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Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.

Timothy Cook, 49, will also receive 75,000 restricted stock units scheduled to vest in 2011 and 2012, Apple said in a regulatory filing Friday.

Nintendo on Thursday revealed its next wave of products. The video-game maker is also planning to release Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M in the first half of 2010, but Nintendo DSi XL is taking the spotlight -- and entering the e-reader market.

The new DSi XL handheld system launches March 28 and will retail for $189.99. There are plenty of improvements, beginning with screen size. The screens are 93 percent larger than the Nintendo DS Lite and feature a wider viewing angle so friends and family can share the experience.

Apple ha empezado a suprimir aplicaciones para iPhone e iPod que tengan un contenido erótico, aunque éste sea remoto. Según el testimonio de desarrolladores que han recibido una notificación de la compañía comunicándoles la retirada de su aplicación, que en su día había sido aprobada por la propia empresa, Apple argumenta que responde a las quejas de los consumidores. Varios analistas no descartan que este repetino puritanismode Apple tenga relación con el lanzamiento de la tableta iPad.

Apple is one step closer to potentially taking a bite out of Nokia's U.S. market share. The U.S. International Trade Commission on Thursday said it will review the iPhone maker's complaint against the Finland-based mobile-phone giant. The ITC is also reviewing a similar complaint from Nokia against Apple.

I'm not a big fan of change. I've lived in the same city all my life. I go to the same supermarket every week. I read the newspaper every day. I drive non-hybrid American cars (thank God). I watch 60 Minutes every Sunday. And I think the Who looked just fine at the Super Bowl, O.K.?

I don't like change in my personal life. And much of the time, I hate it when things change in my business -- especially when that change lessens productivity and boosts my costs.

I'm not a big fan of change. I've lived in the same city all my life. I go to the same supermarket every week. I read the newspaper every day. I drive non-hybrid American cars (thank God). I watch 60 Minutes every Sunday. And I think the Who looked just fine at the Super Bowl, O.K.?

I don't like change in my personal life. And much of the time, I hate it when things change in my business -- especially when that change lessens productivity and boosts my costs.

Last year, millions of consumers flocked to netbooks, the stripped-down machines viewed as low-priced alternatives to laptop computers. If you were one of the netbook converts, a few minutes with the Lenovo ThinkPad T410 laptop might make you backslide.

Like many of Lenovo's business-focused ThinkPad laptops, the T410 is nothing special to look at. Don't be fooled by the matte-black industrial shell that evokes the ThinkPad's IBM lineage.

Government officials continue to put pressure on U.S. technology companies to stop censorship in China. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, is joining other government officials to fight censorship in China and other countries.

In another of its legendary product-launch events, Apple unveiled its long-rumored tablet computer Wednesday. If the legend plays out the way the launches of the Mac, the iPod, and the iPhone did, the iPad tablet will reshape the landscape of its competitors.

That landscape could include the emerging categories of netbooks, e-readers and other tablets, all of which have seen a flurry of product releases in the last few months -- at least some of which were in anticipation of Wednesday's event.

'The Internet In Your Hands'

When Apple unveils its iSlate in late January, the tablet computer will be just the latest wowing of the world by the pioneering computer company. With its iPhone, iPod, and MacBook laptops, plus the original Macintosh computer itself [and the "1984" TV commercial that pitched it], Apple's innovation has changed technology -- and the people who use it.