Skill Zone News issue 10
The Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, has announced tough new targets for cutting the UK's greenhouse gas production by some 80% over the next century. The computer industry, a leading consumer of electricity, can certainly play its part towards meeting those targets, as can all of us individually. But instead of just setting targets, shouldn't governments also be leading by example?
18th October 2008
The neglected recycling issue
With our love of gadgets, digital cameras and MP3 players, TV remotes and multi-function electric toothbrushes, we are using more and more batteries each year. But how many of them get recycled?
The cost of empty offices
At a time when energy prices are rising and we are all looking for ways to cut costs, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has admitted to leaving its computers on overnight,... all 10,000 of them.
ADSL speed improvements on a plate
BT has come up with a product which can speed up ADSL lines by up to 1.5Mbps, for a one-off cost of about ten pounds.
Double standards
Data breaches continue to hit the headlines. Are we being tough enough on offenders, or are we asking them to do something which we fail to do ourselves?
George Orwell would be proud
Whilst many people are concerned about the amount of data the government and the police holds about us, few realise just how Orwellian we are becoming.
Rumours of his demise,...
As if the stock markets were not unstable enough already, Apple shares fell by over five per cent after a "citizen journalist" wrongly reported that Apple founder Steve Jobs had suffered a major heart attack.
High stakes at online poker
The online poker phenomenon is one of the surprising success stories of the Internet, but players have to put a lot of faith in the games being run fairly, and that faith has been rocked by recent scandals.
Royal Appointment
Visitors to Google on Thursday 16th October may have noticed a special home page Google doodle including a silhouette of the Queen to commemorate a royal visit to Google's London offices.
This article comes from the SKILLZONE email newsletter, published monthly since January 2008, and covering topics related to technology and the internet. All articles and artwork in the SKILLZONE newsletter are orignal content.