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Apple supplier Foxconn employee describes working conditions

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:06:13 +0000

A worker at an Apple supplier facility in Chengdu, China. (Credit: Apple) Apple and Foxconn have both been on the hot seat over reports of the supplier's poor factory conditions. But the story of a single worker profiled by CNN brings a personal touch to the controversy. Working at a Foxconn factory in southwestern China, an 18-year-old student named Ms. Chen (her name has been changed to …
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Foxconn Employee Shares Experiences Working On Apple Products

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:03:37 +0000

Apple has recently come under fire for the reported abuses at their chinese factories operated by Foxconn. As chinese workers come forward with more and more instances of abuse, American have started their own campaign, calling for Apple to take …
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Taiwan market: February LCD monitor sales to grow 10% sequentially

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:02:57 +0000

Branded LCD vendors in Taiwan including Asustek Computer, Chimei, BenQ and ViewSonic will offer incentives to promote sales to students in the local market upon the beginning of the spring semester in mid-February and expect total sales to increase 10% sequentially in the month, according to industry sources.
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The top 50 Android tablet apps

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:03:11 +0000

Whether you've got a Samsung Galaxy Tab, Amazon's Kindle Fire or another Android tablet, you'll be looking for some great apps. We've picked some of the best Apple sold 15.4m iPads in the final quarter of 2011, but there is more to the market than one manufacturer and OS. Strategy Analytics estimates that 39% of the 26.8m tablets that shipped that quarter were running Google's Android operating …
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Lenovo's ThinkPad Tablet to Get Android 4.0 in May

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:02:45 +0000

Lenovo's ThinkPad Tablet will get an upgrade to Google's latest Android 4.0 OS starting in May, Lenovo said on Monday.
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The folly of refreshing Android tablet product lines too often

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:59:20 +0000

Announcing new and improved tablets shortly after shipping the previous model is not a good business practice for Android tablet makers.
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Foxconn iPad worker documents poor labor conditions

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:59:19 +0000

Foxconn treats "men as machines," according to a worker newly interviewed by CNN. The woman is identified an 18-year-old student from a village near the southern city of Chongqing, using the pseudonym "Chen" because she says Foxconn tells workers not to talk to reporters or else "criminal liability shall be investigated according to law." Because she was a college student with no work experience …
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Inside story of Foxconn shrouded in secrecy

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:58:42 +0000

We meet her by chance on the side of a road. She looks the very model of a Chinese factory worker: young, vibrant, dressed in the cheap brand-name knockoff fashions so common of poor rural villages.
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Pegatron, ECS land ultrabook orders from regional brands worldwide, says paper

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:57:59 +0000

Pegatron Technology and Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) have recently landed orders from regional brand vendors worldwide including Epson, Onkyo, ViewSonic, Mustek, Motion Computing, WiPro and Positivo with Pegatron landing orders for five models set to ship in April or May; while, ECS landed two models and will ship in the second quarter, according to a Chinese-language Apple Daily report.
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Taiwan graphics card vendors see over 2 million shipments in 2011, says paper

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:50:21 +0000

Taiwan-based graphics card vendors and makers, Asustek Computer, Micro-Star International (MSI), Gigabyte Technology and PowerColor (TUL), each shipped more than two million graphics cards in 2011 and are set to challenge a higher volume in 2012, according to a Chinese-language Apple Daily report.
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