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Apple Inc. has agreed to provide full refunds to consumers, paying a minimum of $32.5 million, to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint that the company billed consumers for millions of dollars of charges incurred by children in kids’ mobile apps without their parents’ consent. Under the terms of the settlement with the FTC, Apple also will be required to change its billing practices to ensure that it has obtained express, informed consent from consumers before charging them for items sold in mobile apps. "This settlement is a victory for consumers harmed by Apple's unfair billing, and a signal to the business community: whether you're doing business in the mobile arena or the mall down the street, fundamental consumer protections apply," said FTC. Chairwoman Edith Ramirez. "You cannot charge consumers…

Where do you go if you want to know what's next in consumer technology? Well, you go to where so many of the biggest hitters in consumer technology actually hang out - the International CES, the event that takes place every year in Las Vegas, and that has been predicting the future since its first running in New York City in 1967. One only needs to look at the roll call of past technologies announced at this event to see why all industry eyes turn to it every January. It was at the 1970 event that the vidéocassette recorder (VCR) broke cover, for example, while in 1981, we got the camcorder and compact disc (CD) player, and 1996 saw the announcement of the DVD, or Digital Versatile Disk. Over the…

iOS #01 – Flipagram By Cheerful, Inc. Category: Photo & Video Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatilble with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Rayman Jungle Run ByUblsoft Category: Games Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatilble with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 – Snapchat By Snapchat, Inc. Category: Photo & Video Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad 2, iPad (3rd gen), iPad (4th gen), iPad mini, iPod touch (4th gen), and iPod touch (5th gen). This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 – QuizUp: The biggest trivia game in the world! By Plain Vanilla Corp Category: Games Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This…

My Own Lane Kid Ink Following his major label debut, the Almost Home EP last May, rapper Kid Ink continues his association with RCA Records with the full-length My Own Lane, his second studio album. In doing so, he enlists a wide range of production talent, from DJ Mustard, The Runners and Cardiak to Arthur McArthur, Ned Cameron and The Futuristics. Other collaborators include Chris Brown, Tyga, Machine Gun Kelly, Elle Varner and Pusha T, Brown’s hook helping lead single “Show Me” to the Billboard top 30. FIVE FACTS: 1. Kid Ink is the stage name of Los Angeles native Brian Todd Collins. 2. Kid Ink's decision to sign to a major label in RCA Records, after years of releasing music independently, may come as a surprise to some -…

LA. school district officials are negotiating a lower price for thousands of !Pads that are part of a $l-billion effort to provide tablets to every student, teacher and administrator. The reduced price, about $200 to $300 less per device, would apply to as many as 67,500 !Pads that would be used initially only for new state tests in the spring. The discount would lower the price per !Pad from $768 each to a cost that is more in line with what some other school districts are paying. The reduction results from features or services that the !Pads for testing would not include. The primary savings is from leaving off curriculum developed by Pearson. Also not included in the testing package would be training from Apple and Pearson and an Apple…

First our phones got smarter. Now our homes are getting smarter, too. Everything that can be connected to the Internet is being - or soon will be - linked to a wireless network, including thermostats, faucets, light switches and egg trays. Yes, "smart" egg trays. Experts have branded this development the "Internet of Things," or the "Smart Home," and it's welcomed by wireless companies, electronics manufacturers and tech-savvy consumers. "It's just an easier way to be connected at all times," said Dan Green, an Allentown resident who owns a smart watch, a smart video baby monitor and smart switches that allow him to remotely control a space heater and the lights on a Christmas tree. In the Buffalo Niagara region, the trend is playing out in homes, at area businesses…

The video is riddled with menace and swagger: Reputed gang members in Chicago point their guns directly at the camera. A bare-chested young man brandishes an assault weapon. They flash hand signals, dance and, led by a rapper, taunt their rivals as he chants: "Toe tag DOA. That's for being in my Way... Killing til my heart swell... Guaranteed there's going to be all hell." Thousands watch on YouTube. Among them: the Chicago police, who quickly identify two of those in the video as felons who are prohibited from being around guns. Both are later taken into custody. As social media has increasingly become part of daily life, both gangs and law enforcement are trying to capitalize on the reach of this new digital world - and both, in their…

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 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 – Cut the Rope 2 By ZeptoLab UK Limited Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 – Sky Guide: View Stars Night or Day By Fifth Star Labs LLC Category: Reference / Price: $1.99 Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone…

Google Inc. announced Monday that it will spend $3.2 billion to acquire Nest Labs Inc., a Silicon Valley company founded by former Apple Inc. employees to develop better versions of common devices for homes. "Nest's founders, Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, have built a tremendous team that we are excited to welcome into the Google family," Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page said in Monday's news release. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Nest last year introduced a connected smoke detector to its product line, which previously included a thermostat originally launched in late 2011. At Apple, Fadell and Rogers led teams that created the !Pod and the !Phone, and Nest had received backing from Google's venture capital arm as well as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. "We're thrilled to join Google. With…

New York-based IBM Corp., a technology company with a campus in the Research Triangle Park, was first on the list of the top U.S. patent recipients in 2013. This was the 21st consecutive year the company has held the top spot on the list produced by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services. IBM received 6,809 patents in the year, up 5 percent from the prior year. It had 2,000 more patents than the No. 2 company, Samsung Electronics. The ranking included Canon at 3, Sony at 4, and Microsoft at 5. Qualcomm made its first appearance in the top 10 at No. 9. The company had a 62 percent increase from the prior year, according to a news release from IFI CLAIMS Patent Services. Google Inc. and Apple Inc. made the top…

Capt. Paul Wannberg glides an old Boeing 757 over the New Mexico desert, lining up with the runway. A computerized voice squawks elevation warnings. Forty feet. Thirty. Twenty. Ten. Touchdown. Outside the cockpit window sit nearly a hundred airplane carcasses, perfectly lined up. They are jets that nobody wants anymore. And - after 26,057 takeoffs and landings - this 24-year- old American Airlines plane is about to join them. "This is my first time here, and it's a sad place," First Officer Robert Popp tells the control tower. Airlines used to store planes in the desert during slow travel months. Sometimes, unwanted jets would be sold to carriers in Russia or Africa. Today, a man on the other end of the radio responds, "they're chopping them up." Airlines are on…

Runner Runner As Justin Timberlake was tearing back up the pop charts with his comeback albums The 20/20 Experience and its counterpart 2 of 2, he also resumed his Hollywood career with a star turn in this Brad Furman-directed crime thriller. Formerly enjoying a lucrative Wall Street career, Richie Furst is unable to secure tuition assistance as a grad student at Princeton - prompting his involvement in online gambling. He heads to Costa Rica to confront a tycoon who he believes to have swindled him - which soon lands him in a dramatic encounter with the FBI. Ben Affleck, Gemma Arterton and Anthony Mackie also star. FIVE FACTS: 1. On being presented with the script, Timberlake had initially wanted to play not Furst, but adversary Ivan Block - the role…

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