environment

• Article | 14/02/2012 Sony shows power outlets that can control electricity by user, device, or source

  Sony is developing electric wall sockets and plugs that can control power consumption by appliance, user or original power source.
• Article | 9/02/2012 Foxconn said to have been hacked by group critical of working conditions

  Hackers claimed to have stolen internal data from Apple supplier Foxconn, and leaked the information online, in response to media reports of poor work...
• Article | 8/02/2012 Greenpeace scorecard documents greener enterprise offerings

  Technology companies are not just making their products less carbon-intensive; they are also increasingly designing products to improve energy efficie...
• Article | 12/01/2012 Microsoft investigates worker protest at Foxconn factory in China

  Microsoft investigated a workers protest at its contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group, and found that the dispute in Wuhan, China had nothing...
• Article | 11/01/2012 Foxconn workers stage protest in Chinese city

  Workers at a Foxconn Technology Group campus in China staged a protest last week, threatening to jump off a building if the company did not meet their...

• Article | 20/10/2009 Save printer ink by choosing an ink-saving font

  I've written before about ways you can save money on pricey printer consumables.

• Article | 17/04/2009 If Spam Equals Tons of CO2 What's the Carbon Footprint of Cyber Porn?

  A McAfee study estimates 62 trillion spam e-mails equal 33 billion kilowatt hours of electricity or about as much carbon as 3.1 million cars consuming...
• Article | 23/01/2009 Consumer gear goes green

  Timing is good for consumer electronics vendors that are interested in selling green technology.
• Article | 16/09/2008 20 amazing, amusing and alarming IT facts

  A new report warns that the cost from lost productivity at work related to the new NFL season could add up to US$10.5 billion. And there we were, thin...
• Article | 10/09/2008 Tech's looming battle against rising energy costs

  IT has gotten a bad rap when it comes to energy consumption. Walk into any datacenter, and you can almost feel the carbon emissions leaking into the a...

Whitepapers about environment

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  Deduplication and Compression: Maximizing Effective Capacity Utilization

  This whitepaper discusses the capacity efficiency technologies delivered in a series of storage platforms. High-powered deduplication and compression capabilities for file and block storage are delivered standard with the VNX Operating Environment. Read on.