The biggest supplier for Apple parts Foxconn Electronics reveals its plan to build manufacture in the shore of United states. According to the source, Foxconn is looking for a good location in Detroit and Los Angeles. The manufacture will produce LCD for TV and nothing to do with Apple. As stated by Terry Gou the Foxconn chairman said that the company is working with Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create a program for engineering subject. It will bring its people to attend the courses and get them back to Taiwan and China for product design. This is the long term strategy of the company to enter the U.S. market as well as building better human resource.
[Digi Times]
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Joe Lockhart, Facebook Inc’s head of global communications and a former press secretary for President Bill Clinton, is leaving the social networking company, Facebooksaid.
Lockhart, who is the latest high-profile executive to departFacebook following its disappointing initial public offering in May, is leaving 15 months after joining the world’s No.1 social network.
A Facebook spokeswoman said that Lockhart is leaving because he decided he wanted to remain on the East Coast, and did not want to move to California, where Facebook is headquartered.
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Google has been on this project for self-driving car for long time already. Now this car is accepted in California after Nevada and Florida. This self-driving car is tested at Google complex in Mountain View already. Google believes that this car should be better and safer than human driver.
However this car is still in testing period and it will be revealed for public only after complete testing 300,000 miles without accident.
[Yahoo]
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Life is getting better when convenience technology is implemented properly. Now American Airlines, United Airlines, Virgin Airlines, and Delta Air Lines support Apple’s Passbook app which has been debuted for iOS 6 recently. With this support, the user will be able to use the iPhone to show loyalty cards, boarding passes, and other electronic documents without having to unlock the iPhone. The documents will load on the lock screen when you arrive at a certain location. More than this, the user will also receive notification once the event is changed.
[9to5mac]
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Coming to a new stage, LG LS860 finally find a pit stop at FCC. Of course this device will share the final spot at Sprint shelve if it manages to pass FCC test. Now at FCC, we learn that LG LS860 use LTE network (CDMA 850/1900). It has a 1.2GHz dual core S4 processor, NFC technology, Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi b/g/n, GPS, Android 4.0, a 4-inch WVGA screen and GPS.
Now there is no official words from the company but the fact will reveal soon.
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With the multitasking of smartphone now you can do so much more with your phone rather than calling or texting. According to the latest study, teen now use their smartphone not just for calling or texting but also to cheat at school. They try to go online to find answer for questions or assignment.
The study found the following result:
- 15.8% of teens have admitted to cheating on a test at school with their smartphone
- 14.1% of teens admitted to looking up how to cheat on a test online
What actually surprise us is that about 77.2% of parents do not care if their children use the smartphone to cheat online. They just want to let their children enjoy and learn the new technology as they wish.
[Mashable]
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According to source close to the matter, LG starts its mass production for thinner display which will be used for the next iPhone, so far known as iPhone 5. The production is to respond to the request from Apple. The size of the next iPhone will be 4 inches but thinner. LG will use new technology with liquid crystal display and eliminate the current touchscreen layer.
Talking about the display production again, LG will start shipping to Apple in August and Apple will start its production by September 12nd.
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Technology, design, ergonomics, value and beauty are the main criteria used for the allocation of
EISA Awards. Here are the winning products this year.
The EISA Awards 2012 was won in these smartphones
from the four leading manufacturers of telephony.
Recall that the EISA is an association of 50 magazines from twenty European countries that specialize in audio, home theater, electronics, pictures and video.
To receive an award this year were the HTC One S (Social Award, given by integrating social vaunted interface Sense 4.0), the Samsung GALAXY S III (Best European Mobile Phone), the Nokia 808 PureView (technology camera) and the Sony Xperia P (Green Award).
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Intellectual property is one of the most concern matters in today technology business as we can see the lawsuit war between Apple and Samsung over the cloning design. Apple called for action against Samsung that their smartphone and tablet look so similar to the iPhoen and
iPad. Learning from this continues conflict between companies, Microsoft takes pre-action by licensed the design patent with Apple and come up with “anti-cloning agreement”.
With this agreement, we can be sure that Microsoft and Apple won’t end up with court
as what we have seen Apple and Samsung as well as other Android devices.
Microsoft claimed that their device user interface is absolutely different from what with Apple making it to be unique.
It does mean that Android will be alone fighting Apple meanwhile Microsoft is trying to get away from the problem.
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