Where do your gadgets really come from? The folks behind Sourcemap, a crowdsourced, open source project, hope to answer that question by cataloging where the components that make up our devices originate. It’s an effort to provide a measure of supply chain transparency, according to project founder Leo Bonanni (see his Greener Gadgets 2010 talk [...]
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by Pedro Hernandez on May 24, 2011
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See that map above? It’s the SourceMap for a compact fluorescent bulb (you might need to zoom out a little). MIT has cooked up a handy site that uses Google Maps to plot where a product’s component parts and…
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by Pedro Hernandez on October 6, 2009
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Is there an immediate return on investment in virtualization? – Enterprise Management Quarterly As a solution architect, I find out that lots of IT managers hold a misleading idea that the implementation of a virtual system reduces the operation…
Read more Green IT News Roundup – Monday, May 4
by Pedro Hernandez on May 4, 2009
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