Apple Computer said Wednesday it was trying to settle a dispute over alleged labor abuses at an iPod factory in China, an awkward case highlighting the challenges big companies face in living up to their codes of conduct while outsourcing most of their production... [The factory] is a wholly owned subsidiary of Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group [part of Hon Hai]. "Apple is working behind the scenes to help resolve this issue," an Apple spokesman, Jill Tan, said Wednesday.