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Third Foxconn worker dies

May 23, 2011
An explosion of combustible dust at a Foxconn manufacturing facility has resulted in a third death. The victim was a worker at the Foxconn plant in...

Apple's new big thing turns out to be iPads

May 23, 2011
Last week we told you about some kind of special event happening overnight at Apple stores over the weekend. Employees were sworn to secrecy,...

Conde Nast brings new New Yorker subscription model to iPad

May 9, 2011
Now it will be cheaper to take out your iPad, feel guilty about skipping the long articles and look at the cartoons. The New Yorker will be...

Foxconn workers made to sign anti-suicide pledges

May 6, 2011
Foxconn is the huge manufacturing company in China that employs hundreds of thousands of young Chinese workers to assemble just about every...

Apple fixes bug

May 5, 2011
Apple issued a new update of iOS, the operating system used in iPhones and iPads. The update fixes the bug that continues to store information...

Time makes a deal with Apple

May 2, 2011
After a year of negotiations between magazine publisher Time Inc. and Apple, all iPad versions of Time Inc.'s magazines Sports Illustrated, Time,...

Sony announces cleverly titled tablet computers

Apr 26, 2011
S1 and S2 will be available this fall as Sony finally wakes up to 2010 and launches a tablet. In 2011. Both tablets are wi-fi enabled AND work on...

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Here's how to see where you've been, according to your iPhone

Apr 20, 2011
This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn't record anything itself, it only...

Crackle comes to Apple devices

Apr 19, 2011
Mmm, I remember when Mother used to make us Apple Crackle early on a winter's morn, just before we had to go slaughter the pigs. Good times....