Apple defends Foxconn 'sweatshops'

Apple boss Steve Jobs has defended conditions at Taiwanese electronics firm Foxconn, which manufactures the iPhone, following a spate of suicides, states BBC News.

Jobs claims Apple representatives are working with Foxconn to find out why 10 workers had killed themselves at a factory in Shenzhen, China.

Foxconn's parent company, Hon Hai Precision, indicates it will give 20% pay hikes to its Chinese workers.

Creative agency Jess3 has developed the Black Oil Firefox plug-in, which replaces all mentions of BP with blacked out letters resembling dripping oil drops, reports CNN.

This follows the disastrous oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico that continues to wreak havoc on the environment and residents along the gulf shore.

The Firefox plug-in aims to express outrage over BP's lack of response to the environmental disaster by blanking out terms like BP oil, BP gas and BP worldwide.

European multinationals are being deterred from adopting mobile working technology due to concerns about high subscription costs, says Computing.co.uk.

A survey of 500 European multinationals researched by Vodafone Global Enterprise found only 41% had a mobile working solution already in place, with 70% saying they believed different tariff structures in different European countries were too hard to manage.

Others claim they would be scared that workers would abuse their company mobiles and that mobile applications were not sufficiently secure to protect confidential data.

WikiLeaks has denied that eavesdropping on Chinese hackers played a key part in the early days of the whistle-blowing site, writes The Register.

One of the WikiLeaks activists owned a server that was being used as a node for the Tor network and Chinese hackers were using the network to gather foreign governments' information.

Only a very small number of the documents obtained were ever published.