Global banking giant HSBC will aim for big savings and to slash its air travel by millions of miles as it begins a global rollout of Cisco's videoconferencing system, TelePresence.
TechnologyOne today said it had acquired the rights to the Web-enabled strategic planning and performance management software of fellow Queensland-based corporate software vendor OutcomeManager.
The United Kingdom's minister of state for the environment Phil Woolas paid a virtual trip to Australia yesterday as he used telepresence technology to speak at a Sydney conference.
The UK government has announced plans to make its computer systems wholly carbon-neutral by 2020 by adopting various green IT strategies, including automatically powering down PCs, configuring virtual servers and selective deployments of thin client technology.
Virtualisation is the key technology for creating less power-hungry datacentres, according to numerous speakers at the Energy Logic symposium in Sydney.
At the CeBIT exhibition in Germany this week, Steve Ballmer got on stage and told the world that Microsoft takes "green" issues seriously.
According to research firm Gartner, by 2010 75 percent of organisations will use "full life cycle energy" and CO2 footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.
More and more Australians are choosing to work from home for at least part of the week.
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.
At NICTA's recent Techfest conference, researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) get to show off the projects they have been working on all year, including facial recognition tech designed to help catch criminals as well as better algorithms and sensors for traffic control.
Australian Department of Defence CIO Greg Farr spoke to ZDNet.com.au about how the organisation's networks are kept secure and why virtualisation and green issues are high on the agenda.
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Can virtual worlds make a meaningful contribution to business -- and if so, how can they be protected from invasions of privacy and flying genitalia? ZDNet Australia gets the lowdown from Chris Collins, technical assistant to the CEO at Second Life developer Linden Lab.
Although Dell has been praised for its efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions and PC waste, its claim that it is the "greenest IT company in the world" has been criticised for overstating the truth.
With so many monitors to choose from, before you buy, it pays to figure out which specs and features will be most important to you.
The Australian Communications Authority has released a fact sheet on the effects of radiation from 3G towers in an attempt to allay community fears.
Motorola is conducting research in a new type of large flat-panel display which they claim has the potential of being cheaper than plasma or LCD (liquid crystal display) screens.
A week after Nvidia's launch of the GeForce FX graphics chip, Taiwan's Silicon Integrated Systems has brought out its latest entry for price-conscious gamers: the Xabre 600.
Advanced Micro Devices is expanding the variety of chips based on its flash-memory technology that allows twice as much data to be stored on mobile phones and other consumer electronics devices.
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