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    DEMO 2011: EcoATM recycles gadgets, gives cash [video]

    Posted March 1, 2011 - 9:29 pm

    The ecoATM kiosk lets you recycle old electronics (phones, games, ink toner, etc.) for cash (or you can donate). Shane O'Neill from CIO.com gets a rundown on how the kiosk works.

  • What retailers can teach you about green IT

    Posted February 24, 2011 - 6:35 pm

    Retailers get a payoff from sustainability because it's part of their business strategy. It's the same lesson companies have learned about investing in technology.

  • Early-warning sensors in focus after New Zealand quake

    Posted February 23, 2011 - 5:15 am

    Authorities from Asia to California are working on computerized systems to warn people of large earthquakes, which are in focus again after the deadly temblor in New Zealand. None of the warning systems have faced the real thing yet, though.

  • IPhone workers still sick after chemical poisoning

    Posted February 22, 2011 - 1:16 am

    Guo Ruiqiang says he still feels sick more than a year after he suffered chemical poisoning while working on an iPhone production line.

  • Green memories accelerate ROI for data centers

    Posted February 15, 2011 - 9:32 pm

    Hundreds of thousands of KWh are being consumed by the use of memory components in servers today. By adopting more energy-efficient components in optimized server architectures, such as lower voltage DRAMs and advanced solid-state drives (SSDs), data centers can drastically reduce power consumption and associated energy costs.

  • HP puts on data center hard hat

    Posted February 15, 2011 - 9:01 am

    Hewlett-Packard wants to manage the construction phase of its clients' data center projects, hoping to expand its revenue from this area and, it says, help customers complete projects more quickly and for as much as 30 percent lower cost.

  • Growing energy consumption: What's it mean for technology?

    Posted February 8, 2011 - 2:36 pm

    BP recently released, for the first time publicly, its projections of future energy trends titled BP Energy Outlook 2030. This document builds on BP's well known annual Statistical Review of World Energy which has been published since 1956. In publishing its Energy Outlook, BP joins a host of other organizations that attempt to forecast future global energy trends including its competitor Shell, which published its most recent Shell Energy Scenarios to 2050 in 2008, and the non-profit International Energy Agency (IEA), which publishes its World Energy Outlook annually. Each organization takes a somewhat different approach and covers different time periods so it is nearly impossible to make "apples to apples" comparisons. However, it is interesting to

  • Throwing away your old computer just got harder in Europe

    Posted February 3, 2011 - 12:01 pm

    New rules on disposing of your old laptop, printer or mobile phone look set to come into force in the European Union. The European Parliament on Thursday voted to pass stricter laws on how the bloc deals with electronic and electrical equipment waste.

  • India aims for greener telecom

    Posted February 3, 2011 - 9:00 am

    India’s telecom regulator has invited comments from mobile operators and other concerned parties in a bid to evolve a policy framework to reduce the carbon footprint of India’s telecommunications services.

  • Portable solar panel device powers lights, cell phones [video]

    Posted February 1, 2011 - 6:02 pm

    Around the world, there are shortages of food and clean drinking water, but what you may not realize is that there is also a shortage of light for those dark nights in electricity-less areas. A group of students from the University of Michigan have come up with a solution: Emerald, a portable solar panel-powered device that provides 100 lumens of light and power for your electronics.

  • Advanced antennas, virtual modems to make networks greener

    Posted February 1, 2011 - 1:15 pm

    The GreenTouch Consortium demonstrated its work Tuesday into how using large-scale antenna systems and virtual modems, along with splitting mobile networks into two parts, can help reduce energy consumption of operator networks by a factor of 1,000.

  • IT recycling charities need your monitors

    Posted January 31, 2011 - 11:49 am

    Computer Aid International has called for companies to donate unwanted equipment to meet a current shortfall, especially in monitors.

  • Microsoft presses Intel for 16-core Atom chip

    Posted January 27, 2011 - 7:45 pm

    Microsoft has asked Intel to develop a 16-core version of its low-power Atom chip for use in servers, part of a wider effort to reduce power consumption in its massive data centers, a Microsoft executive said Thursday.

  • Energy efficiency -- no longer an afterthought

    Posted January 25, 2011 - 2:20 pm

    Modern energy efficient technologies are becoming the norm, and most businesses understand that implementing "green IT" helps the environment and the bottom line. But many IT professionals lack a tool that is critical to understanding the full impact of energy efficient practices.

  • BI Tools Can Help Evaluate Green Programs

    Posted January 24, 2011 - 12:34 pm

    Business intelligence systems can be used to analyze data about a company's progress in meeting its environmental goals.

  • InfoWorld seeking nominations for 2011 Green 15 awards

    Posted January 21, 2011 - 8:37 am

    Organizations of all sizes are invited to share their successful green IT projects

  • Apple says it monitors work conditions in China amid outcry

    Posted January 21, 2011 - 6:02 am

    Apple restated its pledge to provide safe working conditions for workers assembling of its products after environmental groups in China released a report criticizing the tech company for failing to be transparent about its suppliers.

  • European carbon trading system taken down after online fraud

    Posted January 20, 2011 - 11:26 am

    The European Union’s carbon trading system has been taken offline following a serious security breach.

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    Snowman in the Desert [video]

    Posted January 19, 2011 - 5:43 pm

    Panasonic’s SPARKS project includes a bunch of ‘eco ideas’, which focuses on innovative experiments in everyday life.

  • One million Plug-in EVs to drive on German roads by 2020

    Posted January 12, 2011 - 1:28 pm

    As part of our ongoing coverage on Plug-in Electric Vehicles, PEVs, we have recently published another perspective (Deploying Plug-In Electric Vehicles in Europe: Updates from Germany) on what is happening in Germany, with specific details from a few of the largest German utility sponsored PEV initiatives. This perspective follows several others, including one updating on PEV deployment in Italy (Deploying Electric Vehicles in Europe: Updates from Italy), which we blogged about during the summer.

  • Green products: Coming to your bank in 2011?

    Posted January 12, 2011 - 12:12 pm

    Financial institutions are starting to jump onto the green bandwagon, identifying and evaluating environmental market opportunities and offering green financial products.

  • Industry titans battle to supply smart buildings

    Posted January 10, 2011 - 2:23 pm

    IT vendors such as IBM, Google, Cisco and Microsoft will be battling with incumbent vendors like Johnson Controls and dozens of start-ups in the 'gold rush' to make buildings greener.

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    That Audi wants to ask your car where to park

    Posted January 10, 2011 - 11:50 am

    Audi announces automotive WLAN to let cars, traffic lights talk to each other, not just servers, making rollout easier, performance more scalable.

  • Greenpeace lauds Asus, Acer, HP, Samsung for greenest consumer electronics

    Posted January 7, 2011 - 11:39 am

    At CES, environmental watchdog group Greenpeace named the greenest consumer electronics products. Asus, Acer, HP and Samsung earned some of the highest marks, while Wipro and Dell earned some of the lowest.

  • Green plug debuts tech for smart, sleek power supplies

    Posted January 6, 2011 - 3:28 pm

    The move toward smarter power supplies took a step forward as Green Plug announced its Green Power Processor on Wednesday at CES. The system-on-chip technology is built to enable devices and power adapters to talk to each other.

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