Articles By Chris Mellor

Green issues hitting IT business decisions

In a welcome change from the tide of vendor-sponsored green surveys, analyst IDC reports that IT executives' buying decisions are finally going green.The findings come from IDC's Enterprise Panel, a fully IDC-owned and

Published on: October 1st, 2008 Chris Mellor @itbusinessca

MIT studes run supercomputer on pedal power

A team of ten Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students powered a supercomputer by pedalling bicycles. The 20-minute exercise earned the world record for human-powered computing (HPC) for the Massachusetts university team.They powered

Published on: December 20th, 2007 Chris Mellor @itbusinessca

Laptops get green power cut

Marvell has announced new digital power technology to lower PC and notebook power consumption. The company supplies OEMS making PC and notebook power supplies.The new chips are digital signal processors (DSPs) which dynamically

Published on: November 7th, 2007 Chris Mellor @itbusinessca

Laptops get green power cut

Marvell has announced new digital power technology to lower PC and notebook power consumption. The company supplies OEMS making PC and notebook power supplies. The new chips are digital signal processors (DSPs) which

Published on: November 6th, 2007 Chris Mellor @itbusinessca