energy in comment and analysis
Going green: A guide for CIOs
Comment Most organisations report only high-level green metrics, such as overall or function-wide energy consumption. And most focus on energy efficiency. However, the IT department then runs the risk of... [21 Oct 2009]
John Chambers
AS Profile Famous for running around the stage during keynotes, Chambers is not standing still on the business front either - one adjacent market he's eyeing up is energy via the use of smart grid technology, something that has the... [08 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment He envisages a future where networks of sensors will give us our total individual energy consumption and where computing power could be delivered remotely from large datacentres powered by renewable energy. [07 Oct 2009]
Ray Kurzweil
AS Profile Of course Kurzweil is not without his critics - and not everyone shares his sci-fi vision of an "augmented reality future" - but his energy and drive are undeniable. Ray Kurzweil is a futurist who's been thinking up the... [29 Sep 2009]
Craig Venter
AS Profile Current projects to bio-engineer a sustainable energy solution were flagged for particular praise by one Agenda Setters judge. Craig Venter is an American scientist colloquially known as the father of genomics. [29 Sep 2009]
How green credentials are shaping IT contracts
Comment As most of us know, manufacturing IT equipment produces a significant carbon footprint; using technology is energy-intensive; and, following a typically short life, huge amounts of electrical equipment become landfill. [10 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Software - keep it short and sweet
Comment Thousands of features have gone unnoticed and unused, while hard drives have had to grow from megabytes to gigabytes, and operating speeds have tended to stabilise or slow down despite the increased power and energy... [07 Sep 2009]
IT essential for businesses' green success
Comment No, it's expressed in business terms: "We must slash our energy bills. David Tebbutt offers energy-saving tips for IT managers. To be fair, we have seen a lot of enthusiasm for virtualisation in recent... [19 Aug 2009]
Business in the 21st century: Stay tuned for brave new world
Comment The web isn't really about technology, it's about connecting people - our knowledge, ideas, energy and efforts. It's easy to greet talk of change in business with a weary sigh. For more than two decades, a succession of... [11 Aug 2009]
On a new Voyager, tackling fraud and the intellectual challenge
Comment Much of Stafford's energy is dedicated to Nationwide's Voyager business transformation project which, Stafford said, "will replace the core transaction and ledger systems in addition to other systems that support the... [06 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: We have plenty of radio spectrum
Comment The wireless energy in the range 0 to 1GHz is approximately the same as that in the range 1 to 10GHz, and again in the 10 to 100GHz range. So, for weeks I have been scanning 150kHz to 1GHz and counting the 25kHz channels... [09 Jun 2009]
Keith Little
CIO Profile Before joining the BBC, Little worked as IT director for Blue Square as well as energy company Shell and consultancy AMEC. Keith Little joined the BBC in 2001 and as CIO is in charge of Auntie's IT, production and... [03 Jun 2009]
Dana Deasy
CIO Profile Dana Deasy has been CIO of BP since October 2007 - joining the energy giant from car company General Motors where he was CIO for the North America region. Previously he was CIO for Tyco International, and CIO of the... [01 Jun 2009]
David Lister on smart grids and why he left RBS
Comment It was Lister's passion for change that led him to the power industry, a sector grappling with the twin challenges of rebuilding electricity grids around clean power generation, and providing smart technologies that allow consumers and... [29 May 2009]
Inbox: Brits ditching mobiles? Fat chance
Comment First, how exactly will these meters communicate with the energy provider, will they use existing networks piggybacking on the home broadband, if so, how much bandwidth will they use? A smart meter would communicate over... [18 May 2009]
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