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NEWS ANALYSIS: While inspections are a good idea, planned visits from the FLA won’t find many problems, and won’t change anything in the way Apple's contract manufacturers treat employees.
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Apple, responding to tremendous criticism regarding its assembly partner Foxconn, announced that Fair Labor Association audits are now under way.
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Apple has been tight-lipped as ever about the details of the iPad 3—which is widely expected to arrive in early March—leaving the pundits with nothing to do but guess.
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Apple's iPad 3 will include a higher-resolution display, faster processor and bigger battery, according to the latest rumors.
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Apple lovers want the company to take a more ethical path when manufacturing its iPhone and iPad devices. On Feb. 9, protestors plan to hand-deliver petitions to at least six Apple stores.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: The long-rumored Apple television could be a sales hit in the coming years. And in the process, it might hurt Google and Android.
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The traditional January gathering of the Apple fans in San Francisco may have a new name, but the trend away from serious hardware and toward accessories for iGadgets continues, as we saw at what is now called Macworld | iWorld. With applications for Mac OS X stuffed into a back alley of the Moscone West convention hall and a mobile applications pavilion placed front and center, it's clear that the show's organizers recognize where the Applesphere is headed. Gone are the days when one could save a few bucks on a new Mac at the show, but scattered throughout the hall are a number of companies that offer new and interesting ways to protect an iPhone.
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Despite all the fresh new ideas on display for the Apple world from exuberant third-party companies, it matters quite a bit that the Apple mothership isn't here with her children.
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Apple became the biggest customer of semiconductor chip vendors in 2011, climbing two places in the ranking.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Ultrabooks are taking aim at both the Apple MacBook Air and iPad, and there's a good chance many folks will find them quite appealing in comparison to those products.
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Apple lead designer Jonathan Ive, who has worked on the MacBook Air and iPhone, called the knighthood "absolutely thrilling."
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Google's Android OS leads in market share, followed by Apple's iOS, RIM, Microsoft and Symbian.
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Apple's 2011 saw the expected release of a new iPad and iPhone, both of which helped the company fend off more robust challenges from Google Android and a host of new competitors. Even as Apple gained strength and prominence, however, it faced the illness and death of co-founder CEO Steve Jobs. Many of Apple's releases were widely anticipated. In January, it announced the iPhone 4 on Verizon Wireless. Apple's second big unveiling of 2011 came March 2, when Jobs took a San Francisco stage to unveil the next-generation iPad 2. "Is 2011 going to be the year of the copycats? I think if we did nothing, maybe a little bit," he told the audience. "But we haven't been resting on our laurels." Both the Verizon iPhone and iPad 2 sold well. Apple's laptops and desktops also began to take on characteristics of the company's mobile products, with the introduction of a Mac App Store that clearly took its cues from the App Store for iOS. That Mac App Store came as part of Mac OS X Lion, Apple's latest Mac OS X upgrade, which it released in mid-July. At the same time, Apple also terminated its iconic white MacBook, making the lowest-priced MacBook Air the entry-level laptop. In October, Apple continued its blockbuster sales run with the iPhone 4S. Steve Jobs died Oct. 5, following a long battle with cancer. His influence on the company will be felt for some time.
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Apple's 2011 saw the company preserve its position in mobility thanks to the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. In October, it also wrestled with the death of Steve Jobs.
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No matter how you celebrate the New Year, be it surrounded by millions of freezing tourists in New York’s Times Square, dancing your feet off in a sweaty nightclub, or simply staying home with friends and family sipping champagne and wearing silly hats, the application stores for the iPhone and Google Android devices can round out your evening. Both sites offer an impressive selection of playful and practical applications, including a New Year’s resolution social-networking tool, enhanced countdown clocks with cheering crowds, not to mention an application devoted to Kouhaku Uta Gassen, Japan's biggest music show, which has been running since 1951 and will be aired live on New Year's Eve. So, before you close out 2011, here are some applications to download to end the year right.
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Cloud features and application enhancements don’t cripple older devices.
New iPhone, mobile OS and cloud service debut, as the company looks forward to a future beyond conventional use patterns.
The latest Mac server software feels like the end of the road.
Mac OS X “Lion” is technically Apple’s best ever, but disappoints anyway.
eWEEK Labs Technical Director Cameron Sturdevant's year of using and covering Apple products in the enterprise has come to an end with a newfound respect for Mac hardware and the resistance of Mac OS X 10.6.3, code-named Snow Leopard, to hacks and viruses. For executives and high-value creative content users he sees Apple's appeal. But as we enter the cloud computing age, Sturdevant is less enamored of fat clients of any variety for routine office workers.
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