Submission + - Protect Your Data Deep Within the Alps (physorg.com)
eldavojohn writes: "How safe is your data physically? Would it survive a hurricane? Would it survive someone breaking in and stealing it? Well, the term "Private Swiss Bank Account" might be changed to "Private Swiss Data Account" as a Swiss company is offering data storage guarded underneath the Alps. This digital "Fort Knox" also alleges protection from computer viruses and hackers for its customers."
Submission + - Music industry overstates damages (arstechnica.com)
athloi writes: "The music industry is overstating financial losses from P2P and ignoring the losses of direct CD copying, says a Canadian professor.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070531-stud ies-music-industry-overstating-threat-of-p2p-pirac y.html"
Submission + - Not So Global Warming
OverlordQ writes: A new report on climate over the world's southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models. This comes soon after the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that strongly supports the conclusion that the Earth's climate as a whole is warming, largely due to human activity. David Bromwich, professor of professor of atmospheric sciences in the Department of Geography, and researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, reported on this work at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at San Francisco.
Submission + - IT world must tackle an inconvenient truth
glamb writes: "The Age is
running a story, IT
world must tackle an inconvenient truth, Computer
conservation needs to be taken more seriously in Australia, writes Brad
Howarth.
POWER consumption through corporate IT use accounts for 0.75 per cent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, according to research group Gartner. That's nearly half the contribution made by the airline industry, a high-profile greenhouse ogre. And the figure does not include the cost of keeping data centres cool enough to operate, an ever-increasing problem as processors get faster and hotter.
Now the fact that humans have caused global warming is irrefutable shouldn’t we, the IT industry, be doing something?
How many PC’s are doing nothing but wasting power and running screen savers because IT departments require desktops run 24x7 and there is no “wake-up mechanism”? How many people leave their PC’s running because Windows does not come back 100% of the time from a hibernation or sleeping?"
POWER consumption through corporate IT use accounts for 0.75 per cent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, according to research group Gartner. That's nearly half the contribution made by the airline industry, a high-profile greenhouse ogre. And the figure does not include the cost of keeping data centres cool enough to operate, an ever-increasing problem as processors get faster and hotter.
Now the fact that humans have caused global warming is irrefutable shouldn’t we, the IT industry, be doing something?
How many PC’s are doing nothing but wasting power and running screen savers because IT departments require desktops run 24x7 and there is no “wake-up mechanism”? How many people leave their PC’s running because Windows does not come back 100% of the time from a hibernation or sleeping?"
Submission + - Microsoft launches mobile DRM
ukhackster writes: Microsoft has launched a new digital rights management package aimed at mobile phone users, at the 3GSM show in Barcelona. The PlayReady system will apparently allow people to share protected content between multiple devices — for example, they could buy a music track and then install it on their PC, mobile phone, and PDA.
DRM has been getting a tough press recently, following Steve Jobs' attack on the music industry last week. There are concerns that PlayReady could be an attempt by Microsoft to fragment the mobile DRM market (perhaps to give its Zune player a boost), but analysts have given it a cautious welcome and several firms, including Verizon, are on-board.
DRM has been getting a tough press recently, following Steve Jobs' attack on the music industry last week. There are concerns that PlayReady could be an attempt by Microsoft to fragment the mobile DRM market (perhaps to give its Zune player a boost), but analysts have given it a cautious welcome and several firms, including Verizon, are on-board.
