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A "smarter building" initiative is helping Bryant University in Smithfield, RI reduce its data center energy consumption by 15 percent. The project, which uses technology from both IBM and Schneider Electric, helps monitor and control building systems, including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, humidity, lighting, access control, video, and physical security. MoreBy the end of 2010, it's likely that Android will have surpassed the iPhone in market share in the United States, becoming the second-most popular smart phone platform, and on its way to becoming No. 1 some time next year. MoreGoogle has launched a pilot test program for Chrome OS, which may offer an alternative to traditional operating systems such as Microsoft's Windows desktop OSes. Google is giving away notebooks running Chrome OS to those who sign up and qualify. MoreThe University of St. Thomas, based in Minnesota, is implementing a service to automate some procurement and accounts payable operations. MoreMicrosoft has posted the release candidate of Service Pack 1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2. MoreMicrosoft has announced an upcoming privacy feature for its Internet Explorer 9 Web browser, one that will provideĀ "tracking protection" to give users potential control over online behavioral advertising, which monitors what users click on and view at Web sites. MoreAmazon Web Services this week launched the beta of a programmable and purportedly scalable hosted Domain Name System service aimed at letting users of its cloud services create, modify and delete DNS zone files. More
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