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Apple suppliers in China to recruit 10,000 workers

by Kenny Hemphill on 11 March 2013 in News

Less than three weeks after the Financial Times reported that Apple supplier Foxconn had placed a freeze on recruitment because of ‘weakening demand for some Apple products,’ its parent company, Hon Hai, and another Apple supplier TSMC, are reported by Reuters to be in the process of recruiting 5,000 workers each. Citing a local newspaper [...]

Apple blamed for recruitment freeze at Foxconn factories

by Kenny Hemphill on 21 February 2013 in News

The company which assembles most of Apple’s Macs and iOS devices, along with those of most other large electronics companies has suspended recruitment, according to the Financial Times (subscription required). In a story on its website, the FT said ‘Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, has imposed a recruitment freeze across most of its [...]

Apple ‘experimenting’ with wearable computing device

by Kenny Hemphill on 11 February 2013 in News

Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn are experimenting with ‘a watch-like device that would perform some functions of a smartphone,’ according to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required). The Journal reported yesterday that Foxconn has ‘has been working on a spate of technologies that could be used in wearable devices.’ The WSJ story is the [...]

MacUser review of the year: Part 2

by Kenny Hemphill on 31 December 2012 in News

As June ticked over into July, and summer seemed further away than ever, most of the mainstream media was busy covering the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations and previewing London 2012. George Michael was still a few weeks away from finding out that crashing into Snappy Snaps was only the second worst career move he’d ever make [...]

Apple to extend supplier code of conduct to accessory makers

by Kenny Hemphill on 8 November 2012 in News

Apple will make compliance with its supplier code of conduct a condition of obtaining a ‘Made for iPhone/iPad/iPod’ (MFi) licence, according to a report from the MFi conference currently taking place in Shenzhen, China. The Unofficial Apple Weblog claims that the code of conduct, which places strict conditions on component suppliers, will now also apply [...]

US radio show pulls online broadcast of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

by Kenny Hemphill on 16 March 2012 in News

The US public radio show, This American Life has withdrawn an audio version of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, written and performed by Mike Daisey. In the show, which is a version of a theatre production which has run for several months, Daisey claims to have interviewed workers outside the Foxconn plant in [...]

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