PORTLAND, Ore.—Gamers often brag about how much power it takes to run their maxed-out, multi-monitor, multi-fan-cooled beastly-looking gaming computers. However, a more sober assessment by the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, Calif.) shows if gamers merely chose more energy efficiency components—without sacrificing performance—they could cut their power consumption by up to…
PARIS – Europeans recycled only 35% of electronic waste properly in 2012. The rest was either illegally dumped or traded, according to a two-year study put together by the United Nations University and INTERPOL. Contrast this figure against the lofty goal of the European Union’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive), which became…
Corporations worldwide spend billions of dollars on data security, but firewalls, data encryption, end-point protection, and network monitoring have little effect when your equipment is ready to be retired. In fact, IT asset disposition (ITAD) has been called the “soft underbelly of data security,” an area that is surprisingly overlooked given the costly consequences of…
Like the Rome of old, a more transparent and sustainable supply chain is not built in a day. Building it takes planning, mapping, and fine-tuning. Data visualization enables organizations to bridge all three. Awareness of the need for sustainability and transparency in the electronic supply chain is rising. And a number of companies have said…
Globalization is generally understood to be the process through which products, people, ideas, culture, and capital are transferred around the world creating a system of global integration. The general consensus is that this process of integration has created a world that is not only smaller but better. It's also assumed that the global supply chain…
The Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M), also called the Industrial Internet, (II), are changing customer relationships and workflow in the business-to-business (B2B) world. In the automotive industry, cars, trucks, and even motorcycles are using Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technology, which uses a communications module that connects transmitters in the vehicles, and sensors in the road…
HONG KONG – Li Tong Group, LTG, which optimizes Reverse Supply Chain Management (RSCM) services for technology and telecom, is teaming up with Motorola to offer consumers in France, Germany and the U.K. an easy and convenient way to trade in the mobile devices they are no longer using. The program, launched May 1, 2015,…
It sounds like an oxymoron: smart wooden dolls. However, that's exactly what manufacturer Avakai has created. Though it looks like a simple wooden doll in the shape Russian nesting dolls, it is Bluetooth enabled to offer interactive response. With their stress on connectivity, transparency, sustainability, and adaptability, this company reflects the values we're seeing in…
London/New York – The Wearables for Good design challenge is rapidly turning into one of the most inclusive global technology races ever, attracting more than 600 registrations so far from Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and North and South America all vying for two winning places. With the entry deadline approaching rapidly (Aug. 4), the Wearables…
OEMs are beginning to see the strategic value of incentivized post-consumer trade-in and take-back programs, a reality that is feeding momentum for Reverse Supply Chain Management (RSCM). As recently as earlier this year, many leading OEMs didn't want to talk about these programs in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Many OEMs didn't want to…