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Transformers: taking out the waste

By Ian Hewson

17 September 2012

Just to be clear from the start: it’s not glamorous and we can’t offer Megan Fox as your sidekick. However, when it comes to trade effluent, we can kit you out with your very own Transformers to help you sort the good from the bad and ‘waste’ the rest...

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Comments | Category: Environment

Wreckage of the Tech-age: Microsoft ‘Surfaces’ to take a bite out of Apple

By Mark Powles

29 June 2012

Wreckage of the Tech-age: Microsoft ‘Surfaces’ to take a bite out of Apple

Forget Rumble in the Jungle and Thrilla in Manilla, last week heralded the dawn of a new heavyweight rivalry of epic proportions: the Wreckage of the Tech-age, Microsoft versus Apple. However, let me explain why it’s customers who will be the outright winners in this competition.

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Comments | Category: Competition

We’re all for recycling…but this is bananas

By Ian Hewson

25 June 2012

We’re all for recycling… but this is bananas

Anything relating to bananas is always ripe for puns (see?), but a story last week about how two students at one of the world’s leading technology schools turned fruit, milk, cats and even themselves into musical instruments turned out to have a really serious point.

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Comments | Category: Innovation

Out with the old in with the new

By Ian Hewson

13 April 2012

Out with the old in with the new

As we (hopefully) say goodbye to the cold wet winter weather and welcome the skipping lambs and bright bluebells of spring, now is the perfect time to have a good spring clean!

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Comments | Category: Customer solutions

Customers are winners in race for smartphone supremacy

By Mark Powles

12 March 2012

Customers are winners in race for smartphone supremacy

I always enjoy seeing the breadth of reactions when a new, eagerly-awaited piece of kit is unveiled. In the last couple of weeks we’ve had the new 41-megapixel camera smartphone from Nokia and the new iPad, and reactions have covered everything from feverish excitement to cynical jeering.

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Comments | Category: Competition