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Energy Data at the Click of a Green Button
Jetson Green
The Office believes easy access to data, and data that is available in standardized formats, will spur the private sector to develop applications and devices that empower consumers to monitor and control their usage — a radical change from the status ...


GreenBiz.com (blog)

A Hackathon for Geekery and the Greater Good
GreenBiz.com (blog)
"I've got data from the World Bank Climate Change portal in several formats that make it really malleable…come see me if you're interested." "I've developed this open-source energy monitor." "I've got 11 years of gas and electricity data for a ...


Apple vs Amazon in ereader format smackdown
Register
And if we've learned anything about West Coast tech companies, it's that once they've got the data, they want you're pretty much at their mercy. EPUB has quietly emerged as the unassuming but widely accepted open format among publishers.

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Adobe addresses PDF security problem
Infosecurity Magazine (US)
Hackers target the most widely used file formats; and there is none more widely used than PDF. A new paper from Adobe discusses the problems and solutions to PDF security. The problem for PDF is its sheer popularity as a universal medium for sharing ...


"The Object Network": Data Linking for Web APIs
InfoQ.com
Do you feel that a major chunk of your effort is spent dealing with incompatible data formats for the same object from different Web APIs? Duncan Cragg at ThoughtWorks is working on a project called 'The Object Network' that aims at eliminating this ...

 


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