10th October 2010 Archive

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• Inside Windows Phone 7: ghost of Zune

  Pent-up demand awaited

  A cinema in Manchester has formed the unlikely venue for a full-day drill-down on developing for Windows Phone 7, sponsored by Microsoft but organised by UK .NET community group DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper (seriously). It proved an insightful day. Insight number one was that only 100 or so developers turned up, to a venue that …

  Mobile 10 Oct 06:00

• Google TV makes some media hookups

  Twitter, Netflix and Napster hop into bed with the platform

  We said at the launch of Google TV that without content it meant nothing: but of course Google has been quietly working away on content, and has come up this week with the early fruits of its labour. What Google TV really needs (and sorry to be a broken record here) is an end to that legal action between Viacom and YouTube, so …

  Music and Media 10 Oct 10:00

• Foxconn faces leaked report of worker abuse, violence

  Apple, Dell, HP supplier a 'prison'

  A soon-to-be-released study will reveal that Taiwan-based Foxconn, mega-manufacturer of a broad range of electronics from the iPhone to the Wii, engages in widespread employee abuse, harsh punishment, illegal labor practices, and unsafe working conditions. The Beijing-based Global Times reported Friday that the study was …

  Business 10 Oct 12:27

• Google robo cars drive selves on public streets

  Autonomous auto fleet logs 140,000 miles

  Google has built a fleet of cars that drive themselves, and over the past several months, these robotic vehicles have driven over 140,000 miles on public roads, from the Pacific Coast Highway to the famous twists and turns of San Francisco's Lombard Street. As the company revealed on Saturday morning with a blog post, each car …

  Rise of the Machines 10 Oct 12:28