Innovation

NASA Plants Sustainability Base On Planet Earth

NASA's new office in San Jose is said to be the US government's most sustainable building

13 years ago

Green Consortium Wins ‘Open Platform’ Funding

A consortium that includes IBM and academics is developing a platform to exchange climate change data

13 years ago

University Building Human Brain Model

The university of Manchester is working on a model of the human brain based on one million ARM processors

13 years ago

The Fight For Server Efficiency Is Not In The Cloud

Campaigns against energy waste in the data centres may not be looking deeply enough, or in the right place, says…

13 years ago

Forrester: The Cloud Is Inherently Green

The cloud is inherently green, but cloud service providers need to broaden the scope of their green credentials

13 years ago

Government Keeps Simpler Green CRC Tax

The CRC green tax remains, but adjustments have been made, and there is still room for consultation

13 years ago

Gartner: Tsunami Failed To Dampen IT Sales

Despite the Japanese disasters, Gartner estimates global IT spending will jump to $3.7 trillion this year

13 years ago

ICO Warns NHS Over Ongoing Data Breaches

The ICO has censured five NHS organisations for data breaches and said it must do more to protect data

13 years ago

Microsoft’s Hohm Green-IT Initiative Withers

Microsoft is closing its Hohm energy-consumption initiative in May and Google is retiring PowerMeter

13 years ago

Proton Urges Data Centres To Consider Fuel Cells

Carbon-conscious data centre managers should examine hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to diesel backup, says Thomas Melczer

13 years ago

IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer Grabs Green Title

IBM’s Blue Gene/Q has topped the Green500 list as the most energy-efficient supercomputer

13 years ago

IBM Scientists Claim Phase-Change Memory Breakthrough

IBM boffins have developed a new memory technology said to be cheaper and faster than Flash

13 years ago

Greenpeace Makes Peace With Data Centres

Data centre operators should be more open about their energy use, according to Greenpeace

13 years ago

British Server Cabinet Maker Kell Joins APC

A British provider of innovative soundproof server cabinets for offices has become part of APC

13 years ago

AMD Chips To Offer Power-Capping Technology

Opteron chips with the "Bulldozer" core will allow power reduction without impacting performance

13 years ago

UK Smart Grid Security ‘Too Fragmented’: Study

A new study has urged the government to take a more joined-up approach to security smart grids

13 years ago

Russians Play Farmville For Real

Russia's i-Ogorod service will let users remotely grow real flowers and vegetables

13 years ago

Porous Aluminium Could Boost Battery Life

Aluminium Celmet, developed in Japan, could make rechargeable batteries last three times longer

13 years ago

Data Centres – Watch Japan’s Energy Crisis

Japan's energy crisis is bringing about changes to data centres. The same thing will have to happen here, says Peter…

13 years ago

White Space Radio Trial Checks Nuts And Bolts

The Cambridge test is not designed to convince Ofcom, but to check the practicality of white space radio, says Glenn…

13 years ago

BT, BBC and Microsoft In Cambridge White Space Trial

Cambridge will test whether "white space" radio systems can communicate and solve Britain's broadband crisis

13 years ago

Industry Suffers As Apple Grabs Polymer Batteries

Greedy Apple has charged out to buy up lithium-ion polymer batteries, leaving its rivals hungry for power

13 years ago

Researchers Propose Energy Generation From Typing

Typing on the keyboard of a laptop or smartphone could power it, boffins have said

13 years ago

Unix Servers Growing As Mainstay Of Data Centres

Unix systems continue to be a cornerstone in enterprise data centres, despite soaring sales of x86 servers

13 years ago

Google Throws Extra £64m Into Wind Energy Project

Google's renewable energy commitment continues after it added more money for a wind project

13 years ago

AWS Virtual Machines Deployed With Security Holes

Researchers found security holes in VMs created on Amazon Web Services but Amazon is not at fault

13 years ago

Quarter Of Government Departments Shun The Cloud

Despite UK government commitments to the G-Cloud, 6 out of 25 departments have no cloud prospects

13 years ago

Jobs’ Apple Doughnut Has Green Aspirations

Apple’s next headquarters may look like a fattening doughnut but it will be lean and green, Steve Jobs maintains

13 years ago

Airlines Replace Pilots’ Flight Bags With Greener iPads

Two airlines, Alaska and American, are saving on paper and fuel consumption by using iPads in the cockpit

13 years ago