Foxconn workers claim the manufacturer transferred underage employees to other departments or did not schedule them to work overtime in an effort to avoid discovery during the Fair Labor Association’s investigation of its facilities, reports AppleInsider .
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Foxconn accused of hiding underage factory workers before FLA inspection
That’s smartphones, guys. Not superphones, and certainly not phablets (sorry, we hate that word too)
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Synaptics announces ClearPad 2200 touchscreen controller for smartphones
The adorable, metallic-haired EMIEW 2 has been given permission to go on the internet and it’s going to use that privilege to find exactly where you left that stapler. First, the android uses its built-in camera to take a snapshot of objects and then queries the visual data online to recognise it. Then, as shown in Hitachi’s recent demonstration, it teams up with an array of cameras dotted around a hypothetical office.
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EMIEW 2 connects to the internet, wants to google your stuff (video)
Let’s face it, walkie-talkies are far from glamorous, but for large and small enterprises that rely on real-time communication, the WWII artifact remains an integral part of the workday.
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AT&T launches pilot program for expanded push-to-talk services
Did you just brave the lines of a midnight launch party and snag yourself a PS Vita in the US? Good news ye early adopters, Sony’s PlayStation.Blog.US has just announced that select free apps will be available today as part of today’s PlayStation Store update.
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‘Select’ PS Vita apps hit the US PlayStation Store: Netflix, LiveTweet and Flickr
Samsung may be looking to launch its own cloud service to compete with Apple’s iCloud. The South Korean manufacturer originally enlisted Samsung SDS to develop the infrastructure behind the company’s new “S-Cloud” service, however it turned out to be unsuitable for the global market, reports ETNews .
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Samsung’s iCloud competitor delayed, report claims
We heard about Samsung’s Galaxy S Blaze 4G — a device that wins second place for longest name behind the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch — last month at CES, but details were incredibly scarce. Of course, leave it to T-Mobile and Sammy to toss in a few extra nuggets in the lead-up to Mobile World Congress in the midst of so many other product announcements
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Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G making its way into T-Mobile stores in March for $150
Another pre- Mobile World Congress tease from LG? Yup, you’re looking at it
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LG’s Optimus Vu shows up on video, flaunts note taking expertise (video)
It’s not the first time that rumors have surfaced of Google working on some heads-up display glasses ( 9 to 5 Google first raised the possibility late last year), but The New York Times is now reporting that the company is not only working on them, but that it’s set to release them by the end of this year. Citing “several Google employees familiar with the project,” the paper’s Nick Bilton reports that the glasses will be based on Android, pack 3G or 4G connectivity, plus GPS and a range of sensors, and cost “around the price of current smartphones,” or somewhere between $250 and $600
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NYT: Google to sell Android-based heads-up display glasses this year
LightSquared announced on Tuesday that the company plans to cut its workforce by 45% in an effort to cut costs. ”This and other cost savings measures will allow LightSquared to continue to navigate the regulatory process as it works with the appropriate government agencies to find solutions to the GPS interference issue and bring its $14 billion privately funded wireless broadband network to more than 260 million Americans,” the company said in a statement to Reuters . Last week, the FCC announced that it would block the company’s planned 4G LTE network due to issues concerning GPS interference
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LightSquared plans to lay off 45% of its staff