracle’s StorageTek takes tape to 150 petabytes
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 01:00:00 Phone unlocking procedure considered fair use The US Library of Congress has approved the use of ‘jail-breaking’ procedures on mobile phones. The practice of removing restrictions on third-party applications falls under ‘fair use’ guidelines that allow…
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US Copyright Office approves handset jail-breaking
Looks like data center energy intelligence company SynapSense is feeling some love from GE. The company is getting $5 million from GE Energy Financial Services, along with Emerald Technology Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, American River Ventures, Nth Power and DFJ Frontier. The money is earmarked for research and development AND market expansion activities
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GE makes investment in data center monitoring company SynapSense
When I was growing up on the east coast, there was this silly rule about wearing white in the summer. Except it really wasn’t so silly, because lighter colors are shown to help reflect hit and keep you cooler when it’s ridiculously hot outside. Think about how blazing hot the asphalt in parking lots can
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Want a cooler building without cranking the AC? Stop being colorblind about your roof
(Updated July 25, 2010, to add pricing) For smaller companies that are interested in a more energy-efficiency entry level server, Fujitsu has just come out with the Primergy TX100 S2, based on the Intel Xeon processor 3400 series. The big value proposition for the new hardware is that it draws zero watts during its off state;
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Fujitsu adds server to ‘zero-watt’ hardware portfolio
First off, I want to credit Joe Boyce, a consultant with Gaia Worldwide focused on the solar technology energy industry, for reminding me that it has been some time since I looked at the whole financing end of the solar industry equation. Almost exactly a year, in fact, since I looked extensively at solar financing
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3 revelations about solar financing
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
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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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
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
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
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 15 June 2010 at 02:19:00 Service will aim at enterprise cloud sector Verizon Business has added hosted storage to its line of enterprise IT services. The company said that it would be launching not only a cloud storage service but hosted storage..
Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 00:15:00 New charter designed to increase customer participation The SAP UK & Ireland User Group (UKIUG) is to work on a new charter designed to increase awareness of the company’s BusinessObjects portfolio….
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SAP seeks to raise awareness of BusinessObjects
Chances are you are way sick of me writing about tools that help you measure the various energy metrics of your data center, because you probably have way too many separate management tools to deal with already.
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Modius helps manage data center energy usage in context of uptime
Dan Worth, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 16:59:00 Providers should look to the utilities market for inspiration, says analyst Mobile operators need to change how they charge for voice and data services in order to create a more viable long-term revenue system, according to Ovum….
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Mobile operators urged to commoditise data use
Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 16:45:00 UK operators ready tariffs as pre-orders kick off tomorrow O2, Orange and Three have confirmed that they will accept pre-orders for the iPhone 4 from 15 June, and will reveal pricing details soon….
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Apple iPhone 4 pricing details imminent
Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk , Monday 14 June 2010 at 15:11:00 Firm claims 75 per cent power and space reduction Server manufacturer SeaMicro has unveiled an internet-optimised x86 server which it claims could reduce power consumption and space requirements by 75 per cent….
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SeaMicro unveils Atom-based low-power server