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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?

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...

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.

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?

Led by the fast-emerging BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend, Apple is crunching into the enterprise market, creating a growing market share with the Trojan Horse of its mobile devices and a fast-growing interest in its Macs.

Apple is exploring new technologies to increase flash storage capacity and durability at limited additional cost, and may take a strategic investment -- or even overall purchase, of Israeli flash memory technology firm, Anobit.

Apple's Mac App Store is distributing around 204 Mac applications every minute of the day, but is it an attempt to exercise total control of the Mac ecosystem, or a necessary step toward mobile computing in a post-PC age?

Apple's Siri voice assistant is a game-changer. The company is hiring new engineers to develop its solution, so what improvements can we expect from the team? And when will we see Siri support inside OS X?

Fueled by the iPhone and iPad, Apple is in the enterprise -- most recently becoming mobile device vendor of choice for one of Microsoft's oldest enterprise allies, Lifetime Products. The cracks are beginning to show in Microsoft's grip on its key market.

Apple will storm into next year, with new MacBook Air models set for Q1, and an iPhone 4S-driven return to growth in its eternal battle with Android.

The latest Canalys data claims Apple will eclipse HP to become the world's biggest PC vendor "in 2012", if you include iPad sales.