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Black Sheep Entertainment introduces Foodie Conversation Cards 1.0, for iOS. Get ready to ignite the dialogue and share favorite food thoughts with Foodie Conversation Cards.Foodie Conversation Cards features more than 100 digital cards with a variety of questions that are sure to entertain you and your foodie friends for hours. You can send your favorite questions via social networking sites, text and email. Foodie Conversation Cards is the fifth edition of Conversation Cards to be released.

California-based developer Selectsoft is offering the educational iOS app Amazing Tours: The Caribbean on sale this weekend only. Explore tropical marine life, escape to Paradise Island, take a helicopter tour, climb Dunn's River Falls, attend a live show of dancing and music, and more. Read along with the text as you watch the videos, then take a fun quiz to find out what you've learned. The islands of the Caribbean are filled with cultural history, natural beauty, delicious foods and more!

California-based developer Selectsoft is offering the educational iOS app Visit America's Fascinating Sights on sale this weekend only. Enjoy an engaging trip through America's past and present, from carefree Orlando to historic Durango to ancient Monument Valley and beyond. Read along with the text as you watch the videos, then take a fun quiz to find out what you've learned. The app uses an intuitive videobook format that lets you quickly navigate with the swipe of a finger.

California-based developer Selectsoft is offering educational iOS app Learn Wedding Portraits Now on sale this weekend only. Follow along with the instructional video as an experienced pro photographer guides you through a real shoot. Learn about poses, how to give instructions, composition, adjusting to weather, equipment, lighting effects, creating narrative and more! Learn Wedding Portraits Now offers a wealth of tips & information to help you take photos that will be treasured for years.

Autodesk was at Macworld showing off a new product for the Mac called Autodesk Inventor Fusion. Autodesk Inventor Fusion is an existing 3D mechanical design software on Windows, but will soon become available for the Mac for the first time.

Autodesk made headlines back in 2010 when they returned to the Mac platform after a two decade hiatus. Due to the success they've seen with their existing Mac products, the company will be bringing Inventor Fusion to the Mac.

In the next few weeks, Autodesk will be releasing a free Technology Preview for the program which will allow Mac users to download an early version and provide feedback. The final release will come at some point later. Inventor Fusion is meant to be an easier to use tool focused on mechanical design which incorporates physical properties of objects.

Autodesk® Inventor® Fusion is 3D modeling software that showcases intuitive direct manipulation capabilities for unrivaled ease of use. By uniting direct modeling and parametric workflows, Inventor Fusion offers the best of both worlds. Designers can freely explore complex shapes and forms while maintaining the underlying parametric history. Inventor Fusion makes it easy to open and edit 3D models from almost any source and incorporate them into your design, enabling rapid design changes without limitations.

The software will include seamless cloud access for storage, collaboration and web viewing. Autodesk has a Facebook page set up for Inventor Fusion and will be announcing the Mac download in the near future.


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A U.S. District Judge has ruled that an anti-trust case filed against a number of tech companies can continue, saying "they still have an antitrust claim" according to Bloomberg.

[Judge] Koh didn’t take issue with the allegations about the agreements between individual companies, Joseph Saveri, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in an interview after the hearing. Instead, Koh has questions about “how it ties together,” or claims of an over-arching conspiracy between all the companies, he said.

The case goes back more than 5 years, according to the lawsuit, which alleges that "no solicitation" agreements appeared in 2005 between Apple, Adobe, Google, Intel, Intuit, Lucasfilm, and Pixar. The agreements prevented companies from contacting employees at other companies who were party to the agreement, though employees were free to apply for jobs at other institutions.

The agreements were investigated in 2010 by the Justice Department. The claims were eventually settled, with the companies agreeing not to form no-solicitation agreements for five years.

The current lawsuit is a class-action civil suit brought by employees who said they were harmed by the anti-competitive actions of the defendant companies.


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The case goes back more than 5 years, according to the lawsuit, which alleges that "no solicitation" agreements appeared in 2005 between Apple, Adobe, Google, Intel, Intuit, Lucasfilm, and Pixar. ... Complaint #2: The Lucasfilm-Pixar pact, according to the press release, "eliminated important forms of competition to attract highly skilled employees and, overall, significantly diminished competition to the detriment of affected employees who were likely deprived of ...

Rubenstein, who left Apple in 2006, served as the head of the Mac hardware engineering division before becoming senior vice president of the company's iPod music player division. For more, go to http://macte.ch/gFI2M .

Teyon revealed today that Fashion Advisor, a unique hidden object puzzler with clever fashion mini-game tie-ins, is now available worldwide in the Mac App Store for a low price. Step into the glamorous world of fashion as Lilly, a creative director at an advertising agency. Her duties consume most of her free time and there's not much time left for her passions; Shopping and creating her own fashion creations, but Lilly's about to get her lucky break.