Calif. debates high standard for renewable energy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Friday began approving legislation that would establish the nation’s most ambitious renewable-energy standards, even as some warned that the rules would increase energy costs and hurt the state’s economy.
The Senate and Assembly began voting on two companion bills that would require utilities to get one-third of their power from renewable energy sources by 2020. One bill cleared an initial hurdle in the Senate on a simple majority vote with just a few hours remaining in this year’s regular …

In Asia alone, there are so many thousands of options when you want to select a printed circuit board manufacturer or fabricator, but which one is the best? Skyyearasia has been in Printed Circuit Board industry and confident we offer the best combination of price, quality, on time delivery and customer service to the customer. That is the reason we think that as a customer of Printed Circuit Board product, you should ask about PCB manufacturers to help you compare and choose the best printed circuit board manufacturer for your …

IBM Global Financing to Speed up Broadband Access to Rural America With New
Financing That Benefits IBEC and DS2.
ARMONK, N.Y., and HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM
Global Financing, the lending and leasing business segment of IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced that it has recently reached a new financing arrangement that
would help accelerate customer access to high speed Internet in rural areas.
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The funding agreement would benefit Broadband over Power Line (BPL) technology
provider International Broadband Electric Communications, Inc. (IBEC) and one
of its leading integrated chip (IC) suppliers, DS2.  IBEC has developed
technology …

SEVENTY per cent of the 173 deaths due to the Black Saturday bushfires were caused by the failure of electricity assets, the Bushfires Royal Commission has been told.
Tim Tobin, SC, a lawyer representing 1100 people and businesses involved in class actions against power companies, aired the deaths figure while cross-examining a senior officer from the CFA, Steve Warrington.
Mr Tobin asked Mr Warrington what the CFA had done before February 7 to guard against power asset failures, saying that electricity assets had caused major fatal fires at other times in Victoria, …

NASHUA, N.H., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ — PennWell’s Electronics Media Group is
announcing the launch of a new portal website, www.ElectroIQ.com. The new
site, focused on electronics and electronics manufacturing, provides a gateway
to the content of five different PennWell brands: Solid State Technology,
Photovoltaics World, Advanced Packaging, Small Times and SMT. Each brand
powers one of the five sections of the new site: semiconductors,
photovoltaics, packaging, nanotech/MEMS, and surface mount technology,
respectively.
Users can easily navigate through these branded sections and associated topic
centers to find a wide variety of content, including technical articles,
industry news, product updates, videos, white …

Gigabyte has launched eleven new motherboards based on Intel P55 Express chipset. Gigabyte’s new P55 Chipset motherboards have LGA Socket 1156 to support latest Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors. Build on the much touted Ultra Durable 3 design that adds 2oz copper Printer Circuit Board, Gigabyte boasts of industry’s first 24-phase Voltage Regulator Module design.
Gigabyte P55 chipset motherboards are ready to be used with the freshly announced Intel Core i5 750 and Core i7 860 as well as 870 processors. These new Lynnfield CPUs have memory controllers integrated …

Excellent Lead Free Solderability, Wire Bond and RF Performance
LITTAU, Switzerland–(Business Wire)–
Dow Electronic Materials (NYSE:DOW) introduces Silveron MF 100 autocatalytic
silver and Aurolectroless SMT immersion gold for ASIG (autocatalytic silver
immersion gold) final finish process for the PCB (printed circuit board)
industry. The company has signed an agreement with Polymer Kompositer AB to
become the global distributor for the ASIG final finish process, excluding UK
and Nordic countries. Silveron MF 100 autocatalytic silver and Aurolectroless
SMT immersion gold offer board fabricators, assemblers and OEMs improvements in
solderability, shelf life, wire bonding and reliability due to the unique,
dense, pore …

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Need to Keep Computers Running 24×7 for Patch Maintenance, Upgrades Cited as
Chief Reasons for Slow Technology Adoption
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(Business Wire)–
KACE, the leading systems management appliance company, today announced the
results from new research that revealed 93 percent of IT professionals surveyed
believe desktop power management has the potential to reduce overall IT costs.
In fact, for IT professionals who manage computer power, desktop management has
surpassed data center power management in importance. The vast majority of
survey participants believe there is an opportunity to save energy and reduce
costs by practicing power management. However, less than …

RISMEDIA, September 10, 2009—(MCT)—Did you recently trade in that old clunker for a new car? OK, so how are you fixed for a new refrigerator? Or maybe a new dishwasher or heat pump?
Brace yourself. A federal “cash for appliances” program is likely on its way to a store near you before the end of the year. Comparatively unnoticed in the economic stimulus package approved by Congress earlier this year was a $300 million program offering rebates to buyers of more energy-efficient appliances and other products with the Energy Star label.
The …