Sun Microsystems co-founder and notable Internet technologist Bill Joy has decided that green tech is a far more worthy investment than Internet companies.
Prince Charles has discovered thin clients and finds the notion they can help cut energy costs "mind boggling".
Microsoft has this week handed out US$500,000 to four universities doing research into efficient computing, while rival Sun has stepped up its green IT marketing efforts.
Sun Microsystems is merging its storage and server units into one team, the company's chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has announced.
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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.
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.
Facing a major upgrade of its core SAP environment, Victorian electricity distributor Powercor last year found itself facing a mountain of issues -- and riding a steep learning curve to testing management.
Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash and how to spend less of it.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Sun's CEO says it's possible to be business-savvy and eco-friendly at the same time.
The International Olympic Committee doesn't believe wireless security is good enough for their IT set-up at Athens in 2004.
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.
Intel plans to describe a new high-end Itanium chip code-named Tanglewood at its Developer Forum conference this month, sources close to the company said. The chip will include as many as 16 processors on a single slice of silicon.
Intel has disclosed an electrical problem that can cause computers using its flagship Itanium 2 processor to behave erratically or crash.
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