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Apple iPad 2 shipments appear on track for April and the company will hold an event in March to launch the next generation of iPad, according to Barclays Capital.

Workers at a factory in east China's Suzhou industrial park, producing touch screens for Apple on contract have reportedly written a letter to Steve Jobs, conveying their grievances surrounding cases of chemical poisoning caused by a certain ingredient used in production.

Sharp Corp will partner with Taiwanese firm Chimei Innolux Corp to produce television-use LCD panels, the Nikkei business daily reported.

Japan's Sharp Corp posted a near tripling in nine-month operating profit on a jump in television sales ahead of the reduction of government subsidies in its home market, and kept its annual outlook unchanged.

iPhone maker Apple was criticized by Chinese green groups for lax corporate oversight of its suppliers in China, leading to poor environmental and work safety standards that poisoned dozens of factory workers.

Chinese green groups on Thursday accused iPhone maker Apple of failing to properly oversee its Chinese suppliers, leading to poor environmental and safety standards, and dozens of poisoned factory workers.

Chimei Innolux, Taiwan's largest LCD maker, plans to spin off its touch panel business as it seeks bigger gains from a business expected to be one of its fastest growth engines.

Sharp Corp <6753.T> plans to start selling its Galapagos tablet computer in the United States in the second half of this year, and is ironing out deals with major media and content providers, the head of the company's U.S. unit said on Wednesday.

Apple has raised the global shipment target for its iPhones for the first-quarter 2011 to 20-21 million units from 19 million units, according to a report from Digitimes.

Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co will buy a majority stake in a Hitachi Ltd display unit for about $1.2 billion, making it the world's top ranked maker of small and medium sized LCDs, the Nikkei newspaper said on Monday.

The next-generation iPad, or iPad 2, is said to have a flat back, smaller bezel and a wide-range speaker.

A hospital in Israel has begun using Apple's iPad to enable medical staff to help treat patients, provide consultations and study X-rays and CT scans from afar.

Chinese electronics maker Foxconn Electronics, a manufacturer of Apple Inc's products, plans to begin shipping the new version of the iPad tablet device, known as iPad 2, as early as the end of February, DigiTimes reported on Tuesday.

Apple Inc's next iPad tablet will start shipping as early as the end of February from electronics maker Foxconn Electronics' factories in China, DigiTimes reported on Tuesday.

The iPad 2, much expected by customers and feared by competitors, is due to be shipped by the end of February 2011.

Apple Inc unveiled a snazzier line of its iPod on Wednesday, with new designs for every model of the popular media device in hopes of kick-starting holiday sales.

Apple Inc has introduced a new version of Apple TV that allows audiences to rent series such as Glee and Modern Family for 99 cents, hoping to extend the popularity of its sleek devices to the living room.

Foxconn International <2038.HK>, the world's top contract cellphone maker, slipped deeper into the red in the first half of the year, hit by falling phone prices and higher depreciation costs as it moves production to inland China to escape high labour costs.

A global supply manager for Apple Inc pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of accepting kickbacks from Asian companies that supplied iPhone and iPod accessories.

Contract cellphone maker Foxconn International has resumed operations at a mobile phone parts manufacturing facility in India, it said on Monday, sending its shares up more than 5 percent.

Chinese factory workers at two suppliers for foreign automakers returned to work on Thursday after winning hefty pay rises, ending strikes that again highlighted the carmakers' vulnerability to their China suppliers.