climate change in comment and analysis
'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves
Comment Indeed, when it comes to climate change, many people seem prepared to believe we can engineer our way out of catastrophe - whether it's by developing sophisticated carbon capture and storage techniques, or ramping up nuclear power production, or... [28 Apr 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday
Comment The message is about sustainability, social responsibility and combating climate change. Long tails. I arrive at the Fira early to struggle through the be-suited throng and get my seat at the big name keynotes. [13 Feb 2008]
Q&A: Pen Hadow, explorer
Comment Do you believe climate change is being caused by human activity? I'm not a scientist but I've read more than most people about how climate and global warming has come about and yes I think that it is caused predominately by human activity. [21 Jan 2008]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment If you look at the whole concept of consolidation, this is something we think, that government can actually consolidate its IT and get a better result in terms of efficiency but also of the new green agenda and climate change. [05 Dec 2007]
HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot
Comment It is a climate change-type issue scale-wise - but not enough is being done to tackle it. The outcry over the missing 25 million child benefit records rumbles on. But the HMRC's wayward discs were a mere dry run, argues Stewart Room. [27 Nov 2007]
Hot issue for green IT
Comment Once you've exhausted the obvious ways of making data centres more climate friendly, what next? Phase-change heat stores Basic chemistry shows heat is required to change a solid's state to a liquid one and heat is given out when a liquid solidifies. [14 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... in defence of Leopard, trash talk, iWant iPhone, lost data...
Comment Chip and bin to combat climate change? Now they are using this years silly soundbite for all crap policies to claim that chipping bins will 'reduce the carbon footprint' and 'combat climate change'.it will just waste money by putting a worthless... [08 Nov 2007]
The greening of IT: Why less is more
Comment There is also a danger that green IT simply equates to reducing carbon dioxide emissions in order to slow climate change. By then the efforts by the industry such as the Green Grid, Climate Savers Computing Initiative and the UK's Green Technology... [13 Aug 2007]
A litany of disasters has made shared services easy to swallow
Comment Due to the political climate and the imminent change of prime ministers, the government has to be seen to connect with the electorate. Change programmes need to be managed with kid gloves to ensure that the transition to a shared services... [20 Jun 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: How green is your phone?
Comment Like any massive corporation worth its salt, handset manufacturers and telecoms kit makers are falling over each other to convince us they're as keen on stopping climate change as Al Gore. O2 crowed that their 24 month contract was all with climate... [14 May 2007]
Leader: Fear sells?
Leader A company called 3V in this case has conducted research which shows consumers are more worried about identity theft than gun crime, climate change and hospital superbug MRSA. Security companies have long been aware there is money to be made from... [23 Jan 2007]
Leader: Is new kit a waste of money?
Leader Newer IT equipment tends to be more energy efficient than legacy hardware, which can be a major concern in light of rising energy costs and the threat of climate change. With hardware vendors continually hounding IT chiefs, it's no wonder they cave... [16 Nov 2006]
CIO Agenda: IT budgets up or down in 2005?
Comment Perhaps reflecting this change in the business climate and the fact firms are starting to engage in big IT transformation projects again, staff recruitment and retention was also tipped to be a hot issue for 2005 by our CIO panel. [15 Dec 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: IT too arrogant?
Comment Quocirca's Jon Collins warns that now, as the industry's climate is improving, is the time to make sure this doesn't happen again. It's both an enabler and change agent, resulting in the potential for substantial business benefit. [15 Oct 2004]
Scrutiny will make outsourcing more robust
Comment This highlights the fact that in the current climate users and service providers cannot afford to ignore the very real worries of staff if a deal is to be successful, with buy-in from all parties. Shareholders now realise that outsourcing is pretty... [22 Aug 2003]
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