Articles Archive for February 2010
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We have heard all about big multinational corporations being in the firing line when it’s been discovered that they’re using child labour. I think we all remember the big taboo over Nike when they were using child labour.
Well Apple seems to be the latest company to fall victim to this, however to be fair to them, they didn’t seem to be aware of it. An internal company audit showed that more than half (54 percent) of all factories are failing to meet Apple’s already inflated maximum 60-hour work week, 24 percent paying less than …
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Remember that contest that iTunes were running to reach 100 Billion downloads? The contest winner received a $10,000 voucher for the iTunes store. The #10,000,000,000 song was by none of than Johnny Cash, with his “Guess Things Happen That Way”. The lucky winner was Louie Sulcer, a resident of Woodstock, Georgia bought the song and was awarded with the $10,000 Itunes gift card.
Well it seems that he got more than he bargained for,
It’s not everyday that you pick up your phone to find Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple on the other …
Featured, Gadgets, Google, News »
According to the Telegraph, the Google Nexus One will be coming to Vodafone UK in April. The long awaited Google Phone – Nexus One has been available in select regions sim free for a while now. During Googles press conference release they said that Vodafone would be carrying the Nexus One in Europe but gave no date.
We finally have news from the Telegraph here that the Nexus One will be coming to Vodafone UK ( Hopefully more ) in April. It will be on sale through Google.com/phone only, as the company …
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Nintendo seem to have a bumper line up of games coming to the Wii this year. We’ve got Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid on their way as well as a host of other unannounced titles. In a recent interview with Wired , Nintendo Vice President Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo’s release calendar for 2010 is “night and day,” when compared to its releases in the first half of 2009.
So they certainly seem to have plenty lined up in the pipes, and now were being told that a new Legend Of Zelda …
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At the beginning of the month I wrote up an article that Google were beginning to phase out support for the outdated Internet Explorer 6. Well in a further attempt to try and send the outdated browser to its grave, YouTube, which is owned by Google is pulling support for Internet Explorer 6 as of March 13th.
Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won’t work in older browsers.
So you will still be able to watch videos on …
Apple, Featured, News »
Just a couple of weeks ago Apple announced the ” Countdown To 10 Billion Songs “with the contest winner getting a cool $10,000 voucher for iTunes. At the time, the iTunes store counter read just over 9.8 Billion.
Yesterday iTunes reached the incredible 10 Billion download mark, it’s quite an achievement for Apple and just goes to show how dominant they are in this market.
So i’m sure your all dying to know what the 10,000,000,000 song downloaded was, well it was none other than Johnny Cash, with his “Guess Things Happen That …
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There has been a lot of hype recently over the next major android phone coming to Verizon. The Motorola Devour is set to hit Best Buy stores in the US on the 25th for just $99. The phone will then hit Verizon stores in March for $150 after a $100 mail-in rebate. Buyers will also need to sign up for a Nationwide Talk plan and the $30 unlimited data package, part of Verizon’s new smartphone plan restrictions.
But to be honest, with a phone like this you really do need a …
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I know lots of you can’t wait to get your hands on the Apple iPad, personally i’m not one of them but I still feel obliged to let you know all about the iPad as I’m still interested in it.
According to AppAdvice, the Apple iPad will be up for pre order next week, February 25th. Steve Jobs t0ld us that the Wi-Fi only version of the iPad would be available 60 days from the announcement ( March 29th ) and that the 3G model would be available in 90 days.
Now …
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I must say, this is something I haven’t seen before. Josh and Ting Li became the first couple to officially tie the knot in an Apple store.
The pair first met in an Apple store, so of course the only place suitable to get married was the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, New York between a row of Mac Books.
“We got to know each other because Ting was looking to buy an iPod…and I managed to strike up a conversation that way.
Of course, Apple didn’t “officially” sanction the event, but at …
Headline, Microsoft, News, Other, Software »
Remember a couple of months ago, leading up to the release of Windows 7, Microsoft and the EU weren’t getting on too well. All the taboo was basically over small browsers like Opera complaining that Microsoft had the upper hand in the browser industry because they shipped their own software with their own Operating System.
So because Microsoft ship Windows 7 with Internet Explorer set as the default browser, the EU saw this to be affecting competition in this market. So Microsoft came up with a simple solution, don’t ship Windows …

