Yahoo Diversifies Into Wind And Hydro Power
A search engine company has become involved with wind turbines in India and a hydropower project in Brazil. Now, want to hear the really surprising part? It’s Yahoo, not Google, that is behind the environmentally friendly effort. Even setting aside the environmental impact, this qualifies as a good deed; in a post on the Yodel [...]
Google.org investing in plug-in hybrids
Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, has issued a call for investment proposals. Specifically, they are looking for entrepreneurs to propose ways to develop plug-in hybrid vehicles. Google.org is prepared to invest $10M in such proposals. They indicated that they were treating this like an RFP process, rather than a typical investment process, because they wanted to [...]
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 [...]
Ask Not What Your Marketing Can Do For You…
Ask.com has seen brighter days. It’s one thing when nobody thinks you can compete with Google (Yahoo and MSN have yet to accomplish that), but it’s quite another to lose continually despite all efforts. The algorithm may have killed Jeeves, but that may have been a bad idea. (Technically, Jeeves is encased in carbonite. We [...]
Climate Savers Computing Initiative
Last week a group of technology companies got together to announce the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Led by
Voip Web Conferencing Does More With Less
Web and audio conferencing has become the “in†thing for many businesses. It is cheaper than business trips, which require plane tickets and hotel rooms. It is more spontaneous than sending carbon copies of an e-mail to a small army of co-workers. Additionally, it is more virtual than pressing the s… More: continued here voip [...]
Microsoft, Clinton Make Green Software, Services
Google’s well known for its environmentally friendly leanings, and Yahoo launched a “Be a Better Planet” campaign just last week. Now Microsoft has joined the usual suspects by launching its own endeavor; oddly enough, former president Bill Clinton was also involved. “The Clinton Foundation and Microsoft Corp. today announced a long-term partnership to develop a [...]
Nostradamus Prophecies Linked to the Nazca Lines
Michel Nostradamus, history’s most famous prophet, died in southern France in the sixteenth century. The lines of Nazca are one of archaeology’s greatest mysteries and were created nearly a thousand years earlier on a faraway continent. A direct connection between the two is surely impossible, no? “To the contrary, it’s highly possible,” says Morten St. [...]
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