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Business Green: How to draw up a green travel policy

In a perfectly sustainable world, drafting a green travel policy document would involve little more than grabbing a sheet of A4 paper and scribbling the words "all business travel is banned henceforth" in bright green felt-tip pen.

The simplest and most effective way to make business travel more sustainable is to take a default position that it shouldn't happen and then make anyone who disagrees justify why a business trip is necessary.

Unfortunately, back in the real world, some sort of busin… Continue

Posted by Andrew Donoghue on January 27, 2010 at 1:30pm

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eWEEK: Toxic Tech Group Slams Avatar 3D TV Upgrades


A US environmental group has criticised the companies behind science fiction film Avatar for promoting 3D technology, which the charity believes will lead to consumers unnecessarily upgrading TVs and consigning the old technology to the waste stream.
In a blog posting late last week, Silicon Valley Toxic Co… Continue

Posted by Andrew Donoghue on January 27, 2010 at 1:22pm

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eWEEK: $100 Laptop Project Recruiting Haiti Volunteers

The earthquake-hit country is just one of the destinations where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation wants to send interns and volunteers

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which has developed a low-cost notebook computer to help children in developing countries improve computer and learning skills, has announced that it is looking for volunteers and interns to help out with projects in countries including Afghanistan and Haiti.

The OLPC organisation announced this week that it… Continue

Posted by Andrew Donoghue on January 27, 2010 at 1:19pm

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eWEEK: MOD Deploys Green Driving Tech

The UK's Ministry of Defence (MOD) has announced that it is adopting technology which should help cut road accidents and also improve the sustainability of the organisation's own vehicles.

The MOD announced late in December that it has signed a contract with sustainable driving technology specialist GreenRoad, which will cover around 4,500 vehicles in the MOD fleet for the next three years. Although the deployment is being discussed mainly in terms of reducing accidents from reckless driving, G… Continue

Posted by Andrew Donoghue on January 27, 2010 at 1:16pm

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eWEEK Europe UK: Microsoft Pushes Green Mapping Amid Copenhagen Talks



Tech giant Microsoft has joined the likes of Cisco and Intel, who are keen to bask in the green glow from the summit

Microsoft has joined the ranks of IT companies showing off their green credentials at the Copenhagen climate talks with the launch of its Environmental Atlas of Europe project.

The tool, announced this week, is essentially an online… Continue

Posted by Andrew Donoghue on December 17, 2009 at 4:13pm

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eWEEK UK: Free Software Campaigners Disrupt iPad Launch

Apple has been criticised by free software campaigners over the way it controls music and other content on platforms including its newly launched iPad tablet device. Launched on Wednesday at a event in San Francisco, the Apple iPad is expected to be released in the UK in March equipped with Wi-Fi access only with larger capacity [...]

Apple iBooks is a complete red herring

The idea that Apple is going to disrupt publishing with iBooks (and iPad) in the same way it did the music industry with iTunes is to completely misunderstand how the market for books is going to develop. I have tried the e-reader software on the iPhone and other devices and no matter how good it [...]

Silicon.com: How to talk to your CEO about technology

Getting the board to approve IT projects requires not only good presentation skills but also the ability to speak the same language as the rest of the business, says Andrew Donoghue. While it’s debatable whether IT leaders are actually any less articulate than senior managers from other areas of the business, the idea that [...]

How to manage your CIO: What every CFO needs to know

More and more CFOs are becoming responsible for businesses’ IT function. Andrew Donoghue explains what they must know to manage CIOs. Financial chiefs are only going to become more involved in IT decision-making in the future, recent research from analyst Gartner shows. Around 23 per cent of CIOs surveyed last year said they currently report to the [...]

eWEEK Europe UK: Experts Question Hungary’s Role As European Open Source Leader

Ingres claims the central European country should be an example to other states but Hungarian open source experts disagree Open source database company Ingres has held Hungary up as an example to the UK and other European countries of how government should be championing the use of non-proprietary software in the public sector. But some Hungarian experts [...]
 
 

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Linux Founder Endorses Nexus One Smartphone

The creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, has backed the Nexus One after he used the device for its Google Maps Navigation…


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Nokia Investor Hits Phone Maker With Class Action Suit

Nokia has been slapped with a fresh lawsuit, although this time the class action complaint was filed by an investor and not a business…


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Apple Awarded Top Marks For Tech Support

Apple has once again beating the likes of HP and Dell in the customer satisfaction stakes, after it topped a technical support…


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Plastic Supercapictor Points To End Of Batteries

British boffins may have signalled the end of the traditional battery as we know it, after they developed a composite plastic that can store and release…
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BT Opens Up Cable Ducting To Rival ISPs

In a significant move for the provision of fibre in the UK, BT has revealed it will open up its underground network of ducts so that rival ISPs can lay their own fibre…


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British iTablet Device To Rival Apple's iPad

UK-based firm X2 Computing has unveiled its iTablet device, designed to compete directly with Apple's much-heralded iPad…


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Google's Translation Phone Not Imminent

Although it is working hard on the problems of translation and speech recognition, Google says it won't have a translating phone any time…


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China Shuts Down Hacker School

The largest hacker training site in China has been shut down by the authorities, according to Chinese newspaper…


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Review: BlackBerry Presenter Links PowerPoint to Projector

Research In Motion's BlackBerry Presenter lets smartphone users stream PowerPoint presentations from their BlackBerry to a projector via a wireless…


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IBM Rolls Out Power 7 Against Sun, HP

IBM has launched four servers using its Power7 processor, designed to take the wind out of the sails of the Intel Tukwila processor and give Oracle/Sun some…


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