$200 Android Apps; Why Your Dog Hates Vine; Back-to-School Gear; and More

Important Stories and More from PC Magazine     By Dan Costa     August 16, 2013

View in browser The Most Expensive Android Apps Thanks to glowing review on AppScout, I just bought Sina Mora for Android. At a whopping $6, it is one of the most expensive apps I've ever bought. And yet, that is far less than the $200 limit Google places on developers. What exactly can you get for $200? Chandra Steele investigates. Share This:     ADVERTISEMENT Apple vs. Samsung in America PCMag's features editor Mitchell Hall is originally from New Zealand, which must at least partially explain why he was surprised the U.S. government overruled the ITC's decision to ban certain iPhone and iPad models from import. Truthfully, the issue is a lot more complicated than picking Apple over Samsung. It involves different classes of patents and the definitions of fair and reasonable fees. Even so, why was Mitchell the only one surprised by this? Must be a Kiwi thing. Share This: Why Your Dog Hates Vine Humans do terrible things to their pets. We always have. Not long ago we would gather weekly to laugh at America's Funniest Home Videos, now we have Vine and other apps that make it easy to film the atrocities and share them with thousands of strangers online. PCMag contributing writer and dog lover Seamus Condron wants it to stop. Share This: Back to School: From Trapper Keepers to Evernote When I was a kid, getting ready for school meant investing in a Trapper Keeper. This shiny plastic binder (with actual Velcro!) kept all of my schoolwork color-coded and organized—for about two days. And yet I always had this sense that schoolwork could be contained, if not in the Trapper Keeper itself, then in its larger, more flexible education repository cousin, the backpack. A generation later, the Trapper Keeper, although still available, seems like a throwback. And yet we're still loading our children every morning like pack mules, their backpacks overflowing with artifacts of an education system that remains largely based on paper, pencils, and heavy textbooks. This will not last. Share This: IT and Admins: Take Our Business Choice Survey! If you deploy or administer routers, phones, tablets, servers, CRM, accounting software, and more at any size office, take our survey. You'll be entered to win a $700 Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch and results will appear in the PCMag Business Choice Awards. Share This: MORE STORIES • Creeper Hacks Baby Monitor • Back To School 2013 • Video: Call of Duty Ghosts Multiplayer Unveiled • Infographic: How to Keep you Internet Usage Private • Surprising Celebs in Saints Row That is What's New Now for now. Come back on Monday for more headlines from the Ziff Davis Network. Dan Costa Editor-in-Chief, PCMag.com @dancosta Featured Research Remote Working WP What the trend to remote working means for your business. VoIP Continuity Business Continuity Planning with VoIP Considerations for UC Five IT Considerations for UC in the Contact Center eNewsletter Information You are subscribed to What's New Now with the e-mail address pctipworld@gmail.com. Click here to unsubscribe from this newsletter. To subscribe to other e-mail newsletters from Ziff Davis, change your delivery format from HTML to text, or change your email address, click here. Copyright © 2013 Ziff Davis, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis, Inc., 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016 IN THIS ISSUE • The Most Expensive Android Apps • Apple vs. Samsung in America • Why Your Dog Hates Vine • Back to School: From Trapper Keepers to Evernote • IT and Admins: Take Our Business Choice Survey!