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The company, which raised $10 million in venture funding last December, has an initial Fortune 50 company customer that’s looking to reduce energy consumption at its corporate data center, according to CEO Rudy Kraus.

The effect of using direct current is to reduce the number of voltage changes and conversions between AC and DC, which [...]

“We all want to hear from the public, but we want to hear meaningful stuff,” said Joy Fulton of the U.S. General Services Administration. “How do you filter what’s going to help us, and filter out what’s just noise?”

Max Harper, a social-media consultant who worked for the Obama transition team, said Web 2.0 tools have [...]

To run the software on Windows XP, users must have installed the Windows Imaging Component, the image-handling engine built for Vista but also available for Windows XP. WIC is likely to become more mainstream soon on XP: it’s built into Service Pack 3.

“Photo Gallery is focused on the consumer experience. We’re looking at things more [...]

This is a time when other social music businesses, iLike among them, are scrambling to make their own moves and snag a bit of the limelight. The rapid-fire, competing-announcement phenomenon is something the tech industry saw last spring when the press was barraged with data-portability announcements: Google Friend Connect, MySpace Data Availability, and Facebook Connect [...]

Here’s a fun tool for play around with over the long weekend. It’s called SuperLame, and it’s a simple tool for adding speech bubbles over photos. It’s missing out on some of the special effects found in other similar tools like Comeeko, but what it lacks in versatility it makes up for in flash and [...]

College students represent change, innovation and a new way of thinking. The MPAA and the RIAA represent two industries that would like nothing more than to go back to the days of no video media and vinyl–their comfort zones.
“The 44 percent figure was used to show that if college campuses could somehow solve this problem [...]

Google on Wednesday introduced a new way to buy ads at YouTube called buzz targeting, in which ads are placed around videos that are booming in popularity by word of mouth.

Insight now has a “demographics tab that displays view count information broken down by age group (such as ages 18-24), gender, or a combination of [...]

Indeed, Whitehurst perhaps hinted at this in his comments to Reuters:
Red Hat pulled in $156.6 million in its Q1 (fiscal year 2009), a 32 percent increase over Q1 2008 and 11 percent growth over Q4 2008. Red Hat’s operating income was also up 33 percent over the same quarter in 2008. But it’s perhaps the [...]

News.com has more on the XP end-of-life plans plans of different PC makers here.

This “downgrade” option hasn’t been fully sketched out yet, but presumably, it involves eating the cost of a more expensive Vista license, and this being Dell, paying some kind of modest fee.
Per the Microsoft Windows life-cycle policy, direct OEM and [...]

In the same interview, Jobs also notes that Apple went through 100 design prototypes before coming up with the final MacBook Air design and suggested that Amazon may have trouble selling the Kindle–and not because of the product’s design.

I guess that shoots to heck my prediction that Apple would soon add e-books to the iTunes [...]