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Hon Hai to Raise Salaries of Focxonn Workers
After a string of suicides in Foxconn’s China factories, home to some 400,000 workers who manufacture electronic devices for giants such as HP, Dell, and Apple, the management announced it plans to...
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Apple iPad Launches Internationally, the Crowd Goes Wild
Although it came early to an address or two yesterday, Apple’s “magical” tablet is today officially available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.Reports...
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Opera Makes Fun of Google Chrome Speed Test [VIDEO]
A couple of weeks ago, Google released a video demonstrating the speed of its Chrome web browser. The video proved that rendering a web page in Chrome is faster than some random (though admittedly...
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Is a New iPhone-based Apple TV in the Works? [RUMOR]
Is Apple hard at work on a new version of Apple TV?That’s what Engadget is reporting after receiving a tip and subsequent confirmation from sources “very close to Apple.” The new iteration of Apple...
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SNEAK PEEK: The Popular Mechanics iPad App [SCREENSHOTS]
Mashable was given a sneak peek of Popular Mechanics’s iPad app this week — which is still in development — and an interesting look at the thought process that goes into translating page to...
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HOW TO: Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup
Frances McInnis is a journalist and crossword enthusiast based in New York City. She has written about culture for Momentum Magazine, business for Resource World Magazine, and a mess of assorted...
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Foursquare Nearing 1 Million Checkins Per Day
A tweet from Foursquare yesterday revealed that the company is doing “10+ checkins per second.” We did the math and at 10 checkins per second, Foursquare is processing about 36,000 checkins per hour —...
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Facebook Testing Related Photos Feature
Facebook is testing an upgrade to its popular Facebook Photos application called “Related Photos” with select users.Related photos appear in a right-hand sidebar adjacent to the photo the user is...
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Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: Brits, Biebs, Babies & More
You there, lazily rolling about in your office chair, dreaming feverishly about how you plan to while away those three glorious days stretching before you like a verdant meadow — you know what would...
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UK Postman Admits to Using Facebook and Bebo to Abuse Hundreds of Children
A UK postman admitted to using Facebook and Bebo to abuse “hundreds” of children in a case that included 27 sexual abuse charges.Michael Williams, a 28-year-old from Cornwall, used the sites to pursue...
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The Muppets Celebrate Memorial Day with “American Woman” Cover [VIDEO]
It ain’t a holiday without a little musical accompaniment courtesy of the Muppets — or at least that seems to be the trend of late. The Muppets Studio has released a new video on its YouTube channel...
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Mark Zuckerberg Donated to Facebook Alternative, Diaspora
During a follow-up interview to Wednesday’s privacy controls announcement, Wired asked Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg what he thought of Diaspora, the anti-Facebook project that four NYU students will...
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5 Steps to Taking Customer Service Social
Lauren Vargas is a Community Manager at Radian6, the social media monitoring and engagement platform. She blogs at Communicators Anonymous and is @VargasL on Twitter.The debate over who owns the...
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Opera Mini a Hit on the iPhone
Since its release last month, Opera Mini for the iPhone has been used by more than 2.6 million users and is now the third most popular Opera Mini device worldwide.This data was presented in Opera’s...
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SIRIUS XM Android App Brings Satellite Radio to Your Phone
SIRIUS XM satellite radio subscribers can now access the service on yet another mobile platform with today’s launch of the SIRIUS XM Android client.Already available for the iPhone and BlackBerry...
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Create a Socially Integrated Online Shop in 60 Seconds
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The...
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Meet the Cast of “If I Can Dream” [VIDEO]
What’s it like to live on camera 24 hours a day? The cast of If I Can Dream, Simon Fuller’s direct-to-Hulu reality television series, is uniquely qualified to answer that question.We had a chance to...
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How Open Data Applications are Improving Government
Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.Open data is the big trend these days when people talk about...
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Mashable’s Ben Parr Discusses Privacy on Russian Debate Show [VIDEO]
Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr appeared on Russian TV network RT’s debate show, CrossTalk, yesterday to discuss internet privacy and the user backlash leading up to Facebook’s revised privacy controls.In...
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HTC EVO 4G to Get Video Calling… For a Price
There’s good news and bad news for future HTC EVO 4G owners: Skype should come to the smartphone before the end of the year, as will mobile video app Qik — but you’re going to have to shell out $5 per...
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