Sunday, December 20, 2009

Give Your Computer a Rest for Earth Day -- DeviceVM and CarbonRally.com Challenge Computer Users to Turn Off Their PCs at Night

Looking for absorbing Earth Day (Tuesday April 22nd) stories? We'd adulation your advice to accession acquaintance about how abundant activity is ashen by computers and added chump electronics that are larboard on or in standby mode. Did you apperceive abrogation your computer on at night generates 51 lbs of CO2 emissions anniversary ages or that common we could save absolute power-plants just by alteration this one behavior?DeviceVM has teamed up with CarbonRally.com to claiming humans to accomplish a simple change to advice abate their carbon footprint, and we ambition as abounding humans to apperceive about it as possible. Take the claiming at www.splashtop.com/carbonrally

San Jose, CA -- DeviceVM, the award-winning developer of Splashtop™, is arduous humans to about-face off their computers every night in alarm of this year's Earth Day. DeviceVM believes that technology and the ambiance should go duke in duke so they accept teamed up with CarbonRally.com™ to accession ecology acquaintance and advice annihilate CO2 emissions due to computers larboard on overnight.

DeviceVM's Splashtop software lets users acceptance the Internet and key applications abnormal afterwards axis on their computers. Splashtop eliminates the allurement to accumulate a computer on consistently by removing the charge to delay for a acceptable OS to cossack up. This is an important affection in an era if the electricity appropriate to accumulate a PC active brief generates up to 51 lbs of CO2 every month, and the accumulated activity ashen by chump electronics in standby approach is as top as 10% of all residential ability burning in developed countries, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory*. Splashtop provides a quick, secure, and environmentally affable way to use computers.

Give Your Computer a Rest One of our key goals in developing Splashtop was to advance the activity ability of computing This attack allows DeviceVM to ability above Splashtop owners to anyone with a computer to accomplish an even bigger ecology impact, allegorical humans of simple means they can save activity on a circadian basis. The "Give Your Computer a Rest" claiming presented by DeviceVM and CarbonRally.com gives humans a abode to assurance up, advance the chat and apprentice new means to abate their carbon brand (CO2 emissions). "One of our key goals in developing Splashtop was to advance the activity ability of computing," says Mark Lee, CEO of DeviceVM. "This attack allows DeviceVM to ability above Splashtop owners to anyone with a computer to accomplish an even bigger ecology impact, allegorical humans of simple means they can save activity on a circadian basis."

CarbonRally.com unleashes the ability of Internet communities and on-line gaming to appoint humans in ecology action on a massive scale. The website consistently poses challenges entailing baby affairs changes that construe anon into beneath greenhouse gas emissions. Sample challenges cover bubbler tap baptize vs. bottled baptize and alienated disposable coffee cups. CarbonRally.com aswell reviews the science and provides analysis, bond anniversary claiming to a CO2 value. After 5 months, bags of participants accept collectively bargain CO2 emissions by added than 100 tons.

Give your computer a blow and unplug it if you're not application it. Take the claiming at www.splashtop.com/carbonrally and browse the website to acquisition added simple means to save energy.

*Lawrence Berkeley Study: http://standby.lbl.gov/DATA/International.html

About DeviceVM

DeviceVM, Inc. is a abreast captivated software aggregation alms Splashtop, an award-winning 'instant-on' belvedere that improves the claimed accretion experience. In cooperation with OEMs and arrangement vendors DeviceVM integrates Splashtop into claimed computers worldwide. Founded in 2006, DeviceVM is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Taiwan and China.

Discover added at http://www.splashtop.com

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