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: BEND, ORE, USA, August 9, 2010 – IdaTech plc (AIM: IDA), a global leader in the development and manufacture of clean and reliable PEM fuel cell products for the critical backup power market is pleased to announce the Phase III roll out of the latest generation hydrogen backup power fuel cell systems on [...]

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 [...]

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solution, or ATIS, says it will soon announce a standard methodology for measuring the efficiency of wireless base stations. The news comes just weeks after ETSI, or the Europe Telecommunications Standards Institute, announced a similar standard of measurement called, Energy Efficiency of Wireless Access Networks.

Broadband networks built using an utility’s own powerlines has been pegged as a challenger to the use of wireless networks, namely LTE and WiMAX, for smart grid applications. According to this post in IEEE Spectrum, next generation wireless networks are vying for the share of the smart grid market, but utilities have other options, including [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks says it is the first vendor to publish the energy use data for its wireless network equipment, the Flexi EDGE Base Station, using a new standard called, Energy Efficiency of Wireless Access Networks, established by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute.) ETSI’s new technical specification now established a standard methodology for analysing the [...]

T-Mobile UK and 3 UK are in the process of completing a massive joint infrastructure program that will see the elimination of more than 3,000 cell sites from the network. The project will also consolidate more than 12,500 sites on the previous networks of the two operators. The resulting shared network requires fewer masts, consumes [...]

Hutchison Telecom’s Indonesian unit, PT Hutchison CP Telecommunications, is deploying PEM (polymer electrolyte membrane, also called proton exchange membrane) fuel cells as backup power systems for its network throughout the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. The PEM fuel cell products are being supplied by IdaTech, a Bend, Oregon-based company specialising in the design, development and manufacturing [...]

A massive initiative is reportedly underway by all of India’s cell tower companies to migrate their infrastructure to solar power, from existing diesel power solutions. According to India’s iGovernment website, a total of 250,000 cell phone towers can be converted to the renewable energy solution, including 32,500 from GTL Infra – a subsidiary of Mumbai-based [...]

Reliance Communications has teamed up with Polycom to bring wireless, high resolution video conferencing to India for a starting pricing of less than US$5,000. The new service will bundle the Polycom QDX 6000 system with a VPN connection from Reliance Netconnect Broadband + wireless broadband data card. The service will cost an initial Rs 2 [...]