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Arriving soon: bunny-shaped vitamins from Playboy?

Playboy Enterprises likes to put its name and trademark bunny-head logo on products. Get ready for a supplement on which you can nibble the ears. At its second-quarter earnings call on Aug.
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Facebook to block noncompliant apps

Advertising Age reports that Facebook will block apps that incorporate advertising that fail to comply with Facebook guidelines.  Two types of advertisements may no longer run on Facebook: Anything that sends "user data received from Facebook to ad networks," which limits the potential for behavioral targeting.
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Port your iPhone app to Windows Mobile

Want to earn some extra downloads?  Port that iPhone app to MS Win Mobile.  Microsoft has published a case study detailing how to port an iPhone application to its Windows Mobile platform. 
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Nature's Sunshine fined by SEC for Brazilian bribery

While no one admitted any wrong, two former officers of Nature's Sunshine Products Inc. and the company have agreed to pay a total of $650,000 in civil penalties in connection with a Securities & Exchange Commission investigation of NSP's Brazilian subsidiary.
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Landlord sues former tenant over Tweet on Twitter

Horizon Group Management, LLC, one of Chicago's "premier apartment leasing and management companies," has sued a former tenant, Amanda Bobben, for libel over a tweet she posted on her public twitter feed.
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International Brand Organization Features iFeud

BPCouncil, an international brand protection organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, is featuring a segment discussing iPhone App trademark issues, showcasing the recent InfoMedia v. Air-O-Matic dispute, commonly known as iFart v.
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Sunscreen advertising war heats up

GUEST COLUMN by Judith L. Grubner, Esq., Arnstein & Lehr Partner and Intellectual Property Practice Group Leader Some of us remember when parents would chase their children out to play in the sun, with no protection other than play clothes. 
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Google Voice Silenced by Apple on iPhone

Apple has rejected Google’s official Google Voice app, and has removed from the App Store several Google Voice-related apps that had previously been accepted. A Google spokesperson confirmed the ban of Google Voice in a statement to eWEEK July 27: Apple did not approve the Google Voice application we submitted six weeks ago to the Apple App Store.
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The Favorite iPhone Apps of Five Geek Rock Stars

Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb obtained the following list of must-have apps from these 5 web übergeeks: Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress likes smart travel social network Tripit Chris Messina, open source community organizer likes Twitter client Tweetie Marnie Webb, co-CEO of TechSoup Global likes note taking service Evernote Baratunde Thurston, Web Editor at The Onion likes Twitter client Tweetie Andy Baio, founder of Upcoming.org
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FDA joins those warning of steroid dangers

Several hours after our post on increased media coverage of the potential danger of supplement use by high school athletes, the Food & Drug Administration held a press conference and issued a public health advisory on body-building products and steroids.
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Steroids in high school sports; where is the industry?

The pros have rules. The NCAA has its rules. And now there is a media awakening that steroid use in high schools deserves attention.  Newspapers have focused on the subject in recent articles.
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Flaming iPod complaints released after Apple stonewalling

iPods sparking and catching on fire? KIRO, the Seattle ABC affiliate, has obtained 800 pages of documents from the Consumer Product Safety Commission detailing cases of iPods catching on fire resulting in injury.
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iPhone app pulls in $1 million in first six weeks

  According to TechCrunch, Social Gaming Network’s F.A.S.T. dogfight game, which launched in early June, earned over $1 million in download fees alone in the first six weeks it was available.
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Resveratrol marketer hits the Web with faux 'TV news'

If you thought faux news was the province of only The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and The Onion, welcome to News 13 WKTV. It is the non-TV station,  non-news Web site that reports on Resveratrol Ultra.
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Doctors, nurses practice what they preach on vitamins

What is good for the patient is good for the nurse and doctor, too. The Council for Responsible Nutrition hired Ipsos Public Affairs to ask doctors and nurses how often they took vitamins and why.
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AT&T activated 2.4 million iPhone users in 2Q 09

AT&T has reported results for the second quarter and they show that the iPhone if propelling wireless revenue to almost half of the company's total revenue.
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iFart featured on The Daily Show...with real attorneys!

Your intrepid apps law bloggers, the iFart lawyers, were there in spirit last night when Wyatt Cenac asked, incredulously, whether iFart and Pull My Finger had "real attorneys....jewish
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Worker commits suicide after 4G iPhone prototype goes missing

Did Apple's iPhone manufacturing contractor in China Foxconn torture a 25 year old employee who lost one of sixteen 4G iPhones he was entrusted with causing him to commit suicide by jumping from a 12 story building to his death?
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Smoke pot? There’s an app for that!

App Store entry Cannabis discovers nearby cannabis-related institutions and organizations in your state as well as links to legal coffee shops abroad.  The program carries a $2.99 price tag (App Store link) and is rated 12+.
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