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Internet Slowed to a Crawl? It May Be Your Power Company’s Fault

In Maine, about 250 households found their Internet stopped working correctly after Maine Central Power installed smart meters. Smart meters, widely in use all over the country, automatically send word to the power company when there’s an outage, and upload metered usage numbers to headquarters, avoiding the need for someone to actually visit the meter and read it. The drawback is that Smart Meters use the 2.4GHz frequency band, as do many wireless routers and garage door openers, and in some cases can interfere with their function. READ MORE »

IBM’s Solar Power Cuts Usage 10 Percent

IBM in India has developed a special solar power system for data centers that can reduce their (often enormous) power usage by 10 percent. The system increases efficiency by reducing losses that usually result from converting alternating current on the grid to direct current for servers, explains Kota Murali, who normally works in nanotechnology at IBM India, but created this pilot on the side. READ MORE »

Study Shows America’s Internet Speed Far From Tops

Moldova, Ukraine and Bulgaria are just three of 25 nations that top the U.S. when it comes to the fastest internet connections by country, according to Pando Networks’ 2011 Global Download Report. READ MORE »

TechCrunch Disrupt’s Battlefield: And the Winner is …

In the end, after three days and 31 start-up pitches, judge’s panels and interviews, there could be but one winner of TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s Start-up Battlefield. That title, plus a prize of $50,000 and the Disrupt Cup presented by Disrupt Battlefield NY winners Getaround, goes to … Shaker. READ MORE »

TechCrunch’s Disrupt Battlefield: Moving the Web Forward

From Monday to Wednesday in San Francisco, TechCrunch’s latest Disrupt Start-up Battlefield competition will showcase entrepreneurs from 30 start-ups vying for a $50,000 prize by making six-minute-long quick pitches to a rotating panel of venture capitalists, tech influencers, angel investors and Silicon Valley players. Monday featured three sessions of Start-up Battlefield, titled Disrupting Traditional Markets, Moving the Web Forward and Entertain Us; here are the start-ups presented in session two, Moving the Web Forward. READ MORE »

An Inside Look at Google’s Data Centers

Jonathan Koomey, a data center energy expert and consulting professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at Stanford University, released a new report Monday estimating the amount of servers and electricity consumed by Google, and how energy-efficient those custom servers are. READ MORE »

Cisco Cutting 14 Percent of Workforce

Cisco Systems announced Monday it would eliminate 14 percent of its workforce, or 11,500 jobs. Of those, 6,500 jobs will be eliminated in a general downsizing, while 5,000 more will be off Cisco’s payroll when the company sells its set-top plant in Mexico to Foxconn. The cuts include a 15 percent reduction in VP and higher-level employees. READ MORE »

IPv6 Test Goes So Well Some Sites Are Sticking With It

You’re probably at least vaguely aware of the onrushing doom predicted when the Internet runs out of available IPv4 device addresses. That day is coming soon, as the last batch of such addresses was handed out in February, exhausting a supply of 4.3 billion. What this means in the real world is that it’s getting harder for individual devices to have their own identity on the Internet, which could make it difficult to do things from make Skype calls to share files online. READ MORE »

Take That VMware!

With cloud computing the latest buzzword and everyone needing to cut costs while increasing computing power, virtualization is virtually a necessity in today’s business environment. And if you’re talking virtualization, you’re almost always talking VMware, by far the market leader in this space. READ MORE »

Servers and Routers

Internet Slowed to a Crawl? It May Be Your Power Company’s Fault

IBM’s Solar Power Cuts Usage 10 Percent

Study Shows America’s Internet Speed Far From Tops

An Inside Look at Google’s Data Centers

Cisco Cutting 14 Percent of Workforce

IPv6 Test Goes So Well Some Sites Are Sticking With It

Take That VMware!

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