Posted On: December 7th, 2005 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

UK's DTI Publishes Latest RoHS Guidance

Folks, The United Kingdom’s Department of Trade and Industry continues to lead the effort in providing RoHS interpretation with their recently p...

Posted On: December 1st, 2005 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Unawareness of RoHS Still Widespread

Folks, I am an avid reader of PC Magazine. The first thing I always read is John Dvorak’s (go pcmag.com/dvorak.) column. He has a very pr...

Posted On: November 29th, 2005 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

A Success in Registering for WEEE in Germany

Folks, For those of you that think it can’t be done, a colleague’s company has just received interim WEEE registration in Germany. They wo...

Posted On: November 26th, 2005 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

The UK's DTI Publishes the Latest "Perchards Report"

Folks, The UK’s DTI just published the latest Perchards Report. This report is an overview of how the EU Countries (outside of the UK) are prep...

Posted On: November 18th, 2005 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Fellow WEEE/RoHS "Warrior" Don Ballard Publishes Book on Disneyland Hotel

Folks, Faithful reader and fellow WEEE/RoHS “warrior” Don Ballard found time to write a book on the history of the Disneyland Hotel. Here ...

Posted On: November 14th, 2005 | By: Rick Short

Search Engines Shift Power

According to an interesting article on the American Marketing Association website: "Search ad spending is now responsible for 40 percent ...

Posted On: November 13th, 2005 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Concern for Counterfeit RoHS Compliant Components

Don writes: At a RoHS software demo yesterday (EMA Design Automation) the subject came up about counterfeit RoHS compliant parts. Have you heard anyth...

Posted On: November 9th, 2005 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

More Anecdotes Re German WEEE Registration

Folks, More anecdotes from Carl Erhardt and friends. “A company sent a member of their staff to Munich to register their products for WEEE in Ge...

Posted On: November 7th, 2005 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

California RoHS Compliance Date 1 Jan 2007

Folks, Thanks to loyal reader Carl Ehrhardt some interesting info Re California’s “RoHS” has come to light. The info was further ref...

Posted On: November 4th, 2005 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Germany Still Claims to Have a WEEE Registration Date of November 24, 2005

Folks, In addition to wrapping up Oktoberfest, Germany still claims to be enforcing November 24, 2005 as the date by which products need to be registe...