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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.

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?

[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?..

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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?

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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?