Why did I buy a Firefox OS phone? Well, I wanted to see what it was like. It is sort of my job, and I can normally justify buying things to try based on the fact I can blog about them. I ordered mine about five weeks ago and it arrived yesterday. In the meantime, I'd spoken to a couple of peopl... Read more...
T-Mobile the last major US carrier to sell the iPhone, announced yesterday that it has already sold 500,000 units since the phone launched on April 12. That's pretty good, considering most other smartphones don't come close to those sales numbers in such a short time, even if they're ... Read more...
If you've been waiting for iPhone 5s to become available, you may have to wait a while longer. In the latest reminder of the harsh working conditions, crappy pay, and brutal hours endured by those who make the gadgets the world loves, 3,000–4,000 workers at a Foxconn plant have gone on strike... Read more...
A riot at has broken reportedly broken out a factory owned by Foxconn, the company famous for its production of Apple gadgets. Ed Flanagan of NBC News reports: Reports early Monday from China suggest that a mass disturbance or riots may have broken out at a Foxconn factory in the Chinese cit... Read more...
The conventional wisdom holds that we shouldn’t expect too many tech miracles from the iPhone 5. The latest iteration of Apple’s popular smartphone will mainly just be an incremental upgrade over previous versions. Ho-hum. But what about an economic miracle? In a new research note, JP Mor... Read more...
Thanks to reader Andrew Stern, we’ve got some photos that indicate Apple is already preparing San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for its September 12th iPhone 5 media event. While it appears that the exterior banners will be going up tomorrow (based on Cherry Pickers being prepped outside ... Read more...
Apple has said that it did not give the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation any device identity codes of its iPhone and iPad users. Hackers associated with Anonymous claimed this week to have stolen more than 12 million device identifers from an FBI-owned laptop. Just over one million uniqu... Read more...