An awful lot of juice meant to power PCs never gets used so tech companies -- including Google and Intel -- have teamed up to try and make PCs and servers run more efficiently.
Unanswerable questions of our time, number one: If you're so smart, why ain't you rich? And number two: If your new PC's so much better than your old one, how come it don't work properly?
When it comes to power management on most electronic devices, things are pretty simple. There's "off," and then there's "on."
The UK Office of Government Commerce has urged public-sector workers to turn off their PCs overnight to help cut carbon emissions and costs.
IBM's new dual-core PowerPC 970MP processor employs several features to let the chip consume less power when possible.
It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
Are cheap external USB video cards good enough to power an extra monitor or five, and what are their pitfalls? Won't handle 3D acceleration? Take up valuable CPU cycles? Leave dirty dishes around your desk and have a bad odour?
Some of the 500,000 visitors expected to walk through the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition on the Sydney coastline this November can be excused for saying they are seeing things that aren't really there.
Feeding Snow Leopard with juicy Office 2008 discs caused a few problems for our New Zealand correspondent.
The global financial crisis might have tarnished some of Silicon Valley's lustre, but for many Australian technology entrepreneurs who have migrated to the US, it hasn't lost its bright shiny status.
The first problem to solve in bringing computing to the world's poor involves delivering electricity.
When you're in charge of buying 2,000 desktops should you go for an assortment of vendors, or stick to just one? City of Melbourne's desktop services manager, Ashe Potter, says using a single supplier is cheaper, easier and less hassle to manage.
Unanswerable questions of our time, number one: If you're so smart, why ain't you rich? And number two: If your new PC's so much better than your old one, how come it don't work properly?
If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the "dirty little secrets" may surprise you because we don't usually talk about them out loud.
Microsoft chairman claims mobile phone makers have to catch up to the power of his company's software.
Apple has unveiled its fast, sleek 64-bit Power Mac G5. Here are our early impressions of this hot new desktop PC.
Unanswerable questions of our time, number one: If you're so smart, why ain't you rich? And number two: If your new PC's so much better than your old one, how come it don't work properly?
Microsoft has reworked the PC assessment tool in Windows Vista after fielding complaints from hardware makers -- but the changes may not be enough to completely quell concerns.
Windows Vista delivers some pretty snazzy new graphics, but all that "wow" can be a real drain.
With the G5, Apple's Power Mac finally lives up to its Power Mac name.
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