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The U.S. government has filed an antitrust lawsuit in New York against Apple Inc. and various major book publishers. The lawsuit said the alleged conspiracy came as Apple was preparing to launch the iPad.

Five people in China have been charged with intentional injury after a 17-year-old sold one of his kidneys to pay for an iPad and an iPhone, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Apple is investigating several issues with its new iPad's Wi-Fi connectivity, according to an internal AppleCare document unearthed by MacRumors.

Guess that overheating issue isn't such a big deal after all. Less than two weeks after Consumer Reports engineers found that Apple's new tablet can get as hot as 116 degrees while running games, the magazine has declared it the best in breed, placing it at the top of its tablet-computer rankings on Monday.

Google, undaunted by a short-lived attempt to sell a smartphone on its own, is now pushing into Apple's iPad market by selling tablets directly to consumers than an online store.

Two iPads, two handheld radios, and two laptops were stolen from Romney aides in San Diego on Friday, 10News reports. The two aides left their rented SUV in a mall parking garage while they got dinner and returned to find their devices — which contained detailed information about the Romney campaign — stolen.

Apple Inc. says it has sold 3 million iPads since Friday when it released the latest version of the tablet computer.

Maybe it just seemed that way, but in the moments before Apple opened the doors to its Palo Alto, California store — hometown to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and current CEO Tim Cook — there seemed to be as many blue-shirted salespeople inside getting pumped up for the day as there were blanket-wrapped fans in the line outside.

Walmart's 24-hour stores will start selling the least-expensive version of the new iPad at 12:01 a.m.

Shares of the Silicon Valley giant has touched $600 for the first time, about a month after reaching the $500 mark.