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Working in a local Apple Shanghai factory, has turned out to be a nightmare for many Chinese workers. Apple has been regularly criticized for working conditions of workers in Chinese factories that help in manufacturing Apple products. The latest report is that Apple may have ignored the plight of workers in Pegatron, a Taiwan-based design and manufacturing service provider and an OEM for iPhone and iPad, who were injured in a dust explosion last December.

Apple will finally release its third-generation iPad, simply called the new iPad, starting at 8 a.m. local time on Friday, March 16. Besides Apple, plenty of other stores will begin selling the tablet on launch day.

We've compiled a photo slideshow and overview of the most amazing concept designs for the Apple iPhone 5, which is expected to be released as early as summer or fall 2012.

Apple might have more cash than the U.S. government, but a wave of disillusionment with the seemingly magical tech giant may be underway. The latest example includes a class-action lawsuit over its false and misleading Siri advertisements.

It's time to get in line as Apple has announced that the new iPad will be in stores around the world at 8 a.m. local time on Friday.

Apple Inc is seeing record pre-orders for its latest iPad with wait times for shipping the tablet now reaching two to three weeks, said Canaccord Genuity analysts, who now expect the company to sell 65.6 million iPads this year.

Flat screen maker LG Display Co Ltd is supplying touch-screen panels for Apple Inc's new iPad, a source close to the matter said on Wednesday.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the iPad developer, received a subpoena from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission as part of its probe into practices of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), a report said.

Apple Inc is seeing record pre-orders for its latest iPad with wait times for shipping the tablet now reaching two to three weeks, said Canaccord Genuity analysts, who now expect the company to sell 65.6 million iPads this year.

There are currently more than 100,000 native iPad apps available in the Apple Store, some of which are unique and must-haves for your New iPad. These apps are not very new, yet they will score high when it comes to creativity, innovativeness and usefulness. Check out the list of 10 must-have apps for your iPad.

After months of speculations, Apple's New iPad was officially announced last week, and since the new gadget has come up with only a slick of updates to iPad 2, it has been compared to all sorts of rival tablets in the market.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has subpoenaed Apple in order to get details about its mobile-search deal with Google according to a report by Bloomberg.

Even though Apple and Samsung are fighting bitterly in the courtroom, they still keep a close supplier/customer relationship with each other. The California-based company is committed to buy components from the Korean company, worth at least $9.7 billion. It will reach up to $11 billion by the end of this year, which will be driven in part by the new iPad, more MacBook Air units utilizing Samsung solid-state drives and a smaller iPad, an anonymous Samsung executive told the Korea Times.

Microsoft’s upcoming software release, Windows 8, is more than just an updated version of company’s operating system. The newest edition to the PC-based saga represents a turning point in our culture’s media consumption—the inevitable switch from desktops and laptops to tablets and mobiles.

The relationship between Samsung and Apple is complicated. Even as the two tech giants continue to sue each other around the globe, a new report from iSuppli discovered that Samsung is the sole manufacturer of the Retina Display screen for the new iPad, which was unveiled on March 7 in San Francisco.

Shares of Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) were near their record high after reports the No. 1 chipmaker is trying to create a virtual TV service for the consumer sector.

Shares of Apple rose to another record after an influential analyst issued a report that boosted price targets and said the company shouldn’t have problems selling its latest iPad.

There's still 5 days until the third generation iPad goes on sale in Apple Stores, but two men have already lined up outside a store in London after the tablet sold out online.

Apple isn’t usually mentioned as a frontrunner in the video game industry, but the new iPad could change that. The quad-core graphics enabled device is gearing up to compete with major consoles, according to Reuters.

HTC showed off the Microsoft-powered Titan II at CES in January, and it could land on AT&T March 18, but will it tower over the Apple iPhone 4S upon release? If the original HTC Titan is any indication, that question will land with a thud because the Titan is already being replaced after less than six months.

Giving iPads to doctors-in-training helped them be more efficient at ordering tests and procedures for their patients in a new study from one university program.

The legal battles between Apple and Samsung seem endless. The key point of the debate is whether the idea of tablet is Apple's original creation or public knowledge. Recently, a video on YouTube seems to suggest that the iPad idea isn't exclusive to Apple, but it has been in existence since 1994.

A report in DigiTimes on Monday cited unnamed sources within Taiwan-based smartphone manufacturers, who claimed that the next generation iPhone will be released in the second half of 2012 and will very likely contain an embedded 4G LTE radio.

Apple has already sold out of pre-ordered iPads for launch day delivery and new orders will take at least two to three weeks to ship.

With the success of the virtual personal assistant, Siri, on the iPhone 4S, it comes as a surprise the popular feature isn't included on Apple's latest iPad. So why didn't Siri make the cut?

Apple Inc and Motorola Mobility held talks on a cross-licensing deal to settle smartphone patent infringement lawsuits, a move that could have benefited all of the companies that use Google's Android software, according to the European Union.

Apple (AAPL) stock continues to pound the competition, closing at $552.00 on Monday, an all-time record for the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer company. Monday's high now puts Apple's market cap over $514 billion, which now exceeds Exxon's market cap -- currently standing at $403 billion -- by more than $100 billion.

Top-tier technology companies including Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) and Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT), among others, all buy back shares. Qualcomm and Applied Materials have just refreshed their buyback programs and hiked their dividends, too.

The Khan Academy, which aspires to change the education industry by providing free world-class education to anyone anywhere, officially launched its iPad app on Monday in an effort to distribute the not-for-profit organization's 2,700-plus educational videos.