Foxconn's Chengdu iPad plant resumes operations

Foxconn's plant in Chengdu, China has finally begun operating again following last month's explosion. The incident killed three people and injured several times that number. In response Foxconn temporarily closed all of its polishing workshops for safety inspections, likely to catch issues related to the combustible dust believed to have caused the Chengdu accident....

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Motorola chief pins Android phone returns on poor apps

Most of Motorola's phone returns are actually from people confusing poorly running apps with the phone quality itself, chief executive Sanjay Jha explained in a presentation at a Bank of America Merrill Lynch conference on Thursday. Of those returns that were tracked, 70 percent had been turned in because they used too much battery power or bogged the phone down. Google's loose testing on Android Market didn't check for this, leaving Motorola to both monitor for it and deal with the returns....

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The Heist Changes the Game With 500K Downloads in One Week

Phone app The Heist has been sitting pretty at the top of the App Store charts basically since its release last week. In that time, it's seen over 500,000 downloads, and racked up $300,000 in revenue for its developers, making it a blockbuster by any measure.

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OWC ships 16GB RAM chips for 2009, 2010 Mac Pros

Other World Computing has launched 16GB RAM chips for Mac Pro 2009 and 2010 models, exceeding factory-shipped maximums by a factor of 1.5x to 3x -- allowing maximums of 48GB or more depending on configuration and available memory slots, with a 12-core 2010 model reaching 96GB of RAM. Kits are available for both 2009 and 2010 models....

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Swap Command and Alt keys on USB keyboard

Today I ruined my silver Apple keyboard by spilling coffee on it and had to switch back to an old PC keyboard with a German layout. Which is a fine keyboard with one very annoying attribute: the Control (Windows) and Alt keys are swapped, the bottom keys are from left to right: Ctrl - Windows(Command) - Alt - Space. It can drive you crazy. So I searched for a solution but it was not as obvious as I had expected.

With Snow Leopard the mapping can be changed via System Preferences » Keyboard, there choose 'Modifier keys...' and in the Dialog remap Alt (Option) and Command. However, some applications, like Eclipse, do not get these changes.

So, I would like to swap the modifiers further down at the input driver level. There are descriptions how to modify AppleUSBKeyboard.kext. That seems to be outdated since I can not find AppleUSBKeyboard.kext on Snow Leopard (10.6.7) anymore. But looking at ...

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Apple COO: tablets likely to 'eclipse' PCs in several years

Tablets like the iPad are growing rapidly enough that they could be more popular than PCs, Apple COO Tim Cook told Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope after a recent interview. Recounting a meeting that also included CFO Peter Oppenheimer and retail Senior VP Ron Johnson, Shope was told that there was "no reason why the tablet market shouldn't eclipse the PC market over the next several years." The prediction helped lead analyst to estimate Apple would ship 8.1 million iPads in the spring, or nearly three quarters more than the 3.3 million Apple shipped in the tablet's...

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Apple testing pre-cached updates for Time Capsules

Future Time Capsules could be used to automatically cache updates for Macs and iOS devices, a report suggests. Apple is said to be testing the concept internally; in practice, a Time Capsule would learn which devices connect to it, and fetch updates in advance. If a person chose to install an update, the router would then use the local copy, 9to5 said, rather than start a new download....

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