Neowin News Feed for: Green

Google's Nest Renew opens up for all in the continental U.S. to deliver cleaner energy use

Paul Hill — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 17:40:01 +0000

Google's Nest Renew is available to Nest thermostat users in the continental United States. The service helps to clean up your energy use and help you reduce your costs by avoiding peak-time usage. Read more...

Vodafone to green up its European operations from Spring

Paul Hill — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 21:56:01 +0000

Vodafone is planning to offer a range of new services in Europe that will extend the life of devices. This will help the company become a circular economy business where little is thrown away. Read more...

Samsung renews green pledge planning to expand renewables

Paul Hill — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:46:01 +0000

Samsung has restated its commitment to expanding its use of renewables. The firm plans to particularly focus on the U.S., Europe, and China. It also plans to help firms in its supply chain be green. Read more...

Samsung launches website to find out if your new Galaxy Note7 is safe or not

Justin Luna — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:30:01 +0000

Samsung has launched a new website to determine if a user's Galaxy Note7 is safe or not. Moreover, a new green battery color will be used in the Note7 UI to indicate that the battery is not faulty. Read more...

276,000 reservations made for the Tesla Model 3

Paul Hill — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 09:48:01 +0000

The Tesla Model 3 has received 276,000 reservations in three days. This sets the company up nicely to reach Elon Musk's goal of producing 500,000 Model 3 vehicles every year. Read more...

Cheap oil will help France deploy solar panels on its roads

Paul Hill — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 06:50:01 +0000

The French government says it will increase taxes on petrol in the wake of low oil prices, to help fund a project which will see 1,000 km of road be paved with solar panels. Read more...

Bill Gates said to launch multi-billion dollar clean energy tech initiative on Monday

Andy Weir — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:51:37 +0000

Bill Gates is expected to join US President Obama, French President Hollande and Indian Prime Minister Modi in announcing 'Initiative Cleantech' on the first day of the UN Climate Change Conference. Read more...

Apple invests almost $2 billion in green European datacenters

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:28:01 +0000

The iPhone maker has announced the construction of two additional data centers in Europe, both of which will rely on renewable energy and sustainable development. Read more...

Microsoft and partners awarded $5m for datacenter fuel cell research

Andy Weir — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:35:12 +0000

Microsoft and three partners have been awarded $5m to fund research into fuel cells that, it is hoped, will lead to more energy-efficient datacenters - and many more applications in the wider world. Read more...

Micro-windmills may power your next smartphone

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:54:04 +0000

Two researchers from University of Texas Arlington have created a micro-windmill, which could be used to power our mobile electronic devices in an environmentally friendly way. Read more...

The incredible hulk: Nokia's heavyweight Lumia 920 goes green

Andy Weir — Thu, 30 May 2013 08:35:18 +0000

Nokia's Lumia 925 may be thinner and lighter than its chunky predecessor, but the mighty Lumia 920 lives on - now with a new green variant, spotted available for purchase in Australia. Read more...

Microsoft's steps towards a power friendly Windows 8

Demetrius McCalman — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:52:22 +0000

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. Read more...

The world's first solar powered laptop?

Stefano Elia — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:51:43 +0000

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... Read more...

Greenpeace: Apple, Facebook, and Twitter fail at "green" energy

Denis Wong — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:36:21 +0000

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.... Read more...

Going beyond e-waste recycling: Inside a computer rebuilding operation

Denis Wong — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:24:38 +0000

E-waste. It’s a significant issue that’s continuing to occupy landfills worldwide, or at the very least, closets and basements of tech savvy consumers. There is little distinction made between hardware that refuses to power on,... Read more...

AT&T releases Samsung Evergreen, will save the Earth

Tzvi Friedman — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:44:51 +0000

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... Read more...

Upgrading to Windows 7 can save lots of watts.

Brody McKee — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:46:28 +0000

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... Read more...

Google signs wind energy agreement

Brandon Boyce — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:49:58 +0000

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... Read more...

Going green in the IT world

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:08:12 +0000

Perhaps as controversial as any topic can get. Today I'm talking about going 'green' with reference to the difficulty (or not) this idea presents within the IT industry. 'Green' has become a bit of a... Read more...

Cisco goes green with EnergyWise

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:38:50 +0000

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... Read more...

Greenpeace releases latest "Green" Results at CES 2009

Larry Cooney Jr — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:58:12 +0000

At their Press Conference at CES on Friday, January 10th, 2009, Greenpeace released the latest results of their "Green Electronics: the search continues" survey. While "the electronics industry has taken encouraging strides towards increasing... Read more...

Microsoft Signs Deal To Buy The Green Button Website.

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:17:14 +0000

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.... Read more...

Intel is the Largest Purchaser of Green Power in the U.S

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:36:39 +0000

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... Read more...

CeBIT Goes Green This Year

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:31:41 +0000

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,... Read more...

Dell Intros Green Blade Servers, Targets HP, IBM

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:39:19 +0000

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... Read more...

Companies still slow to green their IT – Survey

Steven Parker — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:01:39 +0000

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... Read more...

Hitachi releasing Power Saving Green Hard Drives

Steven Parker — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:13:34 +0000

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... Read more...

Greenpeace raises Apple green rating

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:24:50 +0000

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... Read more...

DDR3 standard gets the green light

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:46:12 +0000

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.... Read more...

Google gives UK mobile maps the green light

Tom Warren — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:38:26 +0000

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.... Read more...

Green PC running Vista highly unlikely say Green Party

Steven Parker — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:44:17 +0000

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... Read more...

Google goals: more ads, less spam, go green

Steven Parker — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:06:14 +0000

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... Read more...

UN backs green web TV

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:11:24 +0000

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... Read more...

Judge Gives Green Light to Monopolization Suit Against Apple

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:47:21 +0000

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... Read more...

.xxx given green light

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:29:10 +0000

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... Read more...

Dell Announces Green PCs

Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:24:50 +0000

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... Read more...

PeopleSoft Shareholders Give Oracle Green Light

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:05:28 +0000

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... Read more...

Nvidia Green Lights the Quadro FX 4000 Chip

Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:27:11 +0000

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... Read more...

Microsoft Grows Project Green

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:43:56 +0000

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... Read more...

Dell sees green in EPA computer, recycling pact

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:51:22 +0000

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. ... Read more...