The PCE is fully functional PC environment shrunk onto a USB flash drive. Carry your computing environment with you. Capable of plugging into PC’s, Apple MAC’s or any system capable of booting from USB. The PCE boots to its self, so you do not need an operating system running on the host. The PCE houses […]
Portable Computing Environment (PCE)
November 5th, 2007 | Comments Off on Portable Computing Environment (PCE) »Fair Trade Alliance says Smuggling is Rampant
September 6th, 2007 | Comments Off on Fair Trade Alliance says Smuggling is Rampant »The government organized a big PR event to demonstrate to the public its determination to weed out smuggling in the country. Three wrecking machines destroyed smuggled luxury cars at the Subic Bay Freeport. The idea was to teach the car smugglers an expensive lesson. But we at the Fair Trade Alliance (FairTrade) would like to […]
Fair Trade the best way to fight poverty
May 16th, 2007 | Comments Off on Fair Trade the best way to fight poverty »Anyone who has read this column in recent years will know that I write about Fair Trade from experience, 33 years of it. Preda Fair Trade, now a trusted brand, started with a small handicraft production unit in 1975 making wicker furniture and baskets to help small craftspeople get better wages and social conditions and […]
Fair trade could do better
May 10th, 2007 | Comments Off on Fair trade could do better »Is the Fairtrade label quite the guarantee of good practice that we imagine? Bibi van der Zee looks at reports that all is not well down on the farms. Tomorrow Harriet Lamb, the director of the Fair Trade foundation, will be in Switzerland asking a consortium of charitable donors for money. She was at it […]