Monday February 6, 2012

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   Technology (Detroit News)
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   Technology (CNN)
Apple plant workers complain of militant culture
Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product.


The 20 most entertaining Super Bowl tweets
In the social media age, you don't need to be at a party to enjoy clever or catty comments about the Super Bowl.


Q&A: Apple's China supplier in the spotlight
Earlier this month Apple released its annual supplier responsibility report which detailed alleged workplace health and safety protocol violations by its suppliers.


U.S. officials to get secure Android phones
Some U.S. officials this year are expected to get smartphones capable of handling classified government documents over cellular networks, according to people involved in the project.


Really, he's on Twitter? 10 unlikely tweeters
See CNN's list of 10 well-known people whose Twitter accounts will cause you to do a double-take.


What will the Facebook millionaires do?
Whenever a hugely popular and successful company goes public, many people wonder what will happen to all the newly created millionaires. What will they do now that they are financially "set for life"? Will there be "1,000 millionaires"? Will they suffer "sudden wealth syndrome"?


How not to annoy people via e-mail
E-mail can be a lovely way to connect, an easy and instant medium for getting back or keeping in touch, a canvas for hellos and sorrys and XOXOs.


UFC's White hacked after scrap with Anonymous
Dana White loves a good fight.


Pinterest helps users catalog their passions
For Heather Neroy, it used to be a tedious process: Whenever she came across an interesting arts-and-crafts project or recipe on the Internet, she would save it for later by copying the link, pasting it into an e-mail and sending it to herself.


   Christian Science Monitor
Verizon, Redbox team up to take on Netflix

Verizon and Red Box will soon roll out a streaming video service, which will compete with Netflix.




China: One fire may be out, but tensions over rural land rights are still smoldering

The same tinderbox that allowed the Chinese village of Wukan to erupt (the confiscation of farmer’s land without fair compensation) is present in thousands of villages across China. The scale of the problem is a matter of both domestic and global concern.




The great wait of China: How long until freedom?

How long can China's communist regime hold in thrall people who have prospered in an economic system that has many of the hallmarks of free enterprise? Despite attempts to censor the Internet, China's huge, new urban population is aware of the outside world and changes in it.




As tensions over wealth gap rise, the rich are giving more

The top 50 charitable donors gave more in 2011: Are the super rich feeling the sting of public opinion?




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