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There has been much speculation about when exactly the iPhone 6 is scheduled to debut in September. Predictions have been falling between the second and third week of the month. But the guessing game is over: our reliable source is saying that the new iPhone is slated for release at a big media event on September 9th, falling well within the timeframe that tech reporters and enthusiasts have estimated. Other news sites, such as the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, have confirmed the date as well. The timing of the iPhone 6’s release is in keeping with Apple’s behavior over the past few years. Typically, new phones are announced at an event in early to mid-September, and sales begin near the end of the month. The trend was seen last…

INTERESTING INSIGHT INTO HOW EMPLOYEES ARE VALUED Are you guilty of occasionally perusing the Glassdoor website? If so, you’re hardly alone. It’s become a hugely popular online portal for the sharing of juicy secrets about different companies and their bosses, directly from the employees of such firms. This is the place to find out whether Company A really is a better place to work than Company B, and whether you’d be paid higher for the same work at Company C or Company D. Certainly, salaries are a headline attraction of Glassdoor, which can be found at http://www.glassdoor.com. You might work in the tech industry yourself, and be curious about whether you ought to move to one of the big hitters like Facebook, Google... or Apple. Apple’s an interesting one. It’s…

iOS #01 - Kim Kardashian: Hollywood By Glu Games Inc. Category: Games Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rooftop Run By Nickelodeon Category: Games Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - Make Them Jump By Ketchapp Category: Games Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 - Instagram By Instagram, Inc. Category: Photo & Video Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #05 - Timberman By Pawel Jedrysiak Category: Games Requires iOS 4.3…

This week’s news that a Russian crime ring has amassed some 1.2 billion username and password combinations makes now a good time to review ways to protect yourself online. The hacking misdeeds were described in a New York Times story based on the findings of Hold Security, a Milwaukee firm that has a history of uncovering online security breaches. Hold Security called the data “the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials.” Hold’s researchers did not identify the origins of the data or name the victim websites, citing nondisclosure agreements. The company also said it didn’t want to name companies whose websites are still vulnerable to hacking, according to the Times report. If there’s reason to believe any of your passwords might have been compromised, change them immediately. One of…

Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix, Vol. 1 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Various Artists Two soundtracks accompany the James Gunn directed Marvel Comics superhero flm Guardians of the Galaxy - the original score composed by Tyler Bates and this one, which features the songs and artists seen on character Peter Quill’s mixtape in the film. It includes a host of classic ‘70s and ‘80s tunes. FIVE FACTS: 1. The Guardians of the Galaxy film is based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. 2. The plot involves Peter Quill forming an uneasy alliance with a group of extraterrestrial misfits, who are on the run after stealing a coveted orb. 3. Gunn revealed that the film would incorporate songs from the 1970s and 1980s, such as Blue Swede’s…

Sprint’s new owner is replacing its longtime CEO after dropping its bid for rival wireless carrier T-Mobile US Marcelo Claure, the CEO of cellphone distributor Brightstar, will replace Dan Hesse on Monday, Sprint Corp. said Wednesday. Claure, 43, had been CEO of Brightstar Corp., which is part of Softbank Corp. of Japan. Softbank bought 70 percent of Sprint last year. Sprint shares fell 17 percent in morning trading Wednesday (06). The Wall Street Journal said Tuesday that Sprint decided not to pursue the merger of the No. 3 and No. 4 U.S. carriers. The paper cited unnamed people familiar with the matter. The merger would have faced tough opposition from U.S. regulators who want to preserve competition among wireless carriers. In a statement Wednesday, the CEO of Softbank and chairman…

Microsoft said Friday it is suing Samsung for threatening to stop paying Microsoft royalties for patents behind the Android operating system. The two companies came to a deal in September 2011 to cross-license each other’s patent portfolios. Samsung wound up paying Microsoft royalties on a series of patents. Analyst RickSherlund of Nomura Securities has estimated royalties on its Android patents bring Microsoft nearly $2 billion a year. Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, says more than 25 companies are licensing the patents, including Samsung, Acer and ZTE, covering roughly 80 percent of the Android-based smartphones sold in the U.S. In a blog post Friday, Microsoft Corp.’s deputy general counsel said Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. decided to breach its contract after Microsoft announced in September it was acquiring Nokia’s devices business. After…

Passcodes are outdated. They’re a pain to use, and they aren’t secure when they are based on easy-to-guess digits, such as a birth date or street address. Many people don’t bother using them on phones, even though that means any thief can get instant access to email, banking apps and more. Fortunately, phone makers have started to come up with alternatives to passcodes. I take a deeper look at those options as I debut an occasional series, A Closer Look. Over the weeks, we’ll explore features in various gadgets and services. Rarely does one feature make or break a buying decision, but these elements collectively might push you in one direction or another. And for those who already own these gadgets, it’s a way to discover features you might not…

iOS #01 - Heads Up! By Warner Bros. Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Minecraft - Pocket Edition FT By Mojang Category: Games / Price: $6.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - Afterlight By Simon Filip Category: Photo & Video / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optiized for iPhone 5. #04 - Modern Combat 5: Blackout By Gameloft Category: Games / Price: $6.99 Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #05…

Gannett is splitting its broadcast and publishing business in two, joining other major media players in allowing fast growing TV and digital operations to operate more freely and not be weighed down by the declining newspaper business. The media company also announced Tuesday that it would take full ownership of Cars.com for $1.8 billion. Shares of Gannett, which owns 46 TV stations, USA Today and 81 other newspapers and websites such as CareerBuilder, rose more than 3 percent in premarket trading. The spinoffofthe publishing unit follows similar maneuvers by other major operators like Time Warner Inc., News Corp. and the Tribune Co., which completed a split with its division that publishes The Los Angeles Times and other newspapers on Monday. Media companies have been taking action to separate sluggish newspaper…

Professional networking service Linkedln has agreed to pay nearly $6 million in unpaid wages and damages to 359 current and former employees, the Labor Department said on Monday. The U.S. Department of Labor said an investigation found Linkedln Corp. in violation of overtime and record-keeping rules that are part of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. It said the violations occurred at company branches in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York. A representative for Mountain View, Californiabased Linkedln did not immediately respond to a message for comment. Linkedln agreed to pay the back wages once it was notified of the violations and to take steps to prevent them from happening again. Federal law requires that hourly employees get paid 1.5 times their regular hourly rates for hours they work beyond…

Sometimes the struggles of an industry can bring music to your ears. And your screens. Live Nation’s partnership with Yahoo to stream one live concert every day is a rare win for music fans. The series, which began with the Dave Matthews Band in mid-July, offers free, highquality concert footage in a way that helps the companies providing it, since selling ads is more profitable than concert promotion. The deal opens up a new revenue stream for Live Nation, which reported second quarter earnings Thursday that fell short on profit but beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations. And for Yahoo, premium video ad prices could be a cure for its plunging display ad rates. Concerts globally are having a down year as a larger number of big acts sacrifice their own…

To Scrabble fanatics, big gifts sometimes come in small packages. The word “te” as a variant of “ti,” the seventh tone on the musical scale, is a hardworking little gem among 5,000 words added to “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary,” out Aug. 11 from Merriam-Webster. The dictionary’s last freshening up was a decade ago. Entries in the forthcoming book include texter, vlog, bromance, hashtag, dubstep and selfie were mere twinkles on the racks of recreational players. But it’s the addition of te and three other two-letter words - da, gi and po - that has Robin Pollock Daniel excited. Daniel, a clinical psychologist in Toronto, is a champion of the North American Scrabble Players Association, which has a committee that helps Merriam-Webster track down new, playable words of two to…

Xiaomi, a Chinese handset maker little known in the West, overtook tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. to become China’s top-selling smartphone brand in the second quarter, a market research company said Tuesday. According to Canalys, Xiaomi sold 15 million smartphones in China during the second quarter, more than a three-fold surge from a year earlier. It surpassed Samsung, which had the leading position in China for more than two years, as well as local brands such as Lenovo and Huawei. During the April-June period, Samsung’s China smartphone sales decreased to 13.2 million units from 15.5 million a year earlier. Lenovo trailed Samsung by a margin of 2 million units. Xiaomi is little known in Europe or in North America because it sells nearly all of its smartphones in mainland China.…

Divergent Set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic version of Chicago where people are divided into distinct factions based on human values, Divergent sees Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley) warned that she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. She then learns of a sinister plot by a faction leader (Kate Winslet) to destroy all Divergents, and must therefore discover what is so dangerous about being a Divergent - before it’s too late. FIVE FACTS: 1. Other members of the Divergent cast include Theo James, Ashley Judd, Jai Courtney and Ray Stevenson. 2. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Veronica Roth. 3. It is the first installment in The Divergent Series. 4. Production mainly took place in Chicago. 5. The movie has grossed $274,945,239…

Rupert Murdoch s 21st Century Fox is abandoning its attempt to take over Time Warner in a proposed deal that would have combined two of the world’s biggest media companies. The about-face announced Tuesday comes three weeks after Time Warner Inc. revealed that it had rejected 21st Century Fox’s unsolicited $76 billion buyout offer. Murdoch, a voracious dealmaker throughout his colorful career, had envisioned creating a movieand-television powerhouse by devouring Time Warner. Twenty First Century Fox owns the 20th Century Fox movie studio, Fox broadcast network, and cable-TV channels Fox News and FX while Time Warner’s stable includes the Warner Bros. movie studio and TV channels such as TNT, TBS and HBO. There had been hopes on Wall Street that Murdoch wanted Time Warner so badly that he would raise…