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Tech Industry Green News of the Week: Yahoo Goes to the Birds and Oracle’s Big Green Event
Yahoo is really going all out when it comes to their new design for green technology enhanced data center named Coop. The design is based on an innovation already present in chicken coops, where most of the cooling for the structure is provided by open air-flow. With their enormous power consumption for servers comes a ...
Google’s Biggest Talking Points This Week: Zeitgeist and Beyond
This week, Google held a free-for-all question and answer session with the press, over lunch, at their Zeitgeist event in Phoenix, AZ. The topics coursed through the entire search industry and especially focused on Google’s current activities and where they expected to go in the future. Particularly interesting to us are some of the highlights ...
HP Soon to Decide on a Replacement for Mark Hurd
Mark Hurd, HP’s ex-CEO, left his position in August this year in the midst of accusations of business misconduct after an internal investigation revealed an affair with a marketing contractor. As a result, HP has been in the position of determining a replacement. In the interim, Cathie Lesjak, HP’s CFO, has been acting CEO, but ...
Open Facebook Alternative Diaspora Releases Code
Facebook has been in the news repeatedly over the years due to their continual privacy breaches and snafus. While still extremely popular, Facebook still suffers a bit of attrition every time a new social network appears that might cater to the same audience. Now we have Diaspora, an open alternative, who are looking to release ...
ARM Processors are Coming, The Rise from Phones to Supercomputers
Computer chips built using ARM architecture have long had a place in cell phones and the mobile market due to their small process, low power draw, and cheap cost. Intel, on the other hand, makes the powerful workhorse x86, which dominates personal computers, servers, and high-performance computer systems (HPC.) Much alike to the story of ...
Hires and Lateral Moves at Google: Robert Kyncl and Craig Walker
This week, Google has had quite a bit of rumbling on the people side. While the information giant usually gets noticed by the media for its appetite for acquisitions, they also invest in people. Over at The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital, Peter Kafka let’s us in on one such hire: [Robert] Kyncl left ...
PayNearMe Changes the Prepaid Model for the Everyday Cash Customer
According to PayNearMe’s own website, over 24% of all households in the United States don’t have credit or debit cards and they intend to exploit this untapped cash-only consumer base. PayNearMe combines a modified cash load network with an application technology platform so that consumers without credit or debit cards — or those who prefer ...
Early Reviews of IE9: It’s Pretty, Very Pretty
Internet Explorer has become the much maligned whipping-child of the Internet browser wars, even if they still hold a majority of the market due to its entanglement with the Windows OS. Their most recent update, IE9, has been turning some heads. Especially for Edward Baig over at USA Today who gives it a glowing review ...
Like + Bing? Microsoft and Facebook Engaged in Search Talks
All Things Digital has exclusive news that Microsoft is in talks with Facebook about deepening their search entanglement. The deal hinges around Microsoft’s access to data acquired from Facebook’s famous Like button. While the deal is not closed and talks could end without result, such information might yield a treasure trove of insight for both ...
Hewlett-Packard’s Eyes on ArcSight Brings Lawsuits and Another Bidding War?
Stock market traders are watching Hewlett-Packard right now, wondering if their current involvement in an auction for the cybersecurity company, ArcSight, will result in a lucrative bidding tug-of-war. This expectation comes right on the heels of HP’s acquisition of 3Par, which did result in a bidding war, inflating 3Par’s stock prices times thrice. Michael Corkery ...