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South Korea: Tablets Over Textbooks?
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a few months since this isn’t a new announcement, but I still feel it deserves to be heard. South Korea decided last summer to invest the equivalent of US $2.4 billion dollars in Samsung Galaxy Tabs for the classroom, switching from textbooks to tablets by the end [...]
Is Apple Getting A Bad Rap?
It’s in all the headlines. “Protesters Confront Apple Over Foxconn Conditions”, “Apple’s Foxconn Electronics Manufacturer Blamed for Chinese Child Slave Labor”, “Apple, Foxconn and the Human Cost of Electronics Manufacturing in China”, those are just a smattering of media reports that all say basically the same thing, that Apple is responsible for China’s labor laws, [...]
The “Little Mouse”
Shortly after my wife and I had moved to Taipei, we had ordered an ADSL internet connection and I was having a hard time installing it, so I asked my wife to call Chunghwa Telecom to see if they could help. The lady in their service department began to give us directions for setting it [...]
