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Microsoft's future in the post-Bill Gates era
News acquisition and think Microsoft's Live initiatives are a big waste of time, money and resources," she said. Bill Gates steps down as Microsoft chairman on 27 June, effectively ending his day-to-day involvement with the company. [24 Jun 2008]
Red Hat CEO: We're "tough to do business with"
News And the vast majority of that is never used; the waste in software development is extraordinary. Red Hat's new chief executive Jim Whitehurst has admitted his company needs to improve its approach to its customers and partners. [20 Jun 2008]
Workers waste company time online
News The British economy is losing billions through workers surfing the web when they're supposed to be working. That's according to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) which has found UK workers spend an average of 90 minutes per week online on... [11 Jun 2008]
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent
News It wants to cut the amount of UK waste sent to landfill by six per cent and over the past year has already increased the amount of waste it recycles by four per cent. BT will rely on wind farms to produce a quarter of its UK power by 2016 as part... [03 Jun 2008]
Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall
News It is aiming to recycle 30 per cent of its waste and plans to extend the life of PCs beyond three years. Government IT is undergoing a major shift as Whitehall attempts to revolutionise its approach to green computing. [09 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]
WEEE takes council computers to Africa
News 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 hardware, while also helping parts of the world in need of a tech boost. [21 Apr 2008]
Sales staff: Worst IT offenders
News Sales staff were the worst bandwidth wasters according to 43 per cent of network managers and 34 per cent of security managers - with remote workers and senior management the least likely to waste resources. [11 Apr 2008]
CIOs chasing the green dream
News Turning green increasingly makes sense to businesses faced with shrinking budgets, sprawling infrastructure footprints and increased waste disposal regulations the report says. Green is the new black for CIOs as environmental issues shoot to the... [10 Apr 2008]
Millions of Britain's PCs going to waste
News Electrical and electronic waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the UK. More than six months on from the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive coming into effect just 26 per cent the 94,600 tonnes of IT WEEE waste is... [10 Mar 2008]
'Generation Facebook' IT skills wasted at work
News To a parent it may seem as though] they seem to waste so much time on these social networking sites but actually what this means when they're put in front of technology in a business sense they're in no way intimidated by it and it is second... [03 Mar 2008]
Recycling kit the way to greener IT?
News Businesses are increasingly recycling old office PCs and IT equipment by donating it to schools, charities and the developing world. Eleven of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said their organisation now recycles old PCs and IT kit. [18 Feb 2008]
Jaeger invests in data mining to cut stock loss
News Classic fashion retailer Jaeger is about to start a data-mining project as part of a £120,000 effort to curb the loss of stock from crime or waste - known in the industry as shrinkage. The initiative is part of a five-year process focused on... [06 Feb 2008]
Marks & Spencer hands £19m IT deal to Computacenter
News As well as a software management role, Computacenter will take on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliant asset disposal for the retailer, guaranteeing no obsolete IT will go into landfill sites. [12 Dec 2007]
CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT
News As a waste management company, LondonWaste always wants to be as green as possible. This week we hear from Mark Beattie, head of IT for waste management company LondonWaste. By generating electricity from waste for over 20 years, we're amazed that... [11 Dec 2007]
