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Three workers at Foxconn factories in China have fallen to their deaths in recent weeks and police are investigating, according to the company.

Google I/O is getting most of the attention this week, but a conference at the other end of Silicon Valley showed there's plenty of innovation happening in the word of data centers, too.

Employees at the Chinese factories of Apple supplier Foxconn continue to work beyond the country's legal limit of 49 hours a month, according to a report from the Fair Labor Association (FLA). But the Taiwanese manufacturer is making overall steady progress in improving the working conditions at a select group of factories in China, it said.

A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional hazard.

In promotion of the Green IT Awareness Week (June 1 – 7), Foxtel has sponsored a video crowdsourcing competition for the best original video that promotes environmentally-friendly behaviour related to technology.

Treasurer Wayne Swan's sixth budget may well be his last. But it certainly had some highlights although most analysts agree that it didn't offer a great deal to Australian economy. The following stories offer a broad-based, ICT-centric coverage of the budget.

The carbon price is now expected to be less than half of previous predictions once it moves to a floating price in July 2015.

A new survey from the Uptime Institute suggests fatigue is setting in when it comes to making data centers greener, and it may be partly due to overachievers like Google and Microsoft.

Networks could use far less energy by 2020 even though they'll be carrying much more traffic, an industry group says.

Hoping to usher in an age of low-cost solar power, Harvard's Clean Energy Project in June plans to release a list of 20,000 organic compounds that could be used to make cheap, printable photovoltaic cells.

Diversified industrial manufacturer, Eaton, has opened a Customer Experience Centre which will be used to train and demonstrate its products and integrated solutions to end users and channel partners.

D-Link has published beta patches for vulnerabilities in the firmware of many of its IP surveillance cameras, which could allow a hacker to intercept a video stream.

If you run a bank and use an IP video camera from D-Link, you may want to pay attention to this.

Severe weather shifts are forcing companies to rethink their energy strategies; they're using both technology and geography to become more energy independent.

Nationwide recycling service for old computer and accessories, printers and TVs, TechCollect, is urging Australians to participate in a recycling initiative that could potentially set a new world record for the most e-waste collected.

ARN's Community Manager, Hafizah Osman, has disappeared under a flood of community picture stories and reports of company events. This week features company awards and partner events, and plenty of triathletes, amongst others. Are you pictured?

Ericsson and Vodafone in Egypt have successfully tested a new way to build more energy-efficient networks in rural areas, and make it possible to build networks where they previously could not be built, according to the vendor.

Leading distributor, Ingram Micro, has signed a distribution agreement with global manufacturer of power protection and UPS products, CyberPower Systems.

Building solar voltaic cells from nanowires instead of standard metal conductors can increase the amount of energy that can be captured by a factor of 15, according to a new study by scientists from the Nano-Science Center in Denmark.

An electronics and a recycling trade group are looking for ways to reuse recycled cathode ray tube (CRT) glass from computer monitors and television sets, with a US$10,000 prize for the best proposal.