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Google digs deep for geothermal energy
News It has also installed a large 1.6-megawatt solar array, established a plug-in hybrid station at its headquarters, and spearheaded energy-efficient computing programs like Climate Savers. Google is investing $10m in "enhanced" geothermal systems... [20 Aug 2008]
Mobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News The regulator has also charted the rise of homes without landlines in the UK - as more people opt to rely on mobile phones for voice calls - and puts the figure at 12 per cent of homes. Marek Vaygelt, head of technology and telecommunications... [20 Aug 2008]
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News Ubuntu community members had already been participating in workgroups at the foundation, including the Linux Standard Base, Desktop Architects and Driver Backporting groups. Photos: A peek at the future of telemedicine [20 Aug 2008]
IBM sends $300m to the cloud
News He said: "You either would have dedicated seats or essentially a replica of your work centre at that data centre - shared or dedicated. IBM is investing $300m in cloud computing. Big Blue is using that money to equip 13 data centres around the... [20 Aug 2008]
Tech spend to top $3.4tr
News The decline of the US dollar is at the heart of this growth, although when adjusted to constant currency growth is still predicted to hit 4.5 per cent. Photos: A peek at the future of telemedicine Software spending is on course for the strongest... [19 Aug 2008]
CIOs scouring the jobs pages
News Matt Smith, director of UK regions at Harvey Nash, said in a statement: "Our analysis over the last few years has shown a significant amount of job browsing by senior IT professionals but decreasing levels of actual movement. [19 Aug 2008]
Apple issues iPhone 3G software update
News However there's no shortage of blogs and press reports speculating the update is aimed at fixing problems with unreliable web reception and dropped calls on the iPhone 3G - also unconfirmed by Apple but widely reported in the blogosphere. [19 Aug 2008]
Turquoise trading platform begins to settle
News At launch only five stocks are traded on the platform but Turquoise is expected to extend its services to 1,300 stocks across 13 European markets. Investment-bank-owned share trading platform Turquoise, which went live last week, is expected to... [19 Aug 2008]
Nokia retains smart phone crown
News The high street may be suffering with the credit crunch but smart phones are marching on - at least for now - showing near-record levels of shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Emea) in the second quarter of this year. [19 Aug 2008]
CIOs rate MBAs
News Following a piece on silicon.com discussing a book by Philip Delves Broughton entitled What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years in the Cauldron of Capitalism, three CIOs said an MBA was not worth the time and effort. [19 Aug 2008]
ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News Photos: A peek at the future of telemedicine The Commission is looking at Microsoft's influence in the standardisation process as part of a wide antitrust investigation into the company. The UK Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG), whose... [19 Aug 2008]
Google releases Android 1.0 SDK beta
News Google said in the release notes: "We know that these changes will affect many developers who have worked with the prior early looks at the SDK, and we are very sorry for the resulting inconvenience. Google on Monday released the first beta version... [19 Aug 2008]
Google's lobby site ups US "white space" debate
News Meanwhile, a field test of spectrum sensing technology at a major sporting venue proved that technology still has some problems. The debate over new unlicensed spectrum the Federal Communications Commission is considering opening up is increasing... [19 Aug 2008]
Experian checks in new global CIO
News Mason has been at Experian for five years, joining from the home shopping division of GUS, where he spent 12 years as IT director. Prior to that he spent 17 years at Tesco, where he became deputy to the IT director. [18 Aug 2008]
Mobile shoppers hunt high street bargains
News A fifth of consumers also think they now spend less time surfing the internet at work because they can now do it on the move, which is good news for employers at least. In the wake of the credit crunch, consumers are using their mobile phones to... [18 Aug 2008]
