Apple's $25-a-year iTunes Match service can match the tracks in your iTunes library with those in Apple's 20-million-song catalog, and lets you upload the ones it can't match (up to 25,000 non-purchased tracks) -- and then access those songs via iTunes or your iOS devices whenever you want. And for the tracks it does match, you can download Apple's copies to replace your own poorly ripped MP3 fi..

A group of more than a dozen activists converged on Apple's store in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. last week to deliver petitions protesting working conditions at the firm's supply chain partners in China, part of a day of demonstrations at Apple locations around the world. Amanda Kloer, Change.org's director of organizing, awaits Apple's response. The petition, started by Washingto..