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Green IT looking pale at CeBIT
One of the primary themes of CeBIT this year was supposed to be Green IT. Interest in the subject is “overwhelming” according to the CeBIT website. And indeed there’s an entire hall dedicated to it...
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H.M.G. Gets a Life
According to this BBC news article our beloved Civil Service has splashed out the thick end of £20,000 on a virtual home inside Second Life. This is the online virtual world you may have seen cropping...
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In praise of walkit.com
Anyone who’s read PC Pro over the last few years will know that we’re interested in green issues – occasionally indulging in a spirited argument with our friends over at Custom PC who are doing lots of...
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Can companies be trusted over green promises?
I’ve just come out of an “Eco” briefing with Sony at IFA, and it should be no surprise at all that they’re banging their own eco drum pretty fiercely. But, in that, they’re absolutely no different from...
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Has video conferencing finally come of age?
I spent yesterday morning with a company called LifeSize, whose CEO (Craig Malloy) was keen to suggest that 2010 would be the year when video conferencing became massive. (Strangely enough, LifeSize...
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How to stop the inkjet printer rot
I live by the rubbish bins. Some people say you can tell that by my picture… but that’s not my point here. My point is that like everyone else at this time of year, I’ve been having a good throw-out...
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Two novel ways to power-up your iPhone
iPhone owners are never far away from their charger, given that the handset chomps through its battery faster than Dan Brown dreaming up the plot of one of his novels. Two devices I stumbled across on...
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Do you care about environmentally friendly companies?
Last week myself and several other journalists attended a briefing held by Kyocera, and, once we’d eaten the complimentary sandwiches and made cooing noises over a couple of new printers, we were...
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So, why has PC Pro switched to EcoDisc?
That sound? That’s the sound of my conscience being pricked, and the reader responsible is Joe Clarke. “Where is my nice sturdy disc?” he asked via email. “It’s a paper DVD! It bends and makes a noise...
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BytePac: the cardboard hard disk enclosure
Say hello to the BytePac. It’s a hard disk caddy made entirely out of 100% recyclable material (yes, cardboard), but before you jump to any rash, mocking conclusions – as half the office did when it...
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