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Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The guidelines include: removing active screensavers from desktop PCs; switching monitors to standby after five minutes inactivity; automatically shutting down desktop computers outside working hours; reusing as much computer equipment as possible... [17 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming cuts 'could stifle competition'
News The GSMA points to tailored roaming packages as evidence of a competitive market, and says operators have introduced data roaming transparency measures - such as software that monitors data usage, text message alerts when customers reach a... [16 Jul 2008]
Bank invests in low latency monitoring
News The CorvilNet Latency Management System, supplied by Corvil and implemented by BT, allows network administrators to specify latency benchmarks and automatically monitors Credit Suisse's network against those baselines, alerting the IT team if... [23 Jun 2008]
Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear
News The healthcare sector could also make use of wearable on-body monitors, which would communicate with a home hub or mobile phone via Bluetooth or the like. According to the report, in-body networks could be implanted in patients to monitor their... [08 May 2008]
Glasgow NHS keeps tabs on equipment with RFID
News The initial driver of this part of the project is to reduce the amount of time maintenance staff waste in locating portable medical equipment, such as defibrillators, infusion pumps and blood monitors. [28 Apr 2008]
E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs
News By ensuring that monitors power down after a few minutes left idle, and by installing software to power down PC base units in the evening, he said the company was able to make savings of around 1,000 tonnes of CO2 last year, along with £140,000 in... [25 Apr 2008]
WEEE takes council computers to Africa
News So far, the council has donated more than 500 PCs, laptops and monitors which Brent Council in London has hit on a way to comply with the European WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) directive for the responsible disposal of computer... [21 Apr 2008]
Data centres fuelling climate change?
News Speaking prior to Gartner's Data Center Summit this month, Rakesh Kumar, research vice president at Gartner, said: "Although the figure compares favourably with the 40 per cent of emissions from PCs and monitors, it is much more concentrated and... [12 Oct 2007]
Dell pledges to be carbon neutral
News A further nine per cent said they didn't know if their company monitors their IT-related energy spending. Dell has claimed it is the first of the large IT suppliers to commit to a carbon-neutral strategy for all of its operations worldwide but it... [28 Sep 2007]
Cyber criminals turn pro
News The six-monthly report uses data from Symantec's Global Intelligence Network which monitors activity in 180 countries. Cybercrime is becoming an increasingly professional business with malware toolkits sold on the internet and confidential details... [17 Sep 2007]
Hospital uses tracking tech to boost operations
News Before the system was implemented, St Hill explained, the hospital had eight people tracking cancer patient information to make sure that referral to treatment time was no longer than 62 days - in fact there were more monitors than patients in the... [30 Aug 2007]
Public sector wastes millions on IT disposal
News In the 2005/06 financial year, public bodies bought 1.7 million units of IT equipment at a cost of £2.7bn, with the majority (85 per cent) of equipment procured being computer units and monitors, according to the report. [31 Jul 2007]
Council switches off PCs to save £40,000
News By encouraging people to turn off their PCs, they are also more likely to switch off their other hardware, such as monitors, which the current system cannot shut down, he added. Staffordshire County Council has developed software that detects and... [26 Jul 2007]
Maritime watchdog monitors critical apps
News The Agency has implemented an application management system called NimBUS which monitors the CPU and memory usage of these applications and raises an alarm if any of the apps go down. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has deployed an... [03 Jul 2007]
Linux web servers "faster"
News WatchMouse, a Dutch firm that monitors server performance, based its research on a survey of more than 1,500 European websites. Linux-based websites perform better than those hosted on Windows servers, according to new research. [21 Jun 2007]
