energy
RSS energyFrance faces Year 2000 blackout
News The country's sole electricity provider, Electricite de France, relies on nuclear power to generate over 75 per cent of its energy. France could lose up to 75 per cent of its electricity supply, as nuclear power stations... [05 May 1999]
ERP vendors improve quality of service
News The report says services comprise of up to two-thirds of the total cost of an ERP implementation and vendors are now pouring more energy into providing those services - rather than relying on outsourcers. [22 Apr 1999]
The desktop PC is dead, long live the notebook!
News It has the conventions of a laptop but the energy conservation of a throttled CPU with a desktop like performance," Barrett claimed. The desktop PC is marching towards obsolescence, according to Craig Barrett, president... [15 Apr 1999]
Petrol stations get sunny outlook from BP-Amoco
News BP-Amoco is planning to use solar energy to power everything from computers to security systems at 200 of its service stations. The move will see the oil giant install solar panels in all new outlets in the UK, Germany... [15 Apr 1999]
US nuclear researchers switch off PCs
News The US Energy Department has decided to suspend all computing research at its nuclear laboratories, fearing that the work could expose them to espionage. Researchers and scientists have been forced to stop work and are... [07 Apr 1999]
Utility.com lights up Nevada
News He claimed that in an open market "companies like utility.com can better meet the needs and offer lower electricity prices to smaller energy consumer". Utility.com, the first online utility company, has announced it will... [07 Apr 1999]
EDS picks up $466m Italian energy deal
News EDS has signed a $466m outsourcing deal with Italy's largest energy company, ENI. In a statement EDS said it plans to provide a data centre, client server operations, desk-side support, engineering procurement and... [26 Mar 1999]
AOL offers flat rate across Europe
News We are now putting more energy into our campaign to get European telco operators to adopt flat-rate prices for local calls," she said. AOL is to extend its fixed-rate pricing for Web access to the whole of Europe. [18 Mar 1999]
BICC offloads telecoms arm
News Assuming the sell-off is approved by shareholders, BICC will be left with energy and data cable divisions, as well as Balfour Beatty, the construction company. BICC, the troubled cabling and construction group, has... [02 Mar 1999]
Primus beats WorldCom to £150m contract
News The Major Energy Users Council (MEUC), is made up of 180 UK companies including British Sugar, British Aerospace, Ford and Lex service, and was set up to give the companies better bargaining power for lower costs. [02 Feb 1999]
National Grid sells Energis stake
News The UK energy company said current market conditions are ideal for it to continue its three-year strategy to slim down its stake in what it calls a "non-core business". National Grid plans to sell a third of its share in... [20 Jan 1999]
CSC wins £26m government supercomputing contract
News John Battle, minister for Science, Energy and Industry, officially awarded the contract last Friday to the Computations for Science (CfS) consortium, which also includes the University of Manchester and Silicon Graphics. [21 Dec 1998]
Supercomputer rivals up the ante
News Both machines are located at US Department of Energy (DoE) laboratories, and form part of the DoE's 'stockpile stewardship' programme, which uses computing methods to test nuclear weapons without actually detonating them. [11 Nov 1998]
Nuclear industry to gather for Y2K conference
News The conference will be held in Ottawa, Canada from 8-10 February, and will be hosted by Canada's Atomic Energy Control Board. The world's nuclear industry is to hold an international conference to discuss its progress in... [03 Nov 1998]
Cisco launches European ecommerce division
News Hartmann said Cisco will focus its efforts on seven areas, including financial services, healthcare, public sector, retail, manufacturing, energy and utilities and service providers. Cisco has created a business division... [30 Sep 1998]
