Archive for February, 2010

Nokia Plots Its Comeback Plan

February 27, 10 by David Goldstein

Sitting in a meeting room that looks out on a frozen Baltic bay, Nokia Oyj Chief Executive Officer Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo mentions a biography he’s reading. It’s about Mauno Koivisto, the president who butted heads with his own Social Democratic Party en route to opening Finland̵...

Apple admits using child labour in China

February 27, 10 by David Goldstein

Apple has admitted that child labour was used at the Chinese factories that build its computers, iPods and mobile phones.

At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple.

To read this report in The Daily Telegraph...

Kerre Woodham : Trying times for Telecom

February 27, 10 by newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz
Speaking of chief executives, Paul Reynolds is having the annus horribilus to beat all anni, isn't he?First the much-vaunted and heavily-advertised XT network has turned out to be beset with problems - four outages in the space...

Cartoon : The Mea Culpa Club

February 27, 10 by newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz

Brian Gaynor : Too much barking before XT could bite

February 26, 10 by newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz
Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds, who has had a terrible start to 2010, must have choked on his toast when he opened Wednesday's newspapers.The front page of the Herald had three photographs of him under the heading: "Cellphone...