Innovation

Nanoscale Wiring Technology May Open Doors To Quantum Computing

New microscopic wires could help microchips to keep shrinking and have applications in quantum computing

13 years ago

Thor Icelandic Data Centre Sold To Service Provider

Iceland's Skyrr takes on the Thor containerised data centre and will sell its services worldwide

13 years ago

Brits Waste £134m A Year By Not Unplugging Chargers

The average UK household could save £60 a year by unplugging laptops and phones

13 years ago

Businesses Overlook Power Management Cost Savings

Businesses are not taking advantage of the potential cost savings associated with built-in power-saving technologies

13 years ago

Greenpeace And Facebook Decide To Friend One Another

Eco-warriors and social networkers decide to Like one another by joining forces to encourage green data centres

13 years ago

Nokia Solar Energy Test Produces Disappointing Results

Nokia admits that solar panel ona phone's phone back cover need a lot of sun to power a phone

13 years ago

Physical Infrastructure Still A Power Play In Virtualised Worlds

Virtualisation and cloud computing continue to grow but Panduit’s David Palmer-Stevens stresses the importance of the underpinning physical infrastructure

13 years ago

Push To Allow NHS Patients To See Medical Records Online

New proposals from the influential NHS Future Forum could allow patients to view their medical records online by 2015

13 years ago

CSC Warns Of Huge Write-down Over Botched NHS Project

CSC has admitted it may have to write off the entire value of its investment in the NHS NPfIT system…

13 years ago

Green Data Centres Hold The Keys To Better Management

Green data centres and technologies offer a good ROI for IT departments looking to cut costs and complex infrastructures, says…

13 years ago

Schneider Electric Buys Viridity To Increase Power Management Offerings

With Viridity, Schneider Electric is the latest UPS hardware maker to add power management to its product portfolio

13 years ago

Thinfilm Teams With Xerox PARC For Printed Memory Device

The Palo Alto Research Center has teamed up with Thinfilm to develop non-volatile memory on plastic sheets

13 years ago

Self-Healing Electronics Breakthrough Promises Device Longevity

US researchers have created a 'self-healing' circuit board, a development that could have big implications for space travel

13 years ago

IBM’s Top 5 Innovations Will Change Your Life Within 5 Years

The 2011 predictions cover green power, mind-reading machines, desirable junk mail, DNA passwords, and digital profusion

13 years ago

WindData Plans Wind-Powered Data Centre In Texas

New wind power venture claims to offer long-term cheap power to businesses

13 years ago

Healthy EU And US Data Protection For Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft says its Office 365 cloud platform now conforms to European Union and HIPAA privacy regulations

13 years ago

EIA Calls For Elimination Of Harmful Air Con Gas

The EIA has called for the “global elimination” of HFCs, commonly used in data centre cooling systems

13 years ago

The Cloud And The Client: Apple’s Green Dilemma

Apple could find itself attacked simultaneously for wasting energy at the client, and burning coal-fired power in its iCloud data…

13 years ago

Trane And GE Add Fine Adjuster For DC Savings

Tracer XT is designed to unify control of data centre environments to optimise power use and reduce costs

13 years ago

40 Percent Of UK Businesses Lack Green IT Policies

Organisations are put off by the time and effort needed for Green IT measures, a survey finds

13 years ago

Lighting Tweaks Could Save Businesses £700m

Carbon Trust finds firms could save up to £700m a year and cut carbon emissions with efficient lighting

13 years ago

Quantum Dots Pave Way For Flexible Displays

A UK firm is helping manufacturers to make flexible TVs and wall-sized screens using quantum dots

13 years ago

Government Pledges £30m For Green IT Projects

Government assists two schemes aimed at increasing the use of renewable energy in the public sector

13 years ago

UN Calls For More ICT To Fight Climate Change

The UN's technology body has highlighted how Ghana is mitigating global warming effects through ICT

13 years ago

IBM Creates Cloud App For Drugs Research

IBM's new cloud analytics platform helps researchers extract data from patents and scientific journals

13 years ago

Fujitsu And SuVolta To Cut Chip Power Consumption

SuVolta and Fujitsu plan to use PowerShrink CMOS technology to cut energy use with no performance loss

13 years ago

Can Solar Power Be More Than Window Dressing?

Solar power has been only capable of producing a small part of data centre energy needs, but this may change,…

13 years ago

Multiple Device Uptake Makes Cloud Attractive

Survey reveals use of multiple devices, acceleration of business and cost are main incentives of cloud

13 years ago

Microsoft Launches Green ‘Eye On Earth’ Cloud

Microsoft, Esri and the EEA's Eye on Earth service will enable Europeans to share climate data in the cloud

13 years ago

Apple Risks Greenpeace Ire With Oregon Data Centre

Apple is considering a data centre in Prineville Oregon, near to Facebook, a move sure to anger Greenpeace

13 years ago