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January 13th, 2012Xbox workers threaten suicide in China labor tiff
January 13th, 2012BEIJING (AP) — Dozens of workers assembling Xbox video game consoles climbed to a factory dormitory roof, and some threatened to jump to their deaths, in a dispute over job transfers that was defused but highlights growing labor unrest as China’s economy slows.The dispute was set off after contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group announced it [...]
Summary Box: Xbox workers threaten suicide in tiff
January 13th, 2012DESPERATE MEASURES: Dozens of Chinese workers assembling Xbox video game consoles climbed to a factory dormitory roof, and some threatened to jump to their deaths, in a dispute over jobs.BROKEN PROMISES: Foxconn announced it would close the production line for the consoles and transfer some jobs elsewhere, and workers were angered when the contract manufacturer [...]
US video game sales drop 21 percent in December
January 13th, 2012LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories fell 21 percent in December from a year ago to $3.99 billion as players bought fewer games for their aging consoles, according to market researcher NPD Group.The results are “not entirely surprising given that we are at the back end of [...]
Summary Box: Nintendo gives 2nd glimpse of Wii U
January 13th, 2012IT’S BIG: Nintendo Co.’s upcoming Wii U game console will come with a touch-screen controller almost as big as the game console itself.WHAT THAT MEANS: At first glance, that seems like an obstacle to the kind of casual multiplayer gaming that made the first Wii console such a breakout hit. But the company says the [...]
Zynga lures mobile gaming exec away from rival EA
January 13th, 2012SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Online game maker Zynga Inc. has lured away an executive from rival Electronic Arts Inc.The hiring of Barry Cottle, announced Thursday, underscores the escalating rivalry between rapidly growing Zynga and Electronic Arts, a video game stalwart.Cottle, 50, had been overseeing Electronic Arts’ push into mobile and online gaming for the past [...]
Video game maker linked to US prisoner in Iran
January 13th, 2012NEW YORK (AP) — Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, the American sentenced to death by the Iranian government, is linked to a small New York company specializing in video games that recreate real-life conflicts in the Middle East and beyond.The company, Kuma Games, makes a series of “Kuma/War” games that come in short, 10- to 15-minute episodes. [...]
MetroPCS to sell phones with TV tuners
January 10th, 2012NEW YORK (AP) — TV stations have been locked out of the screens we carry with us every day — those of cellphones. On Wednesday, they gained a foothold in the wireless world, though it’s not yet clear whether there’s real consumer demand. MetroPCS Communications Inc. became the first cellphone company to announce plans for [...]
iPad ‘survives’ the fall of 30 km in the United States, says company
January 9th, 2012The manufacturer claims that G-Form iPad got his cape to protect the tablet successfully in a fall of 30 km. The company posted a video of the experiment done with the cover Extreme Edge on YouTube ( link to the video on YouTube ). In the video, an executive of the company shows an iPad coupled to a weather [...]
