The worlds largest software maker was responding to a report from The National Labor Committee, a nonprofit that looks into the treatment of foreign workers by U.S. companies. On Tuesday, the group published a report detailing long working hours, low pay, insufficient food and few freedoms for workers at the KYE Systems Corp. factory in [...]

AT&T Inc.s new “Rethink Possible” sales pitch touts grand visions for untethered Internet access and avoids tearing down its top competitor. It could mean a truce to a battle that experts say had no clear winner.
The new campaign, which debuted last weekend during the Masters golf tournament, tells people AT&T can help them simultaneously talk [...]

Its not just for fun. Whenever someone clicks on a link to buy a book or product that their sites mention from an online seller, the McNealys get a commission. And if that customer comes back the next day to that same retailer and buys a television, they get a cut of that, too.
Last week, [...]

Timothy Cook, 49, will also receive 75,000 restricted stock units scheduled to vest in 2011 and 2012, Apple said in a regulatory filing Friday.
Jobs, 55, famously limits his salary to $1 per year, which leaves Cook the companys highest-paid executive. In 2009, Cook received an $800,400 salary; $800,000 in nonstock incentive compensation; and about $40,900 [...]

The upgrades will allow VeriSigns machines to handle up to 4 quadrillion requests per day from computers trying to reach those sites. Thats a thousand times more lookups than the 4 trillion per day that the company can currently handle.
Ken Silva, the companys chief technology officer, said Thursday that the latest changes are needed to [...]

Bob Boorstin, Googles director of policy communications, said the Web search company would now be able to offer some of its other products in those countries, such as the mapping satellite software Google Earth, photo management program Picasa and Internet chat client Google Talk.
“This is a great accomplishment,” Boorstin told a human rights meeting in [...]

Because of limitations in recycling technology, a common type of plastic used in water bottles and food containers weakens so much when its recycled that it cant be used again for the same purpose. Some small amount of the plastic might make it into another bottle, but more often than not, it instead becomes synthetic [...]

“It is a deal that is fair to our customers and in line with our other programming agreements,” Cablevision Systems Corp. spokesman Charles Schueler said in a phone interview with The Associated Press after the signal had been restored. He declined to disclose details of the deal.
Rebecca Campbell, president and general manager of WABC-TV, said [...]

In a blog post Thursday, Microsoft executive Charlie Kindel, who handles contact with outside software developers, said that jettisoning support for older applications was necessary to make the new operating system as powerful and user-friendly as possible.
The announcement is perhaps most disappointing to companies that have created their own software to run on Windows phones [...]

The feature unveiled Thursday expands upon speech-recognition technology that YouTube began using to make captions available on a limited number of videos late last year.
YouTubes audience will be able to request captions at the press of a button. Video producers will also be able to download the automated captions and improve upon them.
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