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    1. Opera Software Expands Operations at Advania's Green Data Center in Iceland

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      Opera Software Expands Operations at Advania's Green Data Center in Iceland

      REYKJAVIK, ICELAND--(Marketwired - May 8, 2013) - Advania, leading Nordic Information Technology (IT) company and owner of Thor Data Center in Iceland, recently signed an agreement with Opera Software for the expansion of its operations in Advania's

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    2. Verne Global Honored with InfoWorld Green IT Award for Innovative Data Center

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      Verne Global Honored with InfoWorld Green IT Award for Innovative Data Center

      KEFLAVIK, Iceland, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of energy efficient data center campuses, has been recognized with the 2013 IDG InfoWorld Green 15 Award for the world's first dual-sourced, 100% renewable ... increase in power pricing and power consumption in the data center industry, Verne Global's campus draws commercial power from Iceland's dual-sourced renewable energy grid and utilizes the country's ambient temperatures to provide free cooling.

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    3. Uptime Institute Announces AOL and Barclays as Winners of Second Annual

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      Uptime Institute Announces AOL and Barclays as Winners of Second Annual

      Uptime Institute invited companies around the globe to help address and solve this problem by participating in the Uptime Institute Server Roundup, an initiative to promote IT and Facilities integration, and improve data center energy efficiency. The annual

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    5. Rush to Fix Quake-Damaged undersea cables

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      Rush to Fix Quake-Damaged undersea cables
      About half of the existing cables running across the Pacific are damaged and "a lot of people are feeling a little bit of slowing down of Internet traffic going to the United States," said Bill Barney, chief executive of Hong Kong-based cable-network operator Pacnet. He declined to name the damaged cables operated by other companies, but said Pacnet's cable system connecting Japan to the U.S. isn't damaged so far.
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    6. Microsoft, Google Vie to Sell U.S. Cloud Mail

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      Microsoft, Google Vie to Sell U.S. Cloud Mail
      A new front has opened in the battle between Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.: selling Web-based email and other software to the federal government. The two technology giants already compete to win contracts from private businesses as well as state and local governments. Such customers hope to cut costs by switching to Web-based software from programs installed on their own computers. EXPERIENCE WSJ PROFESSIONALEditors' Deep Dive: Tech Titan Battle Watch DOW JONES NEWS SERVICE Google Misses Deadline in High-Profile L.A. Deal THE ECONOMIC TIMES Browser War: It's Chrome vs. Internet Explorer in India DOW JONES NEWS SERVICE Google's Latest Acquisition Target Powers Part of Microsoft Search Access thousands of business sources not available on the free web. Learn More Now Google and Microsoft are vying to take over the job of providing email to the General Services Administration, the U.S. agency that oversees government procurement and ...
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    7. Spending Soars on Internet's Plumbing

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      Spending Soars on Internet's Plumbing
      Behind the recovery in business spending is a surge in purchases of the computers that form the backbone of the Internet, as companies scramble to meet growing demand for video and other Web-based services. EXPERIENCE WSJ PROFESSIONALEditors' Deep Dive: Vendors Innovate With Virtualization NIKKEI REPORT IT Firms Prepare for Cloud-Based Battle EWEEK Dell Works With Liquidware DOW JONES BUSINESS NEWS Microsoft Lines Up Partners for Azure Products Access thousands of business sources not available on the free web. Learn More The need to reach customers and employees over the Web is driving furious demand for server systems, the machines that power corporate computer rooms. Many companies are stocking up on new servers, which typically cost a few thousand dollars apiece, to replace older machines with more energy efficient models or systems with more powerful processors.
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    8. Shale Gas Will Rock the World

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      Shale Gas Will Rock the World
      Over the past decade, a wave of drilling around the world has uncovered giant supplies of natural gas in shale rock. By some estimates, there's 1,000 trillion cubic feet recoverable in North America alone—enough to supply the nation's natural-gas needs for the next 45 years. Europe may have nearly 200 trillion cubic feet of its own. We've always known the potential of shale; we just didn't have the technology to get to it at a low enough cost. Now new techniques have driven down the price tag—and set the stage for shale gas to become what will be the game-changing resource of the decade.
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    9. Where Clouds Displace Forests

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      Where Clouds Displace Forests
      The rumble of backhoes and bulldozers on the outskirts of this city of 10,000 is sweet music to a municipality that has lost hundreds of blue- and white-collar jobs in the recession. With a combination of cheap power and favorable climate, Prineville is joining the region's new gold rush: housing electronic data. Facebook, Inc. has promised to spend $175 million over the next three years to build a 145,000-square-foot data-storage farm. The Palo Alto, CA.-based company conducted a lengthy, mostly secret, site search for its facility, selecting Prineville over such competitors as Ontario, Ore., on the state's border with Idaho, and Moses Lake, a farming town in Washington state popular with retirees.
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    10. How Green Should My Tech Be?

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      How Green Should My Tech Be?
      In these tough economic times, green initiatives can be a hard sell. Companies don't want to take a gamble on pricey projects that lie outside their core mission. Yet lots of eco-friendly ideas promise to pay for themselves—and then some—by slashing costs and boosting efficiency. The Journal Report See the complete Business Insight report. How should companies approach the problem? To find out, we looked at green initiatives in one critical section of businesses, the corporate data center, and placed potential projects into four categories. At one end of the spectrum are obviously useful ideas that are simple and inexpensive. At the other end are expensive distractions that should be avoided at all costs. By figuring out which category an idea fits into, companies can better weigh the risk and potential return.
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    11. Creating the Greenest Building in the US

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      Creating the Greenest Building in the US
      It takes a certain ruthlessness to create the greenest office building in the nation. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a unit of the U.S. Department of Energy, is midway through construction of a $64 million project that lays claim to that title. The architects and engineers have spent hundreds of hours calculating the energy use of every aspect of the building, from the elevator to the exit signs. They have tweaked the design again and again with the aim of getting the 218,000-square-foot building to perform at net zero—meaning it will consume so little energy that it won't need to draw a single electron from the grid. The NREL's $64 million, 218,000-square-foot research campus is being built to the highest green standards. The calculations leave little margin for error, however, so project manager Eric Telesmanich is girding for a new role as energy enforcer ...
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    12. Weak Power Demand Dims Outlook

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      Weak Power Demand Dims Outlook
      Electricity sales remained weak in the third quarter, prompting speculation that the sluggishness could persist even after the U.S. economy rebounds. Some utilities don't expect power sales to recover to pre-recession levels until 2012 -- if at all -- because so many factories have closed. Getting a read on future demand is crucial for utilities because they require long lead times to build power plants and make other upgrades. Declining sales put pressure on utilities to raise prices, cut costs or make other adjustments to bolster profits. Workers last month in Charlotte, N.C., home of Duke Energy. The sector began to feel the recession, which started in late 2007, later than many others. Sales held up well in the first half of 2008 but then declined and have continued falling this year, though some regions are reporting an uptick. The federal Energy Information Administration expects overall electricity sales to ...
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    13. How Well Do You Know...Green IT?

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      How Well Do You Know...Green IT?
      Technology has transformed the office, made it possible to communicate instantly around the globe and put the world's art, music and books at our fingertips. Can it now help improve the environment? Technologists say yes, as they use computing power to save energy, reduce waste and produce power more efficiently. Try our quiz to see how well you know green IT. 1) Which of these roles for information and communications technology has the potential to yield the biggest reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030? The Journal Report See the complete Technology report. A. Retrofitting existing buildings B. Designing new buildings for reduced emissions C. Telecommuting and virtual meetings D. E-commerce and replacing paper
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    14. H-P to Acquire 3Com for $2.7 Billion

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      H-P to Acquire 3Com for $2.7 Billion
      Hewlett-Packard Co. said it agreed to buy networking-gear maker 3Com Corp. for $2.7 billion in cash, the latest move by H-P to bulk up its product line amid a broader push by the few remaining technology giants to turn themselves into one-stop shops for corporate customers. The Palo Alto, Calif., company—the world's largest tech company by revenue—also preannounced positive fiscal fourth quarter results. It posted an 11% jump in operating earnings and an 8% decline in revenue from a year ago, beating analyst estimates. In a sign the tech industry is leaving the recession behind, H-P also raised its revenue forecast for the new fiscal year. By buying 3Com, a onetime leading tech company that has fallen on tougher times this decade, H-P is aiming to goose its growth. The move also puts H-P more squarely on the turf of Cisco Systems Inc.
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    15. Cisco, EMC Weigh Tech-Services Venture

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      Cisco, EMC Weigh Tech-Services Venture
      Cisco Systems Inc. and EMC Corp. are in talks to form a new joint venture to provide technology services, in a move by the companies to branch into new areas in the increasingly competitive tech sector. The joint venture plans to target large businesses and emphasize installing products from Cisco and EMC, according to people briefed on the plan. Cisco, which provides networking gear, and EMC, a maker of technology storage, would both have board representation on the new company, these people said. A spokesman for Cisco said the San Jose, Calif., company doesn't comment on rumor or speculation. A spokesman for EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., said "EMC and Cisco have a long-standing strategic alliance and over the years we continue to broaden and strengthen the alliance" but declined to comment on a new business.
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    16. Justice Department Clears Oracle-Sun Deal

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      Justice Department Clears Oracle-Sun Deal
      Oracle Corp. said antirust regulators at the U.S. Department of Justice have cleared its $7.4 billion deal to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., removing a major hurdle for the transaction. Oracle, which makes databases and other software for large corporations, has said it hopes to close the deal this summer. European antitrust regulators are also looking at the deal. The European Commission must decide by Sept. 3 whether to clear the acquisition or launch a detailed investigation.
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    17. Cap-and-Trade's Unlikely Critics: Its Creators

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      Cap-and-Trade's Unlikely Critics: Its Creators
      In the 1960s, a University of Wisconsin graduate student named Thomas Crocker came up with a novel solution for environmental problems: cap emissions of pollutants and then let firms trade permits that allow them to pollute within those limits. When he was a graduate student in the 1960s working to reduce pollutants, Thomas Crocker devised a cap-and-trade system similar to one being considered in Congress. Now legislation using cap-and-trade to limit greenhouse gases is working its way through Congress and could become the law of the land. But Mr. Crocker and other pioneers of the concept are doubtful about its chances of success. They aren't abandoning efforts to curb emissions. But they are tiptoeing away from an idea they devised decades ago, doubting it can work on the grand scale now envisioned.
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    18. Sun Holders Approve Oracle Deal

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      Sun Holders Approve Oracle Deal
      Sun Microsystems Inc. said Thursday its stockholders had voted in favor of Oracle Corp.'s $7.4 billion takeover. Sun, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based computer server and software maker, said in a press release 62% of holders of its common stock had voted to accept the agreement at a special meeting at its headquarters. Under the terms of the deal, database maker Oracle will acquire each Sun share for $9.50 in cash.
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    19. House Passes Climate Bill

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      House Passes Climate Bill
      Landmark legislation to curb U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions was approved by the House of Representatives in a close vote late Friday, securing an initial victory for a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's agenda. The 1,200 page bill -- formally known as the "American Clean Energy and Security Act" -- will reach into almost every corner of the U.S. economy. By putting a price on emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, the bill would affect the way electricity is generated, how homes and offices are designed, how foreign trade is conducted and how much Americans pay to drive cars or to heat their homes. The House climate bill, approved by a 219-212 vote Friday evening, would mandate that 15% of the nation's electricity come from renewable sources such as wind and solar power by 2020, potentially expanding the market and profit potential for companies in those sectors ...
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    20. China: Developed Countries Must Cut Emissions by 40%

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      China: Developed Countries Must Cut Emissions by 40%
      China said developed nations must cut their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2020 from 1990 levels, according to a document outlining its stance ahead of December climate talks in Copenhagen. China is also asking rich countries to donate at least 0.5% to 1% of their annual gross domestic product to help poorer countries cope with climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, it said in the document, which was posted on the Web site of the National Development and Reform Commission, the economic policy-making body that governs China's greenhouse gas emissions policy. International negotiators are hoping to conclude a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012, in an effort to limit the growth of global-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The 40% target represents the high end of cuts in emissions mentioned in the 2007 Bali roadmap, which stopped short of endorsing a ...
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    21. Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies

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      Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies
      The US government has admitted the nation's power grid is vulnerable to cyber attack, following reports it has been infiltrated by foreign spies. WASHINGTON -- Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials. The spies came from China, Russia and other countries, these officials said, and were believed to be on a mission to navigate the U.S. electrical system and its controls. The intruders haven't sought to damage the power grid or other key infrastructure, but officials warned they could try during a crisis or war. "The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the electrical grid," said a senior intelligence official. "So have the Russians." The espionage appeared pervasive across the U.S. and doesn't target a particular company or region, said a former ...
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