Innovation

LTE Power Consumption Triggers Battery Worry

LTE smartphones offer much faster mobile data access, but reports are also emerging of voracious power consumption

13 years ago

The Renewable Energy Behind Iceland’s Data Centre Bid: In Pictures

Its reliable sources of renewable energy make Iceland an ideal site for Cloud-based data centres. This month, TechWeekEurope visited the…

13 years ago

Iceland’s Thor Data Centre: In Pictures

Iceland's bid to be a cloud super-power is based on two data centres. We took a trip round the first…

13 years ago

Russian Silicon Valley Innovators Seek UK Collaboration

A delegation from the Skolkovo Foundation, the Russian equivalent of Silicon Valley, visited the UK seeking co-operation and investment, Max…

13 years ago

CSC Confirms 500 Jobs At Risk After NHS Project Cancellation

CSC has confirmed in a statement that 500 jobs are at risk following the botched NHS health care records system…

13 years ago

LTE Touted As Best Fit For Smart Grid Communications

LTE networks could offer the best solution to allow smart grids to communicate, claims a research firm

13 years ago

HP Readies Two Secured Thin Clients For Release

HP is preparing to launch two thin-client models designed for the security-conscious power user

13 years ago

Academics Develop Electronic Chequebook

Cheque payments could receive a new lease of life if banks adopt digital alternatives

13 years ago

Top UK Firms Pledge Support For Davey’s Green Agenda

Sony and Vodafone among 16 organisations to offer support to new Energy and Climate Change minister

13 years ago

CA Launches ecoDesktop Power Management Software

CA Technologies enters power management software market with ecoDesktop and adds update for ecoMeter

13 years ago

MWC 2012: ITU And Telefonica Announce Green ICT Hackathon

Application developing hackathon focuses on sustainable energy as part of UN's International Year of Sustainability Energy for All

13 years ago

Storage Breakthrough Claimed With Hot Disk Technology

Scientists are detailing a potential storage breakthrough that uses heat to magnetically record and store data

13 years ago

Verne Global’s Icelandic Data Centre: In Pictures

Cooled by the outside air and powered by renewable energy, the data centre in Verne's warehouse is made from modules

13 years ago

New Centre Bids To Establish Iceland As Data Hub

As Verne Global's Icelandic data centre goes live, Colt upgrades its partnership to include a Point of Presence

13 years ago

CRC Scheme Triggers Rise In Data Centre Energy Management

A survey suggests that the CRC legislation is responsible for an increase in data centre energy management policies

13 years ago

O2 Shuts Down Slough HQ In Olympic Trial

O2 says 3.000 of its staff will work from home, showcasing the economic and environmental benefits of flexible working

13 years ago

e-Waste: Liability Or Resource?

Electronic waste is a problem. But the solution could give gadgets a more human life cycle which conserves raw materials…

13 years ago

Google Topples Cisco To Top Greenpeace’s Cool IT Leaderboard

Google has dethroned Cisco in the environmental NGO's fifth edition of its environmental awareness, green leaderboard

13 years ago

Google ‘We Solve For X’ Targets The Big Technology Challenges

Google's "We Solve for X" initiative will enable some of the world's top thinkers to collaborate on worldwide challenges

13 years ago

IBM and Tulip Telecom Build Massive, Sustainable Data Centre In India

IBM has helped to create the largest and greenest data centre in India as a modular, stacked design for Tulip…

13 years ago

Semprius Sets Solar Panel Efficiency Record

Smaller, cheaper and making more electricity - Semprius claims a breakthrough in solar panels

13 years ago

Researchers Integrate Electronic Components Into Optical Fibre

Transatlantic team of scientists develop technique which could make communications technology faster, cheaper and more efficient

13 years ago

Britons Send 17m Gadgets Per Year To Landfills

O2 study finds that one in three UK adults dump devices rather than recycling them, raising environmental concerns

13 years ago

MPs Could Get Taxpayer-Funded iPads

MPs' iPads would pay for themselves in reduced paperwork and greater efficiency, a House of Commons committee has said

13 years ago

Battery Powered Clothing To Charge Mobile Devices

Scientists have touted a flexible battery that can be woven into clothing in order to power mobile devices

13 years ago

Scientists Achieve Advance Toward Graphene Transistor

Researchers at Manchester University have found a way of creating viable graphene transistors, without lowering the material's extraordinary conductivity

13 years ago

British Student To Release Bamboo Smartphone

The Android-powered ADzero is made from durable bamboo and is set to launch in the UK later this year

13 years ago

The Human Cost of Electronics Manufacturing in China

Apple is not just to blame for conditions at Foxconn. Other companies and even consumers are also culprits, says Wayne…

13 years ago

Cisco Live: In Pictures

Fast cars, pinball, and a distance record for 100 Gigabit Ethernet.. Cisco Live visitors know how to live

13 years ago

Better Tech Recycling Could Avoid Rare Metal Shortages

The tech industry is facing a new threat, not from restricted IT budgets but an increasing shortage of vital rare…

13 years ago