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The smartphone battle is set to go nuclear this year with Samsung planning an Apple-like unveiling of its Galaxy 4 phone next month, and its Cupertino, Calif.- based rival set to launch a cheaper !Phone this summer. Both are striking at each other’s core and industry insiders expect Samsung to fire the next salvo on March 14 with the introduction of the Galaxy 4 at a New York press conference “I’m sure it’ll be a good phone,” said Brian White, an analyst at Topeka Capital Markets, “but you’re going to have the two smartphory heavyweights going head to head this year.” In the fourth quarter of last year, Samsu had 29 percent of the smartphone market share compared to Apple’s 21.8 percent, but the !Phone 5 has outsold the Galaxy…

Skycore LLC, developers of codeREADr, the commercial barcode scanning app, has today announced the capability to scan, track and validate all three (3) barcode types supported by Apple’s Passbook app. The codeREADr app could previously scan Passes if the ticket, coupon or member ID was embedded in a QR code. However, since Passbook recommends using a smaller, ‘stacked ID’ symbology called PDF-417 and also enabled using Aztec 2D codes, codeREADr enhanced its technology to scan these codes as well “Although Pass providers can use QR codes - a technology we’ve commercially deployed since 2009 - some marketers and ticketing companies prefer to use PDF-417 codes, while certain rail and air transportation providers prefer to use Aztec codes. Since codeREADr is a provideragnostic platform, we needed the flexibility to scan any…

KRASHLANDER Are you looking for a completely different kind of casual game? If so, you’re in luck. This week I came across a really unique physics-based game - Krashlander. This colorful, imaginative title offers up some addicting gameplay, but is there enough content to keep you occupied for more than an hour? GRAPHICS The graPhics for this title stand out against a sea of monotony. It’s not necessarily one of those games that has breathtaking visuals, or incredibly well-done 3D graphics, but it’s definitely a work of art. Instead of the general, bright, vibrant, color pallet, you’re presented with a dark scene, full of mono-chromatic colors. Your character is pitch black, as are the mountainous landscapes. The only splashes of color come from a bright white moon, and a dusky…

Genre: Metal Released: Feb 8,2013 By: RCA Recordings 14Songs Price: $11.99 TEMPER TEMPER BULLETFOR MY VALENTINE The Metalcore firestorm, “Bullet For My Valentine,” has been around for over a decade now, much to the rejoicing of dedicated fans. The group originated in the United Kingdom, but it wasn’t long before their specialized brand of metal took over the global airwaves. Best known for their complicated guitar rifts and emotionally powerful lyrics, BFMV has managed to crank out three successful albums and attend a variety of tours and shows. It’s been three years since we’ve seen a studio release, and anxious fans have been gnawing at the bit to get their hands on the group’s newest (4th album to date) collection, “Temper Temper.” Unfortunately, though, the release brought on a sea…

GLASTONBURY, Conn. - TopCoder(R), Inc., the world’s largest open innovation platform and competitive community of digital creators, today launched the first two of a series of open innovation challenges to create a new dietary tracking application for use by astronauts in an International Space Station (ISS) -type environment. The ISS FIT (Food Intake Tracker) !Pad App Conceptualization and Voice Command Idea Generation and other competitions are now open on the ISS FIT Challenge home page (TopCoder and TopCoder Studio registration required). k These are the first two of multiple \ phases of the challenge which will build a fully functioning !Pad application from concept to deployment using TopCoder’s open innovation Community and process. The complete challenge series is sponsored by NASA through its NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), an online virtual…

Consider this tale of two companies: One is Apple, which posted record revenue of $54.5 billion last quarter and a record net profit of $13.1 billion. The other is Amazon, which reported its net income dropped 45 percent to $97 million in the last quarter. It’s now a projecting the loss of up to $285 million for the first quarter of this year. Yet Apple’s stock is tanking and Amazon is riding a wave. Apple’s stock was down nearly 40 percent from a September high of $705 to a low of $439 on Jan. 25. Amazon’s stock continues to climb to new heights, up 42 percent year-over-year. The message from Wall Street is clear: Apple^ CEO Tim Cook’s company already has seen its best days. Jeff Bezos is the new…

Before taking the leap into buying an !Pad, you may be wondering how safe it is to you and what you can do to make it even safer. No one wants to think of their information being breached by the wrong people. What makes it particularly worrisome is that it’s so mobile. We have the ability to take !Pads everywhere. But if the !Pad is going everywhere, that means all of our information is going everyone as well, and that includes all our email, our pictures, and even our financial information. And if the !Pad is going to be in use by a child, it’s even more important that it has the desired amount of security. No one wants their child to encounter things they shouldn’t on the !Pad, and…

Last week, AppleMagazine took a look at the more dominating formats currently used in the e-publishing marketplace, as well as a brief history of digital books. In this issue, we’ll explore the most popular devices available for downloading and reading digital material as well as the impact these gadgets have had on the publishing industry. As technology has evolved over the 20th and early 21st century, so to has our means of procuring and enjoying various forms of entertainment. For example, while the majority of people enjoy watching films today just as much as previous generations in the 1920s at the advent of cinema, the format has morphed considerably — particularly over the last 30 years. Likewise, recorded music saw a nearly century long transition from wax discs to digital…

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!Phone users have more friends announces event agency Chillisauce.co.uk, based on the release of its leisure industry data via leisurestats.com. The statistics suggest that !Phone users have the largest average stag group size of 15 plus. Bad news for Google Nexus owners who have the smallest group size on average with up to five people. The statistics, which have a total sample size of 97,074 people, have also revealed that men using their work emails splurge the most on a stag weekend spending on average Pounds 104.62 per person. Although the stingiest stags are AOL email users who spend an average of Pounds 92.52 per person. This data release also shows the most popular stag night activity by mobile phone network. When compared Vodafone customers showed the highest proportion of…

Apple CEO Tim Cook is calling a shareholder lawsuit against the company a “silly sideshow” even as he said he is open to looking at the shareholder’s proposals for sharing more cash with investors. Investor David Einhorn sued Apple Inc. last week, saying a proposal slated for a vote at the company’s annual meeting in two weeks would make it more difficult to enact his plan to reward shareholders by distributing a new class of shares. Cook said Apple’s proposal puts more power in the hands of shareholders, making it difficult to understand why a shareholder would fight it. Calling the fight a waste of time, Cook said Apple won’t squander money by mailing letters to shareholders to persuade them to vote for the proposal. “My preference is that everyone…

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DIEHARD Every time we think we’ve heard the last of John McClane in Die Hard, he comes back again. Star Bruce Willis ill has it in him. He no longer has any hair, and his face definitely doesn’t make you think of an action star, but the guy still has it in the fifth movie in the franchise, A Good Day to Die Hard. I’m sure no one would have thought back in 1988 that when the first Die Hard was released that the franchise would be spanning decades. It really slams the point home for me when I realize that when the first film was released, I was a single woman. Now I’m married with an adult son and a teenage daughter. Willis considers it a compliment that the…

The hedge fund world has soured on Apple -and in some cases the smart money is turning to Facebook instead. The funds, which helped Apple grow into the world’s most valuable company by piling into its shares, dumped the tech titans shares last quarter, regulatory filings show. Omega Advisors, Eton Park Capital Management, Farallon Partners, Third Point, among others sold entire stakes in Apple, according to SEC filings this week from the hedge fund world. “We think very well of Apple, but we have found things that we think are more interesting,” said one large hedge fund seller, who asked not to be named. At least a couple of those funds upped stakes in Facebook or Google, and others found bargain ( dollar retail companies attractive. Omega and Lone Pine…

NEW YORK-Apple says a small number of Mac computers at its offices were infected by malicious software, in an attack similar to the one Facebook acknowledged last week. In both cases, computers were infected through software downloaded from a site for software developers. The attacks took advantage of flaws in the Java plug-in for Web browsers. Neither company said that there was any evidence that the attackers gleaned any data from their attacks. The Java vulnerability is well known, and Apple has taken measures to disable the plug-in on all Macs. It says it would release an update malware removal tool to remove infections. In January, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recommended disabling Java in Web browsers to avoid hacking attacks.…