A data centre startup is exiting stealth mode with technology that reduces power and cooling costs by analysing the energy consumption of IT equipment and applications.

The general consensus on the Motorola Droid is that while it's a very strong device, it still doesn't match the iPhone.

The US Department of Energy has announced that it will give $5.5 million (£3.4m) from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support the X Prize Foundation’s competition to build mass production capable cars that can get at least 100 MPG.

Toronto Hydro-Electric System is offering financial incentives to companies that reduce their energy consumption in data centres.

EMC is working with Intel on a more energy efficient version of EMC's Atmos cloud storage system that should be available in the second half of next year, the companies said.

British Gas customers can monitor their electricity usage using Google's online PowerMeter service.

Enterprise efforts to consolidate data centres and install virtualisation software are taking a big bite out of the number of power hungry application and storage servers required to support enterprise data. But after taking this critical first step, what else can you do to boost efficiency?

Millions of servers around the world are doing little more than wasting energy, according to a new study.

A French government agency has warned that measures should be taken to reduce everyday exposure to radio signals, even though, it said, there is no definitive proof that such signals have a negative effect on human health.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs have built an experimental energy-efficient computing cluster that combines flash memory and the sort of processors used in netbooks. Their name for it? Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (FAWN). 

Social networking site MySpace.com announced today that it has switched from using hard disk drives in its servers to using PCI Express (PCIe) cards loaded with solid state chips as primary storage for their data centre operations.

Hewlett Packard is bringing new power management features to laptops that can help companies measure and cut energy costs.

South Korea's LG Display has developed a solar panel for an ebook reader.

Iomega Thursday launched its latest network-attached storage unit, the StorCenter ix2-200. Small business owners will want to pay particular attention to this exciting, versatile, energy-efficient, and feature-rich storage device.

Iomega Thursday launched its latest network-attached storage unit, the StorCenter ix2-200. Small business owners will want to pay particular attention to this exciting, versatile, energy-efficient, and feature-rich storage device.

NetApp and VMware have each built highly efficient new data centres designed to provide millions of dollars of savings on energy costs each year, the vendors announced separately this week.

CA is set to release a suite of "eco-software", aimed at helping organisations measure electricity consumption and other resources, and set up a governance structure to enforce and monitor designated targets.

Hell hath no fury like a US. Chamber of Commerce spurned. Perhaps that explains the business trade association’s response to Apple’s very public resignation of its membership in the group this week.

Apple has resigned its membership in the US Chamber of Commerce citing opposition to the business trade organisation's stance on greenhouse gasses. The trade group has been a very vocal opponent of current legislative efforts to reduce greenhouse gasses

The latest prototype cell phone based on a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) made its debut at the Ceatec show in Japan.

IBM aims to expand the life span of humans by developing a chip that could make personalized medicine affordable and quick, a company researcher said on Tuesday.

A cybersecurity coordination task force released a report this week that assesses various security and privacy requirements for the US Smart Grid , as well as strategies needed to address them.

The company behind the new Dell Latitude Z laptop's wireless power charger predicts that its technology will go mainstream next year, with cell phones, MP3 players and Bluetooth headsets featuring the technology at the coming Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Taiwanese researchers have built a new mobile-phone recharger based on fuel cell technology they say will cost little once manufacturing partners are on board.

Tesco has implemented carbon emissions management software from CA in order to replace "laborious" spreadsheet based green IT management.