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A Chinese court has sentenced three individuals connected with stealing information related to Apple’s iPad 2, months before it was due to be released, reports theWall Street Journal. Xiao Chengsong, general manager of Shenzhen MacTop Electronics Co, was found guilty of paying a Foxconn employee to steal information on the new iPad 2, so that he was able to begin manufacturing protective cases for the device. The head of the electronics firm paid Foxconn worker Ms....

On the same day wereportedthat Twitter, Facebook and RIM were being hauled in front of the UK government again to discuss the recent UK riots, it transpires that three of the UK’s top politicians have all joined Google+. As the FTreports, Prime Minister and Conservative party leaderDavid Cameron, Liberal Democrats leader and deputy Prime MinisterNick Cleggand Labour party leaderEd Millibandall signed up to Google’s social network today. And here’s what they each had to say in their inaugural posts:...

A collaboration between three of the UK’s biggest mobile operators unite to create aunified NFC payment service for mobile consumershas been challenged by rival carrier Three UK, filing a complaint with the EU’s antitrust authority to stop the joint venture from launching. The joint venture – which includes Everything Everywhere, Vodafone and O2 – proposed creating a project that would allow owners of NFC-enabled smartphones to top-up balances and pay at retailers using their phone, but faced problems from the start when smaller operators objected to being left out of the deal....

A new web application based out of St. John’s, Newfoundland calledThrive Softwareaims to level the playing field between independent store owners and larger retail outlets, giving small business owners easy-to-use and valuable tools to keep pace — and even excel — in the marketplace. Thrive could be a real game-changer for smaller retailers, as it takes the guesswork out of retail sales and marketing. Store owners with little to no technical skill can use the application to find out where they should focus their time, energy and money to improve their business’s bottom line....

Throw out your shitty to-do list — here’s what to do instead Why to-do lists don’t work Eyal tells me there are three reasons why to-do lists don’t work and why they can actually hinder productivity altogether: Waking up, getting ready for work, and surveying your to-do list sounds ideal, right? Well, it’s not. Often, when people do this, they bypass important or complicated tasks in favor of what’s easier to do or more urgent....