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By Jacqui Cheng

It appears as if Steve Jobs will indeed return to Apple by the end of June after taking a six-month leave from the company. The world is watching to see whether he’ll make a surprise appearance at WWDC next week, though many believe he’s saving that surprise for another time.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is reportedly on track to return to Apple full-time later this month, right on schedule. Insiders speaking to The Wall Street Journal claim that Jobs’ recovery is “coming along” and that Apple’s directors have been receiving weekly updates since Jobs took leave in January. Whether or not we’ll see him at next week’s WWDC keynote, however, remains up in the air.

“He was one real sick guy,” one of the WSJ’s sources said. “Fundamentally he was starving to death over a nine-month period. He couldn’t digest protein. [But] he took corrective action.”

The iconic CEO has been

By Jonathan Bray

Verdict: Achingly gorgeous and with some intriguing features, but it’s not the most practical of designs

The shuffle has always generated heated debate over the merits of the design. But you could never accuse Apple of resting on its design laurels, and its third generation iPod shuffle is the sexiest yet.

Small enough to pass as a hair clip or over-sized earring, there’s no denying that this little MP3 player has a huge amount of charm.

Apple claims it’s the smallest MP3 player in the world and we wouldn’t quibble: we’ve no idea how the designers managed to squeeze 4GB of memory and a battery big enough to offer ten hours of playback into a package this tiny.

To compensate for the lack of screen, this Shuffle has another trick up its sleeve: VoiceOver. It’s the first MP3 player that can talk to you. It will tell you what track