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RSS electric in newsSAS becomes sun worshipper
News Business intelligence software company SAS is to build a solar electric power farm at its headquarters in Cary, North Carolina. The company is aiming to have the farm running by the end of the year to produce electricity for its HQ and the local... [26 Jun 2008]
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent
News During the next year BT will also conduct a trial of electric vehicles in two of its lines of business and will pilot the use of bio-diesel in vehicles. BT will rely on wind farms to produce a quarter of its UK power by 2016 as part of a major... [03 Jun 2008]
Drinks giant Diageo hires new CIO
News Prior to joining PepsiCo, Franz spent 14 years at General Electric. Drinks giant Diageo has appointed a new CIO to fill the seat left vacant after previous IT chief, Robin Dargue, left to join Royal Mail. [03 Mar 2008]
IBM working on spinning magnetic memory
News In STT-RAM, an electric current is applied to a magnet to change the direction of the magnetic field. IBM has linked with Japan's TDK to develop so-called spin torque transfer RAM or STT-RAM. The direction of the magnetic field (up-and-down or left... [20 Aug 2007]
205,000 ThinkPad batteries recalled by Lenovo
News Lenovo has voluntarily recalled select Sanyo Electric lithium ion extended-life batteries used in its ThinkPad laptop computers. About 100,000 of the recalled Sanyo Electric battery packs were sold in the US, with 105,000 more sold worldwide. [02 Mar 2007]
Broadband over power lines to beat DSL?
News Broadband over power lines is set to overtake cable and DSL connectivity in the US, according to industry watchers. A report from Parks Associates has found in the US, growth in power line connections will outstrip that of more traditional... [19 Jan 2007]
Outlawed experiments get a second chance online
News The UCL-led study repeated, in a virtual environment, a classic experiment from the 1960s by Dr Stanley Milgram - which found people would administer apparently lethal electric shocks to a stranger at the command of an authority figure - and... [20 Dec 2006]
Sony Europe signs up with Indian outsourcer
News Satyam's European vice president, Som Sarma, said the company has been "setting up development centres for companies of the status of Sony for several years", giving a deal with General Electric seven years ago as an example. [11 Dec 2006]
$100 laptop prototype goes on show
News Power for the laptops comes from conventional electric current or batteries, since many countries targeted in the plan do not have power in remote areas. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project on Thursday showed off the latest prototype of what's... [17 Nov 2006]
Football club tags fans with RFID tickets
News That meant channels had to be dug in the concrete floor to lay electric cables, and the blue system boxes for each reader had to be carefully attached to the wall without anything being drilled directly into the brickwork. [15 Nov 2006]
Power-hungry data centres prey on CIOs' minds
News In addition, Sun is in negotiation with several utilities in the US to replicate a rebate programme around Sun servers that it established with California utility Pacific Gas & Electric, he said. Energy considerations are playing into data centre... [11 Oct 2006]
GNER's on-board wi-fi arrives early
News GNER has already kitted out all 30 of its electric trains with wi-fi and is now putting the finishing touches to its diesel trains. East coast rail operator GNER is on target to fit out its entire fleet of trains with wi-fi by the end of this... [26 Jul 2006]
Tech entrepreneurs celebrated
News Among the tech entrepreneurs who picked up awards were London company GoinGreen, which sells electric cars, and Hexham-based Bundles Limited, a mortgage auction business. A number of UK tech companies have picked up gongs for their entrepreneurship. [12 Jun 2006]
Google cooks up eco mash-up
News That includes "restaurants that are about sustainable living" and "a car service in New York that only uses [gas-electric hybrid] Prius vehicles," she said. Google has launched its first mash-up - a map-based website with information about earth... [31 May 2006]
McNealy steps down as Sun CEO
News The move was planned, he added: "It's part of our ongoing succession process we've been working on since my days at the [General Electric] board. Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has stepped down as chief executive, and has been replaced... [25 Apr 2006]
