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New York Times Profiles Working Conditions in China Endured by Apple Suppliers

The New York Times has an extensive piece that profiles the working conditions faced by workers employed within Apple's supply chain manufacturers. It's a lengthy article that goes into detail with accounts about conditions at Foxconn, such as issues of worker suicides. Other former incidents such as the use of poisonous n-hexane at Wintek are...

Use Siri To Translate English To 30 Languages With ‘Lingual’ Cydia Tweak [VIDEO]

Another Siri exclusive Cydia tweak called Lingual has just been released by the CodeThemed team that extends Siri's functionality to voice translation. Lingual allows translation from English to over 30 languages. The developers have said that they're also looking to include translation to English in a future update. The tweak pulls in results using Microsoft's Bing Translate API...

Microsoft Xbox Live Games Are Coming To iPhones & iPads

According to a recent publication by Forbes, it seems that Microsoft is planning to expand Xbox Live, its online gaming network to iOS and android platforms. Xbox Live games, which are currently compatible only with Windows, will soon be making their way to iPhones, iPads as well as Android smartphones and tablets. Since iOS and Android are the...

Angry Birds Landing on Facebook this February 14th

Rovio has announced you'll soon be able to play Angry Birds--on Facebook. The launch is set to take place on Valentine's Day, and will offer fans another way to stay addicted to the game. Squawk! Everyone's favorite furious fowl, Angry Birds, is coming to Facebook! Nothing says "Happy Valentine's Day" like competitive pig-popping among friends!...

Apple Online Store Launches Valentine’s Day Gift Guide

Apple has launched their Valentine's Day Gift Guide on their website, and it showcases a wide variety of products set to make your sweetheart love you even more on February 14th. The perfect gifts for your perfect match. Shop our handpicked collection of iPad, iPhone, iPod, and Mac gifts for Valentine’s Day. We’ll deliver them...

Apple Town Hall Meeting Nets Employees $500 Off Macs and $250 off iPads

The same day Apple announced its historic $46 billion dollar quarter, Tim Cook reportedly fired off an email to employees to announce an Apple Town Hall meeting for the next day. As for those 'exciting new things' Cook wanted to talk about? Well, we now know according to 9to5Mac: Cook announced that Apple employees will...

Motorola’s Action Against iPhone 4S And iCloud Approved By Google

Apple finds itself under legal attack from Motorola again, this time over patents related to the iPhone 4S and iCloud. FOSS Patents today is reporting that Motorola would have liked to have added these new assertions of patent infringement to an existing action which it started in 2010 but, apparently that case is already too...

iPhone Sales Growing Faster Than Earth’s Population

Today, Michael Babad of The Globe And Mail pointed out some interesting facts revolving around yesterday’s 2012 Q1 announcement from Apple. It turns out that revenue in the quarter jumped from $26.74 billion to 46.33 billion during the quarter, which includes impressive holiday sales numbers. Apple Inc. sold 5.2 million Macs and 67.87 million iOS...

Halifax Apple Store Construction Progress Update [PICS]

More Canadian Apple retail store updates are here (earlier we learned the London Apple Store had been confirmed via job postings), and this time it is for the all but confirmed location set inside the Halifax Shopping Centre in Nova Scotia. Earlier this month it was reported by numerous sources the store was definitely coming,...