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Virtualization helpful but no cure-all for data center energy crunch

Virtualization gave data center managers some breathing room in their battle against rising energy use, but more changes are needed to keep pace with the demands of IT departments, speakers at an industry conference said Friday. Those changes include tighter integration between IT equipment and building management systems — so that temperature readings from servers can be used to directly control cooling systems, for example — and better communication between IT staff and the facilities teams that run the data center. Continue reading

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New Virus Targets Industrial Secrets

Siemens is warning customers of a new virus that targets its SCADA industrial control systems. Control system – SCADA – Business – Electronics and Electrical – Security Continue reading

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Mandela’s legacy (BBC)

Bitter feuds for control of icon’s name and image rights Continue reading

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Coolest iPhone APP EVER!!! – MUST SEE!

iCar Remote. Continue reading

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Top 10 Outlandish Republican Ideas In Az In The Past Year (Digg)

For the past 18 months, Arizona Continue reading

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Reporters’ Roundtable: How to (really) use social media in your business

We discuss the incredible success of the Old Spice YouTube campaign compared with Apple’s top-down over-control of communication around the iPhone 4 antenna problems. Continue reading

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Apple’s iPhone 4 – Let’s Review Some of the Features

The new iPhone is out on the market. Better looking and more feature packed then ever before it really is a brand new phone and not just a repacked version of the 3GS as many expected Continue reading

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DOE Announces $30 Million in New Small Business Funding to Help Commercialize Clean Energy Technologies

Washington, DC- U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that $30 million in funding from the Recovery Act and FY 2010 budget appropriations will be made available to qualified small businesses to support the commercialization of promising new technologies.   Today’s funding announcement builds on the Department’s existing efforts under the Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer program (STTR) to develop near-term clean energy technologies and support American small businesses that will play an important role in building the clean energy economy of the future.  This is the first time DOE has offered Phase III awards under these small business programs. Continue reading

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