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The wave of suicides among workers at Apple partner Foxconn cannot be excused by weak comparisons of meaningless statistics — not when so much of the world’s attention is focused on Apple. This is a chance for Apple to change the world — again…Read on…

Here is the news: Samsung is making a tablet device based on the self-same processor as used within the iPhone — and this creature

News Corp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is all into Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the moment, lavishing praise on the iPhone inventor in this clip from Fox Business.

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News Corp, chief Rupert Murdoch is at D:All Things Digital this week, and took a moment during his opening presentation to give us a run-down on his attempt to make cash out of the iPad app gold rush.

The boss of the giant international media company broke out a few figures on sales of newspaper-related iPad apps, and made a statement to underline the value of content to the technology food chain.

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Apple is facing yet more scrutiny as reports come in claiming the firm

It’s official: AT&T is FINALLY launching iPhone data tethering in the United States this summer, with the launch of iPhone OS 4. The iPhone is getting a new data plan that offers tethering as a $20 per month add-on.

Existing iPhone customers will have to drop their $30/month unlimited data plan for a new $25/month 2GB plan — plus cough up an additional $20 per month for tethering. That’s in-line with what the other cell carriers charge for tethering, but having to change plans is annoying.

From AT&T’s press release:

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Steve Jobs is set to be interviewed by Mossberg and Swisher tonight at D8 at 6PM PT. We’ll post information as it happens but don’t think they’ll have a live video feed. If any of the attendees is doing a UStream/Qik, you know where to find it (here).

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Google’s move to close the door on Windows is a good thing for the computer industry, a great step for Mac and Linux systems and a call to arms to enterprise users to improve security by abandoning reliance on single OS computing set-ups in favour of a new world of tech-diversity. Read more.

Spurred by the lack of a high-end IT track at this year

Giant trade show, Computex sees a wave of iPad pretenders this morning as the big tech event opens its doors.

No matter, as ARM president Tudor Brown reckons half of future tablet PCs will be ARM-based, just as the iPad is. Of course, as we know, Apple has sold two million iPads in just 60-days — just how much of the growth of the future tablet market will Apple seize?

ARM president Tudor Brown, at the company’s pre-Computex 2010 press conference told the throng that by 2014 there will be three billion end devices that will hook onto the Internet, of which, 1.6 billion will be mobile devices, 350 million home-used devices, 500 million mobile PCs, 200 million multimedia players, 100 million in-car electronics and 250 million PNDs and digital photo frames.

He anticipates ARM-based devices will account for 50 percent or more of the market in each segment, citing the low power consumption of ARM chips in comparison with competing systems. In future, Brown said, tablet battery life will reach one week or more.

In conversation with Digitimes, Terry Yen, VP of business development at Qualcomm expressed hope the success of Apple

Apple broke the Memorial Day peace today to declare it has sold over two million iPads in under 60-days since launch on April 3.

“Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.”

Official Press Release follows:

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer faces heavy criticism this week from former Apple exec, Jean-Louis Gass

Intel continues to develop its Core i7 processors, with Apple

Hon Hai/Foxconn is to raise the wages of around 420,000 factory workers following a string of suicides across its plants.

Workers at these plants, which manufacture electronic devices for the likes of HP, Dell and Apple, will see their wages rise by 20 percent, the company has announced.

The company claims the pay hike had been planned for some time, but declined to give a schedule for the increase, which will see around $26 more per month land in the hands of workers who currently earn $131 per month.

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Yet more workers have jumped to their deaths at the Foxconn factory today, with a series of Twitter posts allegedly claiming another unhappy worker has climbed the roof to make a jump.

Despite investigations by Apple, HP and Dell and serious efforts on behalf of Foxconn management to mitigate the depressed and suicidal state of many of the company

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We know him as the great critic, the man who lambasted Apple last week for being the new dictator of mobile, but he

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