A lot of ugly stories about the way plants working for Apple in China are treating their employees have surfaced over time in newspapers and on various websites. Now, a petition has been set up, in order to determine Apple to ask companies manufacturing its products to treat employees ethically. We’ve all read stories about […]
In CES’s keynote address this week Qualcomm CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs mentioned that last year consumers bought $1.3 trillion worth of mobile devices. That’s 1.3 trillion with a T, and only mobile devices. So what does that mean? When people start talking about trillions of dollars, my mind starts to fog over. Trillion is […]
When signing up for banks, insurance agencies, credit cards, Amazon, and even companies like Netflix–What do they all have in common? They all ask you for your email address. And if you’re like most of us, you will use the same email account when signing up for them all. From a usability standpoint, it’s normal to use […]
Remember the cyber hack attack against Google and other US firms back in January? That isn’t necessarily when all the problems started, but it is when Google decided that pulling out of China might be a smart option. When you combine that with the added pressure from the Chinese government against Google’s unfiltered search results, […]
