The European Commission is pushing the mobile industry to develop a single universal charger for handsets so users can keep the chargers when they upgrade their phones, so millions of discarded chargers don’t end up in landfills.
The initiative, led by European Commissioner for Industry, Gunter Verheugen, has been ongoing, but the Commissioner now wants to [...]
Samsung has become the first handset market to release a truly ‘green’ mobile phone, ironically called ‘Blue Earth.’
Like previous ‘green’ consumer electronic devices, the outer shell of ‘Blue Earth’ is ‘green’ and made from recycled plastic extracted from used water bottles – just like Motorola’s W233 Renew.
Samsung Blue Earth mobile with solar charging panel on [...]
PRESS RELEASE: BT announced today the signature of a three-year managed services contract with SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 8,600 institutions. Under the terms of the agreement, BT will provide its Unified Communications Video solution which connects strategic offices spread across Europe, the US and Asia.
The solution, which includes five Cisco TelePresence™ [...]
PRESS RELEASE: As part of the Millennium Villages project, Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and pan-African operator Zain have built a green-powered site in a remote village in northeastern Kenya. With the reliable and affordable mobile communication the site provides, the villagers of Dertu can make calls, access health services and education and improve their economic future. [...]
By CommsDay
Just days after Google revealed its PowerMeter initiative to connect household appliances to the network grid, Cisco has taken a fascinating new global marketing tack, launching what it terms a holistic blueprint for Intelligent Urbanization, designed to help cities around the world use the network as the next utility for integrated city management, better [...]
One of the first things that anyone needs to do in order to conserve energy is to actually find out how much energy they are using in the first place. The idiom, you can’t improve what you don’t measure rings true across the all types of infrastructure, including data centres, telecoms networks and, for Google, [...]
By Petroc Wilton, Communications Day
Video telepresence could be stinging the travel industry for US$3.5 billion every year by 2012, replacing 2.1 million airline seats annually – if new forecasts from Gartner prove to be accurate. Analysts for the firm laid out its top ten predictions for 2009 and onwards at a briefing in Sydney, also [...]
Motorola’s environmentally-friendly W233 Renew handset will be distributed by T-Mobile in the US for a bargain basement price of US$10 with a two-year contract.
The problem is: what was Motorola thinking with its first ‘green’ handset by bringing to market a model that severely compromises on performance. It’s akin to asking users to go back to [...]
It’s no secret that chipmakers are acutely aware of the energy consumption of their processors. Whether it is simply about extending the battery life of laptop computers, or reducing the energy requirements of servers, AMD and its arch rival, Intel, are painfully aware that purchasing decisions are no longer about the price, or performance, or [...]
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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 [...]