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Abdullah Gül, the president of Turkey, has today met with Apple executives including vice president for education John Couch, to discuss several issues, including a $4.5 billion program to provide as many as 15 million tablets to Turkish schools for children, reports Turkish blog Elma Dergisi (via MacRumors).  (Turkish president Abdullah Gül at far left, Apple VP John...

Popular social networking service Path, who allegedly violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protections Act (COPPA) by collecting kids' personal information without their parents’ consent, has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) agreeing to pay a fine of $800,000 (via GigaOM). The company has also agreed to purge over 3,000 accounts from the network. FTC has settled...

Apple released iOS 6.1 to the public just a few days ago, on Monday, packing LTE support for new international LTE support and enhancing Siri, and it is already on the way to recording the fastest adoption rate ever. (more…)

This week's free App of the Week from Apple is the popular action puzzle game Early Bird, which is regularly priced at $1.99. This game has hit #1 in over 25 countries with over 8 million users and has had some positive reviews both online and within iTunes. Help the Early Bird catch the worm!...

Although it has lost "the world's most valuable company" title recently to Exxon, Apple is still the best place to work, as Tim Cook pointed out in his meeting with company employees right after announcing a record holiday quarter. (more…)

In the battle for market share, Apple has surpassed Samsung, its biggest competitor in the US, driven by strong iPhone 5 sales in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the latest data from Strategy Analytics (Via The Next Web). (more…)

Today marks the beginning of a Netflix experiment as their $100 million investment into their original TV series House of Cards has finally made its much anticipated debut. As a remake of the original BBC series from the 1990s, this version stars Kevin Spacey with the series directed by David Fincher. The first episode will...

Bloomberg reports Apple is in talks with Time Warner to bring HBO Go to the Apple TV, possibly later this year: Apple Inc. is in negotiations to start carrying Time Warner Inc. HBO Go application on Apple TV by mid-2013, according to two people familiar with the plans. Cable and satellite subscribers who pay for...

If you've been waiting to upgrade to 1Password 4, this is your time to do it as Canada's AgileBits has announced a promotional 50% off sale to celebrate the start of 2013 Macworld/iWorld: https://twitter.com/1Password/status/297070201613201408 1Password 4 for iOS was released back in December and comes as a completely redesigned app. Download links below: 1Password 4...

We have already seen mockups of what a larger 5-inch iPhone would look like, but now Instapaper founder Marco Arment throws his mockups into the mix, and envisions a 4.94-inch iPhone with 264PPI, in what has been rumoured as the "iPhone Plus" or "iPhone Math": The theory is easy to understand: perform John Gruber’s Mini-predicting...

TELUS has launched a new unlimited nationwide talk plan that comes with 1GB of data and is $67 per month. Full details below: $67 per month 1GB of shareable data Unlimited nationwide calling Unlimited SMS/MMS Caller ID, Voice Mail 3, Call Waiting, Conference Calling 2 year term for new or existing customers and month to...

Maya-System, a Montreal-based company providing knowledge management technology, announced today (Via MacRumors) that they have struck a deal with Apple for a group of 18 axis-based user interface patents. (more…)