Apple: why doesn't it employ more US workers?The electronics giant assembles its gadgets in China. 
How To Deter People From Copying Your Blog Content, by Sue Lyon-Jones. My guest post on Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters 
iTunesUsers Report Unauthorized Charges On Accounts. The Global Mail recently took an in-depth look at allegations that hackers may have infiltrated iTunes accounts. Apple and Foxconn have pledged to seriously improve working conditions at factories in China where millions of iPads and iPhones are assembled each year following an audit by the Fair Labor Association 
Unrest at Foxconn Technology plant defused but worker discontent highlights widespread unrest in China's economy... 
MPs seek to regulate mineral used in electronic devices that fuels violent conflict in Congo... 
A hardhitting documentary that shows us the appalling price paid in Africa to sate our obession for mobile phones, writes Peter Bradshaw... 
The third and final part of Adam Curtis’ All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace touches on the mineral coltan and its importance to consumer electronics and east African wars. It’s worth ... 
The Enough Project has surveyed the 21 largest electronics companies to determine what progress they are making toward conflict-free supply chains and a conflict-free mining sector in Congo... 
A shocking connection: film-maker Frank Poulsen's eye-opening new documentary exposes a link between the war in DR Congo and our mobile phones... 
OTHER than the People’s Liberation Army, Foxconn may well be China’s largest individual employer, and certainly its most important. 
Let the Workers Behind Our Electronics Be Heard Apple may be reporting record company sales in 2011, but one thing the company is not making noise about are the details surrounding a string of recent tragedies at the Chinese factory where so much of Apple's current success story is based. 
"Mobile phones have made some young people more vulnerable than ever...We need a new three Rs programme to combat the unprecedented online risks young people face, says Stephen Carrick-Davies..."
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My guest post on Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto's Teaching Village, about good practice when sharing and re-mixing other people's work. 
Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education. A group of three large academic publishers has sued the start-up Boundless Learning in federal court, alleging that the young company, which produces open-education alternatives to printed textbooks, has stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights. The publishers Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education filed their joint complaint last month in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York... 
Richard O'Dwyer, the Sheffield student who founded the tvshack.net website, faces 10 years in high-security US prison for linking to sites that uploaded TV Shows. 
English version of website goes offline for 24 hours amid anger against Sopa and Pipa bills aimed at protecting intellectual property... 
There’s no doubt that the explosion of social media, mobile technology and online-organising capabilities have dramatically altered the battle terrain of class struggles today in ways good, bad and ugly.
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Poorly paid workers are said to work excessive hours and suffer humiliations in the drive to produce iPads and iPhones... 
How many slaves work for you? There are 27 million slaves in the world today. Many of them contribute to the supply chains that end up in the products we use every day. Find out how many slaves work for you, and take action. 
Web Site Shows Extent of Forced Labor Used to Make Everyday Products Voice of America The web site also informs visitors that slaves are used, for example, to mine mica, the mineral used to provide sparkle in cosmetics, or coltan, a component in... 
A Wall Street reform law is hurting everyone but the warlords. 
Noel Sharkey: Let's not let old arguments about 'technology creating unemployment' be a smokescreen for the real issues... |
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