E-laad wins highest award in the category of Environment, Energy and Agriculture in IDG’s Computerworld honors program.

E-laad won the award for their electric vehicle charge point interactive system in the Netherlands, which was jointly developed with Logica. Through the system, electric car owners will get easy, quick and national access to the stations, including access to a range of value added services.

World markets up; BP stock plunges to 13-year low

European stocks rose moderately Thursday as an upbeat economic report from the Federal Reserve outweighed worries about the debt crisis and BP's stock plunge to 13-year lows. Investors were also preparing for an interest rate decision by the European Central Bank, with special focus on the bank's outlook and details of its bond-buying program. read more
Source:economictimes

virtualization key to sucess, survey finds

IT market research firm AMI-Partners says 2009 was the turning point in which medium-size businesses moved fully into the virtualization  space. Interest in server virtualization  among US medium businesses (MBs, firms with 100-1000 employees) increased significantly in the past year, according to Access Markets International (AMI) Partners’ latest MB tracking study. The survey found the percentage of U.S. MBs that consider server virtualization strategically important has increased from 46 percent to 75 percent.
Source:eweek

Interview with peter barbeck chairman of Nestle

With CEOs scrutinized over their every move these days. How should they apporach the manner in which they publicize personal desires for policy changes?

Six misconceptions about cloud apps

1. Cloud computing will put IT pros out of a job
2. The cloud is free (or at least incredibly inexpensive)
3. Cloud performance is never a problem
4. You can replace Microsoft Office with Google, or Zoho, or…
5. The cloud is easy to set up and manage
6. Security issue, read more
   

Barclays Capital Raises Forecast for 2012 Carbon Price by 17%

Barclays Capital raised its estimate for European Union carbon prices for 2012 by 17 percent on speculation there will be tighter emissions limits through 2020 and a shortage of permit supply over the next two years.

Barclays forecast EU allowances in 2012 will be 28 euros ($34.55) a metric ton. This compares with last month’s estimate of 24 euros. Prices may be higher as the EU holds back on supply for the third phase of its cap-and-trade program and shifts to a tougher emissions target.

Source: businessweek

Cloud Computing Social Network

CA Technologies has teamed up with a California info tech company to create "Cloud Commons" and Internet site focused on cloud computing. The site aims to be the Facebook of cloud computing. As Phrased by CA's partner's, Insight Integrated Systems, Orange,Calif, the site is a "social networking collaboration environment designed to foster education inspiration...