• How to boost your smartphone battery life

  Do you know where your smartphone is? Unless you're using it to read PCWorld.com, your phone is probably plugged into an outlet somewhere to charge, because the battery stinks.

• Smart micro-grid to debut in regional NSW

  Houses in the Newcastle and Scone regions of NSW have been selected to trial battery-powered “micro-grid” which can increase energy efficiency and reduce the impact of outages.

• Wireless Power Brings A Brighter Breakfast

  Fulton Innovation had an idea: what the world needs is flashier breakfast (I completely agree). So they decided to pair their eCoupled technology wireless power technology with some cereal boxes to make them light up, and interact with a nearby computer to display useful information.

• Nearly 18,000 without power in SE Queensland

  Power has been restored to hundreds more homes and businesses overnight in southeast Queensland and Energex says it will continue on Monday the restoration effort on the 17,896 still without supply.

• Power restored to 3000 Queensland homes, firms

  Energex has almost doubled the number of homes in Brisbane it estimates are without power after a revision of its power grid data.

• Laptop tips: Add RAM, recycle a hard drive

  It's been almost a year since I served up some nice, hot laptop tips--and that's inexcusable. I'll make it up to you this week with some useful advice on adding memory to a laptop, turning an old laptop hard disc into an external drive, and using your laptop's power settings effectively.

• NY hospital cuts power bill with thin-client virtualization

  New York City's Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers is saving power and money by replacing its desktop computers with thin clients running virtualized operating systems.

Whitepapers about power

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  A Whitepaper on Cloud Computing

  This whitepaper will help to clarify exactly what the different models of Cloud Computing are, how the different models should be used, and when to embrace these models.

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  Virtualisation and its Impact on Data

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  How to Manage the Data Center Power Problem

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  Guidance for Calculation of Efficiency (PUE) in Data Centres