Apple Tells Amazon That "App Store" Is Not Generic
Never one to back away from a legal battle, Apple's legal team has given notice to Amazon, first two months ago telling the online bookseller that "App Store" was all theirs. Amazon fired back that the terms were generic. Apple ain't buying it.

Apple Puts Sony in Their Stable
While Google and Amazon thumb their noses at the big four record labels, Apple plays it cool. Two of the four were already making nice with the fruit-based music locker idea, when Sony decided it was time to join the party. With 75% of the biggies engaged, how long until the Big Kahuna, Universal Music Group, holds out? Not long we wager.

Apple Store Marks 10th Anniversary
Not so long ago Apple opened their flagship retail stores, on both coasts in Glendale, CA and McLean, VA. Analysts scoffed at first, but the two stores turned a tidy $600K -- in one weekend. Ten years and 300 addresses later, Apple Stores drop nearly $2 Billion (with a B, boys) per quarter in Steve & Co.'s pockets proving a mighty good idea after all. We should all have such a good decade.

Joe Hill Visits Apple Stores
All is not necessarily sunshine and light under the glare of the Apple Store fluorescents. Some employees at some stores hope to build momentum for union membership. The nascent Apple Retail Workers Union claims Apple Stores are a "demanding" environment -- who is going to deny this? -- and list wages, schedules, training, and hiring processes top among their complaints. Power to the people, y'all.

Apple May Kick Off Back to School Promotion Next Week
Sure, it's only May and the weekend doesn't get us closer to next school year, but about now is when college acceptance letters are in hot little graduate hands. What else should they be carrying about? Obviously the free iPod touches Apple hands out like candy with each new Mac purchase as part of this school-based promotion kicking off a week early, according to sources.

Condé Nast Eyes the Future
Newspapers, or magazines, are in a sketchy position these days. Sales are way down, constraining cash, but investing in a digital edition costs money. But big time publisher Condé Nast isn't letting the grass grow under their feet. Hot on the heels of their New Yorker app, they've moved ahead with Vanity Fair, Glamour, Golf Digest, and Allure, with more to come.

Duke Nukem Forever Hits OnLive
The last game you will need for the foreseeable future, 14 years in the making, Duke Nukem was something of a legend simply for its rumor status (the original white iPhone 4, if you will). Turns out, it's very much alive and ready to drop June 14th. All you need is a full PlayPass from OnLive and you're in like Flynn for the biggest anticipated game of, oh, let's just say ALL TIME.

Your iPad Alternative Sucks
NVIDIA's CEO has a message for you. Your tablet sucks. It sucks because it isn't as good a piece of hardware as the iPad, it sucks because the OS and the software aren't as good as the iPad's, and it sucks because who's going to pay $700 for a subpar device. And so Cupertino continues to dominate the market for tablet-based computing. Uh, competitors? You might want to get on these problems. Fast.

Flash on the iPhone 5?
Hahaha. Gotcha there, didn't we? No, we don't mean Adobe's classic memory hogging, battery draining, virus porting, computer crashing software. We mean the flash on a camera, as in ye olde flash bulbs. Well, apparently Apple has decided that their latest placement of the camera flash is too close to the lens and recent leaks suggest we might just move it over a bit. Yay! New cases for everyone!

Our Dreams Made Real
If any of our regular readers love us -- we mean really love us -- buy us this beautiful device. A Wi-Fi enabled portable hard drive that our iPad and iPhones can tap? Seagate makes us want what we'd only dreamed of before and makes us want it with a desperate passion. You know the old playground taunt "if you love it so much, why don't you marry it"? Well, we're considering it right this very second.