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Intel's green innovations Video icon

Intel's green innovations

Video From chips to fabs, Intel is developing green technologies for its customers and within its own organisation [13 May 2008]


Gov't departments tout 'green' IT credentials

News HMRC and the Highways Agency have outlined some of the IT initiatives that are helping Whitehall cut carbon emissions [12 May 2008]

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Government to launch 'Green IT Strategy'

News The national initiative is aimed at reducing IT-related carbon emissions and will focus on examples of best practice [09 May 2008]

Prince Charles backs 'green' thin clients

Prince Charles backs 'green' thin clients

News Prince Charles has discovered thin clients, and finds the notion they can help cut energy costs 'mind boggling' [06 May 2008]


HP announces Sustainable IT Ecosystem Lab

News The company's facility will investigate 'green' concepts including swapping out copper for fibre within PCs and making advertising hoardings from electronic paper [02 May 2008]

CIOs increasingly seen as 'green ambassadors'

News Cisco claims chief information officers are driving the sustainable business agenda in their organisations while bringing the issue to the attention of their suppliers [02 May 2008]

IBM unveils 'green' energy tools for datacentres

News The products are designed to measure power consumption and reduction across energy-hungry datacentres that run corporate networks and websites [01 May 2008]

Sun pushes its green IT agenda

Analysis The server maker claims companies are still split between altruism and cost saving when it comes to energy-efficient computing [28 Apr 2008]

Recycling firms strike gold in old mobile phones

Analysis Scavenging precious metals from phones and other discarded gadgets is a proving to be a multi-million-pound industry for so-called 'urban miners' [28 Apr 2008]

South Africa compares digital divide to apartheid

News Social and economic inequalities as a legacy of apartheid are being perpetuated by a lack of IT equipment and skills, says the country's high commissioner [25 Apr 2008]

WEEE directive sees council ship old PCs to Africa

News Complying with the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive, Brent Council has been donating its old IT PCs to Computer Aid International [22 Apr 2008]

Vodafone to halve CO2 emissions by 2020

News The operator has announced a major drive to cut its carbon emissions, mostly by improving the energy efficiency of its networks [21 Apr 2008]

Bank group stumped by rising IT power consumption

News Despite investing €170m to develop a sustainable datacentre, Citi has admitted its IT equipment is consuming increasing amounts of power [11 Apr 2008]

Xerox demonstrates reusable paper Video icon

Xerox demonstrates reusable paper

Video At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Xerox shows off a disappearing-ink technology that enables people to reuse a piece of paper [10 Apr 2008]


Tech chiefs put premium on green IT

News Research claims 75 percent of CIOs consider green computing an important part of their IT strategy and 15 percent say it's a top priority [10 Apr 2008]

Thin clients credited with big CO2 emission cuts

News The use of thin clients has reduced global CO2 emissions by 166,000 tonnes in 2007, research suggests [27 Mar 2008]

IT chiefs need more incentive to go green

News Datacentre managers would be more inclined to improve efficiency if they had responsibility for the power costs, says analyst [20 Mar 2008]

Microsoft nears bottom of Greenpeace league table

Microsoft nears bottom of Greenpeace league table

News In the campaigner's latest green league table of electronics companies, Samsung and Toshiba have stolen Nokia's top spot and Microsoft comes third to last [18 Mar 2008]

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IT vendors to profit from stricter green standards

News Tech vendors stand to make billions as companies increasingly need to measure their environmental impact, claims S2 Intelligence [13 Mar 2008]

Millions of Britain's PCs dumped at tips

News Over five million people have admitted to taking old PCs to the dump instead of reusing or recycling them, according to research [11 Mar 2008]

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Green IT Toolkit Essentials

Why you should care about the WEEE recycling law

FAQ The EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive is finally being enforced, but what will it mean for UK firms? more

Video: Get the facts on tech recycling

Video GreenCitizen CEO James Kao talks about high-tech recycling, and the consequences of hardware going into the rubbish more

Ndiyo: Sharing PCs to bridge the digital divide

Feature Rather than aiming for one laptop per child, start-up Ndiyo thinks the developing world would benefit from sharing PCs more effectively more

Why you should care about the Stern Review

FAQ The Stern Review into climate change could force major policy reviews for IT departments and the wider business more

Do your bit to bridge Africa's digital divide

News The IT industry can work together to help developing countries share in the technical advances we all take for granted more

Are the $100 laptop's good intentions good enough?

Comment India may have rejected the One Laptop per Child project, but that may not matter if it's picked up by the Americans more

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dogStar dogStar

Altruism or Realpolitik?

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 9:45 AM

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Spamfighter exceeds its authority

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 8:49 AM

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J.A. Watson J.A. Watson

Thankfully, it worked for me

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 8:21 AM

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Moley Moley

UK Broadband Sucks - Official

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 11:52 PM

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