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VESA prompts monitor dumping in bargain basement frenzy
News Monitor manufacturers are desperately dumping 14-inch stock in the UK to clear massive inventories of products that in two months are not going to be VESA standard. Smile sales account manager Warren Miller denied that his company is dumping...
[May 23, 1997, 15:15]
Shell accused of 'dumping' IT staff
News Shell has been accused of keeping IT staff in the dark over their future following the oil giant's £4bn outsourcing deals. EDS will be the operational integrator for the outsourcing contracts, with approximately 1,500 Shell IT staff and contractors...
[April 4, 2008, 9:07]
Apple criticised for dumping Tibetan leader
News Apple has been criticised in world newspapers for replacing the Dalai Lama with Amelia Earhart in its advertisements run in Asia because, it said, the Tibetan spiritual leader was not "easily recognised" in the region.
[April 14, 1998, 14:55]
Massachusetts officials clash over move to OpenDocument
Talkback The cost of dumping MSO? Think of the money saved by dumping it though. What a joker. I'll agree, I'd rather stay with MSO that Star or the likes, but in a large workplace as such, the savings will be enormus.
[November 2, 2005, 10:08]
Cutting down on e-waste and making WEEE work
Blog The organisation has launched a petition calling on the government to give the Environment Agency enough funds to be able to police the WEEE supply chain effectively - and fight dumping of e-waste in developing countries.
[September 24, 2008, 13:45]
UK gets final warning on e-waste
Talkback That is why there is a provision called Anti Dumping measures that all countries invoke to prevent it from being converted into a large dumping yard. Further, donation of used computers to underdeveloped and developing nations may also attract the...
[July 13, 2005, 7:54]
Government warning over hazardous IT waste
Talkback That is why there is a provision called Anti Dumping measures that all countries invoke to prevent itself from being converted into a large dumping yard. Further, donation of used computers to underdeveloped and developing nations may also attract...
[June 24, 2005, 15:52]
Recognising the rotten side of recycling
Talkback Now coming back to the Africa “end of life” issue; it is true that nobody wants Africa to end up as a dumping ground for our toxic and hazardous waste. In the mean time it is a huge mistake to categorise all equipment supply to developing economies...
[October 28, 2005, 14:29]
Apple is not green enough, says campaigner
News But local experts estimate that between a quarter to 75 percent of these items including old TVs, CPUs and phones are defunct — in other words e-waste; in other words long-distance dumping from developed country consumers and companies to an...
[December 6, 2006, 12:38]
Intel Classmate costs $400 - not $200.
Talkback There is price dumping going on. Intel is not planning to ship millions of their small computers at $180, but just tens of thousands. Intel is not advocating mass marketing of cheap laptops, what Intel wants, is for countries to purchase just tens...
[May 22, 2007, 20:32]
Chinese will pay most for green PCs
News However, Greenpeace claims the result can be explained by the fact only relatively wealthy urban Chinese consumers were surveyed, and also because China has become a dumping ground for foreign waste IT, which has made locals more sensitive to the...
[June 28, 2006, 17:25]
13-year old to address Linux conference
Talkback Well, if a 13-year old can install Linux, then we can definitely start dumping all these pesky Windows installs. OK, OK.i'm only serious! B)
[February 2, 2005, 17:26]
Toxic tech threatening developing world
News The report, entitled The Digital Dump: Exporting High-Tech Re-use and Abuse to Africa, also claimed that US and European manufacturers are dumping computers and other electrical goods under the guise of recycling or charity donations.
[October 26, 2005, 9:45]
Why I've moved from Vista to Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I have had the same experience as I posted on my blog (http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/dumping-vista-a-divorce-with-a-happy-ending-19844). I get the same responses from Microsoft loyalists that my computer must be crap.
[October 26, 2007, 2:51]
HP and the African e-waste problem: Round 2
Blog I have been tracking the issue of illegal dumping of old tech in Africa for a while now and reported HP's first efforts to investigate this issue last year: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39289404,00.htm
[February 17, 2009, 17:03]
Microsoft backs Digital Pipeline to Africa
News Recycling managers in Dell and HP contacted by ZDNet.co.uk both claimed that sending PCs to the developing world could be used by some unscrupulous companies as a way of dumping unusable machines, which is why they avoid being involved with such...
[July 25, 2007, 17:34]
Five years ago: EC rule sends RAM prices up 30 per cent
News Boyle said he was unconvinced that dumping was going on. I'm not sure anybody was dumping. First published 26 March, 1997 We're seeing price rises of between 25 per cent and 30 per cent," said Ian Boyle, group director of UK memory distributor...
[March 26, 2002, 6:01]
One Year Ago:EC rule sends RAM prices up 30 per cent
News Boyle said he was unconvinced that dumping was going on. I'm not sure anybody was dumping. "We're seeing price rises of between 25 per cent and 30 per cent," said Ian Boyle, group director of UK memory distributor Datrontech.
[March 26, 1998, 6:00]
EC rule sends RAM prices up 30 per cent
News Boyle said he was unconvinced that dumping was going on. I'm not sure anybody was dumping. "We're seeing price rises of between 25 per cent and 30 per cent," said Ian Boyle, group director of UK memory distributor Datrontech.
[March 26, 1997, 17:02]
Computer Aid: New life for old IT
Talkback WEEE directive is meant to protect the environment from dumping and landfilling, so how shifting the problem to African countries that do not have the same recycling resources as UK presents a solution ?
[February 18, 2005, 0:04]
