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"The cash register rings its last sale: Stores ditch cash registers, allow sales staff and shoppers to checkout on phones and tablets" ["J.C. Penney, a mid-price department-store chain, said the response by customers has been great since it started rolling out iPod Touch devices late last year in its 1,100 stores. The goal is to have one in the hands of every salesperson by May. The company said that about a quarter of purchases at its stores nationwide now come from an iPod Touch. ... Urban Outfitters had given iPod Touch devices to its sales staff two years ago and the move has been very well received by shoppers, said Calvin Hollinger, the company's chief information officer in his address to investors."] Associated Press 8:50 AM
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"Apple Grabs Top Spot In J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Study ... Again" App Advice 8:29 AM
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"Apple tops smartphone satisfaction survey for ninth consecutive time" T3 8:29 AM
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"Customer Satisfaction With Smartphones Increases, Apple Ranks Highest For 9th Consecutive Time" MacPrices 1:21 PM
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"Apple and HP top customer experience ratings for computer companies" Digital Trends 6:45 PM
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"Apple & HP Rated Best For Customer Experience [Report] Cult of Mac 1:17 PM
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"Apple adds 'Offers In-App Purchases' App Store warning to freemium apps: iOS store's tweak makes it clearer which apps offer IAP, which may be a boon for parents" The Guardian 1:33 PM
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"Google To Compete With Apple and Samsung On Smart Watch" Forbes 7:56 AM
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"NYT: Apple allegedly squeezing EU operators on iPhone contracts, regulators looking into it" The Verge 8:28 AM
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"Apple under fire from governments in both hemispheres over alleged anti-competitive practices" 9 to 5 Mac 8:34 AM
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"15 of the App Store's most bizarre offerings" [Slideshow] Macworld 8:27 AM
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"Apple Agrees to Accept Syria Wargame if It Doesn't Include Syria" Forbes 10:46 AM
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"Apple Yanks 'Sweatshop' Game From The App Store. Oh, The Irony" ReadWrite 8:30 AM
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"Apple bans sweatshop iPad game" CNET News 12:05 PM
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"Chinese Students Are Signing Up For Horrific Loans To Buy Apple Products" Cult of Mac 1:17 PM
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"iPad Hacker Appeals With Cyber Law Expert as New Lawyer" Mashable 6:48 PM
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"Steve Wozniak Talks About Early Apple in Newly Found 1984 Videos" The Mac Observer 12:50 PM
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"iPad-Playing Penguins Try to Nip at Virtual Mouse" ABCNews 10:22 AM
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"Watch Nokia's Stephen Elop Lob Someone Else's iPhone On The Floor, Promise To Replace It" TechCrunch 8:28 AM
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"Elop throws an iPhone on Finnish TV, refuses to answer Lumia 928 questions" The Verge 8:28 AM
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"Kid Fakes Kidnapping to Con an iPad" PadGadget 7:28 PM
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"Senate embraces Internet taxes: Senators vote 75 to 24 to glue an endorsement of Internet sales taxes onto a Democratic budget bill, despite opponents predicting the idea is antibusiness and a 'bureaucratic nightmare.'" CNET News 9:08 PM
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"ARM's new CEO: You'll get no 'glorious new strategy' from me" The Register 12:48 PM
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"Twitter Archive Now Supports 12 More Languages" PC Magazine 12:00 PM
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"Forget Passwords! EyeVerify Knows You by Your Eyes" PC Magazine 11:59 AM
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"Temporary fixes released for Samsung Android lock-screen glitch" IDG News Service 11:36 AM
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"Researchers uncover vSkimmer malware targeting point-of-sale systems: Malware is sold on cybercriminal forums, McAfee researchers say" IDG News Service 10:39 AM
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"Tech hub working on 'Nigeria's next big idea'" CNN 10:33 AM
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"China to create home-grown operating system: China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users." BBC 10:20 AM
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"Female coder is sacked for tweeting picture of men who made 'sexist' dongle jokes at PyCon developer conference" The Independent 11:39 AM
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"At AT&T Stores, No Welcome Mat for BlackBerry" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12:56 PM
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"BlackBerry CEO Talks Testing Smartphone-Powered Notebooks and Tablets, Will Share More Info In May" TechCrunch 12:36 PM
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"Blackberry boss Thorsten Heins takes bite out of 'outdated' Apple iPhone: Lack of innovation has left iPhone user interface outdated, he says" The Independent 11:41 AM
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"BlackBerry's U.S. Debut Marks Biggest Test of Comeback" Bloomberg 10:21 AM
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"Micron's Revenue Beats Estimates on Higher Chip Shipments" Bloomberg 10:21 AM
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"Vietnamese high school kids can pass Google interview" The Register 12:47 PM
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"Google Opens Universal Analytics Beta To All, Creates A Single Analytics Platform For Tracking Online And Offline Interactions" TechCrunch 12:36 PM
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"Watch Google's Sergey Brin Talk About The Emasculating Smartphone And Google Glass" TechCrunch 12:34 PM
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"Google Drive hit by three outages this week: One of the incidents affected more than 30 percent of user requests to connect to the cloud storage suite" IDG News Service 12:07 PM
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"Google is also working on a smartwatch, following Apple, Samsung" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:48 AM
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"Google's Schmidt nixes Android-Chrome merger talk" V3 12:52 PM
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"Kansas City Hosts Hackathon To Develop Apps For Google Fiber" Forbes 10:49 AM
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"LG developing own iWatch and Google Glass-like wearable gizmo" iDownload Blog 10:48 AM
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"Adobe to Australia: Higher pricing is your 'personalised experience'" ZDNet 8:06 AM
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"Gene Steinberg meets The Loop's Jim Dalrymple, Laptop magazine's Michael Prospero, and Kirk McElhearn, Macworld's 'iTunes Guy,' this week on the Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 6:38 PM
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"Interview with Janice Stillman of The Old Farmer's Almanac" Your Mac Life 12:49 PM
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