A staggering manufacturing system in China has made it possible for Apple and other companies to make devices almost as quickly as they can be dreamed up, but for workers, it can be dangerous.

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The iEconomy: Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China

The Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t allow Kindles and iPads to be on during takeoffs and landings over the issue of possible interference with aircraft navigation or communication systems. A visit to a testing lab shed light on whether a hazard really exists.

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Disruptions: Tests Cast Doubt on F.C.C. Restrictions on Kindle and iPad

MANCHESTER, N.H. — For the past five years, Mitt Romney has been making the quick drive from his home in Massachusetts to meet New Hampshire Republicans. In the back of the car, Romney e-mails potential supporters from his iPad. His aides pass out bumper stickers at marathons and chili festivals. Local elected officials backing him spend Saturdays hammering 4-by-8-foot Romney road signs into the crisp countryside. Read full article > >

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In New Hampshire, Romney taking nothing for granted

Apple, long resolute in its catering to consumers, is suddenly finding corporations becoming big customers.

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Businesses, Too, Have Eyes for iPads and iPhones

Three new Kindle e-book readers from Amazon fall short of full-featured tablets, but they have much to offer at comparatively low prices.

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State of the Art: The Fire Aside, Amazon’s Lower-Priced Kindles Also Shine

Amazon’s souped-up color version of its Kindle e-reader hopes to undercut the iPad in price and steal away a couple of million in unit sales by Christmas.

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Anticipated Amazon Tablet to Take Aim at Apple iPad

Two people have been killed in an explosion at a Chinese factory that produces the iPad, owned by tech firm Foxconn.

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Foxconn plant explosion kills two

Somewhere, Steve Jobs is beaming. With the help of the iPad, Apple has surpassed Google as the most valuable brand in the world, according to Millward Brown’s 2011 Brandz study. The study reports that Apple’s global value rose 84 percent last year….

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Apple Now More Valuable Than Google

Get this man an economics textbook: Real Clear Politics has posted video of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) on the floor of the House, blaming the iPad for “eliminating thousands of jobs.” Jackson was particularly concerned about the publishing industry….

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Congressman Blames iPad for Unemployment

Kevin LorenziBLOOMBERGCarol Lidfeldt, right, and her mother Evelyn DeSalvo look over an Apple Inc. iPad computer at a redesigned Best Buy connected store in North Fayette, Pa.Best Buy on Friday dispelled rumors that it’s in a dust-up with Apple over the iPad 2.

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Best Buy: We’re not being blacklisted by Apple

Apple’s difficulty in meeting demand for a product like the iPad 2 may get worse in the months to come, some analysts say, as critical components are delayed.

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Some Worry That Success of Apple Is Tied to Japan

Apple has finished work on the next iteration of the iPad, which will hit store shelves at 5 p.m. this afternoon, so it’s time to move on. What will the next shiny new Apple gizmo, the iPhone 5, look — and feel — like? A convincing leak out of China, picked up by Fast Company this morning, shows an engineer’s drawing of the phone. In fact, if you peep at the drawings and make some scale guesses based on the existing iPhone 4, the screen on the iPhone 5 is close to 4 inches in size. It’s much bigger, and requires a slimmer bezel that places the screen as filling the iPhone’s top surface practically edge-to-edge. Better yet, this tallies with another alleged leak from inside Apple’s Chinese supply chain that revealed a bezel for the next iPhone–it almost identically matches this new drawing. We can make the guess about the phone’s screen size from this leaked bezel, and also thanks to one big design hint we’re seeing here: The iPhone 5 is essentially the same as the iPhone 4. This makes good sense. Apple included some revolutionary design decisions in the current iPhone, and would be unlikely to step away from them so fast, partly thanks to the cash investment the iPhone 4′s design must have required. We can also believe these really are design drawings, given to case and peripheral manufacturers, because many of the leaked case designs that arrived before the iPad 2 proved to be accurate–right down to the position of the buttons, ports, and speaker grilles. Read the full story at Fast Company .

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Is This the New iPhone 5?

At 4 a.m. EST, the iPad 2 went on sale on Apple’s website. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. this afternoon, more than 200 Apple stores across the country will shut down to prepare for the release of the new tablet. And when those doors open back up, everyone is predicting a crush of consumers. With a story released just after midnight, Bloomberg reported that Apple could sell more than than half a million units over the iPad 2′s debut weekend, which would be double what the original iPad moved. The iPad line is the fastest-selling technology product in history, measured by revenue, said Tim Bajarin , an analyst at Creative Strategies Inc. In less than three months, it topped $2 billion — a milestone the iPhone took more than six quarters to reach. The second version has a head start on rivals, which are only now releasing their first models. It’s also benefiting from distribution through additional retail outlets. “Apple has such a huge lead,” said Bajarin, who has covered the industry for more than 20 years and works as a technology consultant. He projects 500,000 units in two days. “Competitors are going to be chasing Apple for many years.” Bajarin — along with analysts from Rodman & Renshaw LLC and Piper Jaffray & Co. — also predicts the device will outsell the first iPad, which came out in April. Apple will get a boost from offering a white model for the first time, he said. Read the full story at Bloomberg .

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Can Apple Sell 600,000 iPad 2s This Weekend?

The tablet market is getting more and more crowded, but the iPad 2 is still the best. “I can comfortably recommend it as the best tablet for average consumers,” Walt Mossberg writes in The Wall Street Journal. Mossberg says the new thinner model was…

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iPad 2 Reviews: Still the Best

The new iPad has arrived and there are noticeable improvements in speed, weight and thinness.

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State Of the Art: Appeal of iPad 2 Is a Matter of Emotions