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Smart Grid: The First Green Bubble?
The Smart Grid is the hottest thing in Green IT these days, attracting not just lots of press, but attention from heavyweights like Cisco, IBM, Intel, and Google. There’s also plenty of venture capital money chasing the Next Big Thing — but there’s some evidence that the Smart Grid may be the next tech bubble to burst.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Battery-Life Statistics
theodp writes “What if automakers measured gas mileage by rolling their cars downhill with their engines idling? They might, Newsweek’s Daniel Lyons suggests, if they took inspiration from the MobileMark 2007 notebook battery-life benchmark test, the creation of a consortium called BAPCo, whose members are — surprise — computer makers and other tech companies. Laptops score big numbers, Lyons explains, because they’re tested with screens dimmed to 20%-30% of full brightness, Wi-Fi turned off, and the main processor chip running at 7.5% of capacity. Professional reviewers see company-generated battery-life claims as a joke. ‘The rule of thumb is that in real-world use you get about 50 percent of rated battery life,’ says a Gizmodo associate editor. Leading the call for reform is the not-necessarily-altruistic AMD, who gripes that MM07 was created in Intel’s labs and rigged so Intel chips would outscore AMD chips, which draw more power when idle.”
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Man Attacked In Ohio For Providing Iran Proxies
David Hume writes “electronicmaji is reporting on the Daily Kos that the individual known as ProtesterHelp (also to be found on twitter) was attacked in Ohio for providing network security for Twitterers in Iran, setting up private networks to provide secure proxies, calling for media networks to remove the Iranians Twitterers information from their broadcast, and providing counter-intelligence services (including Basiji and Army Locations) within the Twitter community. ProtesterHelp was allegedly attacked by a group of men while walking to class in Ohio. The men, who appeared to ProtesterHelp to be either Iranian or Lebanese, drove up besides him and threw rocks at him while shouting, ‘Mousavi Fraud.’ ProtesterHelp further reported that his personal information has been leaked, and is currently being spread both online and inside of Iran amongst the government.” Relatedly Wired is also reporting that Google and Facebook have rushed out support for Persian. This move has allowed many pro-democracy groups to connect and translate their message to a broader audience.
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Man Attacked In Ohio For Providing Iran Proxies
David Hume writes “electronicmaji is reporting on the Daily Kos that the individual known as ProtesterHelp (also to be found on twitter) was attacked in Ohio for providing network security for Twitterers in Iran, setting up private networks to provide secure proxies, calling for media networks to remove the Iranians Twitterers information from their broadcast, and providing counter-intelligence services (including Basiji and Army Locations) within the Twitter community. ProtesterHelp was allegedly attacked by a group of men while walking to class in Ohio. The men, who appeared to ProtesterHelp to be either Iranian or Lebanese, drove up besides him and threw rocks at him while shouting, ‘Mousavi Fraud.’ ProtesterHelp further reported that his personal information has been leaked, and is currently being spread both online and inside of Iran amongst the government.” Relatedly Wired is also reporting that Google and Facebook have rushed out support for Persian. This move has allowed many pro-democracy groups to connect and translate their message to a broader audience.
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AMD is inside Iran’s missiles and supercomputers
To make matters worse, Iran’s glorious missiles, which could end up firing in the direction of Intel’s R&D labs in Israel, could also have AMD gear on board.
AMD is inside Iran’s missiles and supercomputers
To make matters worse, Iran’s glorious missiles, which could end up firing in the direction of Intel’s R&D labs in Israel, could also have AMD gear on board.
Intel toots its research horn for chips–and more
The chipmaker struts its stuff for next-generation networking, processors, energy efficiency, and wireless power transmission at its research day.
Intel spells out Core i3, i5, i7 branding
The branding gets simplified into entry-level, midlevel, and high-level segments. Plus, how that fits in with the Lynnfield, Clarksfield, Arrandale, and Clarkdale processors.
NSA Email Surveillance Pervasive and Ongoing
dkleinsc writes “The NY Times has a piece about work being done by Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) and others to curb NSA efforts to read email and Internet traffic. Here’s an excerpt: ‘Since April, when it was disclosed that the intercepts of some private communications of Americans went beyond legal limits in late 2008 and early 2009, several Congressional committees have been investigating. Those inquiries have led to concerns in Congress about the agency’s ability to collect and read domestic e-mail messages of Americans on a widespread basis, officials said. Supporting that conclusion is the account of a former NSA analyst who, in a series of interviews, described being trained in 2005 for a program in which the agency routinely examined large volumes of Americans’ e-mail messages without court warrants. Two intelligence officials confirmed that the program was still in operation.’”
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Nvidia CEO says GPU, Apple future of computing
At company’s analyst day, Jen-Hsun Huang says future will make the graphics processor the equal of processors made by Intel, citing Apple as an early indicator.