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• Industry, Apple haggles for hardware recycling help

  The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) and a group of industry partners including Apple and IBM met with representatives from both state and federal governments on Wednesday to propose a national computer recycling scheme.

• Apple, Dell leap on Victoria green IT plan

  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.

• WWF urges IT industry to reduce emissions

  The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is urging the tech industry to become greener to save the planet -- and also to boost business.

• HP claims storage will cost 50 percent less to run

  HP is releasing a new line of "green" storage products that, according to the company, will require half the power and cooling of its current systems.

• Hostworks take NineMSN down virtual path

  Adelaide-based Web hosting company Hostworks is ramping up its investment in server virtualisation after re-signing its biggest customer, NineMSN, for a further three to six years.

Blogs (2)

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  The $5 budget challenge

  The ever-decreasing cost of storage might look like a useful development for the cash-strapped IT manager, but in fact the falling bucks per gigabyte figure can carry a hidden sting in the tail.

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  In carriers' high-def future, pants are the real winners

  As anybody who works from home knows, one of the great benefits of telecommuting is that pants are optional. Wear your pyjamas to that teleconference, or attend in your birthday suit if you prefer; nobody will be the wiser.

Features and Case Studies (17)

• Green your datacentre or it may go dark

  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.

• PCs: Keeping IT green

  While recycling is all fine and good, before we go to the trouble of ripping an item to bits and making it into something else ," there is an intermediate stage: Reuse!

• Old IT never dies...

  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?

• 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?

• Straight to the source: Green and Redman

  We put Steve Redman, MD of EMC Australia, up against Simon Green, MD of Network Appliance Australia and watch the sparks fly.

Reviews (56)

• Lenovo ThinkCentre A61e

  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.

• PCs: Keeping IT green

  While recycling is all fine and good, before we go to the trouble of ripping an item to bits and making it into something else ," there is an intermediate stage: Reuse!

• HP w185

  Its limitations mean that the only scenario we can recommend the w185 in is where you need a dirt cheap monitor for extremely basic use, like to throw in a server room. Otherwise if you're looking for quality, we'd look elsewhere.

• HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless

  The HP Officejet Pro 8500 wireless makes a convincing inkjet argument for offices with a high volume of prints. With a function touchscreen, multiple networking options and an astoundingly fast print speed, it makes perfect sense to give this workhorse an Editors' Choice award.

• HP 2009f LCD Monitor

  The HP 2009f is a good-looking 20-inch display with enough features to make it well worth its low price.

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