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Apple Clears Up iBooks Author EULA

ericaldo — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:01:10 +0000

Apple has updated its End User License Agreement (EULA) for the iBooks Author application to amend a section that spurred controversy regarding the sales of e-books created with the tool. The updated EULA comes as part of update 1.0.1. It arrives alongside the new iBooks 2.0.1, which fixes an issue that caused various iBooks Textbooks [...]

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Labor Activist Clarifies Foxconn Debacle

ericaldo — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:00:50 +0000

Labor activist and founder of China Labor Watch, Li Qiang says Apple is on top of the issues surrounding its assembly partner, Foxconn. In fact, the Cupertino company is doing much more than the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Nokia. “I compared Apple with other cell phone companies, such as Nokia. And the conditions in [...]

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Facebook ‘makes it harder for brands to advertise for free’

ericaldo — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:00:39 +0000

Since filing for its initial public offering earlier this week, which could see the company become worth $100bn, speculation has been mounting as to how the social network will ramp up its profits to please shareholders. “Over the past couple of years, Facebook has started to make it more challenging to appear in the ‘News [...]

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Sony: can a new CEO save the struggling tech giant?

ericaldo — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:00:20 +0000

Recently, however, the company has struggled. Led until this week by Welshman Sir Howard Stringer, Sony has battled floods in Japan, a fire at its main warehouse in London, a rising Yen and a resolutely unprofitable TV business. While its profile remains high, the business has been under pressure. At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show [...]

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Windows Phone Marketplace Arrives in Five New Countries

ericaldo — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:01:00 +0000

Microsoft has expanded the availability of its Windows Phone Marketplace to a number of five new countries, namely Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru and the Philippines. All Windows Phone users in these countries can now benefit from access to appealing applications and games straight from their devices. If the apps are not these yet, they will [...]

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Google Updates Documentation on CDMA Galaxy Nexus Support

ericaldo — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:00:43 +0000

The CDMA flavor of Galaxy Nexus has some issues related to the manner in which telephony was implemented, and Google has made some changes to the support it offers to these devices.Apparently, it all has to do with the implementation of core telephony functionality into .apk files in recent CDMA Android devices. Carriers provide the [...]

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Download Book Palette for iBooks Author

ericaldo — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:01:14 +0000

Jumsoft, the company you generally see mentioned in the news for their cool Keynote themes, has launched its first new product for 2012 – Book Palette. It’s a companion to the new iBooks Author from Apple that allows you to make stunning digital textbooks for iPad. “If you have the slightest idea of what the [...]

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It’s Your Fault If Your iMessages Get Leaked, Says Apple

ericaldo — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:59 +0000

An Apple Store Genius whose iMessages got leaked to the web spurred a flurry of reports about the service being buggy. Apple, however, quickly dismissed such claims, saying the employee simply hadn’t followed procedure. The employee not only had his texts leaked to the web for everyone to see, but also a bunch of photos [...]

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Microsoft Windows Phone 8 details leak

ericaldo — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:45 +0000

Current Windows Phone apps will work on Windows Phone 8 handsets, Belfiore said. In a leaked “roadmap” for Windows Phone last year, Microsoft said it was preparing for the introduction of ‘superphones’ in late 2012. The ‘Apollo’ version of Windows Phone would be designed for these devices, the company said. Although there is no firm [...]

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BT to offer ‘ultrafast’ broadband

ericaldo — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:24 +0000

The company has concluded a trial in Cornwall that offered high-speed fibre broadband directly to any home or business. It now hopes to make the technology available nationally by Spring of next year. BT’s current high-speed product is called ‘BT Infinity’, which relies on upgrading the connection between a local telephone exchange and street telephone [...]

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