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  • Foxconn offers 66% raise after suicide pressure

    Foxconn offers 66% raise after suicide pressure

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Foxconn employees, with the help of Apple, will receive a 66 percent raise. The increase will raise the average salary from $132 a month to about $292, an impressive number. There is a required performance review period for three months before the raises will be doled out. Id’ be curious to know if these workers also [...]

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  • PSA: McDonald’s is recalling 12 million toxic Shrek drinking glasses

    PSA: McDonald’s is recalling 12 million toxic Shrek drinking glasses

    Posted on June 4, 2010 | No Comments
    I know this is a little out of our traditional scope of coverage, but let’s pass the word that McDonald’s Shrek promo glass contain toxic metal cadmium and are being recalled. CPSC spokesman Scott Wolfson to Reuters, “A very small amount of cadmium can come to the surface of the glass, and in order to be as [...]

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  • Some Foxconn employees get 20% raise

    Some Foxconn employees get 20% raise

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Hon Hai Precision Industry, the anchor group for Foxconn, is offering its workers a 20% increase in pay as part of a regular third-quarter cycle. It’s important to note that this is a cyclical was planned months in advance the suicides are ancillary to the eleven suicides thus far. “I don’t think this will impact Hon [...]

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  • Nokia sells just 100,000 N900s after first five months: so? (updated: more like 5 weeks)

    Nokia sells just 100,000 N900s after first five months: so? (updated: more like 5 weeks)

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Look, the N900 might be sitting at the top of Nokia's handset pyramid in terms of capabilities, but as we've said all along, the N900 is not a mass-market device. Nokia's been very clear that the N900 was launched as a means to strengthen its Maemo development community (on the path to MeeGo we now know). And by all accounts, it's done just that while winning a rabid fanbase of nerds in the process. Nevertheless, Reuters uses Gartner's estimate of less than 100,000 units sold in the device's first five months as proof that Nokia can't mount a challenge to RIM and Apple. True the numbers are paltry compared to the 8.75 million iPhones Apple sold from January to March, but a more apt comparison might be the oft noted Nexus One sales that reached just 135k units moved after 74 days. Regardless, in its defense, Alberto Torres, head of Nokia's solutions business said that "Sales have substantially exceeded expectations." So yeah, Nokia has problems, but the N900 isn't wasn't one of them.

    Update: While Nokia doesn't normally give out detailed sales figures per device, we've just been told that more than 100,000 N900s sold in the first five weeks -- not months -- globally.

    Nokia sells just 100,000 N900s after first five months: so? (updated: more like 5 weeks) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 05:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Samsung’s AMOLED division is now profitable, expects major smartphone growth in 2010

    Samsung’s AMOLED division is now profitable, expects major smartphone growth in 2010

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    If you want the dish on what's happening with mobile displays, Lee Woo-jong, VP for marketing at Samsung Mobile Display, is as good a person to ask as any. The chap has been telling the Reuters Global Technology Summit that his company has finally gone into the black with its AMOLED production line, and that its research projects a 50 percent jump in smartphone shipments in 2010 relative to 2009. This is expected to boost demand, which is already exceeding supply, for high-quality displays. Samsung says shortages might be experienced all the way until next year, but has reiterated its belief that AMOLED is the future with a $2.15 billion investment into expanding its production lines, while also predicting a 30-fold growth in shipments of such displays by 2015. Every handset out there looking like the Wave? We could learn to live with that.

    Samsung's AMOLED division is now profitable, expects major smartphone growth in 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 20:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Robot “I-Fairy” leads nuptials at wedding in Japan (videos)

    Robot “I-Fairy” leads nuptials at wedding in Japan (videos)

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    We all knew this day would come eventually, and that day was yesterday: a robot called I-Fairy conducted a wedding, an official one. Needless to say that the wedding took place in Tokyo and that the robotic wedding conductor is the brain child of a Japanese robot company called Kokoro.

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  • AT&T to cover about 250M people with HSPA+ by year’s end

    AT&T to cover about 250M people with HSPA+ by year’s end

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    AT&T has changed its story on its 3.5G / 3.75G strategy prior to rolling out LTE seemingly countless times in the past couple years, but the good news is that the latest policy shift is a decidedly positive one: it intends to cover about 250 million Americans in speedy (well, hopefully speedy) HSPA+ by the end of 2010. The remarks came today from AT&T Operations CEO John Stankey at a Reuters event, going on to say that the company intends to "double" its theoretical 7.2Mbps maximum on HSPA; it seems almost certain that the move is in response to T-Mobile's aggressive moves into 21Mbps territory recently -- not to mention commercial WiMAX availability on Sprint and the impending launch of a handful of LTE markets on Verizon -- but realistically HSPA+ on AT&T could easily run anywhere between 7.2 and 14.4Mbps depending on market, backhaul capacity, and countless other factors. Works out well for a presumed iPhone launch, doesn't it?

    AT&T to cover about 250M people with HSPA+ by year's end originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 May 2010 16:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • China’s knockoff iPads have no one fooled… or do they?

    China’s knockoff iPads have no one fooled… or do they?

    Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Pretty sure China plays by its own rules when it comes to pirated versus non-piated goods, but this story's still worth a chuckle. Ever since Apple said that it would delay international launches of the iPad in order to placate U.S. demand— the magical and revolutionary device is flying off the shelves, it seems—Chinese manufacturers have flooded their internal market with iPad knockoff after iPad knockoff. They're slightly less expensive than the real thing, but the important part is that they're available right now. Not bona fide, but bona found. I love how that makes no sense whatsoever.

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  • Palm Runs Out Of Options As HTC Reviews, Declines To Buy The Company

    Palm Runs Out Of Options As HTC Reviews, Declines To Buy The Company

    Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
    According to a report based on a source from an Asia-based Reuters correspondent, smartphone maker HTC has decided not to bid for Palm after looking at the company's numbers. The source, which reportedly has direct knowledge of the talks, said there "weren't enough synergies to take the deal forward". That leaves Palm, which has been struggling to boost sales of its new range of smartphones, running out of options fast.

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  • Tens of Millions of Mexicans May be Left Phoneless Come Saturday

    Tens of Millions of Mexicans May be Left Phoneless Come Saturday

    Posted on April 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Around about a year ago, a law was passed in Mexico that would enforce compulsory registration of personal details to a mobile phone account. The idea behind it was to help fight crime (Batman style) by inhibiting the method of delivering ransom and extortion calls. Telcos were given 12 months to collect the personal details of their subscribers. Come Saturday, that 12 months will be up, and despite radio and television commercials urging mobile phone users to register their name and address via text message, around 30 million lines are still unregistered. There is a push from telcos to have the deadline extended by a further 12 months, but senators have thus far refused requests to do so.

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  • Motorola to replace Google with Bing on Chinese Android phones

    Motorola to replace Google with Bing on Chinese Android phones

    Posted on March 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Imagine this with Bing inside. It’s easy if you try. If I were a spit takin’ man, I’d do a spit take right now. Motorola, stalwart of freedom, will work with Chinese carriers to add Bing to Chinese Android-based phones, ousting Google Search and Maps from the scene. Now this isn’t meanness on Motorola’s part although [...]

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  • AT&T’s CEO (of all people): iPad will be driven by Wi-Fi, not 3G

    AT&T’s CEO (of all people): iPad will be driven by Wi-Fi, not 3G

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
    As everybody knows by now, Apple ships the iPad in the Wi-Fi version this month, with the 3G subscription-based model following in April (probably). And as it's AT&T that has secured the right to provide 3G connectivity to iPad users in America, you'd think Randall Stephenson, AT&T's CEO, would be the first person to promote sales of the 3G model. But it's Stephenson who is now quoted as saying that he doesn't expect "(...) a lot of people out there looking for another subscription (...)" and that the iPad wil mainly be a "Wi-Fi driven product". He made the remarks during a webcast of an investor conference yesterday, adding the iPhone, on the other hand, will continue to play an important role for AT&T "for quite some period of time".

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  • Apple is definitely NOT going to lose money making the iPad

    Apple is definitely NOT going to lose money making the iPad

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Well, iSuppli is at it again, and this time they are deconstructing the iPad. Admittedly they aren’t 100% sure about what exactly is inside the new device, they are taking their best shot at it and the numbers are pretty impressive. It doesn’t surprise me when an company makes money (in fact I’m more surprised [...]

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  • Nationwide no texting law goes into effect for buses and commercial trucks

    Nationwide no texting law goes into effect for buses and commercial trucks

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Newsflash: Sending text messages while driving is dangerous. There’s really no safe way to send a text while behind the wheel unless you’re at a stoplight or pulled over. And while there’s no nationwide texting ban for regular drivers, Uncle Sam has just decreed that anyone driving a large commercial truck or bus anywhere in the country can be fined up to $2,750 if caught texting while in motion.

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  • EA sticking with Tiger Woods for PGA Tour 11 game due out in June

    EA sticking with Tiger Woods for PGA Tour 11 game due out in June

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    After Tiger Woods’ personal indiscretions became public, the championship golfer found himself suddenly devoid of most major sponsorship deals. One of the last big holdouts has been Electronic Arts, makers of the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series of golf games. It’s now been revealed that the company will definitely be standing by Woods, with the next version of the console game to be called “Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11.”

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