No, Apple isn’t introducing a little plastic credit card, but what they may be doing is introducing a service that will allow you to use your iPhone or iPad to make a purchase. This is according to a recent Bloomberg Report. I read about it on ABC News. But it is all still speculation at this point.
Continue readingUHOPELINE CELL PHONE RECYCLING SCHEME
Boise State University is in the process of setting up its own cell phone recycling scheme. The university has decided to partner up with Verizon Wireless, the first university to decide to do so in the western United States
Continue readingMerritt Island Couple Starts Cell Phone Recycling Company
A MerrittIsland couple has decided to become recycling entrepreneurs, setting up their own company to enable the recycling of old cell phones along with other now unusable electronic equipment which would otherwise end up clogging up landfills. The online business, eRecyclingNetwork.com, is described as being “an alternative to letting” old cell phones and other defunct electronic equipment just “sit around your house”, according to its co-founder, Conrad Melancon.
Continue readingWhere can I sell my cell phone?
I have a cell phone I want to sell. It is a Sony Ericsson U5i Vivaz and in pretty good condition. So where can I sell my cell phone? Or, perhaps more importantly, where is the best place for me to sell my cell phone?
Continue readingCheeky Cell Phone Recycling Scheme
The well known cell phone recycling (and data security) company known as e-Cycle have come up with a rather cheeky new scheme to promote their efforts, at the expense of one famous cell phone manufacturer.
Continue readingCell Phone Recycling Helps Soldiers
Two Dayton women have become dedicated to helping soldiers just by recycling old cell phones. Dorothy Wingard and Janis Bricker became involved with the Cell Phones for Soldiers scheme, which aims to recycle used cell phones in exchange for prepaid calling cards which are then given to soldiers who have been deployed in foreign countries, enabling them to call their loved ones back home, around two years ago and have since become addicted to the cause, being responsible for the recycling of more than twelve hundred old cell phones between them.
Continue readingWill.I.Am Designing Smartphones?
According to an article on The Next Web, popular Black Eyed Peas rapper and producer Will.I.Am has been hired on at Intel as Director of Creative Innovation. His responsibilities will include collaborating with the manufacturing company on “many creative and technology endeavours across the ‘computer continuum’”. What does that mean? Apparently, he’s going be helping Intel design their gadgets – laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
Continue readingSuper Bowl Ad Urges Cell Phone Recycling
It’s the Super Bowl next month, perhaps the biggest annual sporting event in the United States, and one company is taking the opportunity to use the event to spread the word about cell phone recycling and the recycling of all other electrical goods into the bargain. ECS Refining is using a new marketing campaign, designed by the company Pure Matter, which operates out of San Jose, to recycle their old products such as used cell phones and televisions if they’re thinking of upgrading in preparation for the big game. The campaign began broadcasting across radio stations in California last week.
Continue readingCell Phone Recycling Company Gets New Director
North America’s biggest cell phone recycling scheme, Call2Recycle, has added a new member to its Board of Directors. The company announced yesterday the appointment of John Bradford, currently serving as the chief innovations officer for Interface Americas, Division of Interface Inc, to the Board of Directors of RBRC, the company which manages Call2Recycle.
Continue readingSelling Cell Phones for Cash – When they’re Not Yours
Four youths have been arrested in Nagpur, India, for breaking into a store and then attempting to sell cell phones they had stolen in order to pay back gambling debts. The four teenagers, all between the ages of sixteen and seventeen – which makes them legal minors in India – were arrested by police when sub-inspector Ashok Deotale saw them loitering around a pan kiosk at Sahakar Nagar. When the teens acted suspiciously when confronted with routine questions, police brought them back to the station for further questioning and the group was soon spilling their guts about their crime.
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