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Apple’s 2012 Supplier Responsibility Report

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Apple’s Supplier Responsibility Progress Report details our efforts to improve worker protections and factory conditions. This report also includes results from our 2011 audits.

Want to bet on next week’s Apple announcement?

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We all know Apple will have an “education based” announcement next week in New York City. But care to lay a fiver on what they will announce? Well, Paddy Power, Ireland’s largest bookmaker, is laying odds on what hardware will be revealed.

The easy money is on eTextbooks at 1-6 odds with a new Apple HDTV going off at 8-1. Your best bet might be for a new “Apple Teacher Robot.” Forty to one odds? Might be worth it!

Apple stores in Target

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Mac Rumors:

Target has confirmed its plans to launch “store-within-a-store” concepts for Apple products in 25 of its stores around the United States. The announcement comes alongside a broader effort called “the Shops at Target” that will offer special focuses on certain products.

‘Inside Apple’ book coming this month

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Inside Apple reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products.Based on numerous interviews, the book offers exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era.

The book is available for pre-order from Amazon.

Apple confirms Anobit flash memory company acquisition

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Bloomberg Businessweek: Apple Inc. said it acquired Anobit Technologies Ltd., an Israeli company that makes a flash-memory drive part for the iPhone and iPad, confirming a press report from last month. The acquisition has been rumored since December, when Israeli … Continued

Definition of a tech migraine

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That pain execs at HTC, Samsung, Google and RIM get when Apple announces a new product or initiative.

These are things they don’t want to blatantly copy, but because they want to keep up with Apple, they blatantly copy them anyway.

Apple didn’t invent ______, but Apple made it better

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Every time you mention the fact that another loser competitor copied Apple, you always get the argument that “Apple didn’t invent that.” That may be true, but let’s look at some of the things that Apple didn’t invent, but made better. […]

Apple Asia’s Lunar New Year sales

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Apple Asia’s one-day Lunar New Year sales event has begun in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and Thailand. According to YJ, who sent me the info from Singapore, this sale is like the annual Thanksgiving sale in the U.S.

Apple threatens Steve Jobs action figure maker

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The Telegraph: The 12-inch figurine, which comes complete with Jobs’s trademark blue jeans, sneakers and black turtleneck sweater, was created by Chinese company In Icons and was set for release in February. But ‘their efforts have reportedly met with’ a … Continued

Apple planning event for end of January

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Kara Swisher:

According to sources close to the situation, Apple is planning an important — but not large-scale — event to be held in New York at the end of this month that will focus on a media-related announcement.

Yep.

Samsung reuses Apple actor in Galaxy Tab ad

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Electronista: Samsung has drawn criticism Monday after viewers realized that it was reusing a child actress from an iPhone 4S ad for a Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE spot. Samsung can’t even think up its own ads. Pathetic.

Apple’s Jonathan Ive awarded knighthood

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BBC:

Jonathan Ive, Apple’s head of design, has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours list.Mr Ive, who can now style himself Sir Jonathan, has been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE).

Very nice, congrats to Jonathan.

Apple top online electronic retailer

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AppleInsider:

Among electronics retailers, Apple was first with a score of 83, followed by Newegg.com with 82 points. The Cupertino, Calif., company also took the top spot among electronics retailers last May.

Not a big surprise.

Italy fines Apple for misleading customers

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Italy’s anti-trust body has fined units of U.S. technology group Apple Inc a total of 900,000 euros for failing to adequately inform customers about their rights to product guarantees and assistance.

Apple co-founder Ron Wayne muses on his place in history

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Brian Heater for Engadget: Thirty-five years ago, Ronald G. Wayne helped co-found the Apple Computer Company with two men 20 years his junior, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak — names that have since become synonymous with the personal computer revolution … Continued

Apple talks to media executives about TV

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WSJ: Apple is also working on its own television that relies on wireless streaming technology to access shows, movies and other content, according to people briefed on the project. In the recent meetings with media companies, the Apple executives, including … Continued

Apple founding docs sell for $1.6M

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John C Abell for Wired: The papers in question comprise the contract which formed Apple Computer Company on April 12, 1976, and are signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, the Pete Best of the computer revolution who … Continued

Apple’s Mac App Store tops 100 million downloads

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Apple today announced that over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store in less than one year. With thousands of free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the App Store experience to the Mac so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes account, and download and install them in just one step. Apple revolutionized the app industry with the App Store, which now has more than 500,000 apps and where customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps and continue to download more than 1 billion apps per month.

Wow!

Apple’s new campus to have largest solar roof in the US

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Seth Weintraub:

Today’s updated Apple Headquarters Spaceship campus plans include a roof made almost entirely out of solar cells, according to plans released today. With a building as large as Apple’s, that puts it in the top corporate solar installations in the world and the biggest in the US. The current title holder is the 4.26 MW system in Edison New Jersey.

This is pretty incredible. Seems like one of those details that is totally Apple.

Understanding Apple’s endgame

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Whenever you bring up Apple or any of its products, the conversation inevitably goes to market share. So much so that it seems clear to me that some people believe that Apple thinks about market share when it releases products. … Continued

Apple to participate in World Aids Day

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ifoAppleStore.com: As a demonstration of Apple’s low-key philanthropy, the company will mark the occasion of World AIDS Day in its retail stores on December 1st by spotlighting special (RED) products that generate donations to fight AIDS in Africa. Apple created … Continued

Is AppleCare worth the money?

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Kirk McElhearn, for Macworld: If you live in an area like me, AppleCare is a worthwhile investment. If you’re near an AppleStore, however, and you use your Mac at home, spending an extra $150 or more may not seem worthwhile. … Continued