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• in Business
  Consumer Watchdog Protests Apple's Labor Practices. Will Apple REALLY Change?
  Is Apple Glossing Over the Conditions at Supplier Factories?
  by goldensylph / on Feb 21, 2012
• in Business
  Apple Announces Independent Inspections of Its Factories
  Apple Factories Face Independent Inspections
  by goldensylph / on Feb 14, 2012
• in Technology
  Fair Labor Association Investigating Apple Suppliers including Foxconn
  Apple has requested the FLA investigate their suppliers for safe employee standards.
  by reedsanders / on Feb 13, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “foxconn”

 

• ABC Gets All-Access Pass to Foxconn

  
  New Tech Observer — Authority: 116
  According to Mashable , Apple has invited ABC News inside the Foxconn plant for an "all access" pass to the factory floor. Anchor Bill Weir says the segment will change the way you think about Apple, because "what is acceptable on a Chinese assembly line is soul-crushing by American standards,” said Weir. It ...
  14 hours ago

• News on Apple Foxconn

  
  Phones Review — Authority: 581
  As you probably know, Apple is taking a lot of flak over labor practices by their Chinese suppliers and the Fair Labor Association is investigating those factories. So what is it like inside the company that makes the iPhone and Apple iPad are made, namely Foxconn? Well you are about to find out as we...
  16 hours ago

• ABC’s Nightline gets a look into the Foxconn factory →

  
  marks.dk — Authority: 118
  Opening up on issues like these is a very, very good thing, and this is a sober, well-reported look inside the factories with a fair and balanced look on the complex issue of Chinese manufacturing: Daisey’s show was featured on NPR’s “This American Life” in January and a listener named Mark Shields was so ...
  16 hours ago

• Foxconn Get Orders from Amazon for New Kindle Tablets

  
  Ewandoo — Authority: 128
  Foxconn Get Orders from Amazon for New Kindle Tablets Unconfirmed reports indicate that Foxconn, the hardware manufacturing company from China will be working on a 10-inch kindle Fire tablet for Amazon. This new kindle Fire tablet will be bigger than the current one which measures 7 inches. The current 7 inch Kindle ...
  17 hours ago

• Watch Tonight as Nightline Gets an Unprecedented Look Inside Apple’s Foxconn Factories in China

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 699
  After  the torrent of criticism that Apple has weathered about their manufacturing facilities in China, the world’s most valuable company decided to take a giant leap toward transparency and allowed American television cameras to film inside the infamous Foxconn facilities for the first time. Tonight, Nightline ...
  1 day ago

• Apple-initiated Foxconn Inspection Reveals Terrible Conditions

  
  Predict Stock Market — Authority: 103
  CEO of the Fair Labor Association has released some blunt language today directed at Foxconn Corporation near the end of an audit of factory atmospheric condition that had been  initiated by Apple some days ago. Without going into detail, van Heerden CEO of Fair Labor has told Bloomberg news that his squad was ...
  1 day ago

• Cisco: We love set-top boxes; dismisses speculation that it will sell Scientific-Atlanta unit

  
  FierceCable — Authority: 588
  Cisco ( Nasdaq: CSCO ) dismissed a report in Sundays New York Post that it is looking to sell the set-top box business that it acquired from Scientific-Atlanta. "We are committed to the market. Therefore we will continue to be in the market," Cisco director of corporate communications John Earnhardt told ...
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• Foxconn Rumored to Build 10-inch Kindle Fire for a Q2 Release

  
  Apple counting milestone of 10 billion apps downloaded from App Store — Authority: 127
  Foxconn Rumored to Build 10-inch Kindle Fire for a Q2 Release Latest rumors and reports have equally failed to clarify details of the upcoming Amazon tablet, to be launched in the coming months. While most people seem to understand that we should expect the Kindle Fire 2, opinions differ when it comes to the size of ...
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• BlackBerry maker downgraded as Apple set to unveil iPad2

  
  Make New Friends | Share Photo Albums | Free SMS Free Mobile Recharge — Authority: 137
  BlackBerry maker downgraded as Apple set to unveil iPad2 Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) have retreated after two brokerages downgraded the Canadian wireless giant in view of the stiff competition from Apple’s iPhone and Google Android devices . RIM stock closed Tuesday at $62.12, ...
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• The Breakfast Meeting: Selling to Voters Online, and Life at an iFactory

  
  Media Decoder — Authority: 773
  Also, the role of the "super PAC" is increasing and the fast-growing scrapbook/social-networking Web site Pinterest announces a change.
  1 day ago

• Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Selling to Voters Online, and Life at an iFactory

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 871
  Also, the role of the "super PAC" is increasing and the fast-growing scrapbook/social-networking Web site Pinterest announces a change.
  1 day ago

• Apple faces its ‘Nike moment’ as ABC Nightline goes inside Foxconn

  
  Nur, was da steht — Authority: 128
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3YFGixp9Jw This article titled “Apple faces its ‘Nike moment’ as ABC Nightline goes inside Foxconn” was written by Charles Arthur, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 20th February 2012 17.42 UTC Bill Weir of ABC News has provided pictures from inside Foxconn’s assembly ...
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• Amazon Kindle models to be refreshed – Color 6-inch Kindle may come in March, followed by 10-inch Kindle Fire in Q2

  
  Digital Cupcake. Toasty news and tips for your digital lifestyle — Authority: 120
  Amazon’s Kindle lineup looks to be ready refreshed in the coming months, according to DigiTimes. Reportedly a brand new color E Ink eReader Kindle is preparing to launch as early as next month,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit Digital Cupcake for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Consumer Watchdog Protests Apples Labor Practices. Will Apple REALLY Change?

  
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    Recognize the line: "Im shocked theres gambling going on!" Its from iconic film Casablanca . Ricks place is a gambling joint; everyone, especially the Nazis frequent it and most of all the French police captain (Claude Rains) who is friends with Rick (Bogart). But the Nazis ordered the police chief, so he closes ...
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• Coming Soon From Amazon: Kindle Towering Inferno

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 119
  Here’s another report to add to the chorus of predictions that Amazon is gearing up to launch a larger version of its Kindle Fire tablet. The occasionally reliable Digitimes claims that Foxconn has won the contract for a new 10-inch Fire and is expected to begin shipping the devices in the second quarter of 2012. ...
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• ABC Nightline Visit to Foxconn Chinese Factories [video]

  
  iPhoneFreakz _ All The Latest And Greatest iPhone News — Authority: 115
  ABC announced that it had been granted exclusive access to Foxconn factories in China where the company assembled products for Apple, with the segment scheduled to air on a special edition of Nightline on Tuesday night. ABC also posted a preview of the segment that can be seen after the break.Apple promised [...]
  1 day ago

• Apple faces its ‘Nike moment’ over working conditions in Chinese factories

  
  ThinktoSustain- the sustainable development blog — Authority: 118
  Apple contractor, Foxconn raises wages by 25% after reports of long hours for the hundreds of thousands of staff in China . . . → continue reading..: Apple faces its ‘Nike moment’ over working conditions in Chinese factories
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• Apple Opens Up Supplier Factories to Third-party Environmental Inspections

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 625
  Lately, lots of news regarding Apple’s factories have been coming out. Even though the stories are getting stale, media will continue to talk about since it is Apple. A couple of days ago, it was  reported  that according to the Fair Labor Association (FLA), Foxconn’s factory conditions are to be ...
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• Foxconn raises salaries of workers

  
  Tarpon's Swamp — Authority: 538
  Now they can afford an iPad in just three months As its  number one customer, Apple sends in US NGOs to investigate labour practices, Foxconn has just announced that it has given its staff a salary hike.Junior level employees will get pay rises by between 16 to 25 per cent.  Workers will now make US$285 a month ...
  2 days ago

• Foxconn Raises Wages and Cuts Overtime Thanks to International Concern

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 699
  Last Monday Apple announced that they were enlisting the Fair Labor Association to do independent audits of their manufacturing facilities in China at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen where human rights issues have been a hot topic recently. Over the weekend Foxconn announced they’d be raising workers’ wages by ...
  2 days ago

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