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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Collector’s Edition announced

Blizzard Entertainment has announced plans for a limited-release Collector’s Edition of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm), the third expansion for the subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, World of Warcraft.

The special Collector’s Edition package, which will only be available at retail stores, will include the following exclusive bonus items in addition to the game disc:

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Steve Jobs is a ‘CEO Overachiever’

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named one of the top 15 “CEO Overachievers” by “CNN Money” (http://macosg.me/2/q0). Those on the list led their companies to outperform the S&P last year — and collected the lowest pay for their efforts.


Though he gets some juicy stock options, Jobs only draws US$1 in salary per year. Yep, one smacker. Jobs is number one on the “CEO Overachiever” list.

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Analysts comment on slow rollout of iPad competitors

Sarah Rotman Epps, consumer product strategy analyst for Forrester Research, says the lack of viable tablet operating systems is one of the biggest reasons for the slow rollout of iPad competitors, according to a “Wireless Week” report (http://macosg.me/2/pz).

“iOS is unique in that it scales down to smartphones and up to tablets, but there’s no other OS that’s uniquely suited to tablets,” she says, adding that the latest release of Android, which makes it slightly more tablet-friendly, just came out for developers within the past few weeks.

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Kaedar manager suspended in kickback brouhaha

Pegatron Corp. has suspended the head of a Chinese unit after an Apple mployee was charged with accepting payments from the subsidiary for confidential information, reports “Bloomberg” (http://macosg.me/2/py).

Pegatron is the parent of Kaedar Electronics Co., one of the six companies named in an indictment of an Apple employee as having paid kickbacks to land Apple orders. It was acknowledged Monday that Kaedar did pay brokerage commission to an intermediate trading company for its business with Apple between 2005 and 2008,

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