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Like Those Shiny iDevices? You May Not Like How They’re Made…

May 20, 2010 Doug Groves Apple, Foxconn, Gizmodo, iPad, iPhone, IT Nerd4 Comments

Apple’s least favorite bloggers Gizmodo.com have re-posted a story from the Southern Weekly newspaper who sent undercover reporter Liu Zhi Yi into Foxconn Inc who makes Apple iPods, iPhones, and the like for Apple. The factory has had a rash of suicides in the last little while and the company has hired everything from counselors to Buddhist monks to try and deal this this. Here’s what the reporter found: During his 28 days of investigation, Liu Zhi Yi was shocked to discover how the factory workers live in a sort…

Apple vs. the world

May 7, 2010July 30, 2014 Doug Groves Apple, cartoon, editorial comic, Ellen, Gizmodo, HTC, REACT, rgbcomic, uncool1 Comment

Another Friday, another comic. Let’s see if I can keep this up…

Freedom of the press, or license to steal?

April 30, 2010 Doug Groves Apple, editorial, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, First Amendment, Gizmodo, REACT6 Comments

By now, everybody knows the Gizmodo – iPhone 4G fiasco inside and out. It’s broken beyond the tech world to the mainstream, from the New York Times coming out in favour of Gizmodo’s journalistic rights to Jon Stewart offering an amusing but watered down spanking to Apple for becoming the “1984” it once rallied against. Of course, I’d argue that Apple is more “Brave New World” than “1984”, but that’s another story… What’s got my editorial undies all bunched is how since Gizmodo invoked the journalistic shield law as a…

The long and winding tale of a blogger, a lost prototype and the cops who came a-knocking

April 28, 2010July 30, 2014 Doug Groves Apple, California, cartoon, editorial, editorial comic, Gizmodo, iPhone 4G, Jason Chen, legal, REACT, rgbcomic3 Comments

Except for a brief roundtable discussion which we published last week, we largely steered clear of the whole Gizmodo iPhone 4G leak, but recent events make it interesting to look at in a different light. This past Friday night, California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) police, operating under a search warrant, busted down Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s front door home while he was out, and confiscated all his computer equipment. To get you caught up on the story, here’s the Cliff Notes version of events leading up to it:

We weren’t actually going to post anything…

April 24, 2010April 26, 2010 drsquid 4G, Apple, Gizmodo, iPhone, leak, roundtable, tech0 comment

…on the iPhone 4G leak, since the combination of the hundreds of posts and articles online, in the mainstream media, and on The View!, has really drained the life out of this story. However some lively comments, made to each other via email, made me think that it is still our civic duty as a tech and geek news website to say something about the 4G, so here is what we all think: