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Analogue switch-off as early as 2006
News The analogue switch-off could happen as early as 2006, Culture Secretary Chris Smith said Friday. Setting out his vision for the future of digital television, Mr Smith told a conference of broadcasters in Cambridge the switch-off could happen...
[September 17, 1999, 17:03]
Companies urged to switch PCs off
News Companies should encourage employees to switch off PCs at night or continue wasting thousands of pounds a year, according to research by Fujitsu Siemens surveyed 1000 employees, and found that some 370 never turned off their computers before...
[October 24, 2005, 14:30]
You can't switch a server off....
Talkback You can't switch a server off, and yet we're told that not even "stand-by" mode is good enough for our current electrical appliances. So looking forwards, how much electricity would a one terabyte disk server consume?
[January 8, 2007, 14:26]
Companies urged to switch PCs off
Talkback Any small business heating installation consumes 1000x more power than a PC. Any PC left on simply warms the building and saves the boilers doing that small amount of work. What's really needed is building insulation!
[October 24, 2005, 21:26]
BBC must switch on to PC switch off
Blog Comment Yep - I guess more efficient hardware makes sense - but then most of the carbon footprint of a PC is incurred during the manufacturing process, so the physical act of buying a new machine means that you are inheriting a carbon debt before you even...
[September 7, 2008, 22:36]
BBC must switch on to PC switch off
Blog Comment Surely.if the BBC are running old 2000 rigs, then they could be replaced with todays laptops (bit by bit I would imagine) and be left with plenty of slack on the power side of things as well as new found speed and fast boot ups from sleep mode.
[September 7, 2008, 23:27]
Companies urged to switch PCs off
Talkback Stupid. In winter time it is normal to heat the premices. The hear generated by the computers is to be substracted from the heat system output.
[February 22, 2006, 16:01]
Companies urged to switch PCs off
Talkback What we can do right now: turn off monitor when not using it, turn off PC at night, disconnect it from oullet, use programs like CPUIdle (drastically reduces CPU power consumption). To produce 1 kW of electricity power plant emits 2.5 pounds of CO2.
[February 20, 2006, 19:27]
BBC must switch on to PC switch off
Blog Comment whoever told you to use an infrared camera to see what devices were left on should leave the infrared business. You can find energy loss such and heat and cold as well as potential moisture intrusion issues on the roof at night with IR but you will...
[July 13, 2009, 5:25]
Philips adds 'off switch' to RFID tags
News In response to privacy concerns over the use of radio frequency identity (RFID) technology, Philips will include a "kill command" in its chips Christoph Duverne, vice president of marketing and sales at Philips Semiconductors' Identification group...
[May 6, 2003, 10:31]
Companies urged to switch PCs off
Talkback The only possible benefit to it is administrators can run updates/virus scans running overnight. I find computers left on overnight for no reason disgusting. They could at LEAST run SETI@home or another disributed application.
[October 25, 2005, 16:14]
Companies urged to switch PCs off
Talkback Is it really so that Elliot Morley so incompetent not understanding that computer cannot produce CO2 if it is not burning or breathing? May be Environement ministry computers work with alcohol?
[November 5, 2005, 12:32]
BBC must switch on to PC switch off
Blog Comment My goodness, that was an eye opener for sure! The last firm that I did some work for had laptops lying around not being used, and the firm before that one. What a ridiculous situation! I think machines are good enough now to be in use for years and...
[September 8, 2008, 15:08]
Companies urged to switch PCs off
Talkback Don't agree with Steve. A sink can be filled by a dripping tap. Pennies make pounds. There is an urgent need to be energy conscious. In any case, his logic does not consider offices which require air conditioning to take away heat from lights...
[October 25, 2005, 12:26]
Philips adds 'off switch' to RFID tags
Talkback It has been two years so what happen to Philip's' RFID kill command? Ill tell you. It is like everything else these manufactures or saying. All it was and is a smoke cloud from their smoking gun. The only news of a kill command I have hear from is...
[April 13, 2005, 15:43]
Workstation makers switch off hyper-threading
News Hewlett-Packard and Dell, among other workstation manufacturers, have been shipping their systems with the function turned off, according to company representatives. As a result, the function is turned off in the company's X4000 workstation.
[October 31, 2002, 8:12]
BBC must switch on to PC switch off
Blog However it seems that Beeb employees are especially bad when it comes to switching off PCs and other equipment - many of them have a TV and a radio on their desk. The Beeb has made efforts to get people to turn off PCs and my friend claims that...
[September 7, 2008, 22:43]
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Downloads Features: switch light mode from normal to night switch radio on or off switch blinking of LED perform a soft reset shedule the switch off the phone get more info about your device to be continued.
[March 12, 2008, 7:00]
Government to offer free digital TV
News The government is to give away access to digital TV, the Internet, shopping and email in preparation for the analogue switch off and universal Internet access. Free conversions to digital TV will be seen by many as an admittance from the government...
[April 18, 2001, 6:14]
Kai's Contact Manager
Downloads You can all 49 outlook fields switch on/off. Include your personal pictures for every person.Based on original outlook data Filtering privat or business All fields editable in the grid View/Switch on/off your personally fields Include your...
[March 16, 2003, 7:00]
