By John Boudreau SHENZHEN, China — The global controversy surrounding the treatment of assembly-line workers who manufacture iPhones and iPads — and just about every other consumer device — is triggering an unprecedented effort by Apple (AAPL) and …Find out more from Denver Post
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Apple prepares upcoming Java updates for OS X
Java development for OS X is being handed to Oracle, and Apple is better preparing its in-house Java runtime for co-existance with Java 7 from Oracle. by Topher Kessler May 4, 2012 3:41 PM PDT Apple is preparing updates to its Java 6 runtime for OS X …Find out more from CNET
Apple crisp! City blasted in ‘Avengers’
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, Tinseltown seemed to back off some — until 2008′s “Cloverfield” made it okay to stomp the Big Apple again. “If they’re including those kind of scenes in Hollywood movies already that means they’ve tested the hell …Find out more from New York Daily News
Future Tablets will Crowd iPad, Kindle, Analysts Say
By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld May 4, 2012 9:56 AM Apple’s dominance of the tablet market is expected to shrink in the next five years as slates from other makers eat into the iPad’s market share. Meanwhile, Amazon’s Kindle Fire appears to be losing its …Find out more from PCWorld (blog)
Apple TV Set This Year? Don’t Hold Your Breath, Analyst Says
By Chloe Albanesius Those of you hoping to snag an Apple-produced television set this holiday season might be out of luck. A new analyst report says there is no evidence to suggest that Cupertino will begin production of its own TV this year.Find out more from PC Magazine
Apple Finally Gives OpenStreetMap Proper Credit in iPhoto
By Angela Moscaritolo Apple has finally given proper credit to OpenStreetMap, the crowd-sourced mapping platform it began using in its new iPhoto for iOS app two months ago without attribution. The acknowledgements under the app’s setting page now …Find out more from PC Magazine
Apple Credits OpenStreetMap for iPhoto Map Data
By Scott Gilbertson Google Maps vs Apple’s custom maps. Note the increased road/path detail from OpenStreetMap visible in the Apple version of this map of Vienna, Austria. Apple has finally acknowledged that its iPhoto application for the iPhone and …Find out more from Wired News
Apple, Samsung own the mobile phone market, says report
Apple has captured almost three-quarters of all profits, leaving Samsung with a quarter and little for anyone else, says Asymco analyst Horace Dediu. by Lance Whitney May 4, 2012 5:23 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit Apple and Samsung essentially own the …Find out more from CNET (blog)
Foxconn workers talk about jobs, work with Apple
Under pressure from Apple (AAPL), labor activists and consumer groups, Foxconn recently vowed to improve working conditions at its vast network of factories. The world’s largest electronics manufacturer raised base pay to about $400 a month and slashed …Find out more from San Jose Mercury News
NPD Predicts Apple iPad to Lose Tablet Share towards 2017
Apple’s iPad dominates tablets today, but growing competition and even a diversity of operation systems is going to somehow lift Android and Windows tablets in the future, according to research firm NPD. The company released a report on Thursday …Find out more from The Mac Observer
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When Apple launched iPhoto for iPhone, it quickly became clear that there was something odd going on with the maps in the application. Even though Apple never talked about this publicly, the data Apple used to render these new maps was …More By Frederic Lardinois
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Greenpeace activists tried to stop Apple’s coal consumption at its source by blocking train tracks that Duke Energy uses to ship coal to Apple’s.More By Kelly Hodgkins
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Text editing on the iPad is a bit of a slog unless you have a dedicated keyboard. One Daniel Hooper, however, has a simple but clever idea to fix this:More By Jon Fingas
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With the release of iPhoto for iOS alongside the third-generation iPad back in March, Apple began using mapping data from OpenStreetMap and others…More By Eric Slivka
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iLounge news discussing Apple hit with class action suit over iTunes billing. Find more Apple news from leading independent iPod, iPhone, and iPad site.More By Charles Starrett
