Green-IT

Are You Plugged Into USB? Quiz Of The Week

As seen in memory sticks and the George Forman USB grill, our quiz celebrates the supreme connector!

12 years ago

Smart Dutch Rubbish Bins Tell Council When They Are Full

The clever M2M-enabled devices save time, money and improve carbon footprint

12 years ago

The WEEE Directive Is Great! Oh, Wait, What Is It Again?

Readers like the EU's waste-reducing WEEE Directive, says Peter Judge. But they don't know what it is

12 years ago

AMD Targets Big Data With SeaMicro Low Power Server

AMD has launched a new low power server thanks to its SeaMicro acquisition, as it looks to ramp up its…

12 years ago

Intel’s Haswell Ultrabook specifications revealed

Haswell ultrabooks - due next year - will make up for the shortcomings of this year's models

12 years ago

Nokia Lumia 920 To Spark A Surge In Wireless Charging

Analysis: the Nokia Lumia 920 could spark a surge in wireless charging, thinks Michelle Maisto

12 years ago

HP And Intel Team Up For Energy-Efficient Supercomputer

HP and Intel are using Xeon processors and ProLiant servers to build an energy-efficient supercomputer system

12 years ago

If We Cool Our Data Centres With Liquid, What Do We Do Next?

Well done Intel for getting a PUE of 1.02, says Peter Judge. Now let's look beyond the PUE measurement for…

12 years ago

Liquid Cooling For Data Centre Servers Passes Intel Tests

Dunking servers in oil doesn't hurt them, Intel says

12 years ago

Samsung Demands Improvements At Chinese Factory

Samsung's audit at HEG Electronics found no under-age workers, but discovered other dangerous practices,

12 years ago

Bristol Scientists Promise Commercial Quantum Computing Chips

Nokia and Toshiba to build photon chips based on Bristol breakthrough

12 years ago

SAS Plans Savvy SaaS Splash for Big Data

SAS is getting SaaSier says UK director Mark Wilkinson

12 years ago

Solving E-Waste Will Take More Than A New WEEE Directive

Other rules have to change if we are going to re-use and recycle our e-waste properly, says Peter Judge

12 years ago

Sony Optical Drive Division Set To Close As Restructuring Continues

With Apple dumping DVD drives , sony is shutting its optical shop

12 years ago

IBM Upgrades zEnterprise Cloud Mainframe

IBM has launched a new and more powerful zEnterprise mainframe system, boasting enhanced cloud security

12 years ago

Rackspace Expands Cloud Email With Mailgun Acquisition

Rackspace has boosted its portfolio of cloud-based email services and applications with the acquistion of Mailgun

12 years ago

Poll: Do You Think WEEE Rules Are Rubbish?

Are WEEE rules overbearing - or not strict enough?

12 years ago

VMworld: VMware Launches vCloud Suite And Cloud Ops Forum

New suite for virtual data centres and a cloud promotion package launch at VMworld

12 years ago

Is Liquid Air Energy Storage The Key To Making Data Centres Green?

Cylinders of liquid air could back-up your data centre and make the grid smarter, says Peter Judge

12 years ago

Inside the Facebook Green Data Centre: Pictures

Facebook's data centre in Oregon is an energy efficiency leader. We took a look inside

12 years ago

Coraid Announces EtherCloud Data Centre Storage Solution

Ethernet and clever code as an alternative to “big iron” storage

12 years ago

Google Releases Street View Images Of New Orleans Reconstruction

Google has updated its Street View images of New Orleans portraying the city's efforts to rebuild seven years after Hurricane…

12 years ago

Toshiba Cancels Windows RT Tablets

Microsoft's Surface dis-ARMs another partner

12 years ago

Move Over PUE – Here Comes FVER!

PUE is a good data centre efficiency measure, but Peter Hopton thinks FVER might go one better

12 years ago

Updated WEEE Directive Sets Ambitious Recycling Targets

The EU wants to collect around ten million tons of European e-waste by 2020

12 years ago

Facebook Carbon Footprint Data Shared For First Time Ever

Zuckerberg and Co open up on environmental footprint of the social network

12 years ago

Five Injured In Gas Leak At Chinese Apple Supplier

Five injured in Chinese factory gas leak, one possibly dead

12 years ago

Government Announces Candiates For Future Cities Funding

Thirty city and borough councils apply for the £24 million future cities funding

12 years ago