Tony Chan is a seasoned ICT journalist based in Hong Kong with a strong interest in bringing together industry leaders to foster sustainable IT and telecommunications practices, solutions and services.
PRESS RELEASE: Ramsey, NJ (September 22, 2010) – High Speed Video (HSV), the only provider of software based enterprise-grade video communications and desktop-telepresence as an end-to-end managed service, announced today that it has expanded its platform to support advanced collaboration features in HSV ClearVision™ desktop video communications software.
ClearVision is designed to work with [...]
PRESS RELEASE: (Boston, MA) September 21, 2010 – Powerhouse Dynamics, provider of the eMonitor (trademarked), the first intelligent, circuit-level home energy management solution, announced today that the eMonitorTM has integrated with Google PowerMeter to become a Google PowerMeter Integrated Device Partner.
The eMonitor online dashboard remains available for customers to view more detailed real-time power [...]
The Centre for Integrated Photonics Ltd., or CIP Technologies, will be focusing its theme on improving the energy efficiency of photonic components at the ECOC trade show in Turin, Italy.
“Whilst it is recognised that broadband provides a route to save energy from travel substitution, and provide more efficient ways of working, it does not come [...]
One of the foremost thinkers in the business world today sees the trend for going green as seat belts were to the automotive industry back when they were first introduced.
“I’m one of those people who believe that green technology now is now in the process of becoming like safety in the automotive industry. In the [...]
Qualcomm says its Mirasol displays, which use reflective technology to display the spectrum of colours instead of active lights, can reduce the carbon emissions from gadgets over their life time of use.
The Mirasol display technology works by mimicking the wings of a butterfly, which basically have no colour on their own, but reflect specific wavelengths [...]
PRESS RELEASE: RICHARDSON, TX – Aug. 16, 2010 – Eltek Valere today announced the Trilogy DC power system, a 40A-600A, 48V high-efficiency (HE) power system with 15” shelf depth and special cable management to fit into short-depth outside plant and central office applications.
Although not exclusive to solar applications, the Trilogy DC power plant does [...]
PRESS RELEASE: HONG KONG, August 16, 2010 — APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, announced the formation of a new specialized data center software business to focus and drive a leadership position across all aspects of the data center environment . The Data Center Software business will [...]
A university researcher has called for telecommunications operators to offer up their subsea cable infrastructure to help with climate monitoring. John Yuzhu You, a scientist at Sydney University, says that submarine cables laying at the bottom of the sea can help climate change scientist monitor key changes in world’s environment, including ocean currents, salinity, seismology [...]
PRESS RELEASE: SINGAPORE, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ — The Asia-Pacific video conferencing endpoints market is expected to see strong growth with revenues rising at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 13.6 percent till 2016 reaching nearly US$820 million. Unit shipments meanwhile are predicted to grow at a CAGR of 16.3 percent (2009-2016).
“Spending on video conferencing [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Brisbane R&D startup Cool Door Pty Ltd has won a prestigious iAward at the Australian IT industry’s biggest annual awards event in Melbourne last week.
The Cool Door is an energy efficient cooling solution for data centres invented by Brisbane bayside residents Bernie Gee and Shaun Vosper.
The mens’ invention took out the Tools and [...]
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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 [...]