Innovation

BT, BBC and Microsoft In Cambridge White Space Trial

Cambridge will test whether "white space" radio systems can communicate and solve Britain's broadband crisis

13 years ago

Industry Suffers As Apple Grabs Polymer Batteries

Greedy Apple has charged out to buy up lithium-ion polymer batteries, leaving its rivals hungry for power

13 years ago

Researchers Propose Energy Generation From Typing

Typing on the keyboard of a laptop or smartphone could power it, boffins have said

13 years ago

Unix Servers Growing As Mainstay Of Data Centres

Unix systems continue to be a cornerstone in enterprise data centres, despite soaring sales of x86 servers

13 years ago

Google Throws Extra £64m Into Wind Energy Project

Google's renewable energy commitment continues after it added more money for a wind project

13 years ago

AWS Virtual Machines Deployed With Security Holes

Researchers found security holes in VMs created on Amazon Web Services but Amazon is not at fault

13 years ago

Quarter Of Government Departments Shun The Cloud

Despite UK government commitments to the G-Cloud, 6 out of 25 departments have no cloud prospects

13 years ago

Jobs’ Apple Doughnut Has Green Aspirations

Apple’s next headquarters may look like a fattening doughnut but it will be lean and green, Steve Jobs maintains

13 years ago

Airlines Replace Pilots’ Flight Bags With Greener iPads

Two airlines, Alaska and American, are saving on paper and fuel consumption by using iPads in the cockpit

13 years ago

Is Greenpeace’s War On ‘Dirty Data’ A Just One?

Greenpeace is putting pressure on companies to improve their data centre practices, but ultimately the industry will have to find…

13 years ago

Does HPC Belong In The Cloud?

The cloud makes high performance computing more widely available - but introduces several problems of its own, says John Hengeveld

13 years ago

Orange Unveils Mobile Charging Festival T-Shirt

Orange is offering an innovative charging solution that uses sound waves to power your mobile phone

13 years ago

Intel Promises Exascale Supercomputing By 2020

Intel aims for 'exaflop' performance by the end of this decade, enabling more industries to access supercomputing

13 years ago

Mobile Phone Users Dismiss Cancer Link Claims

The vast majority of mobile phone users will not adjust their phone habits after the recent cancer warning

13 years ago

Power Saving Promise Brings JouleX $17m Investment

Joulex has just received a $17 million injection to fund the promotion of data centre energy monitoring software

13 years ago

Will White Space Radio Be Green?

Smart Grids won't happen without cheap ubiquitous networking. White space technologies could deliver that, says Peter Judge

13 years ago

NHS Researchers Lose Laptop With 8m Patient Records

Researchers for London Health Programmes have lost unencrypted records of 8.63 million NHS patients

13 years ago

AWS Uses Low-Density Containers To Cut Cooling

Amazon Web Services says its data centre custom containers are cost-effective, greener building blocks

13 years ago

Google Continues Green Push With £171m Solar Fund

Google has set aside a £171m fund for a solar panel provider in yet another green investment

13 years ago

US Plans Investment In Building Secure Smart Grid

The White House announced a smart grid proposal, as a PwC report underscored threats facing utility firms

13 years ago

Neul Launches ‘Weightless’ White Space Network

Start-up Neul aims to create the 'Internet of everything' with low-cost signalling in left-over TV spectrum

13 years ago

London 999 Computer System Hit By Outage

London Ambulance Service staff were forced to revert to pen and paper, following the failure of a 999 system

13 years ago

Lulzsec Hackers Warn NHS Over Security

The hacker group Lulzsec has fired a warning shot across the bows of the NHS over its network security

13 years ago

How Green Is Apple’s iCloud?

Apple's iCloud will boost adoption of cloud computing - but questions remain about the energy efficiency of the project, says…

13 years ago

Green Google’s Sea Change In Data Centre Design

A Finnish data centre will use seawater to cool Google's servers and wind power to supply the electricity

13 years ago

SuVolta Touts Energy-Efficient Chips

A startup has promised to cut chip power consumption in half, an important asset for the mobile sector

13 years ago

IBM: 100 Years of Innovation

From mainframes to PCs, from software to operating systems, from open source to services - IBM has done it all

13 years ago

BCS: IT Workers Need More Green IT Skills

The British Computer Society is offering new certifications to provide training in green IT skills

13 years ago

Cloud Providers Fear G-Cloud Evaporation

The government needs to clarify its cloud strategy, amid confusion over the G-Cloud, says Cirrus Stratus

13 years ago