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Bill Thompson

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Great Britain, Cambridge

Web http://www.andfinally.com/

Skype bill.thompson

Topics of interest appliances | green computing | renewable

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I'm a UK-based technology writer and journalist.

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Does the Cloud have a Chrome-plated Lining?

Posted on September 3, 2008 | 1944 Views | 3 Comments
The release of the ‘Chrome’ browser by Google has dominated the technology coverage in the way that the US party conventions have dominated political coverage, and it has been subject ...
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Slowly turning green

Posted on August 12, 2008 | 2040 Views
  An interesting survey into attitudes towards green computing from CDW's ITMonitor shows that while the majority of US "IT decision makers" think green issues are important, there are many ...
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Green Data Centres

Posted on June 22, 2008 | 2091 Views | 1 Comment
(or Centers for those who prefer North American spellings) There's an interesting interview on O'Reilly and Associates' news pages [ http://news.oreilly.com/200... ] with ...
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Greening Olympic IT?

Posted on June 7, 2008 | 1964 Views
Back in 2005 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) signed an agreement aimed at reducing the impact on the environment ...
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Solar cell efficiency may improve

Posted on May 27, 2008 | 2429 Views
A team of researchers at TU Delft (Netherlands) and the FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) under Prof. Laurens Siebbeles have a paper in the journal Nano Matters ( subscription ...
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Beyond Green Computing

Posted on May 3, 2008 | 2646 Views | 1 Comment
Like every other product of the advanced manufacturing capabilities of a long-industrialised society the computers that surround us – and, for the pacemaker wearers among us, that we have taken into ...
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The Offline Cost of our Online Lives

Posted on March 23, 2008 | 2143 Views | 1 Comment
This is my latest column for the BBC News website, where I write about technology issues each week.  I thought it might be of interest to fellow wattwatters. The next ...
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US Department of Energy funds photovoltaic research

Posted on March 13, 2008 | 1945 Views
The US Department of Energy is providing $14m towards research in photovoltaic technologies for a new generation of solar cells. The goal is to reduce the costs of these systems ...
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Microsoft's green strategy emerges

Posted on March 3, 2008 | 1883 Views
Unlike other major players like IBM, Intel and of course Google , Microsoft has been rather quiet about the enviroinmental impact of its products. That seems to be changing, and last ...
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Gravity powered LED lamp

Posted on February 24, 2008 | 3004 Views | 1 Comment
This is rather nice - one of the winners of the US-based Greener Gadgets competition is a lamp that gets its power from the slow fall of a weight that causes ...