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Green Matters: Is the 3G iPhone Un-green?

Greenpeace is at it again. It's unlikely, however, that it will prevent Apple devotees from lining up on launch day.

3G iPhone ruins Apple's green credentials - PC Advisor

Apple has missed a “big chance” to advance green credentials by “not improving the environmental performance of the new version of the iPhone”, says eco campaign force Greenpeace.

CherryPal: The Green Little PC That Could - EcoGeek

Even the name is adorable. CherryPal. This tiny 10.5 oz PC is coming soon, and will use no more than 2 watts of power without sacrificing speed. The triple-core processor uses only 20% of the components of traditional computers and will start up in only 20 seconds, promising to be faster than Vista and mac’s OS-X…though it doesn’t take much to be faster than Vista.

Do sustainable PCs exist? - TG Daily

Dell currently has two green computing options on the market - the Dell Latitude D630 Energy Smart Laptop and the Optiplex 755 Energy Smart Desktop.

What makes the Optiplex 755 special is the fact that Dell claims the Core 2 Duo-based PC offers energy efficient power management settings. The systems is said to consume 54% less power than computers that don’t allow you to configure your power management settings. Dell promises that the 80% efficient power supply are between 10-12% more efficient than power supplies of the past. Dell declines to share any actual energy use numbers on their website.

Kill the Business Trip - Forbes

Here's my favorite set of "clean-tech" companies--the folks who make online meetings and conferences possible, and let travelers skip all the hassle and environmental problems of travel. Even better: It's an area ripe with inefficiencies and so primed for innovation.

So far two companies have done particularly well in the stock market by offering Web-based conferencing technology: Polycom and Webex.

Disk Drives Costing More Green - Data Center Central, IT Business Edge

Enterprises looking to cut down on power and cooling costs might want to shift their eyes from the server rack to the storage array.

The latest figures from IDC indicate worldwide expenditures to cool magnetic storage is set to nearly double by the end of this year. In 2007, enterprises shelled out about $1 billion on storage-related cooling, a figure that seems likely to top $1.8 billion this year.

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For those of you that? think this is fake is silly. Look up the properties of a magnet and it will make more sense.

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