Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you should be pretty familiar with what’s going on at Foxconn, maker of the iPhone, these days. Working conditions and wages have been rather poor and it has been attributed to a recent string of suicides. It got so bad, in fact, that Foxconn made its workers sign…
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Verizon introduces “Group Communication”, brings back the once popular party lines
Verizon today introduced two “Group Communication” plans. For $4.99/month a Verizon customer under a family plan can get a number that once called or texted will call or text everyone in that group. You’re allowed to have only 1 non-Verizon member in that group. For $6.99/month and per line you can get a group number…
PrivacyStar for BlackBerry Updated with Crowdsourced Call Blocking and More
PrivacyStar, a very handy call blocking and caller ID app for BlackBerry has just issued an update… and it’s a good one. If you’ve never heard of or used PrivacyStar before, it’s pretty much the ultimate in call blocking and reverse caller lookup. Think of it as a ‘spam filter’ for your BlackBerry! Three new…
Brief: EU courts tell British operators to stick to the EU mandated roaming price caps
A long time ago, 2007 I think, the EU got tired of hearing consumers complaining about bill shock and roaming prices, so they imposed several pricing caps that would get lower and lower until 2011 when the price would settle at 0.35 EUR per minute. For Britain, an island nation that has lots of cheap…
TD Launches Mobile Banking App for BlackBerry
The good folks at TD Bank Financial just released a new mobile banking app (went live in App World June 1st), and if you have any type of account at Toronto Dominion, it’s worth a look. Named ‘TD’ (brilliant!), the app allows you to access your banking, investing and insurance services with TD from your…
LTE Update: Swedes get LTE phones early next year, Chinese have LTE on trains, Japan goes LTE
Next generation networks are going live all around the world, promising increased bandwidth, increased capacity, and lower latency. Sweden and Norway were the first two countries to get LTE, courtesy of TeliaSonera. By the end of this month they’re going to be deploying USB modems that can also use the “old” 3G network, whereas right…
LinkedIn for BlackBerry Updated with Tremendous Device Support
Regular users (and would-be users waiting on device support) of LinkedIn for BlackBerry will be pleased to know an update has been pushed out. The new version brings us up to 1.1, and packs quite a few new features, including some very much needed device support! Thanks to the update, the BlackBerry Bold, Curve, Pearl,…
Video (slideshow really): People in Indonesia go crazy at the Nokia C3 launch
With the GDP per capita of a person in Indonesia hovering around $2,250, are you surprised to hear that the locals queued up for the ultra cheap Nokia C3 in much the same way as Americans camped in front of Apple stores overnight for an iPhone? The C3, for those who forgot, is one of…
Sony Ericsson W150i TeaCake is an Android-powered Walkman phone?
I assume we expected something like this to happen. After all when you have such a powerful brand as Sony does with Walkman, you do want to extend its reach all the time. Apparently, that’s exactly what Sony Ericsson is up to as they prepare to launch the first Android-powered Walkman smartphone. Nothing is confirmed…
Appular unveils the first HTML 5 demo game for the iPhone
New York-based Appular, which is an iPhone app marketer and publisher, launched HTML 5-based version of the Hand of Greed iPhone game, emphasizing it is the first such [HTML 5-based] title. The main news here is that HTML 5 is seen as the “the future of app discovery and promotion.” In other words, some of…