Nation of hoarders: 30 million PCs rot in Australia
What does last night's dinner have in common with your old PC? They get thrown out when their value flatlines. ZDNet Australia asks why Australians hoard old PCs.
What does last night's dinner have in common with your old PC? They get thrown out when their value flatlines. ZDNet Australia asks why Australians hoard old PCs.
Hewlett-Packard may currently be the biggest high-tech company on earth, but Dell is winning the mindshare battle (for now) when it comes to green IT, according to a new GreenFactor business survey.The poll of CIOs and Senior IT Managers by Strategic Oxygen and Cohn & Wolfe covered close to 3,500 high-level executives in more than 11 countries.
The debate has started again over a proposed bill meant to help thwart exports of e-waste by electronics recyclers.As I've reported several times in this blog, the e-waste issue continues to build as a national interest, because more and more individuals and businesses are opting to recycle their old computers and other electronics gear.
Dell once again blogged about its delays for XPS and M1330 orders due to component shortages and issues with custom colors. What's interesting about this latest blog post from Dell is that it largely echoes previous posts on the subject.
Greenpeace has updated their "Green Electronics Guide", a list which ranks the major mobile and PC manufacturers on how well they take care of this planet we all share based upon the information they make available. The results make interesting reading indeed.
The Queensland Government has announced a new "green" IT procurement plan covering all government agency purchases of PCs, laptops and servers over the next three years.
Acer won't commit to pre-installing Linux on its line-up in Australia, despite hinting that it would do so in the UK.
Dell is hoping to cater to the SMB and medium-sized business markets with new enterprise-class wireless access solutions.
Dell says the AirCarbon manufacturing process alone produces a net positive impact on the environment by sequestering more carbon from the air than it produces.
TGIF! And what a week it has been, one I'd like to call let's-show-everyone-we're-eco-friendly week.