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Apple’s factories in China are breaking employment laws, audit finds | Technology | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/30/apple-factories-china-foxconn-audit

An audit of Apple’s Chinese factories details “serious and pressing” concerns over excessive working hours, unpaid overtime, health and safety failings, and management interference in trade unions.

In the most detailed public investigation yet into conditions at Foxconn factories in China, which assemble millions of iPhones and iPads each year, the independent Fair Labor Association found that more than half of employees had worked 11 days or more without rest.

#Chine #travail #exploitation

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Zero Geography: Geographies of the World’s Knowledge - ebook now available for tablets

►http://www.zerogeography.net/2012/03/geographies-of-worlds-knowledge-ebook.html

Saturday, March 17, 2012
Geographies of the World’s Knowledge - ebook now available for tablets

Our booklet, “Geographies of the World’s Knowledge” is now available for iPads from Apple’s iTunes store. The publication is free and is optimised for tablet viewing (we’ve included lots of cool interactive features). If you have a tablet, I highly recommend you check it out!

If you don’t, you can always download our PDF version in both English and German.

Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China (NYTimes.com)
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?_r=2&pag

In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. Apple and its high-technology peers — as well as dozens of other American industries — have achieved a pace of innovation nearly unmatched in modern history. However, the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves. Problems are as varied as onerous work environments and serious — sometimes deadly — safety problems. (...) Source: NYTimes.com

Cameras May Open Up the Board Room to Hackers
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/technology/flaws-in-videoconferencing-systems-put-boardrooms-at-risk.html?_r=1&ref=glo

Businesses collectively spend billions of dollars each year beefing up security on their computer systems and employee laptops. They agonize over the confidential information that employees send to their Gmail and Dropbox accounts and store on their iPads and smartphones. But rarely do they give much thought to the ease with which anyone can penetrate a videoconference room where their most guarded trade secrets are openly discussed.

Your iPhone Was Built, In Part, By 13 Year-Olds Working 16 Hours A Day For 70 Cents An Hour - Business Insider
►http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-01-15/tech/30628970_1_iphones-ipads-apple

We love our iPhones and iPads.

We love the prices of our iPhones and iPads.

We love the super-high profit margins of Apple, Inc., the maker of our iPhones and iPads.

And that’s why it’s disconcerting to remember that the low prices of our iPhones and iPads — and the super-high profit margins of Apple — are only possible because our iPhones and iPads are made with labor practices that would be illegal in the United States.

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OnLive to Stream Full PC Capability to Your iPad
►http://kotaku.com/5874618/onlive-to-stream-full-pc-capability-to-your-ipad

he company OnLive has revealed a new iPad app that allows iPad owners to stream a full Windows 7 PC straight onto their tablet. Using similar technology that allowed them to make the iPad gaming app that allowed gamers to play full AAA console games on their iPads, Onlive has now given tablet owners access to a full PC.

A Magazine is an iPad That Doesn’t Work — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers
►http://imprint.printmag.com/patric-king/a-baby-cant-make-a-magazine-work-right

This has ben flying around the interwebs all day: a baby who’s confused that she can’t get a magazine to work like an iPad. On the one hand: yes, it’s fascinating that she thinks a magazine should work the other way. On the other: this is totally unscientific. what if she’d been taught magazines first and iPads second? Would she then think an iPad is a weird magazine?

Apple removes ’Third Palestinian Intifada’ app at Israel’s request - Haaretz
►http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/apple-removes-third-palestinian-intifada-app-at-israel-s-request-1.369211

Computer giant Apple removed an application called the “The Third Palestinian Intifada” from its App Store for iPads and iPhones, CNN reported Thursday.

Earlier this week the company had authorized an application, which updates users on upcoming protests, features articles critical of Israel and pictures of martyrs.

[...]

Yuli Edelstein, Minister of Public Affairs and the Diaspora, who recently successfully lobbied to remove a Facebook page of the same name, sent a letter to Apple founder Steve Jobs called on Apple to carry out the “immediate removal” of the application, “and thus continue the tradition of Apple applications dedicated to purely entertainment and informative purposes and not serve as an instrument for incitement to violence.”

UNIFIL donates iPads, other equipment to army
►http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Jun-10/UNIFIL-donates-iPads-other-equipment-to-army.ashx?searchText=unifil%20

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon donated Thursday communication equipment to the Lebanese Army command in south Lebanon, as part of the ongoing cooperation between the two sides under U.N. Resolution 1701.

The donation, which consisted of 15 iPads and other equipment, is part of a project dubbed “INFO SHARING,” which is aimed at promoting logistics operations between the army and the peacekeeping forces.

The equipment was given to the Lebanese Army by the Civil-Military Italian cooperation officer, Brig. Gaetano Catalano, during a ceremony at the army command headquarters of the Litani region.

Le plus drôle, c’est que cette invraisemblable générosité internationale a fait l’objet d’une « cérémonie ». Sérieux.