RecyclingIt’s one thing to rely on third party certification bodies like the EPA for the stamp of environmental approval, but Apple says it goes a step further by carrying out its own internal tests. As part of the launch of the new iPhone 5, Apple says that it goes as far as to carry out [...]
AT&T is offering its customers mobile phone chargers made with housing that consists of at least 30% post-consumer plastics, reports Environmental Leader. The chargers, available for wall sockets and cars, is rated Energy Star 5, and meets California’s Energy Commission 2013 efficiency standards, which specify reduced “vampire draw” when the charger is plugged in but [...]
Sprint Nextel will be using “ecoEnvelopes” when sending its customers their bills, a move that the wireless operator says will save it up to US$500,000 and 447 tons of paper. Over the span of a year, Sprint Nextel estimates that it will save 9,931,834 gallons of water, prevent 859,047 pounds of solid waste, and eliminate [...]
AT&T says it will go with greener packaging for its branded accessories. The new packaging will be composed of up to 30 percent plant-based materials sourced from ethanol harvested from natural sugarcane. The sugarcane used is this plant plastic is a rapidly renewable agricultural crop and replaces nearly a third of the fossil fuels traditionally [...]
AT&T is building a new submarine cable system by pulling up a couple of decommission cables and relaying the fibres. The system, dubbed GOKI, will link up Guam, Okinawa and Kyushu in Japan and Incheon in Korea. The project will be deployed using a solution from Xtera Communications and Kokusai Cable Ship Co. (KCS) – [...]
Some folks at Microsoft Research and the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia have tabled an idea that is both radical and utilitarian at the same time. The idea is centered around so-called, Data Furnaces, basically, servers, or clusters of servers, that will act as heaters inside homes or buildings. The researchers note [...]
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-17) in Durban, South Africa, the ITU is calling for the inclusion of ICT into the negotiating text of the conference. While climate change is certainly gaining mindshare at the UN, the industry was effectively sidelined at the last conference in Copenhagen, prompting outspoken criticism from some of [...]
ITU has taken a page out of Apple’s USB-based power plugs. According to the ITU, the new solution will feature a detachable cable with standardised end connectors that now support connection to many different devices, including all mobile phones and other handhelds. By separating the power plug from the cable, the new system will also [...]
Facebook this week launched a green page, which has “lots of information about what the company is doing in the environment/energy space.” The site is features lots of information on being ‘green’, as well as outlines Facebook’s green vision, as follows: Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world [...]
The Australian government has released an overarching plan to transform its ICT operations with sustainability practices. The Australian Government ICT Sustainability Plan 2010-2015 outlines strategies and actions for its agencies to lower their emissions and is consistent with the current administration’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the country by 60% of 2000 levels [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]