User:TechPolicy

The Future of Ethics and Technology A list from Ethisphere has the World's Most Ethical Companies for 2007. The following organizations made the list for the top tech companies: NEC, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Xerox, General Electric, Canon, Philips, Sharp,Google, Nokia, and Vodafone. But some huge companies did not make this list such as Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and Sony. So what makes companies ethical and some companies not. Here is an example of why Apple did not score higher on the Ethics scoreboard. Apple has a lucrative deal with At&T that guarantees that their network is the only one iPhone users will use. So iPhones's latest software update eliminated unauthorized programs installed to allow a user to use a non-AT&T network. It also wiped out other user-installed programs, and in many cases killed the phone. The buyers of the iPhone were furious and out about 600 bucks! Texas Instruments made the list of one of the most ethical companies of 2007 and this is why it did better than Apple. More than 60 years ago, Texas Instruments employees placed their personal imprint on the ethics of the company. They have chose to conduct themselves to the highest standards of personal integrity, and they demanded the same of others. These principles and values still permeate all of TI's actions and decisions. Values and morals are the things that drive ethical companies, while the unethical companies lack those same values and morals