A newly formed interactive game publishing company that brings ‘games-with-purpose’ to market, today announced the availability of “City Rain”for the new Xbox Live Marketplace ‘Indie Games’ site. Created as an initial student concept project, City Rain is a puzzle and simulation game based on urban planning and sustainability. Players must rescue cities that are being [...]

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Do you want a better way to manage your PC’s power consumption, maybe switch the monitor off or put your PC into hibernate mode when you move away from the keyboard.  Well maybe a new piece of software from VeryPC could be the answer.

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The cats at iGo are making their first-ever CES appearance next month, and they’re bringing a suitcase of new gadgets with them, including three devices — a laptop charger, a surge protector, and a wall outlet — they say will reduce the power used when attached devices are in standby or off mode with automatic [...]

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The Advent Eco PC makes some bold claims over its environmental impact.  Advent is a part of the Dixons Group which are behind the UK’s largest electronics stores including Currys and PC World selling exclusively through their online and offline shops.  The Advent Eco PC launched a couple of months ago with a startlingly high [...]

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The “greenness” of companies that sell PCs, IT equipment, and electronics has become increasingly important to enterprises that want to build green data centers or make IT more environmentally friendly. So the latest Greenpeace rankings are well worth reading.
Like Greenpeace or not, the environmental pressure group always has something useful and compelling to say, even [...]

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A New York software company has announced the scheduled release of its open-source wind farm design software. Albany-based AWS TrueWind designed the openWind software so that a range of end users, from individuals to wind energy developers, could apply and adapt the software their own particular set of data.
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We know how much you just love eco-friendly desktop computers, so rejoice dear readers: Samsung, on a green kick lately with its free gadget recycling program and edible cellphones, is announcing two new desktops that, individually, consume just 60W of power when on and 1W when in suspend mode. Both the MV100 Tower (the wider [...]

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PC World has branched out its Advent
brand, offering the Eco PC through its UK online store, aiming to best
the average desktop power consumption by 78 percent. The system is
priced at just under what you might expect to pay for a slightly dusty
super computer — £599.99 (or about $1100) — but the specs don’t quite
match up: [...]

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A great article from DeviceGuru detailing how we manage our much used resource,
How many of us leave our PCs running all day long, even when we’re not using them? Despite the fact that today’s desktop and laptop PCs and their OSes provide extensive power management functions, most PC users don’t bother to use them to [...]

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ASUS has created an eco-minded, dashing EcoBook. A great deal of thought went into the design of the EcoBook, as the enclosure features interchangeable, (and biodegradable), panels, silver keyboard / trackpad, and a nifty powergear performance button.
The exterior of the new notebooks is made from bamboo material and the notebooks’ batteries have also gone green [...]

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