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Perhaps We Should Hold Apple And Other U.S. Companies Responsible For Foxconn's Crimes
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| Buried in a Reuters report on Foxconn, a
| division of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision
| Industry, is a description of an attack on a
| journalist visiting a Foxconn factory in China
| while chasing down a lead on an Apple product.
| The journalist was taking pictures of the
| factory from a public road, he says, when two
| guards attacked him and tried to drag him into
| the factory:In China, a Reuters reporter found
| out the hard way how seriously some Apple
| suppliers take security.Tipped by a worker
| outside the Longhua complex that a nearby
| Foxconn plant was manufacturing parts for
| Apple too, our correspondent hopped in a taxi
| for a visit to the facility in Guanlan, which
| makes products for a range of companies.As he
| stood on the public road taking photos of the
| front gate and security checkpoint, a guard
| shouted.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021801031.html
I Worry About The iPad, Not Apple
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| FrontPage doesn't do so well, but that hardly
| brings Microsoft down. Its other product
| offerings wipe away any mediocre performance
| by that one program. So several years later,
| they can quietly kill the FrontPage.
|
| And the same can happen with the iPad. Even a
| worst-case scenario isn't all that bad for
| Apple, assuming its other products continue on
| their growth trajectory.
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http://business.theatlantic.com/2010/02/i_worry_about_the_ipad_not_apple.php
Jobs' damns Flash
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| In a meeting Jobs spoke forth and said unto
| executives at the Wall Street Journal that
| verily Flash is an abomination in his sight,
| for is it not a CPU hog, full of security
| holes, and old technology that crashes Mac OS
| X? He further said that Flash was like unto
| the floppy drive that he had banished from his
| Macs.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1592730/jobs-damns-flash
Apple squashes wobbly jub app
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| Apple has decided to pull the jubtastic Wobble
| iBoobs from its App Store as part of an
| alleged puritanical clamp-down on "overtly
| sexual content".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/19/app_squashed/
Help File: A belated fix for MacBook hard drives; a Windows patch gone bad
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| Back when I was getting these reports about
| self-destructing MacBook drives -- which, in
| turn, followed published reports of
| manufacturing defects in certain models -- I
| asked Apple publicists twice for comment, but
| the Cupertino, Calif., company stuck to its
| usual silence.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021905975.html
Recent:
Apple Prepares DRM For The iPad
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| Slaveware companies go even further and use
| the word IP to confuse users. IP is a stupid
| bundle of Trademark, Copyright, Patent and
| much more. You can't put patents and Trademark
| in the same basket, especially in the case of
| software or products which are in the software
| format. In a lot of countries software patents
| are not valid, but with the usage of the word
| IP these companies try to bring software under
| that umbrella of protection.
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http://www.katonda.com/blog/780/apple-prepares-drm-ipad
iPad Vs HP, Google, Dell, Camangi Slates
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| Interestingly, the iPad will not be
| challenged from Microsoft but from the
| sleeping-giant Gnu-Linux. Here is a
| comparison with some of the to-be-released
| Gnu-Linux powered tablets.
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http://www.katonda.com/blog/670/ipad-vs-hp-google-dell-camangi-slates
A look at Apple's love for DRM and consumer lock-ins
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| Apple makes great productsâyou'll get no
| argument from us. But Apple also likes
| keeping tight control over those products,
| and if anyone outside of Apple's blessed
| circle attempts to get in, the company is
| more than willing to try to use (or abuse)
| the law to its advantage.
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http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/a-look-at-apples-love-for-drm-and-consumer-lock-ins.ars
What is DRM doing in my garage?
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| My new garage door opener comes with both DRM
| and a DMCA warning: don't even think about
| using a third-party remote. But didn't a
| federal court already say this sort of
| behavior was illegal years ago?
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/what-is-drm-doing-in-my-garage.ars
Apple & Audiobook Firms Insist On DRM
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| Yes, Apple. The company that at one point
| claimed DRM was bad and should be ditched,
| and convinced the record labels to ditch DRM.
| Yet, as we've noted in the past, outside of
| music, Apple is still a huge DRM supporter.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091213/2103287328.shtml
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