McKinsey report says green IT can help eliminate 7.8 metric gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions annually by 2020, which would be equivalent to 15 percent of all global emissions today. Is IT that dirty? No, right now it is responsible for 2 %. Silicon Valley chipmaker AMD is showing its efforts for cleaner environment in [...]
Mobile 2.0 crowd gathers in San Francisco Nov. 3 to “explore the future of mobile”. Social media is mobile and mobile is social media. A few promising start-ups will present their innovations and future plans, one of them being Zipipop (Finland) – a start-up with Zipiko, a mobile service for sorting your social life on [...]
Silicon Valley is full of useful information and you don’t need to dig deep. One interesting association is SVASE, which has 24 hour networking and “The Silicon Valley Entrepreneur,” a television show featuring interviews with leading VCs, Angels and startup founders. Another organization and website well worth checking up is AlwaysOn network. It covers many [...]
MHG Systems, a Finnish information technology service company which specializes in managing field work, has developed its forest management system that extends all the way to the mobile phone. According to a study by Market-Vision in the forestry sector, 68% of the companies make use of one or more mobile application for implementing their operational [...]
There was no bubble in IT industry… so no reason to panic in Silicon Valley. Instead it is time to analyze situation, invest in IT, seriously think about organizing data center. There will be an interesting online seminar called Your Value Driver in a Turbulent Economy. Hope it is accessible also outside US. Greentech, cleantech, [...]
According to an information security survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and CSO- ja CIO Magazines Asian companies no longer lag behind North American ones in establishing leading practices in security. Boosted by the widespread advances made by companies principally in India and, to a lesser extent, Singapore and Hong Kong, Asian security (if not privacy) practices [...]
Normally hiding in Oregon far away from Silicon Valley hustle and traffic jams, Linus Torvalds took out his tuxedo and arrived to Mountain View to receive 2008 Fellow Award at Computer History Museum. -I’m happy there, I’ll stay in Oregon, he told to SVi reporter. When asked, how important he found his role for the [...]
At least one piece of good news these sad days when things go from bad to worse. Also in Ahtisaari land. I think Martti Ahtisaari’s Nobel Peace Prize was well deserved. He didn’t do it for money… We met in Paris in the 80′s and he was already called Father of Namibia for his efforts [...]
and it is worth while to check his blog. It is a great pleasure to have him back from long silence and retreat from the outer world. I bet quite a few of us “normans” and aliens agree with him on the craziness of this election year. Just four more weeks to go. – By [...]