From UPI: China may not be at the forefront of environmental protection, but one of its private companies is seen by some as the greenest business in the world. Computer maker Lenovo ranked in at the top spot of environmental group Greenpeace’s latest quarterly ranking of global electronics manufacturers. Once at the bottom of the […]
Read MoreFrom th San Jose Mercury News (link) When discarded computers vanish from desktops around the world, they often end up in Guiyu, which may be the electronic-waste capital of the globe. The city is a sprawling computer slaughterhouse. Instead of offal and blood, its runoff includes toxic metals and acids. Some 60,000 laborers toil here […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily today: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao , Vice President Zeng Qinghong and Vice Premier Huang Ju called for more efforts to boost the country’s information technology (IT) industry Wednesday evening while visiting an ongoing communications technology expo. “We should accelerate our pace of technology innovation, better our homegrown research and development ability and make painstaking efforts […]
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