John Gruber at Daring Fireball wrote a juicy post titled “Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context.” It’s a refreshingly sober take on the recent Google Chrome OS announcement, which spawned hyperbolic editorials. (Nuclear bomb, anyone?)…
Green IT News Roundup – Follow Friday Edition – July 10
No Time to e-waste – ITWeb via @sustainableIT Kobus de Beer, Dell’s enterprise brand manager, says adopting a ‘green by design’ approach to producing IT equipment has a dual function. “From a green perspective, it’s about designing products that contain…
In Pictures: Retro-Green Technology
Deriving energy from the sun and wind may be sparking a technological revolution in the here and now, but it’s actually quite an old pursuit. This neat gallery at Guardian News celebrates those that came before. Worth a look!…
Cleantech News Roundup – Thursday, July 9
Rentech Completes Purchase Of SilvaGas Biomass Firm – CleanTechBrief Rentech plans to integrate SilvaGas’ technology, which converts a variety of biomass feedstocks into synthesis gas (syngas) with Rentech’s proprietary syngas conditioning and cleanup technology. As a result, Rentech will be…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, July 9
VMware Tweaks Load Balancing In vSphere 4 – Information Week The Distributed Resource Scheduler in vSphere 4 monitors virtual machine usage across a server cluster to see whether the virtual machine is loaded on the server that best meets its…
Amazon Cuts Kindle 2 Price
Amazon’s Kindle 2 e-book reader is cheaper today by $60. The online retailer knocked 17 percent off its $359 price tag for a consumer friendlier $299. Tempted now? The larger Kindle DX’s price remains unchanged at $489, in case…
MightyMintyBoost – DIY Solar iPhone/iPod Touch Charger
Here’s a neat Instructables project if you’d like to charge your iPhone or iPod Touch using the sun’s rays (and a little elbow grease). Using an Altoids tin–the modern tinkerer’s mobile enclosure of choice–and roughly $70 in parts, you…
Cleantech News Roundup – Wednesday, July 8
Pickens: World’s Biggest Wind Farm No Longer on Drawing Board – Greentech Media The oil tycoon has scrapped his plans for a 4-gigawatt wind farm in Texas, planning instead to build five or six much smaller wind farms using the…
Wyse Launches Virtual Desktop Accelerator
The greenest datacenter is the one you don’t have to build, according to thin computing provider Wyse Technology. The firm today unveiled Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator (VDA) software that brings performance gains generally associated with WAN acceleration offerings to virtual…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, July 8
Google plans Chrome-based Web operating system – CNET The move also gives new fuel to the Netbook movement for low-cost, network-enabled computers. Those machines today run Windows or Linux. Google Chrome OS provides a new option that hearkens back to…
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