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...ugly this country could be, like racism did,'' says April Gilbert, a Stanford M.B.A. and shipping executive who hopes to join a nonprofit company soon. ''In the 1980s I was fed up and almost angry with the behavior of people in this country,'' says Stuart Winby, manager of Hewlett-Packard's Factory-of-the- Future program. ''Those kinds of values are just empty. I'm really sated with gadgets, things, adornments and all that stuff.'' Many people were awakened by individual experience: the plight of a homeless neighbor, the collapse of a bank, a friend's job loss...
...long run, though, Palm's biggest threat may come from Microsoft, which makes the Pocket PC software platform for PDAs sold by Compaq, Casio and Hewlett-Packard. "Microsoft has tremendously deep pockets, and it seems to stick to things until it gets them right," says Palm CEO Carl Yankowski...
...manufacturers are scrambling to devise recycling programs of their own--and hoping to make a buck while they're at it. Last November, IBM launched the first nationwide program; it charges computer users a $30 shipping-and-handling fee to take even an ancient PC off their hands. Hewlett-Packard plans to launch its consumer-PC take-back program in March. Regional efforts--such as Sony's "recycling days" begun in Minnesota last fall--have sprung up from Oregon to New York...
Because metals are especially valuable, Hewlett-Packard mines its own. Step inside its 200,000-sq.-ft. warehouse in Roseville, Calif. (which it runs with partner MicroMetallics), and you will see computers stacked three stories high. A hulking blue machine swallows PCs and mainframes whole, grinds them up and a few minutes later spits them out in quarter-size pieces. A system of magnets, screens and electrical currents separates out aluminum and steel, while the remaining mixed metals go to Noranda Inc., a copper smelter in Quebec. The metal scrap HP produces by the ton has a higher percentage...
...they worth it? To find out, I ordered the latest $99 printers available from Canon, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Lexmark and Xerox. Then I tested them for ease of use, speed and--most important--print quality on everything from e-mails and memos to photos and cartoons. Hundreds of printouts and several desperate calls to technical-support staff later, Epson's Stylus Color 777 and Xerox's DocuPrint M750 were my favorites, although neither was perfect...