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Oh goodie, something else for me to spend money on! I haven’t had occasion to travel much with my iPhone up until the past few months, when I’ve really tested the limits of its battery life. And, like most iPhone users, I don’t really have good things to say about it. That’s why I’ll be taking [...]

The tier one technology companies ala Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM all view for green IT headlines on a weekly basis, but there is plenty of innovation going on among smaller players. Super Micro, for example, just showed off new server technology during the CeBit computer show in Hannover, Germany. The common theme in the products it [...]

Here’s something to think about: What prompted you to buy your current car? Was it the fuel efficiency or was it how it looked and rode? The stereo? The safety features? Based on your responses, I’m sure it will not shock you to hear consumers are sick of being asked to give up things like [...]

I’ve written about energy management company EnerNOC in the demand response sense, based on the work that it is doing to help companies with generating capacity reduce their grid dependency in peak demand situations. (As a reminder, here’s my post about how EnerNOC is working with a New York-based data center operator to help it [...]

The latest version of Faronics‘ PowerSave application (version 4.1) includes two new features that are intended to address potential security concerns associated with waking up a computer once it  has entered standby or hibernate mode to save power. First, the software now requires the user to enter their system password, if it is being used in [...]

I think a lot about which companies that I’ve been covering for zillions of years will be around 10 years from now, as the Internet moves into its next phase of innovation around things like machine to machine communications, which is sort of personified in the smart grid. If you think Microsoft and IBM and [...]

You really can’t make this stuff up. Apparently, there is a climate scientist at Stanford University’s Carnegie Institute who is working on a project that aims to pump cool water in the ocean tropics to try to discourage the development of hurricanes. The research, which is discussed in this video over at our SmartPlanet sister [...]

If your company is struggling with how to start reporting carbon emissions information quickly, there is a new service from environmental software company Enviance that may be appropriate. P.S., you’re not exactly alone in this. Apparently close to 61 percent of companies still don’t have any sort of carbon emissions tracking system in place. The Enviance Greenhouse [...]

Sentilla, which sells enterprise software for tracking power utilization across data centers, has updated its Sentilla Energy Manager software to version 3.0. The big new feature in the release is the ability for companies to keep tabs not just on devices that have power meters but also on equipment that isn’t traditionally metered. The new software [...]