Apple issued its annual environmental responsibility report this week. According to the report, Apple recovered close to 61 million pounds of e-scrap throughout 2015. The recovered material included 23.1 million pounds of steel, 13.4 million pounds of plastics, 11.9 million pounds of glass, 4.5 million pounds of aluminum, 3 million pounds of copper, 190,000 pounds…
Intel plans to lay off 11 percent of their global workforce in a response to the decreasing PC market. The company will lay off up to 12,000 employees and anticipates $750 million in savings during 2016 due to the layoffs. Last year, the PC market saw the slowest amount of growth since 2008, with less…
American citizens are now using mobile devices for longer period times than ever, the Wall Street Journal reports. The increasing amount of time between consumer phone upgrades is attributed to carriers’ abandonment of the traditional subsidized model and consumers seeing less benefit in upgrading devices frequently. The overall phone-replacement cycle is estimated to reach 29…
OpenText, a Canadian content management firm, announced their acquisition of large majority of HP Inc’s customer experience content management division earlier today. The $170 million purchase includes products from the HP Engage line: HP MediaBin, HP Qfiniti, HP Explore, HP Aurasma and HP Optimost. The extension of content management offerings can be seen as a…
Apple launched a new app campaign yesterday in an effort to expand their environmental efforts. The new campaign, similar to 2014’s Apps for (RED), is called Apps for Earth. Apple started this campaign in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and from April 14-24 100% of paid-app and in-app purchases will go to the…
Data center maintenance is commonly thought of as an internal process. While a large number of a data center’s success happens indoors, there are certain external events that can deter a data center’s operation. Here are two environmental threats to data centers: Temperature changes During the summer months or other unusually hot times of the…
