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TechSoup Global Goes to Congress (Again)

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It's not our first time advocating for charities and libraries in the hallowed halls of the U.S. 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. The briefing was called "Turning E-Waste into Green."

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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). Several models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus 2012 with system restore capabilities. How Green Is Refurbished IT Equipment? to scale up RCI in California.

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Feeding the Hungry in the Land of Plenty

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I'm happy to announce that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Boulder Food Rescue , an organization working to eliminate food waste in its community and across the country. Now imagine, before taking a bite, you scrape nearly half that food into the trash.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

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From 2005 to 2012, telework growth in charities has been 87 percent. As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Microsoft Office Mobile is preinstalled on Windows Phone 8 and is available for select models of iPhone and Android phones as well. Telework and the Polar Vortex.

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Our Much Improved Tech Support In TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative

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All models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus and also with system restore capabilities. How Green Is RCI? They're urging everyone to donate their discarded laptops to InterConnection as part of this work. All of our RCI-refurbished PCs come with the Windows 7 operating system, and all come with Office 2007.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

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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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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. Green Technology. Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. What this means?

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