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While Apple users around the world have celebrated the launch of 3G model of Apple’s iPhone, Greenpeace tries to ruin the party.

Indeed, Greenpeace accuses Apple of not living up to its intentions in the environmental field.

When Greenpeace tested the first Phone in 2007, found numerous flame retardants and PVC toxic. Apple has consistently promised that both chemicals where discontinued before the end of 2008. Therefore, Greenpeace expressed surprise and disappointment that the new model of iPhone contains the same chemicals.

The environmental group stressed, however, not yet physically examined the device had been limited to analyzing the contents defined by Apple itself.

“It may well be that iPhone is twice as fast and cost half as Apple wrote in its commercial, but contains the same chemicals that earlier models,” writes Greenpeace. Based on information from Apple’s website, it seems that the “G” in the 3G models does not mean “Green”. “Steve Jobs has missed an opportunity to relaunch the iPhone as a green product, which can compete with other leading manufacturers such as Nokia and Sony Ericsson, which already have eliminated these harmful substances, “writes Casey Harrel, Greenpeace said in a statement.

The strategy is designed to help customers adopt software capabilities that facilitate optimizing efficiency in the energy area.

IBM announced a comprehensive strategy and a wide range of new capabilities to help companies achieve their goals of clean technology or “green”.

Built around software and services to new and existing IBM and supported by service providers heating, cooling and electrical monitoring devices, the strategy is designed to help customers adopt software capabilities that facilitate optimizing efficiency the area of energy.

The initiative launched by IBM called “Software for a Greener World”, is an expansion of Project Big Green and includes both new and existing offerings that help organizations optimize their infrastructure, workloads and staff to obtain efficiency in energy consumption.

The first key announcements are:

• The Tivoli capabilities help organizations to manage energy consumption in the datacenter and enable IT managers to manage energy use to control costs and reduce carbon emissions.
• WebSphere Virtual Enterprise provides virtualization capabilities infrastructure applications that lower operating costs and energy required to create, implement and administer applications for enterprise and SOA environment.
• Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 for green partnership offers benefits for end users and IT enabling significant reductions in business travel.
• Rational Team Concert enable collaboration in context for software development and collaborative multi-site reducing CO2 emissions.

In addition, IBM is producing self-assessment tools to enable organizations to quickly identify the starting points and support the green model, with services and guides to get started quickly in implementing their green projects.

“Clearly, the explosion of computers and networks helped make the Internet and computing what they are today, but the increased costs associated with environmental and energy systems involved in this technological infrastructure is becoming to feel,” said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Software. “While most think of energy conservation from the perspective of hardware (for example, the data processing centre, servers and storage systems), is the software which is giving more options to adopt the model green throughout the organization, “added the top executive.

The Apple iPod and the iPhone devices will operate in future with solar energy without relying on cables and non-renewable energies, thanks to a patent registered by the signature.

Several U.S. newspapers claim that Apple registered a patent for integrating photovoltaic cells in portable electronics with LCD screens.

The text of registration explains that “solar cells installed in the apparatus supplying electric power needed to recharge the batteries”.

Specifically, the cells would be located beneath the LCD screens of these devices, making mobile phone iPhone, whose surface is occupied almost entirely by a touch screen, a good candidate for this new technology.

The integration of photovoltaic cells in a way solve ecological problems of high consumption of portable electronic devices such as mobile phones.

The company, however, is not the first to experiment with this technology.

Last year, U.S. group Motorola developed a screen for mobile phones which allows the passage of 75 per cent of sunlight, which would allow the installation of photovoltaic cells below it.

The new family of energy-efficient processors, are based on the ‘Isaiah’ architecture and are designed to deliver better performance in PCs for general use.

VIA Technologies announced a new family of processors VIA Nano-based on architecture VIA Isaiah.

Based on the energy efficiency of the VIA C7 processor family, VIA Nano processors provide up to four times more performance with the same energy consumption. At the same time,the new processors remain compatible with pins of the VIA C7 processors, which will ensure a smooth transition to OEMs and motherboard manufacturers.

VIA Nano takes the process technology of 65 nanometers from Fujitsu to improve energy efficiency, and increased benefits through energy management and temperature. With a format nanoBGA2 of 21 x 21 mm, these processors offer a resting consumption of 100 mW (0.1 W), which expands the autonomy of “green” portable PCs and miniportables.

“Nano VIA processors represent the next generation of technology x86, to lay the bases for a new kind of optimized computing solutions,” said Wenchi Chen, president and CEO of VIA Technologies, Inc.

IBM has announced the launch of a new supercomputer for a revolutionary chilled water system, which can reduce by more than 80% the number of air-conditioning units needed in a typical server configuration. The company also announced the fastest UNIX server on the market called p595.

Both systems are based on the processor Power 6 and involve a use of IBM technology and reduce the costs of operation of data centers, while improving system performance so that customers can migrate to a new generation of centers data.

The new p575 supercomputer incorporates a unique system in which some copper plates chilled water, which are located above each microprocessor constantly absorb heat. It is the first IBM system of water-cooled since 1995 and represents a revolution in the environmental side.

This system makes it possible to reduce power consumption typical of a data centre by 40% and requires 80% less air-conditioning units. The IBM researchers estimate that water can be 4,000 times more effective than air to cool computer systems.

The new UNIX server Power 595 is designed to address the major concerns of the corporations: energy, physical space and system management. The performance of an IBM’s Power machine of 64 cores is twice than an HP Itanium Superdome configured in a similar manner and at the same price.

The new server, incorporates 64 cores Power 6 and has a bandwidth of 1.3 terabytes per second, which would transfer in a second the amount of information printed on paper that would result in 50,000 trees.

With up to 254 virtual partitions and 4 TB of memory, the Power 595 integrates PowerVM virtualization technology for large-scale consolidation. More than 90% of enterprise servers Power Systems currently used PowerVM to save energy and more effectively manage IT costs.