The Sept. 9 iPhone 6 release sure has its claws in everyone! While the new phone itself is anticipated to reign supreme in sales, the percentage of trade-ins of its predecessors, the 5 and 5S, is predicted to be the highest ever! Late last year, Forbes predicted a 15-20 percent value decline across all older …
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Revenue for the cell phone recycling industry is estimated to increase until 2019, according to a recently updated report from IBISWorld. Rising commodity prices as a result of global demand from emerging economies have enabled cell phone recyclers to develop and expand their operations and hire more workers, which has rapidly increased the industry’s wage …
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“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” – Mark Twain In 1897, these memorable words were attributed to Mark Twain, the masterful writer and observer of American life. Now—nearly 120 years later—the same diction can be applied to the turbulent tablet marketplace. In late July the mainstream media (i.e. Wall Street Journal) announced …
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USA Today set the scene this week describing the ghost of offices past and the dilemmas of harmonizing BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) with mobile device security. ‘Work’ has become a sort of ‘frame of mind’ in today’s society. You can essentially work from anywhere at anytime with the help from mobile devices (whether they …
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Employees may have to COPE with a new model for enterprise mobility. Bring your own device (BYOD) has been under scrutiny since its initial buzz in the corporate world in 2011. While a great concept, skeptics are concerned about mobile security with employee devices as well as the reality of it actually saving corporate funds. …
Today, ITAD represents an estimated $9.8 billion dollar market handling 48 million tons of discontinued or excess equipment, according to recent research by Transparency Market Research. TMR predicts this market will swell to $41 billion by 2019 on 141 million tons of used equipment. Finding the right IT asset management and disposition provider is like …
With less than three weeks until the release of the iPhone 6, today (but, yesterday would have been even better) is the day to decide what to do with your old model before you upgrade. Here’s why – there is a predictable 15-20 percent value decline seen across all older iPhone models in the six-week …
Mobility means innovation and productivity. Unfortunately, mobility is its own worst enemy when it comes to security and management. Think about this: 61 percent of organizations say that data theft and cybercrime are the greatest threats to their reputation. The average cost of a security breach is as much as $6 million for an organization, …
Intel is hard at work to ditch the wires in order to drive its business PC market. Future business PCs will have “no wires” capabilities. This will include an enterprise version of the Intel Wireless Display (Intel WiDi) technology found in Intel-based consumer laptops, wireless docking for desktop devices and wireless charging of the laptop …
Let’s face it, once a new Android or iPhone comes to market, consumers are drawn to toss the old device into the junk drawer and pick up an upgrade right away. This “out with the old, in with the new” attitude results in consumers hoarding about $34 billion in old cellphones. The lifetime of an …
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