 Petitioners want 'ethical iPhone'An online petition calls on Apple to address growing concerns about the conditions of its Chinese factory workers. [BBC]  Petitioners want 'ethical iPhone' An online petition calls on Apple to address growing concerns about the conditions of its Chinese factory workers. [BBC News] Steve Jobs imitation with angel wings promotes a tablet in Taiwanese ad A new television advertisement airing in Taiwan has an actor with angel wings and a halo doing a thinly-veiled imitation of Steve Jobs, to promote a tablet called the "Action Pad." [Network World] Wanted: a personal information organiser Danny Golding wants to sort out a chaotic collection of personal data spread across several incompatible devices, including a paper address book. It should be simple, but it's not
My life is in chaos. I have personal contact details, diary entries, and reminders spread across a Windows XP (...) [The Guardian] RIM's new CEO wants to focus more on consumers RIM's new CEO, Thorsten Heins, wants the company to improve its product development while also becoming better at marketing, he said during a conference call on Monday. [Network World] Wanted: a laptop without a widescreen Richard Laws needs to replace his old-style laptop and would rather have something with a 4:3 ratio screen than a 16:9 widescreen model
I suspect I know what your answer will be, but does anyone still make a laptop with a 4:3 aspect ratio screen? My six-year-old 14.1in Toshiba is starting to (...) [The Guardian] Want jobs? Upgrade your wireless network What's the difference between 3G and 4G? About 1.6 million jobs. [CNN Money] Cisco sending enterprises to the cloud In an effort to accommodate enterprise users looking to implement private and hybrid clouds, Cisco in the coming months will unveil an "integrated" WAN routing system of existing, but enhanced, products. [ComputerWorld] China wants Western Digital to address monopoly concerns Western Digital's planned acquisition of Hitachi's hard drive business may have hit a snag: China's anti-monopoly regulators want the company to address concerns about the buyout. [Network World] 'Closing the knowledge gap': why Google wants Android to be open A Google team leader explains how making Android's source code open should make cheap smartphones and tablets available for people in the poorest countries
A minor Twitterstorm blew through on Wednesday when MG Siegler, formerly of TechCrunch, noted that Andy Rubin, the head of Google's Android (...) [The Guardian] Alcatel-Lucent helps Taiwan's Asia Pacific Telecom bring new high-speed mobile broadband services to subscribers APT keeps pace with growing ownership of smartphones and tablet devices by offering 3G mobile services for consumers on the move, at home or at work - - Paris - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:... [WebWire Internet technology] Alcatel-Lucent helps Taiwan's Asia Pacific Telecom bring new high-speed mobile broadband services to subscribers APT keeps pace with growing ownership of smartphones and tablet devices by offering 3G mobile services for consumers on the move, at home or at work - - Paris - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:... [WebWire Telecommunications] Alcatel-Lucent helps Taiwan's Asia Pacific Telecom bring new high-speed mobile broadband services to subscribers APT keeps pace with growing ownership of smartphones and tablet devices by offering 3G mobile services for consumers on the move, at home or at work - - Paris - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:... [WebWire Mobile communications] Unwanted online sexual exposures decline for youth, new research finds A new study finds declines in two kinds of youth Internet sexual encounters of great concern to parents: Unwanted sexual solicitations and unwanted exposure to pornography. The researchers suspect that greater public awareness may have been, in part, what has (...) [Science daily] David Mitchell: I want to talk to you about the NHS. And its IT system. Wait, come back… We must try to contain our boredom, because the creation of a fully networked health service is an important matter that deserves our full attention
This column is going to be about the NHS computer system – you know, that attempt to computerise everyone's medical records, which has cost such a (...) [The Guardian]
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