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Wondershare TunesGo is a new application brought to you by Wondershare that allows flawless transfers between !OS devices and Microsoft computers. The application allows a thirty day free trial to see if the software works for you before purchasing the full version from their website. The application mirrors the awesome features that you get for sharing !OS software to a Mac, but now you can cross platforms much easier. While not a necessary application, the software allows you to transfer files between your devices, from music and contacts, to SMS message conversations. The application is great for the possibility of needing to restore a phone, because everything can sync back to have your phone operating like new. Upon downloading the software, you’re brought to a page on the TunesGo website…

From the look of all the Amazon Prime boxes landing on my neighbor’s doorstep, I don’t think he has stepped foot in a store this holiday season. And he’s not the only one. Online sales, particularly those done through a mobile device, are the top story of this year’s shopping season. Consumers weary of crowds and long lines are preferring to shop from the comfort of home and, in many cases, with a drink in one hand and in the buff. But more on that later. Cyber Monday was the biggest day in e-commerce history. Mobile sales led the way, exceeding 17 percent of total online sales, a whopping 55 percent increase over last year, according to data from IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark. And way to click, Tampa shoppers! We…

iOS #01 - Clumsy Ninja By NaturalMotion Category: Games Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Skee Ball Arcade By Scopely - Top Free Apps and Games LLC Category: Games Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - 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 app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 - 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),…

At Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches computer science, Luis von Ahn and student David Klionsky thought there should be a way to use smartphones to teach new languages. Sure, there was Rosetta Stone, but it’s an expensive program (it starts at $274), and the folks who really need to learn to speak other languages “don’t have the money,” says von Ahn. “They need it to get a better job.” So they put their heads together and came up with Duolingo, which was released at the end of 2012. Twelve months later, Duolingo has seen 10 million downloads. And now Apple has deemed it the free !Phone App of the Year. (The app is also available for Android.) “We’re super happy,” says von Ahn, who still teaches but plans to…

Apple Inc. might have a chance to pep up cooling !Phone sales in China if it finally can reach a deal with the world’s biggest phone carrier. Once China’s must-have gadget, the !Phone has seen its explosive popularity squeezed as the market filled with lower-priced rivals from Samsung to ambitious local brands. Some analysts say anybody who wants an i Phone and can afford it already has one. That might change if Apple can gain access to China Mobile Ltd.’s network and a new pool of potential customers. After a yearslong courtship, there are signs the two corporate giants might finally be edging toward a deal. The Wall Street Journal said it could be announced as early as this week, though China Mobile spokespeople have said the companies were still…

Beyonce’s new album was released just last week, but it’s already the second best-selling album on !Tunes this year. Apple announced Tuesday that the diva’s selftitled album is behind only Justin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience.” Beyonce’s fifth album sold more than 617,000 units in three days. Albums from Imagine Dragons, Jay Z and Drake round out the top 5. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis have the top-selling song with “Thrift Shop.” Their hit, “Can’t Hold Us,” placed fifth. Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons and Pink’s “Just Give Me a Reason” ranked second, third and fourth. “Skyfall” is the year’s top-selling movie and “Breaking Bad” is the leading TV show.…

There is only one Morgan Freeman, right? You know, the intense and charismatic African American actor who won the Oscar for his role in “Million Dollar Baby” and who won raves for his parts in such seminal films as “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Driving Miss Daisy/’ to name just a few? Of course you do. Still, that doesn’t stop some people from wanting more of this fine thespian, urging others to try and redefine him despite his unique personality. Indeed, photographers and the like have done their best to duplicate Freeman’s likeness after which time some images turn out to be special while others do not. That said, one such creation by United Kingdom-based artist Kyle Lambert is so close to perfect that his fingerprinted !Pad portrait comes off as…

THE LATEST HAPPENINGS WITH THE APPLE TV There is already such a thing as an Apple TV, and for many people, it’s just great. Its 1080p HD picture is perfect for the viewing of content like blockbuster movies, sport, TV programmes and even the user’s own music and videos on their widescreen TV. It can even be used to play content on a TV from an ¡OS device, thanks to AirPlay. But alas, nothing stays the same forever, and changes are afoot in the world of Apple TV, including the addition of four new channels - amid rumours of even more substantial new product releases to come. The efforts to expand programming for US based owners of the device mean new channels for ABC, Crackle, Bloomberg and Korean channel KORTV.…

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 - Hatch By Impending Category: Games/ Price: $1.99 Requires iOS 6.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - Minecraft - Pocket Edition ByMojang 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. #04 - Backflip Madness By Gamesoul Studio Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 5.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #05 - Duck Dynasty®: Battle of the Beards By A&E…

Death, devices and celebrity drove the quest for more information on Google’s search engine this year. Three of the world’s four fastest-rising search requests on Google were triggered by the deaths of famous men. Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who died earlier this month, occupied the top spot, followed by “Fast & Furious” movie star Paul Walker, who died in a Nov. 30 car crash. “Glee” TV series cast member Cory Monteith, who died of a drug overdose in July, ranked fourth in an annual retrospective released Tuesday. The Boston Marathon bombings in April that killed three people ranked sixth. The !Phone 5S, the latest upgrade in Apple’s most popular product line, finished third in Google’s rankings. A rival smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S4, took the eighth spot. PlayStation…

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MLB.com At Bat, for the fifth consecutive year, today was named the highest grossing sports application by Apple in its annual Best of the Year rankings for the App Store. In the overall App Store rankings, At Bat finished the year as the only sports app to place among the Top 100 highest grossing applications for both !Phone and !Pad. At Bat finished 19th and 37th for !Phone and !Pad, respectively. In 2013, baseball fans downloaded At Bat more than 10 million times with 60% of its subscribers accessing At Bat and its premium features, such as live audio broadcasts and the MLB.TV Game of the Day, daily. Last month, MLB Advanced Media announced At Bat subscriptions were available as holiday gifts for the first time. Through a direct purchase…

Sprint and Dish Network are collaborating on a wireless broadband service targeting underserved areas. The trial in Corpus Christi, Texas, will involve Sprint Corp.’s 4G LTE network and will begin in mid-2014. Dish Network Corp. will install equipment for households to tap the cellular network for basic high-speed Internet services. Many Americans have limited or no access to broadband service because it’s expensive to extend cables to rural areas. Satellite is an option, but it works better for receiving data than sending. Cellular networks could address that limitation - so long as the service doesn’t get too popular that the airwaves become congested. For Dish, it paves the way for bundling broadband access with television services, something satellite companies haven’t been able to do as well as cable providers.…

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman is getting a huge raise as she enters the third year of her attempt to turn around the slumping personal computer and printer maker. Whitman’s annual salary is soaring to $1.5 million from the $1 that she settled for during her first two years on the job, according a regulatory documents filed Tuesday. The raise approved last week is retroactive to Nov. 1, the beginning of Hewlett-Packard Co/s fiscal year. HP said the bigger paycheck will make Whiteman’s salary comparable to what CEOs of similar-sized companies make. HP earned $5 billion on revenue of $112 billion during its last fiscal year. The Palo Alto, Calif., company’s annual revenue has fallen by 12 percent over the past two years as PC sales have declined amid a shift…

The Heat Meet special agent Sarah Ashburn for the FBI. She’s an uptight know-it-all who is by definition a “teacher’s pet.” Now meet Shannon Mullins, a Boston cop who’s loud, vulgar, and the exact opposite of Ashburn in this great comedy that follows two cops teaming up and taking down the drug lord that’s been terrorizing the local community. Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy team up to bring it all in The Heat. FIVE FACTS: 1. This movie comes from the office of Paul Feig, the genius who brought us Bridesmaids, also with Melissa McCarthy. 2. This is writer Katie Dippold’s first film she has ever taken part in in a major role. 3. The film was originally called The Untitled Female Buddy Cop Comedy. 4. Feig intentionally wanted the…

London-based Datawind said it will begin selling its $38 UbiSlate tablet computer in the United States early next year. The company, which claims its tablets outsell Apple’s !Pad in India, plans to sell three models in the United States, ranging in price from $38 to as much as $149 with varying specs and capabilities. Suneet Singh Tuli, Datawind’s CEO, said the company’s goal is to bring the least expensive computers possible to schools and low-income communities. He said he especially wants to reach children who have limited access to the Web, or no connectivity at home. “Affordability shouldn’t be the reason people can’t get on the Internet,” Tuli said in a press release. “We want to specifically reach a customer base that right now is not on the Internet.” Prodution…

Former Microsoft executive Kurt Del Bene has been hired to oversee the Healthcare. gov website, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius said, Del Bene, who was most recently president of the Microsoft Office Division, starts his job as senior advisor on Wednesday, said Sibelius. “Kurt has proven expertise in heading large, complex technology teams and in product development. He will be a tremendous asset in our work,” Sibelius said Tuesday in a statement. She said DelBene has agreed to serve in the role for at least the first half of next year in order “to see this project through its next important phase,” a reference to the March 30,2014, close of open enrollment on the website. DelBene is the successor to Jeff Zients, who is scheduled to take…