The second International Electronics Recycling Conference & Expo recently held at the Hyatt Regency hotel in San Francisco, California was attended by several hundred industry executives and stakeholders in the e-waste management industry. The event featured more than 60 exhibits and 40 speakers...

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Greying Gadgets – How Older Americans Shop For and Use Consumer Electronics” report to their offering. There are millions of consumers aged 50 and over (”Older Americans”) who control billions in disposable income....

Four  U.S senators introduced legislationThursday aimed at the fees wireless carriers charge when subscribers change providers before their contracts are up. The bill, dubbed the Cell Phone Early Termination Fee, Transparency and Fairness Act, would cap those early-termination fees based...

Hewlett-Packard Co. has been thinking green — about how both to lessen its impact on the environment and cut its production costs. To help achieve these dual goals, the US technology bellwether, popularly known as HP, has teamed up with a German company to recycle disposable ink cartridges from HP...

Windows 7, Microsoft’s new operating system (OS), which was recently released, will have minimal impact on PC sales, according to researcher Gartner. “The OS is not the reason people upgrade their PCs,” says Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner. “On the consumer side,...