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Photo While mobile phones are a long way from achieving proper green credentials, a few manufacturers are going after consumers' eco-pound with handsets that promise a reduced environmental impact. Green... [14 Oct 2008]
Photos: Supercomputers unlocking the brain's secrets
Photo This blue and green graph shows the electromagnetic field (EMF) readings in the MEG. At the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (Cubric) researchers are pioneering advanced brain scanning... [13 Oct 2008]
Jobs of the future: No office, no paycheque
Comment More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? Green and cost factors alone suggest that... [08 Oct 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo See what else Sun had on show including its new Executive Briefing Centre. See what other tech goes into making a green building . The MoD showed off the computer games it uses to give army drivers in... [02 Oct 2008]
HSBC in CIO-COO mash-up
News In other news, HSBC recently boosted its green credentials by achieving an excellent rating from the Building Research Establishment's Breeam Certification for its new data centre in North London. HSBC... [30 Sep 2008]
Green IT changes outsourcing for all
Comment With the UK government committed to ensuring its IT operations are carbon neutral by 2013, the word on everyone's lips these days is 'green'. Many outsourcing giants are seizing the green market and... [23 Sep 2008]
Intel: Fresh air route to data centre cost slashing
News Fresh air could save millions in data centre cooling costs, Intel has claimed, after a successful experiment in the New Mexico desert. Green IT from A to ZClick on the links below to find out more. Intel... [19 Sep 2008]
Sun goes for virtualisation x-factor
News Green IT from A-Z… The company has also opened its Executive Briefing Centre in Linlithgow near Edinburgh in Scotland, where CIOs and IT directors can go to find out about Sun technology first hand. Sun... [11 Sep 2008]
Green IT - how CIOs can help
Comment Whether at the server or data centre level, much green marketing focuses on the ability to perform the same amount of workload with less energy. First, it is worth pointing out that the word... [04 Sep 2008]
IBM floats $360m on cloud data centre
News IBM has announced it will spend $360m on a new cloud data centre facility in North Carolina, US, providing another indication that major vendors see cloud computing as the future for mainstream systems. [04 Aug 2008]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment The current penchant for invoking green IT whenever data centre power consumption is mentioned may suit the goals of IT vendors with new power efficient kit to sell; but it does little to help address... [17 Jul 2008]
UK worst in Europe for green IT
News UK businesses are the worst in Europe for embracing green IT say tech directors. The majority of IT leaders in the UK, 60 per cent, gave the thumbs down to their firm's environmental credentials, according to a survey of... [08 Jul 2008]
Photos: Shopping just got high-tech
Photo A number of adventurous technologies were on display at the Retail Solutions Show, which this year relocated from Birmingham to the ExCel Centre in London. The green credentials at a time when retailers... [27 Jun 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News Luis Barroso, a Google engineer who closely studies the company's power consumption, speaking at the O'Reilly Velocity conference in California, said: "The data centre is a different device than the key targets for... [25 Jun 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News Green IT from A-Z… Both Crossey and MD of mobile software developer Openwave's Belfast development centre, Matt Halligan, said strong staff retention is an attraction while a strong team ethic is a... [02 Jun 2008]
