Sustainable IT

Amazon CTO Vogels on competing with Microsoft in hybrid cloud, keeping partners and customers happy

Amazon Web Services is, by many accounts, the market-leading IaaS. Where does it go from here?

Endless: A computer the rest of the world can afford

Designed for developing economies, the Endless computer (which runs Linux) aims to deliver affordable and useful computing

Facebook to use all renewable energy in its next data center

Curb: Home power monitoring comes of age

What's consuming the most power in my building? What's consuming more power than usual? How big will my electricity bill be? Curb knows.

Microsoft predicts China’s air pollution with data analysis

Home heating provided by cloud servers is now a reality

Data furnaces heat homes with dispersed cloud servers. The first eRadiators are getting installed now.

Energy servers bring eco fuel cells to Comcast, IKEA buildings

Machines that convert the chemical energy from fuels into electrical power through a chemical reaction are gaining favor over the grid.

Solar power road surface actually works

A Dutch solar power-generating road is making more electricity than expected.

To push electric cars, Seoul rolls out portable chargers with RFID

How Apple has made me feel really happy and really guilty at the same time

Planned obsolescence drives the e-waste problem and companies like Apple force us to junk otherwise perfectly good hardware