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Article | 20/05/2013 Foxconn reports three possible suicides at factories in China
Three workers at Foxconn factories in China have fallen to their deaths in recent weeks and police are investigating, according to the company.
Article | 17/05/2013 Virtual reality and non-conductive liquids: data centers get innovative
Google I/O is getting most of the attention this week, but a conference at the other end of Silicon Valley showed there's plenty of innovation happeni...
Article | 17/05/2013 Progress at Foxconn factories, but working hours still exceed Chinese laws
Employees at the Chinese factories of Apple supplier Foxconn continue to work beyond the country's legal limit of 49 hours a month, according to a rep...
Article | 16/05/2013 Swedish data center saves $1 million a year using seawater for cooling
A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional ha...
Article | 14/05/2013 Datacentres show signs of 'green fatigue'
A new survey from the Uptime Institute suggests fatigue is setting in when it comes to making data centers greener, and it may be partly due to overac...

Tutorials about environment

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.

Features about environment

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...

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