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Europe to tighten rules on toxic substances

...European Parliament approved a proposal to amend the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive by 640 votes to three, with 12 abstentions. The draft legislation... Read more

25 November, 2010 by Ben Woods

EU legislators to look into chemical ban

...the recommendation in a proposed revision to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive, which was approved on Wednesday with 55 votes in favour, one... Read more

4 June, 2010 by Matthew Broersma
Challenges in Manufacturing Reliable Lead-Free and <endeca_term>RoHS</endeca_term>-Compliant Components

Challenges in Manufacturing Reliable Lead-Free and RoHS-Compliant Components

The push for lead-free or RoHS-compliant products is resulting in significant changes in packaging materials. Manufacturers of... Read more

1 July, 2010

EU extends hazardous waste regulations

...electronics equipment has come into force. The updated Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive has been extended to include all electrical items, cables, and spares... Read more

21 July, 2011

Huawei sues ZTE over trademarked logo, dongle patents

...a logo showing compliance with the EU's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, while at least one of the patents appears to relate to... Read more

28 April, 2011
Acumen Air 1.0

Acumen Air 1.0

...active presence in the world market- Production according to the environmental standard RoHS- Express delivery for all ordersIn the Global market, ACUMEN has won recognition... Read more

6 August, 2011
Teamcenter Controls the Entire Lifecycle of Huge Digital Presses With 4-Year Development Cycles and Multi-Year Support Cycles

Teamcenter Controls the Entire Lifecycle of Huge Digital Presses With 4-Year Development Cycles and Multi-Year Support Cycles

...variety of regulations regarding product content, such as Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) and REACH. Also, because service starts with the sale of the press... Read more

1 September, 2010
Green IT : Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line by Toby Velte 3.0.3

Green IT : Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line by Toby Velte 3.0.3

...into a paperless environment Equip your organization with green hardware, including EPEAT-, RoHS-, and ENERGY STAR-certified machines Implement efficient datacenter design in terms of... Read more

9 July, 2010

Palm pulls Treo over dangerous substances

...the start of this month. The EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances directive (RoHS) outlaws the sale of equipment that contains excessive levels of substances such... Read more

6 July, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

Chinese will pay most for green PCs

...will no doubt receive a boost from incoming EU legislation called the ROHS Directive. It will restrict the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical... Read more

28 June, 2006 by Andrew Donoghue

UK scientist researches IT hazards for EC

...week which technologies should be exempt from the Restrictions of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive. The EC's Technical Adaptation Committee (TAC) is scheduled to meet... Read more

13 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden
Designing a Data Storage System for Environmental Compliance (Focusing on <endeca_term>RoHS</endeca_term>-Type Legislation

Designing a Data Storage System for Environmental Compliance (Focusing on RoHS-Type Legislation

As more governments pass, implement, and enforce environmental compliance initiatives covering electronics, small to... Read more

30 November, 2007
A Case Study for Transitioning Class a Server Motherboards to Lead-Free

A Case Study for Transitioning Class a Server Motherboards to Lead-Free

The EU Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) legislation was formed in 2006. One, out of the many, exemptions that... Read more

10 November, 2008

Tech vendors call for chemical ban

...demanded that the EU impose bans, through the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, on the use of brominated flame retardants (BFR) and polyvinyl chloride... Read more

20 May, 2010 by Richard Thurston

Making the Switch to green

...D-Link also uses the fact that its products comply with the RoHS and WEEE regulations as evidence of its green credentials - which is just... Read more

18 February, 2009

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

7 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

9 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

13 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

15 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

16 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

17 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

18 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

19 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

20 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

21 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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