Apple's Chinese manufacturing partner, Foxconn Technology, has come under criticism recently after reports of students being forced to “intern†at the company's factories that make iPhones and their components, David Barboza and Charles Duhigg report. The reliance on so-called interns - including those studying law or English, worker advocates say - is particularly high as Foxconn attempts to meet demand for the new iPhone 5. “They don't want to work there - they want to learn,†one advocate said. “But if they don't work, they are told they will not graduate, because it is a very busy time with the new iPhone coming, and Foxconn does not have enough workers without the students.â€
- YouTube o n Tuesday is introducing an iPhone app, something it never needed to do because it had come installed on iPhones, Claire Cain Miller writes. That is changing with the new iPhones. The new arrangement means that YouTube on iPhones will be able to run ads, but it comes at a price, of course: YouTube must convince iPhone owners to download the free app, and it will begin a mobile and online marketing campaign to do so.
Monday began in earnest the battle to inherit Oprah Winfrey's mantle, with the arrival of Katie Couric to TV screens as a daytime talk show host, Alessandra Stanley writes. While Ms. Couric's most recent job had her delivering the evening news, she has always had the ability to shift from “dogged, hard-news interviewer to fun-loving queen of girl talk and back again,†Ms. Stanley writes. In her latest gig, as host of “Katie,†the pull has been to a lighter direction. Other new talk show hosts looking to break out include Jeff Probst, the host of “Survivor,†and the comedian Steve Harvey.
The cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Robert Mankoff, in a blog post explained how the magazine ran afoul of Facebook's standards on “Nudity and Sex†with a cartoon showing a post-coital Adam and Eve. In a nutshell: even in cartoons, men's nipples are O.K., women's not.
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