An amendment included in the financial overhaul bill completed on Friday aims to force high-tech manufacturers such as Apple to reconsider the use of minerals that could be fueling violence in Congo, reports “The Hill” (http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/105723-financial-overhaul-targets-mineral-use-by-apple-microsoft-violence-in-congo).
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John Shegerian, chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), a recycler of electronics and e-waste, has issued a statement about Apple’s launch of the iPhone 4 (although he mistakingly calls it the iPhone 4G).
Read MoreMobGold (http://www.mobgold.com), a mobile advertising platform, has released an iPhone SDK (software development kit). This release marks the first SDK release on the iPhone OS for this year.
The new iPhone SDK from MobGold includes expanding banner, transparent overlay, performance enhancement and additional server side flexibility for developers. It allows developers to garner higher monetization opportunities by partnering with MobGold, according to CEO and co-founder Alan Chang.
Read MoreFileMaker Inc. (http://www.filemaker.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, will showcase a wide variety of database solutions for educators, administrators and students (booth #1268) at this year’s International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference and exposition June 28-30 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
Read MoreMark/Space has released version 1.2 of The Missing Sync for Palm Pre (http://www.markspace.com/PalmPre). The app lets you synchronize contacts, calendars, music, ringtones, photos and more between a Mac and the new Palm Pre phone. Version 1.2 ow synchronizes notes and tasks between a webOS phone, such as Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus, and a Windows PC or Mac computer.
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