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Foxconn Technology Group, the main manufacturing contractor for Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 4, witnessed a large explosion in its Chengdu plant on May 20 7 p.m. local time, killing 2 and injuring at least 16, and possibly delaying the already-scarce iPad supply.

Two are dead in an explosion at a Foxconn plant in Southwestern China.

Playboy will archive its 57 years of content in a new digital HTML5 subscription service called iPlayboy.

Playboy will be available online, uncensored, and on the iPad thanks to a new app.

Technology giant Apple Inc. has let down millions of Apple fans by not celebrating the 10th anniversary of its retail stores today.

Apple is just hours away from kicking off its 10th Anniversary celebration of opening its first retail store and quizzical look on the face of Apple fans are only fueling rumors as to what surprise Apple has up its sleeves.

Apple will kick off celebrations of 10th anniversary of its retail stores today and, according to Apple fans, the company could do so by executing a major retail makeover called Apple Store 2.0.

May 19 marks the 10th anniversary of Apple retail outlets and though a celebration is in the cards, what the company has planned is pretty much hush-hush.

Barclays Capital has increased its profit forecast for PC maker Dell, given prospects for higher gross margins, partially offset by lower revenues.

Despite the recall of 1,000 Research in Motion's (RIM) PlayBook tablets due to an OS glitch, the popularity of the PlayBook remains unaffected -it has been reported that the BlackBerry maker has recovered by selling 250,000 devices in month of April. The estimates were noted from RBC analyst Mick Abramsky collected information from 180 Best Buy locations with results showing 84% of 64BG RIM PlayBooks sold were in late April.

Intel's CEO Paul Otellini took a few shots at ARM in both mobile and PC.

Intel plans to introduce more than 10 tablets which run on its processor, and also revealed that Microsoft may release both an ARM-based and x86-based Windows 8.

RBC Capital Markets said its checks showed that sales of Research In Motion's PlayBook remain steady since its launch on April 19.

The BlackBerry Playbook which was announced in the end of last year has been given a launch date of June 16 and is available for pre-order, reports said.

Apple's assault on the living room likely means the introduction of another Apple appliance or device and Apple TV is the best thing the Cupertino, California-based company can do.

Internet firm Yahoo may replace its Geo-Platform with Google's, a move that could reduce its operating costs by about 2 percent to 5 percent

Barclays Capital said Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) launched new MacBook Pro products on February 24, which boosted the March NPD data. Similarly, the brokerage expects a re-acceleration in May data driven by new iMacs launched on May 3.

The New York Public Library launched a new iPad app today.

William Henry Bill Gates III, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, laid out his vision for the impact that broadening access to vaccines can have on the world.

Hard disk drive maker Seagate unveiled a new wireless storage device that wirelessly streams content to an iPad, iPod touch, iPhone or other Wi-Fi enabled device.

Jefferies & Co. believes that tablets are ideally suited to help children learn faster and more enjoyably. The brokerage said research into early childhood education, educational techniques, and addressing disabilities has revealed a potential link between physical touch and learning.