An Internet marketplace has been launched to allow business users to buy and sell energy online. Called BuyEnergyOnline.com, the company said it hopes to offer savings of up to 20 per cent on business customers' energy procurement costs.
But picture a programmer sitting at a PC or someone telecommuting or many other uses of technology and they're a world away from 'dirty' manufacturing jobs before the last 30 years, or even plenty of industries as they operate now, directly...
EDS was a close second, sharing top billing with IBM in three industries - manufacturing, retail and health care. IDC compared the revenue of outsourcing vendors across six major vertical markets: financial services, manufacturing, retail/wholesale...
The electrical costs of running today's computers could end up far greater than the initial hardware price tag if their power performance doesn't improve, according to a Google engineer. That situation that wouldn't bode well for Google, which...
The fact customers can load XP onto the machine will please some critics of Vista who claim the OS is extremely power hungry. HP also announced it has set itself an ambitious target for reducing its energy use over the next three years by 20 per...
These generators can be quite small. Data centres don't have to be power-hungry monsters. In reality they use no more electricity than older, resource-intensive industries such as ship building or chemical production.