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Spotlight: PumPing Tap physically ejects power cords to save energy

Designers have come up with PumPing Tap , a power socket that literally ejects power cords from the wall socket in order to eliminate energy waste due to residual current. According to Gizmag, sensors

Google invests heavily in wind farms

Internet search juggernaut Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has made its first direct investment in a "utility-scale" energy project, sinking $38.8 million into two wind farms located in North Dakota. Google

UPS shares IT plans for saving money, Earth

United Parcel Service made quite a splash in IT news in the past week when it announced plans to spend about $1 billion on technology this year to make its operations more efficient. The technology

Being green counts

It's no longer good enough for vendors to offer the best prices and services when negotiating contracts for an IT deal. Today, vendors must make sure products are green, energy efficient and contain

Companies plan bigger investment in green IT

Green technology is quickly becoming a reality as more and more companies see it as a necessity and a smart way to save money. A recent Symantec survey of 1,052 companies found that most of them, 92

Professor: Two Google searches generate as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle of water

Performing a single Google query on a desktop computer can generates about 7g of CO2, according to Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist. Boiling a kettle of water takes up only slightly

Top tech resolutions for 2009

It's the New Year, and InfoWorld.com suggests it is time to reassess your priorities. Resources will be limited and business pressures will be intense, but you can't withdraw or go into reactive

Intel researching eco-friendly computer chips

It's the wave of the future, and you can call it eco technology. Computer chip maker Intel says it is working on tiny devices that could have an environmental benefit such as chip-size sensors that

Fujitsu develops "zero watt" display

The larger the organization, the more employees. The more employees, the more PCs. And the more PCs, the higher the energy costs. There's no denying that desktop PCs are power hungry beasts,

Dell, unveils tiny green PC

Dell sure seems to be getting more adventurous in terms of design these days while also increasingly focusing on eco-friendly technology. So it's not too surprising that Dell's latest experiment