So I’m guessing we’ll see this in a Samsung, not an Apple product. 
January 28, 2012
Korean boffins make e-books more like real ones • reghardware
George Clooney Makes Money Off Coffee Commercials And “F@!# You” If You Think He’s Selling Out
Actually, not a bad way to NOT sell out.
Apple’s Tim Cook Responds to Reports of Worker Abuse | News
What a load of crap. They are making record profits off the backs, and even lives, of Chinese workers being abused daily, and they know it. Spending money on PR won’t change that.
As this (http://ow.ly/8JoN9) link makes clear, I’m not the only person who thinks that a company so capable of ruthlessly squeezing inefficiencies out of the supply chain, could eliminate what are egregious labour standard violations, if it really wanted to.
But they don’t want to, because that would mean they would make only a few billions in profits, and then the CEO might not get $300 million in pay; he’d only get a few million.
You usually only find this mix of arrogance and greed on Wall St…
January 26, 2012
iPad Fleshlight lets fanbois express their love • The Register
Once you get past the initial shock, it makes strange sense, considering the rabid obsession of some techno geeks, especially Apple fanbois.
SOPA from a distance: multiplying the trade threats • The Register
Not just bad for freedom of speech and technological development, but economic imperialism as well.
Iranian coder faces execution ‘for building smut websites’ • The Register
An innocent man gets condemned to death because Iranian clerics are not only irrational zealots drunk on power, but, not coincidentally, they’re ignorant morons who don’t understand basic technological concept. Doesn’t seem fair.
