makeITfair – a project implemented by number of organizations from EU and developing countries developed a report titled Gender perspective. Production of Next-Generation Electronics in Poland. The research was conducted from May to July 2007…
Computers are considered to be the allegory of the 21st century: Fancy, flexible, key to the immaterial world of global cyberspace. But a glance behind the stage reveals a very different picture. Single parts of…
Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, said that it would close a factory in Germany and cut about 2,300 jobs as it shifted production to locations with lower costs. The factory in Bochum…
A slowing American economy is not hurting IBM yet. But the strength of the technology giant’s quarterly profit – up 24 percent – may not be as reliable an indicator of broader trends in the…
The new MacBook Air – the thinnest notebook computer on the planet -is a strong entry in the race to build a green PC. As a mercury and arsenic free laptop it exceeds European Standards…
Amsterdam, 14 January 2008 – Young people are seriously concerned about the social and environmental problems surrounding the production and disposal of their consumer electronics. A majority of young European consumers state that the companies…
Lawyers for about 90 current and former residents of New York state filed suit against IBM on Thursday alleging that chemicals from an IBM plant have caused congenital heart defects in infants and kidney cancers…
PC global a project of World Economy, Ecology and Development (WEED) has recently published the new educational CD titled “The Way of a Computer – From global Production to Disposal”. Computers are considered to be…