Author: dsellers

Japanese authorities will summon Apple officials this week over complaints that its iTunes online store has billed customers for downloads they never made, officials said Monday.

As reported by “AFP” (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100215/bs_afp/japanusitconsumercompanyinternetapple), in at least 95 cases in Japan involving five major credit card companies, iTunes customers said they had sometimes been charged thousands of dollars, they said.

Two dozen of the world’s largest mobile-phone companies, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, Deutsche Telekom, China Mobile and Vodafone, are teaming up to create an “open international applications platform.” “mocoNews” (http://moconews.net/article/419-two-dozen-carriers-worldwide-unite-against-apples-app-store/) sys this is “obviously in direct response to Apple’s success with its own Apple App Store.

Macworld 2010 ended up with more than 20,000 attendees, over 250 exhibitors and more than 150 conference sessions, according to IDG World Expo, owner of Macworld 2010.