Environment

When Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co. completes a move from PCs to thin clients this summer, as part of the rollout of a new rental transaction system, it expects to cut internal energy consumption by 5 million kilowatt-hours.  read more »

Networking solutions giant Cisco is seeking to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its worldwide operations by 25 percent by 2012.  read more »

Fujitsu has opened a £44 million (US$88 million) green data center in a former warehouse, which it claims will use half the energy of current data centers.  read more »

Sharp plans to partially power a new solar panel factory with energy generated from a solar installation on the plant's roof, it said Monday.  read more »

Businesses last year spent approximately US$1.3 billion to make sure that spinning hard disk drives did not overheat and kept running despite being squeezed to near-capacity limits, according to IDC.  read more »

At the Computer for Schools Kenya (CFSK) warehouse in Nairobi, Michael Ochieng switched on the radio, then turned and smiled as the presenter announced a song in Gikuyu, one of the local languages.  read more »

Efforts in e-waste recycling must go beyond computer refurbishment to include the recycling of electronic equipment, according to Uganda Green Computers Company Chairman Patrick Bitature.  read more »

IT vendors like IBM and HP are responding to increasing enterprise concerns over data center energy consumption, according to Graham Titterington, principal analyst at global consulting firm Ovum.  read more »

The Digital Accessories Department (DAD) of Zinox Technologies, working with Freeplay Energy of the U.K., recently launched four energy-saving consumer products in Nigeria.  read more »

IBM is teaming up with the utility industry on new data center energy management programs, and hyping a modular data center product designed to reduce energy consumption.  read more »