Apple's internally developed A4 chip could be implemented in new devices such as low power servers, TVs or even communications or entertainment boxes, if the company tries to expand the chip's footprint, analysts said.

In the world of information technology, some professions are particularly perilous. Whether you’re risking psychological stress or your very life, these fields aren’t for the faint of heart. Some people in these roles thrive on adrenaline, climbing thousands of feet to fix communications towers. Others risk only emotional damage, getting paid to consume disturbing Internet content.

Green IT remains immature across the US, UK, Australia and India and the industry is highly unlikely to offset its carbon emissions by 2020, according to a survey commissioned by Fujitsu.

A quarter of office workers are wasting their employers more than £2,000 (US$2,426) per year by excessive document printing, says 1&1 Internet.

Sixty percent of organisations expected to register with the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme have yet to sign up.

Most of the talk about IT energy efficiency has focused on the data centre, but office equipment like PCs and printers can offer plenty of opportunity to cut costs as well. Fujitsu is rolling out some new services that aim to help companies tackle both areas at once, and it claims they can reduce a company's IT energy bills by 20 percent on average.

IBM next will will begin shipping a computer with something that customers have not seen in a new mainframe from the company since 1995 -- water cooling.

The number of people with Internet access in Brazil, Russia, China, India and Indonesia will double by 2015, management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group said in a report released Wednesday.

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Microsoft is to build another large data centre, this time in Virginia, despite scaling back plans for an earlier facility in Iowa.

Within the next 5 to 10 years, you may be able to coat your house (literally) in a thin film solar cell technology that is literally sprayed on, if Norwegian company EnSol gets its way. EnSol's power generating spray-on film, which may hit the market as soon as 2016, can be applied on any surface: exterior walls, your fence, and even windows.

An environmental consulting firm has tried to determine just how environmentally friendly e-book readers and tablets such as Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle are.

IBM is developing a new deep-sleep mode for its Power processors that will allow them to draw almost no power when they are idle, an IBM engineer said at the Hot Chips conference on Monday.

A new startup funded by major chip makers and investment firms is taking aim at electricity bills, the biggest cost in data centres. Smooth-Stone, which on Monday announced it secured $48 million in new funding, plans to use mobile phone microprocessors inside the high-powered computer servers used in data centers to lower their electric bills. The chips will be an alternative to server chips such as those based on x86 technology from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Computer Aid has called for vendors and the government to promote the reuse of old IT equipment.

Vodafone Essar, the Indian subsidiary of Vodafone Group, launched a solar powered mobile phone in India on Tuesday, aiming to address problems with the unstable electricity supply in many parts of the country.

Google has signed a 20-year agreement to buy energy from a wind farm in Iowa, giving it access to enough renewable energy to supply several of its data centres, the company said on Tuesday. The deal provides Google with access to 114 megawatts of wind power at a fixed price over the 20-year period, said Urs Hoelzle, Google senior vice president for operations, in a company blog post.

A group of organisations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centres to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness, aiming to bring consistency to the metric and make it easier for different facilities to compare their results.

In a major triumph for alternative energy researchers and enthusiasts, an experimental, solar-powered plane Thursday successfully completed a 26-hour flight powered by 12,000 solar cells and sunlight-powered lithium batteries.

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has added a power efficiency metric, TPC-Energy, to its ongoing roundups of speedy transactional processing systems. Hewlett-Packard is the first participant to use the new TPC-Energy specification, submitting benchmark results of four of its systems.