Apple ’s self-governing auditors give an informal thumbs up to the society ’s suppliers in China even as iPads are being booted from shelves in the country . And AT&T ’s figures on wireless data outgrowth may make your head explode . The remainders for Wednesday , February 15 , 2012 are legging it .
Apple iPad flora status well than the norm : agency(Reuters )
If it seems like just yesterday that Apple CEO Tim Cook was talking about audit of Apple ’s Taiwanese suppliers , then you , my friend , are a time traveler . Of the incessantly forward , one - twenty-four hours - at - a - time kind , anyway . Auret van Heerden of the Fair Labor Association , the self-governing audition chemical group , said that the facilities are “ first - class ” and name the strong-arm weather condition as “ way , way above norm of the norm . ” My favorite part is that the auditors will infix their interview with employees right on iPads . I wonder if they ’ll be hot off the conveyor belts , like Krispy Kreme donuts ?
Amazon China and Suning Quit Selling iPads in Ongoing Trademark Battle(Tech in Asia )
Want to pick up an iPad during your next slip to China ? That might be a tall order , as both Amazon China and local retail merchant Suning have pulled the equipment from their catalogs in response to a hallmark dispute between Apple and Chinese company Proview over the iPad name . We ’re indisputable Amazon isso sadthat it can not deal iPads .
Wireless Data Volume on Our connection go forward to Double Annually(InnovationSpace )
accord to John Donovan , AT&T ’s senior executive vice president of technology and net operations , the carriers wireless data volume has increase 20,000 percent over the last five twelvemonth . In fact , it ’s been replicate every year for the last five year , driven mainly by the huge adoption in smartphones and the fact that Americans are only slightly less voracious consumer of data than of , say , Twinkies . Only just barely .
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