RIM CEO Posts Apology, Galaxy Tab Sales Banned in Australia: Today's Top Stories

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Lauren Indvik
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RIM CEO Posts Apology, Galaxy Tab Sales Banned in Australia: Today's Top Stories

Welcome to this morning's edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today.

RIM CEO Apologizes to BlackBerry Users

Mike Lazaridis, RIM's founder and co-CEO, has released a YouTube video apologizing for BlackBerry service outages this week.

Apple Granted Injunction Against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia

An Australian court has barred Samsung from selling its tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, in Australia until it resolves its patent lawsuit with Apple.

Apple Releases iOS 5 and 6 New Apps

Apple unleashed six new apps in conjunction with the release of iOS 5: Newsstand, Reminders, Find My Friends, Cards, iTunes Movie Trailers and AirPort Utility. Many of these sport native integration with Twitter.

Eric Schmidt Finally Joins Google+

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt joined Google+ not long after a Google engineer accidentally posted a disparaging rant about the service to the public. In other Google+ news, the social network has added real-time search and hashtag support.

Further News

Music service Spotify has gone live in Denmark.

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