South Korean court has sentenced Lee Jae-yong, the acting vice-chairman of Samsung, to five years in prison. If convicted this would represent the longest prison sentence for any South Korean executive. Lee was jailed in February 2017 for crimes including offering…
Last month, over 70 students from the UK and Ireland congregated in Manchester for People & Planet’s annual Summer Training event – Power Shift: Training for Change. Supported by the Good Electronics Network, a day…
Foxconn has been responsible for some of the most reprehensible labor practices of the twenty-first century, but not only in China. Read this interesting article of Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller about this transnational Taiwanese…
Motherboard wrote: “We all know it’s not easy to repair a Samsung Galaxy S8. How is it possible this phone earned a “gold” rating from the nonprofit Green Electronics Council under its Electronic Product Environmental…
Toshiba will build new production lines at its main semiconductor memory plant to address a demand increase. Subsidiary Toshiba Memory foresees this increase in 2018 and will bear the entire cost of this planned 195…
The New York Times reported that Apple pulled down several VPN apps from its Chinese App Store. These apps are programs that allow iPhone users to bypass the Chinese government’s censorship apparatus. Apple’s silence may be tactical;…
With the technology having boosted its TV business, LG is now also in the field of smartphones Apple will switch from LCD to OLED panels for it’s next generation iPhones. These new phones will be…
South Korean prosecutors seek a 12-year jail term for Samsung’s Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong. The charges against Lee include bribing associates of the then-president Park Geun-hye, in return for government support in helping Lee cement…
On August 1st some 735,000 end-of-life phones filling two sea containers arrived to Antwerp. Closing the Loop (CTL) partnered with several organizations in Rwanda and Uganda to collect this phones. The phones have been transferred to…
In just 10 years, more than 7 billion smartphones have been produced. Greenpeace pulled the stats to show how our consumption habit is affecting our planet. Can you guess how many smartphones are thrown away…