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Apple's pro Final Cut Pro X upgrades, Mac Pro ships soon?

Apple's news on new pro features within a future Final Cut Pro X update suggests new Mac Pro models may follow the appearance this month of PCs featuring Intel's latest powerful Trigate chip. Though Apple's keeping its schedule a secret.

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Apple plots June Ivy Bridge iMac upgrade as iCloud gathers

Apple seems set to introduce new iMacs in June. Meanwhile, the company's iCloud plans are gathering attention, on news it will massively increase its data center capacity, even while its existing assets sit underused. What's going on?

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Ashton Kutcher "is" Steve Jobs in movie

Ashton Kutcher (David Shankbone) [Update: The director tells us all about it] Ashton Kutcher will play Steve Jobs in a movie about the Apple co-founder's life. And he's such a look-alike, could he be Steve's son? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wait for @aplusk to confirm it on Twitter. Not to mention: Are they, perhaps, related?..

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Not just Apple: Working life at the Samsung iPhone factory

With all the fuss and bother over Apple and conditions in the iPhone factories, it's easy to imagine worker suffering is something you'll only find care of Cupertino. I take a look at working life at Samsung in an attempt to prove these problems are industry-wide.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook in China as business grows

Apple CEO, Tim Cook is in China attending to business at the moment -- as you'd expect, with that country rapidly transforming into the company's biggest market, with huge scope for even faster future growth.

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Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'

Change. Change hurts. The same is true for any mature industry. And the television industry faces big, big change, and big, big fear. Apple is coming, and TV is running scared.

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Opinion: About Consumer Reports and this 'hot iPads are comfy' crisis

Read all about it as the latest report from the Church of Stupid proves, albeit in a back-handed way, that Apple really is the only firm worth writing about in town, as Consumer Reports climbs aboard its Cupertino-criticism carriage to slate the new iPad for being "not uncomfortable".

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Apple sets new iPad records, gives investors cash

Apple has set new records for the new iPad (3?) as demand for the device remains "off the charts", company CEO, Tim Cook, has confirmed.

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This American Life 'horrified' at fake claims in Apple iPhone factory report

Radio show This American Life has retracted a report which looked at working conditions across Apple's iPhone factories, saying it is 'horrified' it carried the claims in the first place. Will Apple respond?

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Collected video: The whole world wants an iPad in its hand

Here's what we've seen outside Apple retail stores across Australia, Japan, Europe and the UK this morning as the new iPad 3 goes on sale across the USA. This really is an Apple kind of day.

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Opinion: Why Apple's iPad is more important than television

This is why I think the iPad will have as seismic a cultural impact as the television set did when it was introduced, generating new creative possibilities in the mobile age.

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Apple's Jony Ive talks design, slams competition

"Consumers are incredibly discerning, they sense where there has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed," Apple designer Jony Ive explains in an interview published today.

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Opinion: Why Apple's new iPad will lead through 2015 -- and beyond

The new iPad seems set to secure Apple's hold on the tablet edge of the PC market for yet another year, but surely the Oompa-Loompa's inside the Cupertino dream factory can't hold this lead forever? Here's what other tablet makers need to meet to compete.

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The new iPad map of Apple versus Google

Hidden in the noise greeting Apple and its new iPad is something important -- its accompanying iPhoto app carries the first sight of an early version of Apple's own mapping technology. In future, there will be little place for Google inside the Apple empire.

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Apple's new iPad's iPhoto app and a future for Photoshop

Apple's new iPad's iPhoto app means millions of users will see iPhoto as their standard-issue imaging app, including many who may never have heard of Photoshop. What's the future for imaging in the Post-PC era?

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