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Chinese automatic manned space docking completed successfully

, Jun 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

I mentioned last week that China was set to launch its Shenzhou-9 spacecraft in an attempt to dock with its orbiting space station module with astronauts on board for the first time. This mission also had China's first female astronaut aboard. The automated docking procedure between the manned spacecraft and orbiting station module China previously placed in space was successful. Read The Full Story

China to send its first female into space tomorrow

, Jun 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

China plans to send three astronauts into space on Saturday aboard a Shenzhou-9 spacecraft. This will be the country's first manned space docking attempt if all goes well. One of the astronauts of the three-member crew will be Liu Yiang, a 33-year-old major in the Peoples Liberation Army and the country's first woman to ever go into space. Read The Full Story

China ready for manned spaceflight in mid-June

, Jun 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

With all the hubbub centered on SpaceX and its successful mission to carry cargo to and from the International Space Station, China is set to make some news of its own. China wasn't invited to the ISS party, and launched its own space station module called the Tiangong 1 a while back. China has announced that in the middle of June it will be performing its fourth manned spaceflight. Read The Full Story

Tim Cook D10 interview video highlights available now

, May 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week Tim Cook did what will certainly go down in history as a landmark interview with the folks at All Things D, and today several highlights from this D10 talk are available online. Below what you'll see is a selection of great moments in the talk with the Apple CEO that we've also got covered in individual post form if you're in a reading mode instead. This interview took place between Cook, Kara Swisher, and Walt Mossberg and explored subjects ranging between China and Steve Jobs, convergence and charity, and of course what we'll be seeing this year at WWDC. Read The Full Story

Tim Cook pushes Apple manufacturing in USA at D10

, May 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

When asked at the All Things D conference by Kara Swisher why Apple does not have its own factories in China, Tim Cook spoke highly of the plants already in place. "We decided a decade ago that there were things Apple could do best and that there were other things that somebody else can do as well or better. Manufacturing was one of those. I think that's still true." Cook's comments come at a time when critics have been relatively silent on manufacturing plants such as Foxconn, while Walk Mossberg continues to question him on the subject. Read The Full Story

iPhone 5 supply purchases tipped for 2012

, May 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

This week we're seeing no lack of iPhone 5 rumors, with this latest tidbit being a selection of supply reports from China pointing toward shakeups in the global supply economy as a result of Apple's next big titan. This next-level smartphone is set to have components that are not necessarily working with the same companies Apple has been working with before, with the most recent supply shock being Apple's leaked purchase of flash memory products with Elpida, a competitor with the then $10 million USD poorer Samsung, for over half of their total parts in-house. Read The Full Story

Foxconn dropping $210m on new Apple production line

, May 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

The alliance between Apple and Foxconn seems to be going swimmingly. It wasn’t too long ago that we heard the two companies would split the costs to improve working conditions, and a new report from China Daily shows that Foxconn will invest $210 million into a new Apple production line. The new plant will be located in Huai’an city, occupy around 40,000 square meters, and eventually hire 35,800 workers. Read The Full Story

China Mobile hoping to offer iPhone

, May 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple continues to roll out the iPhone to additional carriers across the United States, and more importantly, the world. Bloomberg reports that China Mobile is in talks with Apple to carry the iPhone, which would bring Cupertino’s smartphone to the largest phone company in the world in terms of user base. The new chairman of China Mobile, Xi Guohua, said that he couldn’t predict if the talks would be successful, however. Read The Full Story

Baidu Cloud set to launch next week

, May 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

Android and iOS may be seeing massive success in Europe and the United States, but Baidu is poised to compete against both in China. The search based company is planning to launch a new version of its operating system, Baidu Cloud, which will feature cloud-based products such as storage. Executives at Baidu have told Reuters that the company is in talks with “global” partners. Read The Full Story

Google Drive falls foul of China firewall

, Apr 26th 2012 Discuss [2]

Google Drive has seen China's Great Firewall slam it its cloud-storage face, the latest service from the big search firm to be blocked from billion-strong population. Launched earlier this week to take on DropBox, Box and SkyDrive, Google Drive offers 5GB of free storage and the option of a monthly subscription for extra capacity, using optical character recognition (OCR) to pull text and objects out from photos and PDFs. However, Chinese web users will have to make do with homegrown alternatives. Read The Full Story

Motorola RAZR HD coming soon

, Apr 24th 2012 Discuss [5]

There's no denying that Motorola has stuck to their guns when they said that the RAZR was a hero for them and that they'd be staying the name for some time to come as this week we're seeing a 720p version called the RAZR HD hit the wild. A couple of photos have been seen over in China at Gfan where this Motorola RAZR HD will be bringing not just 720p, but Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box. Can we expect this titan to hit Verizon just like its predecessors over the past few months? Read The Full Story

iPhone 5 to have ‘nano’ companion

, Apr 23rd 2012 Discuss [28]

Now that we're within a half-year of the next Apple iPhone being launched, the iPhone 5 rumors, tips, and secret confirmations are flying - today's being a whole bonus model for the masses. It's the "iPhone nano" that we're hearing about today, straight from the China Times to your doorstep. This tip comes from that continent and suppliers which remain unnamed saying that they are, indeed, creating units which point to a low-cost entry-level iPhone for the next generation iPhone 5 this fall. Read The Full Story
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