Booting from an add-in card slims a PC down and gives it a new lease of life, says IGEL
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Booting from an add-in card slims a PC down and gives it a new lease of life, says IGEL
But environmental groups claim the company could do better
Launched in London, and runs on iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices
But security concerns may force the government to take a slower approach
Creating a more efficient and secure way to exchange such medical information will lead to better patient treatment and improved public health, supporters say
As its deal with IBM evaporates, Sun needs a backup plan. Chris Preimesberger thinks there might be another deal on the table - from HP and Oracle, or maybe from Cisco
Downloading software can save nearly 90 percent of the carbon emissions associated with physical DVD distribution, the software maker claims
Sun Microsystems rejected IBM's $7 billion bid, according to reports - or is it a negotiation tactic?
Environmental leader and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore tells a wireless conference that the industry holds important keys to solving climate change.
Lenovo, HP, Dell and Lenovo have admitted they cannot remove BFRs and PVC from their products by the end of 2009, but promise to meet the commitment soon
The University of Cambridge is planning a commercial high performance computing cloud, driven partly by a successful move to meter electricity usage in its departments.
Nokia's Ovi Store is the company's big chance to compete against Apple App Store and RIM's new BlackBerry App World
Is there room in the market for a specialist builder of data-centre servers? Rod Evans, the boss of Rackable Systems' new European operation, clearly thinks so
Dell, Lenovo and HP are still using toxic BFRs and PVC, and won't honour a promise to phase them out this year, according to Greenpeace
It's a tiny deal compared to the proposed IBM-Sun Merger, but Rackable will do well with SGI, says Mark Barrenechea
Internet usage continued to suck down power with no slowdown before, during and after Earth Hour
Financial services companies looking to cut IT costs could make use of pedal power
The UK financial services company has cut its printers, faxes and other output devices from 150 to 50
Intel's Xeon 5500 processor includes a lot of improvements that will reduce server power demands and allow more virtualisation
Intel's new flagship can cut your data centre's power and space demands by packing more virtual machines in, but think before you put all your eggs in one basket, warns Cameron Sturdevant
Is the Open Coud Manifesto doomed even as it is officially announced? The top three cloud platforms have backed off, and the group faces stern criticism from the outsiders
Critics say the IBM-backed Open Cloud Manifesto is a bid to use standards to slow down faster-moving competitors
Security threats like Conficker, along with the regulations and measures to combat them, are a nightmarish waste of resources, says Peter Judge
Google co-founders are two of the investors pumping money into Tesla Motors which could be monitored via an iPhone or a laptop
The direct model did away with the old way of buying PCs. Now it's time to apply cloud economics to the data centre and slash the management costs, says Dell's Raj Kushwaha
People blogging about Saturday's Earth Hour, and watching it on television, may use more power than is saved by switching lights off for an hour - but it's a symbol, say organisers
Done properly, going green means lower costs, not higher, says Dave Cox, operations chief at Blue Coat and the man driving the company's BluePlanet eco-programme
Dell is wasting time with claims about server performance. The real story is the management tools it says can free users from the grasp of big consultancies
Dell's Nehalem server launch majored on power savings and system management, pitching a commodity console from Symantec against the might of IBM Tivoli
PC users in Britain are more likely than those in the US to switch off PCs for environmental reasons. But there is still a long way to go in reducing wasted power