The Justice Department’s effort to block AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile USA has sparked a flurry of stories claiming the smaller carrier will be…
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An unbelievable August for the mobile industry was capped this morning with news that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed an…
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Amazon rolled out a new region for their public cloud computing service yesterday; physically located on the west coast of the United…
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My colleague Stacey Higginbotham offers up this insightful post this morning that sizes up the FCC’s review of AT&T’s proposed takeover of…
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Business Insider’s Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry takes a rather dim view of this story in yesterday’s La Tribune, sarcastically concluding that “We don’t see how…
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It’s finally here! Yesterday, California Public Utility Commission issued what it expects to be its official rules for managing the security and…
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London-based Software as a Service provider Huddle has secured a contract to provide their cloud-based document collaboration solution to the UK Government.…
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A Microsoft executive’s answer to a question during the London launch of Office 365 last month has caused a bit of a…
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If anyone was wondering what the Obama Administration wanted to see from utilities and companies building the country’s smart grid, here’s a…
Read MoreCalifornia’s energy privacy rules: The battle heats up
Last month, the California Public Utility Commission published a proposed ruling on how utility customers’ energy data must be protected. The first deadline for interested parties to comment on the state’s new proposed rules has come, and, there’s still plenty of confusion over the fine print. A common theme is also emerging: The CPUC’s rules will need to change to avoid stifling the smart grid–home energy marketplace.…
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Looks like the demand response industry has federal regulators on its side once again. On Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)…
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Are you curious about California’s groundbreaking rule-making over consumer energy data privacy and access? So are all the parties involved, and with…
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The emergence of the smart grid means that a wealth of energy data is starting to pour from the power grid. Utilities…
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The European Commission has been circling the Cloud Computing space for some time, touching separately on issues such as privacy, data protection,…
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In the United States this week, the General Services Administration (GSA) published the long-awaited RFQ for a Government cloud computing contract worth…
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As the U.S. Government contemplates stopping everything to save money and the UK Government appears to begin back-tracking on their ambitious G-Cloud,…
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The Department of Energy’s SunShot program, launched in February with the aim of driving the cost of installed solar power down to…
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What’s on your reading list for this weekend? Mine includes a few of the heftier reports I haven’t had the time to…
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The FCC this morning issued a new mobile data roaming rule that requires carriers to deliver data on their networks at “reasonable”…
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MarketWatch offers this thought-provoking piece that questions whether the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA is really the best way for AT&T to…
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Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb is one of those reporting that the U.S. Federal Government’s data.gov site may become a victim of the…
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Which utilities are spending the most on demand response? A really useful new report from ZPryme (PDF) lays out the top ten…
Read MoreFinding the Right Price for Demand Response in Energy Markets
FERC’s plan to give demand response “negawatts” the same price as megawatts of generated power on energy markets is meant to make the grid more efficient, reduce the need for expensive peaker power plants and drive down electricity prices for everyone. But what if it drive prices too low?…
Read MoreHow PG&E Can Avoid Protests Over Wireless Smart Meters
Pacific Gas & Electric is going to have to come up with a non-wireless alternative for customers afraid of what low-power wireless meters might do to their health. What are its options?…
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