Emailing "Green Matters: Obama's Green Inaugural Sound Bites"
Green a Key Theme in Obama Speech -
Dell ReGeneration
"We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories."
Laptop Magazine awards D-Link the Mobile Innovation Award for its 802.11n routers - Press Release
One of the many energy-saving features of D-Link Green technology that sparked the judges' decision was the unique Wi-Fi scheduling that allows D-Link's new 802.11n routers, including the D-Link Xtreme N Gigabit Router (DIR-655), D-Link Xtreme N Duo Media Router (DIR-855) and the D-Link Xtreme N Gaming Router (DGL-4500), to reduce energy consumption when not in use, whether it be Wi-Fi or Ethernet connectivity.
Solar industry growth dimming with economy -
San Francisco Gate
Barry Cinnamon, chief executive of Akeena Solar in Los Gatos, said his firm's solar installation business has slowed from a growth rate above 40 percent to something more in the 25 to 30 percent range. He hopes that falling prices for solar arrays, coupled with more generous federal tax incentives, will re-energize orders.
"The economics of solar have never been better," Cinnamon said. "But financing is a problem. They can't borrow money to put in the system."
It's Official, Size Really Does Matter! -
The Citrix Blogs
Specifically for a long time, most pundits and market watchers have been convinced that the size of the price tag really didn't matter when choosing a virtualization provider. The prevailing view was that demand for cool new features would continue unabated at the early market pace (can anyone say 'housing bubble'?). While I would agree that initially price didn't matter, in my opinion, that view overlooks the natural evolution of products in any marketplace.
Since that time, the competition in the virtualization market has heated up considerably, the demand curve for new features has flattened (as expected) and customers are struggling under reduced budgets in the face of a global economic slowdown. In this environment, the only remaining basis for competition is price.
An Enviro Utopia — in the Abu Dhabi Desert -
Time
This week the city is hosting the second annual World Future Energy Summit (WFES), a gathering of clean-tech companies and luminaries that has quickly emerged as, as the New York Times put it recently, a kind of Davos for the postcarbon set. And while much of the rest of the world is using the financial crisis as an excuse to put off the transition to cleaner power, in the WFES's opening session today, Abu Dhabi announced that it had pledged that 7% of its energy would come from renewable sources by 2020, up from nothing today.