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Monday, April 30, 2012

Yankees: Watch manager Joe Girardi discuss Hiroki Kuroda's strong outing: http://t.co/LtXrX4No

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maverick playoffs run

Maverick are now 0 -2 with today Game ended. Mavericks lost.
DAL:99
OKC:102
F

maverick playoff game two

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Dallas 50
Oklahoma City 57
HALFTIME
End of 1st Half.
maverick 0-1 going into tonight game

God Monday night

Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass

FREEPSPORTS
Tigers-Royals game tonight PPD (rain). Teams will make it up Sept. 24.

Game ended. Yankees won!
BAL:1
NYY:2
F

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videogamenostalgia: New Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Trailer Is Still A Little Confusing Here’s the full trailer that goes with the teaser released last week for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Like the teaser before it, the trailer is live-action and it also still doesn’t answer very much about the game. In addition to this new trailer, the official website has also been updated with a command prompt, where users can enter keywords or phrases. (via: Game Informer)

3ds

New 3DS Colour On The Way: Midnight Purple Nintendo has announced a new colour for the 3DS, which will be launching on May 20. The Midnight Purple 3DS will be coming on the same day Mario Tennis Open launches. It will be the fifth 3DS colour, as it joins the Cosmo Black, Aqua Blue, Flame Red, and Pearl Pink systems. Woohoo!

dr who

Doctor Who fans: here’s your chance to own a TARDIS

This could be the chance of a lifetime for Doctor Who fans – 22 Tardises are about to go on sale in Edinburgh.

The blue police boxes have been a feature of the city for 80 years but have now been designated “surplus to operational requirements” by Lothian and Borders Police Board and put up for sale.

But before devoted Whovians start getting their wallets out, there are a few things they should probably know about the “Tardises”.

The Edinburgh police boxes have sloped roofs, rather than the flat-topped design that inspired the Doctor’s time machine - and buyers would be required to paint them a different colour to the classic Tardis blue.

No guide price has been given but offers must be submitted in sealed official envelopes and successful buyers are subject to a sales fee of £100 in addition to their final bids.

The new owners would then have to obtain council permits to keep the boxes in their current positions or arrange to have the two-ton cast-iron structures removed - which in many cases would require further council approval, since 12 of the boxes are listed as historically significant.

Read the rest at Radio Times

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iPhone 5 Release Date Scheduled for June?

The iPhone 5 could be launching at this year's WorldWide Developers Conference, set to take place in June, according to a report received by tech blog YouMobile yesterday.

The report also revealed that the handset will be 20 percent thinner than the current iPhone and will feature a 4-inch display with a higher DPI resolution.

WWDC takes place from June 11-15 in San Francisco, California.

In 2010, Apple launched the iPhone 4 during the event and the device went on to become one of the most popular Apple handsets to date.

The iPhone 5's unveiling taking place at WWDC 2012 is still just a rumor since Apple has not confirmed any news regarding the device.

Other rumors that have surfaced about its release date have said that is could launch much later in the year. The iPhone 4S came out during an event hosted by Apple in October named "Let's Talk About iPhone."Some insiders are reporting that Apple will launch the next generation iPhone in the fall of 2012.

The October release was backed by Qualcomm, a company that manufactures parts for the iPhone who issued a report stating that there were issues with producing chips that would be needed to power the next-generation of LTE devices.

The iPhone 5 will most likely be an LTE device since the new iPad launched back in March and is compatible with the network.

Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster commented on the issue at Qualcomm stating that it points to the iPhone's launch getting pushed back until October.

"QCOM will likely support an Apple iPhone launch in October. Based on our checks, we believe the design win momentum of QCOM's 28nm products has been exceptionally strong and a 28nm LTE baseband is likely designed to the next iPhone," said Munster.

The Times takes on Apple again, with report on taxes

Following the year's earlier reports on Foxconn and on Apple's practice of sending manufacturing overseas, The New York Times publishes a piece that claims Apple has been a pioneer in developing ways to sidestep taxes.

by Edward Moyer April 28, 2012 5:46 PM PDT

The New York Times is once again putting Apple under the microscope, with a new, in-depth report about the tactics the company uses to cut its global tax bill by billions of dollars every year.

"Almost every major corporation tries to minimize its taxes, of course," the report says. Nevertheless, "Apple serves as a window on how technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age and ill-suited to today's digital economy."

The report claims Apple has been a pioneer in developing ways to sidestep taxes and that companies seeking to do the same have used its methods as templates.

The article comes as Apple -- which, with products like the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad, has inspired devotion from numerous consumers worldwide -- is perhaps still trying to move beyond past negative reports regarding the practices of manufacturing partner Foxconn. It's also been criticized by some in regard to domestic job creation and the hugely profitable company's lack of factories in the U.S. The Times published articles about those topics in January, setting off a wave of discussion.

This time around, the Times reports that Apple essentially sets up its business to take advantage of parts of the U.S. and the world that have lower tax rates for corporations. For instance, though its headquarters are located in California, and it has no manufacturing or customer-care operations in Nevada, Apple set up a small office in Reno -- a mere 200 miles from its Cupertino HQ -- to collect and invest its profits. California's corporate tax rate is 8.84 percent. Nevada's is zero.

That's just one example. Citing unnamed former executives at the company, the Times reports that Apple's innovation does not lie solely with product development. The company has also led the way with tax-dodging strategies such as the "Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich":

Apple, for instance, was among the first tech companies to designate overseas salespeople in high-tax countries in a manner that allowed them to sell on behalf of low-tax subsidiaries on other continents, sidestepping income taxes, according to former executives. Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the "Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich," which reduces taxes by routing profits through Irish subsidiaries and the Netherlands and then to the Caribbean. Today, that tactic is used by hundreds of other corporations -- some of which directly imitated Apple's methods, say accountants at those companies.

With practices like this, the report claims, Apple has been able to "allocate about 70 percent of its profits overseas," though "the majority of Apple's executives, product designers, marketers, employees, research and development, and retail stores are in the U.S."

The Times also says the advent of digital goods has changed the game for companies. The report gives details of an Apple subsidiary in Luxembourg: "The only indication of the subsidiary's presence outside is a letterbox with a lopsided slip of paper reading "ITUNES SARL." But because of that presence, the Times says, songs, TV shows, and apps downloaded via iTunes by people across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East are recorded as having been sold in Luxembourg.

The advantages of Luxembourg are simple, say Apple executives. The country has promised to tax the payments collected by Apple and numerous other tech corporations at low rates if they route transactions through Luxembourg. Taxes that would have otherwise gone to the governments of Britain, France, the United States and dozens of other nations go to Luxembourg instead, at discounted rates.

"We set up in Luxembourg because of the favorable taxes," said Robert Hatta, who helped oversee Apple's iTunes retail marketing and sales for European markets until 2007. "Downloads are different from tractors or steel because there's nothing you can touch, so it doesn't matter if your computer is in France or England. If you're buying from Luxembourg, it's a relationship with Luxembourg."

The result, the Times says, citing government and corporate data, is that tech companies -- including Apple, Google, Yahoo, and Dell -- are among the least taxed, paying worldwide cash taxes in the last two years that were a third less than those paid by other companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index.

The paper claims that without the tax strategies it uses, Apple would have paid $2.4 billion more in federal taxes in the U.S. last year. As it stands, though, the company paid at a rate of 9.8 percent, versus nontech representative Wal-Mart's 24 percent.

The article goes on to discuss the budget crunch that's hit many, if not most, states in the U.S., and it points out that the issue is complex: Apple and other tech companies do create jobs and wealth that remain in the U.S., and they also engage in significant charitable activities. But, the Times says, some feel that those things don't make up the loss of tax revenue. The article quotes Brian Murphy, president of De Anza College, a community college near Apple HQ, where Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak went to school from 1969 to 1974. The school is severely threatened by the current budget crunch.

"I just don't understand it," Murphy told the Times. "I'll bet every person at Apple has a connection to De Anza. Their kids swim in our pool. Their cousins take classes here. They drive past it every day, for Pete's sake. But then they do everything they can to pay as few taxes as possible."

And the Times relates an episode involving late co-founder Steve Jobs and the Cupertino City Council. During the approval process for Apple's new campus, then-Councilwoman Kris Wang asked how residents might benefit and suggested that Apple might provide free Wi-Fi to the city, as Google had in neighboring Mountain View.

"See, I'm a simpleton;" Jobs replied. "I've always had this view that we pay taxes, and the city should do those things. That's why we pay taxes. Now, if we can get out of paying taxes, I'll be glad to put up Wi-Fi." He then suggested that if the council was unhappy, Apple could move -- and take with it the many millions of dollars it pays in property taxes annually. Wang dropped the Wi-Fi idea.

"We're proud to have Apple here," she told the Times for the article. "But how do you get them to feel more connected?"

For its part, Apple provided the Times with a statement that says, among other things, that the company "has conducted all of its business with the highest of ethical standards, complying with applicable laws and accounting rules," that the company is "incredibly proud of all of Apple's contributions," and that Apple "pays an enormous amount of taxes, which help our local, state and federal governments."

CNET contacted Apple for comment. We'll update the story when we get more information.

You can read the Times report in its entirety here.

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