New York Times Goes Deeper on Chinese Apple Factory Working Conditions
Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, reporting for the New York Times:
“Apple never cared about anything other than increasing product quality and decreasing production cost,” said Li Mingqi, who until April worked in management at Foxconn Technology, one of Apple’s most important manufacturing partners. Mr. Li, who is suing Foxconn over his dismissal, helped manage the [...]
Sony Dot Switch teaser literally points at connected devices
Video sets the date…
Sony, fresh from showing off a raft of new devices at CES, has teased another new arrival: Sony Dot Switch.
The 31 second teaser video shows a chap controlling a number of devices (or turning them on, at least) using a virtual white button on what looks like a Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc [...]
Innovation
Re: the previous entry, on tablets before and after the ipad, and Android phones before and after the iPhone, here’s a delightful quote from Google chairman Eric Schmidt last month:
“We have seen an explosion of Android devices entering the market
and, because of our successes, competitors are responding with
lawsuits as they cannot respond through innovations,” he [...]
Chris Hall appointed Editor of Pocket-lint.com
EDITORIAL: Times they are a-changin
Many things have changed over the last 9 years: the digital revolution continues to rage with barely contained ferocity and Pocket-lint has been bringing you gadget news and reviews in its inimitable style since its inception in 2003.
Keeping track of the rise of the smartphone or evolution of the digital camera [...]
Mac Malware ‘Explosion’ Missing in Action
Richard Gaywood:
The appearance of the MacDefender trojan back in May provoked a lot of back-and-forth between various tech writers (including your humble correspondent). Was this a sign that the good times were ending? That the Mac platform would come under ever-fiercer attack from malware authors? That soon we’d all be running resource-sucking virus scanners and [...]
WEBSITE OF THE DAY – Wowcher
A new voucher site with free movie tickets up for grabs
Regular readers will know that we at Pocket-Lint do love a bargain. Show us a good deal and we’re likely to get quite animated about it, and the recent explosion in discount voucher sites has suited us quite nicely, thank you.
Do we need another one? [...]
Windows Phone 7 in numbers
App stats for Microsoft’s latest mobile OS
A year on from when the Windows Phone 7 developer tools were first made available to the app building community, the Windows Phone Developers Blog has posted some interesting app stats:
There has been 1.5 million downloads of the WP7 developer tools (Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone and Expression [...]
Great Example
Embarrassingly bad piece by Steve Lohr for the NYT, on the rise of HTML5 web apps:
“Right now, we’re in a native apps world,” says John Lilly,
a venture partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm in
Silicon Valley. “But people are underestimating the power of the
Web. I think we’re going to see an explosion of Web-based [...]
MSI Kid Pad: You know for kids
CES 2011: Concept tablet for the children in your life
MSI has shown off a prototype tablet at CES that is designed specifically for kids for parents clearly worried about giving the youngsters their prized possession.
The MSI Kid Pad, as it is currently called, will be feature a 10-inch touchscreen display, offer 8 hours of battery [...]
Kodak Playtouch adds to the mini-cam explosion
Yet another arm-USB based camcorder launched
Mini-camcorder fans have been spoiled as of late with a host of tiny HD video shooters hitting the market. We’ve seen efforts from Panasonic (the HM-TA1), Samsung (the HMX-E10) and even a 3D shooter from Aiptek.
And now, Kodak has come to the party with its latest mini-HD camcorder, the Kodak [...]
