At an industry level, McKinsey and the Uptime Institute proposed a new financial metric for measuring data center efficiency that combines efficiency of facility operations, such as space cooling, and measures the utilization of IT equipment.
This standard would be the server equivalent to the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy)–the levels of fuel efficiency the U.S. [...]
However, his wife, bathing in uncontrollable suspicion, decided to do the only thing she could. She dialed up the local detective agency. Yes, Google Street View.
Britain has already been shaken to what remains of its foundations by Google Street View’s unerring ability to discover people and things where an idealist might wish they weren’t: from [...]
Google has added some abilities for advertisers to control and track their display advertisements.
“With one click, users can opt out of a single cookie for both DoubleClick ad serving and the Google content network,” Google said. “If a user has already opted out of the DoubleClick cookie, that opt-out will also automatically apply to the [...]
To make room for the new appointments, Yahoo is expanding its board from 9 to 11 members, while Icahn replaced Activision Blizzard CEO Robert Kotick, who stepped down from Yahoo’s board. Icahn, who was pushing for Yahoo to rekindle deal efforts with Microsoft, owns around 5 percent of Yahoo shares.
Correction, 12:15 p.m. PDT:
Fixes the [...]
Microsoft needs to start leaking information that discusses some of the features that would make the tech-savvy crowd go wild. It doesn’t have to be anything special, just enough to start building some hype. After that, it needs to give the niche press unprecedented access to Windows 7 and create a product that appeals to [...]
I am concerned that MI6’s rather avant-garde attempt to find the most diplomatically-forward recruits might not bear quite the most mentally-forward fruit.
The Group’s blood pressure is already rising: “In a world of growing technology, hacking capability and information gathering…our government now see’s fit to not only lose info, but to now display its potential applicant [...]
The builder actually reminders me a lot of Cubescape, a product I looked at back in May. In Atmosphir’s case, it’s simply a matter of stacking pixels together on top of one another in a 3D grid. The big difference is that you can jump into your creation and play test it. Depending on what [...]
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Seesmic raised an A round of $6 million in February of this year.
The new funding round is led by two companies: the Omidyar Network, the venture form of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar; and Wellington Partners. Omidyar will join the Seesmic board in an observer role and Wellington GP Eric Archambeau [...]
One of TechCrunch’s sources claims to have actually handled one of the prototypes, and Apple is talking with manufacturers in Asia about mass production of the device, according to the report.
Could we soon be seeing a beefed-up iPod with a bigger screen?
However, tablet PCs in the Windows world haven’t sold very well, and the [...]
Excuse Me Services (creators of Dial Directions) has finally made available its Say Where iPhone application which lets users search several popular Web services using just their voice. The tool was originally shown off at DemoFall back in early September, and it’s taken this long to go through Apple’s certification process.
The one big problem I [...]
