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RSS green in news£1 will save a red BT phone box
News It's for those guys that liked the look of their pretty red telephone box on the village green. A plan has been hatched that could save iconic red BT phone boxes for as little as a quid - or just 1.3 per cent of the cost of installing a BT landline... [29 Aug 2008]
Google digs deep for geothermal energy
News First round investors included high-profile green-tech venture capital firms Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Google is investing $10m in "enhanced" geothermal systems - essentially technology for tapping underground heat... [20 Aug 2008]
Web 2.0, cloud computing 'to transform business'
News Other technologies within two to five years of mainstream adoption include green IT and location-aware applications - both of which Gartner believes will have a high business benefit. Web 2.0 technologies may make you roll your eyes dismissively... [11 Aug 2008]
iPhone 2.0 cuts business mustard, says Gartner
News Earlier this year the analyst said it would be giving businesses the green light to use the device in a limited capacity after Apple detailed enterprise-friendly changes that would arrive with iPhone 2.0, such as support for Microsoft Exchange... [11 Aug 2008]
European satellite services are green for launch
News Companies that offer satellite-based services including mobile data, mobile TV, disaster relief and remote medical services will soon be able to do so across the whole of Europe, after the European Commission announced it was harmonising radio... [11 Aug 2008]
Dell hits carbon neutral target
News The target was met through improved energy efficiency at Dell's own facilities combined with green electricity purchases and investments in wind power in the US, China and India totalling 645 million kWh and creating savings of 400,000 metric tons... [06 Aug 2008]
'Paper junkies' can't kick printing habit
News Green IT from A to ZClick on the links below to find out more. Paper junkie office workers are costing their companies up to 10 per cent of their turnover printing out more than 120 billion pieces of paper each year. [05 Aug 2008]
IBM floats $360m on cloud data centre
News Green IT from A to ZClick on the links below to find out more. The facility is a part of IBM's Project Big Green, an initiative aimed at improving energy efficiency within data centres. IBM has announced it will spend $360m on a new cloud data... [04 Aug 2008]
Police map out crime online
News The initiative is part of a Policing Green Paper requiring every police force in the country to deliver monthly online crime information and has been trialled in the West Midlands and West Yorkshire. People will soon be able to see how well their... [29 Jul 2008]
Police to get thousands more mobiles
News Richard Earland, CIO of the NPIA, said reducing the bureaucracy burden on police officers is a key theme of the government's policing Green Paper, published last week, and of the independent Flanagan Review of Policing which, among other things... [22 Jul 2008]
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The government has announced plans to make Whitehall's computer systems wholly carbon neutral by 2020 by adopting various green IT strategies, including automatically powering down PCs, configuring virtual servers and selective deployments of thin... [17 Jul 2008]
Exeter Uni gives £5.5m network upgrade the green light
News The University of Exeter has finished the test-stage of a £5.5m network upgrade project slated for implementation this December. The test was outsourced to Spirent Communications and was used to determine whether the preferred supplier hardware was... [17 Jul 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News Green IT from A-Z Click here for all there is on Green IT, from Freecycle to virtualisation. Government CIO John Suffolk is expected to launch a national green IT strategy at the end of this month. A Whitehall department wants to scrap desktop and... [16 Jul 2008]
UK trails in open source race
News Green IT from A-Z… UK businesses are lagging behind their European and US counterparts in adopting open source software. The UK is fifth in terms of uptake, with 15 per cent of businesses currently using open source technology. [14 Jul 2008]
Super scanners at UK airports
News It will look to use green technology in lighting efficiency and water consumption in new buildings, building on measures such as using rain and grey water recycling at Terminal 5. High tech security scanners that can slash queues are now in place... [09 Jul 2008]
