IBM and Harvard University are spearheading a project to make cheaper and more efficient solar cells by harnessing spare computer capacity around the world. The project will harness the power of more than one million computers connected to the World Community Grid.
Hawaiian governor Linda Lingle announced that the state will coordinate Better Place car battery exchange stations for electric vehicles on its islands. If Hawaii is pursuing such green driving practices, why aren’t the other U.S. states doing it, too? Actually, California is!
Many of us are looking for ways to cut electricity consumption at home for financial as well as environmental reasons. But turning off your network infrastructure is a bit of a chore, so D-Link's come up with some ideas to automate power savings.
In Spain, a "green" cemetary is now operating as a two-layered facility. The town’s mausoleums are on the ground level but, now, above them sit a series of solar panels generating electricity for many of its local citizens.
Just how green can you be with your iPod in one hand and your iPhone in the other? Can onions and paper help you improve your place in the environmentally friendly tech stakes?
A report has been released blaming gamers for a US1$billion waste in electricity via their beloved consoles. But checking out the report further highlights a gross assumption.
In what is claimed to be a first, a new reporting software product, aimed at simplifying carbon emissions reporting across Australia’s business community, has been launched.
A German study found that ants are much better at keeping traffic flowing without congestion than us human drivers. We might be much better off with driving advice from our little friends.
The expected economic slowdown in 2009 will impact negatively on
web-oriented architectures, social software and social networking,
while cost saving technology, such as virtualisation and green IT will
flourish. This is the prediction of a technology research firm IBRS.
Hosting and disaster recovery provider Interactive has today switched to exclusively green power for its operations, and officially opened its new Melbourne facility.
Hands up all those dissatisfied with conventional teleconferencing
systems. Keep your hand up if you've had the chance to try HP's Halo
system and are still not happy. What, nobody?
Web hosting services provider WebCentral has deployed VMware’s
virtualization technology across its datacentres to provide ‘on demand’
services to customers and consolidate its server resources.
Juniper Networks has jumped into the data centre fray, partnering with IBM to launch a new offering for data centre consolidation, server virtualization and sustainable information technology. Juniper, like most of its rivals these days, is claiming significant green credentials for its new data centre solution.
A survey of more than 180 top Australian companies conducted in May 2008 found that 73% of companies had not presented a business case that incorporated any Green IT factors.
