This summer, Core Outdoor Power will introduce a handheld blower and a backpack blower to its suite of GasLess products. Both products will come equipped with patented CORE technology, which utilizes a printed circuit board stator and a power cell to create many advantages over gas-powered products. The handheld blower weighs in at just 11 pounds and reaches 110-mph air speed, while the backpack blower (pictured) weighs just 13 pounds with run times equivalent to a tank of gas. Both products feature a completely gas-free system, which provides the unique ability to exceed noise, efficiency and emission standards without increasing costs and without sacrificing performance.

Hudson Solar, a leading solar company located in Rhinebeck, and serving customers throughout the Hudson Valley and New York State as well as Southern Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut, expects to see a lot of growth in the near future as a result of Governor Cuomo’s comprehensive NY-Sun Initiative released at the end of April.

The two-stroke gasoline engine — a huge emitter and contributor to global warming and pollution — may be staring at its deathbed far sooner than the gasoline engine for the automobile. That is if CORE Outdoor Power has any influence on the matter. And well it should with the exciting line of gasless motor options it is launching in the next few months.

Like an “emperor’s new clothes” scenario, VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) seems to offer so much but at a price tag that’s hard to justify. That’s not to say VDI has had little or no value for IT: VDI was born of issues IT managers faced around centralized desktop management, migration issues, and support frustrations, and no one is denying the need to centralize management or address management support issues. However, VDI fails us in many ways, starting with the fact that devices require high-bandwidth connectivity to access user systems. We want the centralization of VDI with the performance and responsiveness of a locally installed OS on a PC.

GPS technology has changed the way we navigate the outdoor world. Google has largely been at the forefront of bringing this into the mainstream in the form of Google maps. The application is one of the most heavily used smartphone and web applications in existence, and has done the world a great service by mapping the globe and making it accessible to everyone. Although the web giant has largely conquered this frontier and created a wealth of value in the process, there is one weakness in its capabilities; it only works outdoors.

One of the tragedies of the modern age is that we have to prepend the word “open” onto science in order to differentiate Open Science from the regular kind — you know, the kind that’s overrun with IP restrictions and practiced by way too many academic and research organizations. It should never have come to this considering science is about reproducible results under controlled conditions, a process that intrinsically demands transparency and openness. Fortunately, the alarm bells have gone off and many in the research community are taking matters into their own hands.

Far from being dead, the personal computer is alive and well. But in many ways – hardware, software, usage patterns – the PC continues to evolve, and nowhere more so than in the enterprise.

Here are five ways that the corporate PC is changing.

As those of you pursuing an acting career can attest, one of the main problems in starting out is getting attention for your work. And as casting professionals can attest, finding genuinely talented new talent is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Today, we’re spotlighting a website/web service which aims to solve both of those problems. Starcast CEO Gary Beer, founding CEO of the Sundance Film Festival, answered our questions.

An executive at Wanova shared how desktop virtualization can be done using Windows Server 2008 R2 over a wide area network, while avoiding much of the usual licensing and storage headaches.

In a phone interview conducted late last week, Barry Phillips, chief marketing officer at the Campbell, Calif.-based Wanova, described a different approach to traditional desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) architectures. Before joining Wanova, Phillips served as the group vice president and general manager of the Platform Product Group at Citrix, which is a strong Microsoft partner on matters of desktop virtualization.

Power Equipment Trade’s April issue looks at dealer challenges in selling green equipment along with the latest green products. An article discusses how dealers must overcome customer inertia, but fuel prices provide a strong incentive for change. Another article highlights how service is ever more important in a time of falling whole good profit margins. Oregon’s tractor dealer Steve Roy is featured for expanding into lawn and garden equipment, thus leading him into new markets and more business growth with a low debt load. A Green Product Roundup spotlights environmentally safe equipment.