Facebook and Greenpeace have called a truce over a clean energy feud that had the environmental group using the social network’s own platform to campaign against it. Greenpeace and Facebook said Thursday that they will work together to encourage the use of renewable energy instead of coal. Last year, Facebook opened a data center in Prineville, Oregon, using the area’s cool nights and dry air to save energy while keeping its systems from overheating.
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Facebook, Greenpeace in Truce Over Data Centers
Just days after it offered up its Cloud Index, Cisco has unveiled a framework that combines what it sees as the foundational elements needed to help enterprises build, manage and connect to public, private and hybrid clouds. Dubbed Cisco CloudVerse, the framework combines key cloud components that work to drive agility, economics and security. Specifically, those elements are a Unified Data Center, Cloud Intelligence Network and Cloud Applications and Services
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Cisco CloudVerse Provides Cloud Framework
Always up for tweaking the breathless blogging that passes for technology journalism in Silicon Valley, ValleyWag this week offered to put up some real money if anyone could provide concrete evidence of the tablet computer that most Apple watchers expect CEO Steve Jobs to unveil at a Jan. 27 press happening in San Francisco. “We’ve had enough of trying to follow all the speculation around Apple’s impending tablet,” ValleyWag’s Gabriel Snyder wrote in a blog post announcing the Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt.
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Apple’s Cease-and-Desist Letter Wins Tablet ‘Prize’
In the latest in the Nexus One saga, Google and T-Mobile have made changes to the pricing policy for the controversial device. The companies are lowering the price of the Nexus One by $100 for some existing customers. The new pricing paradigm means T-Mobile subscribers who are eligible can get the Nexus One for $279 instead of $379.
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T-Mobile Drops Nexus One Price $100
New Verizon Wireless smartphone customers will no longer be able to surf the web without a data plan as of Monday, when new rates take effect.
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Verizon Requires Data Plan, But Voice Gets Cheaper
A minor Silicon Valley earthquake sets Twitter abuzz. A few minutes later, Google surfaces the event in its search results. Originally posted at Deep Tech
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Google real-time search: 6 min. to spot quake
Mobile phones are becoming ever more like personal computers. That means they are also becoming more vulnerable to traditional computer menaces like hackers and viruses
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Security Firms See a Mobile Opportunity
About 18 months ago, a technology blogger got fed up with the industry and forged an alliance with a startup to make his dream computer. It almost worked.
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Tech Blog, Singapore Startup Feud Over Tablet PC
Jim Goodnight, chief executive of SAS Institute, doesn’t mince words. During a Nov. 10 talk at the Churchill Club, a gathering of Silicon Valley business people, the head of the closely held software maker disparaged Wall Street analysts, questioned the value of marketing staff, and told a joke involving Bill Clinton and the Pope that some people of faith might have found offensive.
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IBM vs. SAS: The Battle over Data-Analysis Software
iPhones may be all the rage in tech-crazy Silicon Valley, but if a new political app is any indication, RIM’s BlackBerry is at the heart of government.
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WhipCast app hints at GOP smartphone of choice?
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