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Thursday 3rd April 2008 Fantastic Advertising Opportunities Available in the Independent Newspaper The eWell-Being Awards supplement will be published on the 6th of May 2008 and there are discounted prices for the limited advertising spaces left. In addition to the hard copy productions, which will be distributed via the Independent's circulat...

Thursday 3rd April 2008 Renewables should power computers The world's computing power should be moved from desktop computers and company servers to remote outposts where renewable energy such as wind and solar power is abundant, according to a Cambridge University computer expert. Explaining his idea to ...

Thursday 3rd April 2008 Bamboo computers at CeBIT The computer fair, CeBIT, which opened in Hanover yesterday, took on the green theme for the first time in its 36-year history. It was met with a mixture of praise and scepticism. The Eco Book was the answer, they said, to the growing concern abou...

Thursday 3rd April 2008 An extra £8million funding for Scottish telecare The Scottish Government has announced an additional £8 million to develop interactive care services for vulnerable people in their own homes. The funding will enable local health boards, housing and social care partnerships to expand the provision...

Thursday 3rd April 2008 Whitehall to launch Sustainability Centre The Cabinet Office is to set up a Centre of Expertise for Sustainable Procurement (CESP) and appoint a chief sustainability officer, with both moves announced on March 18th as the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) published its sixth annual re...

Thursday 3rd April 2008 Low cost laptop to be released by Intel Intel said that laptops costing $300, initially designed for poor children, would soon be available to U.S. and European consumers, a development that could further push down computer prices. The company is pushing to bring the second generation o...

Thursday 3rd April 2008 Byron Review highlights digital divide A "digital divide" was growing up within families as children mastered the internet and video games, said Dr Tanya Byron, while their parents, grandparents and carers too often had little clue about the material they were looking at. Dr Byron said...

Thursday 3rd April 2008 Best and worst broadband providers Orange has been ranked the worst broadband provider in a survey by price comparison service uSwitch. The survey claims half a million Orange broadband customers - over a third - are not satisfied with its overall service. BT-owned PlusNet, ac...

Thursday 3rd April 2008 Unlimited broadband phasing out The high-bandwidth use of new services such as IP television likely spells the end of ISPs' marketing of so-called unlimited broadband. Most broadband users have been used to signing up for these unlimited packages and in most cases they have mana...

Monday 3rd March 2008 eWell-Being Awards Ceremony 2008 The eWell-Being Awards are the UK's only national awards to celebrate the social, economic and environmental benefits of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). They showcase the most innovative uses of ICT by local authorities, businesses,...