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MIC gadget: A Shanghai Evening Post reporter went undercover inside the Tai Yuan Foxconn factory that is manufacturing the iPhone 5. Due to the terrible working conditions, he stayed only ten days, keeping a diary along the way. MIC gadget posted a translation of the original Chinese article, along with its photos. The article is […]

Wall Street Journal: Website hosting provider GoDaddy says its service outage earlier this week was actually caused by networking problems, not a hack attack. Despite the claims of responsibility from a hacker who alleged affiliation with the hacktivist group Anonymous, interim CEO Scott Wagner said the outage “was not caused by external influences. It was […]

The New York Times: Just days before the expected launch of a new iPhone, one of Apple’s largest suppliers is again facing accusations of unfair labor practices. Activists from China Labor Watch have accused China-based Foxconn of forcing 32,000 students, including many on the iPhone 5 line, to work in its factories. “They said they […]

USAToday: Following an attack that knocked its Web hosting services offline for much of Monday, GoDaddy is now back online. Hackers associated with the hacktivist group Anonymous have claimed credit for the outage, but their participation has not been confirmed. “By using/supporting GoDaddy, you are supporting censorship of the Internet,” read one Tweet from an […]

All Things D: Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette has more bad news for RIM. “Our sell-through checks in the United States indicate that BlackBerry sales were largely unchanged in August versus July; however, we detected meaningfully lower inventory levels versus a month ago,” Faucette said. “In terms of sell-through, we believe that current run rates […]

NBC News: Last week, hackers leaked 1 million Apple device IDS, claiming that they got the data from an FBI agent’s laptop. However, now a Florida-based digital publishing firm named Blue Toad has come forward saying that it believes the company’s servers were the source of the data. Blue Toad CEO Paul DeHart said that […]

TechWorld: HP and Intel are planning to build a new supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that will be one of the world’s most energy efficient. At its peak, the supercomputer will offer performance over 1 Petaflop (one thousand trillion floating point operations per second), making it the world’s […]

Reuters: The European Commission is investigating allegations that Windows 8 will block users from selecting browsers other than Internet Explorer, but the commission’s Joaquin Almunia says Microsoft  has assured him that the operating system will allow browser choice. “In my personal talks with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer he has given me assurances that they will […]

ZDNet: In a filing with the SEC, HP revised its expected job cuts from 27,000 to 29,000. As a result of its “2012 Plan” the company hopes to reduce its workforce by 8 percent for savings of $3 billion to $3.5 billion. It will reinvest much of those savings in its R & D efforts. […]

Computerworld: Researchers from IDC predict that worldwide IT spending will increase by six percent this year, despite the economic turmoil in Europe. Many vendors say sales have been higher than expected, as companies have invested in IT solutions they believe will help them trim costs. IDC says that the software, storage, enterprise network and mobile […]