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TAIPEI — The Taiwanese company Elan Microelectronics has sued Apple, alleging infringement of two of its touch screen patents, an Elan spokesman said Wednesday.
The suit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Dennis Liu, an Elan spokesman, said by telephone from the headquarters of the chip design company in [...]

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Shaking up the nascent market for electronic books for the second time in two months, Amazon.com will begin selling e-books for reading on Apple’s popular iPhone and iPod Touch.
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Amazon says its Kindle 2, above, and devices like Apple’s iPhone and iPod are complementary.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. — For the last nine months, Apple has refused to get into specifics about the well-being of its chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, even as he said last month that he was taking a six-month leave of absence to deal with health problems.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Amid a deepening recession and an intensifying controversy over the health of its chief executive, Apple reported strong first-quarter profits on Wednesday that surprised analysts and handily beat Wall Street’s expectations.
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Devotees at Macworld did not see Steve Jobs as usual. The S.E.C. is investigating [...]

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It has been in the air for some time, but Apple can dodge the question no longer: How important is Steven P. Jobs to its future?
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By all accounts, Mr. Jobs’s perfectionism, autocratic [...]

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Casting a pall over one of the world’s most closely watched companies, Steven P. Jobs, chief executive of Apple, said on Wednesday that he was taking a leave of absence because of health concerns.
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Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, at the company’s headquarters in October. [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple, by far the largest seller of online music, said on Tuesday that it had cut a new deal with the three largest music companies that would allow it to remove anticopying restrictions from all of the songs in its iTunes store. It will also move away from its insistence on pricing [...]

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Reluctantly trying to put to rest persistent speculation about his health, the chief executive of Apple, Steven P. Jobs, disclosed in a public letter on Monday that he was recovering from a hormone imbalance that has contributed to his continuing weight loss.
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Apple’s new executive in charge of iPods and iPhones must stop work immediately because he may have violated an agreement with his former employer, I.B.M., a New York judge ruled. The executive, Mark Papermaster, left for Apple last month. I.B.M. sued him, saying the move violated an employment contract in which he agreed [...]

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Apple Inc. said Tuesday that it planned to hire a high-ranking I.B.M. technology executive to run its iPod and iPhone hardware engineering groups.
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I.B.M., the giant computer maker, filed suit last week against the executive, Mark Papermaster, the manager in charge of the company’s blade server business. I.B.M said [...]

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