Google has posted an interesting [and fun] run-down of the energy pathway of an email through a well crafted online animation/cartoon. The environmental impact on growing data centres is very real and the question of sustainability is a strategic and governance challenge that cannot be ignored. The context of the current debate about carbon-pricing and mechanisms for capture and/or attenuation…
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A new report, released in September of this year, conducted jointly by Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), Arthur D. Little and Chalmers University of Technology in 33 OECD countries, quantifies the isolated impact of broadband speed, showing that doubling the broadband speed for an economy increases GDP by 0.3%. A 0.3 percent GDP growth in the OECD region is equivalent to USD 126…
Amazon Releases Kindle Software for iPhone. Glen Fleishmann The other shoe has dropped: Amazon late tonight released Kindle for iPhone, a free application that provides access to the catalog of books available for purchase for Amazon's dedicated hardware device, the Kindle 2. (See "Kindle 2 Improves Design, Not Features," 2009-02-26, for a review.) If you already own or have owned…
Why didn't girls play videogames?. At TED in 1998, Brenda Laurel asks: Why are all the top-selling videogames aimed at little boys? She spent two years researching the world of girls (and shares amazing interviews and photos) to create a game that girls would love. [Creative Economy : Reports]
Interact: Watch 24 Brilliant Hours of U.S. Flights. Artist Aaron Koblin layers flight patterns on a Google map representing air traffic across the United States over a 24-hour period. The map illustrates flight paths using color and animation for all the aircraft the FAA tracked on August 12, 2008. [Wired Top Stories]
LogMeIn's Ignition for iPhone Provides Sleek Remote Access. -Glenn Fleishman LogMeIn is the first service I recommend for those without MobileMe accounts who want to establish remote screen connections to computers under their control. The LogMeIn Free service, available for some time for Mac OS X and much longer for Windows, allows a browser-based session that's better than VNC, Leopard's…
HAL's Pals: Top 10 Evil Computers. To celebrate the 2001 supercomputer's birthday, Wired.com opens the pod bay doors to reveal Hollywood's most malevolent thinking machines. [Wired Top Stories]
Google Earth's Virtual Prado Museum. Madrid's Prado Museum has long been a destination for art lovers. In the company of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Louvre Museum in France, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Prado is home to countless masterpieces of western art. Unfortunately, the options for viewing its contents have always been either…