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  • Sun co-founder prefers green tech to Web

    Sun Microsystems co-founder and notable Internet technologist Bill Joy has decided that green tech is a far more worthy investment than Internet companies.

  • MIT shines light on solar windows

    Researchers at the US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have detailed a technique that can boost solar cell output and turn tinted windows into solar panels.

  • Intel, IBM take green plunge with solar tech

    Intel entered the burgeoning clean-tech sector on Monday by creating SpectraWatt, a spinoff company that will manufacture solar cells, following IBM's latest foray into solar technology

  • Google extending renewable energy plans

    Google can brag about having the biggest corporate installation of solar power. But for them, it's just the beginning of their renewable energy plans.

  • Photos: Datacentre heat, Google's secret solution

    When supercomputers get together, things get hot fast. Our photo gallery reveals how modern datacentres are cooled, and gives an insight into Google's secret solution to the problem.

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    Odd patents and the patently odd

    Today I'm taking a dip into the most interesting patents -- and patently silly ideas -- and what manner of messed-up services may be coming to your handset before too long, including the fertility phone, smellophone and Feng Shui phone.

  • Read the blog post - Colin Ho

    Sun shining on Ajnaware

    Graham Dawson talks about the future of iPhone app development and augmented reality.

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    Time for some bright green ideas

    Mobile phone companies have seen the green bandwagon go by and are flinging themselves on it faster than you can say "lazy, greenwash-spewing me-too merchants" but in the pantheon of would-be eco-friendly mobile makers, Nokia is coming up with some of the best and worst ideas on the market.

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  • Photos: Datacentre heat, Google's secret solution

    When supercomputers get together, things get hot fast. Our photo gallery reveals how modern datacentres are cooled, and gives an insight into Google's secret solution to the problem.

  • Photos: Solar racers gain speed Down Under

    Teams from around the world were on the move across Australia this past week to show what a homemade car and some solar panels can do.

  • Photos: Sydney Googleplex Under Construction

    ZDNet.com.au takes you on a tour of Google's new Sydney Googleplex, which is currently under construction. Australian Googlers will work in an environmentally friendly building, next to glamorous Sydney Harbour, with views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Tower, and the Star City Casino.

  • Datacentre 2020: Greener, faster, more flexible

    The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?

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    The CIO of San Francisco International Airport talks to ZDNet about protecting the airport's network and providing new services such as passenger WiFi.

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  • Advanced energy solution pulls the plug on PDAs

    The Department for Energy Technology at the Fraunhofer-Institutea, -- cradle of MP3 and MIT opposite number in Germany - has presented a solar solution for powering PDAs without the need to externally recharge the battery. They soon could apear on the mass market.

  • Video wall displays fantastic 3D voyage

    Researchers use an IBM supercomputer to create giant, 3D images that let them stroll around a human heart or surf solar winds. Did we mention the high-tech red-and-blue-lensed glasses?

  • Infineon gets musical with MP3 jacket

    The chipmaker is moving into high-tech fabrics, including a jacket with a built-in MP3 player.

  • Dust and mirrors bring smart world closer

    New research shows how to make self-contained communicating computers the size of grains of salt.

  • Notebook overhaul on the horizon

    Five years from now the notebook will likely be smaller and lighter, capable of making mobile phone calls on its own and running on methanol.

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