Newspapers worry over Apple

Apple is being warned against trying to squeeze cash out of the newspaper industry by controlling subscriptions for iPads and iPhones, reports the BBC.

The European Newspaper Publishers' Association (ENPA) says it is concerned by the company's plans to direct online sales through iTunes.

If that happens, the ENPA warns, a large cut of their profits would go to Apple. However, the technology giant insists it wants to give customers choice.

The demonstrations in Egypt have left Google trying to maintain a careful diplomatic distance from one of its own young employees who has become a hero to protesting crowds in Cairo - in an uprising that the company's own technology had a small role in advancing, notes the Associated Press.

Google has taken political stances in the past, most notably last year, when it opposed China's censorship laws.

The Internet giant's famous "don't be evil" catchphrase has long been a guiding principle for Google, as it has advocated for openness on the Internet, even as the motto has become a punch line in recent years for privacy activists who object to the company's data-collection.

Dell has expanded its foray into tablets with a new 10-inch Windows 7-based device designed, the company said, for users "who need greater mobility, as well as IT organisations that demand control, security, manageability and integration with existing infrastructure investments", says CNet.

The Windows 7 Business Tablet, which will run on an Intel processor, could be available by the middle of the year.

The tablet was among 39 new products unveiled at the company's Dell Means Business event in San Francisco yesterday. They include laptops, desktops, workstations, and a convertible tablet, the Latitude XT3 (a follow-up to the laptop/tablet hybrid XT2).

New York prostitutes are increasingly plying their trade using Facebook instead of Craigslist, following the latter's exit from the adult services business last year, according to The Register.

A study by sociology professor Sudhir Venkatesh on trends in the world's oldest profession, published by Wired, estimated that 25% of hookers' regular clients came through Facebook compared to only 3% through Craigslist.

Five years before that, 9% of the prostitutes' regular clients came through Craiglist and none through the then infant Facebook.