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Mac 'cloner' Psystar pushes peck of pickled patches
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2008-05-21 00:29:10
Psystar, the company that caused a stir by offering a low-cost computer running Mac OS X, is now providing a range of software patches via its web site. Will Apple finally respond?


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IBM continues green machine theme
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Software

2008-05-20 19:34:06
IBM's been pushing better energy efficiency for data centres for a year, and has now introduced a new set of offerings to help its customers meet that goal.


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HP turns theory into fact with memristor memory
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2008-04-30 16:18:57
It's been 37 years since Leon Chua hypothesised the existence of the memristor - the 'missing' basic electronic circuit element to complement the capacitor, resistor and inductor - but Hewlett-Packard scientists have finally made one.


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Smallest Dell PC yet goes eco-friendly with bamboo
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-04-23 20:46:50
Dell’s eponymous CEO, Michael Dell, has unveiled his smallest, ‘never before seen’ eco-PC – which comes with a curvy bamboo casing. Is it a Mac Mini competitor, a way to jump on the green bandwagon or the start of a whole new successful line of environmentally friendly PCs?


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Phone battery flat? Charge it up again – with water!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-04-22 05:44:25
I’ve seen water powered digital watches and calculators on sale at markets – now Samsung is taking the technology a step further to transform water into a power source that could – in 2010 - literally juice up your future phone!


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Fuji Xerox celebrates 30 years, goes greener and updates logo
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-04-22 01:51:44
Last week, Fuji Xerox celebrated the 30th year of the laser printer with several new models, including colour lasers, LED and Phaser ‘solid ink’ printers. Although there are some consumer models, most are aimed at business and enterprise, with new ‘green’ models aimed at separating Fuji Xerox from the rest of the printing pack.


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Plant trees as you search the net
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Search engines

2008-04-16 03:26:32
What is claimed to be the world's first 'green' search engine that offsets carbon emissions with no cost to the user has launched in Australia and 14 countries around the world.


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Fujitsu joins 0.5T/2.5in brigade
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Storage

2008-02-25 20:07:14
Fujitsu is set to join Hitachi and Samsung as a supplier of 500G 2.5in hard drives.


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007’s underwater car is no longer fiction!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-02-15 05:38:35
If you’ve ever wished you could drive your car underwater like James Bond in ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’, Swiss company Rinspeed have launched the sQuba, letting drivers do just that – but at a cost of US $1.5 million it’ll be a while before most consumers take to the water – in their cars!


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Verizon videoconferencing goes HD
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2008-01-25 00:37:27
Verizon Business has begun offering the option of high definition with its  videoconferencing services.


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WD goes green for data centres
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Storage

2008-01-21 22:52:43
New power-saving hard drives from Western Digital trim electricity consumption by around one third compared with competing units.


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Dell says PowerEdge has the edge on competition
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2008-01-21 21:58:34
Dell claims its new PowerEdge M1000e blade server provides industry-leading performance per watt and installation times.


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Revolutionary nanowire battery delivers 10x the charge of lithium-ion
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-01-16 04:17:34
An amazing new nanowire battery has finally been developed that delivers the revolutionary leap in battery technology we’ve all been waiting for, giving our gadgets and notebooks up to 10x the battery life, while reliably powering the electric cars of tomorrow. At last!


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Apple's green thumb
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability

Category: Green IT

2008-01-15 14:45:05
Having taken some stick for allegedly poor environmental practices (though that was as much about communication as actual performance), Apple has played up the green aspects of its latest model.


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Much more to sustainability in IT than being green, says AIIA
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology people

Category: Shakers & Breakers - Enterprise Staffing

2008-01-12 21:35:39
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) is leading the charge to make 2008 'the year of the sustainable workplace' but says the concept of a sustainability in IT must be much wider than environment or 'green' issues and must address the threat posed to the industry's long term viability by a diminishing pool of human resources and increased competition for those resources.
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Needed now: a national scheme to recycle old IT gear
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!

Category: Telecommunications blog

2008-01-09 04:45:23
While the lifetime of computer equipment is rapidly getting shorter Australia is moving only slowly towards a national recycling scheme. Meanwhile in the US, private enterprise has come up with a scheme that gives owners of obsolete equipment some incentive to recycle.
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How green is green IT?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2008-01-08 22:40:47
Hewlett-Packard says it will cut 25 percent from the energy consumption of its volume desktop and notebook PCs by 2010 - but the fine print reveals that the baseline is 2005.


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Data centres: old and unsuitable
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2007-12-18 21:28:42
Aperture Research Institute (ARI) has surveyed data centre facilities worldwide and says the results show that data centres are aging and that companies are not planning ahead or demonstrating timely investment in new data centres.


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Check your greenhouse gas emissions, via cellphone
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Technology

2007-12-18 20:59:34
No, not those produced by flatulence: the European Commission's Joint Research Centre has developed a cellphone application that enables users to see the quantity greenhouse gases that is produced when they carry out their everyday activities.
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Super Mario v the exploding laptop
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2007-12-18 00:36:50
Greenpeace has co-opted popular game characters into a video to boost its campaign to get brominated flame retardants eliminated from electronic equipment. The industry body representing the manufacturers of these has hit back with scare tactics.
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