Apple Rejoins EPEAT: Governments Can Buy Apple Kit Again

Sat, 07/14/2012 - 11:34 EDT - Forbes.com - Top Stories

This might be the shortest withdrawal from a standards organisation ever: Apple has announced that it is rejoining EPEAT. It's not even a week since they said that they were leaving the organisation. As background EPEAT is a certifying body. Their work concentrates upon the life cycle of electronic kit. Not [...]

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