A new rumor claims to have identified some of the parts suppliers for Microsoft's next Xbox game console, along with word that mass shipments of the device should start in the third quarter of 2013. More...
Microsoft has announced it has entered a patent licensing deal with Foxconn's parent company. The company will now receive royalty payments for every Android and Chrome OS device manufactured there. More...
Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, has been targeted by an iOS game which was pulled by Apple less than an hour after it was published to the store for others to download. More...
Apple's newest iPhone may have sold 5 million phones in a weekend, but concerns are being raised over the aluminium used for the back of the device as it reportedly scratches too easily. More...
Reports of the strike at a Foxconn factory are inaccurate, according to company officials. More employees have been added, and workers have been given overtime for working the holiday. More...
A new report claims that 3,000 to 4,000 workers at an Foxconn iPhone 5 plant in China went on strike today, claiming that the plants were "in a state of paralysis for the entire day." More...
Workers at a Foxconn facility began rioting yesterday after security guards struck an employee. The riot reportedly involved more 1,000 people and left 40 injured, although there were no deaths. More...
A friend of a friend who works at a Foxconn plant in China got to play with an iPhone 5 (prototype) and has made few images of it, as well as a video of it booting, confirming what we already knew. More...
Foxconn's chairman has harsh fighting words for Samsung as it plans key alliances to counter its Korean rival on the display panel and mobile businesses. More...
Foxconn is back in the news, this time after hundreds of its employees not only helped a thief get away from two security guards calling out for help, but then rioted causing further damage. More...
A new report via unnamed sources claims that a trial production run of Apple's rumored and upcoming television product has now started at a Foxconn plant in China. More...
Foxconn has now issued a statement refuting earlier reports that the CEO of the company said that Foxconn was preparing to make the rumored Apple iTV television sets. More...
Oft-rumoured, but still unseen, the existence of Apple's new HDTV set - commonly referred to as the 'iTV' - has finally been confirmed by the company's principal manufacturing partner, Foxconn. More...
A protest over wages was held at a Chinese Foxconn plant on Friday, with some employees reportedly threatening to jump off a building. Foxconn claims the workers' issues have since been resolved. More...
According to the head of human resources at Foxconn's Taiyuan factory, the iPhone 5 will be released around October, as originally reported by South Korea's Maeil Business Newspaper. More...
While Apple has been public of late in offering audit reports of the factories that make its products, Microsoft is one of the few tech companies that offers public info on its vendor worker rights. More...
A report from the Fair Labor Association claims it recorded numerous violations of worker law rights at Foxconn plants that make products for Apple. Foxconn has agreed to make changes for its workers. More...
The acclaimed public radio show This American Life has retracted a January episode on Apple and Foxconn's worker treatment, saying that it has discovered "significant fabrications" in the report. More...
ABC News has become the first news media outlet allowed inside a Foxconn factory where workers make devices such as Apple's iPad. The full report will be shown on ABC News Nightline on Tuesday. More...
The CEO of the watchdog group the Fair Labor Association has said that the organization has discovered "tons of issues" while auditing one of Foxconn's manufacturing plants in China. More...
The president of the Fair Labor Association, in his initial visits to the Foxconn plant that manufactures Apple's iPads and iPhones, says "conditions are way, way above average of the norm." More...
Apple announced today that the Fair Labor Association would be conducting special inspections on a number of plants that make Apple products, including Foxconn plants in China. More...
Protesters plan to hold a rally against Apple on Thursday at Apple's Grand Central Station store in New York City to protest alleged poor working conditions at factories that make Apple products. More...
Foxconn has now issued an official statement that reponds to news reports that the CEO of Foxconn's parent company Hon Hai compared its workers to animals at a recent meeting More...
Terry Gou, the chairman of Foxconn's parent company Hon Hai, reportedly compared the large number of human workers at the company to animals at a recent year end meeting. More...
Microsoft and Foxconn have now said that a worker protest at one of Foxconn's Xbox 360 plants has been resolved after previous reports that workers at the plant had pledged to commit mass suicide. More...
Microsoft is reportedly investigating a threat of mass suicide of some of the workers at a Foxconn plant in China which makes its Xbox 360 game console as part of a pay dispute. More...
A new rumor suggests that a Foxconn plant in Brazil is about to start production soon for Apple's iPad 3 tablet. The tablet is rumored to launch early in 2012. More...
Foxconn, the Taiwan-based company known for manufacturing a number of electronic products such as the iPad, has announced plans to put in as many as 1 million robots in its factories. More...
After lots of rumors, the networking company Cisco announced today that it would indeed cut a large number of its employees. In a press release today, the company revealed it plans to lay of 6,500... More...
A second manufacturer for Apple's best selling iPad device may be in the works to help Apple boost production of the product. Digitimes reports via unnamed sources that Apple is looking at companies such as... More...
The rumor mill surrounding the next generation consoles has brought up a new nugget to the Internet surface today. Digitimes reports via unnamed sources that Sony is preparing to start production of its Playstation 4... More...
The Foxconn manufacturing plant in Chengdu, China that suffered from an explosion on May 20 that killed three Foxconn workers has now repoened. AllThingsDigital reports that it has received a statement from Foxconn stating that... More...
The massive explosion that took the lives of two workers in a Foxconn plant in China has now apparently taken the life of a third worker as well. AllThingsDigital reports that Foxconn has issued a... More...
The tragic accident at Foxconn's plant in China on Friday that killed two workers could drastically affect the production of Apple's iPad 2 tablets, according to a financial analyst. PCMag.com reports that Mike Abramsky of... More...
Several Chinese news sources are reporting on an explosion at a Foxconn plant in the Chinese city of Chengdu, Sichuan province. The accident appears to have been the result of a lightning strike that struck... More...
Do you think you have a difficult job? Try working for Foxconn in an Apple iPad/iPhone factory in China. As reported by The Daily Mail, in addition to working nearly 100 hours of overtime in... More...
In the dark days before the iPad 2 announcement the rumour-mill was in full swing, with mockups doing the rounds of the usual tech blogs with even more frequency than usual. These mockups were unusually... More...
During a number of audits carried out last year, Apple has discovered that 91 children were working for some of their supplier factories in China, while 60% had employees working over the 60-hour a week... More...
Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer of electrical components, is facing a leaked report that states the company abuses its employees. The report also says that the company has been responsible for harsh punishment, illegal labor... More...
Hot on the heels of a statement released by Foxconn regarding factory suicides, Apple has acknowledged and released a statement of their own.
"We are saddened and upset by the recent suicides at Foxconn. We... More...
When it was reported than an employee at Foxconn committed suicide after being accused of losing an iPhone prototype China's labor laws came under scrutiny again. After first denying that it had interrogated the... More...
Apple's a company well known for secrecy; you'll know so after having read the article we posted about it not too long ago. Though, can this obsession with secrecy actually be harmful to a human... More...
After Asustek Computer, the world's largest maker of computer mainboards, was split into three companies on the 1st of January, 2008, Foxconn Electronics, a major contract manufacturer of electronics, has a lot of chances to... More...
DigiTimes is reporting that Apple plans to launch new iPods featuring Wi-Fi in the second half of 2007. Contracted by the Cupertino-based iPod maker, Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) will produce the Wi-Fi modules and Foxconn... More...
The reports have shown that Apple's iPhone will be mass produced at Hon Hai Precision. Hon Hai Precision is otherwise known as Foxconn. The report was issued today when sources close to Foxconn told reporters... More...
Apple's iPod supplier Foxconn has admitted to breaking Chinese employment law. The Hon Hai Industry-owned company has been under the microscope since the Mail on Sunday published claims that many workers on its iPod... More...
Heres a couple of motherboard reviews I received in the mail today for your reading enjoyment. ASUS K8N-DL Opteron Server Motherboard "Today we are... More...
The pending sale of Hynix Semiconductor Inc.'s LCD business took another turn late this week when Cando Corp., a Taiwan-based component supplier originally expected to buy most of the division, failed to complete the deal.... More...