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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Research firm: Five companies make GRADE for tech disposal
Technology disposal and recycling is growing into a huge business. But the industry is still quite fragmented, and the process different firms use to dispose of a company’s old equipment is far from consistent.
IDC hopes to inject a little more certainty into the process. The technology research firm set up a new certification process to grade the disposal programs offered by U.S. computer makers, scrap companies and recycling/disposal companies. It released the results today.
Five companies earned IDC’s G.R.A.D.E. (Green Recycling and Asset Disposal for the Enterprise) certification: Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM among computer makers; Redemtech and Intechra among firms that focus specifically on technology disposal and recycling.
To compile the study, IDC rated 34 processes at 25 of the country’s largest disposal and recycling firms. It certified the five companies that scored 75 percent or higher on those criteria.
The tech-disposal industry is still very fragmented, but the small, local scrap companies are seeing increased competition from large recycling companies and computer makers.
Meanwhile, pressure has ratcheted up on corporate technology managers, who have to ensure that their company’s data is secure and its equipment is properly disposed of.
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Intel unveils new chips
Intel Corp. unveiled a new lineup of laptop chips Monday night that it claims are faster, better and use less power than anything on the market.
The five new Centrino Core 2 Duo processors help put Intel further ahead of rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and also indicate the changing face of portable computing, according to Intel officials.
“When we first introduced Intel Centrino back in 2003, there were very few Wi-Fi hotspots, YouTube videos and social media didn’t really exist, “thin and light” only referred to weight goals and desktop PCs outsold notebooks by a very wide margin,” Mooly Eden,general manager of the company’s Mobile Platforms Group said in a statement. “Today, notebooks outsell desktops in the U.S, and we’re paving the way to HD entertainment, rich online gaming, faster broadband wireless speeds and an easier and more secure way for businesses to manage, update and repair their notebook fleets.”
The new chips will help speed up the computing power and let users do things like view high-definition videos on their laptops, all while using less battery power, according to Intel.
Nearly 250 new consumer and business notebook PCs are being designed with the new chips. Many will hit the market just in time for back-to-school shopping.
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