Tag: Computing - Page 16
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Cornell Researchers on the Trail of Low Power Memory for Computers
What if computers didn't require a boot time, but just switched on and off, with instant access memory that consumed little power? That could be a possibility if researchers at Cornell
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Microsoft MSDN Goes Loband
Anyone who has tinkered under the hood of a Windows machine is fully appreciative of the Microsoft Developer's Network (MSDN), a clearinghouse of information for all Microsoft products. Recently - and perhaps through a little
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Smart Grid Tech Taking Hold in Australia
Smart grid technology is expanding in Australia and quite a few companies are finding a place for themselves within a government-mandated Advanced Metering Infrastructure program. Most recently, IBM and Silver Spring
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Tiny Nettop All-in-Ones May Start Pushing Bigger Desktops Aside
Photo of Dell All-in-one - Credit: Rafe Needleman/CNET Netbooks are the greener, more practical version of notebooks. Now we're seeing the same concept applied to desktops. Smaller, simpler, cheaper versions of desktops are becoming a hot item. With the
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Facebook's Monthly Electricity Bill Tops $1 Million
With a monthly energy bill big enough to throw a sheep at, Facebook and its photo and video sharing is showing what kind of an impact social networking has on the grid. From Current: The company is likely spending well over a $1 million per month on
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A Netbook Faceoff - Acer Aspire One vs HP Mini 1000
I'm growing increasingly jealous of the netbooks I see perched on laps of folks at the various conferences I attend. The users look so content, meanwhile I lug around my 7 pound Dell laptop. Netbooks are light, compact, and
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Two Innovations Using Renewable Energy Win $100k Each from Intel
Intel has announced the winners of their INSPIRE•EMPOWER Challenge, which was launched in San Francisco last summer. The competition required developers to come up with innovative ways of
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Constructal Theory: 5 Designs Shaping the Future of Sustainable Engineering
photo Jenny Downing@Flickr What Is Constructal Design and Can It Save The World? Take a look at a leaf, like the one above. Notice the elegant branching pattern of the veins. This is a constructal design. If you were to look at a river from an airplane,
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Rash of Infiltrated Computer Systems Prods Question: How Safe is Smart Grid?
Lately, we just keep hearing more and more bad news about technology falling hopelessly under attack by dastardly bad-doers, otherwise known as cyber-hackers. With so much bad news finding its way into headlines, it makes some
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Climate Savers Summit Will Help You Learn PC Energy Efficiency
Yesterday we covered the issue of wasted energy from PCs left on overnight. For those interested in finding out solutions to the problem, you might want to check out the upcoming Climate Savers webinar that will teach you the ins
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Report Shows Half of US Workers Don't Shut Down PCs, Wasting $2.8 Billion
Nearly two years ago, we reported that leaving PCs on overnight cost US businesses around $1.7 billion a year in wasted energy. However, a new report shows that figure jumping all the way up to $2.8 billion - even during a time when energy efficiency is
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Internet Can Be Used to Detect Early Warnings of Eco Changes
Researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the University of East Anglia have determined that the Internet can be used for a whole lot of untapped information mining - including detecting possible
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IT Buyers Rank Greenest Computer Companies
Strategic Oxygen and Cohn & Wolf have released a study that ranks which companies IT buyers view as the greenest. Over 3,500 CIOs, CXO, IT Managers and other decision makers from 11 countries were surveyed about 26
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Facebook App Saves PC Energy...Maybe
Are you on Facebook and up for a little friendly competition? A Facebook App from Support.com just might help people save energy through PC settings and sharing information with their friends. It's part of a 30-day "Green Your PC" challenge. Using
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Sustainable Loband in the Cloud?
As the discussion over rural broadband heats up, there's sure to be plenty more discussion as to the efficacy of the proposed solutions. Here's one that novel - Loband. Put out by Aptivate, Loband is a free service that simplifies web pages in order
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Green:Net Using Solar Power for Conference's WiFi Network
Green:Net 09 is rapidly approaching. The event, being held March 24 in San Francisco, focuses on how the tools of the Internet can be used to fight global climate change. It's something we talk about a lot here on TreeHugger, for obvious reasons, and
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Microsoft Aims At 30% Emissions Reduction by 2012
Microsoft is doing a lot to focus on emissions reductions. We talked last month about their push for energy efficiency of data centers, but the company is looking to do a whole lot more to make a tinier carbon
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ETech 2009 Wrap-Up: Emerging Tech IS Green Tech
The fact is, a conference on emerging technology didn't have to talk about green at all. There's a whole lot of cool techy stuff coming out that doesn't have much to do with being green. But the theme of green permeated the
