Apple possibly prepping premium podcast model for iOS 6
A seemingly innocuous "Redeem" button in the new iOS Podcast app could hint at a possible Apple initiative to monetize the popular digital media format which is currently free to listeners."
Apple launches App Store in 32 new countriesHow did you app before app store?
Apple flipped the switch on the App Store in 32 new countries on Thursday, making good on a promise made by CEO Tim Cook during WWDC 2012 that was slightly overshadowed by the unveiling of the MacBook Pro with Retina display and a host of other product launches."
Matthew Modine signs on to play John Sculley in jOBS biopic: "Veteran actor Matthew Modine has been added to the cast of the upcoming jOBS biopic and will be playing the role of former Apple CEO John Sculley, who many recognize as being the man who 'fired' Steve Jobs from his own company.
Modine told CBSNews on Tuesday that he would be playing Sculley, the former CEO of Pepsi who was brought in by Jobs to help Apple in 1983 and famously fired the company's co-founder two years later."
US Virgin Mobile iPhone coming as soon as July 1st | Electronista: "The Sprint-owned US branch of Virgin Mobile will soon announce prepaid iPhone sales, with a launch taking place as soon as July 1st, according to sources for the Wall Street Journal. No other details are mentioned, but the move would make Virgin Mobile just the second US carrier to sell prepaid iPhones, following an announcement by Cricket Wireless last week. That carrier will start iPhone sales on June 22nd."
ITC judge invokes 'Cheech and Chong' test in Apple-Samsung case: "According to Bloomberg, Judge Thomas Pender said that the patent design case may boil down to the 'Cheech and Chong' test, which identifies an object using the following no-nonsense qualifications: ‘Does it look like it, feel like it, smell like it?’"
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak hired as 'tutor' for Sony's Steve Jobs film
Wozniak served as the technical mind to Jobs' keen business sense in the early days of Apple. "We were very much alike in that time frame," Wozniak said in a recent interview."
SOURCE: AppleInsider
Aaron Sorkin to pen screenplay for Steve Jobs film - Yahoo! News
Let me be the first to say that if the writing is starting now, it's going to be a long year of Steve Jobs bio-pics:
Steve Jobs Biopic Starring Ashton Kutcher To Cannes: Inferno To Make Offshore Deals - Deadline.com
Alternatives to $60 video games | Games Blog - Yahoo! GamesIt's a revolution in apps! Power to the people.
"I think there's something exciting going on," says Simon Munk, a freelance gaming and tech journalist. "I grew up playing in the 70s and 80s when games were made by developers in their bedroom. And now that's happening again — loads of games recently wouldn't have been made even four or five years ago, but now have a chance. We're seeing a return to creativity and risks.""
SOURCE: http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/alternatives-60-video-games-192535376.html
