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Apple Inc., Made In America
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There are two sayings on the back of every Apple product: Designed By Apple in California and Assembled in China. These statements attempt to say that even though the products might be assembled in a different country, Apple is an American company — a fact Apple proclaimed loudly today with a new web page titled Creating jobs through innovation.
Apple has been under fire lately regarding its overseas manufacturing partners. Apple hired the Fair Labor Association to conduct voluntary audits of the final assembly partners, including Foxconn’s massive Asian facilities. But consumers and activists alike aren’t buying it. It’s a smokescreen, they say. Foxconn will just hide the children and give ...
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Sprint to launch 10 handsets with Google Wallet support in 2012
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Google announced at the Mobile Money: Delivering Innovative Mobile Payment Services panel during Mobile World Congress that Sprint will introduce “at least 10 additional phones” with Google Wallet support in 2012, Fierce Mobile Content reported on Thursday. The Samsung Nexus S 4G is the only smartphone currently offered by the carrier that supports Google’s NFC mobile payment system. Both the Galaxy Nexus and the LG Viper will launch with Wallet support later this year, however, and Osama Bedier, vice president of Google Wallet and Payments, said Google is continuing talks with other carriers, device manufacturers, banks, financial service providers and point-of-sale technology vendors to fu...
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Chinese hackers seized control of NASA computers
Like UnlikeHackers targeted NASA computers, successfully gained access to employee credentials, and took control of systems at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CNN reported on Friday. Paul K. Martin, the agency’s inspector general, cited one case in a report issued this week in which intruders from China-based IP addresses gained “full system access” to change or delete sensitive files and user accounts for “mission-critical” systems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “In other words, the attackers had full functional control over these networks,” Martin said. In an earlier attack, hackers stole credentials of roughly 150 NASA employees. The agency reported that it was targeted with 47 “advanced persis...
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Android 6.0 = Key Lime Pie?
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Well, we all just received the obvious hint at MWC that Android 5 would be called Jelly Bean. While we really don’t know too much about the next release from Google, especially since it isn’t even expected to be released until the fall, there is already talk about Android 6’s codename.
The folks over at The Verge claim to have a reliable inside source at Google who states that Key Lime Pie will come after Jelly Bean. The Verge backs up this prediction by pointing out that this is the same person that tipped them about the Jelly Bean name last year.
Besides this tipster’s great track record, if we are to follows Google’s pattern of naming Android releases after a dessert in alphabetical order...
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Huawei's LTE mobile WiFi gear coming to Europe and Asia Pacific by July, for all the use it is
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Huawei's capping off the good week it had at MWC by announcing that its 4G Wireless Network Card (E3276) and Mobile WiFi (E5776) will arrive in Europe and Asia Pacific by July 2012. Of course, only Germany, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Finland in Europe and Japan in Asia have fully working LTE networks. We're not so sure if the company's also committing to a launch window for its similarly enabled phones but it wouldn't be unreasonable to hope that we'll see those turn up around the same time. If you want more details, you should know where to go by now.
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Samsung Galaxy S III allegedly confirmed for April launch
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Aside from the next-gen iPhone, the Samsung Galaxy S III is certainly the most anticipated device of this whole year. Samsung’s 2012 flagship has now allegedly been confirmed to launch as early as April, soon after its official announcement which is yet to come. ZDNet Korea reports about the launch date after it spoke with Cheil Worldwide, Samsung’s marketing and ad agency, which is preparing the device for the market in the UK.
Now, it looks like ZDNet refers to the official arrival of the Samsung Galaxy S III to shelves in April, at least in the first markets of availability. We’re not yet clear about when the device will arrive stateside, but we expect it to be later on in the year.
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AnyVoice adds more than 40 accents to Siri
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Siri might already speak in English, but if you want to really freak people out or just have some fun, why don’t you make your humble virtual iPhone assistand speak in accents? That’s what AnyVoice brings to you and it’s now available on Cydia, the iPhone’s jailbreak store.
You can download it by loading up ModMyi repository, which happens to be one of the default three in Cydia. Now, of course, you’d need to first jailbreak your handset in order to use download AnyVoice.
With over 40 accents to choose from you definitely won’t get bored. AnyVoice brings the good ol’ French accent in town or you can try and have fun with Siri speaking with Russian accent. Not all of them are equally good, an...
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Cydia creator explains why the jailbreak app store often loads very slowly
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Those of you with jailbroken iPhones and iPads know well about Cydia - the unregulated by Apple third-party app catalog on iOS. It allows many of the apps you’d never see on the original App Store - tethering application, themes and others, but while Apple’s official store is pretty snappy, on Cydia you’re often forced to wait for quite a while. Jay Freeman, aka saurik, used reddit as the stage to explain why this is so and what’s happening so that it could change.
The biggest reason for the slowdown is the fact that Cydia loads its whole database with packages, which is megabytes of data every time, while the App Store only loads 25 apps at a time and offers a load more button for the rest.
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Acer H9600 Projector Released
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Acer announced today the release of their new home theater projector, the H6500. This device uses DLP display technology to display full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution, a 10000:1 contrast ratio, and 2100 ANSI lumens. Unlike all the other new home projectors, this device doesn’t come with 3D technology and instead focuses on impressive 2D image quality. It is designed to be an entry-level projector and has an easy setup and quick instructions to help install the projector. “The Acer® H6500 projector is an excellent choice for the home with its ability to showcase Full HD 1080p video and superior color performance even in areas with bright ambient light,” said Chris White, senior director of prod...
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Deja-Vu: Prototype HTC phone left at bar
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Obviously there’s something about bars that lead us to discover new phones. Could it be that handset testers get drunk enough to forget that the device is supposed to be incognito? Whatever the case, first it was an iPhone, but now it’s a prototype HTC phone that was left in a bar and now found.
Droid-Life snatched this never-before-seen device up in San Francisco. It has that signature HTC look to it — metal case, large wide speaker at the very top, and front-facing camera positioned to the right — and seems similar to the Droid Incredible 2 more than anything else. Oddly though, it has a semi-transparent backing, allowing one to vaguely make out its internals. Hopefully that’s just part of...
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom: 'I'm no piracy king'
Like UnlikeMegaupload founder Kim Dotcom on Thursday questioned his accusers’ motives while speaking to The Guardian. ”I’m no piracy king,” Dotcom told the paper. “I offered online storage and bandwidth to users and that’s it.” Dotcom was arrested in his New Zealand mansion on January 20th after his notorious Megaupload service was shuttered earlier that week as part of a multi-agency sting across several countries. He was released on bail and it currently awaiting trial, having been accused of money laundering, violating piracy laws and a number of other crimes. ”It’s kind of like weapon of mass destructions in Iraq, you know?” Dotcom said during an interview with The Guardian. “If you want to go afte...
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New Nokia Lumia 800 firmware out, may bring battery, camera improvements
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A new build of the Nokia Lumia 800 firmware has shown up on NavirFirm with the build number 1600.2487.8107.12070.
The ROM seems to be intended for the Vodafone New Zealand Lumia 800, but seems to work well on other Lumias.
Initial assessment at XDA-Developers show improved battery drainage in idle mode, and an analysis of the ROM show 4 new camera modes:
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AT&T relents on unlimited data throttling, increases cap to 3GB for HSPA+ and 5GB for LTE
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AT&T has announced today that it is retooling the throttling policy on its unlimited smartphone data plan, a legacy offering still in use by many customers — largely because it was long the standard-issue package sold alongside the iPhone. The new cap will be 3GB for customers on HSPA+ plans and 5GB for those on LTE, up from roughly 2GB regardless of network type. Once the cap is hit, throttling will kick in until the end of the billing cycle, the same policy as before.
The carrier has taken a significant amount of heat in recent weeks for stepping up enforcement of the data throttling policy — many subscribers had been reporting text messages telling them they were in the top five percent o...
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Apple hiring automotive integration engineers in China?
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A job notice on LinkedIn spotted by China Car Times now has the industry abuzz with speculation that Apple may be preparing to enter the iOS-automobile integration market, long an area where the company has enjoyed third-party success due to consumer demand. Third-party accessories for aftermarket integration along with the willingness of car companies to engineer custom solutions may have spurred Apple to consider direct involvement.
The listing shows the company seeking "Supplier Quality Engineer" with experience in die casting, stamping, plastic injection and other technologies involved in making custom components for car dashboards. While it is possible that Apple simply wants to hire so...
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Google's New Privacy Policy Violates EU Law
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On BBC Radio this morning, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said that the EU had investigated Google's new Privacy Policy—which gives Google access to the activity of all its users across all its services—and found that it was in violation of privacy laws.
According to Reuters, Reding offered the following examples when pressed about how Google was breaking EU laws.
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