Steve Jobs claims: "Foxconn is not a sweatshop"

Apple is completely ignoring the poor working conditions at many of its fabrication facilities, according to former employees and several anonymous Apple executives. Over the past couple of years there have been calls for the...

After a report from analysts at Citi saying we should expect the iPad 3 in February, DigiTimes, the technology website with sources within Apple's Asian supply chain, states that the next generation iPad will...

All those poor folk beavering away in Foxconn's labour camps to make us all the phones we can throw an app at are doing a fine job as far as the outfit's shareholders are concerned. The firm said it expects to see a "dramatic...

Appropriately-named marketing supremo Phil Schiller has again confirmed that Apple will be releasing the interminably-delayed white iPhone this spring. But Schiller's Tweet has unfortunately set tongues a-wagging because of the...

The normally sober and sometimes accurate Wall Street Journal is claiming that Apple's iPad 2 is currently in production. Quoting those mysterious "people familiar with the matter" - which probably means the results of a Google...

Taiwan's manufacturing giant Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics parts, says it is on a recruitment drive to snag some 30,000 workers in China's Hubei province. The outfit, which makes such devices...

Days after Apple was hit by news of CEO Steve Jobs' illness, the iPhone maker has been savaged by environmental campaigners in China, who accuse the company of ignoring health and safety problems at suppliers' factories. Apple...

New MacBook Pro and iMac machines could be coming out in the first half of 2011, if Taiwanese news source Digitimes knows its onions. The wire reports that "upstream component makers" have been spilling all sort of beans about...

Taiwanese media reports say Apple is lining up a second manufacturer to pump out second-generation iPads ahead of the device's release in 2011. Up until now, the mighty Foxconn has been the sole supplier of the flat-packed PC....

Another worker at a Foxconn factory in China fell to a grisly end yesterday, apparently avoiding the nets the company said it would install to catch flying workers. State news organ Xinhua said it had learned of the fatality...

Rumours of a cut-down Apple iPad are ramping up as Taiwanese news outlet the Economic Daily News names a host of component makers pegged to partner Apple on the project. The often-reliable Chinese language newspaper - which...

Reports of reception problems have caused demand for the Apple iPhone 4 on the grey market in China to plummet, with sellers slashing the price of the handset by up to 70 per cent. Official Chinese news site China Daily reports...

Google wants European privacy regulators to compromise over the amount of Wi-Fi data it has to submit, claiming that to hand over the data would further compromise the privacy of the people concerned.The Office of the Privacy...

Steve Jobs has come out in full support of Foxconn, the Taiwan-based company that provides manufacturing and packaging services to Apple, following the recent string of suicides at its Chinese factories.Speaking during a...

Apple may be getting ready to release its tablet computer next year according to a number of sources close to the project and CES 2010 where Steve Jobs is due to give a keynote speech, may well be the event where it will all...