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• Morning Brief: RIM says it that its BlackBerry service is improving following outage; Georgia-based Morris Communications the latest to proclaim itself ‘digital first’

  1068 readersIt is never good to become the subject of a joke. For Research In Motion, a company with more than enough troubles already, that is what it is experiencing following a massive outage of its email service caused by problems related to work being done in a facility in the U.K. But while tech and media

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  For LA Times Magazine, the future is not digital, it is oblivion; iPad edition has been dead since October

  931 readersThe Tribune Company strikes again. Yesterday it was learned that the company will be shutting down LA Times Magazine, the once weekly, then monthly, now nothingly Sunday magazine. MediaBistro's FishbowlLA reported the news, which comes as no surprise to those who downloaded the LA Times Magazine iPad app – it hasn't been updated since the

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  Microsoft reenters the tablet game with Surface; touted as a "full PC" solution, with innovative construction & design, but without an announced launch date and firm pricing

  1670 readersMicrosoft, everyone admits, has been late to the tablet game, and so it is trying hard to rectify that by unveiling its own hardware at a press event in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon (west coast time). The Redmond company, though, doesn't really have the hang of these things, starting its own event over 40 minutes late.

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  Needing multiple reading apps — problem or not?

  908 readersLast week, Joanna wrote about giving up on the iBooks app. It generated quite a number of comments, but one in particular, from reader Michael W. Perry, caught my eye. He said: “One final note. You’re starting to discover an issue that ebook retailers have been averting their eyes from. In the near future, ebook buyers

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  Verizon iPad 2 Recall?

  2976 readersA shipment of iPad 2s destined for Verizon customers has reportedly been recalled. The news broke last night, as Apple customers began to complain on a message board. Apparently iPad 2s that were out for delivery on FedEx began showing up as ‘ret...

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  Morning Brief: Sporting News releases minor update to its iPad app; Mag+ says it is ready for the release of iOS 5

  2202 readersI spoke yesterday with Jeff Price, publisher of Sporting News, and Ann Keegan, communications manager about their new iPad app and approach to its digital magazine publishing efforts. Today, right on cue, Sporting News has released an app update that fixes a minor problem. The app remains free, as is the content, reflecting the publications

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  Apple working on security flaw that allows passwords to be easily reset

  3051 readersApple is working on a security vulnerability in its cloud services. The flaw could allow malicious users to reset Apple ID and passwords, according to The Verge. Apple is working on the problem and has taken down the iForgot website in the meantime. It didn’t take a lot to reset passwords – just an ID

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  Apple Passes 50 Billion App Downloads

  158 readersApple has recorded more than 50 billion app downloads from the App Store. The person that was lucky enough to download the 50 billionth app will get a $10,000 gift card to the App Store gift. The 50 people who downloaded apps after the big winner will each get  that each a $500 gift card. Apple tweeted

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  Create a Disposable Phone Number with Burner App

  202 readersHave to interview someone shady that you don’t want to be able to find you when your story comes out? No problem. Burner, an app from Ad Hoc Labs lets you create disposable phone numbers. The app, has been around for iPhones since last summer, and is now available for Android devices. Check it out: “Burner provides disposable phone

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  Only About A Third Of Apps Downloaded From App Store: Apptrace

  453 readersAt Apple’s 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference in June, Apple chief Tim Cook announced that the App Store has 650,000 apps and 30 billion app downloads. But according to research from the German startup company Adeven, almost 400,000 apps in the App Store, are not downloaded. This would mean that only 250,000 of these apps in the App Store are