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Apple inspects Foxconn working conditions
Published on 2012-02-15 02:31:00
Apple said on Monday that a US non-profit labour group has begun an "unprecedented" inspection of working conditions at its main contract manufacturers, including Foxconn's plants in southern China, as the maker of the iPhone continues to grapple with persistent image problems there."The inspections now underway are unprecedented in the electronics industry, both in scale and scope," Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement.The world's most valuable technology corporation had agreed to let th
Press Release - R1 999 embedded 3G Android tablet produced by South African company – world's cheapest!
Published on 2012-02-13 02:53:00
The netsurferTOUCH straddles the digital divide.Issued by: Future Mobile Technology [Johannesburg, 13 February 2012] An Android-operated tablet, designed by a South African company for Africa's mass market, has launched via PEP Cell stores with resounding success.The netsurferTOUCH – with a powerful embedded 3G modem for high-speed Internet upload and download – retails for R1 999.99 and is the brainchild of Graham Davies and Tracy Andersson, joint CEOs of Future Mobile Technolog
Google pays users to sacrifice privacy
Published on 2012-02-10 02:43:00
Google has been quietly recruiting users into a new project called Screenwise, which actually pays users to allow the search giant to track their online activity.While Google has not issued a formal announcement about the project, it has set up a registration page that provides some basic information. The search giant says it is building a new panel to learn more about “how everyday people use the Internet”. Participants add a browser extension that shares online activity with Google, such
