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Microsoft refocuses Hohm energy-efficiency web app

...Disappointed with the uptake of its Hohm web application for home energy efficiency, Microsoft is shifting the product focus to emphasise electric-vehicle charging... Read more

6 April, 2011 by Martin LaMonica

IBM unveils 'smart building' software

...its Intelligent Building Management software, which collects and analyses information to improve energy efficiency and maintenance in buildings. The software, unveiled at an event in... Read more

9 June, 2011 by Martin LaMonica

Europe looks to smart meters to hit energy target

...for electronics to help get Europe back on course to meet its energy-efficiency target. The European Commission has formulated a plan to introduce smart... Read more

10 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Greenpeace slams Amazon over green datacentre efforts

...world's largest IT companies across four metrics: energy transparency; infrastructure siting; energy efficiency and greenhouse-gas mitigation; and renewables and advocacy. It also provided... Read more

18 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Nvidia boss: Power limits shape supercomputing

...at the SC11 conference on supercomputing in Seattle, Huang said that increasing energy efficiency of high-end computers is needed to continue pushing the limits... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Martin LaMonica

Singapore links with HP on datacentre benchmarks

...also guide the development of standards, policies and programmes to improve datacentre energy efficiency, the company said. For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story... Read more

11 March, 2011 by Vivian Yeo

Carbon scheme closes amid datacentre cost concerns

...scheme is seen as an added incentive for companies to increase their energy efficiency. All energy-intensive organisations, from primary care trusts to datacentre providers... Read more

1 October, 2010 by Jack Clark

Commission seeks bids for ?780m of IT funding

...and embedded systems and photonics, as well as IT for health and energy efficiency, it said on Tuesday. "Increasing overall investment into ICT research is... Read more

29 September, 2010 by Jack Clark

Facebook hits back at Greenpeace criticism

...has countered by saying its newest datacentre will be a model of energy efficiency. On Wednesday, Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo sent a letter sent... Read more

6 September, 2010 by Martin LaMonica

ARM to lead EuroCloud green datacentre project

...computing to general purpose computing." ARM said it had been focusing on energy efficiency in mobile devices, but that it now wants to tackle power... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Richard Thurston

Tilera's 100-core processors take on Sandy Bridge

Chip designer Tilera has unveiled a low-power processor that can scale between 36 and 100 cores and is aimed at cloud applications Read more

22 June, 2011 by Jack Clark
Inside Capgemini's free-cooled datacentre

Inside Capgemini's free-cooled datacentre

ZDNet UK has toured Merlin, Capgemini's sustainable, modular, energy-efficient 10,000-square-foot datacentre that has plans to be scaled up to three times that capacity Read more

20 August, 2010 by Jack Clark
Network Coding-Based Multipath Routing for <endeca_term>Energy Efficiency</endeca_term> in Wireless Sensor Networks

Network Coding-Based Multipath Routing for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks

This paper studies the energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks with Network Coding-based Multipath Routing (NCMR... Read more

23 March, 2012
<endeca_term>Energy Efficiency</endeca_term> of Cooperative Beamforming in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks

Energy Efficiency of Cooperative Beamforming in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks

Energy efficiency is a critical issue in wireless communication networks since most of... Read more

31 January, 2012
Improving Network <endeca_term>Energy Efficiency</endeca_term> Through Cooperative Idling in the Multi-Cell Systems

Improving Network Energy Efficiency Through Cooperative Idling in the Multi-Cell Systems

Network Energy Efficiency (NEE) is considered as the metric to address the energy efficiency... Read more

26 September, 2011

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