An ex-Apple employee, Kenyon Zahner, who filed a class action lawsuit against the company in August 2009, says Apple “ruined his life.” The lawsuit complained that Apple forces its staffers to work long hours without overtime pay.
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A recent survey of 2,000 mobile users in China between the ages of 22 and 32 by China Market Research Group, or CMR, suggests that the cause of the iPhone’s performance in China may stem from the relative unpopularity of Apple’s partner, China Unicom, among its target users, as well as a lack of desire among those users to sign up for two-year contracts and subscribe to 3G services, reports the “Wall Street Journal” (http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/05/20/why-iphone-hasn’t-sold-well-in-china/?mod=rss_whats_news_technology).
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Apple’s iTunes store, which emerged in 2008 as the top U.S. music account for the first time, widened its lead last year over former market leader Walmart, according to a new report by “Billboard” (http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/magazine/upfront/e3i12fe2557a9382597671a522cc1cc901d).
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A federal judge has dismissed a plaintiff’s lawsuit against Apple that accused company employees of waiting like “vultures” to spy on her every time she used an Apple laptop to access the Internet, reports “Reuters” (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64I76D20100519).
In the lawsuit, Leslie Carr claimed every time time she used the laptop to go online, “there would be a mass number of Apple employees waiting greedily like vultures to survey and monitor my life.” She was asking for US$60 million for trauma.
Read MoreMien Software (http://www.miensoftware.com) has released MediaEdit 3.1.9 for the Mac, an update of the consumer-level video editing tool that can edit most QuickTime readable formats. The upgrade fixes some issues with long file names and fixes an issue where clips can become corrupted after a join and a split.
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