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Google: Search Produces 0.2 Grams Of C02

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has placed his company at the forefront of the energy debate, arguing that green IT can contribute to lowering overall carbon footprints

Intel May Face Billions In EU Fines

Intel has been charged with purposefully shutting AMD out of the market. If the EU fine of Intel is big enough, it could “send a message” to the business community

SEC Reveals Details Of Bidding War For Sun

An SEC affidavit filed by Sun Microsystems reveals the back story of how IBM, Hewlett-Packard and ultimate victor Oracle submitted competing bids as Sun dealt with the inevitability of a takeover

Fujitsu Unlocks The Cosmic Cube

What does the name of Fujitsu's new blade-based data centre system, the Dynamic Cube, actually mean? Forget the speeds and feeds - Peter Judge wants occult significance 

CA Pushes Mainframe Future

Mainframe vendors such as IBM and CA are aggressively pushing forward the mainframe as an alternative to more distributed environments

Gmail Suffers Two New Outages

Google's Gmail service reportedly failed at 11am this morning - but our evidence is there was an earlier failure with some emails not restored