1. Hourly Wages Foxconn workers get paid $1.78 an hour. Click here to view this gallery. ABC’s behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s supply plant in Shenzhen and Chengdu confirmed a lot of what we already knew: Conditions are grueling, employees are overworked and underpaid, and living quarters are crowded. However, some of the stats revealed through Nightline’s 17-minute. 

Google announced a Google Docs update for Android Wednesday, allowing for easy native editing from your smartphone and tablet. The new feature was introduced in a blog post, in which Google says the update focuses on remote collaboration and is aimed at increasing users’ productivity. Google software engineer Vadim Gerasimov describes how he now can accomplish everything he does. 

And you thought First Lady Michelle Obama was hip for jumping on Twitter. Wannabe First Lady Ann Romney – as far as we can tell – is the only 2012 Presidential candidate’s wife on Pinterest, the rapidly growing social network. But while Ann Romney is busy pinning family photos, “candid” campaign shots, books worth reading, recipes and Patriotic images, her husband’s. 

Sean “Diddy” Combs took to YouTube, Twitter and Facebook this week to announce the launch of REVOLT TV — a new socially connected music and news-driven cable channel coming to the Comcast-NBC network in 2013. Combs, the founder and CEO of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group and hip-hop artist, says he wants to connect music makers to music lovers. It’s fitting that the. 

HP just reported mixed first quarter earnings. The company posted non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.92, down 32% from the prior-year period (GAAP diluted earnings per share were $0.73, down 38% from the prior-year period). First quarter net revenue came in at $30.0 billion, down 7% from the previous year. Analysts expected earnings of $0.87 cents a share on revenue of $30.7 billion.. 

Nike+ is no longer for runners only. At an event in New York City Wednesday, Nike unveiled a line of digitally connected footwear — some designed for basketball, others for more general workouts — that records data about the wearer and syncs it to accompanying Nike+ Basketball and Nike+ Training apps for the iPhone, iPod touch and web. The shoes are embedded with four pressure. 

For years, Google and Facebook have been waging trench warfare for big-brand ad budgets. Billions of dollars are at stake, and since this money constitutes the bulk of revenue for both companies, the stakes are incredibly high. Twitter, which just last week launched a self-service ad platform, is a relative newcomer to the online ads battle. The company was slow to even identify advertising. 

Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said Wednesday that failing to meet the “challenges” of cybersecurity will mean the U.S. will “pay the price in the form of diminished safety, lost privacy, lost jobs and financial vulnerability — billions of dollars potentially lost to digital criminals.” The FCC chair called on Internet users, providers. 

Companies know mobile is invaluable and inevitable. But despite 41 percent of IT professionals fearing external handheld devices, they are moving forward into the mobile enterprise. According to a survey by Symantec, enterprises officially understand that “application culture” isn’t going away, and in order to succeed they need to be competitive both online and in the App Store. Both. 

Driving isn’t exactly eco-friendly, but one company has found a way to make it as green as possible — by improving your driving, and thus your gas mileage. Masternaut, a gadget made in the UK, aim to make sure you’re being a safe driver. It is your own personal driving instructor, in effect; it attaches to the dashboard of your car and could reduce gas cost by up to one-fifth.. 

The WinZip iOS app, which lets you crack open .zip files from your iDevice, has only spent a short time on the App Store (and by short, I mean, like, a week). But there’s already plenty to brag about. The app saw over 30,000 downloads on Day One, and nearly 150,000 on Day Two. As of last night, WinZip has blown by the 500,000 download hurdle with approximately 512,000 installs. Let’s. 

Upstart photo-sharing service 500px is bringing some significant changes to the site that should be going live right now (although they’re being hammered, so be patient). The site was already one of the frontrunners as far as design and user uptake, and these new features should help that right along. There’s a new curated and social photo stream called “Flow” and a new layout for. 

Move over, Rebecca Black. Make room for Tommy Jordan. The heat-packing, tech-savvy dad who plugged nine rounds into his daughter’s laptop in a YouTube-broadcasted fit of parental retribution is rapidly blowing the pop star’s notorious “Friday” video out of the water in the 24/7 viral video derby. “Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen,” uploaded exactly two weeks. 

As part of the Mountain Lion preview last week, Apple put out a beta of its revamped chat application, Messages. If you spend a lot of time connecting with other folks on iOS devices, Messages is a must-have. If not, it doesn’t really add much to the mix. Installing Messages is simple enough, though it does require a system reboot. If you’ve been using iChat, Messages will automatically. 

Pope Benedict XVI is bringing a segment of his daily papal message to Twitter, beginning Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, according to a Vatican Radio blog post. The reason? In its post, the Vatican says that while some Catholics view Lent as a time to volunteer, give something up or study the Bible, others have abandoned the season: “In our increasingly secular societies, many young. 

Phone companies missed out on $13.9 billion last year as more people opted to send free texts through SMS (short message service) applications like Blackberry Messenger and Facebook Mobile Messenger, according to a report. This follows a $8.6 billion loss in phone company provided text revenues in 2010. SMS revenues are down as people communicate through chat boards and within other. 

Forget your girlfriend, your mobile phone is fast becoming a better companion in times of crisis — you know, when you need to score the best deal on that sexy gadget or you’ve left your wallet in the car. New data from Nielsen shows that nearly one-third of U.S. smartphone owners (29 percent) now turn to their devices for shopping dos and don’ts. And our new-found love affair with. 

Bankrupt Chinese firm Proview, which once held the iPad trademark, is now fighting in Chinese courts to get the iPad banned in Shanghai. Yes, even after a Chinese judge ruled that Apple rightfully held the trademark. Yes, even after Apple threatened to sue Proview for defamation. Today, Reuters is reporting that Proview’s lawyers are still appealing for a local court to ban iPad sales. 

The microphone is in your hand, and it’s your chance to ask the 2012 Republican presidential candidates any question. What would you ask? This is the core philosophy behind “The Citizens Agenda,” a collaboration between the Guardian US and New York University’s Studio 20 graduate journalism program. The project analyzes questions being asked of the presidential hopefuls. 

Hop into the back seat of a cab, and you’re likely to see one of those annoying mini-TV screens/credit card machines playing some banal news cast or commercial. To drown out that background noise, you stare at your smartphone and frantically check email and Facebook. Or maybe you put the phone away and strike up one of those “how’s the weather”-type conversations.