A new partnership was announced this week between NASA and Cisco systems to set up a global climate change monitoring infrastructure called ‘Planetary Skin’. The project will develop an ‘online collaborative platform to capture and analyze data from satellite, airborne, sea and land-based sensors across the globe.’
Image from the NASA Earth Observatory:
Minchinmavida and Chaiten Volcanoes, [...]
A NASA satellite that would have served as a space-bound monitoring system for carbon emissions and capture across the globe failed to reach orbit at 01:55 PST as it was launched from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.
If the mission had been successful, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory would have been the first instrument to relay detailed [...]
Polycom and TWICE (Two-Way Interactive Connections in Education) are sponsoring the Read Around the Planet 2009 project, which will link up more than 1,750 classrooms and some 52,000 students from five countries with video conferencing sessions.
A fourth-grader in Berrien Springs, Michigan shares artwork and a story with fourth graders in Carthage, New York over video [...]
Days after Samsung unveiled its eco-friendly Blue Earth handset, fellow Korea vendor, LG, also showed off its version of solar powered handset.
LG’s solar powered phone to arrive in Europe by end-2009
“Using renewable solar energy in the mobile handset is an example of our ongoing efforts to help create a safer, cleaner environment for our customers,” [...]
Two overseas Filipino workers got a chance to ‘see’ their families back home on Valentine’s Day, courtesy of Cisco Systems.
As part of Cisco Philippines’ corporate social responsibility initiatives, the Pinoy Reunion program was started in January using the company’s Telepresence infrastructure to help overseas Filipino workers connect with their families back in the Philippines.
Virtual family [...]
By CommsDay International
Web hosting company Rackspace Hosting is offering customers a business carbon calculator to find out what their carbon footprint is and how to reduce it.
The firm has teamed up with NativeEnergy, a provider of third-party verified and certified renewable energy credits, to encourage customers to take steps to reduce and mitigate their global [...]
By CommsDay International
BT Professional has seen the number of customers adopting green working practices grow tenfold with its Carbon Impact Assessment Quick Start.
BT’s Carbon Impact Assessment audits an organization’s carbon emission levels and models how they can cut costs by reducing energy consumption. Its uptake was mostly seen in the security and defence sectors, which [...]
By Petroc Wilton, CommsDay, as a guest of Ericsson at Mobile World Congress
Finding the business case in sustainability initiatives is crucial to driving sufficient investment in emissions reductions, according to Ericsson president and CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg.
Speaking at Mobile World Congress, Svanberg exhorted operators and other sections of the industry to work in tandem on [...]
Samsung has become the first handset market to release a truly ‘green’ mobile phone, ironically called ‘Blue Earth.’
Like previous ‘green’ consumer electronic devices, the outer shell of ‘Blue Earth’ is ‘green’ and made from recycled plastic extracted from used water bottles – just like Motorola’s W233 Renew.
Samsung Blue Earth mobile with solar charging panel on [...]
Recent tweets
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 [...]