Strategies for SaaS, Cloud Computing, Governance and Sustainability

Finally it seems like some common sense has dawned on the mobile phone manufacturers. European Commission just announced that the telephone companies have agreed to back a standard charger in Europe. Bravo European Commission!! Back in Aug 2007 I had written an open letter on what I thought about this craziness that seem to define [...]

Charlie Rose interviewed Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy and discussed the various forms of alternate energy and what government is doing to foster the increase in alternative energy generation.

Recycling is one of the best ways to preserve the environment and world we live in. We can all do our bit to safeguard the environment. If you are a Recycling freak like me this free recycling magazine is for you – http://clickslink.tradepub.com/free/recy/

I came across one of the most intriguing companies that has been funded to do trade-ins. It seems like anything green is getting funded these days. But I particularly like this company for I am one of those personally impacted by not being able to trade in my old cellphone when buying a new one. [...]

As I was traveling around India on business one thing struck me the most is the use of Plastic bags for practically everything. (not that this is the first time I was seeing it but this time it was with my new sense of going green) Starting with groceries, laundry shops every shop uses plastic [...]

Something that I had been thinking about for a while but got around to today. I signed for all paperless bill from all the places I was getting paper bills. The brightside is inside of filing all the paper bills into files, I get to save the PDF documents in a hard disk. It was [...]

I ran into a interesting concept of spam control and the consequent reduction of waste. . For a nominal 30 dollars you get control over mass mailed catalogs shipped to your address and if that in itself is not sufficient incentive you get 5 trees planted in your name for the first five opt out [...]

If you are anything like me you are probably stuck with a bunch of old cellphone chargers, old CDs, computer spares, those large monitors. If you were wondering how to recycle them look no further than the nearest costco. Check out the details at Now you know why your family is waiting in the queue [...]

Executives from Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, Sony, Research in Motion – Listen up!! While the whole world is doing their bit to help the environment from greenhouse gases, reduction in electronic waste, energy consumption and so on, this is your chance to contribute as well. In case none of you have heard yet from any [...]

As I was writing about things we could do at home to help environment in my last post – Going Green @ home, I started thinking about things we could do at work For starters, switch off your computers, printers, monitors when you leave after work. While you are at it switch the room/cube light [...]