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 …
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 …
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), …
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 …
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 …
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
Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo—said to resemble the lovechild of Facebook and Twitter—is reportedly filtering out search results containing the word “occupy” when paired with the names of various places.
China Digital Times (CDT) reports:
“As the Occupy Wall Street movement goes global, China’s call for calm observation
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The hits (and trademark misses) just keep coming out of China, whose authorities now say they’ve uncovered a whopping 22 fake Apple stores—and that’s just in the city of Kunming, where this strange, sordid tale of Apple retail ne’er do wells started.
According to Xinhua News Agency, China’s official press agency, the country’s …
How best to smuggle iPads and iPhones across the border? Until recently, a crossbow, a spool of high-test fishing line, and some good old fashioned gumption ostensibly proved to work pretty well.
As the story goes, smugglers stood on an upper-level balcony of a high rise building in Shenzhen and used a crossbow to shoot fishing line
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Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturing contractor that often produces Apple’s newfangled iDevices, has decided that they’re going to up the ante, slowly replacing factory workers with robots.
Within the next three years, Foxconn plans to include 1 million robots in its workforce while phasing out some of its human workers. Currently, …
Nearly a month after famed Chinese artist and political activist Ai Weiwei was released from government detention, he’s finally broken his silence—on Google+.
It was a short message that Ai first posted in Chinese, announcing, “Greetings, I am here.” It was the first public message Ai has sent since he was released from three …
In the wake of last week’s fake-Apple-Store-in-China story, government officials in China have begun investigating stores that sell Apple products to determine whether or not the stores are operating legally.
Reuters reports that 300 shops in Kunming have been inspected, with five of them “found to be selling Apple products without …
