Thursday 23 February 2012

Apple's Foxconn Transparency: Brilliant or Bad PR Move?

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February 23, 2012
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Apple's Foxconn Transparency: Brilliant or Bad PR Move? Apple has been credited for opening up about conditions at the Foxconn manufacturing plant. Has this new PR openness hurt or helped Apple's overall image with its customers?
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LG Unveils Android Lineup Ahead of Mobile World Congress LG is banking on the Optimus 4X HD, the companys first quad-core phone, a slimmer Optimus 3D Max, and a 5-inch 'phablet,' the LG Vu to draw customers in this year.
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Obama Offers Blueprint for Privacy Rights on the Internet The White House unveiled a plan to ensure consumer privacy, and announced that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo will comply when consumers choose to protect their online tracking habits.
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Shanghai Court Rejects iPad Injunction Request Apple's iPad won't be banned from sale in Shanghai, after a local court rejected a trademark infringement-related sales injunction request.
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Windows 8 Will Deliver a Cloud Service to Rival or Beat iCloud In Windows 8 Microsoft will merge its free online storage service SkyDrive and syncing software Mesh to provide the backbone for what looks to be a service that will rival or beat iCloud.
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Is the Kindle Getting a Color Screen? Amazon may be making a color Kindle.
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Now You Can Edit Collaboratively with Google Docs for Android Google Presentations get an update as well, including a new discussions feature.
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Apple Store Thief Can't Hold Out for iPhone 5 News reports out of Charlotte, N.C., indicate a "known suspect" swiped 25 iPhones from an Apple Store at Northlake Mall between Dec. 1 and Jan. 11.
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Asus Plans Padfone Reveal at MWC Asus may finally show off its anticipated Padfone at Mobile World Congress next week.
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Office for iPad Not Happening? Don't Believe the Naysayers, Claims Site that Leaked Image The Daily's Peter Ha takes aim at Microsoft after Redmond denied an image that surfaced on Tuesday was in fact a snap of an Office of iPad app.
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Air Force Abruptly Scraps iPad Plan for Special Ops The U.S. Air Force has abruptly cancelled a plan to buy nearly 3,000 iPad 2 tablets, just days after a news site raised questions about including a Russian-developed app for encrypting and reading documents.
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Kevin Mitnick 101: How Heartland Leaker Got Confidential Documents The Heartland Institute document release shows just how effective social engineering continues to be.
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Google Docs for Android: Mobile Word Processing Gets Practical The latest version of Google Docs is cleaner, easier to read and easier to use than its predecessors, and it adds the ability to collaborate in real time.
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YouPorn Data Breach Exposes 1 Million User Logins Portions of the YouPorn database featuring user e-mail addresses and passwords have appeared online, many of them using recognizable first and last names.
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