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'Carbon Neutral' PC Uses More Wood, Fewer Watts
News PC World has released more information about and made new claims for its forthcoming "carbon neutral" PC. It will have a recycled aluminium case and use sustainably forested wood in the screen bezel, mouse and keyboard, and the company is...
[July 20, 2007, 17:31]
Dell Claims To Be Carbon-neutral
News Dell has claimed it is now officially a carbon-neutral company — five months ahead of its own projected schedule. Clive Longbottom, of business and IT analyst firm Quocirca said: "It really worries me when companies claim they have achieved carbon...
[August 7, 2008, 8:32]
Photos: First Image Of Carbon-neutral PC
News This the first image of how UK retailer PC World's carbon-neutral desktop could look when it is released in October. The desktop will come with a recycled aluminium case and use sustainable forested wood in the screen bezel, mouse and keyboard, and...
[August 2, 2007, 15:24]
Google To Go Carbon Neutral By 2008
News The company has partnered with international organisation The Climate Group to reduce its impact on the environment, and it intends to become carbon neutral by the start of next year. The pair will use a three-pronged approach to turning Google...
[June 20, 2007, 10:06]
VIA Debuts 'carbon-neutral' Chip
News VIA Technologies on Wednesday launched what it calls the world's first "carbon-neutral" PC processor, aiming to appeal to large organisations that want to reduce their impact on the environment. The company is going a step further, however, in...
[September 13, 2006, 18:25]
Dell Aims For Carbon Neutrality
News Dell claimed on Wednesday to be the first of the large IT suppliers to commit to a carbon-neutral strategy for all of its operations worldwide, but it admits that its operations are not carbon-neutral yet.
[September 27, 2007, 17:29]
IT Firms Commit To Fighting Carbon
News PAR says it will purchase enough carbon offsets to cover four petabytes of disk capacity, giving its customers the prospect of carbon neutral storage. On-demand business services company Salesforce.com and its Salesforce.com Foundation announced on...
[January 22, 2007, 15:56]
Cabinet Office Heads Government 'green' IT Drive
News The Cabinet Office made the recommendations in a report, Greening Government ICT, aimed at making the energy consumption of government ICT carbon-neutral within four years. There is a longer-term plan for central government ICT to be carbon-neutral...
[July 17, 2008, 13:09]
VIA Launches 'carbon Free' Computing
News Launched in September as a 'carbon-neutral' chip, the step up in billing reflects Via's hope to capture more of the market for more energy-efficient technologies. VIA Technologies, the Taiwanese manufacturer of microprocessors and chipsets...
[October 12, 2006, 9:15]
Green IT Moves Up The Corporate Agenda
News If that happens firms will be looking at ways to cut emissions and make their business as carbon neutral as possible. I think there will be a carbon tax. Possible legislation and a carbon tax are the main push factors for IT departments taking...
[June 14, 2007, 14:38]
IBM Launches $1bn-a-year Green Initiative
News The other — carbon offsetting — is exemplified in an announcement made on Wednesday by the UK-based ISP Eclipse Internet that it has become carbon neutral. IBM is to launch a billion-dollar programme aimed at increasing energy efficiency in its...
[May 10, 2007, 14:34]
Green IT Strategies Stifled By Inertia
News Dell recently committed to making its worldwide operations carbon neutral. While two-thirds said their organisation has a board-level executive responsible for energy and the environment, only 45 percent of businesses have a programme in place to...
[September 28, 2007, 9:24]
Top Banks Use Tech To Boost Green Credentials
News According to Williams, HSBC became the world's first carbon-neutral bank in October 2005 and has opened its own 150-megawatts wind farm in Wales. There is also the use of what Saxe called "collaborative technologies", such as personal carbon...
[November 5, 2007, 11:59]
Researchers Move Toward Plastic Chips
News The challenge: The weak electrostatic attractions that bind the carbon-60 crystal lattice--known as van der Waals forces--will rapidly weaken even further as the carbon-60 molecules accept larger neutral molecules.
[October 12, 2001, 9:05]
Processing An Inconvenient Truth
Leader Via's carbon-neutral processor is an interesting idea, and one that is easy to dismiss as a PR stunt or "greenwash", as it is known in environmental circles. Buy Via, and you can compute with a clean conscience; after all, its C7-D processor is...
[September 14, 2006, 13:15]
Can Green IT Be Profitable For Dell?
News Dell explains his company's commitment to being carbon neutral, and his plan to build more energy-efficient desktop and server products. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, Dell chief executive Michael Dell talks to Gartner research...
[October 15, 2007, 12:10]
Outsourcing Giant Infosys Plans £154m Site
News Work is beginning on the first phase to build seating for 10,000 employees, and Infosys says the campus will be energy and water efficient to support its bid to be carbon neutral. Indian IT outsourcing giant Infosys is building a £154m campus in...
[August 12, 2008, 8:34]
Google To Make Clean Energy Cheaper Than Coal
News It expects to meet its goal of being carbon-neutral this year, executives said. Search giant Google on Tuesday pledged to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make renewable energy cheaper than coal.
[November 28, 2007, 7:33]
Easynet's Green Rally Cry
Blog The company also claims to be ‘carbon neutral’ which is an interesting assertion but one that seems unfathomably difficult to calculate. It’s a good job that the majority of our press releases arrive by email these days as if we were still back in...
[January 28, 2008, 14:42]
More Fun For Frequent Fliers
Blog Whether this means a cartoon hand appears from the belly of the plane clutching a rolled-up newspaper, the firing of explosive Guardian readers wrapped in Baco-foil and propelled by a carbon-neutral fuel, or the terminal confusion of guidance...
[January 18, 2007, 12:42]
