Apple’s trouble with factory assets in China has quickly become a conflagration, and two former Wintek employees stoked the flames on Wednesday when they offered their support of an online petition that will be delivered to Apple Stores across the nation.
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Former factory workers urge public to sign Apple labor petition
Dashboard gets a Launchpad-style widget organization feature in this summer’s release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a standardized user interface that will be more familiar to iOS users.
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Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Dashboard gets iOS-style widget organization
So-called patent troll Brandywine Communications Technologies filed a complaint on Tuesday against Apple’s iPhone and iPad, claiming that the devices infringe on certain ‘multimedia voicemail’ patents.
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Apple sued by patent holding company over ‘multimedia voicemail’
Apple’s newest partner in China is expected to sell 3-5 million iPhones this year, boosting Apple’s momentum during the summer while the release of OS X Mountain Lion will reinforce the iPhone’s halo effect over Mac sales, writes analyst Ben Reitzes of Barclays Capital.
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China Telecom expected to sell 3-5 million iPhones, Mountain Lion to reinforce iPhone "halo"
Even as Apple is preparing to open its first Dutch retail store in Amsterdam on March 3, the company is moving closer to expanding its international reach even further as it has updated its Swedish jobs site with new postings for the complete range of retail positions. We noted last November that Apple had filed a business registration certificate for Apple Retail Sweden, offering support to rumors that Apple was looking to open a retail store in Stockholm. While the new listings do not specify Stockholm as the location for the forthcoming store, Stockholm’s metropolitan area is easily the largest in Sweden and with previous rumors having cited Stockholm as the focus of Apple’s interest, it seems likely that this is the intended market.
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Apple Begins Hiring for First Swedish Retail Store [Mac Blog]
The California Attorney General’s office today announced that Apple, Google, and other companies running mobile app marketplaces have agreed to implement new standards for notifying users of privacy policies associated with apps offered in their stores. The provisions will require that developers of apps that collect personal information include privacy policies with their app sthat can be viewed directly from the store before downloading the apps themselves. Attorney General Harris forged the agreement with six companies whose platforms comprise the majority of the mobile apps market: Amazon, Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Research In Motion. These platforms have agreed to privacy principles designed to bring the industry in line with a California law requiring mobile apps that collect personal information to have a privacy policy. The majority of mobile apps sold today do not contain a privacy policy. Links to privacy policies will be in consistent locations within the App Store and other marketplaces, offering users the ability to view the policies at a glance. Developers who do not comply with these requirements can be charged under California law, and Apple and the other companies signing on to the agreement have pledged to educate developers about privacy policy requirements and help them to meet the standards. Finally, the agreement requires that the companies provide simple methods for users to report apps that do not comply with privacy requirements, as well as systems for dealing with those reports. Following publicity about location-tracking and privacy on mobile devices last year, U.S. Senator Al Franken sent letters to Apple and Google specifically asking if they would be willing to require clear privacy policies for apps distributed through their stores. Apple’s Bud Tribble had noted during a Senate hearing on mobile privacy that privacy policies from developers would not go far enough in protecting users’ information, arguing that Apple’s own efforts to provide visual indicators of information sharing such as an icon becoming visible when the user’s location is being transmitted are more effective at policing privacy issues.
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Apple and Other Mobile App Distributors Agree to New Privacy Policy Notification Standards
System updates are now sensibly converged with a refreshed App Store in this summer’s release of OS X Mountain Lion, centralizing software updates and adding automatic app installs for all your iCloud-registered Macs.
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Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Apple overhauls software updates, App Store
In just a week and a half, Apple will expand its retail operations to its 12th country when a new storefront opens in the Netherlands.
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Apple’s first Amsterdam retail store set to open March 3
Workers at Apple partner Foxconn have alleged that their employer transferred under-age employees to other departments or did not schedule them to work in order to avoid discovery during recent inspections by the Fair Labor Association, according to one non-governmental organization.
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Factory workers claim Foxconn hid under-age employees before FLA inspection
California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced today that Apple, along with Amazon, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Research In Motion have agreed to privacy principles designed to bring their various mobile app stores in line with California law. According to the announcement, the agreement aims to ensure that mobile apps that collect personal information have a privacy policy, something not currently required of apps submitted to the…
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