IBM, the City of Shenyang, and China’s Northeastern University are embarking on a “smart city” collaboration effort to improve environmental and living conditions in the city – an industry hub for heavy industries and manufacturing that is suffering from growing environmental pressures.
“We believe our collaboration with IBM and Northeastern University will play a critical role [...]
Ericsson CFO and incoming CEO Hans Vestberg has used the Broadband World Forum in Paris this week as a platform to call for more focus on ICTs as a way to combat climate change. Speaking at the BWF, Verberg said: “For too long the need for CO2 reductions has been seen as a trade off [...]
There are many ways to be green, one of which is to do something positive to the environment, like planting trees, which is exactly what PLDT, its mobile subsidiary, Smart Communications, and NTT Docomo are doing with a program in the Philippines.
For the second year in a roll, the companies have committed to a program [...]
The world’s largest companies need to double the pace of CO2 reduction efforts to avoid dangerous climate change, according to a new report released this week by the Carbon Disclosure Project and supported by British Telecom.
Based on current reduction targets, the Global 100 companies are on track to reach the scientifically-recommended level of greenhouse gas [...]
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has launched a formal call to establish a separate statistical field of study that links ICT and the environment.
In a document issued by its Directorate of Science, Technology and Industry, the OECD notes, “while the links between ICT and environmental outcomes are becoming clearer, there is no separate [...]
Not long after it announced its partnership with Landis_Gyr in the smart grid and energy sector, Cisco Systems has announced another partnership with another global leader – this time a builder of smart cities, Gale International.
The two companies will work together to bring complementary skills, capabilities and solutions together to create smart, sustainable cities of [...]
The Government of Nepal’s High Level Commission for Information Technology (HLCIT) has tapped IBM to help with the development of “policy, frameworks, research and solutions to support Nepal’s vision of being a smart country.”
As part of a long-term cooperation and collaboration, IBM will create an innovation policy to help the Government of Nepal achieve its [...]
Nokia and Vodafone claim that they have developed a new antenna solution that will help operators improve cost efficiencies in their mobile network and reduce overall carbon emissions. The so-called, Active Antenna solution was successfully tested by the two companies as part of a recently announced initiative called, the Nokia Siemens Networks Innovation Centre, 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 [...]