Faced with an increasing number of wireless technologies and standards, planning a long-term networking strategy is a daunting prospect.
News and video from Gartner's Symposium event, which is being held in Sydney this week.
The intense power requirements needed to run and cool datacentres now account for almost a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions from ICT, according to analyst firm Gartner.
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.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is urging the tech industry to become greener to save the planet -- and also to boost business.
It's official, 2007 was the year in which green IT became important to the IT industry, with corporate giants like Google, Intel, HP, Dell, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems all willing to get their hands dirty.
As our nation comes to grips with the implications of global warming, technology has the potential to be a major part of the solution to our CO2 challenges.
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.
Companies are hanging on to their IT equipment longer to stave off spending what they can't currently afford. But IT systems have to be disposed of eventually; what happens when they do?
Despite its clear benefits in stock tracking and the success of early, isolated pilot tests in tracking high-value assets, RFID technology is still spinning its wheels as ongoing high costs and unclear return on investment continue to keep once-enthusiastic customers away in droves.
Since lifting its university-only restrictions in September 2006, Facebook has become the poster child for social networks and attracted more than 65 million users. But will it survive 'the next big thing'?
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