Innovation

US Power Grid Hacked: Is The Smart Grid Safe?

Foreign spies placed malware on the US electricity grid. Where does this leave government security, and the Green Grid?

16 years ago

Enterprise Networks Can Cut Emissions, Too

From Energy Efficient Ethernet to a company's own supply network, there's a lot that networks can do to reduce a…

16 years ago

Thin Client Add-In Card Prolongs PC Life

Booting from an add-in card slims a PC down and gives it a new lease of life, says IGEL

16 years ago

HP Slaps Own Back For Green Progress

But environmental groups claim the company could do better

16 years ago

Salesforce.com Launches Free Mobile Service

Launched in London, and runs on iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices

16 years ago

CBI Urges UK To Back Smart Meters

But security concerns may force the government to take a slower approach

16 years ago

Sun Targets Growing Healthcare Sector

Creating a more efficient and secure way to exchange such medical information will lead to better patient treatment and improved…

16 years ago

Sun, Do You Have A Plan B?

As its deal with IBM evaporates, Sun needs a backup plan. Chris Preimesberger thinks there might be another deal on…

16 years ago

Microsoft: Digital Downloads Save Carbon and Costs

Downloading software can save nearly 90 percent of the carbon emissions associated with physical DVD distribution, the software maker claims

16 years ago

IBM’s Sun Acquisition Breaks Down

Sun Microsystems rejected IBM's $7 billion bid, according to reports - or is it a negotiation tactic?

16 years ago

Al Gore Pushes Green Benefits Of Smart Grids

Environmental leader and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore tells a wireless conference that the industry holds important keys to…

16 years ago

HP And Dell Admit To Toxic Tech Delays

Lenovo, HP, Dell and Lenovo have admitted they cannot remove BFRs and PVC from their products by the end of…

16 years ago

Cambridge University To Offer Cloud-Based HPC

The University of Cambridge is planning a commercial high performance computing cloud, driven partly by a successful move to meter…

16 years ago

Nokia Unveils Green Apps For Ovi Store

Nokia's Ovi Store is the company's big chance to compete against Apple App Store and RIM's new BlackBerry App World

16 years ago

Servers Can Be Both Eco and Logical, Claims Rackable

Is there room in the market for a specialist builder of data-centre servers? Rod Evans, the boss of Rackable Systems'…

16 years ago

Greenpeace Slams PC Makers Over Toxic PCs

Dell, Lenovo and HP are still using toxic BFRs and PVC, and won't honour a promise to phase them out…

16 years ago

Rackable CEO Explains SGI purchase

It's a tiny deal compared to the proposed IBM-Sun Merger, but Rackable will do well with SGI, says Mark Barrenechea

16 years ago

Earth Hour Fails To Slow Internet Usage

Internet usage continued to suck down power with no slowdown before, during and after Earth Hour

16 years ago

UK Start-Up Plans Pedal-Powered Green Data Centre

Financial services companies looking to cut IT costs could make use of pedal power

16 years ago

Legal & General Adopts Sustainable Printing Plan

The UK financial services company has cut its printers, faxes and other output devices from 150 to 50

16 years ago

Labs Verdict: Nehalem Boosts Virtualisation

Intel's Xeon 5500 processor includes a lot of improvements that will reduce server power demands and allow more virtualisation

16 years ago

Beware Of Nehalem’s Virtualisation Risk

Intel's new flagship can cut your data centre's power and space demands by packing more virtual machines in, but think…

16 years ago

Open Cloud Manifesto: Blighted From Birth?

Is the Open Coud Manifesto doomed even as it is officially announced? The top three cloud platforms have backed off,…

16 years ago

Open Cloud Manifesto – Open For Business

Critics say the IBM-backed Open Cloud Manifesto is a bid to use standards to slow down faster-moving competitors

16 years ago

Why Hackers And Regulations Cost The Earth

Security threats like Conficker, along with the regulations and measures to combat them, are a nightmarish waste of resources, says…

16 years ago

iPhone Could Manage Electric Car Efficiency

Google co-founders are two of the investors pumping money into Tesla Motors which could be monitored via an iPhone or…

16 years ago

Dell Plans To Replace Consultants With The Cloud

The direct model did away with the old way of buying PCs. Now it's time to apply cloud economics to…

16 years ago

Earth Hour Energy Use May Outweigh Savings

People blogging about Saturday's Earth Hour, and watching it on television, may use more power than is saved by switching…

16 years ago

Green is The Colour of Money, Too

Done properly, going green means lower costs, not higher, says Dave Cox, operations chief at Blue Coat and the man…

16 years ago

Can Dell Deliver The Full Monty?

Dell is wasting time with claims about server performance. The real story is the management tools it says can free…

16 years ago