Archive for June, 2009

BigFix FDCC Solution: 500,000 Federal Government Endpoints and Counting (Marketwire)

Establishes Lead as Most Widely Adopted FDCC and Green IT Compliance Solutions

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Computers could soon be heating buildings - IBM (Computer Weekly)

Technology is being tested that allows heat generated by computers to warm offices and homes.

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IBM trials home heating from datacentre waste (Computer Weekly)

Technology is being tested that allows heat generated by computers to warm offices and homes. IBM has launched a trial in Switzerland…

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Organic traffic lights (PhysOrg)

Controlling road traffic in congested areas is difficult to say the least, a point to which any drive-time urban commuter might testify. An organic approach to traffic lights, might help solve the problem and avoid traffic jams and gridlock, according to research published this month in the International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems.

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Get ready for the Energy Star 5.0 barrage: Let the testing begin (ZDNet)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star 5.0 specification officially goes into effect on July 1, so steel yourselves for a flood of activity proclaiming support for the new standard. Some of the products you’ll hear about, like a bunch of notebooks, desktops and monitors from Lenovo, have actually been shipping for a while, but the vendors will use the kick-off date to remind you …

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