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Amazon played the publishing industry for a fool. That's part of Apple's defense against an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department that depicts it as the "ringmaster" of a scheme to raise the price of e-books. The suit argues that Apple forced Amazon into a new pricing model that pushed up the cost of digital books for consumers. Apple counters that its rival is hardly a victim, but rather a manipulator that bragged about playing "Jedi mind tricks" on the publishing industry so that it, too, could adopt the so-called "agency" pricing system. Previously, Amazon bought e-books from publishers and set the price at $9.99. When Apple entered the e-book business, it allowed publishers to set the prices and pay the company a 30 percent cut. Amazon publicly complained…

A slogan Apple once used for its App Store is "There's an App for That." It was a clever catchy phrase and proved its point. There was literally an app for every imaginable function. If there is an action we want to do on an Apple mobile device, be it iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, there's an app waiting for us at the App Store to complete the action. These apps cover literally everything. The covered categories include Productivity, Games, Education, Business, Medical, { Lifestyle, Travel, Photo & Video, etc. You get the idea. It seems if you can imagine it, it's there. It wasn't always that way, though. When the iPhone was first released, that was the allure of jailbreaking the device. It certainly wasn't out of a desire…

iOS #01 – 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 gen), iPod touch (5th gen) and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 – WhatsApp Messenger By WhatsApp Inc. Category: Social Networking / Price: $0.99 Compatible with iPhone.Requires iOS 3.1 or later. #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 – A Beautiful Mess By Red Velvet Art LLC Category: Photo & Video / Price: $0.99 Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch…

DEMI DEMILOVATO Demi Lovato is another to turn a career as a Disney child star into something substantial as an adult. You can look very far back to Annette Funicello and Kurt Russell to more recent with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Lindsay Loahn, and Justin Timberlake. They all started out as young Disney talent and later found recording, television, and film careers as adults. Lovato may have initially started out appearing on Barney & Friends, but when she got a little older she starred in the film Camp Rock, then later starred in Sonny with a Chance on television. All the while she was releasing music, with her debut album being certified Gold. However, it wasn't all mouse ears and theme park fun for Lovato. She's had her share of…

Talk about kissing and making up. Despite having just sued Apple in February, hedge-fund hotshot David Einhorn more than doubled his stake in the iPhone maker in the quarter ended March, it was revealed yesterday. His new stake is worth more than $1 billion and is now Greenlight Capital Management's largest holding. Einhorn got into a public spat with Apple CEO Tim Cook over the company's $143 billion cashj hoard last quarter. The battle paid off, however, as Apple has hiked its dividend and upped its stock-buyback plan. Einhorn's bet will have to wait another day for a payoff as Apple shares fell 3.4 percent yesterday, to $428.85, on news that other hedge funds sold during the same time period, including David Tepper's Appaloosa, which dumped 372,661 shares. Chase Coleman's…

Rush hour in populous Tokyo means madness no matter where in the city you happen to be wandering. That said, the explosion of commuters and visitors hitting Shubuya's scrabble crossing at these two specific times of all work days means a scene that translates into a blur of humanity. Vehicular traffic comes to a dead stop everywhere while the masses collectively scurry in specific directions in as fast a pace as possible just to go with the very quick flow. Unfortunately, certain pedestrians in this situation move more nimbly than others. I fit into the slower category, and because of that I appreciate the fact that a statue of a dog sits between the train station in Shibuya and the famous intersection, often referred to as the Times Square of…

WASHINGTON - A labor group Apple Inc. joined to assess working conditions at three manufacturing plants in China, where its products are made, says conditions are improving. But employees are still working more hours than the country's legal limit. The Fair Labor Association said Thursday that Apple's largest supplier, Foxconn, has made all recommended improvements to working conditions that were due by the end of December. The group says there have been "notable increases" in workers' participation in union committees. Foxconn has reduced working hours, though not enough to comply with the Chinese legal limit of 49 hours per week. Foxconn is scheduled to do that by July. Foxconn is also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Apple joined the Fair Labor Association in January 2012.…

COULD YOUR iPHONE BATTERY ONE DAY BE IMMORTAL? WELL, SORT OF... Let's be honest... as ardent Apple fans, there might not be too many things that we can think of that would drastically improve our beloved iDevice or notebook. Yes, there may be the odd missing feature or app here and there, but for the most part, we're arguably just wooed by what we have and don't pine for much new functionality- until, that is, the next high-profile Apple launch event at which something amazing and revolutionary captures our attention. From successive versions of the iPhone and iPad to software and services like iCIoud, we've certainly gotten used to that. We all know that Apple devices are fantastically intuitive, sleek-looking, highly functional and, well, knock any Android device into a…

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The Pentagon says Apple's iPhone and iPad hav< been approved for use on military networks aft many years of only BlackBerry devices having such approval. The U.S. Department of Defense gave its approval Friday to Apple's mobile devices that run iOS 6, giving the Cupertino, Calif, company its first opportunity to have a role in U.S. military information systems, Mac Observer reported. The department issued a Security Technical Implementation Guide, clearing the way for iOS 6 devices to "connect to Defense Department networks within current mobility pilots or the future mobile device management framework." After years of limiting itself to BlackBerry devices, the Pentagon has moved to offer military personnel more choices in the devices they use. In addition to BlackBerry and, now, Apple devices, the Pentagon has approved Samsung…

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook says he will call for corporate tax reform to make it less costly for U.S. corporations to repatriate cash from overseas. Cook told The Washington Post in an interview Thursday he will propose a "dramatic simplification" of corporate tax law next week when he testifies at a Senate hearing on the subject of getting companies to bring cash back to the United States from overseas and use the money to generate employment and foster research and development. Citing a report by JPMorgan, the Post said more than 1,000 U.S. companies -including Apple - have about $1.7 trillion in overseas accounts. Defenders of the practice argue U.S. corporate tax rates are prohibitively high. Cook told the Post corporations that repatriate cash have to pay tax…

iOS #01 – Candy Crush Saga ® 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 optimized for iPhone 5. #02 – Fast & Furious 6: The Game By Kabam 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 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 – Little Dentist - kids games By George CL Category: Games Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.…

A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD A Good Day to Die Hard definitely has its detractors, but when it comes down to it, the movie is actually what you expect. In a Bruce Willis action flick, and most notably a Die Hard flick, we're looking for some real tough guy action with a certain amount of humor sprinkled in as well. This movie wins on both of those accounts. By the fifth installment of the Die Hard series, we know what we're in for when we sit down to watch it. The critics must have been expecting it to cut away from that usual mold. The approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes is only fifteen percent, the least of any Die Hard film. In contrast, it earned just over $300 million…

WASHINGTON - Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook was supposed to face a hostile Capitol Hill crowd but instead he wielded the company's popularity like a shield to deflect some of the. most aggressive questioning over the company's controversial tax practices. A handful of heated exchanges erupted in the hearing Tuesday before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as lawmakers pressed Cook and two other Apple executives to explain how the company used its Irish subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes. At the same time, several senators went out of their way to praise the company for being' innovative while professing to be fans and users of its products. The hearing illustrated a conundrum for some legislators: They're critical of Apple's tax avoidance practices but recognize the…