A Silicon Valley startup with some serious clout on its executive team is proposing new service that will deliver video games from a cloud infrastructure to thin clients such as a web browser. OnLive, founded by Steve Perlman – best known for his development of QuickTime and WebTV – recently made public its on-demand video [...]

Telefonica and Vodafone have signed a massive deal to share network infrastructure in Germany, Spain, Ireland and the UK that would results in “cost efficiencies of hundreds of millions of pounds for each company over the 10 years.” As part of the collaboration, the two operators, representing close of half a billion subscribers globally, will [...]

An ITU Focus Group is proposing a standardized methodology for reporting the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of information and communications technologies. At a meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, the ITU-T Focus Group on ICTs and Climate Change has developed a method for calculating two elements: Energy use and carbon impact arising from ICT lifecycles; and decrease [...]

PRESS RELEASE: Nokia Siemens Networks, the first telecommunications network provider to join the WWF Climate Savers program, today announced that the company is on track to achieving its targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The company presented its achievements at the Climate Savers Summit, organized by the global conservation organization WWF in Washington DC from [...]

A new report by the Alliance to Save Energy has found that US corporations now waste about US$2.8 billion in energy costs by not turning off 108 million PCs when they are not in use, thus generating the equivalent environmental impact of 20 million tons of CO2, or the same as having 4 million cars [...]

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PRESS RELEASE: GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN – MindArk PE AB, developers of the virtual world’s platform, Entropia Platform, today announced the expansion of its data center with Interxion. The company hosts the virtual Entropia Universe — an expanding universe of interoperable 3D virtual worlds. The virtual universe is set for upcoming growth with the launch of several [...]

By Petroc Wilton, Communications Day Even as it ploughs massive investment into new data centres, Microsoft is urging the industry to view cloud computing technologies as complementary to traditional premise-based solutions rather than replacing them. Gianpaolo Carraro, DPE director at Microsoft Australia, spoke at a Sydney conference on the need to balance enthusiasm for the [...]

In this two part services, Green Telecom explores the recently announced strategies by two of the world’s biggest enterprise data networking players, Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems. Both companies revealed recently major initiatives to target increasingly sophisticated data centres needed for hosting new applications and operating environments, i.e. cloud computing. Part 1: Juniper’s single switching [...]

Macquarie Telecom is calling for the Australian government to develop some kind of standard for measuring the environmental impact of data centres, in order to avoid what the company’s managing director for Hosting, Aidan Tudehope, calls, ‘green cloaking,’ by competitors. The move by Macquarie follows the data centre recommendations by Sir Peter Gershon, former chief [...]