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[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] IBM grid computing eyes up cheap solar cells: The Clean Energy Project is the 11th project to use IBM's World Community Grid, and is one of six currently active grid computing projects including 'Nutritious Rice for the World' and 'Help Cure Cancer'. The search for a new solar cell material has a dedicated forum on the IBM website.

[Crave: The gadget blog] Wilting flower dies as energy use blooms | Crave - CNET: A grid computing project led by Harvard will seek to analyze the properties of organic materials that can be used for making cheap solar cells that make electricity.

[Computerworld Blogs - Operating Systems] You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still Vista | Computerworld ...: Once upon a time Microsoft bested Apple and IBM by creating an OS that was relatively open to developers. This business model resulted in rapid development of very useful software and hardware and ignited an industrial revolution on par with the invention and mass production of the automobile.

[viraladx.com whats new] Sun 1: By using the Motorola 68000 processor tightly coupled with the Sun-1 MMU the Sun 68000 CPU board was able to support a multi-tasking operating system such as UNIX with maximum performance. It included an advanced Sun designed multi-process two-level memory management unit with facilities for memory protection, code sharing and demand paging of memory.

[Computerworld Blogs - Open Source] Why Linux is like Lotus 1-2-3 | Computerworld Blogs: Old-timers may remember when Lotus 1-2-3 ruled computing --- it was the world's premier spreadsheet, and by itself was responsible for many PCs being snuck into enterprises for the first time. But Lotus 1-2-3 has practically vanished from sight, and the reason why may disturb many fans of Linux.

[Bob Sutor's Website and Blog] Google, Microsoft, spreadsheets, and a decade, plus or minus | Bob ...: That is, Google may find a business in providing such backend services for hundreds or thousands of users but they are likely looking to have millions of users whose requirements are somewhat simpler. In that regard, if they capture the mindshare of people who have only occasional need for a spreadsheet, it will be one less reason to use a desktop-based office suite, be it proprietary or open source.

[Frank Hayes's blog] Frankly Speaking: Recession now | Computerworld Blogs: Worse still, according to Feldstein, the financing tricks that fueled the housing bubble — subprime mortgages financed by complex asset-backed securities —

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