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Apple to pay dividend, start stock buybacks – Asbury Park Press

NEW YORK — Thirty-six years after its founding, Apple Inc. is finally loosening up its purse strings to reward shareholders directly, by instituting a dividend and share buyback program. Investors had been expecting Monday’s announcement …

Apple firestorm forces artist to change his show – News-Sentinel

NEW YORK — Mike Daisey, the off-Broadway performer who admitted that he made up parts of his one-man show about Apple products being made in Chinese sweatshops, has cut questionable sections from the monologue and added a prologue explaining the … Continue reading

Apple iPad Review: The Retina Display Redefines the Tablet – PC World

The camera app was a pleasure to use compared with those on the Android tablets we’ve looked at, too. Sure, it lacks the finer exposure controls that the Android models offer, but Apple’s app simply works more smoothly–it’s quicker to … Continue reading

Brain-Damaged Emma Finds Voice With IPad App – Businessweek

RJ Cooper & Associates, a closely held maker of software, accessories and applications for disabled people, has seen 85 percent of its business switch to the iPad in the past two years since Cupertino, California-based Apple introduced the …

DoodleDesk 1.2 is now available on the Mac App Store – PRLog (free press release)

Imaginary Roots has announced the release of version 1.2 of DoodleDesk, the Whiteboard for your Desktop. The first major feature upgrade since its release on the Mac App Store, this new version adds many features that users have been asking … Continue reading

Top 5 iPhone and iPad Apps – Motley Fool

Apple celebrates a new milestone of 25 billion app downloads. Katrina and Greg share the top five all-time free app downloads for the iPhone and iPad, and talk about the differences between the two lists. Please enable JavaScript to view … Continue reading

Tech Giants Agree to Deal On Privacy Policies for Apps – Wall Street Journal

… that could change how app makers handle personal data and the way millions of people download apps. Ms. Harris said Wednesday that Apple Inc., Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Research In Motion Ltd …

Apple promoting Fennemore Craig for its iPad use – Phoenix Business Journal

… Phoenix’s largest commercial law firms is getting a shout out from Apple Inc. Apple Inc. Latest from The Business Journals Tech firms give state DOJ app privacy pledge Apple, Google, others agree to mobile app privacy standards Microsoft …

Ex-Apple Man Streams Flash Onto the iPad – Wired News

Previously, remote control tools such as LogMeIn allowed users to access a Flash-equipped browser running on their own Windows or Mac desktops, but OnLive apps lets users do so without using a desktop intermediary. The initial version was free …

Apple, Google, Microsoft Agree To CA Mobile Privacy Protection – CRN

Apple, Google and Microsoft are among a half dozen mobile … The companies, which also included Amazon, Hewlett-Packard and Research In Motion, agreed to ensure that mobile applications display privacy policies before the apps are downloaded to a …