In Switzerland, a data center sits next to a local swimming pool. Keeping the equipment in the data center cool requires pushing cold air in and pushing hot air out. Instead of losing the hot air by pushing it outdoors, this data center is using it to heat the next door pool.
One of [...]
Harlequin Books now has a series just for busy women — Harlequin On The Go. They send their electronic books to cell phones in small, daily installments — 5-10 minutes each. Each installment takes up about 8 screens of text.
This service is currently available only to Verizon customers, but all national cellular carriers [...]
BookLamp is a service that analyzes different aspects of books and then compares those traits with traits in books you say you like. Kind of confusing, but if you’ve used Pandora, it works on the same principle. It looks at traits like pacing, density, action, dialog, description, perspective, and genre.
Be aware that BookLamp is still [...]
The US Postal Service is starting a new recycling program for small electronics. The “Mail Back” pilot program will include ten areas, but if positive, may be available across the country this fall.
Customers use free envelopes found in 1,500 Post Offices to mail back inkjet cartridges, PDAs, Blackberries, digital cameras, iPods and MP3 players [...]
It’s coming! In other countries, television programs and videos are already streamed to cell phones. However, here in the United States, it’s a little different.
NBC Universal and News Corp. have banded together to provide Hulu, a free Internet service which provides television shows and movies over the web. Some of their partners [...]
Jean Green and Maria Redburn of the Bedford Public Library in Texas are one of 20 winners of YALSA’s Teen Tech Week Mini-Grants. Each winner received ” . . . $450 in cash and $50 worth of Teen Tech Week products to offer incentives, resources, and services to celebrate Teen Tech Week, March 2-8.”
Bedford [...]
On LLRX, there is an article about an employment benefit called a Personal Information Trainer (PIT). This is given to those few in an organization who are deemed to be essential to the success of the organization.
Basically, they are given the personal services of a librarian. A librarian is assigned to one of [...]
DreamSpark, a program from Microsoft, provides Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Windows Server 2003 Standard, Microsoft Expression Studio, SQL Server 2005 Developer, and XNA Game Studio to high school and college students in 11 countries, including the United States.
Students will be asked to verify their student status initially and every 12 months. Those 18 years and [...]
Apparently, the George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation had acquired the domain name www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com for the upcoming library at Southern Methodist University, but inadvertently did not renew it. It, and others like it, are now owned by others. The Foundation is now looking at alternatives.
[from LibraryJournal.com]
Google is opening an engineering center in the middle of Austin — 6th Street and Congress. The Austin-American Statesman provides more details. They’re hiring engineers and software developers . . . no librarians.
[from CNET News.com]
