Most people have heard the popular saying “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”. It basically serves as an environmental slogan for all the people in the world who are attempting to “go green”. Despite the growing awareness around green practices and environmental impacts, the unfortunate truth is that the majority of individuals and many businesses have a tendency …
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BYOD or CYOD – Can You Minimize Your Risk?
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) as a corporate policy may save money by eliminating corporate purchasing of mobile devices, but there are risks associated with it. Allowing employee-owned mobile devices in the workplace affords employees a great deal more freedom with their devices, and by extension, with critical company data and applications. When using a …
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Responsible International e-Cycling: Why You Should Be Concerned
As a manager at a large enterprise that has offices in non-OECD countries, what should I know about what’s going on there? Many non-OECD countries are changing their attitude towards the “informal” electronics recycling sectors they have. Certification organizations like SERI (formerly R2 Solutions) are promoting recycling infrastructure in countries such as India and China. …
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Tablets – Lease or Buy?
Purchasing of enterprise tablets is forecasted to outpace enterprise laptops over the next few years. Many companies lease laptops for their employees, rather than purchase them outright. For both lessors and lessees, 36 month leases have been a good option – the laptops hold enough significant value over that period for the lease to make …
Can Android devices be fully erased?
Leading mobile security application company, Avast, recently conducted a mini “study” where they bought 20 Android phones off of eBay that the sellers had wiped out all their personal data – or so they thought. Avast then used some easy (and widely available) recovery software to see what they could extract from the phones. The …
2014 Standards for Data Destruction Include Mobile Devices and SSDs
A lot can change in eight years, especially when we’re talking about technology. Since the National Institute of Standards and Technology released NIST 800-88 in 2006, it has been the only official United States standard for data destruction, replacing the outdated DoD three-pass standard. But that was 2006, and data storage trends have evolved quite a bit since then. …
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Look for Certifications – Not Logos – When Evaluating an ITAD Partner
A couple of weeks ago we talked about some misleading logos you might find on an electronic recycler’s website that don’t actually mean anything; this week we’re covering some of the top legitimate certification logos that you should be looking for when evaluating vendors. Back when Lifespan was founded in 2002, there were no electronics recycling …
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Unlocking Mobile Devices – Update from the US Senate Good News for Resale
The US Senate Judiciary Committee is taking up the issue of mobile device unlocking. It appears that the senate committee is supporting a version of a bill that will allow consumers to unlock devices so they can change carriers. Importantly, this bill also will allow “bulk” unlocking of devices, which the house bill currently prohibits. …
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Quality Assurance for Data Erasure
It’s safe to assume you have quality assurance processes in place for the major aspects of your IT, whether it’s for software development, or network or system deployment. But do you have a specific QA check in place when it comes to your data erasure process? Are you actively checking to make sure that the …
What do all the logos mean from electronics recycling websites?
The electronics recycling / IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) industry has a colorful past. Even the most seemingly trustworthy companies may in fact be handling and processing material illegally. One high-profile example is the case of Executive Recycling who was performing ITAD services for the City of Denver and a number of large commercial entities. In …
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