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Amazon's Kindle Fire just nuked the tablet market: Winners and losers

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ZDNet - By Larry Dignan - Sep. 28 (News Report) - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage Wednesday to unveil an arsenal of devices that are going to disrupt rivals like Barnes & Noble as well as Android tablet makers.

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Sidestepping Apple: Companies rethink app strategies

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Tim Carmody - Jul. 26 (News Report) - We all knew that once Apple starting enforcing new rules for in-app purchases, it would change how media companies do business on the iPhone and iPad. Now, we're beginning to see just what that looks like for companies trying to avoid giving a 30% cut to Cupertino. Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble all removed the stores from their iOS applications on Monday, as well as any hyperlinks to or mentions of their online stores.

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Apple workers treated 'inhumanely'

Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Gethin Chamberlain - May. 01 (News Report) - An investigation into the conditions of Chinese workers has revealed the shocking human cost of producing the must-have Apple iPhones and iPads that are now ubiquitous in the west. The research, carried out by two NGOs, has revealed disturbing allegations of excessive working hours and draconian workplace rules at two major plants in southern China. It has also uncovered an "anti-suicide" pledge that workers at the two plants have been urged to sign, after a series of employee deaths last year. The investigation gives a detailed picture of life for the 500,000 workers at the Shenzhen and Chengdu factories owned by Foxconn, which produces millions of Apple products each year. The report accuses Foxconn of treating workers "inhumanely, like machines". Among the allegations made by workers interviewed by the NGOs – the Centre for Research on Multinational Companies and ...

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Lawmakers ask Steve Jobs to explain iPhone tracking

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - By Stephanie Condon - Apr. 21 (News) - In the wake of a recent discovery regarding data collection on iPhones, some Democratic lawmakers are questioning whether Apple has failed to protect its customers' privacy, and whether the company has possibly broken the law. Researchers announced Wedne

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U.S. Said to Examine New Apple Service for Violations

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Business Week - By Jeff Bliss - Feb. 18 (News) - The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are examining whether Apple’s new media subscription service violates antitrust laws, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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Apple Says Steve Jobs Will Take a New Medical Leave

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Miguel Helft - Jan. 17 (News) - Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple, is taking a medical leave of absence, a year and a half after his return from a liver transplant, raising questions about the future of the world’s most valuable technology company.

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Should You Be Snuggling With Your Cellphone?

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Randall Stross - Nov. 14 (News Analysis) - Holding a cellphone against your ear may be hazardous to your health. So may stuffing it in a pocket against your body.

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iPhones for Toddlers

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 16 (News Report) - The bedroom door opened and a light went on, signaling an end to nap time. The toddler, tousle-haired and sleepy-eyed, clambered to a wobbly stand in his crib. He smiled, reached out to his father, and uttered what is fast becoming the cry of his generation: “iPhone!”

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Woz, Jobs and ... Wayne? Apple's forgotten founder

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

San Jose Mercury News - By Bruce Newman - Jun. 03 (Special Report) - He sold his 10% share of Apple Computer for $800

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Apple Is Said to Face Inquiry About Online Music

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brad Stone - May. 25 (News) - The Justice Department is examining Apple’s tactics in the market for digital music, and its staff members have talked to major music labels and Internet music companies, according to several people briefed on the conversations.

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Feds to look at Apple policy on programming tools - The Associated Press

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - May. 04 (News Report) - Federal regulators plan to examine whether Apple Inc. is violating antitrust rules by requiring software developers to use Apple programming tools to create applications for the iPhone and iPad.

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Geek Power

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Steven Levy - Apr. 20 (Special Report) - When I embarked on my project, I thought of hackers as little more than an interesting subculture. But as I researched them, I found that their playfulness, as well as their blithe disregard for what others said was impossible, led to the breakthroughs that would define the computing experience for millions of people. Early MIT hackers realized it was possible to use computers for what we now call word processing. (Their initial program was called Expensive Typewriter, appropriate since the one machine it ran on cost $120,000.) They also invented the digital videogame. The rebel engineers of the Homebrew Computer Club in Silicon Valley were the first to take advantage of new low-cost chips to build personal computers. They may have begun as a fringe cohort, but hackers alchemized the hard math of Moore’s law into a relentless series of technological advances that changed the world and touched all of our lives. And most of them did it simply for the joy of pulling off an awesome trick. But behind the inventiveness was something even more marvelous — all real hackers shared a set of values that has turned out to be a credo for the information age. I attempted to codify this unspoken ethos into a series of principles called the hacker ethic. Some of the notions now seem forehead-smackingly obvious but at the time were far from accepted (”You can create art and beauty on a computer”). Others spoke to the meritocratic possibilities of a digital age (”Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position”). Another axiom identified computers as instruments of insurrection, granting power to any individual with a keyboard and sufficient brainpower (”Mistrust authority — promote decentralization”). But the precept I perceived as most central to hacker culture turned out to be the most controversial: “All information should be free.”

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Consumers Weigh Apple's iPad Buzz, Future of Tablet Computing

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NewsHour - Apr. 06 (News) - Apple's new iPad tablet hit stores over the weekend, selling some 300,000 devices on its first day. Jeffrey Brown gets two points of view about the iPad and what it could mean for the future of mobile computing devices.

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State of the Art: David Pogue’s Review of the iPad

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Pogue - Mar. 31 (News) - Apple’s iPad (coming soon) seems to be hated by technical types and loved by everyone else. Here are separate reviews for the two audiences.

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Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Brad Stone, Miguel Helft - Mar. 14 (Special Report) - Steve Jobs of Apple and Eric Schmidt of Google, once friends and allies, are now engaged in a gritty battle over the future of mobile computing and cellphones.

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Apple Urged to Be More Open About Suppliers After Worker Report

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:26:08 -0800

Business Week - By Mark Lee, Tim Culpan - Mar. 01 (News Report) - Apple Inc. should disclose more details about its suppliers, workers’ rights groups said after the maker of iPhones and iPods revealed some of its contractors had hired underage employees.

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For Apple suppliers, loose lips can sink contracts

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Feb. 17 (Special Report) - "You're free to do what you want," the policeman explained, "But this is Foxconn and they have a special status here. Please understand."

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The Media Equation: To Deliver, iPad Needs Media Deals

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David Carr - Feb. 01 (News Analysis) - The iPad is a device for consuming media, not creating it. So are the media providers ready to do business?.

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Apple Announces Tablet Device Called iPad

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Brad Stone - Jan. 27 (Breaking News) - Steven P. Jobs says the product, which looks like a big iPhone, will fill a gap between laptops and smartphones. All of us use laptops and smartphones now. The question has arisen lately: is there room for a third category of device in the middle? The new device will have to be far better than the laptop and smartphone at doing important things: browsing the Web, doing e-mail, enjoying and sharing photographs, watching videos, enjoying your music collection, playing games, reading e-books. Otherwise, “it has no reason for being.” Apple’s answer: the iPad. It looks like, well, a big iPhone, pretty much as anticipated.

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iPhone apps are changing the world of software and the way we work and play

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Luke Bainbridge - Apr. 12 (News Report) - It can create a virtual pint, electronic flute or whoopee cushion; help you to beat traffic while avoiding speed cameras; let you read the complete works of Shakespeare; control your home television from the office; tell you the time anywhere in the world; or simply guide you to the nearest place to purchase a decent latte. In fact, there does not appear to be much (bar enhancing your love life or curing a hangover) that an iPhone app cannot do - and that is why it has become one of the fastest-growing technological innovations of recent times.

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For Charities, a Season of Need

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By William Wan, Brigid Schulte - Dec. 22 (News Report) - With Donations in Free Fall, Groups Try to Capture Holiday Generosity

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New media feels heat after Apple misstep

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ben Arnoldy - Oct. 08 (News Report) - Oakland, Calif. - A promo for CNN's citizen journalism site, iReport.com, reads: "You won't believe what people are uploading." Maybe readers should take that literally. An anonymous writer posted a false story to the site claiming that Apple Inc.'s CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack, sending the company's stock tumbling Friday. The Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed Henry Blodget Monday that it was investigating the circumstances surrounding the article. Unlike stories on CNN's main site, most content on iReport.com can be uploaded by anyone, without editing. The erroneous piece stayed up for more than three hours – long enough to bounce around the blogosphere – before an Apple spokesperson quashed the rumor. Citizen journalism, or user-generated content, has proved successful enough to argue against abandoning it over snafus like this, say new media experts. Rather, the episode serves as a public reminder that "news" now includes both traditional journalism and a crowd-sourced model that treats verification as a public process, not a prerequisite for publishing. Both models have their place, says David Ardia, head of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, but users must give the crowd-sourced model time to work. "If you are consuming this news when it first comes out, you have to recognize that the fact-checking function hasn't happened yet."

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Who Will Rule The New Internet?

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Josh Quittner - Jun. 09 (Special Report) - Apple, Google and Facebook are, respectively, an icon from the pioneering days of personal computers; the biggest, most profitable company yet born on the Web; and a feisty upstart whose name is synonymous with the current migration to social networks.

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How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Leander Kahney - Mar. 19 (Special Report) - Apple creates must-have products the old-fashioned way: by locking the doors and sweating and bleeding until something emerges perfectly formed. It's hard to see the Mac OS and the iPhone coming out of the same design-by-committee process that produced Microsoft Vista or Dell's Pocket DJ music player. Likewise, had Apple opened its iTunes-iPod juggernaut to outside developers, the company would have risked turning its uniquely integrated service into a hodgepodge of independent applications -- kind of like the rest of the Internet, come to think of it.

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Speedier iPhone in the works

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:21:53 -0800

Houston Chronicle - By Sanford Nowlin - Nov. 30 (News Report) - SAN ANTONIO -- Apple will launch an iPhone next year that can access the Internet at faster speeds than its current model, said Randall Stephenson, chief executive officer of AT&T. The new version of the iPhone -- the much-hyped gadget that combines a Web-capable cell phone with Apple's iPod media player -- will operate on AT&T's speedy third-generation, or 3G, wireless network, Stephenson said this week. San Antonio-based AT&T, the nation's largest phone company, is the iPhone's exclusive U.S. carrier. The iPhone dazzled gadget freaks when it launched this summer, but some blasted its slow surfing speeds on AT&T's older Edge network. Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said he chose to make the device run on Edge so it would work across AT&T's entire network instead of limiting it only to markets where 3G was available.

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