One of the foremost thinkers in the business world today sees the trend for going green as seat belts were to the automotive industry back when they were first introduced. “I’m one of those people who believe that green technology now is now in the process of becoming like safety in the automotive industry. In [...]

Qualcomm says its Mirasol displays, which use reflective technology to display the spectrum of colours instead of active lights, can reduce the carbon emissions from gadgets over their life time of use. The Mirasol display technology works by mimicking the wings of a butterfly, which basically have no colour on their own, but reflect specific [...]

PRESS RELEASE: RICHARDSON, TX – Aug. 16, 2010 – Eltek Valere today announced the Trilogy DC power system, a 40A-600A, 48V high-efficiency (HE) power system with 15” shelf depth and special cable management to fit into short-depth outside plant and central office applications. Although not exclusive to solar applications, the Trilogy DC power plant does [...]

PRESS RELEASE: HONG KONG, August 16, 2010 — APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, announced the formation of a new specialized data center software business to focus and drive a leadership position across all aspects of the data center environment . The Data Center Software business will [...]

PRESS RELEASE: Brisbane R&D startup Cool Door Pty Ltd has won a prestigious iAward at the Australian IT industry’s biggest annual awards event in Melbourne last week. The Cool Door is an energy efficient cooling solution for data centres invented by Brisbane bayside residents Bernie Gee and Shaun Vosper. The mens’ invention took out the [...]

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 [...]

A new report by Pike Research estimates that investment into ‘green’ data centres will increase from US$7.5 billion to US$41.4 billion by 2015, which would in turn equal some 28% of the total data centre market. “Cost of energy has seldom been a concern for IT departments in the past,” says industry analyst Eric Woods, [...]

Orange, Connecticut-based, (not-California-based) Tangoe, Inc., has launched a new mobile device reuse-retire-recycle program called, Tangoe MobileRenew. According to Tangoe, the service offers much more than just the recycling of corporate mobile communication devices environmentally, but provides enterprises with a “secure, compliant, and financially beneficial means” of handling all end-of-life mobile devices. “Organizations that have struggled [...]

Google says it has purchased 114 megawatt of wind power for the next 20 years from NextEra Energy Resources’ Story County II facility in Story and Hardin counties in Iowa in the US. According to Google, this is part its plan to voluntarily become carbon neutral in 2007, which consists of three main initiatives – [...]

By Mark Madden Regional vice president, Energy Markets, Alcatel-Lucent Today’s power industry is under pressure to meet increasing demands for energy while minimizing the need to build fossil-fueled fired power plants in order to reduce environmental impact. Just last week a large portion of the U.S., in particular the heavily populated Northeast, was hit by [...]