Apple returns to environmental ratings list

NEW YORK (AP) â€" Apple Inc. said Friday that it is putting its products back on an environmental ratings registry, saying it made a mistake in removing them from the list.The Cupertino, Calif., company said all of its eligible products are back on the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool registry, and says it looks forward to working with EPEAT, the nonprofit organization that runs the registry.Apple told EPEAT that it was withdrawing its products from the list on June 29, and said it did not plan to submit its products for ratings in the future.The list is considered an industry standard and it helps customers buy electronics...

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Yahoo investigating reported mass password breach

LONDON (AP) â€" Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it is investigating reports of a security breach that may have exposed nearly half a million users' email addresses and passwords.The company said it was looking into "claims of a compromise of Yahoo! user IDs" but did not disclose the size of the reported breach or how it may have happened. Yahoo's Head of U.K. Consumer PR Caroline MacLeod-Smith said that she couldn't immediately provide any more detail on the breach "as we are still investigating it."Technology news websites including CNET, Ars Technica, and Mashable cited hackers calling themselves the D33D Company as claiming responsibility for...

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'Hulu for magazines' hits the iPad

(CNN) -- Back in April, a company called Next Issue Media launched its digital-magazine app. A joint venture of five big publishers -- Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp and TIME's owner, Time Inc. -- it bundled a bunch of famous publications into a single app with all-you-can-read pricing. If nothing else, it was an intriguing idea. But at the time, it was only available for Android tablets running Android 3.0, and so my reaction was, in large part, "this'll get more interesting once it's on the iPad." And now it is. Next Issue has released an iPad version of its app; the company recently briefed me on the new version and gave me early access to it. Next Issue currently offers 39 titles, including many of the biggies from the founding publishers -- such as "Bon Appetit," "Car...

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Source: Google to pay $22.5M fine in privacy case

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) â€" Google is poised to pay a $22.5 million fine to resolve allegations that it broke a privacy promise by secretly tracking millions of Web surfers who rely on Apple's Safari browser, according to a person familiar with settlement.The person who spoke to The Associated Press Tuesday asked not to be identified because the fine has yet to be approved by the Federal Trade Commission, which oversees online privacy issues in the U.S.If approved by the FTC's five commissioners, the $22.5 million penalty would be the largest the agency has ever imposed on a single company.Even so, the fine won't cause Google Inc. much financial...

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6 Konsep Ponsel Android Futuristik

Para desainer kerap menciptakan konsep ponsel yang sangat menarik. Salah satunya yang berbasis sistem operasi Android, OS yang saat ini tengah naik daun.Di atas kertas, konsep tersebut terlihat mengagumkan. Hanya saja, sebagian konsep tampaknya masih butuh waktu cukup lama untuk benar-benar dibuat, apalagi dipasarkan. Karena teknologinya pun mungkin belum ada.Berikut beberapa konsep ponsel Android yang terlihat futuristik dan keren 1. Flip Konsep ponsel ini dirancang oleh desainer bernama Kristian Ulrich Larsen. Keren memang. Flip dikonsep punya tiga buah layar yang menjalankan sistem operasi Android. Tiga buah layar tersebut dirancang fleksibel.Maka...

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BlackBerry marketing head undeterred by share loss

NEW YORK (AP) â€" The new marketing chief for BlackBerry smartphones isn't dejected by perceptions that his products look ancient next to iPhones and Android devices.Frank Boulben is four weeks into his job as chief marketing officer for Research in Motion Ltd. He promises to impress people when phones running the company's new BlackBerry 10 software are released in early 2013, at least a year later than analysts had expected.He told The Associated Press in a Monday interview that RIM will tout features that current devices lack. That includes better ways to run multiple programs at once.But touting new features is just part of the challenge....

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