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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013.

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TechSoup Global Goes to Congress (Again)

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TechSoup Global's mission is to do whatever we can to provide the IT resources and knowledge that charities, NGOs, and libraries need to operate at their full potential. Our latest opportunity was on February 13 2013. TechSoup Global's Jim Lynch presenting to a briefing of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

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They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. Ginny's Pick: Environmental Mobile App of the Month in Honor of Earth Day 2013. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends.

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Mobile for Good: Earth Month Edition

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Since Earth Day 2013, the eCycle Best has recycled more than 34,000 gadgets. 11,000 were laptops. eCycle Best concluded that American consumers seem to be getting wiser about throwing away phones, tablets, and laptops. Of these devices: 21,000 were smartphones. 2,000 were tablets. Anti-Phone-Theft Pledge.

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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During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices.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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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). The program is scheduled to launch in late 2012 or early 2013. They’re urging everyone to donate their discarded laptops to InterConnection as part of this work.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

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Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Just under 200 million of them were sold worldwide in 2013.

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