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The agency pricing model allows publishers to set the retail price for their ebooks and pay the seller, Apple in this case, a cut. Apple’s take with its iBooks ebook store is 30 percent, while publishers keep 70 percent. Before the iPad and this deal with the major publishers, retailers like Barnes & Noble and…

PrologueI just spent a week in Walt Disney World with six apps. This is the sixth in a serious survey of the apps, what they can do for you and deciding on the best ones to load onto your iPhone or iPod touch to make the most out your visit to see the mouse.______ Disney…

Steve Wozniak & Ashton Kutcher Source for Mr. Kutcher: Wikimedia Ashton Kutcher is a star of both movies (The Butterfly Effect, Dude, Where’s My Car?) and hit TV shows (That ’70s Show and Two and Half Men). It was announced earlier this week that Mr. Kutcher would play the title role in an independent movie…

Another way to put that, though, is that it took Jeff Bezos, online retailing magnate, to look at why and how Apple has been so successful with its iPad, and then use those lessons to figure out how to compete with the device.Jeff Bezos & a literal presentation of the metaphorical lightbulb going off…Original image…

Following complaints in Australia last week that Apple’s 4G iPad is misleading to consumers in nations that don’t support compatible 4G wireless networks, Macworld UK’s Karen Haslam reported on Tuesday that the Advertising Standards Authority, a UK consumer regulatory body, is now looking into the same issues in the United Kingdom.Apple markets the cellular data-enabled…

___________________ I like the idea of Tim Cook going to China. A lot. Here’s why. It seemed to me that in Mr. Jobs’s later years, he was becoming a bit of a (necessary) recluse. While there may not be an ironclad connection, I always had the suspicion that the withdrawal from Macworld New York and…

MacPaw’s Gemini: The Duplicate Finder has a very clean, user-friendly interface. When you first launch the app, you’re greeted by a simple window inviting you to drag the folder you want to search onto the window.As soon as you drag a folder onto the Gemini window, Gemini goes to work finding duplicate files. As it…

The scam message many of us have received: Sample SMS Text Scam Message We are showing the URL so that our readers can be warned simply to stay away from the site. We, on the other hand, were foolish and looked at the site for you: Oh look! We’re just in time! Only five minutes…

Mr. Bezos announced on Thursday that he found the F1 rocket motors that powered the Apollo 11 mission to the moon on the ocean’s floor, some 14,000 below the surface. The dot.com billionaire mounted a private expedition, using no public funding, in order to find the engines, which were left in the ocean after propelling…

The class action lawsuit alleged that Apple intentionally misled customers by knowingly withholding information about iPhone 4 antenna performance. Lawsuits began to appear shortly after reports hit the Internet showing cell signal strength drop off when the iPhone was held in a specific way.Apple said that all mobile phones can suffer from some signal strength…

Understanding the Fight The battle between the tech giants is an interesting one. On the one hand, Nokia, RIM, and Apple have all proposed different solutions for the 4FF standard in Europe. This standard is also referred to as a nano-SIM card, as it is for a smaller SIM card that will give smartphone makers…

Apple faces Swedish marketing investigation over iPad marketingThe agency has apparently received several complaints about Apple’s marketing for the new iPad because 4G wireless data support is listed as a feature, even though it isn’t supported in Sweden, according to the Wall Street Journal. Currently, high speed 4G LTE network support is offered only in…

Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs Credit for Walter Isaacson Photo: JD Lasica “In the months since my biography of Jobs came out, countless commentators have tried to draw management lessons from it,” Mr. Isaacson wrote. “Some of those readers have been insightful, but I think that many of them (especially those with no experience in…

Italy had fined Apple €900,000 (US$1,180,000) in December for deceptive practices when they sold consumers AppleCare that took effect after only one year. This extended coverage overlapped the existing EU coverage and Apple didn’t make that clear to consumers.Recently, Apple has come under fire in additional European Union countries where two-year warranties are also required by law.  In addition to paying…

According to AllThingsD, which found the ad, RIM is working on bringing BlackBerry Mobile Fusion to Apple’s mobile platform. Such a move would mark a departure for RIM, which built its empire with a proprietary model similar to that employed by Apple for iPhones and iPads. It should be noted that a departure is precisely…

iPhoto for iPhone and iPad Jim Dalrymple noted that Apple specified it was counting users, as opposed to downloads, which means that downloads to multiple devices by one user weren’t counted. iPhoto is Apple’s photo management and editing solution. It was originally developed for the Mac as part of the original iLife suite, and it’s…

“That’s a substantial improvement over previous results,” Apple added, “but we can do better. We will continue to share our progress by reporting this data on a monthly basis.” Workers assemble and perform quality control checks on MacBook Pro display enclosures at an Apple supplier facility in Shanghai. Source: Apple Apple has been under fire…

The markets are mixed during Wednesday’s trading session, but shares in Apple Inc. continued to push for new highs through most of the trading day. As of this writing, AAPL was trading at US$609.07, a gain of $3.11 (+0.51 percent), on moderate volume.  If the stock manages to close higher, it will represent the 16th…

What is TCP/IP? Why is IPv4 Inadequate? What is the Industry Planning? How Will the Change Affect Your Computer? How Will the Change Affect Your Cable Modem? What About Your Other Home Devices? I also covered security, costs and the timeline for Comcast’s rollout. If you missed that article, it’s a good intoduction to what…

SIMs are the small cards that most cell service providers use to link handsets to user accounts. Apple is currently using the micro-SIM standard in its GSM-based iPhones and iPads.The nano-SIM design includes a specification for a tray to hold the card, according to the Financial Times. If that sounds familiar, it should because the…

Steve Wozniak Steve Wozniak cofounded Apple with the late Steve Jobs, and today serves as Chief Scientist for Fusion-io. CloudCon Expo & Conference is an annual conference aimed at IT professionals working on or interested in cloud computing technologies. According to the show’s organizers, attendees of The Woz’s keynote will have the opportunity to, “ask…

“Using a thermal imaging camera,” the magazine wrote, “Consumer Reports engineers recorded temperatures as high as 116 degrees Fahrenheit on the front and rear of the new iPad while playing Infinity Blade II.” “That’s within one degree of the 117-degree average temperature recorded at Furnace Creek Station in Death Valley, CA in July, Consumer Reports…

AAPL chart for Tuesday, March 20th Source: Yahoo! Finance A rally in the last two hours of trading propelled Apple to yet-another-record close of US$605.96 per share, a gain of $4.86 (+0.81 percent), on what has become moderate volume of 28.9 million shares trading hands. The new close gives Apple a market capitalization of $565…

IWGuide for Netflix — Free (ad supported) from JeTap, is a weekly magazine format app for any iPad running iOS 5.0 or later.  It gives you a listing, with some detail, of streaming Netflix movies that are new as of the end of the next month, just released as of the last week, vanishing from…