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.
Telwares, a consultancy that helps Global 2000 corporations manage telecommunications spending, has announced a new initiative to help its customers manage the recycling of old handsets. Launched as part of Telwares’ Mobile Lifecycle Management solution, the new cell phone recycling service offers a secure and green way to dispose of old phones.
“It is estimated that [...]
On the eve of the 3rd anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, a group of leading companies, including the likes of Sony, Nokia and Nike, came together to sign their own accord to fight climate change.
Presented by Sony chairman and CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, at the Climate Savers Summit 2008 organized by WWF and Sony, the [...]
Taiwanese incumbent operator Chunghwa Telecom has signed the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) into its green data centre located in the city of Panchiao, southwest of Taipei. As part of the deal, Chunghwa will help the exchange construct a new online transaction servicing centre to stocks and futures transactions.
The TSE facility is expected to be completed [...]
The Telenor Group has been ranked the best Mobile Telecom company in the world by the Sustainability Yearbook 2008. PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) invite the 2,500 largest companies based on the Dow Jones Global Index every year to participate in SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment.
Telenor was awarded both titles for the Mobile Telecom sector, [...]
Remember Malaysia’s multimedia corridor during the dotcom era? Well now the Malaysian government is taking the concept into the renewable energy space with the announcement of the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy.
The Malaysian Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, announced in February that the government will spend an initial 5 billion ringgit (about US$1.5 billion) to [...]
The world’s biggest maker of computer chips, Intel, announced that it is now top of the latest Green Power Partnership Top 25 list of Fortune 500 companies compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), making it a major supporter for the renewable energy sector.
Under a deal with Sterling Planet, Intel will purchase more than [...]
Telecoms equipment maker, Ericsson, turned to World Energy Exchange to purchase 18 million kilowatt hours of electricity via an online reverse auction platform. The platform allowed Ericsson to specify the nature of electricity it wants to buy, in this case – 25% from renewable energy sources and gave the chance to power companies to bid [...]
A new report released by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has identified a direct correlation between use of technology and the energy required for economy productivity.
The ACEEE study, commissioned by the Technology CEO Council (TCC), found that it takes less than half the energy to produce a dollar of economic output today [...]
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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 [...]