Injured iPhone workers to petition Apple at shareholder meeting
Two former iPhone factory workers in China, who were critically injured at Apple supplier Wintek's plant in 2009, are looking to take advantage of Apple's yearly meeting on Thursday and attract further attention to the conditions at factories where Apple's most important products are assembled.
Orange customers flee to Free Mobile’s new ultra-cheap plans
Last month we reported on the wireless revolution Iliad’s Free Mobile was leading in France. Now the first casualty reports are in. France Telecom’s Orange on Wednesday lost 201,000 net subscribers in a little more than a month, fleeing to Free's ultra-cheap plans.
Apple sued by patent holding company Brandywine over voicemail
Apple is being sued by Brandywine Communications Technologies over multimedia voicemail in its iPhone and iPad products. In the complaint filed Tuesday in the U.S. district court for the middle district of Florida, Brandywine claims that Apple is infringing on two patents related to mobile voicemail.
Verizon’s LTE outage problems just won’t stop
Verizon's struggles to keep its LTE network running consistently continue. Wednesday morning, Verizon reported on its Twitter feed that it looking into customer complaints about the 4G service going down, and multiple blogs are reporting network outages in several markets ranging from Phoenix to Indianapolis.
Wahwah.fm offers a social take on pirate radio
Berlin is famous for its thriving music scene -- and now local startup wahwah.fm is taking on the idea of pirate radio with a social, mobile app that lets you broadcast to your friends.
BloomReach wants to save your site traffic with big data
BloomReach emerged from stealth mode a message about how will help ensure companies get their web pages heard above the noise online. Using a potent brew of big data techniques, BloomReach says it can significantly improve traffic by making pages more relevant to consumers.
5 reasons why Apple is embracing clean power for its data center
The big news in clean power this week is that Apple will build a 20 MW solar farm and a 5 MW fuel cell farm at its data center in North Carolina. Here's 5 reasons why I think Apple is embracing clean power right now:
Eye of the robot: Google working on Android-powered glasses?
Forget those old X-ray specs in the back of comic books (which never worked anyway). Google is reportedly working on a pair of Android-powered glasses that could record data and display information for around $400 to $500 and make you look ever dorkier.
HTC passes over Samsung on MWC buzz meter
Samsung has been reigning supreme in Twitter buzz relating to Mobile World Congress, but one week before the start of the show, HTC has leaped over the handset giant on news of a new “superphone” being unveiled there, according to social media number cruncher Anltyk.
Why cops, cameras and the cloud aren’t a panacea for anything
Although the idea of police officers video-recording their use of Tasers has some claiming a small victory in the quest for better transparency, the issue isn't that simple. From providing biased evidence to possibly invading privacy, video is ultimately no different than any other data type.
Syrian live streamer killed after being watched by millions
Western media lost an important ally in their attempts to report from Syria today, as citizen journalist Rami Ahmad Alsayeed was killed by armed forcers only hours after streaming live from the city of Homs. Alsayeed's footage had been used by the BBC and Al Jazeera.
Feds need to put the fizz in FISMA
Cloud service providers are all rushing to claim compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002. The only problem is that FedRAMP, the federal effort to ensure a safe move to the cloud, won't sign off on certifications for three or four more months.
