Archives: Expensive Gasoline Will Change Our Lifestyle Posted By : Mel Pol

Get ready for the biggest tragedy in American history. If the price of gasoline ever goes above five bucks a gallon, millions of gas guzzling automobiles will be worthless. Filling up a full tank will then cost over one hundred bucks. With a recession coming on and the unemployment rate rising many of those gas […]

You love your car just the way it is. But a great car can always be made better, especially with the right choice of accessories.

It’s nice to see Adobe becoming more Linux friendly than ever. As Novell’s Mono project works on a port of Microsoft’s Silverlight to Linux, Adobe announced that it has made available (in English only) the pre-release alpha version of AIR (Adobe Integrated Run-Time) for Linux on Adobe Labs today. The finished product — AIR for […]

We released an alpha version of Adobe AIR for Linux today so now we’ve got some form of support for Mac, Windows, and Linux with the exact same code/.air file. I’ve been playing with it for a few weeks and it’s really impressive to see most AIR applications just work on Linux exactly the way […]

Europe will lead the league in offshore windpower developement according to Emerging Energy Research. Their new study concludes that 70% of the global offshore wind investment will be in Europe from now until 2020. Other areas of development will be Canada, China, India and the U.S. R and D continues even as billions of dollars […]

When Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air at Macworld Expo in January 2008, he promoted its environmental benefits including being completely mercury and arsenic free, exceeding European Standards. In May 2007 Apple also promised to completely eliminate the use of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and Brominated Fire Retardants (BFRs) in the printed wiring on motherboards, and […]

Those of us in educational technology, at least in the K-12 segment, don’t tend to produce a lot of documents that someone will want to read in 10 years. At the university level, where the publish or perish dogma is a alive and well, researchers are producing plenty of documents that should outlive their own […]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been updating my knowledge of green tech perspectives by talking to the executives running sustainability efforts at some of the biggest companies. A couple of days ago, I updated you about Xerox. Now, it’s Cisco’s turn. Paul Marcoux, vice president of green engineering at Cisco, was hired last fall […]

Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted 9.8% YTY growth in Q4 2007 and totaling $5.3 bln, according to the IDC. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to $7.5 bln, up 7.6% from the prior year’s Q4 2007. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped reach 1,645 petabytes, growing 56.3%.

The full year 2007 results resembled those in the fourth quarter: EMC held the top market position with 25.8% revenue share, followed by Symantec and IBM with 17.7% and 13.9% revenue share, respectively. NetApp and HP rounded out the top 5 with 8.1% and 4.8% revenue share, respectively.
Vendor
Revenue, 2007
Share, 2007
Revenue, 2006
Share, 2006
Growth, YTY
1. EMC
$2,825
25.8%
$2,673
27.0%
5.7%
2. Symantec
$1,930
17.7%
$1,790
18.1%
7.8%
3. […]