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Office Greening for the Holidays: Closing Up Shop

Tech Soup

In addition to helping the environment, you will also save money on electricity and prolong the life of many of your office electronics. According to Green Home Huddle "Your cell phone charger, iPod charger, laptop charger, etc. keep drawing electricity even if your phone/iPod/laptop/etc isn't charging.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. Refurbishment and the Environment.

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Office Greening for the Holidays: Closing Up Shop

Tech Soup

Update: This post was originally published in December 2008, but since it holds lots of useful information for closing your office over a holiday break, we wanted to update it and put it at the top of our list for the 2009 holiday. According to Green Home Huddle "Your cell phone charger, iPod charger, laptop charger, etc.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Technology for the Location Agnostic

Connection Cafe

Actually the first laptops hit the market 20 years ago and cell phones started shrinking in the early 1990s. How about a work environment where employees where the focus is on an employee’s ability to produce results and not on their ability to show up on time? When did our office equipment start shrinking? Five years ago?

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

TechSoup and InterConnection , one of our Refurbished Computer Initiative partners, teamed up to supply a group of nonprofits and libraries with everything they would need to set up a MultiPoint Server lab in their environment. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

TechSoup and InterConnection , one of our Refurbished Computer Initiative partners, teamed up to supply a group of nonprofits and libraries with everything they would need to set up a MultiPoint Server lab in their environment. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi.

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