Green IT: Whereas many IT projects (think ERP, CRM, CMS) are nearly impossible to break down into anything less than abstract ROI terms, Ted Samson has one that is not. “PC and monitor power management falls under that easy-to-measure, cost-saving, carbon-reducing, CFO-self-masochism-inducing category,” he reports in When PCs don’t snooze, you lose. If that seems like minutia — I’m happy to know since I practice this nightly myself — it’s not. A machine left on all the time, in fact, results in an extra half-ton of CO2 emissions per year. Cough … cough. It’s not just a matter of relying on users, either, and the sustainable Mr. Samson looks at a few tools to help. Related: GreenPrint bets customers will save on printer waste. Wireless: Fueled by what it claims is a desire to increase the capabilities of mobile Web browsers, Opera Software says it is developing native video functionality for its mobile browser that will replace the Adobe Flash plug-in, Eprhaim Schwartz reports in this Reality Check post. The company points to a trend that will see more powerful browsers on mobile devices, including Apple’s iPhone which, Schwartz adds, “already has its first application on the Web from Webware.” Related: iPhone disappoints mobile developers. Columnist’s corner: After raising quite a few folks’ blood pressure with previous columns on Kaiser Permanente’s healthcare digitization megaproject, David Margulius invited Dr. Andy Wiesenthal, one of Kaiser’s lead docs on the project, to our San Francisco offices for “a no-holds barred checkup.” Diagnosing healthcare IT. The prognosis? Doctors’ view on digitization, and technology in general for that matter, corresponds quite predictably with their ages. It’s the midcareer ones who are most cautious. “To its credit, Kaiser has decided that health care needs a tech upgrade anyway.” You can also watch the full video interview here. Best of the blogs: Congratulations are in order for Linspire, at least if you ask Dave Rosenberg, who notes that in signing yesterday’s Linux patent pact with Microsoft the company is “relegating its Linux desktop to the dustbin of technology.” And he goes on in this Open Sources post to write that there’s “nothing like making a mediocre product absolute crap by adding in lame Microsoft services.” Technology Industry