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Apple is in accelerated lock-down as it attempts to identify the best possible apps to demonstrate on the iPad 3 the company plans to launch at a special event next month.

Apple is facing international protest against the plight of workers in its supplier factories. Isn't it time the campaign bought the fight for fair working conditions against Apple's competitors, too?

[Updated (yet again) with the non-nerd, shopping 'n' shoes viewpoint] The iPad 3 release date is rumored to be later this month, as new images appear of the casing. This gives new clues as to Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) plans for what some are calling iPad HD. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers corral the rumors.

Despite the departure of engineering chief, David Tupman, the iPad 3 is coming -- Apple intends shipping the new product perhaps as soon as March 2012. What will you find inside?

This time it turns out tales claiming Apple has pondered moving the Mac to ARM aren't spurious at all, and that OS X has been running on iOS chips inside the company's r&d labs -- but don't hold your breath for an iOS Mac -- not just yet...

Google is moving to bridge the user experience divide between the iPhone and Android devices, delivering security enhancements and hinting at future product integrity improvements to improve devices within the Android ecosystem. Is that enough as Apple preps the ground for the next-generation of mobile devices?

Sometimes I worry about iTunes. Specifically, I'm concerned that Apple and its iTunes team are making lousy decisions when it comes to censorship. Now the latest iTunes Match 'bug' censors your music collection, replacing explicit songs purchased elsewhere with the cleaned-up versions. Bad Apple.

Apple sees games as an essential part of its future, today naming former Microsoft Xbox Product Marketing chief Robin Burrowes as head of App Store Marketing for iTunes Europe.

It's Samsung and not Apple who faces the wrath of EU competition regulators, who today announced a probe into the company over possible patent rights abuses in its smartphone war with the iPhone-maker.

Jony Ive isn't the only Brit at the top of Apple's executive tree any more. He has a retail-focused potential chum as Apple hires away Dixons chief exec, John Browett, to lead its rapidly-expanding and highly profitable retail arm. What do we know about the new boss?

The PC is dying. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see what's coming: Apple dominates the so-called 'tablet' market, even while Apple's Mac sales are propping up the entire PC industry.

Aside from being solid business sense and delivering record results time after time, what's so important about Apple's focus on making complexity simple for its customers?

Apple did much better than the rumors predicted for its Q4 results. The pomaceous peddler of fashionable portable-computers-that-sometimes-make-phone-calls (NASDAQ:AAPL) surprised Wall Street with record numbers. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers try to put it all in context.

With luck, we won’t see a one-size-fits-all PC culture in future, but a heterogeneous, multi-platform environment in which Apple -- and, to be fair, other systems -- play a major part. Why?

The subject of personally-owned mobile devices like tablets and smartphones being used on the corporate network is a hot one. I posted about it here, but it's a much wider issue than I covered in that piece. Many companies are concerned about the proliferation of personally-owned devices showing up in the workplace and are now in the process of developing and deploying mobile device policies and technologies to help enforce them.