Apple has revealed that it wants a cut of third-party e-book sales while it rolls out in-app subscriptions on the side for newspapers and magazines. Meanwhile, someone has finally sued over the iPhone 4 "Glassgate." Ars chatted with Sinbad (yes, the comedian) as well as tech personality Andy Ihnatko and the Omni Group at the Macworld Expo, and we did more exploring of the iPad 2 display rumors. Read on for the top 10 stories of the past week:Apple responds: we want a cut of Amazon, Sony e-book sales: Apple has responded to speculation that its App Store policies could bar popular e-book apps from iOS devices. Those apps can remain, but they can't totally bypass Apple's 30 percent tax on in-app purchases.
Ars at Macworld: Dead iPad? $1,000 can bring your data back: Adding to its experience in recovering lost data from iPhones and SSDs, DriveSavers announced during this year's Macworld Expo that it now offers data recovery from Apple's iPad. Here's how it works.
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Week in gaming: Scientology, Killzone 3, PS3 DMCA OMG
The question of Scientology's influence on Dead Space 2 stirred some interesting conversation, making the comments as fun to read as the story itself. We also looked at how the Move adds a high level of control to Killzone 3, we continued to follow the legal adventures of Sony, and we looked at the iPad version of Dead Space. Here are the biggest stories of the week.
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Week in tech: metered Internet edition
200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet: Usage Based Billing (UBB) has come to Canada, and indie ISPs are starting to publish their new rate plans. Your 200GB monthly data cap? It's now 25GB. Enjoy.How Egypt did (and your government could) shut down the Internet: Ars looks at how Egypt "turned off" the Internet within its borders and whether that could be accomplished in countries like the US and western Europe. The Internet is surprisingly hard to kill, but if a government is willing to power down routers, turn off DNS, and kill interconnects, it can be done.
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Week in science: lost mouse edition
What's in all that tear gas we've been selling Egypt?: Much of the tear gas used on Egyptian protestors apparently comes from Jamestown, Pennsylvania. Here's what's inside all those canisters.NASA spots six planets in tight orbits around sun-like star: NASA's Kepler team has spotted a star that hosts five planets in close proximity, with a sixth lurking a bit further out. It's the largest collection of planets yet spotted orbiting a single star, but the system appears to be quite unstable.
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