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You're flipping through the weekly flyers from your local electronics store and marvel at the new digital cameras on the market. Not only are prices dropping all the time – for both the compact point-and-shoot cameras as well as the bulkier yet more powerful DSLR models – but new features are continually added, offering even more bang for your buck. Oh sure, you already know about megapixels, a quality lens and fast… Read More

Back in the middle of 2008, electronics retailer Best Buy announced a trial consumer electronics recycling program at 117 of its stores; the program must be successful (or at least good public relations) because the retailing giant has now announced it plans to offer electronics recycling at its 1,006 U.S. retail locations beginning February 15, 2009. The company plans to expand the operations to Puerto Rico during its 2010 fiscal year.… Read More

The One Laptop Per Child project as re-launched its Give One Get One program, making it possible for individual customers in developed nations to donate an OLPC XO laptop to a child in a developing region—or donate a notebook and set their hands on one of the OLPC XO laptops for themselves. Although the program was embraced last year by donors willing to support the project to get computers to children in developing nations, the… Read More

Computer maker Dell and office supply chain Staples have announced a new partnership that enables customers to recycle any amount of Dell gear—including monitors, printers, computers, and peripherals—at Staple's U.S. store locations for free, without having to make any kind of purchase. The deal marks the largest free consumer computer recycling program in the country, and is an extension of Staple's existing EcoEasy… Read More

The One Laptop Per Child project is getting set to pull the trigger on its Give One, Get One campaign, this time launching on November 17 in conjunction with Amazon.com. Reader may reall last year, OLPC offered its XO notebook to customers in developed nations…on the condition they also buy another XO laptop to be distributed to a child in a developing nation. The program generated enough response last year that OLPC actually extended… Read More

These days, electronics retailers are feeling increasing pressure from watchdog groups, municipalities, and even consumers to help clean up some of the so-called e-waste they help create: by peddling new phones, computers, televisions, and other gizmos, they help generate a surfeit of unwanted technology items, many of which contain hazardous chemicals and toxic materials. Throw them away, and that stuff essentially goes straight into the… Read More

The EU has committed to a four-year, $84 million program intended to make the Internet safer for kids.                              It will build on theSafer Internet Program, which began in 2000, and will spend the money helping to protect children from cyber bullyingand inappropriate content.  … Read More

The next census is still two years away, but already there are worries that delays could be caused by cost overruns in a program that will employ handheld devices and a secure network to collectdata, the Washington Post has reported.   The wireless handheld devices would be employed for Field Data Collection Automation (FDCA), the collectionof data from those who don’t return census forms, then the network would automatically update… Read More

When the OLPC project announced its Give One, Get One initiative last November, enabling supporters in North America to get their hands on an OLPC XO notebook by funding the purchase of a second laptop to be given to a child in a developing nation. The program was met with considerable enthusiasm, so much so that the OLPC project extended the program from its initial two-week window to run out to the end of 2007. Now, the OLPC is facing a… Read More

When the One Laptop Per Child organization began mass production of its OLPC XO notebook computer, it also launched a “Give One, Get One” program which enabled commercial sales of the notebook intended to enable education in developing nations. Folks in developed economies would be able to get their hands on the OLPC XO for $399…and, in doing so, would fund another OLPC XO laptop to be given to a child in a developing… Read More

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has run into last minute glitches which have forced a production delay on the inexpensive OLPC XO notebook computer. Originally slated to go into production this month, XO production is now scheduled to begin on November 12. The organization still expects to be able to produce 100,000 laptops by the end of the year, but the delay may mean the systems will be hard to come by in the North American… Read More

A new British study has failed to eliminate the possibility of a link between mobile phone usage and an increased long-term risk of cancer. A six year research program carried out by the UK Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme ruled out short-term adverse affects tobrain and cell functions, but found a “hint” of a higher cancer risk. The program is being expanded to look at the use of mobile phones over 10… Read More

Wireless operators AT&t;T and Verizon Wireless are planning to introduce services which enable customers to program their digital video recorders using their mobile phones…that way, when they get home, they won't have missed a single moment of their favorite television programming. AT&T has announced that its HomeZone customers will be able to view listings and manage recordings via mobile phones, in addition to… Read More

Mammoth computer manufacturer Dell today fired a healthy salvo at critics' complaints its products contain significant amounts of hazardous materials and chemicals hazardous to health and the environment: the company has announced it plans to offer recycling for any Dell-branded product to any customer, anywhere in the world, for free. The new program is currently operational iin Europe, is scheduled to launch in the U.S. in September,… Read More

In a move which reflects the company's business sensibilities as much as its environmental ethics, Apple Computer today announced it has expanded its Computer Take-Back program to monitors and systems made by any manufacturer, rather than just Apple products. Of course, there's a catch: unless you're dropping off your old gear at the recycling center at the company's Cupertino headquarters, to qualify for the program… Read More