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RSS climate in news2008: Crunch time for IT jobs?
News The industry is still busy and there are no signs of it slowing down," he told silicon.com, adding: "I'd certainly say we've seen no direct impact on job numbers in it from the economic climate as such. [10 Jan 2008]
North-South pay gap narrows
News The North may also have added advantage over London and the South East in the current nervy economic climate. IT wages are growing faster up North than in London but tech workers in the capital still enjoy considerably higher salaries than their... [02 Jan 2008]
Experts tip six technologies to watch
News Disaster mitigation technologies is another climate-related area aimed at predicting, preventing and preparing for natural disasters such as flooding and earthquakes. Argo ocean monitoring system and the proposed European GMES climate monitoring... [05 Dec 2007]
Techies - clueless on climate change?
News Nine out of ten UK IT departments do not know what their carbon footprint is and 56 per cent do not even see their energy bills, research reveals. And only 15 per cent of CIOs said they are planning to calculate their carbon footprint, with a... [04 Dec 2007]
EC launches mobile carbon tracking
News The European Commission (EC) has launched a mobile app that allows people to work out the impact their daily activities have on climate change. The mobGAS software is free to download to a mobile phone and allows people to input daily activities... [03 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Fortune said, as well as having "massively disrupted" the advertising industry, the Google heads have also set their sights on "altering how mobile telephones work, fixing climate change, [and] utterly redefining the very nature of work". [29 Nov 2007]
The A to Z of green IT
News The University of Reading is also using a blade-based system in its supercomputer which will, quite appropriately, be working on research including air pollution, climate change and meteorology. Two such examples are the recently introduced... [21 Nov 2007]
'Sentinels' to help fight climate battle?
News A European project to monitor the continent's climate from space could provide a boost in the fight against climate change. The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security project (GMES) will eventually consist of five satellites - or 'sentinels... [12 Nov 2007]
Tech industry must step up to climate challenge
News Pamlin explained: "Climate change is not an environmental issue, it's a social issue. HP started working with the WWF back in 2006, with the aims of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions around the world, educating on best practice and providing... [08 Nov 2007]
Why CIOs need two IT budgets next year
News CIOs should have two separate IT budgets for 2008 given the current uncertain economic climate, according to analyst house Gartner. The first budget should stick with the status quo but be supplemented by a second back-up budget, which assumes the... [07 Nov 2007]
Chip and bin to combat climate change?
News Changes to the draft Climate Change Bill published this week reveal the government is keen to promote incentives for waste minimisation as part of its greater commitment to reducing greenhouse gases - in order to meet its target of reducing the UK... [31 Oct 2007]
CIO Essentials: Virtual worlds, biometrics and green IT
News Data centres fuelling climate change? Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they... [16 Oct 2007]
The carbon budget is coming...
News Every UK business must carbon budget when the Climate Change Bill comes before parliament over the next year. The Climate Change Bill has already been drafted by Whitehall and will create legislation that aims to reduce UK carbon dioxide emissions... [12 Oct 2007]
Data centres fuelling climate change?
News The intensive power requirements needed to run and cool data centres now account for almost a quarter of global CO2 emissions from information and communications technology, according to analyst Gartner. [12 Oct 2007]
Councils sign £400m shared services deal with IBM
News She said in a statement: "This partnership is absolutely essential to both organisations in our attempts to inject funding into frontline services in the prevailing climate of huge public and government expectation. [02 Oct 2007]
