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Microsoft and other technology giants have been ordered to stand before an Australian government committee and explain why prices are higher for Aussies than elsewhere in the world. Apple and Adobe executives were expected to join Microsoft’s hearing on Monday, hosted by a lower-house committee, according to a Raw Story report. “The committee is looking at the impacts of prices charged to Australian consumers for IT products,” a committee statement said, according to Raw Story. “Australian consumers often pay much higher prices for hardware and software than people in other countries” The price differences affect Australians’ purchases of music, games, software, and gaming and computer hardware, Raw Story says. For instance, the costs for Australians to download iTunes are roughly 73 percent more than in the United States, the report…

Category: Social Networking Updated: Jan 22, 2013 Version: 1.2 Size: 19.0 MB Language: English Seller: Ben Steffens Price: Free 196 Ratings View in iTunes Preview Many people are of the mindset that technology is a young person’s game. Technology and its products and services are really something for all ages, but the older people are, the less likely they are to to dip their toe into the water. Younger people are a different story. They’ve grown up with the technology and don’t have any reservations about using it. Some younger people even take it a step further. They use the technology to become young entrepreneurs. Startup companies don’t come with all of the baggage they used to. Many young entrepreneurs start with designing apps. Since many times they don’t sell…

ZOMBIE ROAD TRIP Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Price: Free Genre: Racing/Survival Updated: Feb 11,2013 Version: 1.1 Size: 45.6 MB Language: English Seller: Noodlecake Studios Inc View in iTunes Preview A while back we showcased a fun driving/survival title called Extreme Road Trip. The premise was to make it as far as possible without running out of gas. You were rewarded with boosts and fuel by performing stunts. It’s a very addicting title, but a “spin-off” from Noodlecake Studios is upping the ante with their creative take on the genre. Zombie Road Trip takes the basic survival/racing genre and turns it upside down by adding a hungry zombie hoard to the mix. GRAPHICS The graphics for this title are very similar to Extreme…

ALL THAT ECHOES JOSH GROBAN You’d be hard pressed to find a classical pop fan Q - who isn’t familiar \ with the name ALIMEEHOES Josh Groban. This powerhouse singer/songwriter was blessed with an incredible vocal ability and has somehow managed to create a persona that is just as mesmerizing as his voice. He has achieved pop superstardom over his career and managed to produce six studio albums in between all of his tours, concerts, and show appearances. Groban has made a name for himself thanks to his beautiful, opera-tinged, pop-laced arias, most of which are accentuated by subtle instrumentals and deep, emotional songwriting. His incredible vocal range is showcased across each and every song he’s sung, whether it be a cover of a classic or a completely original creation.…

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By early last year, Apple’s cash balance had built to a point beyond what we needed to run our business and maintain flexibility to take advantage of strategic opportunities, so we announced a plan to return $45 billion to shareholders over three years. As of next week we will have executed $10 billion of that plan. We find ourselves in the fortunate position of continuing to generate large amounts of cash, including $23 billion in cash flow from operations in the last quarter alone. Apple’s management team and Board of Directors have been in active discussions about returning additional cash to shareholders. As part of our review, we will thoroughly evaluate Greenlight Capital’s current proposal to issue some form of preferred stock. We welcome Greenlight’s views and the views of…

From portable music-players to smartphones to tablets, Apple (AAPL) has always looked far and wide for that new device that would expand and deepen its digital eco-system. Now the Cupertino tech giant may be looking no further than its users’ wrists. Quoting unnamed sources, two published reports on Sunday said Apple is working on a prototype for a wearable watch-type gadget that might extend some of the powers of the iPhone onto an accessory strapped to the end of your arm. This isn’t the first time the watch rumor has surfaced. But according to the reports Sunday by both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, Apple is in discussions with Foxconn, its primary manufacturing partner, to come up with a wristwatch-type of tech tool. The move would…

It was one doozy of an Apple (AAPL) corporate announcement. But mid-way through his State of the Union speech, President Obama Tuesday looked up at Apple CEO Tim Cook, sitting in the first lady’s box with Michelle Obama, and briefly became spokesman for the most valuable tech company on earth. “This year,” Obama told the crowd, “Apple will start making Macs in America again.” It was only ten words, wedged into the middle of an hour-long speech. But it made at least one guy in the audience happy: the cameras zoomed in on Cook’s smiling face. The news that Apple would manufacture some of its Macintosh computers in the United States was not unexpected - Cook told Bloomberg Businessweek in December as much. And bringing jobs to the US instead…

Over the last decade, the capacity and usefulness of mobile devices has grown astoundingly. Whereas not too long ago a portable gadget could perhaps store a limited amount of data for displaying simple text and compressed music files, today’s transportable tools are smaller, house countless gigabytes of information and are versatile enough to be used for both work and leisure. The merits of having music, video and the Internet available on a smartphone or tablet have permanently changed the landscape of personal entertainment, but what might be most astounding is how these very devices have altered the oldest and least changed medium for entertainment and information; the printed word. Electronic books, like digital music and video formats before it, have grown and popularity and ubiquity with the rapid growth 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…

Apple shares jumped 3 percent late yesterday afternoon after the gadget maker said it was considering a proposal to return more cash to shareholders. The move by the Cupertino, Calif., tech titan came hours after David Einhorn, founder of $8 billion hedge fund Greenlight Capital, sued Apple as part of his strategy to get it to return some of its $137 billion cash hoard to shareholders. Shareholders like Greenlight, for example, which owns 1.1 million Apple shares. Einhorn has been pushing the company for months to issue preferred shares as a way of doling out chunks of its mammoth cash pile. The preferred shares would pay out a dividend of roughly 4 percent and trade separately from the common stock. After face-to-face talks, Apple rejected Einhorn’s plan in September -…

WASHINGTON - The government has reached a proposed settlement with Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC, which does business as Macmillan, one of five major book publishers that allegedly conspired with Apple Inc. to raise e-book prices for consumers, the Justice Department announced Friday. The government is continuing its case against Apple but has now reached agreements with the five publishers. The Justice Department complaint alleged that the five companies and Apple worked together to raise retail e-book prices and eliminate price competition. The government said competition had reduced e-book prices and the retail profit margins of the booksellers. Under the proposed settlement, which still needs approval by a federal judge in New York, Macmillan will lift restrictions on discounting and other promotions by e-book retailers. It will be barred from entering new…

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WRECK-IT RALPH Everybody always wants to be a hero, including villains. At least that’s what Hollywood would have us thinking. The latest movie slamming that point home is Wreck-It Ralph, a computeranimated Disney film directed by Rich Moore who has done the same for episodes of The Simpsons and Futurama. It’s a story that’s been i in the works with Disney since the late 1980s. It took more than twenty years to finally get off the ground. It turns out that just as we found in Toy Story, that our toys come out and play at night when we’re not looking, the characters in video games do the same. In images that recreate the video gaming boom of the 1980s, the characters in Fix-It Felix, Jr. emulate the game by…

Hedge fund honcho David Einhorn is having trouble enlisting allies in his battle to get his hands on some of Apple’s $137 billion cash hoard. Two more big investors have come out in support of Apple’s proposal to eliminate “blank check” preferred stock- a stance Einhorn has called on shareholders to reject. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System, a $157.8 billion pension fund, and the New Jersey Division of Investment, which manages $70 billion in pension money, told The Post they are siding with Apple against Einhorn. “We generally support good corporate governance initiatives, and this appears to be one,” said Bill Quinn, a spokesman for the New Jersey pension fund, which holds 1.8 million Apple shares. CalSTRS, which owns 1.6 million Apple shares, supports the proposal because “blank check”…

When Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook is feeling down, he heads over to an Apple retail store to get a pick-me-up. “I go into an Apple store and it instantly changes. It’s like Prozac. It’s an unbelievable feeling ~ like no other,” Cook said Tuesday at a Goldman Sachs technology conference. A visit to an Apple store, which is ofte.. crowded, reminds him of the company’s place in pop culture -- and the rolejt plays in promoting the company’s products’. The stores are also ringing up a lot of business for the Cupertino company, averaging more than $50 million each in revenue last year, Cook said. “Whoever thought a store could do that?” he said. Apple now has 400 stores in 12 countries and plans to open 30 more this…