Just a few days ago Auret van Heerden, FLA head, had made an initial visit to the factories and stated, “The working conditions to be far better than most other facilities in the countries” – the visits on the initial request that Apple has made to the Fair Labor Association (FLA) will conduct special voluntary audits of Apple’s final assembly suppliers,...
Australia which had blocked China’s Huawei from bidding for contracts in the country’s $38 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) due to cyber security concerns. The decision which was made on the advice from Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) over cyber attacks originating from China. Over on this, today, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard...
Yahoo’s Board which recently appointed three new independent directors, effective April 5, 2012: John D. Hayes, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of American Express Company; Peter Liguori, former Chief Operating Officer of Discovery Communications, Inc. and former Chairman and President of Entertainment of Fox Broadcasting Network; and Thomas J. McInerney, the outgoing Chief Financial Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp. Third Point’s Dan Loeb, the activist Yahoo shareholder, fired back at the company, reports AllThingsD. “Our...
The smart connected devices, including PCs, media tablets, and smartphones, saw shipments of more than 916 million units and revenues surpassing $489 billion dollars in 2011, according to the International Data Corporation. These numbers reflect the combined total from IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, Mobile Phone Tracker, and Media Tablet Tracker. “Whether...
Microsoft announced that it’s opening of 13 new storefronts around the world for Windows Phones apps and games. The new Marketplaces are Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venezuela. Throw in the ones we launched earlier this year in Argentina, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and...
Nikon UK launches a new bumper D-SLR promotion offering up to £100 cashback on selected Nikon D-SLR cameras until 30th May 2012 inclusive. All claims must be received by the 30th June 2012 in order to qualify. Simon Iddon, Product Manager for Nikon enthusiast products says: “With spring in full swing, now is the perfect time to upgrade to a Nikon D-SLR. This...
New York City-based sharing service Tumblr, which two months back, reached 120 million users every month, continues to grow at an incredible pace, hitting 20 billion posts on Monday night, doubling in size in just over 6 months. If you visit the Tumblr About page, the service currently hosts 20,060,823,987 posts and is approaching 50 million blogs (49,725,785 at the...
Editor’s Note: Guest Author Pratibha is a technology enthusiast interested in analysing and reporting about different technologies. In February, the company released a new smartphone app for Windows Phone to become its seventh mobile sales channel. Popular worldwide pizza chain Domino’s (UK and Ireland) has released a new Windows Phone 7 (WP 7) smartphone app [download here], adding to its wide portfolio of mobile applications including iOS, Android. The domino’s in its own wording and style says, “The full Domino’s Pizza...
In 2020 i.e. eight years from now, for the data we used, we might be paying just $1 per day for that – isn’t it is interesting – that’s what Nokia Siemens Networks CTO Hossein Moiin believe, according to whom, the mobile operators will need to play an “important” transformative role to pass cost savings down to customers. In an interview with Global...
As promised HTC One Series is finally on the way to launch, the company has just announced that all three of its new Android handsets – One X, One V and One S will launch in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Monday, April 2nd. HTC One X is equipped with a 4.7-inch, quad-core superphone, Tegra-3 powered will feature Android 4.0, Sense 4.0 with NFC, 32GB of storage...
