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BRUSSELS-The European Commission said Monday that Motorola Mobility may have bused its dominant market position by denying Apple the right to use technology essential for mobile phones. It is a violation of European Union antitrust rules for a patent holder to deny use to technologically essential patents to companies willing to pay fair and reasonable price for their use. Motorola Mobility which Google bought in August 2011, obtained a court injunction preventing Apple from using certain patented technologies considered "standard-essential" for the industry. "The protection of intellectual property is a cornerstone of innovation and growth. But so is competition/' said Joaquin Almunia, the European Union's competition commissioner. "I think that companies should spend their time innovating and competing on the merits of the products they offer - not misusing their…

iOS #01 - Draw Something 2™ Free ByZyngalnc. 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 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Robot Unicorn Attack 2 By [adult swim] 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 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03-Vine By Vine Labs, Inc. Category: Social Networking 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.…

EggMaps HD Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Price: $0.99 Category: Navigation Updated: May 02,2013 Version: 1.05 Size: 1.4 MB Seller: Michael Cunneen PERTH, Australia -Mike Cunneen today announces EggMaps HD 1.05, an update to his popular #l-ranked navigation app for iPad that provides Google Maps at full-screen high resolution. Version 1.05 adds a choice of miles or kilometres when directions are provided, in response to requests from UK and North American customers. Indie Developer Mike Cunneen today is proud to announce the release of EggMaps HD 1.05, his iPad app that provides an easy interface to Google Maps at full resolution. Until EggMaps HD, iPad users had resorted to using the website or iPhone versions of Google Maps (the latter at low-resolution, sometimes known as "pixel doubling" or…

SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS are a boon to musicians. These minicomputers can be used to capture high-resolution audio, video, and photos at a gig; organize and display a library of printed music; help us connect with fans; and monetize our work. One of the most popular mobile platforms is Apple iOS, which runs on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Hundreds of software developers have created taskspecific applications (apps) for iOS. There are apps for every musical endeavor -learning, teaching, rehearsing, composing, and recording - and the majority of them cost less than a pack of strings. In fact, some of die best apps are free. But don't select an app solely on cost: price doesn't necessarily determine the quality or usefulness of an app. If your choice is between a…

First came the frenzy for iPhones and iPads. Now there's a scramble for iBonds. Apple Inc. sold $17 billion in bonds Tuesday, a gargantuan deal that ranked as the largest in global corporate history. And even though the securities are paying microscopically low interest, investors tripped over themselves to buy in." In the financial equivalent of a line stretching around the block, investors reportedly submitted more than $50 billion in requests, or more than three times the amount available. The demand stunned Wall Street, where * fixed-income offerings are typically staid affairs generating far less hype than Facebooktype stock deals. But after a decade in which investors were bloodied by free falls in the housing and stock markets, the public is desperate for any investments viewed as safe. "This is…

NEW YORK - Americans are saying CUL8TR to text messaging, a wireless industry group says, as Internet-based applications such as Apple's Messages are starting to take over from what was once a cash cow for phone companies. CTIA - The Wireless Association said Thursday that Americans sent 2.2 trillion text messages last year, down 5 percent from 2011. That's still 19 text messages per person per day. Text messages vaulted into the U.S. mainstream in 2007, despite often costing 10 cents each. Costs came down quickly as phone companies started selling monthly "bundles" of texts. Now, many phone companies give text messaging away for free as part of a plan that mainly meters the amount of data used. That has helped stave off mass migration to Internet chat applications and…

Picture this: An intrepid reporter suffering severe jet lag negotiating the throngs of looky-loos on Nathan Road, one of Kowloon's most densely populated tourist spots. That journalist was me, reporting live while trying to get a sense of Hong Kong shopping. Talk about multi-tasking. In order to get the story, I had to take pictures and talk via cell phone at the same time. Oh, and while I was doing all this in Southeast Asia after flying about fifteen hours from Los Angeles to get there that day, I had to walk through the packed street as quickly as possible to get the job done. Add to that the fact that the year was 1989. I was carrying my sophisticated Nikon gear, which was not only bulky but heavy, too,…

ios #01 - WhatsApp Messenger ByWhatsApplnc. Category: Social Networking / Price: $0.99 Compatible with iPhone.Requires iOS 3.1 or later. #02 - Survivalcraft By Igor Kalicinski Category: Games / Price: $3.99 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 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - Cut the Rope: Time Travel By ZeptoLab UK Limited 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 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 - Minecraft - Pocket Edition By Mojang Category: Games / Price:…

PARKER It wasn't that novelist Donald Westlake didn't ever want his work adapted to film; he just didn't want to start the process, then only have some of the Parker series adapted, while the rest of the collection sat untouched. It took his death in 2008 before we would see the character of Parker on the big screen. Westlake wrote the twenty-four novels in the Parker series under the pseudonym Richard Stark. In truth, he did allow a few of the crime novels to be transferred to the big screen - he just didn't allow them to use the character name of Parker. Point Blank, Made in U.S.A., The Split, The Outfit, Slayground, and Payback are all films involving the character, but none refer to the character as "Parker." That…

Apple made its first foray into the top 10 of the Fortune 500 list, replacing Silicon Valley's previous top-10 tech entry, Hewlett-Packard, which fell steeply while recording the biggest loss of any company to make the list in 2013. Fortune magazine released its annual list of the largest companies in the United States by revenues Monday, finding that the list pulled in 2.7 percent more in revenues in 2012 than 2011 while profits dipped 0.5 percent. The Mercury News found a similar trend, but with larger swings, in its SV150 list of Silicon Valley's largest technology companies, where revenues increased 9.1 percent while profits fell 12.4 percent. Fortune 500 tech companies saw profits drop 5.8 percent, the fifth-best performance among ten sectors of the list, which was led by a…

Fifty per cent of headlines this week maintained iTunes is responsible for saving the music world. The other 50 per cent made iTunes responsible for destroying the music world. It's a bit of a musical Mobius Strip all right. Yes, music sales globally have plummeted since the introduction of iTunes 10 years ago this week. But since the advent of iTunes, we are now buying more music than ever. What gives? The answer: we're buying way more individual tracks and way fewer full albums. We've come full circle - the popular music industry as we know it today was brought into being by sales of the 45rpm. It wasn't until the long-haired, concept-album types emerged in the late 1960s/early 1970s that the single began to viewed as something casual for…

Steve "Woz" Wozniak may not have been employed by Apple since 1987, but that hasn't decreased our eagerness to hear what he has to say. The co-founder of Apple, the guy who singlehandedly built the very first Apple computer, is one of the tech world's most beloved faces. He seems to be just as much in demand as if he was still front and center to one of the most powerful companies in the world. Sure, some of our connection to Woz could be that we're just hesitant to lose another one. After Steve Jobs lost his battle with cancer in 2011, we only have one Apple pioneer left. New CEO Tim Cook is great, but he doesn't have the personality that either of the two Steve's have or had.…

As a certain time-honored advertising campaign so famously said: "There's an app for that" - and of course, it's true that iDevices and the iOS platform that powers them have expanded so many people's sense of precisely what a mobile phone can be expected to do, ever since the first iPhone's emergence in 2007. IOS apps now take the form of everything from productivity-boosting word processing and spreadsheet apps to means of making art and music, and there are -of course - a fair amount of games to be found in the App Store as well. But life isn't always a mere game, and every now and then, something with the dizzying functionality and intuitiveness of iOS comes to the rescue of someone who needs something infinitely more invaluable than…

ME, YOU & THE MUSIC JESSICA SANCHEZ Time will tell if this one is too late in the making Me, You & the Music by Jessica Sanchez was released this week to iTunes, the same week the final three of season 12 of American Idol take the stage. You may be asking why this is important. If you are, you have clearly forgotten last season's runner-up. Normally the American Idol winner and runnerup albums are released before the next season. They have to capitalize on the success. Kelly Clarkson's debut album waited nearly this long, but season one of American Idol was a summer showing. She was crowned in September and and the album released the next April. We were a month away from knowing the winner and runner-up that…

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BlackBerry may lose favor with a big customer - the U.S. Defense Department - as department officials say they're considering Apple and Samsung alternatives. Following a review of Apple and Samsung's software for use on its secure classified and unclassified networks, the department may allow its employees to choose among Samsung and Apple smartphones and tablets for the office, a statement from the agency said. If that comes to pass it could further weaken BlackBerry's once dominant position among security-conscious government employees, The Washington Post reported Friday. It is security that has kept BlackBerry popular with businesses and government clients, and its new operating system, BlackBerry 10, received Defense Department approval Thursday. The State Department, NASA and the Department of Homeland Security have already given their employees approval to use…