Thursday, July 05, 2007

InfoWorld Daily: Smartening the nation's grid

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Thursday, July 5, 2007

* Smartening the nation's grid
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* Pay, anxiety up in IT

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SMARTENING THE NATION'S GRID

Green technology: Power outages cost U.S. business at least $50 billion a
year, according to Electric Power Research Institute, so it's good news
that Congress has begun to contemplate upgrading the nation's dumb
electricity-delivery infrastructure to a smart grid. Sustainable IT
looks at the proposed energy bill and the ways in which a smart grid
also can deliver energy more efficiently. In the news: Google still
hopes to influence changes that Microsoft plans to make in Vista's
desktop search function and has petitioned the court for the right to
file comments on the antitrust case. Hackers predict that they will...
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INFOWORLD DAILY PODCAST

Google wants to influence changes that Microsoft plans to make in Vista's
desktop search; the EC is asked to investigate the Google-DoubleClick
deal; Chinese cities are forecast to become the top offshoring
destination, and more LISTEN!... ...

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PAY, ANXIETY UP IN IT

Special report: First the good news, then the bad. IT salaries are on the
rise this year, but so are anxiety, longer hours and low morale.
"Reduced competition for jobs and brighter prospects for company growth
are spurring pay hikes across the spectrum of IT positions, flushing the
post-millennial doldrums of subinflation raises from recent memory and
replacing them with dreams of earning even more," reports Jason Snyder
in 2007 InfoWorld Compensation Survey. Read our salary survey by the
numbers, or if you prefer download the PDF. Notes from the field:
Readers, some of you anyway, are clamoring to know... ...

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