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The Fair Labor Association is back from a thorough investigation of Apple device supplier Foxconn in China. It found, as many have reported, numerous labor-rights violations such as long overtime hours and salaries that aren’t enough to cover basic needs for living. The average monthly salary for factory workers ranges from $358 to $455. Over…
In an aggressive move to raise some more dough, T-Mobile is looking at selling some of its cell towers to help finance its ambitious vision of an LTE 4G network. Apparently, the fourth largest cell phone company in the United States has gotten the ball moving already, obtaining the services of TAP Advisors to explore…
RIM posted its quarterly earnings and the results are grim as expected. The company announced a loss of $125 million on quarterly revenues of $4.2 billion, which is down 19% from the previous quarter. The company shipped 11.1 million handsets in the quarter, down 23 percent from the previous quarter. It also shipped 500,000 Playbook tablets.…
While the upcoming launch of the Nokia Lumia 900 will be AT&T’s largest by far users may want to be wary about how future-proof the device will be. I visited Nokia’s sparkling headquarters in Sunnyvale to discuss the upcoming launch of the Lumia 900 and I asked how confident can people be that this handset…
A report by The Globe and Mail suggests Thorsten Heins will layoff some of RIM’s executive leadership. Executives at the senior vice-president and vice-president levels are the positions targeted in a layoff that, if true, will shake up RIM’s top brass. Sales and marketing departments will bear the brunt of the bad news says Globe and…
Yesterday on Google+, it was announced that the roll out of Android 4.0.4 would begin to hit GSM Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S, and Xoom Wi-Fi devices. The update is modest but comes with some welcomed tweaks. We’ve started rolling out Android 4.0.4, Ice Cream Sandwich, to UMTS/GSM Nexus S, Xoom Wi-Fi, and HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus…
Everyone knows the world of technology is constantly evolving, and it’s almost impossible to predict what might be the “next big thing.” Even though most experts may not know the future, one thing they do know is soon most people in the world will carry some sort of smartphone as their daily driver. Well, that…
You have to feel for Sprint. Its plan for an LTE network with LightSquared went down the tubes when the FCC would not grant LightSquared the license it needs to operate. It still has a partnership with Clearwire, but the WiMAX company is struggling financially. According to a report by Fierce Wireless, Bob Azzi, senior…
Are you familiar with Where’s My Water? and Angry Birds, but wish both games could be combined and star two of your favorite desserts: Marshmallows and Chocolate? That’s exactly what you’ll get with Chillingo’s latest puzzle game, Coco Loco. Players of Where’s My Water? and Angry Birds will feel right at home with Coco Loco…
Google and its partners have been in a patent battle with just about every giant software company in the world, and its upcoming hearing with Oracle is just the next chapter. In the Oracle case coming up, legal documents unveiled the ruler of search generated more than four times as much advertising revenue from all…