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Samsung Announces Upcoming AMOLED Screen Phones for the US

Mobile phone maker Samsung announced on Wednesday the upcoming series of handsets that would hit the US market with a Samsung AMOLED screen on board. Among the new devices we can count the Samsung Behold II and Samsung Moment, both of which have been already announced to come with Google's Android operating syst...

8 October 2009
05:41 GMT

Samsung Intros New 1.5TB EcoGreen HDD

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading provider of digital consumer electronics and information technology solutions, announced the introduction of its EcoGreen F2EG hard disk drive, which is able to provide users with 1.5TB of storage capacity with 500GB per disk. At the same time, the company also stated that the...

6 March 2009
05:28 GMT

Alcatel-Lucent Announces Power Saving Enhancements

Alcatel-Lucent recently announced an enhancement for its GSM/EDGE mobile networking portfolio. According to the company, the new addition would be able to offer reductions in power consumption by up to 27 percent. The company demonstrated the energy consumption reductions in January during field trial with China Mobi...

18 February 2009
11:26 GMT

10 to 15 Percent of Netbooks to Feature VIA's Platform

It seems that around 10 to 15 percent of the netbooks shipped this year will feature VIA's platform, at least this is what some sources at VIA are reported to have said, according to a Chinese-language Apply Daily report. The company's platform has seen such great adoption courtesy of its low-power consump...

29 December 2008
08:37 GMT

FSC Unveils Green SCALEO Home Server

Fujitsu Siemens Computers has recently announced the launch of its second generation SCALEO Home Server which sports environmentally friendly hard disks drives. The server packs up to four Caviar Green SATA hard disks from Western Digital stated to need 40 percent less energy to operate than a traditional HDD. Energy...

28 November 2008
03:27 GMT

HP Works on Making Datacenters Green

Power efficiency has been for a long time now one of the trends in the IT industry and companies have put a lot of effort into developing more and more eco-friendly technologies. Bill Kosik is one person that knows a few things about building efficient datacenters, and helped HP consolidate 85 datacenters into just s...

26 November 2008
07:00 GMT

Computer Power Increased through Memristors

The latest advances in the IT industry have been moving towards faster and faster chips which, at the same time, feature increasingly smaller die. The move may find itself slowed down at a certain point, as the chips will measure no more than a few atoms, yet there are some researchers that claim having found a solut...

26 November 2008
04:09 GMT

Samsung Unveils the Greenest SSDs on the Market

Samsung has recently announced the introduction of new solid state drives specifically designed for the enterprise server market. The new storage devices unveiled by Samsung use the company's single-level-cell (SLC) technology and are said to be capable of providing as twice the read/write performance of the mak...

3 November 2008
06:25 GMT

Intel Says Nehalem Is Its Greenest Processor

Intel recently stated that its upcoming Nehalem processor would be the greenest chip the company made to date. According to the chipmaker, the CPU set for launch in November incorporates revolutionary technology and systems built into its platform. Gordon Moore, co-founder of the company, called the 45-nm transistors...

28 October 2008
02:11 GMT

Top Performance Levels Delivered by Patriot's Warp SSD

Patriot Memory has recently released a new SSD line-up, the Extreme Performance Warp series. Since the most important characteristic of any SSD is its low power consumption, the company focused on this feature for its Warp series as well, and claims to have brought to the market a product that uses from 280 milliampe...

6 October 2008
03:16 GMT

SSD vs HDD: a Tie for the Time Being

About two weeks ago, we wrote an article according to which tests showed that Flash Solid State Drives needed more power to operate than traditional hard disk drives. The tests were conducted by Tom's Hardware, and the news received immediate responses, both from SSD makers and from other sites, like LAPTOP, whi...

15 July 2008
03:24 GMT

SSDs Actually Provide Longer Battery Life

The past few days brought to us some controversial news about how solid state drives actually prove themselves to be more power inefficient than efficient. It seems that the tests conducted by Tom's Hardware, which stated that SSDs would draw more battery life than HDDs, used some old versions of solid state dri...

7 July 2008
03:33 GMT

Solid State Drives Are Not Power Efficient

Since Solid State Drives (SSDs) tend to become the future in mobile computing, their power efficiency is a concerning issue for consumers, as they want their devices to feature extended battery life. SSDs have been said to consume far less energy than their moving-parts-laden cousins, but a recent experiment conducte...

2 July 2008
04:04 GMT

By 2010 Dell's Systems Will Be 25% More Power Efficient

Dell announced its plans to reduce the power consumption of its computers by 25 percent by 2010, as the company aims to gain the title of the "greenest technology company on the planet". Both desktops and laptops made by Dell should gain that percentage of power efficiency for the company to achieve its goal. Accord...

15 May 2008
07:01 GMT


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