consumption
RSS consumptionLeader: Why green is good for your career
Leader And there is plenty IT organisations can do - such as measuring power consumption, virtualising servers, turning off equipment after hours and reusing hardware within the enterprise and externally. The IT industry has long struggled to present a... [30 Apr 2007]
India leapfrogs the UK for Nokia
News By 2010, Nokia believes India will again up its consumption to become the number two market and claims to be the biggest device seller in the country. India has overtaken the UK in terms of mobile sales for the world's biggest handset manufacturer... [13 Mar 2007]
Power down PCs to save millions, gov't told
News NightWatchman automatically shuts PCs down during non-working hours and can monitor daily PC power consumption and carbon emissions. The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is urging public sector workers to turn off their PCs overnight to slash... [22 May 2008]
IBM aims to get smart about artificial intelligence
News Once incorporated into systems, UIMA could allow cars to obtain and display real-time data on traffic conditions and on average speeds being achieved on motorways, or it could let factories regulate their own fuel consumption and optimally... [20 Jan 2003]
Ricoh throws down the green gauntlet
News A spokeswoman for Ricoh said: "A 20 per cent reduction in energy consumption can have the same effect as a five per cent increase in sales. Printer giant Ricoh is the latest company to go to pains to outline the work it is doing to make its... [01 Feb 2006]
Photos: Modern computing balancing on the head of a pin?
Photo The transistor's smaller size, higher reliability, lower power consumption and lower cost revolutionised both the form factor and economics of electronic devices. They don't make them like this anymore - silicon.com casts an eye back over the ever... [29 Jan 2008]
Devil’s Advocate: Profligacy and destruction and IT
Comment Moreover, we can easily imagine that we are making the world more efficient and thereby contributing to reducing problems of consumption. We frequently think of technology as saving the world, as a solution to older, dirtier business practices. [14 Sep 2004]
CIOs: 'Focus on leadership, environment and new techs'
News Raskino told silicon.com that IT chiefs need to lessen their departments' impact on climate change by looking at ways to reduce power consumption and carbon output. IT leaders need to address issues as diverse as leadership succession... [07 Dec 2006]
Intel to open PC design centres for developing world
News Some of this is re-exported [back into the United States] but even if you take this out, the consumption rate is increasing outside the US. Intel will open up four design centres to tackle some of the hurdles facing computer adoption in emerging... [01 Aug 2005]
Model Management: The lessons of Genoa
Comment A G8 summit need not resemble the Field of the Cloth of Gold and little less conspicuous consumption in terms of huge limos and even larger entourages, not to mention lavish banqueting, would not go amiss. [31 Jul 2001]
Microsoft tweaks Xbox to thwart hackers
News Contract manufacturer Flextronics' Xbox assembly plant in China has switched to the new configuration, and the Guadalajara, Mexico, plant that supplies Xbox units for North American consumption will make the change soon, O'Donnell said. [24 Sep 2002]
BBC celebrates online success
News The company's own research shows that a third of Britons with Internet access are watching less television, while their consumption of periodicals and radio hasn't been affected. The BBC yesterday talked up the success of its online ventures, while... [25 Jan 1999]
Mobile music to kill the MP3 player?
News The increased consumption of digital music will boost the global music market, with worldwide revenues expected to rise from $32.1bn in 2006 to $38.8bn come 2011, according to Portio. MP3 players face an uncertain future as analysts predict music... [08 Jan 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.08.06
Round-Up In fact.did you know (of course you didn't) it would take an average male gorilla a shocking 91,700 days to eat 11 million bananas - which, given the gorilla's life expectancy of around 50 years (which may or not be shortened or increased by such... [25 Aug 2006]
UK Customs reveal ecommerce tax plans
News But the OECD's (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) recent commitment to taxing ecommerce in the country of consumption makes self-assessment impractical in the global market. Customs authorities in the UK have revealed plans to... [04 Nov 1998]
