Looking for a way to store data for 100 million years (yes, you heard me correctly – 100 MILLION years!), then look no further. Developed in conjuction with a Kyoto University research lab, Hitachi recently announced a glass-based data storage system that lasts forever (or until about 100 million years have passed). How does the system […]
October 25 is Paper Free Day. Sponsored by AIIM, this annual event asks you to commit one day to:
More than 57,000 people reportedly participated in last year’s Paper Free Day. Did you participate? Will you participate this year? Embrace the challenge of going paperless on October 25th.
For the past few years, technology gurus have been developing software to allow an e-mail message to vanish or become unreadable after a certain length of time or upon the sender’s request. There are two types of self destructing e-mail software. The first type is retractable e-mail such as the Gmail Labs (the testing ground for Gmail features) “undo […]
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that a former BP engineer, Kurt Mix, was charged with two counts of obstruction of justice for intentionally destroying evidence requested by US authorities about the size of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill resulting from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. According to a New York Times News Service story, Mr. Mix allegedly deleted […]
E-mail is a wonderful communication tool! A great way to communicate with numerous individuals simultaneously! So easy to use! All it takes is the push of a button . . . in this case to mistakenly fire 1,300 employees. Bloomberg reports that the HR Dept. of the investment unit of Aviva PLC (the UK’s second largest insurer […]
Maclean’s Magazine reports that the low-carbon materials processing group at the University of Cambridge have found a new technique for recycling paper. Julian Allwood (group leader) and his collaborators have developed a process that can remove toner from printed paper so it can be used again – essentially an “unprinter”. In a nutshell, the process uses very […]