March 11, 2009
energy, IT, Analysis Gregory T. Huang wrote: “If you’re a technology junkie, cleantech is the candy store for you,” said Byron McCann, co-founder and managing partner of Seattle-based Ascent Partners, an investment bank that advises cleantech and software entrepreneurs. McCann, who...
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Gregory T. Huang
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March 06, 2009
The much ballyhooed smart grid might be buoyed by the stimulus bill, which appropriates $4.5 billion in direct spending to modernize the electricity grid with smart-grid technologies (part of the $11 overall for spending related to the smart grid), but that doesn’t mean there's a clear, easy path ...
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Mary Catherine O'Connor
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It’s flexible layouts on this week’s Friday Focus. I’ll be loose with the definition though, since 100% fluid width layouts are so hard to come by! Designs of the Week This is just a well-put together site. From the type to the colors to the images to the layout, everything feels l...
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Sophia Lucero
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March 05, 2009
cleantech, energy, wind Luke Timmerman wrote: British Columbia is bigger in land area than Washington, Oregon, and California combined, but has about one-tenth the total population. Yet pound-for-pound, our neighbor to the north appears to have its share of entrepreneurs thinking hard about energy a...
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Luke Timmerman
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March 03, 2009
In April 2007, I transfered Meandering Passage to Media Temple (MT) based upon the promise of their Grid Service (GS) hosting solution…scaleable and able to spread a load across a wide array of servers and disk units to give reliable hosting. What I’ve experienced with Media Temple and t...
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Earl Moore
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cleantech, energy, environment Luke Timmerman wrote: The venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said three years ago that “greentech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century.” Since then, voters in the U.S. have elected a President and ...
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Luke Timmerman
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March 02, 2009
I tend to think of interoperability as a gradient. The old industry stalwart from the 1990's is what I'd call "runtime interoperability", wherein you could write a Java EE application, deploy it on a Java EE application server, and (with a questionable amount of tweaking), get it to operate. SQL was...
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February 26, 2009
Not too long ago, executives from IBM, Wal-Mart and General Electric might have seemed a motley crew of experts for a Congressional hearing about the electric grid and clean power. But yesterday the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming heard testimony from that very crew,...
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Josie Garthwaite
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February 25, 2009
IBM said today it joined a smart grid project in Denmark that’s aiming to upgrade the country’s electric transmission grid to handle the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles. The project will start off with test work on a small Danish island before tackling the whole nation. The Den...
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David Ehrlich
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February 23, 2009
Jockeying will be the name of the game for smart grid companies over the next several months as funding from the economic stimulus package rolls out to state and federal agencies. As Bloomberg notes this morning, now that the $787 billion has been divvied up across U.S. industries, Round 2 of lobbyi...
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