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Study: Mobile phones not being recycled
News Mainly because consumers don't know their devices can be recycled, finds new survey, which indicates just 3 percent worldwide recycle their mobile phones.
Tags: Green IT, Development/design, Mobile, India, Cell Phone, Recycling, phone, Germany, chemicals, China
Making shared services work
Insight Stefan Beck, Asia-Pacific IT director for chemical company BASF, talks to ZDNet Asia about the benefits of integrating and centralizing support services.
Tags: IT Management
Google crashes the smart-grid party
News Company introduces PowerMeter software for tracking home energy use, part of smart-grid plan to make energy data available on the Web in real time in standard formats.
Tags: Green IT, Web sites, Google Inc., Utility, General Electric Co., Renewable Energy, Hardware, software, energy efficiency, industry
Future air-fueled battery could store 10 times more power
News Researchers see promise in new battery technology using air as a fuel and say it could provide 10 times more power for electric cars, mobile phones and laptops.
Tags: Green IT, Consumer Technology, Battery, Cell, electric car, Oxygen, lithium-ion, Scotland, chemicals, researcher
Sony phones beat rivals on green scale
News The latest Greenpeace evaluations are in.
Tags: Development/design, Green IT, Cellular phones, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Carbon Footprint, phone, performance, chemicals, Adobe PDF, blog
HP licenses inkjet tech for dialysis machines
News The hardware manufacturer's inkjet technology is to be used in a new type of dialysis machine for renal-failure victims.
Tags: Patents, Components, Hewlett-Packard Co., Inkjet Printer, intellectual property, printer, CEO, chemicals, ease of use, licensing deal
Intel expands solar focus with Voltaix investment
News The company's latest clean-tech investment is its third in two months for companies specializing in photovoltaic solar materials.
Tags: Investments, Green IT, Venture capital, Processors, Intel Corp., Integrated Circuit, Photovoltaics, Investment, Manufacturing, solar cell
EU directive could change iPhone battery design
News European regulators are considering a directive that would force cell phone makers to offer batteries that are "readily replaceable", which is not the case with Apple's iPhone.
Tags: Components, Smart phones, Mac OS, Battery, Cell Phone, Directive, Europe, Apple iPod, chemicals, circuit board
Greenpeace raps tech clean-up efforts
News Consumer electronics companies get dismal "green" ratings by Greenpeace, but largely because the watchdog group has upped the ante.
Tags: Green IT, Business Strategies & Functions, India, chemicals, monitor, brand, Greenpeace, Steve Jobs, Sony Corp., Green IT
IBM bets on CIGS with solar-cell deal
News Big Blue and Japanese semiconductor equipment manufacturer Tokyo Ohka Kogyo plan to develop technology that can hit US$1 per watt in two or three years.
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Processors, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Cell, Renewable Energy, solar cell, intellectual property, chemicals
How green is Apple now?
News Apple says its new notebooks are among the greenest in the industry. Environmental experts are pleased, but still have questions about how recyclable they are and how much their production and use impact greenhouse gas emissions.
Tags: Green IT, Notebooks and tablets, Apple Inc., Recycling, job, chemicals, marketing, U.S., monitor, Web
Autodesk add-in models 'green' goods to come
News Autodesk Inventor software is adding calculators to help product makers forecast the carbon emissions and toxicity of their designs.
Tags: Software, Green IT, Autodesk Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Google Inc., 3D, chemicals, Adobe Systems Inc., supply chain, sustainability
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
Greenpeace: IT companies weak on climate change
News Environmental watchdog Greenpeace takes big IT companies to task for talking about 'green IT' but not developing enough energy-saving products or lobbying around climate change.
Tags: Green IT, IBM Corp., Hardware, consumer electronics company, information technology company, CEO, industry, Greenpeace, Green IT, electronics company
Boston-Power readies long-lasting laptop batteries
News After three years of development, upstart Boston-Power is expected to announce a customer that will include its premium batteries in laptops early next year.
Tags: Components, Notebooks and tablets, Green IT, Battery, Hewlett-Packard Co., Manufacturing, Notebook, electric car, performance, Laptop Computer
