By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net

COMMERCIAL electronics company Nokia is leading the pack in the latest list of “green electronics companies” of international environmental group Greenpeace.

The quarterly “Guide to Greener Electronics” also puts Dell, Lenovo, and Sony Ericsson at the top of the list of around a dozen global electronics firms evaluated by Greenpeace.

Other companies considered “green” in the list are Motorola, Samsung, Toshiba, Acer, Fujitsu-Siemens, Apple, HP, Panasonic LGE and Sony.

However, the last six companies are still in the latest guide’s “red zone” for weak take-back programs of end-of-life products, not removing hazardous chemicals in their products, or lack of policies on conducting both.

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By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

THE QUEST continues to produce the cheapest computers people can lay their hands on, which pits rival chipmakers Intel and AMD in a rather different ballgame.

Intel is coming up with a number of designs such as the Classmate PC, while AMD is making $100 notebooks for MIT’s One Laptop Per Child campaign.

But for a change, is anyone making a “green” PC? I asked Chris Hines, SVP for research at Forrester, whose photo is shown here, that question during a recent Singapore summit by HP.

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