While IT has made steps to becoming more green-friendly in recent years, it looks set to overshadow every major hardware purchase decision in the future.
Victorians will now be able to ditch their unwanted, end-of-life technology equipment in a green fashion following the launch of a state IT take-back program -- with support from big name vendors including Apple, Dell and HP.
Lenovo will begin offering discounts to Canadian customers who recycle their old PCs.
Watching a movie in a plane imbues it with meaning and subtlety and character that no terrestrial viewer ever perceives. For me, at least, movies watched while flying over the ocean seem to have a magical quality. Cynics might say it's the abnormal amount of alcohol in the system, or the fact that one headphone earpiece doesn't work and the other one crackles in time with the flexing of the wings, or the fact that your plane doesn't have individual screens so you have to either look at the screen 40 metres in front of you or the one just slightly behind and above you, or the fact that you don't normally watch movies at 4:30am while eating brunch, or the fact that the soundtrack has been interrupted 18 times to announce really important things like the imminent passage of the duty-free trolley.
Don't adjust your spell checker: The new term someday soon for your laptop display will be LEP, not LCD. In fact, we're about to see a whole new range of display devices, including the possible replacement of the morning newspaper.
Who needs colour? Sometimes all you need is a black-and-white printer that can churn out the pages fast. We look at your options.
Calling a product 'Perfection' displays a lot of moxie. What possible product can you release after it if you're right? We test Epson's latest scanner to see if it can live up to its perfect billing.
Printing solutions for the office come in all shapes and sizes. Check out our review to find the right one for your needs.
Slide shows and overhead projectors with images that are crooked, upside down, mirror imaged, or simply lost, are well and truly a thing of the past. We take you through some of the brightest possibilities.
As digital cameras replace film cameras, the lifespan of printed images becomes a worry. This is especially true if you pay top dollar for a photo-grade inkjet and splurge on expensive ink and coated photo paper.
A relatively fast, versatile printer with excellent text and graphics quality.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas, such as their PayWave … Watch it now
Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
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