Green Computing News

European Data Center Leaders to Gather at DCE 2010 (Web Host Industry Review)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:03:37 +0000

March 8, 2010 — Event organizer BroadGroup announced on Monday that industry leaders in the European data center sector will gather at the sixth annual Data Centres Europe Conference and Awards, held April 22 to 23 at Sophia Antipolis near Nice, France.

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Kalamazoo-area stores offer Earth-conscious materials, fabrics (The Kalamazoo Gazette)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:15 +0000

The peace silk used to make Jillian Granz’s Oscar dress may be expensive and hard to find, but Kalamazoo-area stores offer a variety of natural fabrics. Dick Dapson, co-owner of Fabrications in Richland, said the natural and sustainable trend in fabrics has gone through an ebb and flow over the past 25 years but that he and his wife, Janet, have remained faithful to natural fibers.

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1366 Tech leaps from pure silcon to solar wafer (CNET)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:47 +0000

Solar start-up 1366 Technologies is working on a technology that promises to dramatically cut the cost of solar cell manufacturing.

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Google isn’t lost in translation (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:13 +0000

It’s just the latest technological field that the Silicon Valley computing giant decided to revolutionize.

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BigFix Licenses Neocleus Technology to Lead Industry to Enterprise-Class Virtual Client Computing (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:03:42 +0000

EMERYVILLE, CA and CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwire - 03/09/10) - News Facts — BigFix, Inc. and Neocleus have signed a technology licensing agreement, which enables BigFix to deliver Neocleus’ client virtualization technologies via the BigFix Unified Management Platform. — BigFix will leverage Neocleus NeoSphere technologies to create the industry’s only enterprise-class distributed client …

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Green Building ”Virtual” Expo May 19-20 2010 (BuildingOnline)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:03:44 +0000

According to Conservation International, online events can eliminate over 300 tons of CO2 per 1000 attendees.

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Young Danville Inventor Gets National Attention (CBS 5 Bay Area)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:03:39 +0000

He’s only in his 20s and his invention is receiving major national attention. Jason Lucash from Danville used recycled materials to play a new tune. He invented fold out speakers made from recycled paper and cardboard.

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Profiling the Candidates: College professor Ken Adler (KTHV Little Rock)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:13 +0000

Ken Adler, an academic computing coordinator at Lyon College, hopes to take his views to Washington.

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Irish Cream Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Recipe (BellaOnline)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:03:32 +0000

Here’s a great dessert to serve on St. Patrick’s Day; since it’s creamy and delicious (and not green), it can be served anytime there’s a need for a fancy dessert.

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My PAC’s better than your POD. Or is it? (ZDNet)

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:43 +0000

Microsoft’s take on the future of the datacenter brings with it the danger of useful benchmarking metrics becoming meaningless marketing bullets. Understanding how complex systems work and interoperate is more than just a game of speeds and feeds. by David Chernicoff

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