redletterdave writes "On Monday, Foxconn agreed to invest $210 million to help Apple build out a new production line for 'unspecified components.' The 40,000-square-meter plant plans to hire roughly 35,800 new employees to help assemble parts for either desktop and laptop computers, iPhones, iPads, iPods, or possibly even new products or devices. Apple projects the plant's annual output between $949 million to $1.1 billion, and also estimates the import and export value at roughly $55.8 million."

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Check Point has been expanding its security software range in the last year, and was only too keen to show us its latest products at the InfoSec Conference at Earls Court.

SecurEnvoy is a trusted global leader of tokenless two-factor authentication, while leading the way as pioneers of mobile phone based tokenless authentication.

As you probably know by now, the pixels in the new iPad's Retina display are so small that they almost can't be seen by the human eye. However, the story is very different indeed when you look at them at 80x magnification under a microscope.

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Welcome to the third outing of our weekend column, which rounds up what the editors of ITProPortal believe are the choice news stories of the week - with our own take or analysis on these topics.

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Conventional wisdom in the IT industry says that Google's Chrome OS is another of the search giant's failures: a bold experiment that like Buzz, Wave, Knol - among others - seems destined for the dustbin of history. Chrome OS, some will tell you, is dead if only Google would admit it. Certainly,

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