Governments and companies around the world are urging us to think about the environment - and to act Green. Switch off the power. Use energy-saving low-voltage lights. Recycle waste. Buy local products. Reject over-packaging. Get a smaller, fuel-efficient car, Fly less and let the train take the strain.... But what about ICT? What impact do the telecoms and IT industries have on the environment and what role can ICT play in helping alleviate the problems? In Episode 1 of Green Planet,

The dilemma for developers: Should they create innovative native apps that take advantage of the unique features of a particular handset, such as the iPhone's accelerometer, or produce more basic apps that will run across many different handsets? That might seem like a no-brainer given the collective failure of handset manufacturers to implement a standard Java run time environment, the fragmentation of Web run time platforms and the high sales levels achieved by some native apps for the iPhone.