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  It’s a bit sad when we devour in the latest and greatest of technology in one part of the world and in the other part, people manufacturing the same devices threaten to mass suicide. Foxconn is back in the news after several hundred workers producing Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console threaten to mass suicide. The [...]

  Microsoft has directed legal action towards more manufacturers dealing in Android devices. The Redmond giant has now filed a complaint with the ITC against Barnes & Noble for its Nook reader and its manufacturers, Foxconn and Inventec. Microsoft says Android platform infringes number of their patents and companies using Android OS for their products [...]

  It’s Apple Tablet rumor time. Few industry sources indicated Digitimes that Foxconn Electronics have been handed out the prestigious order for churning out Apple’s Tablet PC. Foxconn is expected to deliver at least 300,000-400,000 units in the first quarter of 2010. The sources also claim Apple will pitch the device more towards e-book readers [...]

  UPDATE: Apple has confirmed the death. “We are saddened by the tragic loss of this young employee, and we are awaiting results of the investigations into his death. We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect,” said Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet told CNET. 25 year-old Sun Danyong, a Foxconn employee [...]

  Digitimes is citing its Chinese rumor friend Commercial Times who in turn cites a source from the component supply chain that Foxconn has been landed an order from Apple to manufacture the rumored Apple netbook. As with most of the rumors churned from the Taiwanese portal, this one too lacks important details but says [...]