Category: Social issues

  • Apple enslaving Chinese workers

    Is Apple forgetting their “Think different” political/advertising message with the help of Chinese sub-contractor?

  • Steal these stock photos

    Steal these stock photos

    Design and illustration activities often require the use of images. In that intent, photo agencies come to the rescue with their organized offer of catalogs, stocks, heaps of photographs sold for one or more uses. Unfortunately, not everybody have the financial wealth to purchase agency stock photos to illustrate a web site, a leaflet, or…

  • Apple outsources from India to US

    After announcing a month ago that they would open a software development branch in Bangalore, Apple finally decided to stop the adventure and to fire the software development workforce in order to concentrate on US team(s). The Indian engineers already hired will be fired with a two month compensation package. The Bangalore office will still…

  • ThePirateBay is back online

    ThePirateBay is back online

    Merely a few days after their server computers were seized by the Swedish police, ThePirateBay.org is already back online. It appears that as any global private company, ThePirateBay.org really had a crash recovery plan prepared to correct extreme circumstances like those found last Wednesday. The new server is located in Netherlands (an additional server has…

  • ThePirateBay: some more

    ThePirateBay: some more

    The latest news in the battle between the entertainment industry and the (previously) world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site. The owners of ThePirateBay.org, still very sure of the legality of their web site (and it seems that they some good points drawn from the Swedish law), announced that they would be seeking for compensation from the…

  • ThePirateBay: We’ll be back

    ThePirateBay: We’ll be back

    That’s the message that the owners of ThePirateBay.org are sending right now. They expect to come back within a day or two. Woa! If they go as quick as that, it seems they were ready or prepared. I’m not sure that the entertainment industry was expecting such a fast move. I did not.

  • OpenOffice first virus

    One of the arguments pushed forward by the proponents of OpenOffice, the free open source desktop suite (replacement for Ms-Office) has long been the total lack of security issues. I never did use it, while I favor strongly OpenOffice and I appreciate this feature, because I felt that it was only linked to the more…

  • “Porn is better than sex” say British men

    With such a title I should be ready for some flak. But this is just what announces a Neilsen Netratings survey commissioned by the Independent on Sunday. There, you will learn that the United Kingdom is fast becoming the best market for Internet pornography thanks to a phenomenal growth touching – Yes ! – women…

  • ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police

    ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police

    The world biggest indexation site for BitTorrent contents, ThePirateBay.org, would consider itself totally immune from actions from copyright holders associations (like the American RIAA and MPAA) because of its geographical location in Sweeden. As a matter of fact, in this Scandinavian country indexing contents (showing where to find them and not providing them by yourself)…