A new study by IBM Institute for Business Value finds that corporations can gain a competitive advantage over rivals as well as develop new revenue streams by adopting corporate social responsibility practices.
“A growing body of evidence asserts that corporations can do well by doing good,” the authors of the report, George Pohle and Jeff Hittner [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Google announced that it has made a US$10 million investment in eSolar, a California-based solar thermal power developer first identified as a partner in the Internet search giants RE < C initiative.
The investment was part of an announcement by Google.org of core initiatives to combat climate change, poverty and emerging threats. More than US$25 million [...]
IBM, Nokia, Pitney Bowes, and Sony have established the world’s first open patent sharing platform for the environment. The initiative, led by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and IBM, aims to compile a set portfolio of patents, dubbed the “Eco-Patent Commons,” that will be made available to the public.
The initiative also encourages [...]
Trox AITCS (Trox advanced IT cooling system) plans to step up promotion of a new cooling system that promises up to 7x more heat dissipation capacity as traditional air or water-based systems.
The system is being marketed to data centre operators and large financial institutions
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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 [...]