An NHS community hospital has taken a major step towards curbing its environmental impact, after investing more than £150,000 in a large scale solar PV array.

The 212 solar panels on the roof of Ilkeston Hospital in Derbyshire were fitted by Eco Environments, and is expected to cut annual energy bills by £5,500 while reducing carbon emissions by 24 tons a year.

The 50kW Sanyo panel array was completed at the end of February, just ahead of a March 3 deadline to provisionally secure the higher feed-in tariff incentive rate of 32.9p/kWh for the full 25-year payback period.

However, the hospital is operating under the assumption that it will receive the lower tariff of 15.2p from April 2012, in case the government wins a Supreme Court appeal to impose an earlier effective cut-off date of 12 December 2011 for the higher rate of incentives.

John Parrott, facilities co-ordinator at Derby Community Health Services, said even at the lower rate, the panels would be a major asset in reducing its electricity costs and carbon emissions.

The hospital has predicted that based on a 15.2p/kWh feed-in tariff the array will have paid back the £166,500 investment by 2019 through incentive payments and savings on energy bills.

“A large proportion of the hospital’s power usage is for lighting, with the remainder being used for computers, plant rooms and other appliances,” said Parrott. “I

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There has been no word on when South Africa and the rest of the continent will receive the new iPad.

The new iPad features a new Retina display, Apples new A5X chip with quad-core graphics and a 5 megapixel iSight camera with advanced optics for capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video.

iPad Wi-Fi + 4G supports ultrafast 4G LTE networks in the US and Canada, and fast 3G networks around the world including those based on HSPA+ and DC-HSDPA.

Additionally, the iPad 2 in South Africa is available at a more affordable price starting at R3999 from any iStore in the country.

Every customer who buys a new iPad at an Apple retail store will be offered free Personal Setup service, helping them customise their iPad by setting up email, loading new apps from the App Store so they will be up and running with their new iPad before they leave the store.

Personal Pickup, available at Apple retail stores in the US and a feature of the free Apple Store app, lets iPad customers shop and buy from anywhere they are, and pick up their purchase at any Apple retail store.

A short while back Google updated the Google+ iOS app and added Instant Upload. And well, it looks like Google has since returned with another Google+ update and added what we suspect many will consider a welcomed feature. That feature support for landscape mode. Or more specifically, landscape support while composing a post. Otherwise, this latest update brings the app up to version 1.0.10.4565 and it retains the requirement of iOS 4.0 or later for use. And lastly, this update also included the following;

• Working links in Messenger
• Bugfixes and performance improvements

Following last weeks announcement of the Canon 5D Mark III, heres some of the reactions and insights to the camera and new accessories around the web.

Syl Arena got ahold of the new Speedlite 600EX-RT and ST-E3-RT transmitter prior to launch.  Theres a full write-up here at Pixsylated.

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The big news of the day is the new Enyo blog, hosted at blog.enyojs.com. Today, youll find news about Enyo 2.0b2, which includes the first set of UI widgets. Read the blog for details.

Have you signed up yet for the March 4th Enyo Virtual Hackathon? There will be live physical presences in NYC , Dallas, Indianapolis, San Diego, and Oklahoma City, but you can also participate virtually from anywhere! Should be a great time. Big thanks to the NYC webOS Developer/Enthusiast Meetup group for putting it together. Awesome job, guys!

Internet attacks can come from any country in the world at any given point in time. Over the course of the first quarter of 2011, Akamai’s latest report found one country to be the source of more attack traffic than any other.

Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma, now tops the list, representing 13 percent of all attack traffic observed by Akamai. Myanmar’s top billing is particularly suprising given that the small south Asian country did not rank in the top 10 originating countries for attack traffic at the end of 2010.

The U.S. came in second at 10 percent up from 7.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010. Taiwan was third at 9.1 percent, Russia fourth at 7.7 percent and China rounds out the top five at 6.4 percent. At the end of 2010, Russia was reported to be in the top spot for attack traffic accounting for 10 percent of all observed global attack traffic.

“It’s not clear if that attacks from Myanmar are coming from a specific group or if its some kind of botnet that happened to find some unprotected hosts,” David Belson, editor of the Akamai report told .

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