Samsung is facing a £70m fine as Brazilian authorities claim factory workers are subjected to backbreaking working conditions. Public prosecutors in Brazil are seeking £70m in damages from Samsung over labour law violations in facilities where our mobile phones and televisions are assembled. Prosecutors allege that workers in a plant in the Manaus Free Trade …
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Apple has been refused permission for an Oslo flyover to capture 3D images of Norway for the Maps app. Apple wants to capture aerial photography that could be used to create 3D imagery of the city, but will have to stick to 2D satellite pics. The BBC reports Norway’s National Security Authority and the city of Oslo discussed Apple’s request, …
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The folks at BlackBerry may be in trouble, but they do have a great sense of timing. As the Canadian company desperately searches for a buyer, it’s only gone and launched the new BlackBerry 9720. The 9720 is a brand-new phone, but it’s running the ageing BlackBerry 7 operating system, a far cry from the BB10 software found on BlackBerry’s …
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The new Google Nexus 7‘s touchscreen is a touch too much, as users complain of more problems with the wallet-friendly tablet. Owners of the second-gen Asus-built Android slate — which is already out in the US — report that the wrong keys are registering when typing, or multi-touch gestures are going haywire with phantom fingertaps. The screen records that you’ve …
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Apple will take your knock-off charger off your hands and swap it for a new one, extending a trade-in scheme to Britain after dodgy power adaptors injured and even killed iPhone owners in other countries. And Apple will only charge you £8. A spate of recent incidents in which unofficial chargers injured iPhone owners has prompted Apple to launch a …
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Would you like lime with that? New leaked photos apparently show the hotly tipped cheap iPhone 5C in lime green. The rumoured cheaper iPhone is widely rumoured to be the first Apple phone to come in colour. If this and other leaks are to be believed, the plastic case of the 5C is set to be decked out in an …
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Oi — I said oi! What you looking at? A live gig by Plan B to switch on O2 4G, that’s what. Chart-topper Plan B plays a launch gig at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire to celebrate O2’s new super-fast mobile network going live on 29 August. The rapper and Sweeney actor, who went to number one with albums The Defamation of …
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If you want to try Firefox OS, head to eBay, the only place ZTE is selling the low-cost Open phone in the UK and US. The ZTE Open will exclusively go on sale in orange on auction site eBay, costing £60 to Buy It Now in the UK and $80 in the US. It’ll be up for grabs “soon”, according to …
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Like the look of the HTC One Max pictures above? Don’t get too attached: HTC says they’re fake. HTC’s hotly rumoured phablet is tipped to be called the HTC One Max, or perhaps the HTC T6. The leaked picture purported to show “non-final artwork”, but HTC exec Jeff Gordon earlier this morning took to the comment section of tech blogs …
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‘Smart bins‘ are bin and gone. The City of London Corporation has called for Wi-Fi-enabled, data-snaffling bins to stop recording your movements as you wander the streets. Twelve recycling ‘pods’ with LCD screens showing adverts have been sniffing out details of your phone as you pass, and tracking your subsequent movements. But with the local authority flagging the bins to …
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