Would Mao Zedong have used an iPad? Well, probably in secret, but we’d bet the deceased icon of the People’s Republic of China would have approved of the Communist Party’s latest move: the RedPad Number One.
Officially, it’s …
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Apple Reveals List of Suppliers for the First Time
Apple just did something unprecedented: It released the names of all 150+ of its suppliers after several news stories — including a damning report from Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life — painted an unflattering …
Apple Cancels Beijing iPhone 4S Sales, Gets Egg on Store and Face
Note to Apple: If there’s any way you can avoid shuttering one of your flagship stores on the very day you launch a new iPhone, well, good luck with that when the store’s in Beijing, your customers broke its glass door in a prior …
Chinese Hackers Infiltrated U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Claims Report
The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that hackers located in China managed to breach the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s information technology infrastructure–no, not recently, but at some point prior to the hack …
When Is an iPad Not an iPad? When It’s Sold in China, Says Court
The iPad: designed by Apple, assembled in China…and now divorced from its own name after falling on the losing side of a patent lawsuit brought against a company located in southern China.
Apple took umbrage last year with …
Labor Unrest Hits Apple, Motorola Suppliers in China
It’s almost a guarantee your iPhone was made in China. But thanks to growing economic unrest in China’s factory belt, dissatisfaction among workers has spread, leading to growing conflicts, unflinching demands and week-long …
College Student Can’t Afford iPad for Girlfriend, Builds One Instead
Wei Xinlong couldn’t afford an iPad for his girlfriend, so he did the next best thing—built one himself. According to China Daily, Wei made the homemade tablet with secondhand laptop parts and a touchscreen and battery that he bought online.
The entire thing cost 500 yuan (around $78) and took him 10 days to build from information …
How Foxconn’s Million-Machine ‘Robot Kingdom’ Will Change the Face of Manufacturing
Foxconn, pressured by the stresses of rising labor costs and negative media attention over employee suicides, could be reshaping the landscape of manufacturing forever. How?
According to Focus Taiwan, the company recently …
Groupon’s Chinese Subsidiary Accidentally Sold Fake Watches
It sounds like the set-up for a joke, but it’s true; Groupon’s attempt to crack the Chinese market has been slowed by the discovery that the “luxury watches” its subsidiary was selling weren’t entirely legit.
Hundreds bought the Tissot watches offered by Gaopeng.com when the site offered them for only 690 yuan (Just over $100), …
Worst Cyber-Criminals in the World: China and Russia, Claims U.S. Report
Forget Anonymous and LulzSec, according to a new U.S. report compiled from research by over a dozen spy agencies and area experts, the world’s worst cyber-criminals are China and Russia. The Chinese in particular are in the U.S.’s crosshairs, accused in the report of being “the world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic …
China Denies Hacking U.S. Satellites
The Chinese government has denied U.S. accusations that it was responsible for hacking at least two U.S. satellites on multiple occasions during 2007 and 2008, saying instead that the American committee behind the suggestions had ulterior motives in making them.
Although the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission admitted …
Chinese Hackers Targeting U.S. Satellites?
It certainly sounds ominous: Hackers meddling with satellites controlled by the U.S. government several times over the past four years. What’s more, claims a report by a U.S. congressional commission, the hackers behaved in ways consistent with Chinese military doctrine.
In a draft report due out next month and
