Carbon Footprint
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Spam's carbon footprint: 1 e-mail like driving 3 feet
News Report finds energy used annually to delete spam and rescue legitimate e-mail is equal to greenhouse gas emissions from 3.1 million cars.
Tags: Spam filtering, Spam and phishing, Spam, greenhouse gas emission, Carbon Footprint, e-mail spam, greenhouse gas, e-mail, spam filtering, spam message
Printer vendors push green for cheap
News Printer manufacturers zoom in on design, technology and tools to offer environment-friendly machines that can also help businesses reduce costs.
Tags: Peripherals, Green IT, Business, Canon Inc., Carbon Footprint, imaging, e-mail, printer, printing, printer company
More energy must go into making devices efficient
Insight perspective Technology exists to make devices far more efficient, but a number of factors are standing in the way, says ARM executive.
Tags: Green IT, Consumer Technology, Electronics, Device, Carbon Footprint, Europe, device manufacturer, Brussels, carbon dioxide, manufacturer
Measuring your Google search's carbon footprint
News A Harvard University physicist says a typical search on a desktop computer generates about 7 grams of carbon dioxide, which is comparable to bringing a kettle to boil.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Clean Technology, Google Inc., Carbon Footprint, Geothermal Energy, Computer, Eric Schmidt, Google Search, carbon dioxide
China solar panel maker sets first US plant
News Suntech Power aims to boost its share of the U.S. market with a solar-panel manufacturing plant to be built in Arizona.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Suntech Power Holdings, U.S., Green IT, mW, Manufacturing, Sales, solar panel, China
Navigating, dieting your way to greener pastures
Blogs Drive by GPS, think green every day and eat grass. Odd as it may sound, these seem to be the messages that came out of E...
HP unveils green learning center in S'pore
News The new facility aims to train students and industry professionals in green IT, and provide a test-bed for energy-efficient technologies in data center operations.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Recycling, SMB, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green IT, Training, Carbon Footprint, Information And Communication Technology, CEO
It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
News Brussels calls on tech to cut its own carbon--and help everyone else do the same.
Tags: Green IT, Commission, Information Technology, Carbon Emission, Green IT, Video Conferencing, Information And Communication Technology, Europe, public sector, industry
Greening the Valley, one tech giant at a time
News Executives from Cisco, HP, and Sun talk at Fortune conference about how to prevent the tech industry's carbon footprint from growing to 3 percent by 2020.
Tags: Green IT, Hewlett-Packard Co., Carbon Footprint, Tech Industry, Energy Consumption, McKinsey & Co., Emission, Jonathan Schwartz, printer, network
Energy independence to boost green efforts
News Countries will increasingly work on more eco-friendly design efforts, including building architecture, to help minimize their reliance on oil, says Autodesk CEO.
Tags: Green IT, Product development and design, Autodesk Inc., Carbon Footprint, Tool, Singapore, Geothermal Energy, software, plastics, software tool
GE boosts bets on battery technology
News Part of its US$17 billion Ecomagination initiative, GE is increasing research in batteries for transportation and energy storage on the electricity grid.
Tags: Hardware, Components, Green IT, Battery, Clean Technology, General Electric Co., Carbon Footprint, Storage, lithium-ion, Chrysler LLC
Vista is greener and more secure, says Microsoft
News According to a senior UK manager for Microsoft, Windows Vista is growing in popularity due to its security and green credentials.
Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Green IT, Sales/revenue, Security, Microsoft Corp., Carbon Footprint, Microsoft Windows Vista, Europe, Gartner Inc.
Cutting the IT carbon footprint
News Businesses, more than ever, need to assess how technologies such as application and desktop virtualization, can reduce carbon emissions.
Tags: Green IT, Virtualization, Servers, Personal Computers, IT Budget, Carbon Footprint, Server, software, energy efficiency, information technology
Steve Jobs on the greening of Apple
News In one of his first post-leave interviews, Apple CEO Jobs says the impact of products, not the emissions of factories, is what counts, and that it's time to focus on a company's results, not its lofty goals.
Tags: Green IT, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Supplier, Carbon Footprint, energy efficiency, hiring, Dell Computer Corp., PC, Steve Jobs
Cisco ramps edge routers up to 100Gbps
News The 16-port card for edge routers is intended to give operators the wherewithal to deal with greater video demand on mobile devices.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web servers, IP Television, Cisco Systems Inc., Carbon Footprint, Video, Card, Internet Video, analyst
