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This workweek ’s round up of iOS app news offers solutions for running your desktop computer from your iPad , a cool direction to tell stories using Twitter , and betterment to Twitter itself . Already this workweek , Macworld’sLex Friedman reviewed the much - hype Clear to - do app , calling it limited but “ lace with charm and … fun to use . ” Lloyd Case took a smell at OnLive Desktop Plus , an app that let you run your Windows - based computing machine from your iPad ; he recommended sticking with a free version of the app ....

Boy , it sure would be nice if we had a silver bullet train that would magically improve working conditions at Taiwanese factories . Well , full news , everybody ! InfoWorld ’s Bill Snyder ’s got one ! Boycott Apple until it fixes its China labor job In the infinite of a few months , Apple has sound from being the recipient of cloying , over - the - top adulation when co - founder Steve Jobs died to being the dupe of furious flak for its trade union movement practices in China ....

A request for a legal cease and desist order that would have ram Apple to halt iPad sales in its Shanghai fund has been rejected , fall in the U.S. tech giant a belittled triumph as it faces an ongoing hallmark conflict in China over the iPad name . A Shanghai courtroom say in a statement on Thursday that it would not cede the injunction requested by Taiwanese companionship Proview , which acquire the iPad trademark in 2001 and is fighting with Apple over its ownership ....

OnLive , the streaming biz inspection and repair , made a move for mainstream appeal last month by announce OnLive Desktop , a free iPad app and vane service that gives you special access code to a Windows 7 screen background , including a basic version of Microsoft Office , from the tablet . But that initial version of OnLive Desktop had itsshare of job . Now OnLive has released a new option for its OnLive Desktop Robert William Service , OnLive Desktop Plus ....

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should force Google to block its design to consolidate user identities across its services and fine the company for violating an October privacy colonisation with the agency , privacy chemical group the Center for Digital Democracy said in a complaint lodge Wednesday . Google is not make the changes to its privacy policy to provide convenience to users , as it claims , but to better track them and deliver targeted ad , the CDD complaint said ....

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission must block Verizon Wireless from buying wireless spectrum from cable length providers because two proposed deals would condense too much spectrum in the hands of one troupe , a coalition of advocacy group say . The deals , which also allow Verizon and the cable firms resell each others ’ services , “ give rise to serious concern that not only will these providers decline to compete further with one another , they will actively conspire with one another , ” the groups said in aTuesday filing with the FCC ....

Though you have plenty of time powerful now , sooner or later , you ’ll need to do your taxis before the April 17 deadline . ( Taxes are usually due on April 15 , but that date this yr fall on a Sunday , and April 16 is aholidayin Washington D.C. So thegovernment set April 17as the tax deadline . ) Fortunately , tax software on the Mac , for iOS , and online take the process a lot easygoing ....

Foxconn , the consumer electronics Divine that handles assembly for a number of high - tech companies include Apple , was thrust into the spotlight Tuesday night as a national web news program took its camera into the Formosan mill . The study aerate on ABC’sNightlinepainted an interesting mental picture of Foxconn — but not needs interesting for the reasons you ’d expect . Foxconn has been in the newsworthiness a hatful in recent yr , though not always for cause that the manufacturer and its high - tech married person would hope for ....

For most of my life , I ’ve been a single CRT screen kind of guy cable . I spend the immense majority of the last several days working from a 13 - inch MacBook . When I did finally add a 27 - column inch Cinema Display to the mixture , it took at least two weeks before I was unforced to in conclusion stop piling all my windows into roughly the same amount of place as that MacBook screen ....

Apple ’s data centers are soon to stretch from ocean to shine sea , even as iPhone thief give out to coronate their goodness with trades union . And the iTunes Store is fill up with amber soundwaves of metric grain . The remainders for Wednesday , February 22 , 2012 are above the fruited plain . Oregon House OKs Tax - Break Fix for Data Centers(KTVZ.com ) Do n’t let the headline fool you ; it ’s not just about tax open frame ....

When it number to giving Uncle Sam his due , we ’re make do with an embarrassment of rich . Want to use an online avail to prepare and file away your tax return ? You ’ve got at leastfive online taxation preparation sitesto beak from . More comfortable with traditional background product ? I ’ve looked at bothTurboTax Premiere 2011from Intuit and At Home Premium 2011 from H&R Block ....

Our Verdict LikeTurboTax for iOS , H&R Block at Home for Io come in two very distinct flavors — one designed for your smaller iOS gimmick that can only complete the 1040 - EZ and another for your iPad that can complete more complicated return . As was the case with the desktop variant of these applications , the H&R Block apps do n’t provide much in the path of eye confect , but they are sufficient to handle most of your tax processing needs ....

Apple told Mac developers Tuesday that it would be once again extending the sandboxing deadline for all App Store apps , this metre to June 1 . to boot , Apple has confirmed that apps may remain on the App Store without sandboxing after this deadline , but developers may only put forward hemipteran fix update for them . Firstreported by MacStories , the extension is the second such wait from Apple ....