Tech Tips From a NYC System Administrator
I’ve written about ID theft before. Never thought I’d experience it, first hand. But I guess it’s bound to happen to everyone, the way they’re hacking nowadays. Found out yesterday, some wonderful slime ball walked into an Apple Store last week, used my SS# and driver’s license# to open a couple of AT&T Mobile Wireless…
Too bad we can’t get his kind of info on ALL the products we buy: Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly sent 20-year-old reporter Liu Zhi Yi undercover in Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, China. For 28 days, he experienced dreadful conditions that the factory’s 400,000 employees endure, churning out iPods, iPads, and iPhones for Apple nonstop. Read…
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Nice slideshow showing what it costs to manufacture your beloved gadgets. Apple makes a killing… via What Your Gadget Really Costs: Consumer Electronics Teardowns – BusinessWeek.