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We were within days of having the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 yanked from store shelves. This was due to an order by the U.S. International Trade Commission that was about to go into effect until President Barack Obama vetoed it. This was the first time a president had vetoed an ITC import ban in 26 years. It was also one of the biggest judgements the ITC had ever attempted to enforce on a company and, by extension, the customer. Though they’re older devices, their cheap price helps them sell well to this day. How did we get here? Simply put, patent litigation has gone nuclear. For years now, a war has been waged in the patent courts. Sure, Apple and Samsung are now the two biggest manufacturers of smartphones…

#01 - Bad Piggies 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 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02-Tap Words™ By Real Latte 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 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - 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), Pad (4th gen), and iPad mini. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is…

ICD-10 smartphone apps bring education to learners where they are and when they need it WAYNE, Pa. and ALPHARETTA, Gav Aug. 6, 2013/PRNewswire/- Precyse University, the most innovative, complete and widely adopted on-site, online and mobile ICD-10 education solution, announces the availability of numerous ICD-10 smartphone apps designed to prepare coders, physicians, nurses, case managers, administrative staff and other populations for the transition to ICD-10. “Recent surveys show healthcare professionals are using smartphone and mobile devices more and more in their daily roles and functions/’ explained Precyse President Chris Powell. “It is estimated that close to 80% of physicians use smartphones today, and this number is expected to rise.” Making education available at any time and any place is the key to driving utilization and retention and delivering value to…

Includes World’s Best-Selling POS Receipt Printer and Mobile POS Receipt and Label Versions Epson America, Inc., a leading supplier of value-added Point of Sale (POS) solutions, announced that two of its most popular receipt printers, the TM-T88V and Mobilink(TM) P60II (both receipt and label versions), are now available in the company’s Made for iOS (MFi) series, with Bluetooth(R) connectivity for the iOS mobile operating system. The new MFI printers allow retail and hospitality customers to take advantage of wireless printing from all handheld iDevice peripherals, including Apple’s iPad(R), iPod touch(R) and iPhone(R), connecting via the Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR wireless networking standard. Bluetooth’s open standard wireless communications protocol creates a stable, reliable connection and is a cost effective option for short-range transactions of up to 30 feet. Epson’s new MFi…

WAYILNGTON - The newspaper forever known for Deep Throat and the unraveling of a presidency had a quieter distinction, too: a family’s ownership through thick and thin, seemingly as immutable as the Washington Monument. But just as an earthquake cracked the tow. of stone, the ground now has shifted for The Washington Post. Facing questions about the future of the newspaper business “to which we have no answers,” Don Graham, whose grandfather bought the paper at a 1933 bankruptcy sale, announced to staff Monday that the paper had been sold to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, closing the book on the storied paper’s history as a family dynasty after seven straight years of declining revenue. It’s another watershed moment for an institution that first published in 1877, with a circulation of…

Google’s newest gadget, the Chromecast, is kind of a big deal despite coming in such a small package. It also has a small price tag: A whopping $35. Its goal is simple: To help you consume entertainment in a very simple way. All you have to do is plug the Chromecast into a vacant HDMI port on your television, give it some power via its USB cable, connect it to your wireless Internet network and decide how you want to use it. The entire process takes all of five minutes. Once you’re ready to roll, you can use your portable device (such as tablets and phones) or your computer to beam content to the Chromecast, which then displays it on your television. For instance, say you have Netflix on your…

Ironically, I am writing about roller coasters, even though I am scared to death to ride these seemingly threatening theme park beasts. Oh, don’t get me wrong. Awe overtakes my fear when it comes to the way these mechanical marvels work, and I am duly impressed by the architectural impact each has on the surrounding landscapes in which these contraptions exist. But getting on board to take the real ride? No way. Or at least that’s how things stand today. A while back when my sons were young and adventurous (as opposed to now when they’re older and even more adventurous) I took an assignment that had us trying out roller coasters every weekend for a month. This is something that every kid who grows up in Southern California dreams…

The home entertainment business is growing again, albeit slowly, despite the fact that people continue to spend less on DVDs. After years of declines, total consumer spending on movies for home use grew 2% in the first half of the year to $8.63 billion. People increasingly spent money to access or own digital copies of movies, which helped make up for declining sales of DVDs and Bluray discs. A15% increase in sales of more expensive Blu-rays helped offset an overall decline in disc sales of about 5%. Most of the business went to online retailers Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc/s iTunes store, Best Buy Co.’s CinemaNow, Google Play and Wal-Mart Stores Inc/s Vudu. Sales of electronic copies grew to $491 million in the first six months of 2013, up 50% from…

Brad Stone, a longtime Silicon Valley reporter, has been working for years on what he has been working for years on what he hopes will be the definitive account of Jeff Bezos and the rise of Amazon, the online retailing giant founded in 1994. His new book, “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon,” is slated to be published in October by Little, Brown. On Monday, he got handed fodder for a new chapter, when Bezos once again did something unexpected and risky: he bought a newspaper, the Washington Post. The Times talked to Stone by phone about Amazon, his book, and what exactly Bezos might be thinking by buying one of the country’s most respected newspapers in the nation’s capital-and by investing in an industry with…

G.I.Joe: Retaliation This sequel follows up on the successful story that was created from Hasbro’s G.I. Joe doll. The predecessor, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, featured an ensemble cast led by Channing Tatum. Retaliation does the same, bringing in even bigger names, with Bruce Willis and Dwayne“The Rock” Johnson joining Tatum. The G.I. Joe unit is decimated in a military air strike, leaving a few sole survivors imprisoned and in need of being saved. FIVE FACTS: 1. In order to conv role ert the movie to 3D, it was delayed nearly a year, decimating an ad campaign that had already begun with toys and other merchandise. 2. The Central Board of Film Censors of Pakistan banned the film because they felt it depicted Pakistan as an unstable state. 3.…

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After reports of an electrocution in China caused by a faulty iPhone charger, Apple says it will let customers trade third-party chargers for genuine units. Beginning Aug. 16, Apple will let iPhone customers trade in their non-Apple USB charger for one made by Apple, The Verge reported Tuesday. Apple said it will dispose of any third-party chargers a user suspects to be faulty and, for a discounted price of $10, will provide a new official adapter. Apple’s normal retail price for its USB charger is $19. “Recent reports have suggested that some counterfeit and third-party adapters may not be designed properly and could result in safety issues,” the Cupertino, Calif, tech giant said on its website. “While not all third-party adapters have an issue, we are announcing a USB power…

Samsung Electronics Co. has applied for U.S. and South Korean trademarks for a watch that connects to the Internet in the latest sign that consumer technology companies see wearable devices as the future of their business. Samsung described “Samsung Galaxy Gear” as a wearable digital electronic device in the form of a wristwatch, wrist band or bangle in its July 29 application with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A month earlier, it applied for a “Samsung Gear” trademark in South Korea. The trademark applications did not show the shape of the products. But drawings from a Samsung design patent approved in May show a watch-like design with a flexible screen that curves around the wrist. The U.S. trademark application said the device will be “capable of providing access to the…

I’ve always been an entertainment fanatic. I can’t even remember a time when I wasn’t mesmerized by the music on the stereo and radio, the TV shows on the television, the movies at the theater, or even the celebrities that appear across all those mediums. It certainly wasn’t a surprise to anyone when I began writing and focused that attention on entertainment, writing reviews, interviews, commentaries, etc., all about that exciting entertainment that had fascinated me all my life. In fact one of the tasks I did for the past several years was writing a “What’s Hot on TV Tonight” column. Everyone always wants to know what’s on that night. However, with the advent of the computer age, and even more the mobile device age, my job doesn’t seem quite…

Well, it had certainly been rumored. It was back in January that analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, an individual with a decent record of correctly guessing Apple’s next moves, authored a report in which he predicted a slew of features in an iPhone 5S to be launched this year. Those features included an A7 chip, as well as an enhanced camera with an f2.0 aperture and smart LED flash. But most intriguingly for many observers, they also included a fingerprint sensor. When Kuo reaffirmed his prediction of such a sensor sitting beneath the iPhone 5S’s home button in March, more of us got used to the idea that it really was going to happen, imagining that such a sensor would be used for unlocking the device, serving as a password replacement mechanism.…

Samsung has the highest-rated smartphone in the UK and the US, according to new research from the National Customer Satisfaction Index (NCSI-UK) and the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). In the UK, Samsung’s 2012 flagship model Galaxy S III obtains a score of 84, beating Apple’s iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 at 82 (on a 0-100 scale). According to UK consumers, the iPhone 4S struggles with battery life performance issues and ranks no better than earlier Samsung Galaxy S and S II models at 79. “However, in view of these results it is important to note that Apple still dominates the overall mobile market in terms of customer satisfaction, outperforming Samsung and everyone else by a significant margin,” said Claes Fornell, ACSI founder and Chairman. Apple’s overall NCSI score is…

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