Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

Does Apple need to be more open about its suppliers and labor laws?

Posted by | Mar 1, 2010 | , |

Over the weekend it was reported that Apple admitted that child labor had been used at the Chinese factories that build its Macs, iPods and iPhones. Now the company is being urged to disclose more details about its suppliers. But is that necessary?

At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories that supply the company. Workers’ rights groups want Apple to disclose more info on its suppliers, reports “Bloomberg” (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aUbDxIWdQCKg).

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‘MUG Event Calendar’: two anniversary celebrations, security, more

Posted by | Mar 1, 2010 | |

March opens with a full “MUG Event Calendar” for the week.

Macworld 2010 is still making waves at more than one Mac User Group, Alan Oppenheimer will visit a California group to talk about security, a Final Cut Pro User Group will celebrate three years together in Louisiana, while an Australian group will celebrate 30 years of Australian Macworld with Anthony Caruana. Other topics on this week’s agenda include home theater, iPhoto, backup, the Mac mini as media center, iDisk, troubleshooting network connections, and more.

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EFI, Xerox ship Fiery Network Controller for the Xerox WorkCentre 7700 series

Posted by | Mar 1, 2010 | , |

EFI (http://www.efi.com) and Xerox Corp. is shipping the Fiery Network Controller for the Xerox WorkCentre 7700 series of color multifunction printers (MFPs) for office environments. Fiery controllers are easily deployed in Mac and Windows environments and support all industry standard networking protocols.

The WorkCentre 7700 Series MFPs are one of the first to support Fiery VUE, the desktop application that makes publishing of professional-looking finished documents fast and simple for all office workers, according to Leah Quesada, vice president of office marketing, Xerox.

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