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Notebooks & the Greening of IT - Intel Chip Chat 32

editor — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:30:47 +0000

What role can notebook computers play in the greening of IT? Mike Trainor discusses Intel Centrino 2 and the latest performance and efficiency advancements in mobile computing.

Tags: Notebooks, Greening of IT, Intel, Chip Chat, Mobile, Centrino 2

Green IT: An Interview with Jose Iglesias

editor — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:00:07 +0000

In this podcast, Vice President of Corporate Solutions, Jose Iglesias, discusses best practices for reducing energy costs in the data centers of large organization. Iglesias also provides some insight into ways companies can operate in environmentally responsible ways. For more information, visit Symantec’s Green IT Initiative website.

Tags: Symantec, Corporate Solutions, Jose Iglesias, Green IT Initiative, Green IT

Verizon Business Keeps Corporate End-Users Connected Globally with Enterprise Mobility Solutions

Paul Lancour — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:00:42 +0000

Global enterprises require a flexible enterprise mobility strategy that enables on-the-go employees to easily, rapidly and securely connect to corporate resources in a seamless manner. As a leader in delivering global enterprise mobility solutions, Verizon Business offers a comprehensive array of enterprise mobility services that can deliver big benefits to business in terms of enhancing global collaboration, reducing travel expenses and achieving “green” objectives. In this podcast, Craig Cerasi, Verizon Business global product marketing manager for enterprise mobility, discusses the market trends driving adoption of enterprise mobility and how Verizon Business can help customers deploy mobility solutions to meet a wide range of business needs.

Tags: enterprise mobility, Verizon Business, Craig Cerasi

Research@Intel Day: A Feast for the Senses

Jason Lopez — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:10:55 +0000

Intel’s invitation-only event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., showed off the company’s diverse research projects in areas like visual computing, health, life sciences, green-friendly technologies, and wireless, to name a few. “Intel scientists can propose research on any topic they envision a solution for,” said Manny Vara, Intel’s technology marketing director at Intel’s R&D Labs. “It can start when a scientist comes across a problem, even outside of work, and says, ‘Hey, I could do something about that.’” Intel scientists have engaged in diverse research projects from digital money to mobile antennas that provide access to cell phone services in developing regions of the world. This year’s Research@Intel Day featured more than 70 projects.

Tags: Intel, visual computing, Manny Vara, digital money, mobile antennas, Research@Intel Day, Research@Intel

Classic Scoble : The Architecture of Flash

Robert Scoble — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:01:00 +0000

What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane.
And for more context, check out his blog, from one year ago today!

Ely Greenfield, Flex architect, David Wadhwani, vice president of Flex Product Line, and Mike Chambers, senior product manager, developer relations, walk to the whiteboard and give us a look at Adobe Flash’s architecture and give further details about what is being open sourced.

Other posts from a year ago:
Breaking News: Adobe Flash (Flex) goes Open Source

Tags: Ely Greenfield, Flex, David Wadhwani, whiteboard, Adobe

Verizon Business Helps Companies Conduct Eco-Friendly Business

Michael Johnson — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:00:16 +0000

In this podcast, Chris Kimm discusses the Verizon Business’s commitment to the environment and how advanced communications and information technology solutions can help multinational companies employ energy-efficient business practices that make good business sense. Kimm is vice president of sales engineering for Verizon Business.

Tags: Chris Kimm, Eco-Friendly, green, Verizon Business

SNWSpotlight: High Performance Computing, Green Data Center

Paul Lancour — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:30:25 +0000

In this podcast, we hear about a new development in the high performance computing market from Raj Das of SGI and Greg Schulz, analyst with The StorageIO Group, weighs in on the “green gap” in the data center.

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. It’s brought to you by LSI.

Tags: Raj Das, SGI, Greg Schulz, green IT, Storage Networking World, LSI, high performance computing, SNWSpotlight, data center

SNWSpotlight: Storage Virtualization, Green Data Centers

Paul Lancour — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:58:55 +0000

In this podcast, reporter Michael Johnson delves into storage virtualization technology, speaking with Don Fautt, LSI director of software marketing, and Doug Jury, LSI’s director of software business sales. Catherine Girardeau tackles power efficiency in the data center, speaking with Dave Vellante and William Souder about Vellante’s Wikibon Project. It’s had a terrific impact on the bottom line at Berry College, where Sounder is director of information technology.

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. It’s brought to you by LSI.

Tags: Michael Johnson, storage virtualization, Catherine Girardeau, power efficiency, data center, SNWSpotlight, Storage Networking World, LSI, Wikibon Project, Dave Vellante, Berry College, William Souder, Doug Jury, Don Fautt

ROI of Data Center Heat Recovery

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Intel IT has designed a new system to reduce energy costs, recycle excess heat, and the reduce environmental impact of the data center. In Part 2 of this podcast, Intel IT Data Center Design Engineer Doug Garday plugs in some numbers that show potential energy cost savings, amount of heat recovery, and return on investment of Intel IT’s data center heat recovery system.

Related links:
Data Center Heat Recovery (PDF)
Data Centers Recycle Excess Heat (Podcast)

Tags: energy costs, excess heat, Doug Garday, data center cooling, data center power, data center, green data centers

Data Centers Recycle Excess Heat

Catherine Girardeau — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:01:20 +0000

Instead of wasting all the excess heat your data center generates, wouldn’t it be more efficient to reuse it to heat offices, water, and more? With the growing number of data centers being built, now is the time to integrate energy saving and reuse methods. In part one of this two-part podcast, Doug Garday, a data center design engineer with Intel Information Technology, explains energy recycling, a method of reducing the impact of data centers on the environment. Intel IT recommends building systems to recover data center heat into the design of new facilities. Garday explains Intel’s design scheme, and gives tips on calculating your return on investment.

Tags: datacenter, data center cooling, data center power, green data centers

The Reboot/GDC 2008: Xbox Blogger Breakfast

Rio Pesino — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:04:12 +0000

The Gamerscore Blog hosted a Xbox blogger breakfast for the media and video game blogging community. The event gave a selected number of journalists and bloggers the chance to speak with Microsoft’s Chris Satchell, John Shappert and Aaron Greenberg. In this audio version of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino takes you to the breakfast table, where topics discussed included XNA, HD-DVD, Xbox 360 shortages and Xbox Live Downloadable Content.

Tags: Aaron Greenberg, Chris Satchell, Gamerscore Blog, HD-DVD, John Shappert, The Reboot, Xbox Blogger Breakfast, XNA

Year Of The Rat

Oscar Grimm — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:32:39 +0000

Happy Lunar New Year! February 7, 2008 begins the year of the Rat, the first year of the Chinese zodiac, a time of activity and renewal. Today we’ll take you on a quick tour of lunar new year basics, factoids, and food traditions. It is said that this is a good year to make a fresh start, and after the year we’ve had, we couldn’t agree more! As uncertified joy practitioners, we here at Freshtopia.net love a good reason to celebrate and eat some delicious food. So why not wear a little red, do a spot of cleaning (a lunar new year tradition), bring some fresh blossoms into your home and enjoy some healthy, auspicious fruits and vegetables?

In addition to tossing a little green, Tanja put together a wonderful, earthy, spicy parsnip noodle salad for this episode. We’ll be putting the recipe in the next edition of the Freshtopian, so if you haven’t already signed up, do so by entering your preferred address in the field at the site’s upper-right.

Tags: chinese new year, lunar new year, year of the rat

Freshtopia.net - How To Ruin A Perfectly Good Grapefruit

Oscar Grimm — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:58:46 +0000

This recipe was inspired by Anthony, aka the Raw Model, and his nifty list of 5 things to eat every day for health and beauty. It was a well-intentioned soup, simple and unassuming, comprised of some of my very favorite things to eat, all in one convenient bowl. What we ended up with however, was a watery bowl of grayish-green horror, with a crime-scene chili swirl. Sorry Anthony.

Despite the soup’s tragic disposition, the episode may be worth a check-out, if nothing more than as a cautionary tale. “What not to do with grapefruits.” The music, by our friend Justin Winokur , is great, and there is a healthy dose of nervous laughs to accompany.

If we’re still friends after you watch this, consider tuning in next week. Among other things we’ll be showing you how to make our variation of green lemonade, as well as blogging up a storm.

Here’s the recipe, so you know what to avoid…

Sundried Tomato-Chipotle Swirl:
1/3C olive oil
1/4C sundried tomatoes
1 small dried chipotle pepper
1t mustard
Sea salt and pepper to taste

Grapefruit Avocado Soup:
2 large grapefruit, peel and pith removed
1 large avocado

Tags: grapefruit, raw food, soup

150 MPG with AFS Trinity’s PHEV Technology

Matt Kelly — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:26:35 +0000

Prior to the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), one news story getting a lot of traction was the conversion of a Saturn Hybrid into a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) capable of 150 miles per gallon. So I was quite excited to speak with Don Bender, chief technology officer for AFS Trinity, the company behind the conversion, about their soon-to-be patented Extreme Hybrid drivetrain.

Tags: AFS Trinity, Don Bender, Extreme Hybrid, hybrid, NAIAS, North American International Auto Show, PHEV, Saturn

GM’s Chairman Rick Wagner Meets with Bloggers at NAIAS

Matt Kelly — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:28:06 +0000

In an hour sit down with online journalists during the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), GM’s Chairman Rick Wagner answered questions on several topics from the joint partnership announcement the day before with Coskata, to Tata Motor’s Nano, recently unveiled for the Indian auto market. Participating int he breakfast meeting were journalists including (but not limited to) Brian Dooley at HummerGuy.net, Lyle Dennis of GM-Volt.com, Joe LaMuraglia - Gaywheels.com, Paul Stamatiou, Gear Diary’s David Goodspeed, Hybridcarblog’s Chad Snyder, Hank Green of Ecogeek.org, Joel Williams of Lifegoggles.com, Alphamom’s Isabel Kallman, Autowriter Matthew Keegan, Philippe Daix of TopSpeed.com, Clayton Cornell of Green Options, and Autopia’s Marty Jerome.

Tags: Coskata, GM, NAIAS, Nano, North American International Auto Show, Rick Wagoner, Tata Motors

GM’s Bob Lutz Holds Court at NAIAS

Matt Kelly — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:59:54 +0000

During the North American International Auto Show, (NAIAS) GM’s Vice Chairman Bob Lutz joined a roundtable discussion with a group of online journalists including (but not limited to) Brian Dooley at HummerGuy.net, Lyle Dennis of GM-Volt.com, Joe LaMuraglia-Gaywheels.com, Vincent Nguyen at Slashgear.com, Paul Stamatiou, Gear Diary’s David Goodspeed, Hybridcarblog’s Chad Snyder, Hank Green of Ecogeek.org, Joel Williams of Lifegoggles.com, Alphamom’s Isabel Kallman, Autowriter Matthew Keegan and Autopia’s Marty Jerome.

BlogHaus and CES 2008: A Flying Success

Michael Johnson — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:41:48 +0000

The final stretch for CES revealed bleary eyes from late night parties, cheers for Scoble as he appeared on CNBC, and a rocking good time at BlogHaus. In this installment we get to see rapping about memory chips, amazing flat panel TVs , new technologies for wireless home entertainment from Belkin, and the final results from Intel’s green screen booth. Thanks to all who participated and made it a success: Karl and Jimmy of the Bellagio bar staff, Maryam Scoble, Margie, and all the others who staffed the Bloghaus door, Valerie Cunningham of PodTech for being Valerie, San Key Sa for great camerawork, Mogulus for streaming, and special shout outs to John Aguilar of PodTech and Elizabeth Wallis for organizing the whole crazy ball of wax, Faisal Quadri, and Ken for the amazing bandwidth, Kevin Edwards and MK for keeping the content flowing, to John Furrier for creating the concept, and to Seagate for sponsorship. See you next year! Safe flights home to all.

CES Got Game: Frag Dolls @ Bloghaus

Michael Johnson — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:43:37 +0000

Come walk the floor at CES and check out the sleek TV you can wear on your head, green screen thrills from Intel, Belkin’s new game pad, a glimpse of the back of Fata1ity’s head, and the Frag Dolls appearance at Bloghaus.

Tags: CES, green screen, Intel, Belkin, game pad, Fata1ity, Frag Dolls, Bloghaus

Biodiesel: Out of the FOG (Fat’s Oils, Greases)

Matt Kelly — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:43:32 +0000

During the first annual Renewable LA, a day long “consumption-lite” eco fest celebrating renewable energy and transportation, Joe Gershen, Board Member, Green Depot sustainable energy organization, gave a presentation on the many benefits of Biodiesel.

Tags: biodiesel, Green Depot, Joe Gershen, Renewable LA, Joe Gershen

Hollywood Goes Green: Centron Energy

Matt Kelly — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:39:05 +0000

Ron Likis heads up Centron Energy Corporation, a Wisconsin alternative energy company that has created a fuel additive that after 300 million of miles of testing, has been CARB approved and EPA recognized to decrease emissions and increase mileage in gasoline, ethanol, or diesel engines. I spoke with him about his company’s creation during iHollywood Forum’s Hollywood Goes Green.

Food Not Lawns: No Lawn Left Behind

Ryanne Hodson — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:11:31 +0000

Ever since we started living in a place were every square inch is growing something useful (to people and other creatures), our eyes are opened to the possibility of transforming lawns and other unused green space to grow food. Why water a lawn full of grass when you could water and grow salad greens, root veggies, herbs, squash, tomatoes, peppers, the list goes on and on. In this video we used some scrap wood to build a raised garden bed over a 7′x7′ patch of driveway gravel. Not only do we pluck the greens for dinner, it looks a lot nicer than the dumping ground of found materials that it once was. If every neighborhood had even a few lawns turned into gardens, we could start hyper-localizing our food supplies and getting to know our neighbors- because, after all, you’re going to want to trade gardening tips!

Freshtopia.net - Vegan Egg Nog

Oscar Grimm — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:16:12 +0000

Welcome!

This is an event that will one day reach great renown… the first Christmas Special in online media history. Well, the first to our knowledge at any rate. This is day one of three action-packed days of Freshtopian Christmas cheer, featuring food, fun, green gift ideas, holiday stress relievers, and more.

In today’s episode we will first illustrate a reclaimed stocking craft idea. Next, Barb Finnin gives us some green stocking-stuffer ideas (see links below for purchase). Lastly, yoga instructor extraordinaire Kate Schox shows us a holiday stress-relieving pose.

Tags: Christmas, drink, egg nog, vegan egg nog

Freshtopia.net - Xmas Day I

Oscar Grimm — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:05:03 +0000

Happy Holidays!

Tags: Christmas, freshtopia, freshtopia.net, stockings, yoga

Controlling Emissions from Diesel Trucks and Power Plants - Part 2

John Ince — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:00:59 +0000

Ever start to gaggle when driving behind a huge diesel truck spewing forth noxious exhaust fumes? Lincoln Evans Beauchamp, CEO of EWA Environmental Inc., decided to do something about it. His Palo Alto based startup has developed a green technology that reduces exhaust emissions of diesel trucks, one of the chief sources of pollution on our highways. This is Part 2 of a 2 Part Series.

Tags: Diesel Trucks, EWA Environmental Inc, John Ince, Lincoln Evans Beauchamp, Reducing Emissions

Controlling Emissions from Diesel Trucks and Power Plants - Part 1

John Ince — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:55:05 +0000

Tags: Diesel Trucks, EWA Environmental Inc, John Ince, Lincoln Evans Beauchamp, Reducing Emissions