Though Foxconn has agreed to bring its working and overtime hours policies into line with Chinese law after an audit by the Fair Labor Association, not all workers at the electronics manufacturing giant are cheering the news. Some employees say Foxconn's pledge to reduce hours will reduce their pay, and they're not happy about it.
Here's what one Foxconn employee told…
It seems these days that just about anything can kill you. A new study now shows that just one alcoholic drink a day can increase your risk of breast cancer.
This is actually a review of existing research done in Europe. It showed that one drink a day can increase your risk by about 5%. If you drink three or more glasses a day your risk goes up substantially to 50%.
WOW! Technology has come a very, very long way, indeed!
Read the article (link below). And also watch the video of the man driving the vehicle. (within said article).
BLIND MAN DRIVES TO TACO BELL!
What do you think about this impending possibility?
I say it is a WONDERFUL tool to give to the visually impaired. More independence. More freedom. More "normalcy" like their sighted counterparts.
After many teaser pictures, simple plan has finally released their music video for "Summer Paradise"
EDITOR’S NOTE: This semester WTVR.com has partnered with VCU’s School of Mass Communications “iPadJournos” mobile and social media journalism project. Those VCU students reported the following story.
By Annie Cocke and Katelyn Tatti (Special to WTVR.com)
RICHMOND, Va. – The popular blogging platform Tumblr is not only expanding at rapid speed globally, but also right here in Richmond. The Tumblr support service team that handles requests from users worldwide just had to move to a bigger office in the Corrugated Box Building in the Old Manchester District.
You probably haven't heard very much about this story. The reason why you haven't heard much about this story is probably self-explanatory once you peak at the pictures and read the facts here.
Almost a year ago, in April 2011, it seems this 16 year-old, Shawn Tyson, brutally murdered two British tourists in Sarasota, Florida.
The two murdered tourists, pictured below, were James Kouzaris, 24, and James Cooper, 25.
Next year, it will be hundred years ago that the mighty and legendary Titanic vanished for ever in the ocean on a depth of two miles.
Replica Olympic in 2012
Many channels on television are planning to broadcast live the wreck of Titanic. They will also tell the story and secrets about the ship, on some channels. Will Olympic's story also be told?
If you and your significant other were the last two people on Facebook, it'd probably look something like Pair.
The app, which launched this week for the iPhone, lets you communicate with one other person--ideally a spouse or romantic partner. Upon signing up, you provide an e-mail address for the person you want to pair with, and that person gets an invitation to the service.
The RCMP has charged a Windsor immigration lawyer and her assistant for allegedly counseling individuals to make refugee claims based on fake stories.
Sandra Zaher and her assistant Diana Al-Masalkhi were arrested on Thursday and charged with misrepresentation, counseling misrepresentation and fabricating evidence.
They were scheduled to appear in court April 26.
The arrests followed a two-month police investigation into allegations they had counseled foreign nationals “to make refugee eligibility claims based on fraudulent stories,” the RCMP said in a statement.
- Persichilli is fifth top media aide to have worked for PM since 2006
- Appointment was criticised because Persichilli didn’t speak French
- Job demands thought to have been too much for former journalist
Angelo Persichilli has resigned as Stephen Harper's communications director just seven months after taking the job, becoming the latest in a long line of communications directors who have come and gone during the Prime Minister’s six years in office.
Here we go again: There's a new next-PlayStation rumor out, and like most early-days scuttlebutt, it's full of stuff no one cares about (or ought to, anyway), like the system's name. "Orbis." There you go, look it up if you must. It's the name of a Doctor Who audio play, a quarterly journal of foreign affairs, a Polish hotel chain, an alt-history novel by Scott Mackay and appears in the title of one of my favorite Borges short stories.
My friend, John Sharpe, has spent nearly forty years in the ad agency business and the last twenty in business development exclusively. He is a personal friend and mentor with an impressive resume. So when John tells me that he has just read…
Actor Warren Stevens, whose most memorable role was his portrayal of "Doc" Ostrow in the 1956 sci-fi movie Forbidden Planet, has died in Los Angeles at 92. Publicist Dale Olson says Stevens died Tuesday of respiratory failure complicated by lung disease at his Sherman Oaks home.
Stevens's career in stage, film and television spanned 60 years. He co-starred with Lou Diamond Phillips, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Majors in the 2004 western movie…
Here is footage from DJ Drama of Odd Future's performance at the Tabernacle in Atlanta. Enjoy.
Previous: Odd Future – Oldie (Official Video)
- $3M in loonies and toonies scattered over Highway 11
- Contractors use industrial-strength magnet in cleanup
- Two people in hospital after crash 300kms north of Sudbury
Police officers in northern Ontario are standing guard against would-be thieves as private contractors using an industrial strength magnet mounted on a crane continue their cleanup of over $3 million in coins.
"Since the cargo has an obvious financial value, (the crew) is going to pursue the cleanup with all due haste," said Const.
At this stage of the game, most companies know at least some of the benefits of cloud computing -- the ease of capex vs. opex budgeting, simpler rollout of standard applications and processes, etc. But many are still not sure which applications and data should move first, which should be entrusted to a private as opposed to a public or hybrid cloud, and which should absolutely, positively, stay in the data center.
Today, the White House is announcing that it's spending $200 million on its "Big Data" initiative, which aims to "advance state-of-the-art core technologies needed to collect, store, preserve, manage, analyze, and share huge quantities of data."
So, what are these state-of-the-art technologies? They're split between several organizations, including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense and Department of Energy.
Avira, a security company headquartered in Germany, just announced that it has acquired social monitoring startup SocialShield and will be adding the service to its lineup of free security products.
“Avira is broadening our security focus from safe-guarding computers to now protecting the people who use them, and that requires us to look beyond viruses and worms and Trojans," Avira Products and Markets COO Sascha Beyer says in the press release.
Updated. Google is in the process of rolling out Android 4.0.4, the latest version of its mobile platform, to several devices. The GSM models of the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S handsets as well as Motorola's(s mmi) Wi-Fi Xoom tablet will all see the software delivered over the air as a result. Google(s goog) says it will "be rolling it out to more devices in the coming weeks."
It's been fun to watch Bleacher Report grow from some random publishing site for amateur sports writers to a full-blown digital sports network backed by $40+ million in venture capital. Today, with 25 million unique visitors per month, Bleacher Report has become the fourth largest sports media property on the Web.
Over the last year or so, the popular sports network has been doubling down on its team-specific coverage, convinced that this has become the preeminent way that fans follow sports.
Mobile ad network Millennial Media just debuted on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MM,” and saw shares pop 97 percent in the first trade of $25. The company initially priced its IPO at $13 per share last night, after increasing the range on Tuesday. At $25 per share, Millennial's valuation jumps to nearly $2 billion. Trading reached as high as $27.90 in early trading.
New numbers out from Nielsen today point to just how close the U.S. is to having more smartphone than feature phone users: analysts say 49.7 percent of cell phone users currently own a smartphone, a big leap on the 36 percent who owned smartphones only a year ago.
What's increasingly clear in that growth is that, at least in the U.S., no other platform is proving to be a contender against Apple's iOS and Google's Android.
Trevor, a dangerous dog that was at the centre of a $45,000 court case to spare him from euthanization, has been euthanized anyway due to a terminal illness. Trevor, a Rottweiler-German Shepherd cross, was discovered by bylaw officials in a Whitehorse, Yukon in 2009. Found badly-neglected and with a chain grown into his neck, the dog was seized and turned over to a local non-profit animal shelter, who then adopted out the dog.
Earlier in the week, music mogul T.I. and his beautiful wife Tiny partied it up with rapper Iggy Azalea at the Gold Room in Atlanta to celebrate the release of her new single "Murda Business". The track was produced by Bei Maejor and serves as the first single from her debut Grand Hustle/Interscope Records debut, entitled The New Classic, dropping this summer.
I’d wager that only a few of you will remember that Dell sold their own smartphones, and still fewer of you have ever actually owned one.
It should come as no surprise then that Dell, who entered the smartphone market less than two years ago, has announced that they have ceased sales of their last remaining smartphone lines: the Android-powered Venue and the Venue Pro Windows Phone.
