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Labor Report Blasts Conditions at MS Supplier Factory
Richard AdhikariA new report from the National Labor Committee states that workers at the KYE factory in China operate under inhumane, prison-like conditions, and that factory's single biggest customer is Microsoft. Microsoft says it's already sent a team of independent auditors to inspect the factory. Such conditions would violate Redmond's stated policy on standards for its suppliers. [See Full Story]
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Opera on iPhone: Prestissimo, but Just a Little Flat
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Opera Software can be quite the prima donna when it wants to, and apparently it knows how to use that attitude to get the results it wants. This company was a main player in the recent effort to require Microsoft to offer a full menu of Web browsers each time Windows is installed in Europe. Not only must Windows ask the user which browser he or she wants to set as default, but the options must be listed in random order. Enough people picked Opera that the company considered the effort a success.
Seagate Hawks Movie Tickets, Even if All You Wanted Was Storage
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Seagate and Paramount Digital Entertainment have launched a limited promotion for a Seagate portable hard drive that has been on the market for about a year-and-a-half -- they are now offering it preloaded with Paramount movies. The 21 movies preloaded on the 500 GB FreeAgent Go can be viewed only after the user pays a fee of $9.99 to $14.99 each to unlock them. Hard drives in specially marked packages will let buyers activate Paramount Pictures' "Star Trek" (2009) for free.
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Obama to Defend Space Vision Against Mounting Criticism
Obama on Thursday will speak at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida about his plans for drastically changing the direction of the nation's human spaceflight program. Included in those plans is a decision -- originally announced back in February -- to end the Constellation moon
program and shift NASA's focus to developing new technologies for deeper space exploration instead.
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