If it becomes law, the Waste from Electronic and Electrical Equipment Directive will force PC distributors to take back old equipment being replaced with newer machines. There are different ways to ensure computers enjoy a graceful retirement.
The driving force behind the evolutionary project is the global scientific community which increasingly needs to collaborate on vast amounts of research data remotely - particularly in the areas of genomics and particle physics.
Recently, we witnessed an incredible moment when scientists at MIT in the US and UCL in London teamed up to pull off the first transatlantic virtual handshake. A conversation in which we are breaking new ground in scientific and technological...
Sun plans to aim the product at "limited-use environments," including education, government, retail, banking, and corporate call centres. Sun's plan is "a big gamble," said IDC analyst Roger Kay, but there's plenty of extra money going to Microsoft...
Certainly, there have been advances in functionality but it is not at all obvious that they match the huge gains offered by hardware technology. It was only with the 80386 that Intel created a processor in the knowledge that personal computers were...
This study concluded that Linux would let schools make the best use of old computers with limited processing power. Linux has secured another role in the education sector through a government initiative in Chile.
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