Google Explains its Wireless Dreams
Google posted to its Public Policy Blog last night to share its ambitions around the upcoming “white space” auction the FCC will hold to sell off unused TV spectrum. Google hopes to make it possible for those unused bits of radio spectrum between licensed TV channels to be freed up for development as wireless Internet [...]
Ask, Dell Do Some Gardening
A carbon-reducing tree planting initiative backed by Dell and Ask.com will complement the deployment of new energy efficient servers for Ask’s datacenters.Ask.com announced it will be the first corporate customer of Dell’s ‘Plant A Tree For Me’ program. The program aims at creating an environmentally friendly response to electricity usage by planting thousands of trees [...]
Ask, Dell Partner On Environment
Search engine Ask.com and Dell have partnered to protect the environment with custom energy efficient servers. Ask and Dell’s Data Center Solutions Division (DCS) have created an environmentally friendly plan that includes a combination of hardware and services to make Ask’s data centers more energy efficient. Custom energy-efficient servers made by Dell have decreased Ask’s [...]
Lenovo To Launch $199 PC In China
Lenovo Group announced today that it would sell no thrills personal computers targeted at China’s large poor rural population starting at $199. Lenovo’s announcement comes after competitor Dell entered the Chinese market in March by offering its affordable personal computer aimed at beginning Chinese users. Buyers of the new PC will use a television set [...]
Carolina’s Google Tax Breaks Irk Locals
The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) has called the $165 million in tax incentives for Google “unusual” and challenged the deal in court.Google’s datacenter deal for the city of Lenoir in Caldwell County, NC, violated the state constitution, according to NCICL advocates. The News & Observer reported that the same group also opposed [...]
Brand Owners Unite Against Domain Squatters
Domain squatters, who buy domains that are typos or variations of a popular company or brand name and then put ads on the site, have a new foe. A group of big-name brand owners has teamed up to form CADNA: the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse. CADNA is a non-profit organization based in Washington D.C. [...]
Climate Savers Computing Initiative
Last week a group of technology companies got together to announce the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Led by
OpenDNS Accuses Dell, Google Of Spyware
The deal between Dell and Google that places Google’s toolbar on new Dell PCs has OpenDNS founder and CEO David Ulevitch questioning their practices. Removing the Google Toolbar from a new Dell system doesn’t completely take away Google’s effect on a PC. Ulevitch thinks this borders on placing spyware on new computers, for the sake [...]
Keeping Your Website Simple Is Most Effective
What do the Internet’s most profitable websites such as Dell, Amazon and Yahoo all have in common? They are plain, simple, and easy to use. The most effective web sites do not employ fancy graphics or animations to sell their products and services because these distractions take away from the goal o… More: continued here [...]
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