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4 A Significant Year for Apple Innovations
Apple's mobile devices get a new operating system with iOS 5,
which includes over 200 new features.The iPhone's newest
version is iPhone 4S,which adds not only the features of iOS 5,
but also Siri,a voice-activated personal assistant. Apple also
partners with leading textbook publishers Pearson, McGraw Hill
and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to create the new Textbooks
category in the iBookstore.
;A • _T Streaming TV Without the PC
The tiny Roku 2 Wi-Fi streaming media
Ij - - box brings over 350 entertainment *
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Plus,and Pandora-directly to your TV •
without a c nnected computer.
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These Mobile Apps Kept Our Thumbs Numb
•Angry Birds Seasons • Scramble With Friends
sf' • Fruit Ninja •Words With Friends
p • Infinity Blade 2 • Plants Vs. Zombies ______
• Flick Homerun •Temple Run
•Jetpack • Instagram
• Flipboard •Cut the Rope
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Using Mind-Bending Science to Bend Light
The Lytro Light Field Camera is truly the first of its
= kind. Unlike a conventional camera that captures
a single plane of light,the Lytro captures the
entire light field,which allows you to completely 4
refocus your photos after you've taken them.
• Finally, a Little Online Privacy
Google+is Google's attempt to rival social networking giant
Facebook. Google+incorporates many of the same features of
. ,. Facebook, but the feature it's lacking could be its most attractive-the
lack of our parents'accounts.
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What the Major Players Play
•`: \\ • Skyrim:The Elder Scrolls V
\ • • COD: Modern Warfare 3
• Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Google Chrome Takes The Silver
• Battlefield 3
• Portal 2
As of January 2012,the Google Chrome
web browser becomes the second most
• Star Wars:The Old Republic
..�°' • Batman:Arkham City
widely used browser,overtaking Mozilla's
Firefox.