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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]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News She said the department was also looking at sourcing machines through sustainable supply chains and achieving CO2 savings by measures such as turning off over-complicated screensavers and introducing automatic standby on more machines. [16 Jul 2008]
Unveiled: The 3G iPhone
News He said the 3G iPhone has 300 hours of standby time, improved talktime from eight hours to 10 hours on 2G talk time, and five hours of 3G talk time. Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited 3G iPhone at the company's World-Wide Developer Conference in... [10 Jun 2008]
UK tech has 12 years to help save the planet
News The report points to efficiency and standby improvements in products such as LCD and plasma flatscreens and more efficient future displays such as OLEDs and FEDs. Fryer also referred to innovations such as ByeBye Standby - a device that can switch... [12 Feb 2008]
Is your office printer giving you the sniffles?
News The emissions were traced to printers, using an electronic sniffer, and were found to increase during the day as printers were left on standby, or in use. Office laser printers are as unhealthy as cigarettes, according to an Australian professor... [01 Aug 2007]
PC energy waste to cost £8.6m over Christmas
News The amount of energy wasted by UK office equipment left on standby over the ten-day Christmas period would be enough to roast 4.4 million turkeys, predicts hardware maker Canon. He added: "We have only looked at office equipment that is left in... [14 Dec 2006]
Palm introduces "friendly" Treo
News It's got a smaller battery but Colligan assured naysayers that it will have the same battery life as earlier Treo models: two to four hours of talk time and 100 hours on standby. Palm is hoping its new Treo 680 will be embraced by a far bigger... [13 Oct 2006]
O2 gets Jet packed with battery
News The feature-light Jet is geared to voice rather than email users, boasting 540 hours of standby time - more than three weeks - and almost 10 hours of talk-time. O2 has launched its latest own-brand handset, which boasts a battery that would make... [10 Oct 2006]
Lazy staff driving up electricity bills
News Computers left on in standby mode save little energy, with a power usage of 70 per cent of their maximum, PC supplier Fujitsu Siemens estimates. Employees who leave their PCs on overnight are costing their companies £70 each per year, according to... [09 Oct 2006]
Vonage debuts wi-fi phone
News The F1000's battery offers about five hours of talk time and up to 50 to 100 hours of standby, Vonage said. Vonage is set to announce the availability of its long-anticipated portable wi-fi phone that allows users to use their Vonage IP telephony... [13 Dec 2005]
Switch off PCs at the end of the day...
News Owen added that simply putting a computer into standby still means it is consuming power. The European Union recently agreed legislation to cut down on energy wasted by idle computers, including those left in standby. [24 Oct 2005]
Motorola wins sub-$30 phone deal
News The C113a will provide 450 minutes of talk time and 330 hours of standby, and is expected to be available from early next year in emerging GSM markets including Bangladesh, Malaysia and Yemen. The GSM Association has announced it has awarded... [27 Sep 2005]
Eco friendly laws to tackle stand-by culture
News The UK government has welcomed EU legislation designed to clamp down on inefficient technology such as computers and household appliances that waste huge amounts of power when in standby mode. Environment Minister Elliot Morley said: "Hundreds of... [07 Jul 2005]
CIO Jury: Unsocial and long hours are a "fact of life"
News Most organisations will compensate the individuals with a combination of standby/callout payments together with overtime rates and/or time off in lieu of hours worked," he said. The UK's IT bosses have hit back at claims that the IT profession... [24 Feb 2005]
3G phones ARMed to fight hackers and viruses
News Consumers are used to extensive battery life on mobile phones: tens of hours of talk time from a single charge and a hundred hours of standby time are now expected. UK chip firm ARM is designing chips for mobile phones that require less power but... [16 Oct 2003]
