Friday 3 September, 2010

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Slideshow: Verb IT first with HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD)
Sydney-based Verb IT is the first company in the Asia Pacific region to provision an HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD) next-generation data centre in a shipping container. The new Verb DC site where the POD is located is a standard industrial warehouse in Wyong on the NSW Central Coast (one hour north of Sydney). Verb DC is schedueld to go live in September after a 14-week project, including the POD delivery time. In what is being painted as a big win for the Central Coast IT industry, the new POD will provide computing services to local businesses and the world.
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Government denies scrapping solar town
The state government says it remains committed to a project to make a northwest Queensland town the first in the state to completely rely on solar technology.
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Victorians to test electric cars
Almost 200 Victorian households will be invited to take part in the state's first electric car trial as part of a futuristic plan to slash greenhouse emissions.
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Nissan car brakes automatically to avoid collisions
A new safety system developed by Nissan ties together a car-mounted radar and computer to reduce the risk of collisions.
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Scientist: Technology can solve problems, introduce new ones
Technology holds the ability to solve some of society's problems, but can generate new issues or require measures that people are unwilling to take, said Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center, during a Friday talk at the World Futurist Society conference in Boston. The end result is that humans are "in the midst of a wholly unexpected technology revolution."
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Astronauts sky high on out-of-this-world twittering
The astronauts of Space Shuttle mission STS-131 are delighted by the response to their extra-terrestrial Twitter messages, they said Monday.
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Sydney Water begins SCADA upgrade
Three years after announcing it would upgrade Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems at its filtration plants, Sydney Water will start an 80-week project scheduled to begin this year at the Nepean catchment.
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NASA telescope spies 'truly empty' hole in space
The Herschel Space Observatory has made a major finding - a hole in space.
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The car-puccino: A car that runs on coffee
No beans about it: An automobile dubbed the "Car-puccino" has been designed to run only on leftover coffee grinds. The heavily-modified 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco was created for British TV show Bang Goes The Theory, a program that's all about "putting science to the test." To prove that just about anything can be turned into car fuel these days, Bang Goes The Theory will drive the Car-puccino 210 miles from London to Manchester using only residual coffee grounds as fuel.
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IBM explores cheaper solar cells
IBM has found what it claims to be a less costly way to build solar cells.
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Amazon invites developers to make Kindle software
Amazon.com on Thursday announced its first-ever software developer's kit for anyone who wants to create active content for its popular Kindle e-readers.
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