Everyone's going green these days, so why not Microsoft? With Windows 8 coming down the tube, they take us on a quick tour at what they are implementing to save on the energy. More...

The worlds of computers and the environment usually do not mix, it's by inheritance given the power and materials needed to make modern day computers work as we want them to. Some have attempted to... More...

Let's be fair to some of the Internet's most recognizable brands - Apple, Facebook, and Twitter have hundreds of millions of users utilizing their services daily. A large userbase does come with a massive footprint.... More...

AT&T and Samsung have teamed up to introduce a “green” phone. The Samsung Evergreen, an ecofriendly mobile device that does very basic calling and messaging, will be available from AT&T on November 7 for $29.99... More...

With any new OS, there are both advantages and disadvantages to upgrading. For many computer buffs, an OS upgrade at home is often a no-brainer; for large organizations, that simple OS upgrade becomes a huge... More...

Google has agreed to buy energy generated from a wind farm in Iowa for the next 20 years. The deal gives Google access to 114 megawatts of wind power at a fixed price over the... More...

Cisco Systems announced in a press release on Tuesday the launch of a three-stage plan to help IT businesses reduce their carbon emissions, through the use of their new EnergyWise technology. Primarily designed for Cisco's... More...

Microsoft has signed a deal to to own and manage the Green Button website. "Since the inception of TheGreenButton.com five years ago, the forum has served as the foundation of the Windows Media Center Community.... More...

First it won the heart of hardware enthusiasts with the Core 2 Duo, and now it is targeting environmentalists. Intel Corporation plans to purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy... More...

The Climate Savers Computing Initiative, established by many of the world's leading computer companies will use the 2008 CeBIT trade show to drive home the green IT message. The Initiative is led by Dell, EDS,... More...

Dell (NSDQ:Dell) wants its piece of the fast-growing blade server market, and is introducing a new blade server line and channel training and certification to make it happen. Dell, Round Rock, Texas, on Monday unveiled... More...

Despite growing awareness of the need to adopt more environmentally friendly IT practices, a quarter of firms (26%) admit to having done next to nothing to green their IT, according a PMP Research study commissioned... More...

Hitachi has announced it will be releasing green hard drives this quarter with up to 40% better idle power savings. The pricing will be comparable with non-green devices. Hitachi will remain at 7200rpm throughout all... More...

In April Greenpeace listed Apple at the bottom of its rankings but now the environmental campaign group has bumped the company ahead of Sony, LG Electronics, Panasonic and HP to tenth place on the 14-company... More...

The Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (Jedec) has published the specifications of the forthcoming Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) memory standard. DDR3 memory promises improvements in performance and power consumption over DDR2 and older standards.... More...

Google Mobile Maps is now available to UK users for route planning and local searching. The service, integrated with Google Earth for showing satellite images, has been available as a Java application for a while.... More...

Retailer PC World claims that it is working on the world's most energy-efficient and environmentally friendly PC, based partly on recycled components. While this could be easily achieved using Vista Basic and it's superior to... More...

Google Blogoscoped blogger Philipp Lenssen has gotten ahold of an internal Google document that details the company's goals for 2006. Among them are sell $1 billion of new ad inventory , which is the number... More...

The world's first online 'green' television channel has gone live with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) behind it. Green.tv is aimed solely at tackling environmental issues and hopes to become the web's definitive resource... More...

With all the hoopla of the video iPod and speculation that Apple was going to release a media center-style PC and switch to Intel chips, it seems that the media last September inadvertently – or... More...

ICann has given the go-ahead to plans for what has been described as a "virtual red-light district", with the creation of a .xxx TLD. Negotiations are to begin with ICM Registry Inc, which will run... More...

PC maker Dell has launched a new line of environmentally friendly business PC's. The move comes as part of Dell's need to meet international and EU requirements on environmental design. The EU's Reduction of Hazardous... More...

Oracle Relevant Products/Services from Oracle, backed by what the company views as a favorable response from PeopleSoft Latest News about PeopleSoft stockholders, is applying more pressure in an effort to complete its proposed US$9.2 billion... More...

Nvidia has introduced its latest workstation-class graphics chip, the Quadro FX 4000. Essentially an overclocked version of the previous top-end Quadro FX 3000, the 4000 bumps the triangle processing rate to 133m each... More...

Completion of Microsoft Corp.'s Project Green initiative to bring its four business application suites together on a single code base is still two years away, but the company is already trying to standardize some features... More...

Dell reported this week that it has won a contract to supply PCs to the Environmental Protection Agency over the next three years, as well as help the regulatory body recycle its aging hardware. ... More...

Thanks andrewfee for posting this on our forums. Microsoft is to bring a brand new, green version of its Xbox hardware to market. The unit will be a retail version of the translucent... More...