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Apple News: The Apple e-book trial: About that dinner on January 20, 2010 In its effort to prove that Apple “knowingly participated in and facilitated a conspiracy to raise prices of e-books” – to use the judge’s own words – the Department of Justice has spent an inordinate amount of time cross-examining witnesses in the Apple e-book trial about a dinner that took place in Manhattan on the evening of…

Apple News: The DOJ’s last best chance in the Apple e-book case has passed The Department of Justice spent a little over three hours Thursday cross-examining Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue – the alleged “ringmaster” of an illegal conspiracy to raise the price of e-books – and when it was over it wasn’t clear whether they’d let their last best chance slip through their fingers or whether they never…

Apple News: Apple reveals actual Steve Jobs ebook email (and it’s not what the DoJ used) The “smoking gun” email the Department of Justice has cited as evidence of Apple’s conspiracy with publishers to artificially hike ebook pricing was, in fact, only an unsent draft by Steve Jobs, the Cupertino firm’s legal team has revealed. The DoJ had highlighted the email, from Jobs to SVP Eddy Cue, as a sign…

Apple News: Grading Apple’s digital textbook technology Shortly after his world history students began a pilot program testing a digital textbook for the iPad, Ken Halla noticed something different: His students were actually reading their textbooks. “How crazy is that?” said Halla, a ninth-grade teacher at Hayfield Secondary School in Alexandria, Virginia. “To me, it’s really great when the kids get excited to read.” Read full story => Macworld Technology…

Apple News: 10M Samsung flagship phones in 28 days a ‘record,’ 5M iPhone 5 in 3 days ‘disappointing’ A report by Philip Elmer-DeWitt of the Fortune Apple 2.0 blog drew attention to the stark contrast in media coverage on the two companies after one of Samsung Electronics’ three chief executives told reporters that the company had shipped 6 million units to carriers globally and expected shipments to hit 10 million…