by Joe Marion | Oct 31, 2018 | Anti-Counterfeit, Industry News
On October 4, Bloomberg BusinessWeek published allegations that Chinese spies planted surveillance chips on motherboards of Supermicro servers. Allegedly, these chips were found by Amazon in 2015 as part of due diligence conducted in the acquisition of Elemental...
by Joe Marion | Oct 9, 2018 | Repair
Famous tech writer Geoffrey Fowler of the Washington Post (formerly WSJ) dug into the handling problems of batteries in the trash and in recycling programs. Net – Right to Repair would help everyone involved in handling by making schematics available for easy...
by Joe Marion | Oct 9, 2018 | Repair
Vermont is the first state in the nation to pass legislation pertaining to Right to Repair by establishing a Right to Repair Task Force, now underway. There will be a series of 5 monthly meetings and the conclusions of the Task Force will be reported back to the...
by Joe Marion | Jun 16, 2018 | Blog, Opinion, Policy & Law, Technology News
Copyright is a legal right that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights for its use and distribution. This is usually only for a limited time. In recent years, some brand holders have misused copyright to try to prevent the resale and service by...
by Joe Marion | Jan 2, 2018 | Ethics
Our company has been admitted to an exclusive organization known as the Association of Service, Computer and Telecom Dealers (ASCDI.) Admission to the organization requires our company to train in and agree to abide by the ASCDI Code of Ethics. The Code is your...