What Does the PSP Go Have to Do with Climate Change?

Pedro Hernandez
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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Sony's PSPgo points to a future of (greener) on-the-go gaming. Source: Sony

Research has shown that e-books and digital music downloads are substantially less carbon intensive than their physical counterparts, even taking into account the IT infrastructures required to support them. That's why Katie has called high-speed broadband a cleantech issue. Here are some of the devices, services and market trends that are aligning to turn connected consumers into even bigger CO2 killers in the coming months. […]

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Are you ready to trade books, DVDs and boxed games for electrons?

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