Forced time off for a half a million employees in there Foxconn company community. It’s to cut down on stress that it’s employees are feeling with the 131.80$ a month pay before the drastic overtime that they have to put in and the living conditions in a this company town. No word on the 20% raise that was announced in May that the employees were to be given. I don’t know the culture so I hope this works, killing one’s self is just wrong.
This is great. Finally a magazine that is not double dipping for money. People Magazine to let subscribers use it’s iPad App for free. I wonder exactly how they are going to carry it off. Will it be like this: You subscribe to the paper one, then when you download the app and when you install it will ask for your name/address/phone or some other identifier and then activate? I wonder what Apple thinks of this, since if they have a free App but people still pay for it does Apple get a cut still?
Best Buy to make tablet computers. No way! Who else is going to get into it. Will consumers be able to understand what they are buying? Will they think it’s Microsoft Windows? Will they care?
Google collects and displays information that people think should be hidden. The article is about Google Map photos of people back yard where the a local government is using that to see if people got their permits for any pools that may be there. The one question that I have is how updated the maps they can see vs. the free maps that Google shows everyone. since I had a tree cut down over a year a go and it’s still showing on the maps.
I hope my Galileoscope comes in before this thrusday so I can watch the the annual Perseid meteor shower and see a very young crescent moon join Venus, Mars and Saturn in the west-southwestern sky just after sunset.
This is great. Flash on iPhone I wonder what Steve Jobs is thinking about it. while you need a jail broken iPhone, iPad in eight steps you could be watching basic flash animations. To do this the install looks long and some what complicated, but if you went though the trouble of jail breaking your phone then you shouldn’t have an issue with it. Since it’s v 0.2 of Frash as the creator is calling it I’m sure if Adobe and Apple don’t come to an agreement that this guy will update his stuff to be easier and more full featured.
Apple stealing technology? I know Apple employees have been quoted as saying “Good artists copy great artists steal” Just how far did it go? Or could it have been that both companies developed the same type of technique and are now just bickering back and forth because they think that they can get some money off of each other?
This is truely sad. I feel for the families of the Foxxconn workers. They are trying their best to make a living like everyone else. I hope that something can be done to stop the pressure that those individuals are under. I wonder if it’s the chemicals in the creation of the devices or the number of units that are pushing them to this or is it just the overall condition of where they are. From what I understand they live in company towns, working very long daily hours, living in communial rooms , making somewhere around 132$US a month