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Schemes to recycle cartridges are more about preventing users from refilling them than saving the environment, says Peter Judge. HP could do so much better if it harnessed its engineering talent
British IT managers can't be bothered to set an environmental policy, according to a survey from HP
Younger people are driving a change in attitude towards the use of mobile phones and their convergence in the workplace, a new survey has found.
Cisco is using its networking capabilities to help drive down power consumption in buildings
Sun has upgraded it VirtualBox virtualisation platform, to compete with virtualisation technology from VMware, Citrix and Microsoft
New guidance from the UK Government appears to show BT would be better off building its wind farms in China
Oracle's newest middleware technology platform takes advantage of virtualisation and includes new developer tools for easier application building
Despite squeezed budgets, green IT is changing tech buying behaviour and data centre structures.
A major new deployment of energy efficient thin client computers complements campus green-building design features as part of an environmental drive.
A new BladeFrame-based data centre infrastructure will allow the mobile phone retailer to cut costs and support new growth
Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu Linux project, has launched new professional services to help and support users building private clouds.
ICT professionals tend to view globalisation as an inevitable and positive force for change. But, asks Simon Perry, what sort of a world does it get us involved in?
After years of efforts, the world's largest phone makers have signed up to a European standard for a standard MicroUSB charger, that should cut e-waste
A report from research firm Infonetics predicts software-as-a-service (SaaS) is the future of managed network security.
Microsoft plans to roll out two new data centres in Dublin and Chicago in July, preparing for increased demand for cloud-based services such as Azure and Bing.
Head of automation and virtualisation software company, Parallels is betting big on the cloud. But Serguei Beloussov says operating system consolidation and standards will be key.
New online application beta aims to help US consumers track, understand and reduce home energy usage.
Sun Microsystems and RingCube are joining forces to offer Sun Ray users more options when deploying a desktop virtualisation environment.
Gartner's latest assessment of worldwide PC shipments expects the PC market to post positive growth in the fourth quarter, and little affected by Microsoft's Windows 7 release.
A new Conservative think tank report is calling for citizen-centric, open source IT development to put an end to wasteful, monolithic central government IT projects.
A Researcher at IBM has found an encryption method that lets you operate on data without decrypting it: good news for the cloud and spam filters
The PowerSensor technology could reduce energy usage by up to 50 percent, the company claims
Central Government money could get a quick payback and help meet carbon targets projects by overhauling local IT, says SOCITM
The US Department of Energy is ready to spend $3.9 billion (£2.4bn) on efforts to modernise the U.S. electric grid
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), designed to bring computers to developing nations, was criticised for using new hardware. Now it's available on a stick
The tech giant has been outlining its vision for making cities more energy efficient at a conference in Berlin
Dell officials are announcing that two of its PowerEdge server platforms, the R610 and R710, now meet the requirements needed for the EPA's Energy Star programme for servers, which was instituted in May
EnerNOC expects to use carbon accounting firm eQuilibrium to establish a lead role when companies have to meet greenhouse gas reporting rules
While the economy has forced substantial cost-cutting, investment in areas such as virtualisation and cloud computing will increase
In the environmentally conscious section of enterprise IT, there are two camps: the true green-bleeding companies who innovate, and the so-called "greenwashers."