Google prides itself on the power efficiency of its data centers, and now it has a lot more to crow about. The company recently released figures that show its already efficient data centers just got a lot greener Read more…
Archive for January, 2009
As of this week, Gmail has reached perfection: You no longer have to be online to read or write messages. Desktop programs like Microsoft Outlook have always been able to access your old mail. There is a certain bliss to this if you’ve got a pile of letters that demand well-composed, unplugging the Internet can [...]
According to weblog Google Blogoscoped, Google Chrome is spoofing its user agent at Hotmail, Microsoft’s popular but much-maligned webmail application. Read more…
Official plans to prepare the UK’s digital infrastructure for the future need fleshing out, say experts. Read more…
Twenty UK companies sign a pledge to do more to safeguard the personal data they hold about customers and citizens. Read more…
Microsoft founder Bill Gates says it could be four years before the world’s troubled economies return to economic growth. Read more…
Environmentalists are encouraged by President Barack Obama’s focus this week on renewable energy and stricter emissions standards, although some economists are skeptical he can pull the country out of the recession while cleaning up the planet. Read more…
Back in my day (a day not long ago, as it turns out), you could go down to the local record shop and plunk down your paper-route money for little disks of plastic that were embedded with the latest sounds of your favorite musical performers. Read more…
NASA Acting Administrator Christopher Scolese and other NASA senior management participate in a wreath-laying ceremony as part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance,… Read more…
Scientists have been dreaming up ways to talk to aliens since the 19th century. Read more…