Back in 1997, BigFix started marketing a tool that helped users diagnose problems with their PC. Later, the company sold essentially the same piece of software to help desks to analyze trends in customer complaints. After that, BigFix sold it as a tool to let large corporate customers download patches.
And now, the company’s products are [...]
Several companies–Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Sony, 3Com, OQO, Samsung–have tried to market simplified Internet computers as alternatives to PCs.
And to date, most of them have failed miserably. The public has just not bought into the vision.
CherryPal, the brainchild of longtime software exec Max Seybold, hopes to break the pattern, although it won’t be easy. The company [...]
The leaders of the world’s large industrialized nations today emerged from a mountaintop resort in Japan and announced that they want to start tackling that climate problem any day now.
The leaders of the Group of Eight nations–the United States, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Italy–announced after a meeting that they have agreed to [...]
What does a company really need to pull off a successful IPO in the greentech market?
Time.
Think of it. SunPower, the solar panel maker that had one of the first successful IPOs in the green market in 2005, was founded by Dick Swanson in 1985. First Solar, the sizzling maker of cadmium telluride solar panels, went [...]
Here are some handy stats on power consumption in data centers Data Center Energy Summit taking place at Sun Microsystems today. Casually drop these factoids at your next cocktail party.
Less than nine months: that the time it takes to recover the cost (in terms of lower electrical bills) for putting variable speed fans in a [...]
Santa Clara, Calif.–Here’s a novel idea. Some cities are examining the possibility of installing data centers, those energy-gobbling server rooms we all rely on, on mothballed ships.
Although high-speed lines would have to be extended to the docks, the energy savings would be tremendous because these ship-bound data centers would need far less air conditioning than [...]
Green Light is the traffic cop at the intersection of green technology, business and policy. We cover the highs and lows of the greentech market, providing news, commentary and analysis on the companies and personalities–-winners and losers alike-–driving its growth and evolution.
Buildings are the George Harrison of green tech. Usually, it's the first two guys--solar and biofuels--that come to mind when the green tech gets debated. ...
Tesla Motors chairman Elon Musk is serious about getting beyond sports cars. At a press conference with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tesla co-founder and chairman Elon ...
Despite the near daily hum telling us that we're in big trouble, sometimes we read something that makes us think: wow, we're in big trouble. ...
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