4th September 2011 Archive

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• Green energy and jobs will cripple the UK economy

  Can't stay a top-ten manufacturer on expensive power

  The UK's headlong rush into renewable energy – one ignored by the rest of the world – will hit British jobs and then general incomes, an economic study finds. The report, The Myth of Green Jobs by economist Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University, examines the long-term impacts of subsidising expensive "green" …

  Environment 4 Sep 10:00

• Cloud Security Alliance crosses the Pond

  Bringing cloud to the masses

  “The cloud agenda has to move beyond the security field and into business,” says Jacqui Taylor, freshly minted director of communications for the UK and Ireland wing of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). “There is an education process that has to be done, and it needs an independent voice. That is where we come in.” A not-for …

  Enterprise Tech 4 Sep 11:00

• Hands on with Acer's Aspire S3 Ultrabook

  IFA 2011 Coming in the Air tonight

  It's almost impossible to view Acer's Aspire S3 - the company's first laptop built to Intel's Ultrabook spec - and not think of the MacBook Air. Acer's S3: shades of the MacBook Air? There's the metallic look, the sunken keyboard, the sparse port array, the - a first time for a Windows machine? - large touchpad placed …

  reghardware 4 Sep 16:31

• First look at Toshiba's Portégé Z830 Ultrabook

  IFA 2011 The executive's choice?

  Toshiba was keeping its Portégé Z830 under glass at IFA, so while we couldn't pick it up and click away, we could at least get some snaps and make some initial observations. Toshiba's Z830: the conservative user's Ultrabook choice? Where Acer has accepted that Apple's MacBook Air was the clear inspiration for Intel's …

  reghardware 4 Sep 16:34