Days after Samsung unveiled its eco-friendly Blue Earth handset, fellow Korea vendor, LG, also showed off its version of solar powered handset.
LG’s solar powered phone to arrive in Europe by end-2009
“Using renewable solar energy in the mobile handset is an example of our ongoing efforts to help create a safer, cleaner environment for our customers,” [...]
Two overseas Filipino workers got a chance to ‘see’ their families back home on Valentine’s Day, courtesy of Cisco Systems.
As part of Cisco Philippines’ corporate social responsibility initiatives, the Pinoy Reunion program was started in January using the company’s Telepresence infrastructure to help overseas Filipino workers connect with their families back in the Philippines.
Virtual family [...]
By CommsDay International
Web hosting company Rackspace Hosting is offering customers a business carbon calculator to find out what their carbon footprint is and how to reduce it.
The firm has teamed up with NativeEnergy, a provider of third-party verified and certified renewable energy credits, to encourage customers to take steps to reduce and mitigate their global [...]
By CommsDay International
BT Professional has seen the number of customers adopting green working practices grow tenfold with its Carbon Impact Assessment Quick Start.
BT’s Carbon Impact Assessment audits an organization’s carbon emission levels and models how they can cut costs by reducing energy consumption. Its uptake was mostly seen in the security and defence sectors, which [...]
By CommsDay International
The mobile industry will face the daunting task of having to support a massive data traffic increase on networks even as corresponding revenue increases only marginally, says Nokia Siemens Networks.
As part of his keynote presentation at the Mobile World Congress, NSN CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie told the industry that by 2015, the mobile data [...]
PRESS RELEASE: The HFCL Group, a leading player in the telecom sector in India, has selected IBM to integrate and implement innovative blade server technology to help reduce its operational costs and “Go Green” while increasing efficiency. This three-year agreement includes the deployment of IBM BladeCentre technology and X3650 servers that will provide significant savings [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Orange Guinea Conakry and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) are deploying more than 100 base stations fully powered by solar energy, connecting remote parts of rural Africa. Using Ericsson’s energy-efficient base stations, a hybrid diesel-battery solution and solar panels, Orange is increasing mobile coverage in rural and urban areas, while taking concrete steps towards its target [...]
By Petroc Wilton, CommsDay, as a guest of Ericsson at Mobile World Congress
Finding the business case in sustainability initiatives is crucial to driving sufficient investment in emissions reductions, according to Ericsson president and CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg.
Speaking at Mobile World Congress, Svanberg exhorted operators and other sections of the industry to work in tandem on [...]
Days following the news that the European Commission is looking to force the mobile industry to develop a unified charging solution to reduce electronic waste, the industry itself has stepped forward and announced their own initiative to implement a universal charging solution.
The group has set an ambitious target that by 2012 a universal charging solution [...]
India-based Wipro Technologies, one of the largest product engineering and support service providers for the ICT sector, has now launched an integrated solution set to help telecoms equipment manufacturers to green their product development process.
Marketed as “Green ICT” and “ICT for Green”, the company says that the new solutions will help green, not only to [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks is looking to revolutionise the mobile network with is Liquid Radio architecture, which not only promises to re-architect today’s base station infrastructure, but also to ultimately bridge the gap between highly specialise (and expensive) telecoms equipment and commoditise (cost competitive) computer components. Green Telecom Live talks to Mike Murphy, head of Technology [...]
Interview with Telenor Connexion: Inside the world of M2M
Telenor Connexion, the unit of the Telenor Group focused on the machine-to-machine market, has been developing and deploying M2M applications for customers for the past decade. Green Telecom Live speaks with Gwenn Larsson, head of marketing at Telenor Connexion, about what makes M2M different from the rest of the mobile industry and the kinds of [...]
Verne Global outlines Iceland data centre plans
Two years after we first published the Icelandic government’s plans to promote the building of data centres on its shores, a venture capital-backed start tup, Verne Global, is looking to make it a reality.
Verne Global, backed by General Catalysts from Boston, Novator in London and the Wellcome Trust, is now constructing a wholesale data centre [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 2: Cisco’s Unified Computing
Cisco this month unveiled what some company executives dubbed one of the biggest announcements for the network equipment maker – ever. With the announcement of its Unified Computing, Cisco officially enters the computing space, although not quite as previous speculation in the industry had outlined. Instead of just producing its own blade server, Cisco unveiled [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 1: Juniper’s single switching fabric
In the past couple of weeks, cloud computing has really taken off, with both service providers, server makers, and switching vendors all making big announcements on service deployments and new gear designed for cloud operating environments.
Specifically, both Juniper and Cisco made significant announcements in their vision of a next generation data centre environment that can [...]