IBM-Lenovo deal 'will never work'
News We see organic growth as the more sustainable and healthy way," he said. The deal that will let China's Lenovo acquire IBM's PC unit will work about as well as other mergers in the industry, Michael Dell said - that is, not well at all.
[December 8, 2004, 10:40]
New green site launches today: Smartplanet
Blog aside - the site is looking great and should provide a lot of useful resources for anyone struggling to make their life-style more sustainable - tune in and check it out. It's only a soft-launch, no fan-fares or dancing girls, but the latest...
[October 31, 2007, 10:26]
Cisco and HP: The recovery starts here
News A lot of companies have underinvested in IT in recent years, and that's not sustainable in the long term. IT and telecommunications spending are set to rise in 2004 after several years of gloom, according to two of Europe's senior tech bosses.
[January 21, 2004, 16:10]
Minister presses for green government IT
News John Suffolk, the government's chief information officer, said: "There is real potential to deliver more sustainable IT that also costs less and provides better results for users. Speaking at the European Ministerial eGovernment Conference in...
[September 21, 2007, 7:46]
Local e-services praised
News If local e-government is to make a genuine and sustainable contribution to the improvement of public services, then the next 12 months must see us driving through the benefits of our investment to make a real difference to the lives of ordinary...
[March 7, 2005, 11:15]
Oftel lays down challenge to BT
News The general feeling was that BT has its finger in the dam and is trying to keep the flood back but it is not in a sustainable position," he said. A new round in the ongoing fight for cheaper Net access opened Tuesday as Oftel laid down a challenge...
[November 17, 1999, 11:25]
We all live in a Windows submarine...
News Windows is not known for being a secure system, and we want to know if it's sustainable for the Type 45 Destroyers and Vanguard Destroyers. The British government is defending its decision to implement Microsoft Windows 2000 on some of its Navy fleet.
[October 25, 2004, 14:20]
MmO2 to roll out Wi-Fi across UK
News A number of companies have rushed to offer Wi-Fi services in the past few months, but analysts have warned that none have yet arrived at a sustainable business model, which could lead to a repeat of the dot-com crash on a smaller scale.
[July 2, 2003, 8:53]
SOX to pull IT spending up in 2006
News Otherwise, companies will spend 10 times more on IT solutions for compliance than those taking sustainable approach, it said. Corporate governance and compliance laws are driving up information technology spending by businesses, Gartner reported in...
[December 16, 2005, 8:45]
Out of the cardboard box thinking on green data centres
Blog Now some of that will seem like greenwash - basically a financially motivated data centre audit dressed up as environmentally sustainable - but Migration's MD Alex Rabbetts, a 20 year veteran of the data centre industry has some interesting things...
[September 24, 2008, 22:50]
Space-aged millennial school chooses Linux
News We see new technology as underpinning education and we aim to provide schools like Parrs Wood with the software services and support to create sustainable learning environments for the future. Perhaps heralding a new era in education, the first...
[January 12, 2000, 12:36]
Google's first mashup goes green
News That includes "restaurants that are about sustainable living" and "a car service in New York that only uses (gas-electric hybrid) Prius vehicles", she said. Google has launched its first mashup - a map-based Web site with information about earth...
[May 31, 2006, 9:25]
BSkyB to sell discounted no-frills broadband
News BT Retail has remarked that it does not consider such steeply discounted prices to be sustainable. BT Retail looks increasingly likely to dominate the UK's consumer broadband market in the future after securing a major marketing deal with BSkyB.
[July 31, 2002, 12:51]
Real-life Iron Giant invades IT recycling debate
News Judge claimed that consumers and manufactures need to start thinking in sustainable and energy conservation terms when it comes to technology. At just over seven metres tall with computer mice for teeth, a washing machine for a spine, and a head...
[April 29, 2005, 12:45]
Laptop fund for four-year olds
News Sometimes this help will be cash, but the local bodies should be sustainable in the long term and would therefore be encouraged to be autonomous -- we would be attempting to empower them," said the eLearning spokesperson.
[February 28, 2001, 11:00]
A Year Ago: Space-aged millennial school chooses Linux
News We see new technology as underpinning education and we aim to provide schools like Parrs Wood with the software services and support to create sustainable learning environments for the future. Linux at school.
[January 12, 2001, 6:03]
US govt prolongs Icann's reign over Net
News The nonprofit group has made progress since then, but "much work remains for Icann to evolve into an independent, stable and sustainable" organisation, the government said in a statement. The Bush administration said on Wednesday that it has...
[September 18, 2003, 9:05]
Grim forecast for Europe's ISP community
News AOL is tending to fight hard against the current towards free access, but unless it can force the market round to adopting free telecoms it will not be sustainable," he says. A report -- Internet Service Providers in Western Europe -- published...
[June 10, 1999, 12:20]
Open source 'split by digital divide'
Talkback I don;t have no problem at with the fact when companies publicly formulate their interest to target underdeveloped countries and hopefully it will contribute one day into making a nett profit.One has to be careful that for the sake of the...
[July 17, 2006, 0:40]
AOL France limits unmetered
News The UK unmetered package is the first to be based on BT's Friaco (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination) which charges a fixed fee to ISPs, enabling AOL to offer a flat rate service based on a sustainable model.
[November 15, 2000, 16:29]



