Foxconn Chair Calls Employees Animals Multiple suicides and a threat of mass suicide due to working conditions? I wonder what the true cost difference would be to make Apple products in the United States or Mexico. UPDATE: After posting this, I had a long Facebook conversation about this issue with [...]
Tag Archives: technology
@ChicagoCabbie
Old services meet new media: a tweeting cabbie’s growing business I love seeing people find ways to bring new technology and techniques into old industries. In the end though, it all comes down to serving your customers in the best way you can find. This guy is working it.
Thank you Steve. You will be missed.
I don’t own any Apple products, and never have, but it is hard to deny the effect that Steve Jobs has had on things I take for granted.
What happens to T-Mobile if the AT&T Merger gets blocked?
It seems that just about everyone is happy about the D.O.J. moving to block the proposed AT&T buy out of T-Mobile. Has anyone given any consideration to what happens if the merger doesn’t go through? T-Mobile has been a struggling fourth place company for quite a while. It’s corporate parent, [...]
A Great Infographic About How we Use Our Cell Phones
This was posted at Online IT Degree, I found it via Chris Brogan. It’s a large graphic – view it after the break.
Study: Technology makes us more social, not less
I found this via Smart Brief on Social Media. Technology not causing social isolation: Pew study WASHINGTON — Contrary to popular belief, technology is not leading to social isolation and Americans who use the Internet and mobile phones have larger and more diverse social networks, according to a new study. [...]
Broadband access a legal right?
from American Thinker Blog Finland has become the first country in the world to declare broadband Internet access a legal right. Just wait. The UN is getting involved too. And you thought our government was insane? Read the article here.Broadband access a legal right?
4.1 Billion Text Messages Sent Every Day in U.S.
I found this at Smartphone Fanatic. 4.1 Billion Text Messages A Day Oh my God, people! Do we really need to send 4.1 billion (yes, that is billion with a “B”) text messages a day?! Don’t we have more important things we could be doing? [Via All Things Digital: Digital [...]
Thought provoking video and blog post about how we’re teaching our children
Sam Harrelson's blog post here. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHb5QVD7fo?wmode=transparent]
Twitter as news search.
Right now, Googles gmail is down. I use the downloadable gmail app on my laptop to accass my gmail account. I was trying to reply to an email and I kept getting “server error” or “server unavailable”. I do the usual checks to see if my internet connection is down [...]