The Nook competes against Amazon's Kindle e-reader, as well as Apple and Google in the e-book market.
Classical techno equipment is personified by male Wall-E, while the Apple ethos is the angelic female Eva.
By default, it works with your Apple ID e-mail address, but you can add as many as you'd like from the settings application after verifying that you do indeed own the account.
Amazon owns the e-reader like Apple owns tablets.
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Victoria Police sent an e-mail to Apple on Monday morning Sydney time, asking it to fix the flaw, but a check on the location on Apple Maps at 10pm Pacific time on Sunday shows the app is still showing the city as incorrectly being in a pocket of land in the middle of the desert park.
The government argued that the market trends were already established by the time Apple started selling e-books.
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Apple's e-book market share is small and immaterial to its business, analysts say.
Publishers must do their own authentication of users and their own e-commerce outside the Apple interface, to make the program work.
In a statement issued to CNN by e-mail, an Apple spokeswoman said the company's existing data centers will not use coal energy by early next year.
The lawyer said he would display emails and other correspondence that showed Jobs was active in the company's efforts to control e-book prices as Apple was preparing to launch the iPad.
Amazon competes with a variety of stellar tech companies in its business structures like Apple with its e-reader and with Netflix for streaming video, which is an area where the Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire will play.
Mickey Cargile, managing partner at Cargile Investments, notes that the e-book revolution is continuing through an Apple iPhone application, called Books.app, which is an e-reader.
On Monday, Apple distributed an an e-mail to the media hinting at a new product release on Sept. 7.
But consumers' insatiable appetite for Apple devices aside, e-reading may be too small a market for more new entrants.
Most-favored-nation clauses are also an issue in the e-books case, where Apple sought to ensure that publishers gave the Apple online bookstore the best price available.
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"Apple wanted to sell e-books to the public, but did not want to compete against the low prices Amazon was setting, " the government wrote in its court papers.
"Apple is committed to ensuring the highest standards of social responsibility throughout our supply chain, " Apple said in an e-mail reply Wednesday to the organizations making the allegations.
Facebook selling ads from Eire (or Google, which does the same, or Amazon or Apple selling tunes or e-books from Luxembourg) is not a perversion of the system.
It talks with iChat and with Mail, Apple's new e-mail program, and will also work with Palm OS-based handheld computers, like those from Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ), Handspring (nasdaq: HAND - news - people ) or Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ).
The HarperCollins negotiations with Apple represent a direct challenge to Amazon, which dominates the fast-growing e-book market but which could face significant competition from an Apple tablet.
At the hearing on Wednesday, lawyers for Apple showed new evidence including e-mails between both sides during the early negotiations for the trademark deal.
Cook had promised in a recent e-mail to his staff that Apple wouldn't change under his leadership, but he introduced at least one corporate program that would have been out of character for Jobs.
Years later, Apple realized the potential of the e-book format with the tablet computer.
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Amazon competes in the e-content space with companies such as Apple and Netflix.
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In other words the overall smartphone opportunity could still e growing healthily for Google but especially for Apple.
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E-mails cited in court showed that Apple executives kept the publishers aware of each other's progress during negotiations of the agency agreements.
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Apple now offers about sixty thousand e-books, far fewer than Kindle does, and Amazon has launched an app that allows it to sell e-books on the iPad.
In 1996, Sony Corp. had to break its no-comment policy on acquisition rumors when a fake e-mail purportedly from its chairman to Apple Computer's CEO started making the rounds.
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