Technology News

String of Suicides Continues at Electronics Supplier in China

Source: Michael Ricci
May 26, 2010

A 19-year-old employee was found dead Tuesday morning in what appears to have been the ninth suicide this year at a factory in southern China operated by Foxconn Technology, one of the world's largest contract electronics manufacturers, according to China's state-run news media.

Foxconn, which produces electronics and computer components for Apple, Dell, Hewlett- Packard and other global companies, has been struggling this year to explain a string of suicides among young workers at its huge complexes in the ...

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Communications Law to be Reviewed

Source: Michael Ricci
May 26, 2010

Two top Democratic legislators said Monday that they would begin a process to modernize telecommunications laws that were last overhauled in 1996 but barely mention the Internet.

Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, said in a joint statement that they would hold meetings in June to examine how the Communications Act meets ...

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William Burroughs-Influenced Artist Builds Online Gallery at Deviantart

Source: JCM Media
May 25, 2010

A West Los Angeles-based artist pays tribute to William S. Burroughs, King Of The Beat Generation, by creating an online art gallery dedicated to his writing and art. William Burroughs-Influenced Artist Builds Online Gallery at DeviantArt; Compilation of Montage, Collage and Cut-Ups Dedicated To Burroughs' Aesthetics West Los Angeles, CA Josh Moscov, a publicist, writer and an aspiring artist influenced by the works of William S. Burroughs, has created an online gallery of works, dedicated to this infamous artist. The ...

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The Life and Death of the Rolodex

Source: All About Jazz
May 24, 2010

Just a few years ago there were no virtual social networks, no synchronized address books, and no smartphones. But people had social networks and phones, and they had to memorize and organize thousands of contacts. Or have a Rolodex.

When I was a kid, my dad had a Rolodex. Actually, my dad still has a Rolodex. My dad is one of the least organized people I know. In his apartment, he is good at stacking things (like newspapers and bills ...

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The Death of the Open Web

Source: Michael Ricci
May 24, 2010

The Medium

The Web is a teeming commercial city. Its haphazardly planned. Its public spaces are mobbed, and signs of urban decay abound in broken links and abandoned projects. Malware and spam have turned living conditions in many quarters unsafe and unsanitary. Bullies and hucksters roam the streets. An entrenched population of rowdy, polyglot rabble seems to dominate major sites. People who find the Web distasteful ugly, uncivilized have nonetheless been forced to live there: Its the place ...

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Steve Jobs to Headline iPhone-Centric Apple Developer Conference

Source: All About Jazz
May 24, 2010

Apple this morning announced that CEO Steve Jobs will be emceeing the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 7 in San Francisco.

Continuing his trend of doing one-to-one e-mail marketing for his $43 billion (revenue) company, Jobs himself helped tout the conference with a personal e-mail to a customer over the weekend.

The developers conference attracts greater than usual attention because, for the past two years, Apple has used the venue to announce the latest version of its ...

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Zuckerberg: New Privacy Controls, but No Apologies

Source: All About Jazz
May 24, 2010

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is attempting to squash the latest round of criticism of Facebook, admitting his company made a bunch of mistakes and just missed the mark on privacy control.

Still, he stopped short of an apology and gave no sign Facebook would halt its campaign to re-make the worlds social norms.

Zuckerberg broke his silence on the recent backlash against his company in an op-ed Monday in the Washington Post and in a Sunday e-mail to corporate blogger-for-hire ...

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Google Chrome Web App Store Offers New Opportunity to Monetize Music

Source: HypeBot
May 23, 2010

At its I/O Conference yesterday Google announced that it would open a store for paid and free web apps later this year. Outside deveopers will be able to sell via The Chrome Web Store which will support all major web platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux and of course, Google's Chrome OS.

Why should the music industry care? Just as Apples iTunes App Store opened up new avenues to  deliver and monetize music, the Chrome Web Store will offers a new ...

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