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Comment If the hardware is an energy hog (like a CRT) or woefully inefficient (like an old server), an upgrade might be the 'greenest' course. David Tebbutt offers energy-saving tips for IT managers. Life is tough for IT... [19 Aug 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
News Hillingdon invested in software to automatically shut down PCs, server virtualisation, replaced power hungry CRT monitors with TFT screens, bought duplex printers and introduced remote access software from Citrix and... [29 Jun 2009]
Supporting CDISC Standards in Base SAS Using the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit
White Paper In the USA, the FDA is accepting standards from the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) for submission of tabulation data (SDTM) and the main study metadata XML file (CRT-DDS). The use of regulatory... [29 May 2009]
To Simplify Its IT Infrastructure, InVentiv Health Is Virtualizing 90% of Its Servers and Avoiding $95,000 in Costs
White Paper To continue reducing its impact on the environment, the company recycled 150 CRT monitors using Dell Asset Recovery & Recycling Services, replacing them with Dell flat panel monitors. Data center power consumption and... [01 Jan 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment In some instances I had five active CRT screens as my workspace, backed up by the most powerful computers available at the time. Written while flying from London to Rome and dispatched on arrival at my hotel via a 3G... [22 Jul 2008]
College classrooms go high-tech
Case Study The college also has green aspirations and has received an energy grant from the Learning and Skills Council to replace its CRT screens with more efficient LCD monitors. Oaklands College near St Albans is planning to... [02 Jul 2008]
Why Clinical Development Teams Should Care About Data Standards - Part II: The Inner Workings of the ODM
White Paper CDISC has employed this extension mechanism in the Case Report Tabulation Data Definition Standard (CRT DDS, also known as define.xml) to provide the means by which submission metadata can be transmitted to the FDA in a... [12 May 2007]
UN digs into 'e-scrap' mountain
News The manufacture of new high-tech goods is very resource hungry - making a desktop PC and a 17-inch CRT monitor uses at least 240kg of fossil fuels, 22kg of chemicals and 1,500kg of water - in total the resources equal to... [07 Mar 2007]
Greenpeace clashes with Apple over toxic waste
News We have also completely eliminated CRT monitors, which contain lead, from our product line," the spokesperson said. The environmental track records of Apple and Lenovo have been singled out for criticism by campaigning... [29 Aug 2006]
Courts chase criminals with SMS
News Magistrates could soon be sending 'pay up or go to jail' texts to criminals who don't pay their fines, following a successful trial of the technology in the Midlands. Courts are considering sending automated reminders by text, email or... [03 Jan 2006]
Sony slashes seven per cent of its global workforce
News The company has shelved its production of cathode ray tube, or CRT, television sets and will now focus on selling LCD and rear-projection TVs. Sony is planning a companywide restructuring that will result in the loss of... [22 Sep 2005]
Hazardous IT waste warning issued
News The environment agency says the glass in CRT monitors contains heavy metals such as lead and barium and a phosphor coating onto which the beam of electrons is projected to form the image. The UK Department for... [27 Jun 2005]
Prisons to tackle Windows XP upgrade
News In addition, 15" CRT monitors will be replaced with TFT monitors. The Prison Service is working on a technology upgrade that will see it moving PCs and laptops to Windows XP. A pilot roll-out is operating at seven sites... [26 Apr 2005]
Desk lamp iMac no longer "flat out cool"
News Only a few months after introducing the flat-panel iMac, Apple added the eMac, a lower-cost all-in-one built around a 17-inch CRT (cathode ray tube) monitor. It may have been "flat-out cool" - as Time proclaimed on its... [05 Jul 2004]
Sony struggling as profits tumble
News The electronics business saw revenue increase 0.4 per cent, to $13.8bn, as the LCD and DVD product categories grew significantly, taking over for older categories, such as cathode-ray tube (CRT) televisions, which shrank. [29 Jan 2004]
