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Steve Jobs's absence remains tough to bear, even after 16 months of life at Apple without the legendary co-founder that involved new product launches and lots of fresh announcements, Arthur D. Levinson Apple chairman said, speaking with Stanford student Vicki Slavina (via Fortune) on Tuesday afternoon at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. (more…)

Apple's stock (AAPL) fell to $452.72 at 10:01 a.m. in New York today, following reports that iPhone manufacturer Foxconn has stopped hiring assembly-line workers in China, reports Bloomberg. Company spokesperson Bruce Liu claimed that Foxconn has announced the halt because of a high employee return rate following the Lunar New Year holiday in the region. He further said...

Last week, Sir Jony Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design for Apple, was awarded the U.K.’s highest children’s award, the gold Blue Peter badge, which is the highest accolade given out by the BBC’s Blue Peter program. Today, 9to5Mac has shared the full Jony Ive clip from the technology special, where he talks about Apple’s ‘out of...

Despite facing tough competition in each market segment, Apple has managed to retain its influence on determining the course of consumer electronics, Steve Wozniak said in an interview with Bloomberg. (more…)

Earlier today Apple revealed it had fallen victim to a malware attack where some of its computers were breached but no information was stolen. The hackers were linked to the same group that targeted Facebook last week and were able to do so via an exploit in the Java web browser plugin, which today was...

Earlier this morning Apple admitted some staff Macs were hacked by the same group that targeted Facebook last week. Apple noted the bug was related to a Java exploit and said an update was coming today. That software update has now gone live via Software Update and it addresses the following: This release updates the...

In a rare interview with CBS (via Reuters) Bill Gates said he was not satisfied with Microsoft's pace of innovation over the past few years and the way it has been handling its early mobile strategy. (more…)

Google is developing plans to follow Apple's example and open its own retail stores in the US, the Wall Street Journal says, citing people familiar with the matter. The story seems to reiterate what 9to5Google had reported a couple days earlier. (more…)

Samsung has released another TV ad to target the iPhone and BlackBerry. The 30 second clip details a scene in an office where one worker is talking about reducing "redundancies" in the office, yet is called out when she is carrying both an iPhone and BlackBerry. The reason for using two phones is because no...

Taiwan-based HTC has unveiled its new flagship 4.7-inch One today and the smartphone has been designed with cues taken from the iPhone 5 thanks to its aluminum shell and chamfered edges (it also looks like the BlackBerry Z10). Regardless of its design, this latest Android offering packs a punch. It sports a 4.7-inch 1080p display...

Apple tops consumer tech companies as its products accounted for the largest share of revenue, despite being the third largest consumer technology retailer in the US last year. (more…)

Apple is lining up suppliers for the next-generation MacBook Air rumoured to launch in the third quarter of 2013, Taiwanese newspaper Economic Times (via Macotakara) reports. (more…)