According to Macotakara – via CNET – a Foxconn recruiting officer is telling that the company is going to hire a potential number of employees as the iPhone 5 is expected to go on sales in June. The company needs to hire about 18,000 employees to manufacture the Apple’s new device. This wouldn’t be the first time that a report points to a summer release...
Japan Display, the organization formed by the merger between Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi’s small and medium-sized touchscreen LCD manufacturing divisions a new firm that deals with middle- and small-size displays, started operations April 1, 2012. The establishment of the company was announced Aug 31, 2011, and a formal contract was signed in November 2011....
Having a burger with free internet (WiFi) – Isn’t it is amazing – surfing and eating goes together – this is what on the chart for McDonald’s UK customers – the food giant with O2 joined a 5-year partnership. O2 says that 750,000 customers are logging in at McDonald’s every month. According to MD Gavin Franks, it fits in with the company’s broader ambitions: “A year ago we set out our ambition to transform public wifi in the UK by offering a fast and reliable public wifi connection that is genuinely free for all, no...
Dell announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, to significantly extend its desktop virtualization offerings. The addition of Wyse will expand Dell’s desktop virtualization capabilities and provide new solutions and services opportunities for the full range of Dell’s enterprise offerings. “The combination of Wyse and Dell provides us with tremendous growth opportunities for our core desktop virtualization business, helps us expand into new and fast-growing...
According to Ahram, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) planning to open its first Africa-based development centre in Cairo in order to attract local developers. The centre will be established at Smart Village, the high-tech industrial park located alongside the Cairo-Alexandria road on the western edge of the capital. RIM’s regional manager for North Africa, Ben Quirin, said the company had taken greater interest in Egypt in the wake of the 2011 uprising, noting the central role played by information technology in organising...
Seems like Oracle and Google, are not intended to end the dispute our Java Patents to end soon, as US Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal has issued a court order stating that the two parties have failed to reach a mutually acceptable solution to their disagreement. Google earlier proposed to pay Oracle a percentage of Android revenue if Oracle could prove patent infringement....
The South-Korean giant Samsung has revealed that its China chip plant will cost $7 billion to it. The company would spend $7 billion in order to build a NAND memory chip plant in China making its largest overseas chip production investment plan, reports Economic Times. The South Korean firm announced on Monday an initial investment of $2.3 billion in the multi-year...
Android Central is reporting that HTC’s EVO One features a 4.7-inch 720p AMOLED screen, LTE, an 8-megapixel camera, and a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor whereas other publication PocketNow has got its hands on the first first press shot of HTC’s EVO One, which looks set to be unveiled for Sprint at an event being held by the two companies tomorrow. (Image...
According to China Daily, Apple’s long continous dispute with the little known Proview over the iPad trademark issue leads to a new turn as the company that said itself a legal owner of the term; was spared from liquidation over the court ruling. The application to have Proview declared bankrupt was rejected by a court in Shenzhen, which stated: “As it is too...
The Next Web reports that the search giant has started off the development of its planned data center in Taiwan. Google has already begun the constructing work in both Hong Kong and Singapore and now with the current work which is estimated on $300 million in Taiwan underway, results in entering it into the final stage of the project, which it estimates will cost a total of $700 million. The data center is aiming for testing in the second half of next year. Once ready, it will employ 25 full-time staff, with expected number of both part...
