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Days After Its Release, the IPad 2 Gets the Teardown Treatment

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 13, 2011 at 7:59 am PT

Like night follows day, an Apple product release is always followed by a bunch of reports by people who live to tear the latest gadgets apart to see what’s inside, and more importantly to investors, to estimate what everything inside them costs. The release of the iPad 2 has been no different.

Apple's Touch-Panel Appetite Leaves Little for Rivals

John Paczkowski in News on February 17, 2011 at 8:35 am PT

Apple is to the touch-panel business what Starbucks is to the coffee business–a market maker and mover. Particularly a mover. To wit: Claims today that Apple’s voracious appetite for the component is expected to cause an industrywide shortage this year. According to Taiwanese trade mag DigiTimes, Apple has locked up nearly 60 percent of the world’s touch-panel capacity.

Apple Reports Progress on Supplier Responsibility, But Major Violations Doubled Last Year

John Paczkowski in News on February 14, 2011 at 1:18 pm PT

Apple was recently accused of ignoring hazardous and unhealthy conditions at its overseas suppliers, so the company’s 2011 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report arrives at a particularly apt time.

Screen Industry Success Is a Touching Story

John Paczkowski in News on December 30, 2010 at 3:37 am PT

Here’s a truism: 2010 was a banner year for the touchscreen industry.

Apple Tablet Coming to AT&T?

John Paczkowski in News on September 15, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

Those Apple tablet rumors just never let up, do they? Not a week after the company’s latest media event and they’re already back in force. The latest, from China Economic News, claims the device is being prepped for a February debut at a price somewhere between $799 and $999.

Apple Tablet Coming to AT&T?

John Paczkowski in News on September 15, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

Those Apple tablet rumors just never let up, do they? Not a week after the company’s latest media event and they’re already back in force. The latest, from China Economic News, claims the device is being prepped for a February debut at a price somewhere between $799 and $999.

$800 Apple Tablet Coming in October?

John Paczkowski in News on July 13, 2009 at 6:09 am PT

So that mysterious touch tablet Apple’s rumored to be developing? It’s about to go into production in advance of an October launch date. This according to a report in the Information Times, which claims that three of Apple’s manufacturing partners–Foxconn, Wintek and Dynapack–have received orders from Apple that suggest the company is building a “netbook” with a 9.7-inch touchscreen.

Rumored Apple Netbook Actually an E-Book?

John Paczkowski in News on March 11, 2009 at 9:15 am PT

Reports that Apple is developing a new touchscreen device are picking up traction and credibility. In the past few days, claims made in a Chinese-language financial newspaper have been reinforced first by Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal and now by Reuters as well. Consensus seems to be that Apple has ordered 10-inch touchscreens from Wintek and that those screens are destined for an entirely new device. Netbook is the word most often bandied about for it. But might it be an e-book reader?

iPhoneBook?

John Paczkowski in News on March 9, 2009 at 7:16 am PT

What are Apple’s intentions in the fledgling Netbook market? More than what the company is letting on, if a report in today’s Commercial Times is to be believed. The daily Chinese-language financial newspaper claims that Wintek has been tapped to manufacture touchscreens for a device targeted at the category.