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The project aims to help businesses and homeowners reduce their energy consumption and costs through smart metering programs that let them monitor their power use and adjust their behavior accordingly
Creativity is vital to the green economy but some critics claim Europe needs to do more to encourage it
Only a third of companies are planning to invest in cloud tech in the near future but the majority have ear-marked cash for virtualisation
Google's other enterprise-friendly steps throughout 2009 have included Gmail offline functionality and full BlackBerry interoperability
The search engine's structured results are suggestive of a way that search could evolve in the future, and other search companies such as Google have been rolling out similar products for presenting search results
The recession is encouraging interest in ‘green' IT, virtual servers and desktops, the growth of cloud computing and the rise of the netbook.
There's a big buzz around the "new economy" of sustainable development. But is anyone actually sure that that means, asks Peter Judge: Growth, or no growth?
Educating the companies on what they can do to save money, and giving them the tools to do so, would go a long way in driving the adoption of energy-efficient products and methods
The deal would end more than seven months of negotiations between Sun and several interested suitors—including Oracle, IBM and HP—vying for Sun.
The Chinese government is requiring that all personal PCs shipped into the country must have software that blocks access to certain types of Websites, according to the Wall Street Journal
All it takes to get an efficient data centre is to apply well known technologies better, says Mike West - the man behind Europe's most efficient data centre
Oil explorers PGS get an efficient data centre. Is that so they burn less of the fuel they find?
More efficient data centres promised with APC products brought in line with the French giant's other offerings
Ports power off when idle, and reduce power on short cable lengths
The IT provider claims companies want to do more with less while Dell has announced its support for a rainforest charity on World Environment Day
It is feature-rich and easy to use - but does Apple's Xserve get the full benefit out of its Nehalem processor?
HP is taking advantage of World Environment Day to make its argument that it is more cost-effective and environmentally responsible to move off the massive mainframe systems and onto HP's Itanium-based and x86 server platforms
Google finds itself adding more features to its lineup in the face of increased search competition from companies such as Microsoft, which recently released its own new search engine, Bing
Chambers pointed to Cisco's purchase of the company that made the Flip video as a key advantage for Cisco as it moves into a more video-based future, where he said video will soon account for 90 percent of all network traffic
The deal will help Intel expand deeper into such areas as embedded systems, mobile devices such as smartphones and consumer electronics
Use green IT, virtualisation and the cloud to prepare for future growth, says analyst firm
Businesses need better data about corporate social responsibility, says an IBM study
Power To Change initiative aims to encourage users to turn off PCs at night
Eventually branch offices will be served by a cloud computing environment, but that probably won't start coming until 2010, Forrester said
Microsoft is betting that Windows 7 and Windows 2008 RC2 server will be the substantial hits it needs to reverse its fortunes in a slumping economy
New ProCurve device does all your networking from inside a wall socket
Ellison said the new Oracle will consider building Java-powered netbooks and phones
The Cassatt deal will add to CA's Lean IT initiative and give it more expertise in data center infrastructure management and automation
Windows XP mode will be a major selling point for Windows 7- and it's the single feature that will make most companies jump at the chance to have Windows 7, says Don Reisinger.
AMD's Istanbul gets encouraging nods from all the right people