Later this morning, Apple users will deliver over 250,000 signatures to the Apple Store in NYC’s Grand Central Station, demanding that Apple end Chinese worker abuse. [Change.org and SumOfUs]
A hacker collective named SwaggSec claims to have hacked Foxconn, the world’s largest electronic components maker. Foxconn assembles hardware for Apple as well as game consoles, such as the PS3, the Xbox 360 and the PS3. According to SwaggSec’s open letter, the hack appears to be retaliation for Foxconn’s notorious working conditions. More »
Located in a South China shopping center, this shop doesn’t merely “fix” consoles. It fixes them so they can run pirates games. Common throughout the country, the “Chinese pirates hacking den”, as website China Underground called it, specialises in flashing (modding) Xbox 360 and hacking consoles like the PlayStation 3 and the Wii. More »
Back in November 2011, Air China (China’s national airline) launched its in-flight Wi-Fi service. Unfortunately it wasn’t a real Wi-Fi network, with users only connected to the in-flight intranet instead of the real internet. More »
Terry Gou, head of Foxconn, gets the Next Media Animation treatment, complete with an umbrella that deflects suicide jumpers. More »
For Westerners, the conditions are shocking. Workers slave away for hours on end, pulling overtime, until their legs swell or they suffer from crippling disabilities. More »
If you think being married to people is hard, try being married to a cardboard person and then globetrotting around with your better half. Your better cardboard half, that is. More »
China is infamous for its knock-offs. Some are so well-made, it’s impossible to tell them from the original. And sometimes they are even made at the same factories! More »
Chinese songstress Yang Yuying couldn’t have chosen a better video game to accompany a live performance of her song “I’ll Be Waiting For You In The Spring” than ThatGameCompany’s PlayStation Network masterpiece Flower, though she probably should have asked permission first. More »
Holy crap! China reworked Gundam Seed, and a bunch of other things, into this mind-melting cartoon extravaganza. More »
