Spansion, a joint venture of AMD and Fujitsu has revealed a new class of memory, called EcoRAM, which is designed to solve the growing energy consumption crisis in Internet data centers, by replacing power-hungry DRAM in data center servers. When it is combined with Virident Systems, Inc.'s new GreenGateway technology EcoRAM can help slash energy consumption by up to 75 percent in Internet data center servers, and offer four times the memory capacity of traditional DRAM-only servers for the same energy consumption.

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The University of Washington has developed a new tool called WebAnywhere that allows the blind and visually impaired surf the Web on the go.  It turns screen-reading into an Internet service that reads aloud Web text on any computer with speakers or headphone connections. For the past month that WebAnywhere has been available,  Bigham, has received inquiries from librarians and teachers who struggle to find the time to locate free software, get permission to install it and then maintain the program.  They plan to continue to update the program and make improvements.

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