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  • Sustainability, social media and big data

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    The term Big Data is becoming the buzz word du jour in IT these days popping up everywhere, but with good reason – more and more data is being collected, curated and analysed today, than ever before. Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter announced last week that Twitter is now publishing 500 million tweets per day.…

  • HP joins ranks of microserver providers with Redstone

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    The machine in the photo above is HP’s newly announced Redstone server development platform. Capable of fitting 288 servers into a 4U rack enclosure, it packs a lot of punch into a small space. The servers are System on a Chip based on Calxeda ARM processors but according to HP, future versions will include “Intel®…

  • Friday Green Numbers round-up 05/28/2010

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    And here is this week’s Green numbers: Infographic: Gulf oil spill by the numbers Amazing infographic of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill – puts it into perspective. tags: Gulf of Mexico, oilspill, bp, greennumbers Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons further than ever before.…

  • Tech company sustainability reports reviewed

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    I was asked on Twitter recently where to find a list of links to tech companies’ CSR reports. I didn’t know where to find one, so I built one and as well as just the links, I also added in a few extra observations I noted about the reports.

  • NightWatchman saving energy

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    Following on from my earlier post about the importance of turning things off, we had a briefing the other day from a company called 1E. 1E entered the power management space about 10 years ago when they wrote NightWatchman. NightWatchman is a PC power management application which aims to reduce the energy wasted by computers…

  • Dell's hellish batteries recalled

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    According to a report in the New York Times today, Dell is recalling over 4 million laptop batteries because of their propensity to catch fire or explode! Up to now the advice has been if you think your battery might be one of those likely to catch fire, take it out of the laptop and…

  • Dell do well!

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    In case you missed it, Dell started a blog in the last couple of weeks. So what? Well, Dell has been roundly panned on the Internet for around 12 months now for not being responsive to criticism, for not listening. The term “Dell Hell” came to be coined referring to Dell’s poor customer service. Dell’s…