Cool Blue
Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News The HQ minimises its CO2 emissions, air-con is replaced by cavernous pipes and thermally absorbent concrete beams that suck in the cool night air and release it during the day, while toilets are flushed with pond water... [09 May 2008]
Top of the class for online ads? Search and social networks
News Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool? bought Right Media and Blue Lithium, and AOL purchased Tacoda and Quigo. For online advertising, the word is portals are out but search,... [25 Feb 2008]
Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation
News Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool? IBM has dominated the supercomputer rankings with a series of Blue Gene systems for the last several years. After a slight delay a new, somewhat... [14 Feb 2008]
Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool?
Photo The Bondi Blue iMac was the first successful collaboration between Jobs and Jonathan Ive, a relationship that has borne much fruit and sales since. Apple's long history of innovative and occasionally quirky design was... [24 Jan 2008]
Top 10 software stories of the year
News Early users found they suffered from the dreaded "blue screen" error when trying to install the OS on their computers. Leopard users get 'blue screen of death' Businesses cool on... [14 Dec 2007]
IBM Cool Blue Videos
White Paper See how IBM is helping clients meet the challenge with Cool Blue technology - an innovative suite of energy management solutions that combines efficiency, planning and control. Power consumption and thermal loads... [13 Dec 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing
Cheat Sheet Blue Gene/L is the most powerful supercomputer in existence but the criminals behind the Storm Worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs with a combined computing power greater than that of... [20 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.08.07
Round-Up Oh but there is one more thing.actually there are a few more things but the Round-Up is going to carefully remove its Steve Jobs five o'clock shadow, black polo neck, blue jeans and white trainers and get down and dirty... [10 Aug 2007]
Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist
Comment There seems to be some possibility of that over the next 30 or 40 years or will we do some Verner Vinge singularity trick and suddenly become capable of everything and everything will be cool and the geek rapture will... [06 Aug 2007]
Photos: Five unusual data centres
Photo Big Blue unveiled a data centre which it claims uses up to 15 per cent less power than a traditional offering by using dedicated cold aisles. Pictured is a view of the 'cool corridor'. Data centres are... [25 Jul 2007]
Minority Report: The 10 worst things about Apple
Comment And sometimes the endless, effusive claims of "revolutionary" or "super-cool" products just start to grate. And given their ubiquitous nature, the once cool white earbuds are now distinctly run-of-the-mill. [05 Feb 2007]
IBM takes the plunge with water-cooled server system
News The company's "Cool Blue" component (officially known as the IBM eServer Rear Door Heat eXchanger) draws on the supply of chilled water produced by a standard data-centre cooling set-up.... [13 Jul 2005]
Microsoft takes its hat off to hackers
News The event, which Microsoft has not publicised, was dubbed "Blue Hat" - a reference to the widely known "Black Hat" security conference, tweaked to reflect Microsoft's corporate colour. Blue Hat was... [16 Jun 2005]
Nokia: Mobile email no 'killer app'
News And while research has found a groundswell of enterprise mobility apps usage among blue collar workers, Cooper foresees growth from around half a per cent of email users accessing their inboxes via their mobile to... [12 May 2005]
Leader: iPod as storage cure-all
Leader Still, while the bandwagon jumpers are hoping to share in some of that Apple-style cool, it seems the Apple ecosystem is getting ready to turn the iPod into the business tool du jour. Beneath the teen-centric,... [16 Mar 2005]