Helsinki – The world’s leading mobile telephone producer Nokia admitted on Tuesday 8 April in Helsinki that “the union leaders” at Nokia’s plant in Reynosa in Mexico are appointed by the company itself. Thus the…
The agreement would secure the basic rights of Nokia’s employees world-wide. The unions presented their proposal on Tuesday in Helsinki at a press conference where a research report was published on working conditions in the…
LOS ANGELES — In another sign of a shake-out in the competitive flat-panel television market, Royal Philips Electronics, the Dutch consumer electronics giant, will no longer manufacture televisions for sale in the United States or…
After 34 years of doing business in the Philippines, chip giant Intel Corp is considering closing down its test and assembly plant there this year, according to reports.Intel set up its test and assembly operations…
Hewlett Packard made a significant announcement that they are publishing the list of their major suppliers, the first time a global electronics company has done so. At the same time, HP announced a new training…
An international group of environmental, legal and health NGO’s welcomed today’s judgment by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) against the European Commission’s decision to exempt decaBDE, a brominated flame retardant, from a list of…
The Sony Vaio TZ11 laptop, Sony Ericsson T650i mobile phone and Sony Ericsson P1i PDA have come out on top in Greenpeace’s first survey of greener electronics products.The main brands of desktop PCs and notebooks,…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in partnership with retailers, manufacturers and service providers recently introduced the “Recycle Your Cell Phone: It’s an Easy Call” campaign. Eleven companies, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Staples, Best Buy and…
Despite new European regulations to prevent electronic waste from being dumped in Africa and Asia, a hidden flow of end-of-life electronics is threatening to drown West Africa.”Ghana is increasingly becoming a dumping ground for waste…
The fate of large quantities of electronic waste is unknown, according to a Greenpeace report Toxic tech: Not In Our Backyard. Even in regions such as the EU that are subject to tighter regulation, there…