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Following on my previous post, today I focus on automated meter infrastructure (AMI) and field area network (FAN). Local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) are well-known terms and do not need explanation. There are a few XANs to indicate the scope of the area covered. For example, a met...
Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that it would commercialize a new computer memory technology called memristors with Hynix, the South Korean chip maker. The agreement to build the memory chips validates the work of Leon O. Chua, a UC Berkeley electrical engineering professor. In 1971, he proposed a four...
Although I have not abandoned the green IT/data center field, I have also started following smart grid. Smart grid includes the three areas of power, IT, and communications. In this post, I’ll briefly touch on how ICT is used in smart grid.
The power system consists of generation, transmis...
The Internet may be the one thing so many countries and people got right the last fifteen years. Now if our culture and education could catch-up with the rest of the global economy, a competitive edge would at least be possible once again. Today the big money is sorting out the differen...
The maze of security companies and security widgets just got smaller, or did it?
What was considered a dozen years ago as a fait accompli, a security business standard, is now a full blown cold war with Red Queens on treadmills trying to keep consumer confidence cranking.
If there is a strategic p...
The article in NYTimes, August 13, Technology, reads …
“Computer security researchers are raising alarms about vulnerabilities in some of the Web’s most secure corners: the banking, e-commerce and other sites that use encryption to communicate with their users. Those sites, which...
The subject today is Jeff Chester executive director of, “The Center for Digital Democracy,” and one of the many players trying to hold the White House and Congress responsible for their control over the Internet and how things work He has long been on the front lines fighting agai...
by Wayne Huang, Fyodor Yarochkin, NightCola Lin, Chris Hsiao of Armorize.
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The beginning of this year saw mass Web hosting compromises across numerous hosting providers; thousands of websites were compromised via vulnerabilities in shared hosting providers and as a result,...
Like other people, I’ve been wondering how Oracle has integrated many of Sun’s technologies and hardware after buying that company. Oracle has just started a nationwide tour to inform us of just that. The first stop was in their neck of the woods, Palo Alto, California. The free semin...
When I started this blog about two years ago, there was a lot of discussion of direct current (DC) power distribution at data centers. It is very easy to see why DC is better than alternative current (AC) power distribution. AC power enters your data center from your utility. It then goes to a se...
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Glossary of Technical Terms
A Microsoft-specified format for saving audio and/or video clips, referred to by Windows as "Video for Windows." You can play the files through the Media Player in Windows or through many popular browser plug-in multimedia players. Files of this type have a .avi extension.
This term is used in the microchip manufacturing world. Companies like AMD and Intel strive for high ASPs. The ASP is an indication not only of direct profits, but how well a company is keeping up with the technology curve. It is not uncommon for Intel to have an ASP of around US$100 and AMD to be close behind.
