Japanese authorities reported Tuesday the first case of an Apple laptop catching fire in Japan and ordered the U.S. company to investigate the trouble involving the faulty Sony batteries and report back within a week. An iBook G4 laptop made by Apple Computer Inc. overheated and caught fire in April, the Ministry of Economy, Trade […]
Month: August 2006
MCE Technologies, LLC (a PowerPage sponsor) is now distributing the iTube-201 a combination FM transmitter, cigarette lighter charger and flexible dock for the iPod video and nano. MCE is repping the US$75 transmitter for Digiana of Seoul, Korea. The iTube-201 is a FM transmitter, auto power adapter and iPod dock built around a flexible steel-neck […]
In a somewhat surprising after-hours announcement, Google Chief Executive Officer Dr. Eric Schmidt was elected to Apple’s board of directors at their meeting yesterday. Dr. Schmidt also sits on Google’s board of directors and Princeton University’s board of trustees. Schmidt joined Google from Novell where he was chairman and CEO. Prior to Novell he was […]
The Reporters Without Borders organization has sent a letter to Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs asking him to implore iPod supplier Foxconn to drop a lawsuit against two Chinese journalists who wrote an article critical of working conditions at a Foxconn Electronics factory. Wang You and Weng Bao of China Business News have been hit […]
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Gaming Goes Pink
The release of a new games console in Japan is always an event. Huge, police-managed queues are not uncommon. However, when the Nintendo DS lite was released in Japan, it wasn’t the length of the queues that made headlines, but their content. For the first time in gaming history, there were females in the queues. […]