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Share Your Green Tech Story and Win a Laptop or Tablet!

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Interested in winning a free refurbished laptop or tablet? Dell Core Windows 7 Laptop from InterConnection. HP EliteBook 8440p Core i5 Windows 7 Laptop from PCRR. Both laptops come preloaded with Microsoft Office 2010, a Windows operating system, and Microsoft Security Essentials. Are you … A U.S. iPad 2 from CDI.

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Share Your Green Tech Story and Win a Laptop or Tablet!

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Interested in winning a free refurbished laptop or tablet? Dell Core Windows 7 Laptop from InterConnection. HP EliteBook 8440p Core i5 Windows 7 Laptop from PCRR. Both laptops come preloaded with Microsoft Office 2010, a Windows operating system, and Microsoft Security Essentials. Are you … A U.S. iPad 2 from CDI.

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Mobile for Good: May Edition

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To stop the growing problem of smartphone theft, a state senator in California has introduced a bill that would mandates manufacturers to sell devices with built-in kill switches. Weirdly, in California, there was some resistance to the bill by a domestic violence nonprofit. Tablet Tales.

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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

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At the time, we had a very limited selection of offers, comprised only of desktops and laptops, most of which had Pentium III processors (you get the idea). And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. to scale up RCI in California. Fast Forward to 2012.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

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During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices.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. Refurbishers in emerging markets will start to see a higher supply of laptops for refurbishment.

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News by the Spoonful: The $10 USB Condom (Seriously)

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Juice jacking is a data theft practice you may not have heard about yet: Public charging stations can be configured by bad guys to read the data on your phone or laptop and also upload malware when you charge your device. Here's another "as California goes, so goes the nation" story. Image 1: TechSoup Global.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

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org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change.

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