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Price: $99 How it works: Streams TV shows and movies, rented online from iTunes store, to television set Monthly fee: None Online connection: Wi-Fi and ethernet Format: SD and HD Available: Late September Source: Apple Inc.

Tumblr has released a newly designed version of its iOS app. The new app for Apple devices comes with a redesigned dashboard, support for high-resolution images, support for Spotify and also comes with an offline mode. Tumblr, which has more than 60 million blogs, also lists various other changes to its 3.0 update, among them the fact that the app now runs faster, making it easier for users to upload their posts, according to 9 to 5 Mac . The app, released Thursday, comes a week after Tumblr Chief Executive David Karp publicly said he was not happy with Tumblr's previous presence on the iOS realm.

Tumblr has released a newly designed version of its iOS app. The new app for Apple devices comes with a redesigned dashboard, support for high-resolution images, support for Spotify and also comes with an offline mode. Tumblr, which has more than 60 million blogs, also lists various other changes to its 3.0 update, among them the fact that the app now runs faster, making it easier for users to upload their posts, according to 9 to 5 Mac . The app, released Thursday, comes a week after Tumblr Chief Executive David Karp publicly said he was not happy with Tumblr's previous presence on the iOS realm.

Lonely Planet often has limited-time offers for free downloads of their travel guides and apps. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the travel guide company offers its Dublin City Guide app for free along with an excerpt from its new Ireland guidebook. The deal: The app usually costs $5.99. To get the app, folks with iPhones, iPads or iPod Touch can download the Lonely Planet Travel Guides from the iTunes store, open that app and select the Dublin guide. (Android and non-Apple tablet users are out of luck for this freebie.)

Travel guide publisher Lonely Planet has a little holiday present for you. The New York City mobile app usually costs $5.99, but you can download it free through Thursday. Save it on your iPhone and iPad for your next trip to the Big Apple, and tell your friends. It's like regifting, without have to re-wrap anything. The deal: Start by going to the iTunes store and downloading the free mobile app labeled "Lonely Planet Travel Guides, Phrasebooks and Maps. " Select the New York City guide and download.

Lonely Planet often has limited-time offers for free downloads of their travel guides and apps. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the travel guide company offers its Dublin City Guide app for free along with an excerpt from its new Ireland guidebook. The deal: The app usually costs $5.99. To get the app, folks with iPhones, iPads or iPod Touch can download the Lonely Planet Travel Guides from the iTunes store, open that app and select the Dublin guide. (Android and non-Apple tablet users are out of luck for this freebie.)

Ending its long search for a corporate parent, Napster Inc. said Monday that it had agreed to be acquired by electronics retailer Best Buy Co. for $121 million. The purchase price of $2.65 a share marked a nearly 100% premium over the Los Angeles-based digital music company's trading price, which has hovered around $1.30 in recent weeks. Napster has struggled to find a winning business model in the uncertain world of digital music, which Apple Inc. dominates with its iTunes store.

The price that people pay to watch a television show on their iPad might hinge on Rupert Murdoch's mission to save the newspaper industry. For several weeks Hollywood has been wrangling over Apple's push to offer rentals of TV show episodes for 99 cents. Many in the entertainment industry fear that the low price could break the economic model that supports the high cost of producing TV shows. Media giants NBC Universal, CBS Corp. and Time Warner Inc. have dug in their heels in opposition.

Nearly a decade after Apple Inc. introduced iTunes, the digital downloading service finally has landed the Beatles. ITunes on Tuesday rolled out the Fab Four's music for legal downloading for the first time, offering 17 albums encompassing all 13 of the group's original studio albums, the double "Past Masters" collection of nonalbum tracks, two hits compilations and a box set including everything except the hits collections. Individual tracks are being sold for $1.29, single albums for $12.99, double albums for $19.99 and the box set is priced at $149.

In the wake of reports that Apple Inc.'s online iTunes store had been scammed, the company said Tuesday it has banned a Vietnamese developer and removed his applications from the venue. "Developer Thuat Nguyen and his apps were removed from the App Store for violating the developer program license agreement, including fraudulent purchase patterns," Apple said in a statement. The company did not provide any other details about the incident, which came to light after iTunes customers complained their accounts had been accessed to buy applications from Nguyen.

Travel guide publisher Lonely Planet has a little holiday present for you. The New York City mobile app usually costs $5.99, but you can download it free through Thursday. Save it on your iPhone and iPad for your next trip to the Big Apple, and tell your friends. It's like regifting, without have to re-wrap anything. The deal: Start by going to the iTunes store and downloading the free mobile app labeled "Lonely Planet Travel Guides, Phrasebooks and Maps. " Select the New York City guide and download.

In the last decade, Apple made the 99-cent download the standard unit of music sales. Now, Apple is reportedly poised to try a second transformation, enticing music fans to store songs online — "in the cloud" — instead of on a hard drive. If the company's iCloud helps persuade the masses to embrace cloud-based services, that could help reverse more than a decade of sliding music sales. That's a big "if," however, and much depends on the labels' willingness to change. The shift from physical CDs to digital files has been a mixed blessing for the music industry, opening the door to rampant online piracy as well as promising new business models.

Apple Inc. is changing its approach to how e-books can be sold and accessed via its iPhone and iPad devices ? a move that may get the attention of regulators, one analyst said. The company said that if rival e-book vendors such as Amazon.com Inc. and Google Inc. want to use the iPhone and iPad to sell books, they will have to offer them through Apple's iTunes store. Previously, when users of Amazon's iPhone app wished to buy a book, the e-commerce company routed the customer to its own site, circumventing Apple's internal sales process for which it takes a 30% cut of the purchase price.

Nearly a decade after Apple Inc. introduced iTunes, the digital downloading service finally has landed the Beatles. ITunes on Tuesday rolled out the Fab Four's music for legal downloading for the first time, offering 17 albums encompassing all 13 of the group's original studio albums, the double "Past Masters" collection of nonalbum tracks, two hits compilations and a box set including everything except the hits collections. Individual tracks are being sold for $1.29, single albums for $12.99, double albums for $19.99 and the box set is priced at $149.

Price: $99 How it works: Streams TV shows and movies, rented online from iTunes store, to television set Monthly fee: None Online connection: Wi-Fi and ethernet Format: SD and HD Available: Late September Source: Apple Inc.

The price that people pay to watch a television show on their iPad might hinge on Rupert Murdoch's mission to save the newspaper industry. For several weeks Hollywood has been wrangling over Apple's push to offer rentals of TV show episodes for 99 cents. Many in the entertainment industry fear that the low price could break the economic model that supports the high cost of producing TV shows. Media giants NBC Universal, CBS Corp. and Time Warner Inc. have dug in their heels in opposition.

The often tedious hunt for a parking place soon might become less irritating in at least one part of Los Angeles. At City Hall on Wednesday, officials unveiled an iPhone application ? the first of its type ? to help motorists find vacant parking spots in Hollywood, one of the most-visited places in the world. For an introductory price of $1.99, drivers will be able see which streets have open spots, as well as blocks that are closest to them with the most vacant spaces. The "Parker" application delivers information about parking-space time limits, pricing and whether meters take credit cards or coins.

Once you've browsed beyond the iPad, the Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet, you get to a category of tablets that might reasonably be called "the others. " This is a long list of devices both from well-known electronics makers (Motorola, Samsung, Sony) and from a few you've probably never heard of (Asus, Kobo, Huawei, Lenovo). Although the iPad is on the high end of the pricing ladder and the Kindle Fire is on the lower end, the two have something in common that separates them from the others: They're both connected to large, well-known online entertainment empires.

In the wake of reports that Apple Inc.'s online iTunes store had been scammed, the company said Tuesday it has banned a Vietnamese developer and removed his applications from the venue. "Developer Thuat Nguyen and his apps were removed from the App Store for violating the developer program license agreement, including fraudulent purchase patterns," Apple said in a statement. The company did not provide any other details about the incident, which came to light after iTunes customers complained their accounts had been accessed to buy applications from Nguyen.

Google Inc.'s hot new software enables users to make cheap international calls, consolidate multiple phone numbers into one voice mail account and get e-mailed transcripts of their voice messages. But on Tuesday, Apple Inc. declined to make the call for its iPhone users. The Cupertino, Calif., electronics giant refused to allow Google to distribute its Google Voice application on iTunes, shutting out iPhone users from easily tapping into the much-anticipated service.