Google’s latest clean power play takes the search engine giant all the way to a Swedish wind farm, which will eventually crank out and pump clean power across the country to a data center in Finland. Read more »
Google’s huge clean power investing project now includes Africa for the first time — a large solar panel farm being built in South Africa. Read more »
Google says that a company can see energy savings of 65 to 85 percent from moving their internal hosted IT services — from email to documents to spreadsheets — over to Google Apps. Read more »
Google has been more than creative when it comes to making its data centers more energy efficient and greener and this week says it plans to implement a new feature for a new data center in Taiwan: thermal energy storage. Read more »
Google has turned to chilly outside air and even seawater for greener ways to cool its data centers. But the search engine giant said on Thursday that it has now also tapped into recycled waste water to cool a data center in Douglas County, Georgia. Read more »
Sometimes it’s easier to get a picture of a market if you look directly at the numbers. Google India’s Rajan Anandan gave us a snap shot of the data that is driving the consumers entrepreneurs, and investors in the rapidly growing Indian web and mobile markets. Read more »
Despite Google shutting down its clean power philanthropic initiative, Google still remains committed to clean power in several ways far more important, which have represented the bulk of Google’s work with energy. Read more »
Google is officially shutting down its own in-house research initiative and equity investing focus on lowering the cost of clean power, called Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, or RE
Google continues to favor countries with cold climates for the construction of new data centers, which can provide outside air as cooling and dramatically reduce the energy consumption of the facility. The latest is Ireland, where Google plans to build an 11-acre data center. Read more »
Google is investing millions of dollars into its second fund that will go toward installing solar panels on rooftops. On Tuesday Rick Needham, Google’s Director of Green Business Operations, announced that Google will invest $75 million into a solar fund for startup Clean Power Finance Read more »
Internet giants Google and Microsoft have officially given their web-based energy management tools the Donald Trump (as in You’re Fired!), and lannounced that they would be closing them down. But there are still over a dozen options trying to tackle this difficult market. Read more »
In the wake of Google pulling the plug on its energy tool PowerMeter, Microsoft says it has now killed its energy service, Hohm, too. Microsoft writes on its blog that it will discontinue its Hohm service starting on May 31, 2012. Read more »
Google officially shuttered its web energy tool PowerMeter on Friday after the application failed to bring in enough users. Here are five reasons why I think PowerMeter didn’t take off. Read more »
Google has officially pulled the plug on its web energy management tool PowerMeter. The project, which Google launched two years ago, just “didn’t catch on the way we would have hoped,” said Google. Read more »
Google has shown a surprising interest in the future of energy, from investing in clean energy, to developing a plug-in vehicle project. But there’s another way that Google could be connected to energy through its search business: as gas prices rise, so do paid search clickthroughs. Read more »
Google announced that it has made its second deal via its subsidiary Google Energy, and the search engine giant plans to buy 100 MW of power from a wind farm that’s under construction in Oklahoma. Read more »
The federal government, which is one of the biggest boosters of electric cars, announced two initiatives on Tuesday: a Google Map project featuring charging stations nationwide, and $5 million in funding for cities to come up with plans to popularize electric cars. Read more »
Google’s investments in clean power are now rivaling that of stand alone clean energy investors. The search engine giant has invested $100 million in the world’s largest wind farm under construction in Oregon. With this investment, Google has put more than $350 million into clean power. Read more »
Google has installed a wireless electric car charger, developed by a company called Evatran, to charge up plug-in cars on its Mountain View, Calif. campus. The installation is the first public trial of Evatran’s wireless charging tech, which the company unveiled last Summer. Read more »
Google has bought Plannr, a Seattle-based startup, for an undisclosed fee, according to reports. Plannr is a service that helps groups of people coordinate their plans by bringing together the multiple planning tools that we use (calendar, phone, email, maps, SMS, etc.). Read more »
A new idea is catching on. The idea is simple: build a Bluetooth keyboard right into an iPad case, and you’ve got yourself a total netbook replacement in a single, svelte package. It’s a watershed moment for the iPad, and for tablets in general. Read more »
If California’s climate change bill AB32, which was passed back in 2006 and creates a plan to reduce the state’s carbon emissions, is repealed, California’s greentech markets will be seriously jeopardized, say VC Vinod Khosla and Google’s Bill Weihl. Read more »
Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells me that he still stands behind Google’s energy plan that he announced two years ago, and that Google wants to be a model for companies. But, he says, Google’s main role in fighting climate change will be providing more information. Read more »
Foursquare is in talks with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft about deals involving the service’s location-based checkin data, CEO Dennis Crowley told The Telegraph. None of the search providers have confirmed this, but such deals would make sense given their interest in making their results more real-time. Read more »
Apple, met with limited success of the Apple TV, has called its device “a hobby” but Google, with its Google TV, is forging ahead with what it believes could revolutionize the industry. So how do they compare? Read more »
When it comes to selling a lot of a new phones in a short amount of time, an educated customer base, a pre-holiday launch and a carrier with a huge subscriber base are essential. And launching a phone with a web sales channel is dumb. Read more »
AT&T’s CEO says that the carrier handles half of all data traffic generated in the U.S. Being a good samaritan, I abandoned my iPhone to ease the 3G network. Did you know you can port away a number and get a new one for the iPhone? Read more »
Facebook is coming to Austin with plans to create 200 jobs as part of its first big U.S. expansion, if the city will approve $200,000 in incentives on top of the state’s offer of $1.4 million. So will Facebook help keep Austin weird? Read more »
It’s time developers stop viewing mobile as an afterthought and start building mobile apps for less robust wireless connections and a variety of platforms. Programmers should stop trying to force design principals and habits learned on the PC-focused wired web into a mobile world. Read more »
Over the last few years Mobile World Congress, the mobile phone industry trade show, has experienced a shift from being about mobile phones to being about always-on connectivity. Mobile broadband has changed the value of the mobile ecosystem and thus the players who care about it. Read more »
To figure out why Google has declared war on the existing communications network with its experimental fiber network, I chatted with Minnie Ingersoll, a product manager for alternative access at Google. Her group works on white spaces broadband, spectrum auctions and Google’s filings with the FCC. Read more »
Google will build a fiber network that offers speeds of 1 Gbps. The network could become an indirect threat to ISPs, because Google could disclose competitive data on actual network costs and it could lead to services that would suck more bandwidth on existing networks. Read more »
Atimi Software Inc. has joined the AT&T Business Alliance Channel program as an Elite Member in the Apple ecosystem providing mobility solutions. Atimi joins a small number of firms supporting AT&T’s business customers in the United States as they develop and evolve their brand image, e-commerce, […] Read more »
As part of a recently created pro-consumer task force at the Federal Communications Commission, the agency is sending out letters asking the top four wireless carriers and Google about their early termination fees. Read more »
Spiceworks, an Austin startup that last week raised $16 million, has created something as revolutionary as Google in the small to medium business software market. Check out the video to learn more, and hear about the future of IT from Spiceworks’ CEO Scott Abel. Read more »
