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Brian Tong and Molly Wood give you blow-by-blow analysis on the new iPad announcement, including rewriting the lyrics to John Mayer's "Your Body is a Wonderland," specifically to accommodate the new iPad. Which, in case you haven't guessed by now, is just called "the new iPad."

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Who wouldn't want to be Tim Cook? The guy runs the most valuable company in the world, makes a gazillion dollars a year, and everybody wants to be his best buddy.

Everybody except the clutch of rivals whose business still depends in large part on selling computer boxes. While the PC my not be dead, it's become increasingly less relevant among consumers. That trend was underscored by the latest data dump out of Apple, with a series of extraordinary statistics Cook shared during Apple's iPad announcement Wednesday morning in San Francisco.

Last year, Apple sold 172 million … Read more

Rumors have bounced around the past few months that Apple is readying a smaller version of its iPad. Now one report is pegging the actual size at 7.1 inches.

Apple is said to be buying screen parts for the tinier tablet, which is being slated for a possible launch later this year, according to inside information received by VentureBeat. If true, the intel differs slightly from recent reports claiming that an iPad mini would sport a 7.85-inch screen.

In the more immediate future, Apple is holding an iPad-related event today that's expected to bring the iPad 3.… Read more

Apple is once again tops in the eyes of the business world, according to Fortune.

The iPhone maker took the lead as the world's most admired company for the fifth year in a row.

Selected No. 1 by business professionals polled for Fortune's annual list, Apple was cited for its banner year. CEO Tim Cook was able to steer the company after the resignation and death of Steve Jobs to end 2012 with a prosperous fourth quarter thanks to heavy demand for the iPhone 4s.

Trailing in second place was Google, which went through its own transition last … Read more

CUPERTINO, Calif.--Apple this morning, at the start of its annual shareholders meeting, announced that the company is adopting a new policy requiring its directors to win a majority vote before being elected to the board.

The announcement preempted a related shareholder motion that had been proposed for the meeting.

Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell said the board has gone against this policy for years due to the complexity it adds, but that shareholders over the past few years have been overwhelmingly for it.

"This is Apple and we don't let complexity get in the way," Sewell … Read more

Ultrabook makers trying to copy the look and feel of the MacBook Air could be headed for some patent trouble.

Among a lengthy list of patents awarded to Apple this week is one dubbed D654,072, which covers "the ornamental design for an electronic device, as shown and described."

Though the phrase "MacBook Air" is nowhere to be found, the drawings accompanying the patent show a thin laptop with a tapered edge, clearly matching the design of Apple's popular "ultrabook."

Blogging site Patently Apple points to the new patent as the sixth one for the MacBook Air … Read more

HTC plays with streaming music, psychiatrists study Internet addiction, and MySpace beats on with the MySpace Music Player.

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Apple's CEO Tim Cook took to the stage earlier today, but it wasn't to announce a new tablet.

Instead, Cook was making a rather rare public appearance as part of a keynote interview at the Goldman Sachs' annual Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco to discuss everything from worker safety to what the company plans to do with its growing pile of cash and liquid assets.

Cook spent the first part of the interview, led by Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope, detailing the company's efforts to improve the conditions at its suppliers and manufacturers. It was … Read more

"The way we always view cannibalization is that we'd prefer to do it than have someone else do it."

Apple CEO Tim Cook held a fireside chat earlier today at Goldman Sachs and most of the headlines took note of his comments about working conditions at Apple's overseas factories. But the above observation, which Cook made almost in passing, goes to the core--no pun intended--of Apple's ongoing success.

The context here was that Apple is perfectly sanguine about the cannibalization of the Mac--so long as Apple is the one doing the cannibalizing. If ever some … Read more