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• Lonely carbon trading units seek new database

  The Federal government has put out a tender for a registry system to manage its carbon units and form the backbone for a national emissions trading scheme.

• Green tech is a goldmine, not a burden

  The IT industry should view the buzz around green technology as an opportunity rather than a compliance burden, says industry analyst Bruce McCabe.

• 2007: How was it for green IT?

  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.

• Standards set for voluntary carbon offsets

  Despite being a market projected to grow to US$4 billion over the next five years, the carbon offset market has only just settled on one standard to measure its currency.

• Mobile phones get facial recognition

  Software that could allow existing phones and PDAs to recognise their owners will be demonstrated at a security show in Japan this week.

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  Give me a ship, and a trading scheme to steer her by

  Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?

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  Are you getting what you voted for?

  One of the real dangers of election season -- for politicians, at least -- is being held to their word.

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• IBM, Infineon tout magnetic memory

  IBM and Infineon will jointly present a paper this week that demonstrates how MRAM, one of the leading candidates to replace flash memory in mobile phones, could be ready for commercial production by 2005.

• How Intel plans to make a wireless everything

  Commentary: Everything has a cheap microchip inside, so Intel's CTO figures everything can have a wireless connection, too. Is he an industry visionary? Or a corporate kook? Apparently, even Intel wondered.

• AMD revs up transistor designs

  Researchers at Advanced Micro Devices report significant new design techniques that the company says will lead--eventually--to higher chip performance.

• Bright idea lights way for LEDs

  Scientists at Japanese company Omron have bumped up the light cast by an LED bulb, potentially clearing a hurdle to the adoption of the low-power, long-lasting light source.

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