CES to highlight tech for greening homes
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While most electronics companies are still trying to establish green credentials, 2008 could mark a turning point for previously obscure "home automation" technologies that now are being advertised as a way to save electricity Â not just personal energy.
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The energy-hog televisions are losing ground to their cheaper counterparts. But developers hope that will change with improved technologies.
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Google, Intel, Microsoft, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard pledged this week to develop and use more energy-efficient computers and computer components.
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Here are some of the technologies that power devices to control everything from home entertainment to security:
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The living room, once the most technologically simple part of the average home, is a high-tech battleground today as the consumer electronics industry seeks to digitize home entertainment and make it available anywhere, anytime.
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s your company reducing energy consumption in its IT equipment and using technology to conserve energy and lower carbon emissions? Or do you know of a company that is a green IT innovator? Computerworld is conducting a search for companies that are implementing smart, efficient strategies to achieve "green IT." WeCre not looking for companies with general @greenA policies & practices or vendors with green technology solutions -- weCre specifically looking for end-user companies that are employing green practices in IT.
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SAN FRANCISCO/LAS VEGAS  - The world's major  technology companies are trying to convince consumers they need  an expensive, digitally connected home with the latest  high-tech gadgets.
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IT vendors can play a major role in reducing the world&#39;s energy consumption, but information about the benefits of technology has been lacking in an ongoing environmental debate in Washington, D.C., three tech CEOs said Wednesday.
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A second-generation "mylo" communicator device will be on display at CES this week.
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SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES  - The living room, once  the most technologically simple part of the average home, is a  high-tech battleground today as the consumer electronics  industry seeks to digitize home entertainment and make it  available anywhere, anytime.
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The PC industry is about to get the first update to the Energy Star specifications in more than a decade as home gadgets continue to suck down the juice.Photos: PC stands for power consumption
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Spearheaded by Microsoft, Sun, and other high tech vendors, The Green Grid is generating support among industry groups, users, and government agencies for building standards for efficient data center energy management.
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Buildings are getting smarter &#151; and the next generation of building materials is expected to do even more. Windows could trap the sun's energy to heat hot water. Sensors that measure the carbon dioxide exhaled by people in a room could determine whether the air conditioning needs to be turned up.
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'Green' PCs adapt to EPA's newest Energy Star label ahead of schedule.
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Eco-friendly, GreenPower family of hard drive consume less power and go idle when not in use.
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It's amazing what kind of items can be advertised as "green" these days: a grocery-delivery service, a projection HDTV and a home-automation system, to name a few recently pitched to me.
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Sun has a laudable vision of the future of utility computing, where organisations with extra processing power can sell it back to a computing grid in the same manner that homes with solar panels can sell power back to the electrical power grid.