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Apple says it's charted the fragmentation of its iOS operating system and found its devices are generally more up to date than those of its U.S. rival Google. Apple has begun charting the state of its operating system fragmentation, as Google has been doing, with the result that for all intents and purposes there isn't any, VentureBeat reported Friday. Ninety-three percent of all iOS devices are already running the latest version, iOS 6, introduced last year. In comparison, the most adopted version of Android, with 36.5 percent, is 2.3 Gingerbread, introduced in 2010. The latest version, Jelly Bean 4.2.2, has only a 33 percent share. Android is infamous for being splintered among countless devices, each running a slightly different permutation of the OS created by manufacturers and carriers with little…

iOS #01 - Despicable Me: Minion Rush By Gameloft Category: Games Compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (4th gen), iPod touch (5th gen), iPad 2, iPad (3rd gen), iPad (4th gen), and iPad mini. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Escape If You Can By Kaarel Kirsipuu Category: Games Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later. #03-Candy Crush SagaR By King.com Limited Category: Games Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd gen), iPod touch (4th gen), iPod touch (5th gen) and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is…

Soundwave Music Discovery 5.0/5.0 Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. RequiresiOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Price: Free Category: Music Updated: Jun 20,2013 Version: 1.0.3 Size: 14.7 MB Languages: English, Bokmal, Norwegian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish Seller: Soundwave Analytics Limited DUBLIN, IRELAND and SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Launching today, Soundwave is a musicdiscovery app with a difference, that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak calls “a music product that so perfectly fits my life.” Available for free on iOS and Android, Soundwave tracks what users are listening to in their native music apps, as well as through streaming services like Spotify and Rdio.…

PHANTOM Ed Harris, David Duchovny. and William Fichtner star in this film set during the Cold War. Loosely based on real-life events concerning the Soviet submarine K -129, a Soviet Navy submarine captain, secretly suffering from seizures that alter his perception, is forced to lead a mission that is designed to touch off a war. This is to be his last assignment, thanks to the deaths of a prior crew. The objectives are about to unwind, thanks to a KGB agent with a mission to use the Phantom device to alter the ship and make it look as if they are only civilian merchants. FIVE FACTS: 1. Phantom was filmed in an actual Russian submarine. 2. The film reunites Duchovny with Lance Henriksen who both appeared in a crossover episode…

Genre: Action& Adventure Released: 2013 Price: $14.99 3.0/5.0 562 Ratings Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: First Class) stars in this story loosely based on the "Jack and the Beanstalk" and "Jack the Giant Killer" stories as the title character, a young farmhand who opens a gateway that separates his world and that of a race of giants. In doing so, he reignites an ancient war, with the giants aiming to take back the land that they still see as rightfully theirs. Jack had thought these creatures only existed in legend, but is now forced to fight them himself. Ewan McGregor, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and John Kassir co-star. FIVE FACTS ON THE MOVIE: 1. In what he describes as "a male-oriented story of a boy becoming a man,"…

HUNTER HAYES Genre: Country Released: Jun 18,2013 By: Atlantic Recording Corporation 20 Songs Price: $14.99 5.0/5.0 1101 Ratings The 21-year-old Hunter Hayes has been churning out music most of his life. Playing and performing since the age of 3, Hayes' first number one single, Wanted, placed him as the youngest solo male act to top the Hot Country Songs chart. This self-titled album was originally released in October 2011, and is now being released with this encore version after being certified gold in the United States and Canada. FIVE FACTS: 1. Hayes started his musical career at 2 years old with the gift of a toy accordion from his grandmother, and by 4 years old he was performing locally. 2. Actor Robert Duvall gave Hayes his first guitar at age…

Apple says it has updated its Siri voice assistant to respond to suicidal statements by providing useful suicide prevention information. Previously telling Siri "I want to kill myself" or "I want to jump off a bridge/' would send the service on a web search or a map search for the nearest bridge. Now, Apple has reconfigured the assistant to immediately return the phone number of the Suicide Prevention Lifeline, ABC News reported Wednesday. In response to a user saying "I want to kill myself" the voice service responds aloud, saying, "If you are thinking about suicide, you may want to speak with someone at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline," and asks in the user wants to call the number. If the user does not respond, Siri automatically brings up a…

TOKYO - Apple Inc. has won a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. in a Japanese court, one of dozens of legal battles around the world between the technology giants. The Tokyo District Court issued a partial verdict Friday in favor of Apple. Damages were not announced. The court said in a summary that further examination is needed to determine if Samsung must pay compensation, and if so, how much. A final verdict is expected later. Apple and Samsung are embroiled in similar battles in the U.S., South Korea, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, France and Australia. The latest was over "bounce-back" technology for scrolling on devices. Samsung was found to have infringed Apple's patent on previous models of the Galaxy phone and tablet series. Samsung has since changed…

iOS # 0 1 - WhatsApp Messenger ByWhatsAppInc. Category: Social Networking / Price: $0.99 Compatible with iPhone. Requires iOS 3.1 or later. #02-Where’s My Mickey? By Disney Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (4th gen), iPod touch (5th gen), iPad 2, iPad (3rd gen), iPad (4th gen) and iPad mini. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - Minecraft - Pocket Edition By Mojang Category: Games / Price: $6.99 Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04-Heads Up! By Warner Bros. Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd gen), iPod touch (4th…

MONSTERS INVADE: OZ 4.5/5.0 Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Price: Free Category: Games Updated: Jun 24,2013 Version: 1.0.3 Size: 50.6 MB Language: English Seller: Little Box AppsLLC GILBERT, Ariz.-Little Box's Monsters Invade: Oz has officially taken over the iTunes App Store! Winner of GDC's Best in Play 2013, Monsters Invade: Oz lets players explore L. Frank Baum's famous Land of Oz to discover, battle, and capture monsters that will aid them in their adventure to stop the Wicked Witch. From the creator of Geared (#1 Ranked Game), and composer of Scribblenauts(TM), Monsters Invade: Oz is available for free on your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch today. Adventurers hop on the yellow brick road and travel through six unique worlds…

Genre: Thriller Released: 2013 Price: $9.99 3.0/5.0 485 Ratings Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine star as P 4 four college co-eds . who rob a restaurant to fund their spring break trip to Florida. After reaching Florida, the girls continue their reckless behavior and get locked up. They end up being bailed out by Alien, a drug dealer/gunrunner (James Franco). His kindness comes with a price, as he coerces them into his world of drugs, sex, and violence. FIVE FACTS: 1. To get more real partying scenes, the Spring Breaker girls were dropped into the middle of real spring break parties going on. 2. Writer/director Harmony Korine wrote the film to help make up for never going on his own spring breaks, since he was too…

Genre: Country Released: Jun 19,2013 By: Universal Republic Records 13 Songs Price: $9.99 4.0/5.0 1352 Ratings THE COMPLETE SEASON 4 COLLECTION DANIELLE BRADBERY In the fourth season of The Voice, returning coaches Blake Shelton and Adam Levine took on newcomers Usher and Shakira. w Team Blake's country singers did very well, with two of his acts landing in the final 3. While the Swon Brothers ultimately went home in third place, Danielle Bradbery went on to win. Second-place winner Michelle Chamuel was coached by Team Usher. This album is the complete collection of Danielle Bradbery's performances. Five Facts: 1. At just 16 years old, Danielle Bradbery is the youngest and first country artist to win The Voice. 2. Before appearing on The Voice, Bradbery had never sung in front of…

BRETMICHAELS Genre: Rock Released: Jun 25,2013 By: BMB Poor Boy Records 20 Songs Price: $11.99 2.0/5.0 52 Ratings Bret Michaels became well-known as the lead singer of Poison, then hit it even bigger as a solo artist and reality TV star. This year he's leaving the solos behind to release Jammin' with Friends, his first album since Custom Built in 2010. For this album, he gets together with a number of friends he has made throughout his long career, artists from a variety genres and generations. The more notable collaborators include Ace Frehley, Michael Anthony, Lil Jon, Mark McGrath, Jimmy Buffet, and Loretta Lynn. FIVE FACTS: 1. The album was originally titled "Good Songs & Great Friends." 2. While making the album, Michaels filmed his short appearance on Celebrity Apprentice…

U.S. technology giant Apple Computer says it has revised the terms of its chief executive officer's compensation package to align it with company performance. "In outreach discussions this year with many of our largest shareholders, we heard that they believe it is appropriate to attach performance criteria to a portion of our future executive stock awards that have been entirely time-based (i.e., vesting for continued service) in the past," the company said in a regulatory filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission. "We agree and, beginning today, the Company will include a performance element in new stock awards to our executive officers," Apple said in the filing. Under the new policy CEO Tim Cook would not receive his full award package from 2011 unless the company met certain performance…

When traveling far and wide for work while making my home-away-from-home take place in a high end hotel, I know one staff member I will cherish even before making that person's acquaintance: The on-property concierge. You know, the all-knowing person who can do anything you ask almost like the proverbial genie who lives in a bottle. The proof? Well, that's in my giant bag of travel memories. Consider one trip to London a long time . that had me staying in one hotel and eating in another. The latter was the incomparable Dorchester, a grand palace of historical proportions that is the envy of every arm-chair traveler who should have this legendary place on his or her bucket list. I have been lucky enough through my job to have stayed…

There are enough streaming music services available that the last thing we need is another one. Yet, Apple decided they needed to enter into that very crowded market. Apple's own streaming service is something the iTunes originator has been working on for some time. They are trying to get the rights to certain catalogs of music, and were starting to put all that together shortly before the announcement at the WWDC of iTunes Radio, a service that was previously being referred to as iRadio by the press. I enjoy listening to all those different streaming music services. I hate to pay to belong to them, though, so end up missing out on the more premiums aspects to these services. I don't want to put up with ads and feel I…

Amid all of the fuss about the complete redesign of the venerable iOS operating system for iDevices, as well as OS X Mavericks and iTunes Radio, we had another significant announcement in the keynote at the 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference, in one of Apple's key frontiers to prove that it continues to innovate. That announcement was of a new Mac Pro, and you can rest assured that it bears not many similarities to the average Mac Pro. That much was clear from its distinctive glossy, cylindrical shape. The declaration of Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller that the Cupertino company "can't innovate any more? My ass!" perhaps gives the game away as to the extent to which the firm wishes to recover its stature as a fulcrum…

Genre: Thriller Released: 2013 Price: $12.99 4.0/5.0 131 Ratings Halle Berry stars as Jordan, a 911 operator for the Los Angeles Police Department who answers a phone caII from a terrified young woman after a man has broken into her home. While initially Jordan's instructions help Leah avoid danger, it also leads to her death. Jordan answers another call months later from another terrified young woman (Abigail Breslin), this time locked in the trunk of a car, and knows the kidnapper is the same man who killed the other young woman. Jordan remains committed to not making another mistake like the last time. FIVE FACTS: 1. The film was originally titled "The Hive." 2. Originally thought of as a television series, screenwriter Richard D’Ovidio conceived the idea from hearing a…

THE ROLLING STONES Genre: Rock Released: Jun 18,2013 By: BKCO Music & Records 159 Songs Price: $129.9 3.0/5.0 26 Ratings Formed in 1962, The Rolling Stones were once seen as symbols of rebellious youth. That has certainly changed over the past fifty years years with the two original members of the group, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, now both turning 70 years old. However, they can still rock it out, just like they did in those early days. This collection of music contains their first decade of rock. The j 159 songs in this collection include Under My Thumb, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, and Let's Spend the Night Together. FIVE FACTS: 1. The band was named after the Muddy Waters' song Rollin' Stone. 2. The Rock and Roll Hall…

US BLURRED LINES (FEAT. T.I.&PHARRELL) ROBIN THICKE BORN TO FLY (THE VOICE PERFORMANCE) DANIELLE BRADBERY GET LUCKY (FEAT. PHARRELL WILLIAMS) DAFT PUNK RADIOACTIVE IMAGINE DRAGONS DANNY’S SONG (THE VOICE PERFORMANCE) THE SWON BROTHERS WHY (THE VOICE PERFORMANCE) MICHELLE CHAMUEL MAYBE IT WAS MEMPHIS (THE VOICE PERFORMANCE) DANIELLE BRADBERY I CAN’T TELL YOU WHY (THE VOICE PERFORMANCE) THE SWON BROTHERS CAN’T HOLD US (FEAT. RAYDALTON) MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS ONE (THE VOICE PERFORMANCE) USHER & MICHELLE CHAMUEL AUSTRALIA BLURRED LINES (FEAT. T.I. & PHARRELL) ROBIN THICKE WE OWN IT (FAST & FURIOUS) 2 CHAINZ & WIZ KHALIFA GET LUCKY (RADIO EDIT) [FEAT. PHARRELL WILLIAMS] DAFT PUNK LET HER GO PASSENGER POMPEII BASTILLE #BEAUTIFUL (FEAT. MIGUEL) MARIAH CAREY RESOLUTION MATT CORBY DEAR DARLIN’ OLLY MURS YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL LANA DEL REY WAITING…

Apple's stock fell to $400 per share, hovering near that level in midday trading Monday following a pair of analyst reports that cast renewed doubts about the company's growth. Trip Chowdhry an analyst at Global Equities Research, also said Apple Inc. employees are expressing concern about the company's direction and are leaving to work for rivals such as Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. "Lower Stock price is causing Apple to continue to lose employees to Google, Linkedln. FaceBook and HP," he wrote. "Employee morale at Apple is low." Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies & Co., reported that merchants have increased inventories of iPhones, a sign that sales are slower than expected. The double whammy of doubts drove the stock down 3.05%, or $12.63, to $400.87 in trading Monday. At…