A new wave of protests by employees of Foxconn highlights what are apparently still unmet employee demands at the giant Chinese contract manufacturer.
Brazilian site Tech Guru reports that a big number of workers at the Jundiaí, Brazil plant of Foxconn are warning of a massive strike if working conditions at the plant are not improved.
Among their complaints, according to the report, is lack of water, poor food and congested buses to the manufacturing facility.
The workers, reported to number …

American consumer electronics giant Apple and Chinese tech company Proview may soon settle their fight with each other concerning the rights to the iPad trademark in China, a new development suggests.
According to The Associated Press, a court in China already began mediating between the two companies in their iPad trademark spat.
The information was revealed by Ma Dongxiao, a lawyer representing Proview.
“It is likely that we will settle out of court. The Guangdong High Court is helping to …

Sergey Brin's statement can prove to be controversial, as 100 Billion $ Facebook IPO is nearing

Openness and universal access to the Internet – the basic principles of the world wide network – are under threat. Such a warning was made by Sergey Brin, the developer and co-founder of search engine Google.
In an interview published given to the British newspaper Guardian, he says that threat to the Internet freedom comes from governments, which are increasingly trying to …

Microsoft has made a fearless forecast of its Windows Phone platform surpassing Apple in China, a new report says.
The comments came from Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for the Greater China region Simon Leung, Bloomberg says.
According to Leung, Windows Phone will pass the Apple iPhone in terms of market share in China on its way to the primary goal of Microsoft which is to displace Android as the dominant mobile operating system in the Chinese market by market share.
As such, …

For the first time in history, China has exceeded the number of activations in the U.S. of Apple iOS and Android devices, a report notes.
The information comes from Flurry Inc., a firm which specializes in tracking software for mobile devices.
Flurry has revealed that there were more activations of iOS and Android devices in China than in the U.S. for the month of February.
Flurry’s report indicates that 23 percent of all activations of iOS and Android devices in the world came from China for …

The list of admirers forChina’s fastest supercomputer Tianhe-1A is on the rise. The number of registered users for the supercomputer has crossed 300 mark and still increasing, reports IANS.
Surprisingly, a number of US companies are among the registered users for this fastest supercomputer of China.
Tianhe-1A is managed by the National Supercomputing Center in the northern city of Tianjin. It was acclaimed to be the fastest computer in the world in November 2010. Tianhe-1A has a processing …

Regulators in China have extended their probe of proposed $12.5 billion Google Motorola deal, reports Bloomberg.
The Google Motorola deal is under second phase of investigation by China’s Anti-Monopoly Bureau. Google has stated that the proposed deal would only help consumers by offering them more choices and help in increasing healthy competition in the market.
Both, Google as well as Motorola, are expecting the proposed sale to be completed before June this year, however, they are still …

International Data Corporation (IDC), a US-based technology research firm, has predicted that China will beat US in terms of smartphone sales this year to be the biggest smartphone market, reports AFP. IDC has come to the conclusion as smartphone shipments to China in the second-half of 2011 surpassed the US shipments.
According to IDC figures,China will account for 20.7 percent or almost 137 million units of the global smartphone market in 2012 compared to US share of 20.6 percent. In 2011, …

The Apple iPhone is being beat with a wide margin by Samsung smartphones, a new report suggests.
According to research firm Gartner via a report from Bloomberg, smartphones made by South Korea-based consumer electronics giant Samsung are dominating the Chinese smartphone market, leaving the iPhone with a small share.
Gartner said that Samsung has 24.3 percent market share in the smartphone market in China while the Apple iPhone held only 7.5 percent.
This makes Samsung’s share more than three …

The Government of China has rewarded over two thousand people for reporting pornographic content available on internet and mobile to Chinese authorities in 2011, reports IANS. These people received over nine million yuans (around $1.5 million) from the government as rewards.
According to Xinhua News, about 2129 people offered important tip-offs to authorities about pornography. All of them received awards ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 yuans.
Starting December 2009, four organizations in China …