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• Industry warms to Greener internet

  Industry participation in the international GreenTouch consortium attempting to reduce the carbon footprint of global networks has begun to grow, with the addition of US service provider, AT&T.
  

• Big Iron 'not dead': BMC

  Despite growth in alternatives to mainframes, big iron will not vanish from data centres any time soon, BMC has claimed.

• Green IT: A critical industry practice

  Green IT is still at its early stage of development in the industry worldwide. Nonetheless, it is an essential domain for businesses not only to boost corporate environmental responsibility but also to reduce companies' bottom line. This was the highlight of the conference organised by the Green IT Chapter of the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) on 8 October 2010 in Singapore's Nanyang Polytechnic.

• AIIA spruiks green IT sustainability to Canberra

  Industry body Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has called upon Australian governments, businesses and the ICT industry to collaborate on using technology more effectively to reduce the nation’s carbon footprint. Doing so, it believes, could see Australia cut carbon emissions by 20 per cent or 116 megatonnes annually by 2020, while also boosting the economy by up to $80 billion.
  

• New mobile charger cuts 'vampire' power drain to zero

  A team at London's City University has been granted a patent on a new 'green' technology that stops phone, laptop and MP3 chargers eating electricity even when nothing is connected to them.

• Oracle board against sustainability proposal

  Oracle's board of directors has weighed in against a shareholder proposal calling for the creation of a board-level committee on sustainability, according to the proxy statement for the vendor's upcoming annual meeting.

• Fujitsu says green IT services can cut bills by 20 percent

  Most of the talk about IT energy efficiency has focused on the data center, but office equipment like PCs and printers can offer plenty of opportunity to cut costs as well. Fujitsu is rolling out some new services Wednesday that aim to help companies tackle both areas at once, and it claims they can reduce a company's IT energy bills by 20 percent on average.

• NEC develops green technology from non-food components

  Japan's NEC Corporation may have found the answer to the nagging debate between saving the environment without necessarily starving the population. And NEC found the answer while addressing the demand for durable plastic for the electronics industry.

• MIT builds swimming, oil-eating robots

  MIT researchers have used nanotechnology to develop a robot that can autonomously navigate across the surface of the ocean to clean up an oil spill.

• Vampire hunters: Devices reduce energy waste

  It's 1 a.m., and everyone in the house is asleep. The television is off. The computers are off. Your cell phones and MP3 players are plugged in but no longer charging. And all these products are still sucking electricity.

• Green IT remains immature, emmission offsets highly unlikely

  Green IT remains immature across the US, UK, Australia and India and the industry is highly unlikely to offset its carbon emissions by 2020, according to a Fujitsu commissioned survey.

• Chip startup seeks to lower electric bills in data centers

  A new startup funded by major chip makers and investment firms is taking aim at electricity bills, the biggest cost in data centers.

• Off-the-grid gadget chargers provide power in a pinch

  Keeping mobile phones and other portable electronics charged is a hassle if you make frequent business trips or work in multiple locations. Inevitably, your smartphone's battery dies far from a power source just when you need to make a crucial call or get directions to a meeting.

• How to migrate to Energy Efficient Ethernet

  The IEEE's 802.3az standard for Energy Efficient Ethernet is expected to be finalized by next year, but it's not too soon to think about how your IT organization can migrate to EEE.

• Apple battery charger slays the vampire

  There may not be anything magical or revolutionary about AA batteries, but we need them to run a variety of electronic gizmos, including wireless mice and keyboards, as well as dozens of analog devices such as flashlights, wall clocks, and portable cassette recorders.