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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]
Get a Lively life, with Google avatars
News Lively also requires a download and installation - Windows only for now - but then people can use Internet Explorer or Firefox to enter the virtual world. Second Life requires users to download and install a separate "client" software package that... [09 Jul 2008]
Data centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News Customers across the region are running core business applications, test and development and business continuity systems on virtual infrastructure. In its survey, IDC asked IT organisations how they managed their virtual estates. [08 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News Jones said Skype can act as a "virtual water cooler" for those who work at home. Karen Hollands, founder of online language school Toniks, has built her business around Skype to link pupils to language tutors based across the world. [02 Jul 2008]
Holograms on handsets by 2010
News By 2010 the devices will routinely beam 3D films, games and virtual goods into our laps according to Indian technology giant Infosys, which has patented the handset. The portable machines will capture and send 3D snapshots of the surrounding world... [19 Jun 2008]
The future, in 3D
News Display technology will also undergo radical change, said Kurzweil - consigning the touchscreen vs keyboard debate to the history books, at least if his prediction of 'virtual displays that hover in the air' come to pass. [19 May 2008]
Business still experimenting in Second Life
News Businesses are unsure about the benefits of using Second Life with many still just experimenting with the virtual world to discover its true value. One trend is that organisations are increasingly looking at the virtual world as a place to... [25 Apr 2008]
Cool tech gets down with the kids
News Technology businesses need to monitor and be aware of such social trends if they hope to succeed - taking advantage of blogs, virtual worlds and online search summaries to help keep up with the kids - he said. [23 Apr 2008]
Tesco Mobile users hungry for ads
News The mobile virtual network operator has been trialling a WAP advertising portal since May 2007, which Tesco said has displayed strong month-on-month growth, gaining 300,000 unique visitors in December. [09 Apr 2008]
Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT
News He added: "We're looking into how virtual world environments can provide real business benefits to our enterprise, corporate and SME customers from the perspective of providing collaborative environments internally but also as new channels to... [20 Mar 2008]
Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere
News She said: "We are talking about virtual groups, for example in the case of credit card fraud from getting the details to releasing the money there may be 12 different skill sets with people collaborating from many different countries and sharing... [19 Mar 2008]
Facebook goes all chocolaty
News People have been sending virtual gifts on Facebook but this is one of the first applications that combines the social network with mobile payment technology. What's the mobile world got in store for 2008? [14 Feb 2008]
Second Life tackles virtual nuisances
News Second Life creator Linden Lab admits it has been forced to increase security and change some of its policies to stamp out illegal and nuisance behaviour in the virtual world. Linden Lab's head of community, Robin Harper, told silicon.com that... [12 Feb 2008]
Virtual tech will 'kill the office'
News He said: "If you get these students coming out of university and they're used to doing their homework with their friends on IM, they're used to Facebook, they're used to virtual worlds - how do you recreate that environment in the work world? [31 Jan 2008]
Microsoft pours $235.5m into school tech
News One of the initiatives in the Partners in Learning programme is the Gateway Project, which is a virtual school environment for pupils across England, France and Spain to work collaboratively to learn foreign languages. [23 Jan 2008]
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