The secret is out: Apple has a worm inching its way through its corporate flesh. January was a tough month on the Cupertino, California company venerated for its innovation and vision. The controversy emerged when an Apple contractor in China, a manufacturing facility known as Foxconn where many brand-name electronics are assembled largely by hand, [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Apple, America and the ‘China Problem’
Posted in economy, notes on the human condition, technology, tagged advantage, affluence, Americans, animals, Apple, auto industry, best practices, bottom line, brand-name, buying power, capitalists, CEOs, China, Chinese, Coach handbags, coffee, conscious consumerism, consumer, controversy, corporations, cost effective, cost savings, country of origin, deindustrialization, Dollar, duties, dysfunctional, economy, efficiency, electronics, exploitation, export, factory, fair trade, Forbes, Foxconn, free trade, globalism, goods, Green, Honda, human rights, import, industrial policy, investment, iPad, iPhone, labor, level the playing field, local, loss, made in America, manufacturer, mark-up, market, marketplace, markup, MBAs, middle class, myth, name-brand, New York Times, non-GMO, outsource, overseas, PC, perils of a service economy, policy, premium, price hikes, private enterprise, produce, products, profitability, profitable, protectionism, race to the bottom, rational self interest, reconceptualize, relocalization, renegotiate, responsibility, shame, shifts, shop, shrinking, slave, social contract, solutions, Southeast Asia, standards, Steve Jobs, store-brand, suicides, sustainable, sweatshop, symbiotic, target market, taxes, technology, Third World, Toyota, trade, underpaid, US, vanity pricing, wealth, workers, zoo on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thank the DOE: Bed, Bath & Beyond isn’t the only Recipient of Radioactive Products in US
Posted in health, politics, tagged air, alarms, Americans, awareness, Basel Convention Treaty, Bed bath and beyond, best interest, cancer, cancer foundations, catastrophe, CDC, cesium iodine, Chernobyl, China, china syndrome, chronic, cleanup, clearance levels, colbalt-60, conflicts of interest, consumer, consumer safety, contamination, cure, DDREF, dirty bomb, DOE, donations, dose, dosimeters, Dual Ridge, elements, energy, energy policy, experiment, export, exposure, FDA, food, Fukushima, goods, holder, homegoods, hot metal, hot spoons, human health, illegal, import, India, informed, ionizing, isotopes, Japan, Japanese, lab rats, LNT, low-level waste, manufactured, media, medical waste, meltdown, metal, nuclear, nuclear lobby, outlaw, Petkau effect, plutonium, politicians, power, precautionary principle, products, public debate, public health, radioactive, recycle, regulation, risk, safe, scrap, silent, status, Tatara Group, terrorism, Third World, threat, tissue box, toxic, treatment, unacceptable, unsafe, uranium, US, water, x-ray on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In the scare-of-the-week news story we learn that Bed, Bath & Beyond may have distributed radioactive tissue holders across the country. It allegedly started when just four metal tissue box covers buried in a transport truck set off radiation detectors installed after 911 to protect us from a terrorist threat. Who knew truck-stop Geiger counters [...]
Blank Weather Forecast On Your Device? Blame MSN Direct
Posted in technology, tagged ABC, AccuWeather, Acu-Rite, Ambient Weather, Android, apps, barometric trend, blank, blank screen, broadcast, burned, cable, call, Cheney Instruments, company, compare, complaints, consumer, consumer confidence, consumer fatigue, contact, customer, customer service, customers, data, demand, desktop, device, disapointment, discontinued, display, disposable gadget, e-waste, executives, failure, Flash Forward, forecast icon, gadget, Garmin, gizmo, GPS, GPS weather, home weather station, Internet, iPhone, La Crosse Technology, landfills, lineup, MagicJack, media, method, MSN Direct, new season, news, no longer works, not as reliable, Oregon Scientific, outage, POTS, press release, products, publicity, radio signal, radio-controlled, reason, recommendation, sensor, service, smartphone, solution, stock, V, VoIP, Weather Direct, weather forecast, weather service, weather stations, write on January 3, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I remember it well: standing in the Sharper Image store debating between a three-day Bushnell wireless weather forecaster featuring AccuWeather forecasts and an Oregon Scientific model alongside it that offered more detailed information from a competing service provider, MSN Direct. Both weather stations did something unique: They didn’t require owners to hook up outdoor sensors [...]
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