Explosion in iPad 2 Factory at Foxconn Kills Two

ragedy strikes tech factory.

An explosion at one of the factories Apple uses to make the iPad 2 has claimed the lives of at least two workers.
At approximately Friday 7 p.m. local time in Chengdu, China, the A05 building at the Foxconn campus exploded, propelling debris away from the site. The building structure remained intact, but smoke billowed out from the damage. The situation is now under control, with attentions now turned to the wounded.

Credit Card Phishing Site Found on Sony Servers

Uh oh ...

Poor Sony hasn’t had an easy time as of late. Between PSN going down, discovering the information of 77 million users had been stolen, facing questions from Congress, and a new password exploit that could see customer’s accounts compromised, the company has certainly been busy fending off a storm of bad PR. Today the company was dealt another blow as it emerged that a credit card phishing scam is apparently running on one of the its servers.

LinkedIn Shares Double in NYSE Debut

LinkedIn, the social network aimed squarely at professionals eager to connect with colleagues and score potential business opportunities, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange this morning, and things are looking extremely bright for the company.

TechCrunch yesterday reported that LinkedIn had priced its IPO (Initial Public Offering) at $45.00 per share. That per-share figure amounts to a $4.5 billion valuation. The company, which posted Q1 revenues of $93.9 million, was said to be aiming to raise as much as $406 million in the offering.

"Today marks an important milestone in LinkedIn’s history – we started trading at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) – following our recent IPO filing," Nick Besbeas, VP of Marketing at LinkedIn said in a blog post. "Our stock symbol is LNKD (as you may have guessed from this post) and we’ve announced our initial public offering of 7,840,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $45.00 per share."

Intel: Our Nokia Partnership Was a Mistake

Hindsight is always 20/20, right?

Following the announcement of their landmark partnership, Nokia and Microsoft have been acting like a pair of newlyweds and singing each other's praises. However, it seems one of the Finnish phone company’s other partners isn’t quite so pleased with the way its relationship with Nokia panned out.

Intel: No, We're Not Using Arm To Create CPUs

Why would Intel even think of using ARM's technology when it already has a plans to dominate the mobile sector with its x86 architecture?

Evidently there's some silly notion that Intel plans to use ARM's technology to build mobile processors despite anything the company may have previously said to shoot down such an idea. Sigh.

The main reason behind the speculation of an Intel/ARM marriage is that, according to experts, Intel's x86 architecture, originally intended for the PC platform, will be "inherently tough" to adapt into mobile chips. Thus, using ARM's architecture would be a better, quicker option given that Intel is a late-comer to the mobile sector.