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So if you're like the rest of us, January (and the New Year) brings a whole host of "good intent" into our personal and professional lives. The New Year is a time to "wipe the slate clean" and "do things differently" this year. But come the end of January, unless the changes have already been put in play, a lot of that New Year Vigor has seemin

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The green movement has created new marketplace opportunities with the emergence of intelligent green software. Industries, traditional and emerging, will soon be affected by the adoption or disregard of such technology as they move into some version of energy peak load or variable electrical pricing (where the current price is determined by the pow

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