By now, it’s easy to take for granted that everything is tracked: every purchase, every click, every message sent and received. You can track your food delivery driver from the restaurant to your door, and track a package along its entire shipping route, practically in real time.
If you’ve ever lost a package you were expecting […]
The “winner” in business is often the company that controls the most data about customers, prospective customers, vendors and partners. Leaked information can be used to target those people more accurately for marketing and learn more about them for service improvements. Unfortunately, leaked data also can compromise your service to customers, your relationships with vendors […]
You have outdated or out-of-service IT equipment that’s ready to be disposed of, and you’ve also heard there’s gold, silver and other precious metals in electronics. So does that mean you’re sitting on a “goldmine” of potential revenue?
Not necessarily. While it’s true that there are precious metals in electronics, the economic value has not proved […]
Retired electronic waste (e-waste) is one of the fastest growing environmental and human health threats we face today.
In 2019, the world generated 53.6 million metric tonnes of e-waste, a record high and an increase of more than 20% compared to five years prior, according to the Global E-Waste Monitor.
Improperly discarded e-waste is at a crisis […]
By Marisa Head, Contributing Writer at Cobalt
When I was around 12 years old, I figured out how to take apart computer towers and see what’s going on inside. I’ve always been curious about the inner workings of things, and had access to PCs at school and at home to tinker with. Granted, there’s not much […]
Every electronic device in your business has batteries, chargers or other cables and cords, from laptops to desktop computers, networking equipment to docking stations and power tools to task-specific handheld devices.
What’s more, they tend to wear out faster than the devices they support. Replacing them can become more of a regular chore for your IT […]
We love a spot of fishing when we can get away for one. But “phishing”? That’s a different matter entirely.
Not that you’d ever confuse the two. One is a relaxing, intermittently exciting and always enjoyable pastime. The other is the work of criminals trying to trick you into voluntarily giving up sensitive data and information […]
Network equipment is vital to keeping businesses, organizations and families online.
Given how important it is to our everyday lives, it’s useful to have a baseline understanding of what some of the terms mean, the hardware they refer to, their functions and what to do with them when they’re outdated or no longer function properly.
The most […]
Every convenience comes at a cost, and in the case of an Internet-connected and data-dependent business world, one significant cost is the risk of a major data breach.
Recent data breaches have come from many directions and sources. A data breach can be as subtle as hacking into a database to steal a list of email […]
The electronics recycling and IT asset disposition (ITAD) industry has unfortunately suffered from a few black eyes since its inception. At fault have been a small number of businesses that sought to generate profit from electronics recycling without due diligence as to the environmental, health, safety, and liability risks incurred when processing this material. A […]
