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'Green' mobile power offers new revenue
News Alternative power supplies can prove lucrative US$2.3 billion market for mobile operators and benefit 485 million mobile users without access to electricity grid.
Tags: Development/design, Network infrastructure, Mobile platforms/communications, Power supplies, surge suppression, Green IT, Phone, cell phone, revenue, mobile, Green IT
PC memory prices soar
News A confusing mix of facts and rumors is causing a steep hike in memory chip prices, bringing some needed relief to beleaguered manufacturers but threatening to put the brakes on falling PC prices.
Sun plugs software into the grid
News Foreshadowing long-range plans, Sun's internal IT department flips the switch on the company's own utility computing offering.
Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Utility computing
Is US missing the boat on green tech?
News GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt and famed venture capitalist John Doerr warn policy makers that the United States is lagging China in developing green-technology industries.
Tags: Green IT, Investments, Government, Energy, Carbon Emission, General Electric Co., Renewable Energy, electricity grid, greenhouse gas, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Intel to host smart-grid standards confab
News The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers will hold its first smart-grid standards meeting bringing together people from the power, IT and communications industries in June.
Tags: Green IT, Intel Corp., Standards, Grid, IEEE Standard, electricity grid, network, industry, information technology, solar energy
Cisco: Smart grid will eclipse size of Internet
News Cisco, whose hardware is at the core of the Internet, is readying communications gear for utilities, businesses, and consumers to modernize the electricity grid.
Tags: Green IT, Security, Utility, Cisco Systems Inc., IP, Grid, electricity grid, network, Internet, industry
Microsoft crunches numbers on energy, carbon
News Part of an environmental sustainability push, Microsoft updates is Dynamics packaged applications for midsize companies to tally energy use and to calculate greenhouse gas emissions.
Tags: Green IT, Software, Microsoft Corp., Energy, Carbon Emission, Renewable Energy, electricity grid, Dynamics AX Application, Environment, energy efficiency
Report: Spies hacked into US electricity grid
News Quoting national security officials, report says spies have infiltrated the power grid in an apparent attempt to map the utility infrastructure.
Tags: Hacking, Security Management, Security, Powerline, cell phone network, Grid, electricity grid, software, network, Internet
Beware Olympic cybercrime chaos, urges former UK politician
News Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe 2009 conference, former U.K. home secretary David Blunkett says that attacks are taking place but not being talked about.
Tags: Network security, Home Secretary, Attack, Internet Attack, Accommodation, Infosecurity Europe, London, U.S. Government, theory, U.K.
US senators aim to protect electric grid from hackers
News Politicians respond to reports of cyberattacks by suggesting new plans to protect an increasingly networked electric grid.
Tags: Hacking, Security, Cybersecurity, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Rep., Grid, network, Hacker, U.S., U.S. Congress
Gates: Cyberattacks a constant threat
News U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates responds to report that hackers stole information about US$300 billion fighter jet program.
Tags: Hacking, Data security, Security, Cybersecurity, Air Traffic Control, Attack, Pentagon, computer, sensitive information, Wall Street Journal
Conficker infected critical hospital equipment, expert says
News Hundreds of PCs and medical devices at hospitals in the U.S. were found to be infected with the Conficker worm recently, a security expert says.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Access Control, removable storage, computer, SCADA, Hospital, Worker, Marcus Sachs, network, Microsoft Windows
US authorities' red tape left medical devices virus-infected
News Regulations stipulated that hospitals wait 90 days before updating Conficker-infected systems.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Security Management, Cybersecurity, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Telecommunications, Medical Device, Grid, computer, U.S. President Barack Obama, virus
Report: Hackers broke into US air traffic control systems
News Breaches exposed sensitive employee data, forced the shutdown of part of a network, and could have allowed hackers to disrupt the agency's mission-support network, a government report says.
Tags: Hacking, FAA, Security, Report, Air Traffic Control, Password, intrusion detection, Web Application, computer, commercial software
Small is beautiful for green-tech newbies
News Even amid the economic gloom, smaller clean-tech start-ups in efficiency and renewable energy are being funded because demand for their products remains strong.
Tags: Green IT, Best strategies, Business, Clean Technology, Investor, Bankruptcy, British Petroleum Co plc, Advanced Electron Beams, Wall Street, business development
