Just when you thought USB hubs couldn’t get any more exciting, they go and add a solar panel to one of them. Head? Explode.
Now how much would you expect to pay for a miracle of modern technology such as this? A million skillion dollars? A bajillion?
Keep in mind that it’s a 4-port USB hub while you’re at your desk but once it’s …
It’s difficult to ignore the recent slew of suicides at Apple’s Chinese manufacturer Foxconn. Apple released the following statement last week after the ninth Hon Hai worker jumped to their death.
“We are saddened and upset by the recent suicides at Foxconn,” the Apple statement said. “Apple is deeply committed to ensuring
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The commentary and music are a bit too dramatic but there are a few new scenes. Can anyone translate?
(via AICN)
After Google began shuttling Chinese users to an uncensored search via a Hong Kong Web site, China’s government officials took quick action to block the site from China’s mainland users.
According The New York Times, Google closed its search in China as a stand against the strong government censorship of the Internet, a move that has …
After January’s falling out with China over cyber attacks on the search engine giant that were uncovered in December, Google has just announced that they’re offering unfiltered search to mainland China users via servers in Hong Kong.
Search results are available in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese and English. There are no …
Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010
Today in Techland: Techie Doug offers his thoughts on the upcoming Samsung slate, and what they’ll need to do to prevent a flop. Our fearless leader Peter Ha lets you know just how in Wonderland our Monster Madness bracket is going to work and Evan gives us his log of last week’s GDC: good, bad and the …
I’m not super into straight-up repostings of other people’s repostings of links, but I am sufficiently skeeved by an article in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine that I can’t help it.
It’s a piece about a practice, apparently (the evidence is compelling but anecdotal) increasingly common in China: somebody gets caught doing …
Monday, Jan. 25, 2010
Today in Techland: The Peter Ha has landed. In San Francisco. To see Apple’s new shiny, shiny tablet. Read more about it here and here. We’ve also got podcasts, apps and a disturbing look at the porn career of Spider-Man. Yeah…
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Been wondering who on Caprica this Allie Townsend is? She’s our wonderful little intern and we forced her into this week’s Techland Show. It was awkward. For her.
Watch as we discuss Google’s exit strategy out of China, unbox a special care package from EA, discuss whether or not the Spider-Man franchise is dead and gawk over …
Google threatens to pull out of China after they discover hacking into gmail accounts of human rights activists, Netflix to add movie streaming to the Wii this spring, rumors abound on the Apple tablet announcement, likely coming in late January.
All that and more in today’s edition of the daily Nerdcast with Techland’s Peter Ha …
There’s surely some connection between Google flipping the switch on https access for everyone using Gmail as a default and the China debacle but they likely won’t admit it. Not that they need to but it became quite clear that Gmail accounts had been accessed via third parties yesterday when it was announced that Google might be …
