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• Why I don’t have to buy an Apple Watch

  The time is coming for each of us to decide – do we buy this new Apple Watch or not?

• In Pictures: 10 ways Apple really has changed the (tech) world

  Apple is both a creator of and a beacon for the technology future we now live in

• Apple sued by Via over microprocessor patents

  Apple is being sued by Via Technologies in the US over three patents for microprocessors.

• Reports: Apple manager arrested over $1 million in kickbacks

  An Apple manager with responsibilities for the company's contract manufacturing in Asia was arrested Friday and charged with accepting kickbacks.

• Apple iPod sales slow but iPhone makes up for it

  Apple beat analyst expectations and appears nearly untouched by the economic downturn, reporting its best non-holiday quarterly revenue and earnings in the company's history on Tuesday.

• Apple to refresh iPod line, say analysts

  Apple will refresh its iPod line this week at an event in San Francisco, but it's uncertain what, if anything else, it will spring on customers, analysts said Monday.

• E-tales: Flattery gets Orcon nowhere

  Flattery gets Orcon nowhere

• Body-controlled iPod

  Japanese researchers have created an iPod control system that lets users jump through their music by blinking their eyes.

• Toybox: Waking up easy to do with Macally TunePro

  Waking up, if I may paraphrase, is hard to do, but the Macally TunePro might help.

• 'Hot' iPods to hit Australia's streets after robbery

  Offenders broke into a bulk storage shed at Star Track Express on Mercantile Court in Queensland on Tuesday morning, according to the police.

• Microsoft cuts Zune price as Apple ups ante for iPods

  On the day Apple revealed its first Wi-Fi-enabled, touchscreen iPod, Microsoft's rival to Apple's wildly popular multimedia player got a little less expensive.

• Apple revamps iPods, cuts 8GB iPhone price by US$200

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs Wednesday announced a total refresh of the company's iconic iPod music player line that includes the new iPod touch, a Wi-Fi device that's essentially an iPhone without the phone and sports a touch-screen interface.

• Forum: Apple proves proprietary approach still has legs

  Way, way back in 1996 I was sitting in the Computerworld New Zealand sub-editors’ area and pondering the recently delivered, and not very enthusiastically received, news that we were about to lose our Macintoshes. IDG, as we were then, was standardising on PCs.

• Report: Microsoft to sell 1M Zunes by June

  Microsoft will have sold over 1 million Zune players by the end of June, which the company considers a good but not earth-shattering performance for the product.

• 'Final' iPod fix for Vista delivered

  Microsoft has released what it calls the "final" Vista fix for a problem that iPod owners had been having with the new operating system since its January 30 launch.