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IT Consultant Extends Green Olympics Contract

Atos Origin has made much of its commitment to provide sustainable IT for the Olympics - a contract it will…

16 years ago

Blades, Storage Arrays To Get Efficiency Rating

Now that the first-tier specification for energy-efficient enterprise servers is completed, the US EPA is turning its focus to larger…

16 years ago

In The Euro Election, Vote For Free Software!

The open source movement wants to see government contracts open to proper competitive tendering. Let's see how that issue plays…

16 years ago

Carbon Reporting Model To Meet Future UK Laws

With the UK government about to impose mandatory carbon accounting, PwC has produced a reporting model which it says will…

16 years ago

Scotland Gets Europe’s Largest Wind Farm, and Smart Power Training

Engineers will take smart grids across Scotland thanks to a government backed Energy Academy

16 years ago

NHS Trust Leads Way With E-Patient Records Project

While the  £12.7 billion NHS upgrade scheme has yet to deliver,  one NHS Trust has gone ahead with its own…

16 years ago

IBM Solidly Behind SSD Servers

IBM is placing increased emphasis on the emerging solid-state server, storage, and software sector of the data centre

16 years ago

US Airforce Denies GPS Failure Reports

A US government report predicted that as old satellites begin to fail over the next few years, GPS coverage could…

16 years ago

Local Government Sets Green Computing Example

Local government is stealing a march on central government in its use of virtualisation to harness cost savings and power…

16 years ago

EC To Regulate State Aid For Next-Gen Broadband

Stimulus packages to build high-speed broadband must not fall foul of state aid rules, warned European commissioner Neelie Kroes

16 years ago

Storage Economics: When Data Meets Dough

If you think storage is cheap, you aren't doing your sums right. The big picture, with power, carbon, and legal…

16 years ago

Google Says No To Newspapers, Yes To Online News

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has said while his company is not interested in buying physical newspapers it could put…

16 years ago

Google Polishes Chrome Browser

Google has high hopes that Chrome's unique features will make it a suitable competitor to Microsoft Internet Explorer and other…

16 years ago

UK Government To Force IT Training At Suppliers

If you want government money, you'll have to show your IT  training plan, says skills secretary John Denham

16 years ago

Fault Tolerance (Re)Discovered

Fault tolerant virtualisation technologies can be hardware or software based but they don't necessarily offer the same level of protection…

16 years ago

Google Partners With US Utilities On PowerMeter

Google plans to expand the Google PowerMeter rollout later in 2009

16 years ago

Microsoft Previewing Kumo Search Engine

Microsoft, along with Yahoo, is in fierce competition with Google for market share in the U.S. core search arena

16 years ago

Intel And AMD Increase Core Count

Intel next week is expected to give details of its upcoming eight-core Nehalem EX processors, which will be aimed at…

16 years ago

Windows 7’s XP Mode Could Boost Linux and The Mac

Window 7's XP Mode will get users used to the idea of desktop virtualisation - and make it easier for…

16 years ago

Sustainable IT Holds Opportunities For The UK

Computing can affect the future of this planet, says the Cambridge professor of computing, Andy Hopper. And there are opportunities…

16 years ago

New Wireless LAN Product Hits “Underserved” SME Market

With maybe ten competitors U4EA isn't alone - but it maintains it's the cheapest WLAN in town

16 years ago

Cisco Wireless Launch Includes WebEx On the iPhone

Collaboration and UC on all devices - and a new wireless switch, as well

16 years ago

HP’s Results Lifted By EDS

HP officials say the company will continue to trim expenses and plans to cut another 2 percent of its work…

16 years ago

Dell Launches Low Power Via Server

With Via processors, Dell official say that the XS11-VX8 server will consume only 15 watts for power when the operating…

16 years ago

Thin Client Maker Launches £128 Device

Several government departments are backing thin client technology including the Met Office and the Department for Work and Pensions

16 years ago

Vodafone To Cut More Costs Amid Downturn

The company announced pre-tax profits down by over 50 percent due to the poor performance of some its European operations

16 years ago

Study Points To Environmental Impact of Data Universe

Researcher IDC and storage infrastructure provider EMC claim there is a cost to storing everything, and that's in people, power…

16 years ago

Secure Your Network from Kaminsky’s DNS Cache Poisoning Flaw

Multiple defenses offer the best protection against insidious security threats. Sandy Wilbourn explains what the Kaminsky DNS cache poisoning flaw…

16 years ago

Wolfram Alpha “Answer Engine” Challenges Google Search

New knowledge tool understands questions, instead of just searching, according to controversial inventor Stephen Wolfram

16 years ago