Innovation

New 100W USB 3.0 Spec Can Charge Laptops

100W of USB could make your power brick obsolete

13 years ago

First Open Source Smart Meter Hacking Tool Released

The tool can be used to cause a blackout for the sake of security

13 years ago

Scientists Criticise End Of Climategate Hack Investigation

Email theft is unsolved, but global warming science is vindicated

13 years ago

BSA: Cloud Piracy Rife In Developing Countries

Many businesses in developing countries are sharing cloud service log-in credentials, potentially breaking the law, BSA says

13 years ago

Liquid Cooling Servers Can Be Easy

Liquid cooling in data centres has normally been difficult and costly. GRC's Christiaan Best reckons he can change all that

13 years ago

Scottish Power Launches Ipswich Smart Meter Trial

Ipswich gets 1000 smart meters, while the UK lags other countries

13 years ago

Apple Will Flunk EPEAT Tests, Predicts Recycling Group

Apple's green label will get peeled off, predicts recycler

13 years ago

Greenpeace Questions Apple’s Green Commitment

A Greenpeace report has raised questions about Apple's promise to use 100 percent renewable energy sources in its data centre…

13 years ago

Apple’s Macbooks Are Back On EPEAT Green Registry

Apple admits mistake and puts green label back on Macbooks

13 years ago

Google Maps Adds UK Cycling Directions

Don't go through the Hyde Park Corner underpass, warns Google Maps

13 years ago

Apple’s EPEAT Gaffe Shows Contempt For Users

Apple threw away its credibility with its environmental labels, says Peter Judge

13 years ago

4D Retrofits Green Cooling To Surrey Data Centre

Evaporative cooling will pay for itself in less than two years

13 years ago

San Francisco Bans Apple As Macs Lose Green Sticker

Apple loses greed cred - and government money

13 years ago

Apple Abandons EPEAT Environmental Labels

Future products won't be designed to meet environmental guidelines

13 years ago

AOL Makes Fridge-Sized Outdoor Micro Data Centre

AOL wants to break free of big data centre buildings

13 years ago

Green Taxi Firm Adds Free Wi-Fi To London Cabs

Greentomatocars serves up free Internet for passengers ahead of the Olympics

13 years ago

The Best Laid Disaster Recovery Plans Could Leave You On Your Own

In storm-tossed Washington, Wayne Rash's disaster recovery plan brought his data centre back to life - but there was no…

13 years ago

Remote Energy Management Centre Opens In Glasgow

Matrix opens the biggest Energy Management Centre in the UK

13 years ago

IBM Saves £27m In 2011 From Energy Scheme

IBM saved $43m in 2011 thanks to its energy-saving program, and is on track double this by the end of…

13 years ago

Google Says Fight Online Piracy By Following The Money

Google says advertisers and payment platforms help pirates do business

13 years ago

US Storms Take Down Amazon Web Services

Instagram and Netflix went offline as lightning took out Amazon's Web Services

13 years ago

France Telecom Pulls The Plug On Minitel

French precursor to world wide web is to be shut down this Saturday

13 years ago

HP Upgrades Thin Client Performance With Velocity

HP has revealed new software to improve the network performance of its Smart Zero Client thin clients

13 years ago

Carbon Emissions Reports: Clegg’s Gift From Rio

Nick Clegg's introduction of mandatory carbon reporting is not much, but at least something came out of the Rio Summit,…

13 years ago

Mandatory Carbon Emission Reports Boost Green Software

Every firm on the London Stock Exchange must include carbon emissions in its annual report, says Nick Clegg

13 years ago

Digital Realty Trust Buys Three Data Centres In London

London's data centre market continues to prove attractive after Digital Realty announced an acquisition that will give it three new…

13 years ago

Calxeda: ARM Beats Xeon In Efficiency Tests

Tests show ARM-based chips are 15 times more power-efficient than comparable Intel Xeon chips, according to Calxeda

13 years ago

Google Launches Endangered Language Effort

The Endangered Languages Project is designed to help preserve languages in danger of extinction as part of Google's mission to…

13 years ago

eBay Data Centre Extension To Use Renewable Fuel Cells

eBay's Utah facility will use biogas fuel cells as its primary power source

13 years ago