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Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturing company that most people only heard about after several of their workers started committing suicide due to revolting working conditions, told the Xinhua News Agency that over the next 3 years they plan to increase the amount of robots in use in their factories from 10,000 to 1 million. This is…
Similar to how Americans have Hulu, British people have iPlayer, but unlike the garbage on American television, British people enjoy some of the best programming that has ever hit a television screen. Cultural judgements aside, the one bad thing about iPlayer is that it doesn’t work outside the land of fish, chips, and pub culture.…
A study done by PriceGrabber with approximately 3,000 people shows that 35% of consumers are interested in buying Apple’s next generation iPhone. Graham Jones, General Manager of PriceGrabber, says: “Our survey data confirms the strong following Apple has built around its iPhone, with more than one-third of consumers planning to upgrade to the latest model…
As Apple iPhone users continue to get ignored when it comes to improvements to the Google Maps application bundled in iOS, Google just keeps on delivering new releases of Maps for Android, and this latest version (5.8) promises to not only make your checkin experience more fluid, but also help you find awesome places near…
We hope you’re sitting down, because this next bit of news is not only groundbreaking, but damn right confusing. LightSquared, which right now is nothing more than a PowerPoint presentation bouncing around people’s laptops, is a wireless operator run by a hedge fund who originally planned to contract Nokia Siemens Networks to build out a…
There’s a saying that the best camera you have is the one that’s always with you, which explains why today most people don’t bother buying dedicated point and shoots and instead prefer to use their smartphone. Just last month we reported that Apple’s iPhone 4 is the most popular camera on the photo sharing site…
Verizon Wireless, or Big Red as we like to call them at IntoMobile Headquarters, has just announced that their breakneck pace to cover the contiguous United States with high speed 4G LTE coverage is running full steam ahead and that on August 18th they’ll be adding 9 new markets: Frederick, MD; Tuscon, AZ; Ft. Collins,…
A study done by Retrevo in June of this year on over 1,000 people finds that consumers would purchase a tablet device running Android if it just had the right price tag. Nearly 50% of the people surveyed said they’d get an Android tablet if it had all the features of the iPad, but cost…
Finnish handset maker Nokia recently launched a new online store dubbed the “NFC Hub” where companies can purchase NFC enabled marketing materials ranging from posters, to business cards, and even stickers, in an aim to get people to interact with their brand or business in a new, most would say innovative, way. For those of…
Coupons used to be something your mother and grandmother clipped from the Sunday paper while you watched cartoons growing up, but today they’re serious business. Groupon might not have been the first to start the whole internet coupon phenomenon, but they’re certainly the poster child for the movement, with more clones being created than we…