Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2009

In addition to helping the environment, you will also save money on electricity and prolong the life of many of your office electronics. Look for those machines around your office that have a little green light glowing on them. According to Green Home Huddle "Your cell phone charger, iPod charger, laptop charger, etc.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

Jim walked out of there with four refurbished laptops preloaded with Windows Multipoint Server and 16 NComputing thin clients. The laptop servers are far more energy efficient than desktop computers and each little five-watt NComputing thin client uses 90% less electricity than a laptop. Three refurbished i5 laptops.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Here’s a checklist for that will save money on electricity and also help out the environment. This is an update of Anna Jaeger’s great Office Greening for the Holidays: Closing Up Shop. Shut down all non-server computers : Don't leave desktop and laptop computers in sleep mode. Green Office GreenTech Green IT'

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2015

One is for consumers interested in donating laptops and phones. How Individuals Can Donate Laptops and Phones. InterConnection now offers a free mail-in donation program allowing anyone, anywhere in the country to donate a working laptop, smartphone, or tablet by simply mailing it in to Interconnection. Image 1: InterConnection.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

We engage any and all high-tech companies that may be interested in donating or discounting their software, hardware, tech support, or cloud services. The briefing was called "Turning E-Waste into Green." IT discards that find their way in to landfills have toxics in them that poison our environment. are reused.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2017

They wrote Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing Their Impacts. It's much better for the environment to extend the life of a computer for an extra two or three years than to buy a new one every three to four years. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

The scientific basis for the environmental case for refurbished IT equipment is primarily from Dr. Eric Williams of Rochester Institute of Technology in his book, co-authored with Ruediger Kuehr, Computers and the Environment, Understanding and Managing Their Impacts. Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone. Image: lungstruck.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The scientific basis for the environmental case for refurbished IT equipment is primarily from Dr. Eric Williams of Rochester Institute of Technology in his book, co-authored with Ruediger Kuehr, Computers and the Environment, Understanding and Managing Their Impacts. Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. There’s a ton of information on all this, but I still like Time Magazine’s now ancient 2012 article, Your Life Is Fully Mobile , which is part of their larger Mobile Tech Special Edition. Telework and the Environment.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Sunstone Montessori School is a certified green nonprofit school in Portland, Oregon that serves toddlers through sixth graders.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

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). How Green Is Refurbished IT Equipment? They’re urging everyone to donate their discarded laptops to InterConnection as part of this work. Using the U.S.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

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. Joy Neal (right) is the library director and Lane Fernando (below) is their tech support person.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

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. Joy Neal (right) is the library director and Lane Fernando (below) is their tech support person.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 24, 2012

I think it’s pretty well known that TechSoup supplies refurbished computers to nonprofits and libraries in the United States through our Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI), which provides reliable, warrantied desktop and laptop computers.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

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. The library also offers free WiFi, a laptop checkout program, and 30 public access computers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

Mobile World Congress , an annual tech conference in Barcelona, Spain, sets the tone for global technology trends in the coming year. Besides the latest and greatest smartphones and tablets, the conference is a forum for innovation, ranging from green technology to accessibility. Mobile Green Tech. Windows Phone 8.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In this blog post, I'll compare costs and energy usage for a WMS setup versus a conventional setup in which every user has a laptop or desktop computer. A WMS system provides an overall cost and energy savings of 66 percent compared to a traditional 1:1 computing environment. They cost from $150 to $200 per unit. Energy Savings.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2012

It is very useful in nonprofits, libraries, schools, telecenters, and any computing lab environment. Windows MultiPoint Server is regarded as an energy-saving green technology. WMS was originally developed for schools and educational environments. What Windows MultiPoint Server Can Do.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Our goal is to teach everyone how to repair the stuff they own—whether it’s laptops , snowboards , toys , or clothes. But repair-unfriendly policies certainly don’t make sense to me: those policies hurt customers and they hurt the environment. They are also one of the most environmentally damaging.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

Microsoft's Windows MultiPoint Server is very useful in these environments, and refurbishers now have three places to go to get donated and discounted MultiPoint Server licensing: TechSoup , The Microsoft Registered Refurbisher Program , and Microsoft in Education. Using Old Laptops As Client Devices With Windows MultiPoint Server.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Microsoft has a very clear language description of how a Window MultiPoint Server environment works. Refurbished host computers run a Windows MultiPoint Server environment very well. Older computers (laptops or desktops) can also be used as thin client type access devices in a Windows MultiPoint Server environment.

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