Sustainable Development
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Open source to take over mainstream IT
News Open source-based IT jobs will grow and the cloud will be ubiquitous, as long as community takes certain steps, according to roadmap from Open World Forum.
Tags: Open Source, Cloud Computing, Wikipedia, open source research and development, sustainable development, Floss, software, Open-source Community, Paris, information technology
Partnership key to global 'sustainability'
News Industry players urge businesses to play a more active role in addressing climate change, and partner government and consumers to shape policies.
Tags: Green IT, Corporate responsibility
HK, S'pore step up 'green' in govt contracts
News The Hong Kong government "would in general" not buy non-eco-friendly IT products, while Singapore has "practical" green provisions in projects such as SOEasy.
Tags: Green IT, IT outsourcing, Government, Green IT, Atos, Outsourcing Company, Hong Kong, Spokesperson, Procurement, Environment
ICT causing UK govt to miss green targets
News A report has pointed to information and communications technology as one cause of the U.K. government's failure to meet its own carbon reduction targets.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance, Carbon Emission, Information And Communication Technology, computer, sustainable development, Server, public sector, carbon dioxide
Low-cost solar concentrator unwrapped
News A California startup looks to cut the cost of solar power for industrial customers with a concentrator that relies on more sheet metal and less silicon.
Tags: Green IT, Department Of Energy, Photovoltaics, Cell, Technology Review, solar cell, solar panel, sustainable development, Silicon, Mountain View
IBM co-founds green patent pool
News IBM is creating an Eco-Patents Commons--shared innovations geared at environmental sustainability--with the participation of Sony, Nokia and Pitney Bowes.
Tags: Green IT
Banks use tech to boost green credentials
News Financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley and HSBC are making environmental issues a key element of their day-to-day business.
Tags: Green IT
Holistic approach to K-economy master plan
News The knowledge-driven economy or K-economy Master Plan will be holistic in approach and outline the choice of key strategies to transform the economy into a highly competitive and resilent economy.
Google announces Project 10^100 themes
News More than 150,000 ideas were submitted following Google's call for world-changing ideas, and the company has finally identified 16 categories of ideas for further voting.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Business Strategies & Functions, Idea, public sector, strategy, sustainability, spokesman, RFP, analysis
Shrinking the cost for solar power
Insight Some experts think that, under certain circumstances, the premium for solar power can be erased, without subsidies or dramatic technical breakthroughs.
Tags: Servers
China behind in green efforts
News As regulator, large employer and core business owner in various sectors, government is in strong position to promote green movement, say analysts.
Tags: Green IT, IT budgeting, Green IT, IT Budget, International Data Corp., Survey, Asia-Pacific, Information And Communication Technology, Government, public sector
Green IT changes outsourcing for all
Insight perspective The National Outsourcing Association's Martyn Hart explains how environmental concerns are shaping the outsourcing world.
Tags: Outsourcing, Green IT, IT outsourcing, Green IT, Outsourcing, Supplier, Outsourcing Company, SLA, public sector, audit
Open source cuts across Sun's growth strategy
News Company says it made more money from releasing Solaris source codes, and is now focused on open source as integral part of its strategy.
Tags: Open source, Server platforms, Open-source Software, Asia-Pacific, Sun Microsystems Inc., software, Project GlassFish, strategy, OpenSolaris, Open source
Symantec: Storm worm changes tack
News The worm's authors have streamlined the code to make it more stable, researchers have claimed.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Spam and phishing
Digital divide will breed future poverty
News A digital divide resulting from unequal access to information technology will be the source of future poverty, Malaysia's DPM said at the World Summit Monday.
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