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Apple No Longer Allows Apps That Track US Drone Strikes Abroad

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Apple No Longer Allows Apps That Track US Drone Strikes Abroad
 
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I'm not sure I understand exactly why a company would want to make an app that tracks exactly where the United States uses its drones during military action overseas. A company was denied approval...

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Microsoft Ad Uses Siri to Diss Apple

Source: IntoMobile

Wherever your loyalties lie in the latest round of Mac vs. Windows (vs. Android), you can’t deny that Microsoft’s new Windows 8 tablet ad below is pretty clever. The TV spot completely glosses over any of the advantages of the iPad over the 64GB Asus ...
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"We look forward to presenting our evidence in open court and proving that Apple did not conspire to fix prices"


Source: Reuters

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Can Microsoft Prove That Apple's Out of Touch?

Source: Motley Fool

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) is credited with modernizing smartphone operating systems with touch-optimized interfaces. Before the iPhone, it was hardware buttons for all phones, which are a rare breed nowadays. The iPhone maker subseque ...
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Apple and Google Will Fight Over This Start-Up

Source: Motley Fool

Every one of the major tech companies has taken steps to upgrade messaging. Microsoft has combined MSN Messenger with Skype, for example. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) has iMessage. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) has upgraded its efforts in a new platform called ...
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Potential Setback for Apple in E-Books Case

Source: Wall Street Journal

By Chad Bray In a potential major setback for Apple Inc., a federal judge who will preside over a coming antitrust trial that will determine whether it engaged in a conspiracy to raise prices for e-books said on Thursday that the government is likely ...
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UPDATE 1-Judge says leaning toward U.S. in Apple e-books case

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK May 23 (Reuters) - In an unusual move before a trial, a federal judge expressed a tentative view that the U.S. Justice Department will be able to show evidence that Apple Inc engaged in a conspiracy with pub ...
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Microsoft Turns the Tables on Apple

Source: Motley Fool

One of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL ) most successful and long-running ad campaigns of the past decade was its famous "I'm a Mac" campaign, cheerfully poking fun at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) Windows in a lighthearted way so as not to appear to ...
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Apple's first computer, circa 1976, could fetch $400,000

Source: Los Angeles Times

Steve Jobs, left, chairman of Apple; John Sculley, president and chief executive; and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, unveil the Apple IIc computer in 1984. The Apple II was a mass-produced success that improved upon the now r ...
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The Truth Behind Apple's Numbers

Source: Seeking Alpha

A picture is worth a thousand words and so is Figure 1. Figure 2 is good too. The inescapable truth behind Apple's (AAPL) valuation is that market expectations are way too high. This article provides some empirical evidence beh ...
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Vintage Apple I computers fetch sky-high prices

Source: The News & Observer

Dag Spicer, a senior curator at the Computer History Museum, next to an Apple-1 on display at the museum in Mountain View, Calif., May 23, 2013. Apple-1 computers, built in Steve Jobs's family garage, ha ...
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Apple: Samsung shirked FRAND obligations, filed suit before making a licensing offer

Source: AppleInsider

Samsung abused its rights as a standard-essential patent holder, Apple said Wednesday, by filing a complaint with the International Trade Commission before even trying to come to an agreement with the Cupertino ...
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Apple Recap: WWDC, New Patent Targets, and the Tax Question

Source: Wall Street Cheat Sheet

Over the past few months, Apple (NASDAQ:APPL) has begun to lose its grip on its reputation as a company that could do no wrong: its mobile operating system has lost its lead to Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android, its pace of innovation has slowed, an ...
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Doug Kass goes long with Apple Inc. stock

Source: MacDailyNews

“My next long purchase will be Apple (AAPL), as the risk/reward ratio begins to move into positive territory,” Doug Kass writes for Real Money Pro via TheStreet. “While Apple remains a trading sardine not an eating (or investing) sardine, in m ...
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Apple cites FRAND ruling to ITC, calls Samsung behavior egregious

Source: Electronista

Landmark ruling enjoins potential ITC sales embargo, cites lack of FRAND offer Apple has wasted no time filing with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) regarding the landmark ruling from May 22 enjoining a standards essential p ...
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Apple No Longer Allows Apps That Track US Drone Strikes Abroad

I'm not sure I understand exactly why a company would want to make an app that tracks exactly where the United States uses its drones during military action overseas. A company was denied approval for just such an app called Drones+ recently. Apple cited objectionable content is the reason for denying approval.

The app appears to overlay any location where the totality occurred during an attack using a US drone. It's unclear whether the app is calling attention to the fatalities presumed to be of non-combatants are not.

 

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