Department of Energy spends 300,000 to boost Google ranking
Last Updated on Thursday, 29 July 2010 04:00 Written by External Post Thursday, 29 July 2010 04:00
The Department of Energy and Climate Change spent more than 300,000 on artificially boosting its Google rankings in the last financial year, according to figures released by the government. The department did not reveal which web pages or services were
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Google PowerMeter to connect to UK energy monitors
Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 May 2010 02:01 Written by External Post Tuesday, 25 May 2010 02:01
Google has signed a deal to connect its PowerMeter home energy software to monitoring devices from Current Costs in the UK. Current Costs’ energy monitors, designed to sit on kitchen tables or to hang on a wall, give people a view into their electricity
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Google Explains Why It Became an Energy Trader
Last Updated on Monday, 3 May 2010 08:00 Written by External Post Monday, 3 May 2010 08:00
angry tapir writes ‘Google has explained how it might use its status as an energy-trading company to increase the use of renewable energy sources in its data centers. In February, the company’s Google Energy subsidiary received approval from the US
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Tweeting uses less juice than googling, says Twitter
Last Updated on Monday, 19 April 2010 07:00 Written by External Post Monday, 19 April 2010 07:00
Amid the talk of APIs and mapping the social graph, Twitter engineers are also thinking about energy. During the Chirp Twitter developer conference last week, there was a brief presentation on how much energy is consumed by tweeting (hat tip to
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Smutty Twitter scam snares U.K. politician
Last Updated on Friday, 26 February 2010 07:00 Written by External Post Friday, 26 February 2010 07:00
U.K. energy minister Ed Miliband (Credit: ) Good heavens! If your Twitter followers include Ed Miliband, the U.K. secretary of state for energy, there’s a chance that you received a direct message from him early on Friday that read, ‘Hhey, i’ve been
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Google Energy gets OK
Last Updated on Friday, 19 February 2010 01:15 Written by External Post Friday, 19 February 2010 01:15
Can now wholesale and retail ‘leccy in the US Google has been granted a license to trade energy on the wholesale market, as well as retail it to the consumer market. The approval comes from the US Federal energy regulator FERC. Google made the request
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Bill Gates on taking online classes
Last Updated on Monday, 25 January 2010 08:15 Written by External Post Monday, 25 January 2010 08:15
Gates on the need for carbon-neutral energy source Bill Gates tries his hand at tweeting, blogging Bill Gates on why he’s ‘fired up’ Bill Gates on the lessons of his travels Bill Gates: On tweeting and his new Web site Nokia launches Ovi Maps Apps on the
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Green Touch consortium aims to slash internet’s carbon footprint
Last Updated on Monday, 11 January 2010 06:15 Written by External Post Monday, 11 January 2010 06:15
The internet could be running on 1,000 times less energy that it presently uses within five years, say members of a consortium of IT and communications equipment and services suppliers.”This is equivalent to 7.8GTn of CO2, or 15% of the total world
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