6 posts and columns on PowerMeter

News Byte

Following Google, Microsoft Kills Its Energy Monitoring Service

in News on June 30, 2011 at 11:51 am PT

Days after Google announced plans to kill its PowerMeter service, Microsoft said Thursday it plans to discontinue its similar Hohm energy monitoring service as of May 31, 2012. In a blog post, Microsoft cited slow adoption for the service, for which hopes were high at launch in 2009.

The Summer to Go on a Power Diet

in The Digital Solution on June 15, 2010 at 3:40 pm PT

Katie runs down ways to keep your energy bills down this summer.

Did You Forget to Pay the Google Bill? We Got Another Disconnection Notice.

in News on January 8, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Google has a long and storied history of insisting it has no plans whatsoever to do something that it ultimately ends up doing. So the company’s claims this week that it doesn’t plan to enter the speculative energy trading business even though it has established a new Google Energy LLC subsidiary that would allow it to do just that, are certainly an eyebrow raiser.
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Google: We're Gonna Turn It On. We're Gonna Bring You the Power.

in News on February 10, 2009 at 8:20 am PT

When Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in 2005, “We are moving to a Google that knows more about you,” he wasn’t kidding. Just four years later and the company is learning about us from a host of online services that extend far beyond the simple search application at the center of Google’s business: email, chat, video, news, books, calendaring, location and now personal energy usage patterns as well. This morning, the company announced Google PowerMeter, an application that will let consumers track their electricity consumption.

Google: We’re Gonna Turn It On. We’re Gonna Bring You the Power.

in News on February 10, 2009 at 8:20 am PT

When Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in 2005, “We are moving to a Google that knows more about you,” he wasn’t kidding. Just four years later and the company is learning about us from a host of online services that extend far beyond the simple search application at the center of Google’s business: email, chat, video, news, books, calendaring, location and now personal energy usage patterns as well. This morning, the company announced Google PowerMeter, an application that will let consumers track their electricity consumption.