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Huawei Announces ‘Beyond LTE’ 30Gbps Tech
Beyond LTE will be up to 20 times faster than current 4G technology
Foxconn Criticisms Still Hold – Despite The Lies
Apple critic Mike Daisey made things up, but iPad manufacturer Foxconn still has a case to answer, says Peter Judge
Free Apps Drain Smartphone Batteries
Ads in free apps can eat up to 75 percent of battery power
Google Data Centre Cooled By Bathtub Water
At its Georgia data centre Google is using recycled water from toilets and bathtubs to cut down on cooling costs
Memset Improves VM Energy Efficiency ‘Faster Than Moore’s...
UK cloud provider more than doubles energy efficiency in two years
Laser Unprinter Vaporises Toner From Printed Pages
In an novel way to reuse paper, engineers have developed a process to remove toner from a printed page
IBM Issues Birmingham With Smarter Cities Grant
IBM has named 33 cities around the world that will receive its Smarter Cities Challenge grants in 2012
Data Centres Hit Capacity Crunch, But Efficiency Is Ignored
Despite a lack of capacity and power, data centre owners are ignoring efficiency measures, says a survey
UK Smart Meter Adoption Expected To Grow 15 Times By 2015
UK and Germany currently lagging behind in European smart meter penetration according to IMS Research for Sentec
Computer Aid Ships 200,000th PC To Developing World
Charity shifts focus from recycling to empowerment through third world projects
ARM Launches ‘Most Energy-Efficient’ Microprocessor Design
British chnip maker ARM says it has the most efficient 32-bit chip ever
Green Grid Updates Cooling Maps With New ASHRAE Classes
The Green Grid has updated its free data centre cooling maps to allow managers to take advantage of free air-cooling
IBM’s Holey Optochip Achieves One Terabit Per Second
Prototype optical chip transfers 1Tbps, and the secret's in the holes, says IBM
CeBIT 2012: Iceotope Claims Huge Data Centre Savings With Liquid...
Using liquid instead of air can cut cooling by 97 percent, Iceotope believes
Liquid Cooling – It All Comes Flooding Back
A couple of years back, we heard that servers would be going to liquid cooling,. The idea seems to be resurfacing, says Peter Judge
Xeon E5 Servers Cut Energy And Eat Big Data: In Pictures
Major server vendors unveil more energy efficient Xeon E5 servers in London
Toshiba’s Secure, Energy-Efficient Laptops Tap IBM Software
At the IBM Pulse 2012 conference, Toshiba announced Tivoli endpoint management is embedded in its latest business PCs
Intel Rolls Out Energy-Efficient Xeon E5 Chips For Cloud And Big Data
IBM, Dell, HP, Hitachi unveil Intel’s Xeon servers offering 80 percent more performance and 50 percent better energy efficiency
New Cloud Jobs Are Just Vapour
Resarch from IDC and Microsoft claims that the cloud will create 14 million jobs. Clive Longbottom does not agree
Unmanageable Windows Tablets Do Not Change Anything
Microsoft may have missed a manageability trick with its low-power tablets but it is still ARMed and dangerous, argues Eric Doyle
Infinity To Open Data Centre In Stockley Park
Company says getting more data centres within the M25 is a matter of finding the power
IBM Tackles e-Waste With Chinese Server Facility
IBM has opened its first server refurbishing facility in China in an effort to tackle the growing problem of e-waste
Why We Can’t Laugh At Microsoft’s Misery
Through a probably trivial date error, Microsoft's Azure has screwed things up for all the other cloud providers, says Peter Judge
Rising Server Maker SeaMicro Acquired By AMD
AMD has bought rising star SeaMicro for its low-power-consumption, small footprint microservers for private or hybrid cloud systems
Report Praises Green Credentials Of eBay’s Arizona Data Centre
Data centre achieves "new levels of energy efficiency", according to a study by the Green Grid
Hotter Data Centres Need To Find Tougher Kit
Hotter data centres waste less energy but we need vendors to support higher temperature tolerance in their hardware, says Peter Judge
SIG Lab Wants To Make Software More Energy Efficient
Laboratory's research could make every computer a little bit “greener”
Oracle Exalytics Exits Experimental Stage
Oracle's in-memory Big Data analytics appliance, Exalytics, has now moved out of the testing stage to reach GA status
Dell Launches Hot Servers And Upgrades Networking
Hot-running Xeon E5 servers and Gigabit Ethernet are top news in Dell's "Spring Collection"