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Courtesy of T-3:Trends, Tips and Topics for Everyday Living
(produced and hosted by Lisa M. Tolliver)
WVOX Radio AM 1460 September 30th, 2003

Almost half a million US Jobs have been lost to offshore outsourcing.(http://www.techsunite.org/news/tech/030917_sfprotest.cfm).

Offshore workers are willing to work for significantly less, than the average Amercian Worker. One person said “for peanuts or beans”.

This point has been brought home by a Doonesbury Article where a worker goes to his job and finds out that the office has been closed out and for sale. He then calls his former boss who is on a beach somewhere and tells the worker what he has done and refers him to his secretary in India.

US companies have been looking to to outsource to reduce facilities costs as well as job costs.
However, this is not a concept that is a new trend. Companies have been moving their companies from high priced cities to the south as early as the 1960’s in order to reduce costs domestically.

Workers had recently organized a protest in from out an outsourcing conference in San Francisco. The article sighted that the access to US Visas increasing has contributed signigicantly to this trend.

So what can US workers do to prevent their jobs from going offshore? Workers may have to eat humble pie for a bit longer by not expecting raises for a while, and take some training courses. Study and work abroad for serveral months. This will not only increase their expose to International Issues, but it can also serve in the future should any job opportunities require travelling and communication overseas.

Cell phone companies are offering upgrade deals if they bring their old cellphone.

Police stations are also asking the public to bring in old cellphones to aid women in need that are suffering from domestic abuse.

The Body Shop has a program .Donate a phone, save a life that also aids in fighting domestic violence.

Courtesy of T-3:Trends, Tips and Topics for Everyday Living
(produced and hosted by Lisa M. Tolliver)
WVOX Radio AM 1460 September 23th, 2003

The mantra here at TECHXNY is “stick to what you know and sell it”.

Olympus, HP and T-mobile were some exhibitors today that demonstrated their wares for show attendees.

Olympus promoted the C and D series of Digital Cameras. The C- series Cameras for everyday consumers offer a point and shoot digital camera, while the D Series are geared towards professional-business users.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) demonstrated their series of printers for primarily business use.
The business printer DesignJet 800 produced high resolution, eye-popping printout of cars and maps.
This model is more geared for the office user for concept to presentation drawings.

Cell Phone providers included in the event are T-moblie and Nextel. T-mobile had phones and communicators geared toward the young hipster to the serious business user.
Nextel is well know for it walkie -talkie feature on phones.

Despite all these features, the ideal of philantrophy is also present at the expo, The National Cristina Foundation is urging businesses to donate their used equipment to empower people with disabilites communites and non-profits. Dell Computer decided to take this concept more closer to home with its Recyling Program. On the Dell 4 Me recycling site at www.dell4me.com/recycling, users can choose to recycle their products in return for special offers from Dell or Donate for a tax deduction.

As indicated in TECHXNY EXPO, recycling of old tech equipment has become a hot-topic.

The National Cristina Foundation is urging businesses to donate their used equipment to empower people with disabilities communities and non-profits. Dell Computer decided to take this concept more closer to home with its Recycling Program. On the Dell 4 Me recycling site at www.dell4me.com/recycling, users can choose to recycle their products in return for special offers from Dell or Donate for a tax deduction.

Iomega who wasn’t in attendance at the show, has been doing this for a while, offering discounts for upgrading their peripherals and customers send back their old equipment to the company, where the company donates them to areas in need.

According to the Wall Street Jorunal, most tech devices such as cellphone, pdas, pagers will become obsoltete by 2005.
By then an expected, 60 million units are expected to be recycled. (http://www.intel.com/education/recycling_computers/recycling.htm)

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that as much as 75 percent of old, used electronic equipment is still in storage. http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/AC/comm_exec/communication/media/04-03computer_recycling.html .

Non-profits and recyling centers are urging businesses and consumer to donate their computer, peripherals to them to use to empower communities.

The mantra here at TECHXNY is “stick to what you know and sell it”.

Olympus, HP and T-mobile were some exhibitors today that demonstrated their wares for show attendees.

Olympus promoted the C and D series of Digital Cameras. The C- series Cameras for everyday consumers offer a point and shoot digital camera, while the D Series are geared towards professional-business users.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) demonstrated their series of printers for primarily business use.
The business printer DesignJet 800 produced high resolution, eye-popping printout of cars and maps.
This model is more geared for the office user for concept to presentation drawings.

Cell Phone providers included in the event are T-moblie and Nextel. T-mobile had phones and communicators geared toward the young hipster to the serious business user.
Nextel is well know for it walkie -talkie feature on phones.

Despite all these features, the ideal of philantrophy is also present at the expo, The National Cristina Foundation is urging businesses to donate their used equipment to empower people with disabilites communites and non-profits. Dell Computer decided to take this concept more closer to home with its Recyling Program. On the Dell 4 Me recycling site at www.dell4me.com/recycling, users can choose to recycle their products in return for special offers from Dell or Donate for a tax deduction.

Iomega who wasn’t in attendance at the show, has been doing this for a while, offering discounts for upgrading their peripherals and customers send back their old equipment to the company, where the company donates them to areas in need.

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Courtesy of T-3:Trends, Tips and Topics for Everyday Living
(produced and hosted by Lisa M. Tolliver)
with guest Chris Blume of Cubvision
WVOX Radio AM 1460 September 2nd, 2003

Topics Discussed:
What is Wireless?
What tools and devices are needed to access wireless hotspots?
How to find wireless hotspots.
Do’s and don’ts of wireless surfing.