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Next iPad May Be Quick and Dainty February 14, 2012 
Rumors are flying that the iPad 3 will debut on March 7. It will be 4G ready, and it will be available through Verizon and AT&T. The new Apple tablet will be called the "iPad 3." Rumors also suggest that Apple is testing a smaller, 8-inch iPad to compete with Amazon's 7-inch Kindle Fire. The smaller iPad would also come at a lower price than Apple's standard 10-inch model.
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Apple Sends Fair Labor Cops to Knock on Foxconn's Door February 13, 2012 
Apple on Monday announced that the Fair Labor Association, an industry group it joined a month ago, would conduct "special voluntary audits" of its final assembly suppliers. These include Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China. Labor rights experts led by FLA president Auret van Heerden commenced the audit Monday at the Shenzhen facility called "Foxconn City," Apple stated.
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Apple Tells MacBook Pro to Lose a Few February 13, 2012 
Apple is reportedly planning a substantial design overhaul for its MacBook Pro line. The company's next generation of high-end laptop computers will be thinner, lighter notebooks that closely resemble MacBook Airs and feature extended battery life. Traditional hard drives will be replaced with flash-memory-based solid-state drives.
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Boycott Apple! Why Apple Is Screwed February 13, 2012 
Boy, if there were ever an indication that we're in the post-Steve Jobs years, it was last week when there was a major rally to hold Apple accountable for the poor working conditions at Foxconn in China. Now I'm all for accountability, but this would be like a European country holding a restaurant there accountable for the working conditions on U.S. fishing boats (and there was even a TV show on how bad that job can suck).
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Price Could Be the Next iPad Event's Biggest Surprise February 10, 2012 
When Apple will pull the wraps off the iPad 3 has been a subject of speculation for months, but the latest prediction -- that it will be introduced during the first week in March -- appears to be gaining street cred fast. An Apple event will take place the first week in March -- which only has two business days in it -- and probably be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, according to a Thursday report.
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China and Labor: Apple's Not the Only Problem, But Is It the Only Solution? February 09, 2012 
I found CNN's recent report on Foxconn's poor working conditions at a manufacturing plant in China to be astoundingly irritating. Not because they used "Apple" in the headline and focused on the iPad to snag attention. I was irritated because the story, both in print and the video version, totally missed obvious points in order to try to paint Foxconn working conditions as terrible.
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Apple's Dynamic Tension February 01, 2012 
A week after Apple revealed record-breaking sales numbers that drove its value to new heights, the company's fans were shown a bleaker image of Cupertino in a recently published news series. The iEconomy series paints a picture of harsh working conditions in some overseas facilities that manufacture Apple products.
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Apple Fans More Likely to Turn a Blind Eye Than Boycott January 31, 2012 
A sobering account of conditions at Apple's contract factories in China recently appeared in The New York Times. Essentially, the manufacture of those sleek and sexy devices that consumers love so much has been accompanied by 23 deaths and 273 injuries. In a horrific account of one of the deaths, the Times told of Lai Xiadong, who was severely burned and died of his injuries two days later.
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Apple's Cook Steamed Over Labor Practices Report January 27, 2012 
Since the middle of this week, the buzz about Apple hasn't been so much its record earnings as disclosures of the working conditions its overseas workers endure, as detailed in a recent report that touched on worker deaths, inhumane working conditions, disregard for workers' health, the use of underage workers, and suggestions that Cupertino cares only about cutting costs and maintaining product quality.
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Rumor Mill Buzzes With Shape - and Size - of iPhones to Come January 26, 2012 
The iPhone 5 is headed toward production for a summer debut, according a recent report. The information comes from an anonymous source: apparently the same Foxconn employee who last fall accurately disclosed that Apple was planning a revamped iPhone 4, the 4S, rather than the iPhone 5.
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Can Apple School the Academic World? January 13, 2012 
Apple, in its typical cryptic way, announced Wednesday that it was holding a press event next week on "education." It's anyone's guess what Apple will be announcing at the event scheduled for Jan. 19 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. But if a recent report is accurate, Apple will be pulling the wraps off a new initiative into digital textbooks.
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Is Apple Setting Its Retail Sights on Target? January 09, 2012 
A couple dozen Target retail locations could soon be home to mini Apple store displays, according to a recent report. The move to put special kiosks in 25 Target stores could allow Apple's retail ops to expand into markets that aren't large enough to support standalone Apple stores. Apple has been selling iPods in Target stores since 2002, and it has since added products like iPhone accessories and iPads.
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Kindle Fire Makes Apple Sweat E-Books January 03, 2012 
Apple will hold an event in New York at the end of the month at which it will make some sort of media-related announcement, according to a recent report. Whatever news Apple shares at the event, it may relate heavily with advertising or publishing, because Eddy Cue is said to be involved. Cue's in charge of several of Apple's media units, including the iTunes Store, iBookstore and the company's iAds platform.
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Will iPad 3 Sport a Sharper Image? January 03, 2012
What will the iPad 3 look like? According to current speculation, it will have a sharper screen, a better camera and longer battery life. Apple will quadruple the resolution of the display of the new generation of iPad over the current model, according to a recent report.
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Can Apple Convince Me I Want a Smaller TV? December 29, 2011 
Even before Steve Jobs admitted to his biographer that he had cracked the modern television nut, Apple fans have long suspected -- and hoped -- that Apple's little hobby Apple TV set-top box was just a stepping stone to a bigger and better HDTV living room experience. The latest rumors throw fuel on the fire: Apple's suppliers reportedly are gearing up to produce components for delivery of an iTV sometime in 2012.
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The Disasters of 2011 December 26, 2011 
If there was ever a year for train wrecks, 2011 was it. It is that time when we look back at the screwy decisions executives made last year, and be thankful that we aren't them. There were a number of career-limiting moves last year that warrant a top spot on my Bozo meter. HP and Cisco are contenders, with their Touchpad and Flip flops, but there's another company more deserving of the crown.
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