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Tech Digest daily roundup: Mercedes to offer subscription for faster EV

Mercedes-Benz is to offer an online subscription service in the US to make its electric cars speed up quicker. For an annual cost of $1,200 (£991) excluding tax, the company will enable some of its vehicles to accelerate from 0-60mph a second faster. It comes after rival manufacturer BMW offered a subscription feature earlier…

25th November 202225th November 2022 Chris Price News

Tech Digest daily roundup: Police seize iSpoof phone scam website

Image: iSpoof website The Met police have smashed a global online fraud shop selling tools that allowed criminals to carry out phone scams on hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting victims. Detectives disabled the iSpoof website as part of the biggest anti-fraud operation ever mounted in the UK. Criminals using software purchased…

24th November 202224th November 2022 Chris Price News

Tech Digest daily roundup: iPhone maker invests in Tesla Cybertruck challenger

Lordstown Motors' electric pick-up truck, the Endurance Foxconn, which makes iPhones for Apple, says it is deepening its investment in a US electric pick-up truck firm, which could challenge Tesla's Cybertruck. The technology giant is spending up to $170m (£147.8m) on shares in the loss-making start-up Lordstown Motors. The major cash…

8th November 20228th November 2022 Chris Price News

Apple admits Foxconn factory used too many temporary workers

Too many temporary workers were used at a Foxconn factory in China where iPhones are built, Apple has admitted, in response to a report by a campaign group. Apple is reliant on the Taiwanese firm to build its iPhones, with the newest models expected to be unveiled in San Francisco on Tuesday. The China Labour…

9th September 201910th September 2019 Chris Price Apple, News

Foxconn replacing workers with robots

Key Apple electronics manufacturer Foxconn are said to be replacing parts of their workforce with robots. The Taiwanese plant will be putting robots onto the assembly line to automate the manufacture of gadgets such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod,…

14th November 2012 Gerald Lynch Apple, Tech Digest news

iPhone 5 shortages caused by Sharp touchscreen display delays

It's already toting up record sales figures, hitting 5 million handsets sold in its first weekend on sale alone and smashing previous records by a whopping million sales, but Apple's iPhone 5 could have sold even more were it not…

25th September 2012 Gerald Lynch Apple, iPhone, iPhone, Mobile phones, Tech Digest news

iPhone 5 sales reach 5 million over launch weekend, but shortages loom

Five million iPhone 5 handsets have been sold during the smartphone's opening weekend of sales, smashing the 4 million opening weekend sales record set by its predecessor the iPhone 4S. So popular is the iPhone 5 that Apple are now…

24th September 2012 Gerald Lynch Apple, iPhone, iPhone, Mobile phones, Tech Digest news

Giant Foxconn fisticuffs halts production, iPhone 5 delays a possibility

A mass brawl has erupted at the Foxconn manufacturing plant in China, involving roughly a whopping 2,000 workers and causing injuries to 40 people. Foxconn state that Sunday night saw a "personal dispute" quickly escalate out of all proportion at…

24th September 2012 Gerald Lynch Apple, Tech Digest news

Amazon making their own smartphone at Foxconn?

Reports are suggesting that Amazon are teaming up with long-time Apple hardware manufacturers Foxconn to develop a Kindle-branded smartphone. Looking to build upon the success of their Kindle Fire tablet, Bloomberg are citing 'people with knowledge of the matter' who…

6th July 2012 Gerald Lynch Mobile phones, Tech Digest news

Foxconn boss: iPhone 5 "will put Samsung Galaxy S3 to shame"

Foxconn boss Terry Gou has told investors that the iPhone 5 "will put Samsung's Galaxy S III to shame," according to the China Times. Speaking at the annual shareholder's meeting of the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (trading as Foxconn),…

21st June 2012 Gerald Lynch Apple, iPhone, iPhone, Mobile phones, Samsung, Samsung galaxy, Tech Digest news

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