You would have to be buried in an underground cave not to know that major changes are occurring in the world today. Societies are being reformed in positive and sometimes in less-positive ways; countries are fracturing, with new ones emerging and old boundaries fading; while technology developments are reshaping businesses and turning many of our…
The utility industry will be one of the fastest-growing industries in adopting business analytics technology in the next few years
China's blessing of rapid economic growth may also be the country's greatest curse — if it cannot successfully manage the energy use and raw materials driving the expansion, that is. In just one generation, the world's most populous country has become its second-biggest economy as well as the most rabid consumer of energy products on…
Following up on my Greening the Telecom Sector blog last week, I poked around to get a better sense of how the broader networking and telecom sectors' environmental and sustainability efforts are evolving. Mostly, I wanted to see if they have moved beyond the conceptual, chest-beating, “We’re Green” stage to real-life corporate practices that actually…
In the last few years, we’ve seen lots of environmentally focused efforts coming out of all parts of the high-tech sector. We have, in theory, somewhat greener supply chains through which we move components with fewer hazardous materials than before. We have end-devices that come with recycling pamphlets stuffed in their boxes. And we've got…
Traditional catalogue distributor Digi-Key Corp. has recast itself as a fully integrated online distributor by, among other moves, eliminating print versions of its catalogue. Digi-Key is not an impulsive company and has no doubt researched every angle of this move before reaching its decision. (See Digi-Key Drops Print Catalogue.) The company has been building up…
THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. — In an unprecedented industry move, Digi-Key Corporation, a global electronics component distributor, recently announced that it will immediately cease all print versions of its product catalog and TechZone™ Magazine, offering this content exclusively online. This all-digital decision, driven by the company’s efforts to be environmentally vigilant, marks a major milestone…
HSINCHU, Taiwan — TSMC (NYSE: TSM) today announced that it led 15 supplier partners in jointly completing Taiwan’s first semiconductor supply chain carbon footprint verification. The project was completed with assistance from the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Industrial Development Bureau (IDB), and is part of the IDB’s “Semiconductor Supply Chain Carbon Footprint Assistance and…
Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a disaster to spur innovation. There are probably hundreds of niche businesses that realize the role they can play in the wake of a disaster. For example, a New England-based manufacturer is donating a bunch of its radiation-sensitive identification tags to the US military assisting in earthquake-ravaged Japan. The tags change…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Allied Electronics is gearing up to celebrate Green Week 2011, April 18-22, in honor of Earth Day 2011. Allied’s Green Week will feature a design competition, a “green” home page and “green acts.” To encourage engineers to think green, Allied is holding a Design Green Contest. From March 15 through April…