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Motorola wins ban on push email on Apple devices in Germany

by Kenny Hemphill on February 3, 2012 in News

Motorola has won a permanent injunction in Germany against push email services in Apple’s iCloud and MobileMe. When Motorola enforces the judgement, Apple will have to remove push email from the iPhone and iPad in Germany. Although the injunction is permanent, it can be appealed and it’s likely that Apple will do just that. According [...]

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NYT admonished by workers’ rights group over Apple China story

by Kenny Hemphill on January 30, 2012 in News

The New York Times has been criticised by an organisation which promotes the rights of workers over a story it ran last week which contained devastating accounts of the treatment of employees at factories in China where Apple products are made. BSR, a group which promotes corporate responsibility and the rights of workers was unhappy [...]

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Twitter censorship plan under fire

by Kenny Hemphill on January 27, 2012 in News

Twitter has been widely criticised over the implementation of a system which will allow it to block tweets in specific countries while allowing them to be published in others. The social network said it would assess requests to block tweets on a case by case basis and that its approach to freedom of speech would [...]

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Apple smashes Q1 earnings estimates with mind-boggling results

by Kenny Hemphill on January 25, 2012 in News

Apple has announced that it made $46.33 billion in revenue for its fiscal first quarter, which ended on 31 December. That’s a 77% increase on the previous year. Net profit for the quarter was $13.06 billion, which equates to $13.87 per diluted share. That’s a 131% increase on Q1 2011. Gross margin increased from 38.5% [...]

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Apple UK prices most expensive in Western Europe says Idealo

by Kenny Hemphill on January 24, 2012 in News

The price of Apple products in the UK is higher than anywhere else in Western Europe, when VAT is excluded, according to a report from price comparison company, Idealo. Idealo compared the prices of five Apple products; an iMac, iPad 2; iPod touch; MacBook Air; and MacBook Pro. It priced each of the five on [...]

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Apple launches iBooks 2 with interactive textbooks

by Kenny Hemphill on January 19, 2012 in News
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Apple announced a new version of iBooks today with support for interactive textbooks, and a Mac application for authoring them. Textbooks in iBooks 2 behave like apps and can be updated in the same way. They will be priced at $14.99. UK details have yet to be announced. Publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson [...]

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