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• Microsoft Courting iOS Developers to Make Apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
• Mayor Bloomberg Blames iPhone And iPad Thefts For Increase in Crime Rate in New York City
• Here’s How You Can Save Videos Sent Through Snapchat and Facebook Poke
• Chinese Court Orders Apple To Pay Writers In Copyright Dispute
• Apple to Refresh MacBook Pro and MacBook Air in June 2013 with Upgraded Internals

Microsoft Courting iOS Developers to Make Apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Posted: 28 Dec 2012 01:28 PM PST Microsoft is holding special events for iOS developers in its Mountain View campus to convince them to make apps for the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 platform. The two platforms’ app ecosystems are still in nascent stages, and Microsoft's doing all it can to ramp up developer interest. Continue reading →

Mayor Bloomberg Blames iPhone And iPad Thefts For Increase in Crime Rate in New York City Posted: 28 Dec 2012 12:02 PM PST New York City’s crime rate went up by 3.3% in 2012. The city recorded 108,432 major crimes for the year, up from 104,948 over the same period in 2011. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg blames Apple’s iPhone and iPad for the increase in crime rates. Continue reading →

Here’s How You Can Save Videos Sent Through Snapchat and Facebook Poke Posted: 28 Dec 2012 09:50 AM PST Snapchat and its clone Facebook Poke are apps that let users send temporary messages in the form of photos and videos, which get deleted seconds after they get viewed. The idea of spontaneous, temporary, visual messages appealed to a lot of smartphone owners, who collectively put the apps on the top charts of the App Store. However, the promise of messages being deleted right after they’re viewed might not be entirely accurate, after a bug in both the apps was discovered that could let the message receiver save sent videos permanently. Continue reading →

Chinese Court Orders Apple To Pay Writers In Copyright Dispute Posted: 28 Dec 2012 07:46 AM PST The Wall Street Journal reports that a Chinese court has ordered Apple to pay 1.03 million yuan, or about $165,000 to a group of Chinese writers for selling unlicensed copies of their books in the App Store. Continue reading →

Apple to Refresh MacBook Pro and MacBook Air in June 2013 with Upgraded Internals Posted: 28 Dec 2012 06:20 AM PST DigiTimes reports that Apple is planning to refresh the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air lineup in June next year, right in time for WWDC, the company's annual developer conference.  Continue reading →

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