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The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up Our hardy reporters had to cope with tourists, glare on their laptop screens, freak gusts of wind, the terrors of flat batteries and… spiders. Yes, that's right folks - the business and technology site you know and love... [11 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up Glastonbury had a wind-powered phone charging station and mobile sat-nav to direct you back to the tent in the dark. And so, the Round-Up empties its rucksack of festival tat and puts away the tie-dyed t-shirt for... [04 Jul 2008]
Retail leaders will open up in tough times
Comment An icy wind is blowing through the high street. The danger is that a downturn will bite into IT spending even though technology could be retailers' saviour, says Julian Goldsmith. Just as the weather is starting to turn,... [13 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.01.08
Round-Up Then have to fire the remaining rockets manually 600 feet into the air in the howling wind and rain above a braying, booing crowd. In January 2007, Microsoft underwhelmed the world with the public launch of Windows Vista. [04 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.11.07
Round-Up But as another philosopher (Bob Dylan) once crooned: "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows". At some point before he went mental and started talking to horses, German philosopher Friedrich... [16 Nov 2007]
Getting more out of the net
Comment BT has also recently announced plans to source up to 25 per cent of the power used by its data centres from wind but does not expect to achieve this until 2016. Furthermore, carbon-neutral co-location providers are... [02 Nov 2007]
Trevor Baylis
AS Profile Baylis is most famous as the inventor of the wind-up radio and for his efforts to get the idea off the ground and over to Africa. The panel felt his work has been extremely influential in the creation of the $100 laptop... [12 Oct 2007]
Leader: How to put out the fires of ID fraud
Leader Taking away the easy availability of personal data will starve the identity fraud fire of oxygen - and take the wind out of the fraudsters' sails. Every fire needs three ingredients: fuel, oxygen and heat. [08 Oct 2007]
It's not easy being green
Comment Efficiencies of wind and wave power systems are also poor, and need backing up by fossil fuel generators anyway, in case there is no wind or insufficient movement in the water. As for alternative energy... [25 Jul 2007]
Data centre in a box
Comment Wind forward 30 years and you know real progress has been made when you find yourself talking about portable data centres. The Sun marketing blurb for the data centre shows a black container (they will actually be... [18 Jun 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: How green is your phone?
Comment Several kit manufacturers have harnessed wind power or biofuel to power their base stations. Like any massive corporation worth its salt, handset manufacturers and telecoms kit makers are falling over each other to... [14 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: The green revolution and Everything 2.0
Comment Biotech and life sciences in general will continue to grow in importance but now it feels as if green tech - from solar panels to tiny fuel cells and bio-fuels to wind turbines and more - is where we'll see some of the... [03 May 2007]
Leader: €12 for roaming data? Could try harder
Leader As with voice, as soon as carriers got a whiff of which way the wind was blowing, they did their best to appease the Commission, in an effort to head off potential regulation. At this year's CeBIT trade show in Hanover,... [15 Mar 2007]
The killer app for M2M
Comment All the while the building is producing renewable energy, perhaps by virtue of wind turbines or solar panels. Not many are. What this wireless technology needs is a killer app. And Unwired's Richard Leyland has an idea... [22 Feb 2007]
3GSM Diary, day 5: Protests and porn
Comment Motorola for example is developing base stations that are powered by sustainable energies such as wind power. It's the last day at the Fira - but you'd be surprised at the number of extra visitors to the centre last... [15 Feb 2007]
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