Tim Cook talked at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference about working conditions in their manufacturing plants, the future of the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, what Apple is going to do with their cash, and what he will do to leave his mark at Apple.

Apple will broadcast live Tim Cook’s speech at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at approximately 12:30 p.m. PT / 3:30 p.m. ET. You’ll need QuickTime to listen to the speech, so be sure to download and install it before then.

During the 54th annual Grammy Awards last night, The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs with a Grammy Award. Every year, awards are presented to the individuals who have made some kind of contribution to the field of recording. Jobs was honored with a trustee award during the ceremony of Grammy Special Merit Awards for his role in creating iTunes along with the iPod and its impact on the music industry.

Following up on the iPhone 4S Christmas commercial showing Santa using Siri, Apple has released two additional TV commercials promoting Siri, the voice-activated virtual assistant. Like previous commercials, Apple highlights the ability of Siri to be helpful with your life’s daily tasks, such as finding out locations, setting reminders and maybe inspiring a future musician.

It’s now been nearly two weeks since the Macworld | iWorld 2012 kicked off in San Francisco, and the shift from the Mac to Apple’s iDevices appears to have been a success. Truth be known, the show was headed that way before IDG embraced it with the name change, as evidenced by the growing number of iPhone case developers occupying booths on the show floor. This year was no exception, as there were numerous companies with snazzy new cases to show off. So, what do you say? Shall we take a look, then?

PowerPoint presentations are a staple of modern business, for good or for ill, but as yet there is no official PowerPoint app for the iPad. Enter BrainShark, with their cloud-based PowerPoint solution for iPad called SlideShark, and their newest product, Team Edition, which enables the iPad to become an indispensable tool for on-the-go professionals who rely on PowerPoint.

You come up with an idea for a game, spend time and money developing it, and put it on the App Store with some success only to find that someone has ripped off your hard work and made a copycat. Fortunately, Apple has responded to this problem by removing the copycats from the App Store, much to the delight of the original developers.

Another occasion to thank myself for not being an early adopter. Last week, along with the OS X 10.7.3 update (which itself has proved to be bug-plagued), Apple released Security Update 2012-001 for those of us who are Lion skeptics and continue to use OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I actually downloaded the Security Update more »

This year’s Macworld | iWorld 2012 has come to a close, and the official attendance numbers show roughly 25,000 people attended (not including media and exhibitors), 10% more than in 2011. About 40% of them came for the first time, which seems to indicate the transformation of Macworld to the “ultimate iFan event” has worked in reaching a new audience.

MokaFive announced the addition of Mac in Minutes to their MokaFive Suite of virtual desktop management software at MacWorld | iWorld 2012, and this addition is designed to increase the simplicity and speed up deployment of virtualized corporate-standard Windows desktops to Macs. MokaFive provides IT shops the ability to centrally and securely support Macs or PCs more easily than past methods of supporting individual hardware+software combinations for each employee.