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Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program — Expects to Spend $45 Billion Over Three Years — Apple® today announced plans to initiate a dividend and share repurchase program commencing later this year. — Subject to declaration by the Board of Directors …
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Apple Schedules Conference Call To Announce Outcome of Cash Balance Discussions — Apple just issued a press release confirming a conference call scheduled for tomorrow, March 19th, to announce the outcome of discussions concerning the company's cash balance.
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Time to Review F.A.A. Policy on Gadgets — SAN FRANCISCO — On Monday morning I'm going to drive to the airport, check in for my flight to New York, then head to the airport bookstore for a stack of magazines to read on the plane. I'll do this reluctantly because I will carry both an Amazon Kindle …
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| Faith Hung / Reuters: |
Foxconn not to take legal action after retraction — (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group, the top maker of Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads, said on Monday it had no plans to take legal action over a U.S. radio program about its activity in China, parts of which have been retracted.
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| Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Tablet Chip Showdown: Nvidia Tegra 3 vs. the New iPad's A5X — When Apple announced the new iPad earlier this month, CEO Tim Cook claimed that the new iPad's new A5X chip offers four times the performance of Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 CPU. Now that the new iPad has hit the street …
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| Dwight Garner / New York Times: |
The Way We Read Now — The case against electronic books has been made, and elegantly, by many people, including Nicholson Baker in The New Yorker a few years ago. Mr. Baker called Amazon's Kindle, in a memorable put-down, “the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that … | Associated Press: |
In Sweden, cash is king no more — STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden was the first European country to introduce bank notes in 1661. Now it's come farther than most on the path toward getting rid of them. — “I can't see why we should be printing bank notes at all anymore,” says Bjoern Ulvaeus …
| Allyson Kazmucha / iMore: |
Apple should make the iPad user-serviceable — The new iPad and the iPad 2 are very simliar in form factor. They're actually almost impossible to tell apart from a the outside with the exception of a slight difference in thickness. That's disappointing, because I was really hoping Apple …
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Twitter and Facebook Are Tomorrow's News Service. For Now, Though ... If you're like me, you increasingly rely on Twitter and Facebook as your news editors. But that means we're in a small minority. — Just 9 percent of American adults frequently get their news from their pals at the two services.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
20 Startups Demo And Launch At London Web Summit — Today at the London Web Summit a number of startups are launching on stage so here's a quick run-down of their businesses and our quick take on them. Out of these 20, three will demo on stage for a prize worth close to £100,000 …
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| Sean Flaim / Ars Technica: |
Op-ed: Imminent “six strikes” Copyright Alert System needs antitrust scrutiny — With the “Copyright Alert System” going into operation over the next few months, major American ISPs will start sending out “strikes” to users accused of infringing copyrights online.| Mike Isaac / Wired: |
Exclusive: Mobile Payments Heat Up with Intuit's Donation App Updates — Intuit's interface for accepting political donations. Photo courtesy of Intuit — Not to be outdone by mobile payments competitors Square and PayPal, financial services software company Intuit will release enhancements … Thanks:@mikeisaac
| Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily: |
It's the battery, stupid: The looming 4G smartphone crisis — What's your favorite thing about your smartphone? Is it its minimalist design? Its pretty interface? How about the fantastic HD display, the apps, 4G networking, or great cloud backups? Or maybe it's all of those things?
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