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The safe money is on both Sony and Microsoft announcing their next-gen consoles next year, so expect the rumour mill to intensify from this point onwards. VG247 has rounded up the latest batch of rumours that suggest new codenames for the mysterious hardware duo. New reports have reaffirmed previous claims …
Read More »Nintendo says Foxconn violated its CSR guidelines
Underage child workers likely were involved in the production of the Wii U, Nintendo has confessed. The findings come as a result of Nintendo’s own investigation into Foxconn practices that it instigated after claims of child labour emerged last week. Nintendo was concerned to learn that underage individuals had been …
Read More »Raspberry Pi doubles RAM and freezes price
Enough stock to last until January 2013, says manufacturer
Read More »Fresh Foxconn worker unrest halts iPhone 5 production
Production of the iPhone 5 has been halted once again following fresh disruption at Chinese manufacturer Foxconn. Reports from Asia suggest that up to 4,000 workers at the controversial factory have staged a walkout over a dispute about forced holiday work, stopping iPhone 5 production lines at multiple” locations. The …
Read More »iPad Mini "in mass production"
Asian factories have begun manufacturing the long-rumoured iPad Mini, it is claimed. The Wall Street Journal reports that the still unconfirmed device has a 7.85-inch display with an as of yet unspecified resolution, although it is lower than the Retina display found in the iPad 3. Apple will position the …
Read More »Undercover journalist reveals misery of Chinese iPhone 5 workers
A Chinese journalist has shone on a light on the working conditions that prompted a riot at the Foxconn factory assembling the iPhone 5. MCV reported yesterday that police were called to calm a brawl involving some 2,000 workers. The disturbance was prompted by the poor conditions that workers have …
Read More »Raspberry Pi gains UK manufacturer
Over 300,000 units scheduled for customers worldwide
Read More »Next Xbox "in the manufacturing stages"
Fresh reports this morning are claiming that the Next Xbox console is already in the manufacturing stage. IGN speculates that with a 2013 launch now looking very likely, these early machines are possibly dev units” – that is, basic versions of the machine designed for use by studios currently working …
Read More »Wii U manufacturing costs ‘estimated at $180’
Nintendo 'to put a bigger focus' on downloadable content and digital distribution
Read More »Mass suicide threat at Chinese Xbox 360 plant
The issue of Chinese human rights has been thrust into the limelight again this morning with news that Chinese workers on an Xbox 360 manufacturing line have threatened their employer with mass suicide. Kotaku reports that workers at the infamous Foxconn plant were denied a raise and told that they …
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