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A group of protesters from SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour) demonstrate outside the Foxconn annual general meeting in Hong Kong.
Apple's latest round of inspections at Foxconn and other partners won't make anyone happy. We can predict the conclusion: things are better than some claim, yet more can be done. All sides involved will use this for their own ends.
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Man on boat relaxing with laptop computer
You’ve heard of bankers’ hours. How about hackers’ hours? Criminal hacking gangs may have the wrong idea about what constitutes an honest day’s work, but at least one appears to have the right approach to keeping a good work-life balance....
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Lookout examined geographic data for some 9 million smartphones it helped locate last year.
Where you lose your smartphone, it turns out, says a lot about where you live. If you lose a phone in San Francisco, you were probably at a coffee shop. Misplace it in London? Try the pub. In Brussels, call...
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A large flock of starlings fly over a park at sunset seaking an area to land for the evening, in Algiers.
Twitter, the microblogging service that lets users send out messages up to 140 characters long, now has — you guessed it — more than 140 million active tweeters. That’s up about 40 percent since September, a growth spurt fueled by...
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Thermal images of the iPad 2, left, and new iPad show the difference in heat.
Consumer Reports wasn’t the first publication to draw attention to the fact that Apple’s new (don’t call me No. 3) iPad can get a 116-degree fever when running graphic-intensive tasks. But that hasn’t stopped the 76-year-old magazine from taking the...
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Larry Ellison, chief executive officer of Oracle Corp.
Larry Ellison has made Hewlett-Packard its No. 1 enemy the last couple of years. But a brewing battle in software had Oracle’s CEO taking shots at his old SAP rival Hasso Plattner today. During Oracle’s quarterly conference call with Wall Street...
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Photographer: Mark Lipson
A mobile phone base station in Los Angeles.
You’ve heard about the 1 percent. When it comes to wireless, call the U.S. the 5 percent. Although only 5 percent of the world’s mobile subscribers live in the U.S., they account for 17 percent of global wireless service revenue...
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Crowds of Chinese Foxconn employees have lunch in a dining hall at Foxconn's Shenzhen plant.
So Mike Daisey’s been outed. The things he said he saw, he didn’t. The people he said he spoke to, he didn’t. The discoveries he said he made, he didn’t. He lied. It matters a lot that Mike Daisey lied,...
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Facebook and Twitter are mostly an additional way to get news, not a replacement, Pew said.
While Facebook and Twitter may eat up our social time online, they’re not pushing us to news sites like other services. Just 9 percent of Americans “very often” follow news recommendations from the two online social services, according to Pew Research...
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Steve Wozniak.
Mike Daisey must be feeling some agony after his one-man show, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” was outed for embellishing its supposed first-hand accounts. But Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is still a big fan of the performance,...
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