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Today in Tech: Mike Daisey responds to Apple backlash

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* Off-broadway performer Mike Daisey took to his blog in response to mounting criticism that he "partially fabricated" his observations of Foxconn iPad factories. "In the last forty-eight hours I have been equated with Stephen Glass, James Frey, and Greg Mortenson," he wrote.  "Given the tenor of the condemnation, you would MORE

Today in Tech: The 'partially fabricated' iPad factory interview

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* Apple (AAPL) is holding a conference call later this morning to discuss what the company intends to do with its roughly $100 billion in cash. (Fortune)

* Late last week, the highly-respected radio show This American Life announced it was retracting an episode it aired about a Foxconn iPad factory because one source, off-Broadway performer MORE

What were the 'falsehoods' in Mike Daisey's Apple show?

A monologist who shined a harsh light on Apple has himself come under scrutiny

"Daisey lied to me," wrote This American Life executive producer Ira Glass Friday as he announced that his radio show was withdrawing its most popular episode -- an excerpt of Mike Daisey's off-Broadway show about Apple's (AAPL) labor practices in China -- and canceling a live presentation of Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstacy of Steve Jobs" MORE

Jefferies' Peter Misek went to Asia and thought he saw iTV

Ups his Apple price target $100 to $699 and 2012 iPhone sales from 145 to 155 million

It sounds like Peter Misek, Jefferies & Company's senior Apple (AAPL) analyst, had a productive trip to Asia. In a note to clients Monday, he summarized what he found:

Signs that Apple may be preparing to begin commercial production of a full-fledged television -- which he calls iTV -- around May or June for a MORE

Barcelona blues: Apple reaps most of the cellphone profits

Just in time for this week's Mobile World Congress, a snapshot of where the money goes

To get a sense of what Apple's (AAPL) competitors are up against in Barcelona this week as they unveil their new mobile phone models for the 2012 season, consider the relative size of the solid color profit (and loss) bars in the chart above.

It's the money shot in a series of eye-opening graphs that the inimitable Horace MORE

Today in Tech: Would you buy a pair of Google goggles?

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* Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings on his company's rise, fall, and slow redemption. (Vanity Fair)

* Google (GOOG) is reportedly working on a pair of goggles -- really eyeglasses -- that will project information onto the lenses. If true, expect them to go on sale by the end of this MORE

Free download: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

Mike Daisey has released the script of his controversial monologue on the Internet

UPDATE: Anybody who is interested in Mike Daisey's work should first listen to the retraction prepared by This American Life here.

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Even as he performs an extended stay of his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at the New York Public Theater, Mike Daisey has done a rare thing for a professional writer and MORE

Video: Nightline's report on life inside an iPad factory

Bill Weir dons a bunny suit and takes a camera into Foxconn's Shenzhen facilities

With Apple's (AAPL) permission, Foxconn for the first time allowed a reporter and his camera crew into its famous Shenzhen, China, factory complex. The 17-minute report aired Tuesday night.

Apart from some details about the production processes (it takes 141 steps, mostly done by hand, to assemble an iPhone) there's little news here that wasn't in the reporter's MORE

Today in Tech: A cheaper Nook Tablet coming this week?

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* Apple (AAPL) granted ABC's Nightline unfettered access to a Foxconn factory. Here's a preview of what they found. (The full segment airs this evening at 11:35 PM EST and PST. (ABC News via Fortune)

* National Security Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander warned that the hacker group dubbed "Anonymous" could have MORE

Video: ABC takes a camera crew inside an iPad factory

Nightline to air its special after the kids are asleep Tuesday at 11:35 p.m. ET and PT

Four years ago, when I first starting writing about Foxconn, it was almost impossible to get a photo of the factory workers who assemble 40% of the world's electronic devices.

Now, 18 suicides, two fatal explosions, an off-Broadway show and a New York Times exposé later, Foxconn has opened the factory where Apple's (AAPL) iPads MORE