Central Government money could get a quick payback and help meet carbon targets projects by overhauling local IT, says SOCITM

Central Government money could get a quick payback and help meet carbon targets projects by overhauling local IT, says SOCITM
The US Department of Energy is ready to spend $3.9 billion (£2.4bn) on efforts to modernise the U.S. electric grid
Microsoft plans price cuts, free upgrades and other incentives to spread Windows 7 to as many users as possible once the operating system becomes available to the public in October
Many companies are not able to deploy separate backup data centre locations to provide the complete data-recovery system, relying instead on failover to separate storage arrays and servers within the same physical building
A SurePayroll survey finds businesses are losing up to $10,000 (£6065) for every bad hire--and a wide pool of desperate applicants and hurried hiring practices compound the problem
The tech giant has been outlining its vision for making cities more energy efficient at a conference in Berlin
Plans for the Cyber Command come a month after President Obama declared cyber-security a "national security priority" in a speech
Dell officials are announcing that two of its PowerEdge server platforms, the R610 and R710, now meet the requirements needed for the EPA's Energy Star programme for servers, which was instituted in May
The most recent example: San Francisco-based IT services provider BEAR Data Systems, has revealed that its hardware and virtualisation tools are enabling clients to achieve energy savings of 30 percent or more
Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have saved his life with a liver transplant, but questions about his medical leave could continue to dog his company, even after a highly successful June that saw the rollout of the iPhone 3G S.
An IDC analyst says that interest in the mobile data centres is high, but the global recession is holding down demand
Companies need the freedom to get at their data, to choose hosted or in-house options and more. All this can be found amongst open source solutions - but choose carefully, says Jason Brooks
EnerNOC expects to use carbon accounting firm eQuilibrium to establish a lead role when companies have to meet greenhouse gas reporting rules
Tesco and others are using outsourcing and new IT to break further into the UK banking sector
While the economy has forced substantial cost-cutting, investment in areas such as virtualisation and cloud computing will increase
In the environmentally conscious section of enterprise IT, there are two camps: the true green-bleeding companies who innovate, and the so-called "greenwashers."
HP is offering new consulting services designed to help enterprises develop and implement a cloud computing strategy
Microsoft's paid clicks increased by around 15 percent in the first two weeks of Bing's release, Efficient Frontier says
Stolen laptops had unencrypted personal data - and Manchester City Council's response may not be enough
But the organisation says it won't ban the download of important data onto mobile devices but ensure that only "essential data" is allowed to be copied.
Open information and sustainable infrastructure go hand in hand according to Wikimedia and EvoSwitch
Apple sold 1 million iPhone 3G S smartphones in three days, doubling analyst estimates
According to Gartner, some of the growth was due to increased demand for appliance-based products
BigMachines is the latest company to help streamline enterprise processes such as quote-generation and complex pricing management through the use of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform
Moka5 officials say they have found a way to make desktop virtualisation work for both the business and the end user
The massively parallel Cray XT5 supercomputer is now capable of delivering a sustained data transfer rate of 20 GB/s for its open-source Lustre file system
The future for Java is an unknown, says its creator James Gosling. But at least Sun Microsystems is owned by a software company - albeit one with a "colourful" reputation
Nine out ten companies say they have no plans to cut back on their IT headcount despite making redundancies in other areas
Around €14 million has been earmarked to improve online services across several European countries
China has begun blocking Chinese-language search engine results deemed pornographic and is calling on Google to do more to combat explicit content