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Article | 20/11/2010 Retailers Going Green, But Customers Remain Apathetic
You have to feel bad for most retailers: The global economy tanked in 2008, sales plummeted and many well-known chains went out of business. Today, sh...
Article | 19/11/2010 IBM tops Green500 list
While China can take pride in topping the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, IBM has been given another recognition: building the world...
Article | 9/11/2010 Microsoft claims cloud computing does cut carbon emissions
The thorny question of carbon emissions from cloud computing has raised its head again. There's been plenty of debate as to whether cloud computing is...
Article | 29/10/2010 Green gadget chargers go massive
Markets for advanced charging technologies (including solar-powered handsets, solar chargers, wireless power units, fuel-cell battery charging product...
Article | 28/10/2010 Chip giants investigate more power efficient chip design
A number of chip manufacturers and European research institutions have banded together to figure out how redesign microprocessors so that they consume...
Article | 26/10/2010 Top 12 Green-IT vendors 2010
Technology vendors and data center suppliers were also invited to participate in Computerworld's search for the Top Green-IT Organizations. These comp...
Article | 16/10/2010 Facebook and eBay share energy tips for data centers
Facebook and eBay shared some tips this week for improving efficiency and cutting energy bills in data centers.
Article | 15/10/2010 Panasonic goes green
That "green" is the buzzword for all kinds of companies and organisations is not surprising but that a conglomerate like Panasonic is going all-out in...
Article | 14/10/2010 Ice balls help data center go green
Green isn't usually the first color that comes to mind when one visits the hot, dry desert climate of Phoenix, where temperatures recently topped 109 ...
Article | 13/10/2010 Green IT: A critical industry practice
Green IT is still at its early stage of development in the industry worldwide. Nonetheless, it is an essential domain for businesses not only to boost...
Article | 13/10/2010 Capgemini opens Merlin data center in UK with PUE of 1.1
Capgemini opened the doors on a new data center near London on Tuesday that it sees as a showcase for green design.
Article | 13/10/2010 Cash-in on old IT equipment
Some organizations can earn a profit, or at least reduce the amount they have to pay to dispose of IT equipment, by allowing providers of IT disposal ...
Article | 13/10/2010 Recycling IT assets is serious business
Information technology departments that practice asset management are learning to master the art of retiring hardware at the right time. But making th...
Article | 13/10/2010 Google invests in wind farm transmission project
Google is continuing to back green energy projects, this time investing in the construction of a backbone that will carry energy produced by wind turb...
Article | 1/10/2010 Icelandic company claims 100% carbon neutral storage
Icelandic hosting company GreenQloud has launched what it claims is the world's first carbon-neutral cloud service. The company has teamed up with obj...