E-Readers Price Goes Down
NEW YORK (AP) – A price war is heating up in the electronic reader market, as Amazon cut the price of its Kindle e-reader below $200 Monday just after Barnes & Noble did the same with its competing Nook device. The rapid-fire moves are fanning flames in the still-small but rapidly growing market that the … Read more
Cell Phone Emission Law
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – In this city known for producing laws both path- breaking and contentious, legislators have forcefully stepped into another debate – this time over the potential danger of cell phone use. With the 10-1 vote in favor of an ordinance Mayor Gavin Newsom has indicated he will sign, San Francisco has waded … Read more
Media Ownership Limit Makes Sense?
WASHINGTON (AP) – Even the news industry’s free fall probably will not be enough to wipe out complicated federal rules designed to restrain the power of media companies. For decades, the Federal Communications Commission has imposed strict limits preventing any company from controlling too many media properties in the same market. These limits were established … Read more
Cooper Becomes Loud Voice for Gulf Residents
NY Times By BRIAN STELTER Published: June 17, 2010 “There aren’t any small people here,” the CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said from Louisiana on his prime-time program Wednesday night, emphatically rejecting the remarks by BP’s chairman that theoil company cares “about the small people.” Mr. Cooper listed some of the local men and women who … Read more
A Bar Code Life
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – It used to be that the only time you’d notice a bar code was at a store, maybe when a cashier scanned your groceries. But lately bar codes are showing up in more places around town – and getting more sophisticated. You might have seen one cousin of the traditional bar … Read more
iPhone Factory Struggles With Suicides (Documentary)
Here’s an interesting Chinese documentary on Foxconn suicides. Foxconn is better known for manufacturing Apples’ iPhones and iPads in China. It also manufactures electronics for HP, Nokia, and Dell. Foxconn is the largest supplier of electronic parts in the world; it has 300,000 workers who live and work within the compounds of the company. In … Read more
