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Apple's iPad sailed through 2010 without much opposition as a worthy competitor from either Android or Windows camp failed to emerge to challenge its hegemony.

Workers at a factory in east China's Suzhou industrial park, producing touch screens for Apple on contract have reportedly written a letter to Steve Jobs, conveying their grievances surrounding cases of chemical poisoning caused by a certain ingredient used in production.

Technology giant Apple has accepted that workers in China became seriously ill when their factory illegally swapped a cheaper toxic chemical, according to the Apple Supplier Responsibility 2011 Progress Report released on Tuesday.

The 10-inch tablet has already turned many heads as battle for control of the table market heats up. Surprisingly, the tablet will not come with Adobe Flash support at launch.

Motorola's Xoom Tablets are available for pre-order at Best Buy for $800. Customers can place preorders now and can pick up the product on Feb.24 in Best Buy stores.

Apple Inc. is expected to release a new cheaper version of the iPhone during 2011 to deal with growing smartphone competition.

Apple is said to launch a new high-speed connection technology for its Mac product lines and possibly for iPad 2 models.

While most are against Apple's new subscription policy, a few have spoken out in favor of it.

The Chinese manufacturer says its LePad tablet will reach foreign shores in June.

If you talk to the press or speculate to a customer about the next iPad, that's the end of you, said an Apple retail store employee, in an interview with Popular Mechanics.

Apple has already secured 60 percent of the world’s touch-screen panels in 2011, a move that could make its competitors such as RIM and HP struggle in obtaining touch-screen panels for their devices, said a media report.

Brokerage Jefferies & Co. said losers at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) are HTC, Motorola Mobility Holdings, Nokia, Sierra Wireless, Novatel Wireless, PC original equipment manufacturers (OEM), and Sony Ericsson.

Brokerage Jefferies & Co. said winners at MWC are Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM), Samsung, Apple Inc., and Google Inc.'s Android.

Dell's new tablet include Gallo, Sterling, Opus One, Silver Oak, Peju and Rosemount. Meanwhile the smartphone line up is filled with Wrigley, Hancock and Millennium.

Sony's tablet was missing at this year's Mobile World Congress, but the company aims to fix that this fall.

Borders Group, owner of the second largest U.S. bookstore chain, said in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that it will close down around 200 stores nationwide, sending store landlords into a tizzy.

Google has announced its Google One Pass service, a flexible business model platform for publishers to take on Apple's recently launched subscription service for publishers.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have only six weeks to live, according to the US-based tabloid National Enquirer. The magazine has published photos of Jobs taken on February 8 outside Stanford Cancer Center that show Jobs looking extremely thin and frail.

Fox and Warner Bros want to get into 'UltraViolet' which would allow cross-application viewing.

Google's Android Marketplace makes a huge jump in market share, but Apple's App Store is still way ahead of the pack.

Barclays Capital said it continues to believe the new tablet category (led by Apple Inc.'s iPad) is poised for rapid growth over the coming years.