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Oct 16, 2012	Greenwashing the Retina MacBook Pro QUOTE: Apple’s Retina MacBook Pro – the least repairable, least recyclable computer I have encountered in more than a decade of disassembling electronics – was just verified Gold, along with four other ultrabooks. This decision demonstrates that the EPEAT standard has been watered down to an alarming degree.	Wired
Oct 04, 2011	Tracking factory slaves across Asia QUOTE: We traveled to Cambodia planning to tell the story of an escape from modern-day slave labor but what we found were tales of more women trapped in debt-bondage in Malaysia. In Cambodia, we found the women who had escaped, but we also learned about dozens of other workers stuck in similar circumstances, unable to get home unless they paid off their "debt" to a recruitment agency.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Feb 22, 2011	Workers Sickened at Apple Supplier in China QUOTE: 137 workers at a factory here had been seriously injured by a toxic chemical used in making the signature slick glass screens of the iPhone... But in interviews last weekend, nearly a dozen employees who say they were harmed by the chemical said they had never heard from anyone at Apple.	New York Times
Jul 01, 2010	The ignominious fall of Dell: Dell may never recover from the revelation that it sold faulty PCs -- and then blamed its customers QUOTE: what we've learned about Dell recently doesn't qualify as an understandable mistake. Only a rotten company sells defective computers and lies about it.	InfoWorld
May 26, 2010	Electronics Maker Promises Review After Suicides QUOTE: “Foxconn’s production line system is designed so well that no worker will rest even one second during work; they make sure you’re always busy for every second,” says Li Qiang, executive director of the China Labor Watch, a New York-based labor rights group. “Foxconn only values the enterprise benefits but totally ignores the social benefits.” Those claims have been bolstered in recent weeks by some of China’s state-run newspapers, which have published a series of sensational reports about the suicides, alongside exposés detailing what they claim are the harsh conditions inside Foxconn factories.	New York Times
Apr 08, 2010	Complicating Relationships in Media: Apple, NY Times Dealings Raise Questions QUOTE: By appearing on stage at the Apple event and by launching an iPad app that the Times wants to monetize in every possible way — an app from which Apple will likely make money as well — the Times is becoming more of a business partner with a company it covers incessantly.	MediaActive
Mar 22, 2010	Your best route to dispute resolution: When things go wrong with a new piece of equipment, you have several options to protect yourself from poor dispute resolution QUOTE: Gripe Line readers offered several excellent suggestions on what to do if the goods you purchase turn out to be defective and the merchant doesn't want to make it right.	InfoWorld
Nov 04, 2009	Cuomo Files Federal Antitrust Suit Against Intel QUOTE: ...New York’s attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, filed a federal antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Intel, the world’s largest chip maker.	New York Times
Oct 23, 2009	Intel Could Face FTC Complaint QUOTE: Three of the four commissioners in the Federal Trade Commission are in favor of filing a formal complaint against Intel over anticompetitive behavior...	InternetNews
Aug 18, 2009	A Scheme For Protecting Content QUOTE: Intertrust holds a treasure trove of patents that help content owners manage digital rights; it has spent five years and tens of millions of dollars developing a standard called Marlin, which aims to keep content secure in a way that legitimate consumers won't find offensive.	Forbes
Aug 07, 2009	EC criticized for conduct during Intel investigation QUOTE: Did the European Commission overlook some evidence during its antitrust investigation of Intel that might have influenced the outcome of the decision, which went against the chipmaker?	Ars Technica
Jul 16, 2009	Scavenging Hazardous 'E-Waste' for a Few Redeemables QUOTE: Agbogbloshie is one hotspot in a growing mountain of hazardous electronic waste, according to environmentalists...	Washington Post
Jul 15, 2009	Labor issues in China continue to plague Apple and others QUOTE: A new investigation into Chinese labor law disputes reveals that Apple still isn't immune to associations with manufacturing partners that aren't in compliance with laws designed to improve labor conditions for Chinese workers.	Ars Technica
Jun 15, 2009	Microsoft Sues Three in Click-Fraud Scheme QUOTE: AFTER an investigation that took more than a year, Microsoft has filed its first lawsuit over click fraud, where people manipulate clicks on a Web advertisement.	New York Times
Nov 08, 2008	Apple Exec Hired From IBM Ordered to Stop Work QUOTE: IBM contends that Apple will use Papermaster and its stake in P.A. Semi "to design microprocessors for incorporation in a variety of electronic devices, including handheld devices."....Papermaster's lawyers contend the IBM focuses on large enterprise applications for businesses while Apple focuses on consumer electronics.	PC Magazine
Apr 08, 2008	The Disappearing PC Benchmark QUOTE: Am I the only one who's noticed that the once-thriving world of computer-performance benchmark testing has almost completely disappeared? Most benchmark tests are now curiosities. Users are left with no real way of understanding the "real" power of their computers.	PC Magazine
Feb 22, 2008	A Method for Critical Data Theft QUOTE: a simple method to steal encrypted information stored on computer hard disks. The technique, which could undermine security software protecting critical data on computers, is as easy as chilling a computer memory chip with a blast of frigid air from a can of dust remover.	New York Times
Feb 08, 2008	More Games Rebate Baiters Play QUOTE: how many people would remember or notice that the check was not for the right amount?....send a rebate card rather than a check....misfile the claim....rebate forms are printed on ultra glossy stock which cannot be written on with ball point or fountain pens...	InfoWorld
Jan 11, 2008	Cuomo Subpoenas Intel Over Antitrust Accusations QUOTE: The New York subpoenas will seek internal memorandums, billing documents and correspondence between Intel and its customers to determine whether the company engaged in anticompetitive practices — like penalizing customers, primarily computer manufacturers — for buying processors from competitors or improperly paying customers to use Intel chips exclusively.	New York Times
Oct 04, 2007	Ten Tips: How to Get What You Want from Tech Support QUOTE: we have an amazing record for getting exactly what we need from tech support, no matter how resistive, stubborn, or bizarre the rep might be. It's not always easy, and it requires a surprisingly large amount of social engineering, but it is possible and that's what matters. Now we've compiled a list of ten tips, many of which we refer to every single time we contact a tech support flack.	ExtremeTech
Aug 17, 2007	Dell, Admitting Managers Inflated Sales Reports, Will Restate Income QUOTE: The senior management of Dell regularly falsified quarterly returns from 2003 through 2006 to create the appearance that the company had met sales targets...	New York Times
Mar 27, 2007	Invasion of the Data Snatchers: Data theft via removable storage devices is a big problem. Are you prepared to prevent podslurping? QUOTE: Podslurping (a neologism for the illicit copying of data to a portable storage device, such as an iPod) came about with the widespread availability of tiny gadgets with massive storage capabilities and high-speed connections—specifically, USB and FireWire. Endpoint security products, which protect against this kind of misappropriation, tend to be targeted at large enterprises that want to protect sensitive corporate data. Small businesses and individuals are also likely to have data they don't want slurped. Now they, too, can get protection, thanks to the apps reviewed here.	PC Magazine
Feb 02, 2007	Dell Faces Lawsuit over Intel Relationship QUOTE: In the lawsuit...several large investors claim that between February 2003 and September 2006, Dell executives manipulated its accounting practices and issued false public claims about the Round Rock, Texas, PC maker's financial health.	eWeek
Jan 29, 2007	Microsoft Answers 'Vista OEM' Questions QUOTE: For those who don't need a full manual, however, the Windows Vista OEM versions offer substantial savings. Normally, such versions are restricted to "System Builders," not large corporations purchasing thousands or even hundreds of copies of the operating systems through Microsoft's volume licensing programs, but small mom-and-pop computer shops building individual systems for local communities.	PC Magazine
Oct 27, 2006	Handicapping Hacker Plays QUOTE: hackers have been actively targeting customer accounts--not to steal money from them but to use them to pump up thinly traded stocks that hackers can then profit from in their personal accounts.	Forbes
Sep 07, 2006	A Board in Need of an Emily Post QUOTE: The talk yesterday among advisers to corporate America was this: Should what happens in the boardroom stay in the boardroom?...experts argued there could be times and places when there might be some justification for nonfinancial information to be leaked to the news media, including times when the board is struggling with a strong, imperialistic chief executive.	New York Times
Aug 03, 2006	FTC says Rambus monopolized chip market QUOTE: Federal regulators ruled Wednesday that technology developer Rambus (RMBS) illegally monopolized the worldwide market for computer memory chips, driving its stock down more than 25%.	USA TODAY
Jul 28, 2006	EU opens unofficial investigation into HD DVD and Blu-ray QUOTE: The European Commission has launched an unofficial antitrust probe into the two emerging DVD formats championed by Toshiba and Sony, a spokesman said Thursday.	MacWorld
Jun 16, 2006	Sweatshop Conditions at IPod Factory Reported QUOTE: The Mail on Sunday reported that a Chinese factory that manufactures iPods employs 200,000 workers who live in dormitories where visitors are not permitted. Workers toil for 15-hour days for as little as $50 per month, according to the article. As Mac fan sites buzzed with debate over the report, Apple issued a statement saying it is investigating the matter.	Washington Post
Jun 08, 2006	Patent Claims Over Apple's IPod Escalate QUOTE: the company asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to bar Apple from importing portable digital media players that Creative claims infringe on its intellectual property.	Washington Post
May 26, 2006	Loading the iPod With Egalitarianism: French Bills Have Firms Singing Blues QUOTE: songs downloaded from Apple's online music store embedded with code that prevents them from being played on anything other than an iPod....French lawmakers say their bill is enlightened consumerism for cutting-edge technology, an effort to force Apple and other companies to freely compete, rather than relying on techno-secrets to crush the competition.	Washington Post
Jan 24, 2006	Licensed Users or Licensed Machines? QUOTE: ...how users can lose their license to use software because of a hardware problem. Is the real problem confusion over whether software is licensed to the user or to the computer? And is it the customers, or the hardware and software vendors, who are confused about what a license should really mean?	InfoWorld
Dec 13, 2005	PCs and Customer Alienation QUOTE: ...how similar many of the reader tales about Alienware are to Kaner's in terms of involving both faulty hardware and unhelpful support.	InfoWorld
Dec 06, 2005	An Unwarranted Microsoft Mouse QUOTE: Here we've called about a broken product that Microsoft claims has a three-year warranty, that they won't support, and that nobody can provide an RMA number for. After several hours wasted on fixing a $39.00 product that should have been easy, all we've got is a frustrated customer.	InfoWorld
Dec 06, 2005	Honey, they shrunk the warranty QUOTE: On many expensive consumer electronic items and personal computers, warranties are shrinking. Instead of getting a standard one-year warranty for parts and labor, consumers are getting less and are often being pushed by manufacturers and retailers to shell out money for extended warranties that critics say are basically worthless.	Bankrate.com
Nov 15, 2005	An E-Cycling Nightmare QUOTE: Under the guise of bridging the digital divide, affluent nations are using developing countries as toxic waste dumps for their unwanted electronics.	Nation
Nov 07, 2005	Dell Has Three Prices For One Part QUOTE: So, depending upon where on Dell.com you find it -- which depends on your account access -- you can buy the same docking station for $299.99, $348.74, or $417.57!"	InfoWorld
Nov 02, 2005	Study of Sony Anti-Piracy Software Triggers Uproar: File-Hiding Technique Alarms Security Researchers; Developer Offers Patch QUOTE: Privacy and security experts charged that the technology built into many of Sony's music CDs since March is unnecessarily invasive and exposes users to threats from hackers and virus writers.	Washington Post
Oct 19, 2005	Sleuths Crack Tracking Code Discovered in Color Printers QUOTE: ...Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco consumer privacy group, said it had cracked the code used in a widely used line of Xerox printers, an invisible bar code of sorts that contains the serial number of the printer as well as the date and time a document was printed.	Washington Post
Oct 11, 2005	Of Piracy, Motherboards, and Microsoft QUOTE: In other words, the reader's customer -- who has done nothing wrong other than have a motherboard fail on him -- has the choice of paying ransom to E-Machines or to Microsoft to have a functioning OS again.	InfoWorld
Sep 28, 2005	Do you have surge protection? QUOTE: Our homes now overflow with expensive electronic gadgets and gizmos, all of which can benefit from surge protection....All surge protectors and uninterruptible power supplies, or UPS, are not created equal.	Bankrate.com
Sep 13, 2005	Reader Voices: White Box PCs QUOTE: ...some suspect that another reason the local resellers days are numbered is that Microsoft's "Genuine Windows" activation and validation programs are designed to eliminate them.	InfoWorld
Sep 05, 2005	Wiki-izing the Dell Story QUOTE: ...frustration over Dell's replacement policies for motherboards plagued with leaking capacitors...	InfoWorld
Aug 30, 2005	Dell Won't Recall Defective Motherboards QUOTE: In most businesses, when a product is discovered to have a defect that's likely to cause it to fail, the manufacturer issues a recall for the affected units. Is there any reason that shouldn't be true in the computer industry as well? That's what many IT mangers with large installations of Dell Optiplex GX270 systems have to be wondering right now.	InfoWorld
Aug 12, 2005	Mac Hacks Allow OS X on PCs QUOTE: Companies such as Microsoft and Intel originally laid the groundwork for the TPM. The companies insist the chip is meant to verify trusted computers on a network and prevent malicious code from running on PCs....But critics have called the TPM an anti-competitive device that stifles innovation.	Wired
Mar 29, 2005	What Dell Support Thinks of Dell Support QUOTE: ...Dell technicians would sometimes know right off that a problem required a replacement component, "but we are bound by company policy which prohibits us from dispatching components until we finish the script given us by Dell management,"...	InfoWorld
Mar 15, 2005	Unforgotten Thinkpad Password Costs $725 QUOTE: ...it is not my fault they sent me a part to put in and did not tell me to disable system passwords. And they now have replaced a motherboard without my consent...	InfoWorld
Sep 07, 2001	New Copyright Bill Heading to DC QUOTE: "Some parts of this go too far.... Would this mean that if I distributed a file that I received from someone who had broken security technology that I would be breaking the law?"...	Wired
Aug 30, 2001	AMD Pulls Out of Intel Speed Race QUOTE: ...a new measure of compute performance that "end-users can trust." The new metric will not be based on the individual clock speed of the processor, but on overall system performance...	InfoWorld
Jan 01, 1111	Safely Donating or Disposing Old PCs QUOTE: First, computers don't have much trade-in value and you may have to pay to dispose of a system that's more than a few years old. Second, you'll need to identify and copy personal files to the new PC. Third, you must protect yourself by removing any personal information stored on the old computer.	AARP

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