Review: Apple EarPods

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

While the new Apple EarPods were leaked in photos from Asia, I was still surprised that Apple decided to create entirely new earbud-style headphones to accompany their new iOS devices and the result is quite surprising.

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UX Write 1.0 professional word processor for iOS available for $ 15.00

Australian startup, UX Productivity today announces UX Write 1.0, a brand-new word processor for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. UX Write is designed for high-end professional authoring tasks, and supports many features that are normally only found in desktop word processors. Facilitating working with large, complex documents such as reports, theses, and books, it supports styles, cross-references, automatic section numbering, extensive formatting options, figures, tables, and more.

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Apple hits 25 Billion App Download Milestone

Apple has celebrated a huge milestone. Over 25 billion iOS apps have been downloaded for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad since the App Store first went live in 2008. This signifies a robust, thriving and profitable app economy for Apple and its developers.

Apple has paid developers a total of $4 billion to date. For users, it represents a rich variety of paid and free applications to make their device usage more engaging and also increase their loyalty to Apple's products.

“We’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “When we launched the App Store less than four years ago, we never imagined that mobile apps would become the phenomenon they have, or that developers would create such an incredible selection of apps for iOS users.”

The App Store offers more than 550,000 apps to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in 123 countries around the world, with more than 170,000 native iPad apps available.

App Store customers can choose from an incredible range of apps in 21 categories, including Newsstand, games, business, news, sports, health & fitness and travel. 

Apple's Chinese Factories to be audited by Fair Labor Association

Photo from Hothardware.comApple today announced that the Fair Labor Association will conduct special voluntary audits of Apple’s final assembly suppliers, including Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, at Apple’s request. A team of labor rights experts led by FLA president Auret van Heerden began the first inspections Monday morning at the facility in Shenzhen known as Foxconn City.

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