The Intel-backed Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) program is now active in Australia, but participating vendors concede the hardest work still lies ahead as the green-focused consortium pursues the program's goal of slashing Australia's IT-related greenhouse emissions by 50 per cent in the next two years.
Michael Dell and other high-profile technology company CEOs descended on Washington this week with a message for the US government: do more to encourage energy-efficient practices, but don't spell out specific standards for the products that companies like theirs build.
Victorians will now be able to ditch their unwanted, end-of-life technology equipment in a green fashion following the launch of a state IT take-back program -- with support from big name vendors including Apple, Dell and HP.
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The Green Grid, a nonprofit organisation designed to improve energy efficiency for datacentres and corporate computing, announced on Monday its first board of directors.
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Enterprise technology users may still be getting used to Indian accents for many of their support queries, but PC giant Dell believes many of its customers would be better served by Malaysia.
With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.
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Lenovo's new ThinkCentre A61e is primarily a business PC, but it also has crossover appeal as a home office system, given its small size -- which echoes that of the Mac Mini and other recent, small-scale desktops.
The Latitude 2100 is an interesting answer to customising for the needs of schools. As a by-product, Dell has created a robust little netbook that can just as easily be tossed around by any techie who likes to work roughly.
The Dell Inspiron Mini 10 looks to be an improvement on the Mini 9, although the initial low resolution screen, lack of WWAN and three-cell battery option could hamper initial sales. We'd recommend waiting for the updated model coming later this year.
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