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Fair Labor Auditor Says Apple Factories In China Better Than Most
Hey, at least it’s not a garment factory. The head of the nonprofit Fair Labor Association — which Apple hired to do audits of the company’s factories in China — said the tech factories are better than garment and other … Continue reading
FBI’s Looming Server Shutdown Could Leave Chunks of the Internet Dark [VIDEO]
The FBI set up temporary, secure servers late last year to replace those created by seven individuals arrested for Internet fraud. “…The dismantling of the defendants’ rogue DNS servers—to which millions of computers worldwide had been redirected—would potentially have caused … Continue reading
Seventh-Grader Plans to Build World’s Biggest Tablet [PICS]
17-Inch Windows Tablet Prototype James Hardman, who is just 12 years old, built a prototype of a 17-inch tablet running Windows Vista. He wants to build and market a 17-inch Windows 7 tablet, if he can get the funding for … Continue reading
The U.S. Army Uses Pinterest? Sir, Yes Sir!
Pinterest, the social image-sharing site that has exploded in popularity over the past few months, has found itself with a strange bedfellow: the U.S. Army. The Army’s Pinterest boards include topics such as “Goodwill,” “Humanitarian Relief,” and “HOOAH!.” Each board … Continue reading
Google Tracked Users Via Their iPhones [REPORT]
Google and other companies have overridden the iPhone‘s privacy settings to monitor users’ web-browsing habits, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal found that Google was using a “special computer code” that tricked Apple’s Safari browser into tracking users’ … Continue reading
Typosquatting Sites ‘Wikapedia’ and ‘Twtter’ Have Been Shut Down [VIDEO]
Two fake websites posing as Wikipedia and Twitter have been kicked off the Internet and fined £100,000 ($156,000) each. The companies behind typosquatting websites capitalize on typos — they register domain names that are similar to highly trafficked website names, … Continue reading
5 Paradoxes Shaping the Future of Mobile Commerce
Igor Faletski is the CEO of Mobify, a web platform that optimizes ecommerce and publishing sites for mobile and powers more than 20,000 sites. Remember when it took 23 clicks to find movie showtimes on your mobile phone? While that … Continue reading
LED Snowboarder Looks Like a Ghost in the Night [VIDEO]
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton teamed up with pro snowboarder William Hughes for a very special snowboarding shoot. The video was filmed in the … Continue reading
Stimulate Your Lintellect With the Ultimate Jeremy Lin Nerd-Fest [CHARTS]
Is it possible to quantify the astonishing, inspiring, almost mystical phenomenon known as Linsanity? Mashable contacted some number-crunching social media experts, and the answer is yes. But first a primer for the somehow still-uninitiated: Jeremy Lin is the New York … Continue reading
Apple Sibling Rivalry: iPad’s Toughest Competition in Q4 Was the iPhone [VIDEO]
Amazon’s Kindle Fire has certainly proved a strong contender in the tablet market, but the iPad is still winning in that arena. For Apple’s fourth quarter, though, the iPad’s stiffest competition was actually its sibling, the iPhone. In the last … Continue reading
