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The Associated Press reports that Apple has yanked ThirdIntifada, a known anti-Israel app, from the App Store. This happened after Yuli Edelstein, Israel’s information minister, and Jewish human rights group The Simon Wiesenthal Center complained to Apple. The app, as seen in screenshots captured by Razorianfly, was used as an information hub for supporters. One [...]

Associated Press Nintendo Co. is on the brink of unveiling its much-anticipated new home console at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles this week. But sales so far of the Japanese videogame giant’s latest hardware release, the 3DS hand-held machine, are lackluster at best.The 3DS, which went on sale in Japan in late February [...]

From Japan Real Time After watching Sony Corp. scramble to restore its PlayStation Network online gaming service for the past month, gamers around the world found a new topic for discussion over the weekend: Is Sony working on PlayStation 4? Associated Press Sony Corp. CFO Masaru Kato reacts during a press conference in Tokyo May [...]

There’s not much love lost between Facebook and Google these days, but the companies are joining forces in one area – fighting two online-privacy bills that are moving through the California legislature. Associated Press One of the bills, a “do not track” proposal introduced by State Sen. Alan Lowenthal, would require companies to let people [...]

Would Bill Gates have become the world’s richest man without Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen? Would Paul Allen have made the billionaires list without Bill Gates? Associated Press Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates In countless successful technology start-ups, the story is the same: A close-knit group of founders develops an idea, but eventually one [...]

EUROPEAN Union (EU) foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, has called on the international community to mount pressure on Israel to go beyond easing its Gaza embargo and throw open the territory’s long-blockaded borders.Ashton is the most senior diplomat to visit Gaza since Israel announced earlier this month that it would relax its three-year blockade to [...]

and Shayndi Raice Even as more consumers own smartphones that can download apps, developers need to be more creative to stand out among the hundreds of thousands of other apps. Associated Press Here are some of the ways that developers have recently been trying to get the word out: Incentive advertising: Developers are running an [...]

The Associated Press is launching what it hopes is the newspaper industry’s answer to ASCAP, an organization that helps songwriters get paid for every song played in public.

The first baby boomers will be old enough to qualify for Medicare Jan. 1, and many fear the program’s obituary will be written before their own. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that baby boomers by a ratio of 2-to-1 think they won’t be able to rely on the giant health insurance plan throughout their [...]

” in URLs he designed for the World Wide Web. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) A Zimbabwean court orders a senior MDC official, Roy Bennett, back to jail on terrorism charges. (Al Jazeera) (South Africa Times) Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry announces at least 85,000 Iraqis have been killed by bombs, murders and fighting between 2004 and [...]