Protesters visited a half-dozen Apple stores around the world on Thursday to deliver petitions calling for reforms in the working conditions at factories run by Apple's suppliers in China and other overseas locations.
Apple is facing demonstrations on Thursday at a half-dozen of its retail stores around the world from customers concerned about how Apple's suppliers treat their factory workers in China and other overseas locations.
On the backs of iPods, iPhones and iPads, and on the bottom of Mac laptops, an inscription reads: "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China."
CNN's John Vause describes the conditions he saw while visiting a Foxconn factory, Apple's supplier in China.
Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product.
CNN's Stan Grant talked to a Foxconn worker in China about conditions in factories where Apple products are made.
We meet her by chance on the side of a road. She looks the very model of a Chinese factory worker: young, vibrant, dressed in the cheap brand-name knockoff fashions so common of poor rural villages.
Earlier this month Apple released its annual supplier responsibility report which detailed alleged workplace health and safety protocol violations by its suppliers.
App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low!
Writer Dan Lyons discusses a call for a boycott on Apple products due to concerns over factory conditions.
Apple nudged out oil giant ExxonMobil on Wednesday to become the most valuable publicly-traded company in the world.
CNN's Piers Morgan talks to author Walter Isaacson about Steve Jobs' life.
There's no doubt that Apple is doing far better than the U.S. economy as a whole. But that doesn't mean Steve Jobs had a better jobs record than Barack Obama.
Apple has nearly $100 billion in cash. $97.6 billion to be precise. That is a lot of iDough. Even for Warren Buffett. Perhaps it's time for Apple to, I don't know, use some of it?
Ask Siri how Apple recorded the best quarter in history for a tech company, and her answer should be: "Me."
Which is more valuable: The White House or one single Apple store? It's almost a tie. Apple sells an annual average of $4,709 worth of merchandise per square foot in its hundreds of stores across the world. Meanwhile, the presidential mansion in Washington is valued at $4,752 per square foot, according to real estate website Zillow.
On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg explain the internet blackout that saw sites like Wikipedia voluntarily go dark to protest SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), the bill before Congress targeting online piracy.
Microsoft investigates a report that workers at a plant manufacturing Xbox systems threatened suicide in a pay dispute.
Last week, Apple released its sixth annual supplier responsibility report, which detailed violations made by its suppliers. In the same week, news surfaced that about 150 Chinese workers at a giant manufacturing plant that produces Microsoft's Xbox 360 had threatened mass suicide by throwing themselves off their factory rooftop amid a labor dispute.
Apple lifts the veil on its plans to remake the educational landscape. CNN's Maggie Lake reports.
Apple's value on the stock market briefly rose to $400 billion on Thursday, a record high for what was already the world's most valuable technology company.
Apple is scheduled to host an education-related event on January 19 -- shrouded with a veil of mystery, as always. A new report from Ars Technica says the company is about to unveil a set of tools to create interactive e-books.
Hoping to offset a disappointing holiday season, Target is relying on some tried and true designer partnerships to bring more of its core customers through the doors and testing the waters with cult favorite Apple, in an effort to attract new ones.
There were wild scenes outside a Beijing Apple store for the release of the new iPhone 4S. CNN's Stan Grant reports.
Apple halted sales of its iPhone 4S in Beijing and Shanghai on Friday after scuffles broke out over a delayed launch of the device, sending a shopper hurling eggs at one of its stores in the capital.
The world's most influential gadget company famously shuns the annual Consumer Electronics Show extravaganza. Apple gives no keynotes, has no flashy booth, launches no products and doesn't officially attend. But as ever, it's the star around which thousands of other companies orbit.
CNN's Katie Linendoll reveals new gadgets for parents, including a stroller that breaks down with a touch of a button.
At the gadget industry's annual crystal-ball convention, laptops look more like products of Aston Martin than Fisher-Price.
Gadget fans may be focused on the CES trade show this week, but there's something else notable going on today: It's the iPhone's fifth birthday.
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CNN's John King talks to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak about the future of Apple post-Steve Jobs.
It's 2012, the year that many believe will mark the end of the world. But if the four horsemen of the Apocalypse don't show up, you might want to make some smart investments for the long haul with a different kind of four horsemen.
With a surprise appearance by Steve Jobs, Apple debuts its iPad 2, the company's successful tablet computing gadget.
This week on the Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, Stephanie Goldberg and Brandon Griggs take a look back at 2011, breaking down some of the top technology stories of the year.
The technology industry often finds itself pontificating about the future, but the busy news cycle this year gave us plenty to discuss.
Apple's A5 chip, which powers the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2, is now being produced in a Texas factory owned by Samsung, Reuters reports, citing sources familiar with the operation.
The clerks at Apple's store on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade are well-trained.
On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, Stephanie Goldberg and Mark Milian discuss Mark's two-part look at the secretive world of starting up an Apple store.
When Apple pulls the veil off of its newest store on Friday, New Yorkers will get their first glimpse at the classical architecture-meets-computers retail space inside Grand Central Terminal.
"The problem with innovation in the television market is the go-to-market strategy," Steve Jobs told Hillcrest Labs' Dan Simpkins at the D8 conference in 2010.
The technology industry is absolutely bent on reinventing television.
Siri can help you find drugstores and bars, but the iPhone 4S digital assistant is clueless when it comes to the locations of abortion clinics, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
CNN's T.J. Holmes reports on uproar over the iPhone digital assistant's inability to help users find an abortion clinic.
In an effort to streamline and simplify the maturity ratings of software in mobile app stores, CTIA, the international wireless industry association, yesterday proposed a ratings system that store owners could voluntarily adopt.
Hot-selling gadgets by Apple and Amazon appeared to drive tech sales on what, by all accounts, was a massive Black Friday.
As the iPad eats away at personal computer sales, the PC appears to have found a potential savior in ... Apple?
Dev Shapiro gets to Best Buy the Saturday before Black Friday to make sure he is first in line for the best deals.
If you've been weighing buying a new Mac or iPad but are holding out for one of Apple's rare discounts, Black Friday is your chance.
Apple is a powerhouse of ingenuity, patenting ideas as soon as an engineer can scratch them down on paper (or iPad). Around three dozen Apple patents made their way through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week alone.
The smartphone OS space looks a whole lot different than it did a year ago. Android has seriously stepped up to become the top dog, Symbian is a force no more, and iOS ... well, not everything changes.
Few people seem eager to return to the news articles they didn't have time to read during the day, and even fewer are willing to pay for that privilege.
Apple filled its chairman of the board void left by Steve Jobs's death, naming the board's co-director Arthur Levinson to the position.
A year and a half after Google admitted that it had inadvertently collected unsuspecting people's personal information sent over the Internet via their wireless routers, the company has implemented a way for people to opt-out of having their routers tracked in the first place.
The world must be upside down today with Cisco Systems shares up more than 6% on a stronger than expected earnings report and Apple's stock losing ground after a downbeat note from a research firm.
Smartphone owners hoping to talk to their iPhone 4 or 3GS about the weather, their schedule or the meaning of life appear to be out of luck.
A bug in Apple's mobile operating system allows hackers to take control of iPhone and iPad apps, using them to steal people's photos, contacts and even send text messages without the device's user knowing about it, according to a notable computer security researcher.
Apple's voice assistant took an extended coffee break on Thursday.
This week on the Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg are surlier than usual, expanding the Tech Fail of the Week feature to engulf not one ... not two ... but three tech industry stalwarts.
Apple has acknowledged a problem with battery life on the iPhone 4S and other devices running its new operating system. The company says a software update coming "in a few weeks" will address the problem.
Forget relying solely on touch to control your Apple device. On future iPads, you may be able to control your tablet from across the room using 3-D gestures, such as a swirl or swipe of the hand.
Summon Siri, the digital assistant contained within the iPhone 4S, and ask: "Why is it so hard to find good help these days?"
If there were a quote that best describes the nature of the earnings season so far, it would be, "The obvious rarely happens. The unexpected constantly occurs."
Apple has scheduled a company-only Wednesday memorial service for former CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away two weeks ago.
Much has changed in technology over the past 14 years, including Michael Dell's forecast for the industry's biggest player, Apple.
In the past three months, Apple set new sales and profit records for the quarter and wrapped up a fiscal year in which it blew past the $100 billion mark. It sold an all-time record number of Macs and iPads.
Apple's Scott Forstall demonstrates Siri, the new voice recognition software for iPhone 4S.
Apple said Monday that it has sold more than 4 million iPhone 4S smartphones since its launch three days ago, setting a sales record for the device.
The love affair between BlackBerry devotees and their mobile communicators is becoming strained, and some of them made the quarrel very public this week after a service outage.
Google extended its weekly gains to almost 15% after reporting another impressive quarter.
On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg lead off the conversation talking about this week's BlackBerry outage.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is the first person in line to get the new iPhone 4S at a California Apple store.
The tech media might be disappointed by the new iPhone 4S features, but apparently current and future customers can't wait to snap up Apple's latest smartphone.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at 56, made the world "immeasurably better," the company's board of directors said in a statement.
Apple's iPhone 4S announcement on Tuesday was surprisingly, well, normal.
Apple marketing SVP Phil Schiller explains the features of the new iPhone 4S.
Usually a cause for techno-euphoria, Apple's iPhone-a-palooza event on Tuesday had an unintended and unlikely effect: It made some corners of the Internet mad.
The iPhone 4S may not look any different from its predecessor, but it is Apple's only model with a sort of robot living inside.
When Apple introduced Siri, the talking, voice-activated "personal assistant" that will come with its new iPhone 4S, the Web leaped to the obvious, rational conclusion: That it's a sinister, potentially alien artificial intelligence that's bound to kill us all.
Shares of several tech companies expected to benefit from an anticipated Apple iPhone 5 tumbled from their highs Tuesday when a new version of its iPhone 4 was unveiled instead.
Eunice Yoon reports on an environmental network in China that is targeting Apple.
In the shadow of the bustling Kaedar Electronics plant a brightly colored kindergarten sits somewhat incongruously, its playground usually empty.
Mario Armstrong, host of Siriux XM's "Mario Armstrong's Digital Spin," on what to expect from upcoming product announcements.
The iPod classic, a venerable stalwart in the world of consumer technology, may be getting the axe along with its cousin, the iPod shuffle, according to a blog that focuses on Apple news.
Apple confirmed Tuesday that it will hold a press event on Oct. 4 at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. Expected to be the star attraction: The long-awaited iPhone 5.
Facebook will launch its long-awaited iPad app at Apple's iPhone 5 launch event on October 4, Mashable has learned. In addition to the iPad app, Facebook is also expected to release a revamped version of its iPhone app and may unveil an HTML5-based mobile app marketplace.
Apple will unveil its next-generation iPhone at an event on Tuesday, October 4, according to a report on AllThingsD, a Wall Street Journal blog network.
Apple has been granted patents on some of the distinctive elements of its store designs in China as the US company moves to better protect itself against rampant copying of not only its products but also its sales channels on the Chinese mainland.
Americans' satisfaction with their personal computers is at an all-time high, but buyers' happiness with Apple's Macs continues to top Windows PCs.
Another disappointing quarter for Research in Motion.
Apple has more than $76 billion in cash and marketable securities on its balance sheet. That's a lot of scratch. Moolah. Bones. You get my point.
The maker of a mobile game highlighting the uglier side of electronics production has seen the game banned from Apple's App Store just hours after its release.
This time, it only took a plate of tasty-looking raw fish to crank up the iPhone rumor machine.
CNN's Dan Simon reports on Apple's efforts to track down a suspected prototype for the iPhone 5.
Police here have opened an investigation into the search of a man's home by Apple employees, an official said Wednesday.
As newly crowned CEO Tim Cook gets used to his new role and the extraordinary power and pressure that it brings, many Apple fans will likely urge him to continue leading the company much as his famous, turtle-necked predecessor Steve Jobs did.
Police officials said they helped Apple investigators, who searched a man's home here recently.
Apple has defended itself against allegations its suppliers in China committed environmental violations.
Steve Jobs took home $1 a year for serving as Apple's CEO. The company's new leader, Tim Cook, is getting a richer deal.
A 19-year-old who is probably the world's most noted iPhone hacker said Thursday he's been hired by Apple, the very company whose products he's been hacking into.
Apple's ground breaking technology and its uncanny ability to understand what consumers really want has propelled the firm founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and his buddy Steve Wozniak to stratospheric heights.
Writer Joe Nocera predicts a drop in Apple's stock price, but says Apple will be fine for the next two to three years.
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