An Apple ad campaign claims that its line of Macbooks is the "world’s greenest family of notebooks" -- but a recent ruling by the ad industry's self-governing body found that claim to be somewhat of an overstatement. Not clear yet is whether Apple will modify its ads.

ARLINGTON, Va. -- A series of white papers released by the Telecommunications Industry Association offer OEMs a guide to the environmental requirements and restrictions for different markets around the globe.

In this response to an earlier blog post by editor Preston Gralla, the coordinator of Greenpeace's Cool IT Challenge explains how the campaign is trying to push companies on the policy front to influence the global climate debate for the better.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A new report from Forrester Research outlines the 15 "Green IT 1.0" technologies that are helping IT managers clearly define and achieve business and environmental benefits through smart technology management.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- A pilot project on the campus found a projected savings of $500,000 annually by shutting down computers that are not in use.

NComputing has partnered with Haier, a Chinese appliance maker, to sell its low-cost computer equipment to parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Think that solar power can't power data centers? Think again. i/o Data Centers, an IT infrastructure provider in Phoenix is in the process of deploying a massive array of solar panels that will generate up to 4.5 megawatts of electricity to help power its giant data center.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An audit by U.S. Department Energy's Office of the Inspector General of seven facilities, including DOE headquarters, concluded that better management of IT resources could have saved at least $1.6 million in energy costs in fiscal year 2008.

Think virtualization in a data center, and you most likely think of the latest generation of multi-core chips, such as Intel's recently released Nehalem-EX processor, which comes with eight cores a a whopping 2,300,000,000 transistors. But the future of green data centers may be in the opposite end of the spectrum, with server clusters built using many small, power-efficient processors.

SEATTLE, Wash. -- The company's Surveyor program now includes graphical readouts that display CO2 emissions reductions, energy and money savings from smart power management policies; meanwhile, two cities highlight their cost and energy savings from using the software.

Greenpeace recently made headlines with its "CoolIT Challenge" in which it issued a scorecard about the green IT actions of top technology vendors such as IBM, Dell, Sun, Intel, and Cisco. Greenpeace concluded all of them were doing a poor job --- but it's Greenpeace itself, not the tech firms, that missed the boat. The Greenpeace campaign, while well-intentioned, is simplistic and misguided.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- With new servers, printing solutions, an upcoming "telepresence-lite" program and new environmental commitments, Hewlett-Packard today announced several expansions to its overall green IT program.

The certification that has taken the computer world by storm announced plans to create a certification to address the energy use, materials use, and end-of-life issues for television sets.