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Dell commits to green dream

News Dell has committed to improving the energy efficiency of its desktops and laptops, and says that by 2010 they will consume 25 per cent less energy than today. The company said it will do this by continuing to integrate what it calls energy-smart...

Tags: laptop, pc, dell, green

[16 May 2008]

EC backs tech for green future

News The European Commission (EC) is backing the use of technology to cut carbon emissions and improve energy efficiency across Europe's economy. The Commission is promoting the intelligent use of tech to improve efficiency in buildings, lighting and...

Tags: energy, emissions, carbon, europe

[15 May 2008]

RIM quiet on touchscreen BlackBerry rumours

News He told silicon.com: "We don't comment on products that haven't launched yet… We have evolved our products, so we're not religious on form factor; we're religious on efficiency and synchronisation and the carrier channel and then we evolve to the...

Tags: iphone, rim, blackberry

[14 May 2008]

SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys

News According to co-chief executive of RIM, Jim Balsillie, RIM is "bringing the unique benefits of the BlackBerry platform to SAP applications, providing organisations with the security, manageability, efficiency and 'push' capabilities of the...

Tags: blackberry, rim, sap

[06 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News Speaking at a roundtable to discuss the findings, Michael Fahy, head of infrastructure for Europe, at investment bank Lehman Brothers, agreed green thinking is on every CIO's agenda but he said the main driver for this is efficiency, rather than...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

News William Zeitler, head of IBM's systems and technology group, told Reuters: "Energy efficiency has become a critical business metric, like product reliability and customer satisfaction. IBM has launched tools to reduce computer energy consumption as...

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

EU healthcare reaps benefits of broadband

The report — entitled Benchmarking ICT use among General Practitioners in Europe — said e-health applications have a growing role in GPs' surgeries, where they are helping to improve administrators' efficiency and cut waiting times for patients.

[29 Apr 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News The report - entitled Benchmarking ICT use among General Practitioners in Europe - said e-health applications have a growing role in GPs' surgeries, where they are helping to improve administrators' efficiency and cut waiting times for patients.

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

Croydon inks £83m deal with Capgemini

News Capgemini will also provide consultancy services for Croydon's transformation programme to improve the level and efficiency of local services. Nathan Elvery, director of finance and resources at Croydon Council, said the existing deal with...

Tags: outsourcing, capgemini, croydon

[23 Apr 2008]

Vodafone CEO: We will slash CO2 by 50 per cent

News It resonates from a financial perspective, as improving energy efficiency helps us to control costs. There are no simple solutions to what is a complex challenge but, through operational changes and technological innovation, we will focus on...

Tags: co2, green it, vodafone, sharing

[22 Apr 2008]

Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini

News Bruno Laquet, CIO at Corus, said in a statement: "The quality and efficiency of our mainframe systems is of key importance to our customers and employees in ensuring that we manufacture and deliver the right products with the right quality at the...

Tags: capgemini, corus

[17 Apr 2008]

Bank admits rising leccy bills on 'green' data centre

News Killey, who oversees the development and construction of new facilities for the banking group, said the rising energy consumption of the group's IT equipment was down to the efficiency of the computer systems in each facility, rather than the...

Tags: green it, bank, data centres

[14 Apr 2008]

'Super-3Gs' get connected via the Gobi

News We are pleased that Dell will be [using] the flexibility and efficiency Gobi provides to meet the growing needs of mobile data users. Gobi, which Qualcomm released in October 2007, is a chipset that allows travellers to connect to both High-Speed...

Tags: hp, wireless, lenovo, dell

[07 Apr 2008]

Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals

News The consulting group made its claims in a submission to the government's Public Services Industry Review (PSIR) that is looking at how to improve efficiency in the £40bn-a-year public outsourcing market.

Tags: compass, outsourcing

[04 Apr 2008]

Second Life avatars meet lawmakers

News IBM vice president, Colin Parris, told the panel: "Virtual worlds and spaces are quickly becoming powerful tools with the potential to transform enterprise and government processes by increasing top line and bottom line growth, improving...

Tags: court, second life

[02 Apr 2008]

Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract

News The oil multinational expects "significant improvements in efficiency and productivity" and to deliver "important financial benefits to Shell" during the five-year deal. Shell is to transfer almost 3,000 IT staff as part of a $4bn deal to outsource...

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[31 Mar 2008]

Green carrots needed for IT chiefs

News Szubert argued data centre managers would be more inclined to improve efficiency if they are the ones who have to pay the bills. There needs to be greater incentives for tech departments to become greener by reducing their overall energy...

Tags: green, carbon, quocirca, data centres

[19 Mar 2008]

Nationwide banks on SAP

News He described the benefits as a "combination of enabling the creation of new products for our members, lowering our costs, improving our operational efficiency". Nationwide Building Society will use the latest version of SAP's banking platform as...

Tags: nationwide, legacy, transformation, platform

[18 Mar 2008]

New mobile masts to be drastically reduced

News Akhavan explained that the cost-per-bit of handling such traffic could be lowered through better spectral efficiency and simplified network architecture. Leading mobile operators have said they want to drastically cut down on the number of new base...

Tags: mobile, base stations, femtocell, coverage

[07 Mar 2008]

Local gov't adopts web-savvy interaction

News Janet Callender, CEO of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council said websites are increasingly underpinning frontline services and improve efficiency. The number of visitors to council websites sites increased by more than 10 per cent in the past 12...

Tags: socitm, online, web services, local government

[04 Mar 2008]

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