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While industry observers have chimed in over the past weeks about what will be inside Apple's next iPhone 5, one analyst on Friday gave insight into when the phone will actually hit shelves.

Apple Inc said on Friday it was working with Foxconn, its main contract producer for gadgets, to understand the cause of an explosion at a factory in China that local media have linked to the technology giant's iPad 2 production.

Foxconn Technology Group, the main manufacturing contractor for Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 4, witnessed a large explosion in its Chengdu plant on May 20 7 p.m. local time, killing 2 and injuring at least 16, and possibly delaying the already-scarce iPad supply.

A large explosion rocked a Foxconn factory in southwestern China that local media have linked to Apple iPad 2 production, killing at least two people, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Two are dead in an explosion at a Foxconn plant in Southwestern China.

Playboy will archive its 57 years of content in a new digital HTML5 subscription service called iPlayboy.

Playboy will be available online, uncensored, and on the iPad thanks to a new app.

A look back at the first ever Apple Store and a report on Apple's plans for change.

Technology giant Apple Inc. has let down millions of Apple fans by not celebrating the 10th anniversary of its retail stores today.

Apple is just hours away from kicking off its 10th Anniversary celebration of opening its first retail store and quizzical look on the face of Apple fans are only fueling rumors as to what surprise Apple has up its sleeves.

Apple will kick off celebrations of 10th anniversary of its retail stores today and, according to Apple fans, the company could do so by executing a major retail makeover called Apple Store 2.0.

May 19 marks the 10th anniversary of Apple retail outlets and though a celebration is in the cards, what the company has planned is pretty much hush-hush.

Barclays Capital has increased its profit forecast for PC maker Dell, given prospects for higher gross margins, partially offset by lower revenues.

Rumors of Apple Store 2.0 are circulating, and a tool for iPhone facial recognition has launched.

Despite the recall of 1,000 Research in Motion's (RIM) PlayBook tablets due to an OS glitch, the popularity of the PlayBook remains unaffected -it has been reported that the BlackBerry maker has recovered by selling 250,000 devices in month of April. The estimates were noted from RBC analyst Mick Abramsky collected information from 180 Best Buy locations with results showing 84% of 64BG RIM PlayBooks sold were in late April.

Intel's CEO Paul Otellini took a few shots at ARM in both mobile and PC.

Intel plans to introduce more than 10 tablets which run on its processor, and also revealed that Microsoft may release both an ARM-based and x86-based Windows 8.

RBC Capital Markets said its checks showed that sales of Research In Motion's PlayBook remain steady since its launch on April 19.

The BlackBerry Playbook which was announced in the end of last year has been given a launch date of June 16 and is available for pre-order, reports said.

Apple's assault on the living room likely means the introduction of another Apple appliance or device and Apple TV is the best thing the Cupertino, California-based company can do.

Internet firm Yahoo may replace its Geo-Platform with Google's, a move that could reduce its operating costs by about 2 percent to 5 percent