HP today announced it has qualified all business PC, printing and server products shipped throughout the United States and Canada for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay logo labeling program that aims to reduce the fuel consumption, greenhouse gases and other air emissions of surface transportation carriers.

It was announced AMD was extending its visual computing leadership with the first availability of products that conform to the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) first DisplayPort™ certification. The certification has been awarded to the ATI Radeon™ HD 3400, ATI Radeon™ HD 3600, ATI Radeon™ HD 3800, ATI FireMV™ 2260 graphics products, and the AMD 780G integrated graphics chipset1 .

In an effort to help clients benchmark and improve efficiency of their IT operations and reduce their environmental impact, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the industry's first corporate-led initiative to enable clients to earn energy efficiency certificates for reducing the energy needed to run their data centers.

Underscoring its reputation as an environmentally conscious company, Canon U.S.A., Inc., today announced that all of its facilities in Canon U.S.A. and Canon Canada headquarters have received ISO 14001 Certification under Canon's Global ISO 14001 Certification Initiative.

NEC Corporation has become one of the first companies in the world to pass the EPCIS Product Certification Test conducted by EPCglobal with its RFID middleware, “WebOTX RFID Manager Information Service.” The Global Service Relation Number will be awarded at EPC Connection 2007, which is being held in Chicago from October 2-4.

Canon U.S.A., Inc, the market share leader of digital office equipment, announced today that eight of its award-winning digital multifunctional devices have achieved compatibility certification for use in Cerner software environments, the leading U.S. supplier of healthcare information technology solutions.

Microsoft, HP and OnForce have formed a unique collaboration to create a learning and certification solution for OnForce’s community of more than 10,000 IT service providers. The learning solution, which launches this month, is a one-stop resource for OnForce service providers to obtain training and validation on the latest Microsoft technologies.

IBM today announced the availability of an offering that will allow pharmaceutical companies to create an electronic certificate of authenticity (known as an electronic pedigree or ePedigree) for every drug that passes through the supply chain.

Two officials at Salt Lake City-based Usana Health Sciences Inc. promised to stop representing themselves as certified public accountants, ending an investigation by Utah authorities into the vitamin maker, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.