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02 September 2010

Cisco, Itron To Jointly Design Smart Energy Grid Comms

Networking giant Cisco today announced an alliance with Itron, a Liberty Lake, Wash.-based utility metering technology company, to develop secure Internet Protocol (IP) communications technology for so-called smart energy grids that connect wired and wireless networks.

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01 September 2010

India, China To Double Internet Users By 2015

The number of people with Internet access in Brazil, Russia, China, India and Indonesia will double by 2015, management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group said in a report released Wednesday.

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27 August 2010

Scheme To 'Pull Electricity From The Air' Sparks Debate

Dr Francesco Galembeck told the American Chemical Society meeting in Boston that the technique exploited a little-known atmospheric effect.

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26 August 2010

California Files Charges Against E-Waste Recycle Execs

California Attorney General Jerry Brown brought criminal charges against the owner and two managers of a San Jose electronic waste recycling firm, accusing them of submitting $1 million in fraudulent reimbursement claims for more than 2 million pounds of waste they never recycled.

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26 August 2010

UK Car Emissions Fall 5.6 Per Cent Figures Show

New figures show that car emissions in the UK has fallen by 5.6 per cent in the past 12 months, signalling a positive boost in the industry's environmental goal for cleaner cars.

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25 August 2010

O2 Launch First UK Eco Mobile Rating Scheme

The mobile giant launches the scheme charting the carbon footprint of phones today (August 25) on its website and in stores.

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20 August 2010

Linux Users At Risk From Kernel Flaw

The Linux kernel has potentially been at risk from a flaw that has been present in Linux since 2003, according to a new finding from security researcher Invisible Things Lab.

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19 August 2010

Green Data Centre Market To Boom

A recent report released by EL Insights is projecting the U.S.

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19 August 2010

Funding For SMEs To Improve Green Creds

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are to be given the chance to apply for grants towards greening their businesses, under new measures that have been announced this week.

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18 August 2010

Small Businesses Join Prince's Mayday Sustainability Network

The number of businesses signed up to the Prince of Wales' Mayday Network has almost doubled over the past year, defying fears that the economic downturn would dilute corporate interest in environmental sustainability.

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11 August 2010

Green Data Centers Look Set For Rapid Growth

For those of you who consider the green data center movement a fad, there is a new report out from Pike Research that suggests investment in green facilities will grow rapidly over the next five years.

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10 August 2010

Green IT - Re-use Rather Than Recycle

A report released today by Computer Aid International, says that IT managers re-use, rather than recycling unwanted computing equipment.

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10 August 2010

Ernst & Young-Clean Tech VC Investment Soars

Ernst & Young yesterday became the latest consultancy to confirm that venture capital (VC) investment in clean tech companies bounced back towards record levels during the second quarter of the year, reporting that US investment soared 64 per cent year-on-year to $1.5bn (£940m).

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05 August 2010

BBC Researching How To Apply Power Over Ethernet

The BBC is currently researching ways in which it could implement Power over Ethernet (PoE), which it hopes will reduce energy usage and decrease the use of some office equipment.

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02 August 2010

X Prize Foundation Seeks Oil Cleanup Breakthrough

Entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists worldwide are being offered US$1 million for developing a better way of cleaning up crude oil spills from oceans.

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29 July 2010

Cisco, NetApp And VMware Offer End-To-End FCoE

Cisco, NetApp and VMware have released what they claim to be the industry's first end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offering for VMware virtual environments.

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29 July 2010

Report Says IT Sector Reduced CO2 Emissions

In a recent study from the Pacific Institute of Climate Solutions says that CO2 emission from data centres has reached 157 million metric tons annually.

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23 July 2010

Google Buys Wind Power To Shrink Footprint

Google Energy to buy 114MW Of Wind Energy for the next 20 years to help shrink carbon footprint.

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20 July 2010

BT-led Trio Backs Long-Range Radio For Smart Meter

BT is proposing long-range radio as a communications solution to smart metering in the UK.

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19 July 2010

Data Centre Power Usage Measures Standardised

A group of organisations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centres to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness, aiming to bring consistency to the metric and make it easier for different facilities to compare their results.

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13 July 2010

Green Software Standard Paves Way For Carbon Footprints

Measuring and reporting on the environmental impact of businesses and products could get a lot simpler with the launch of a new software standard designed to help firms collect and exchange green data.



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