google android converses microsoft -- versus microsoft. welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast on pbs in america. coming up later, allegations that the judge in a trial did not write his burdick and credit against his will. a record breaking up, but how long did this valentine's day smooch last? iran has seen what may be the biggest protest against the government in more than a year. the iranian news agency is reporting that one person was shot dead as protestors in tehran cannot in the hundreds, possibly thousands, defying a security crackdown. the agency is blaming opposition supporters for the killing. james reynolds reports. >> demonstrators in tehran were told the rally was illegal. but these protesters did not listen. many covered their faces to avoid being identified. here, they confront a man the suspect working for the government paramilitary force. it is rare to see this kind of challenge. here, another group of protesters shouts, "death to the dictator." these are the biggest demonstrations against the government in more than a

android is different from the other platforms out there. will see that in honeycomb. >> the visible strength is graphic so important for games. a handful of developers had two or three weeks to work witness and they are close to a launch. this could make android based tablets true competition for the ipad. >> google is trying to levm and all the resources they have to help advance the platforms. >> they say it should be able to launch soon. disney mobile says they will have three apps ready. >> developers won't be drawn so much to something that really high end. >> google also announced they are adding an online version called android web market. >> you can buy an app on the web but it's the integration and google likes to talk about. >> so many of these developers and advertising platforms so it's going to have a lot of users. david louie, "abc 7 news." >> verizon spelled out how much it will cost the apple iphone on their network. they will take pre-orders tomorrow at 3:00 a.m. it will be stores next week. until now, it's been exclusively

previously the android market was only available on android- running devices. >>> a possible snafu for a cupertino-based apple. amid speculation it will soon announce a new ipad. someone with reuters news agency saw what appeared to be a working model of the unreleased ipad 2. it happened at a joint news conference between apple and news corp. reuters say an apple source confirmed the new ipad's existence but said the final model could have other features. >> that's right. they just announced a new online newspaper for ipad users. so maybe that's where they saw it. >> ipad 2. sounds like a movie, little sneak peek. i like it. >> bigger and better. >>> 4:46. wikileaks a nobel peace prize winner? why one lawmaker says the company deserves one of the world's heist honors. >>> plus, fireworks, family and food. it is all part of the lunar new year celebration. this is important. what you shouldn't do today that could bring you bad luck. >>> and a shocking secret behind the smile. why a historian thinks mona lisa is really a man. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, in prison. >>> for the second time in less th

>> i have an android phone. linux d desk top, and i am playing with the ipad. i like it, but i am not one of those people who was transformed by it. so much of what do with these devices is to write, not just to read. the laptop is better for writing and the ipad. >> arthur, professor, and technology thinker clay shirky has been our guest on "the communicators." thank you so much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> as the nation's governors meet here in washington, use the c-span video library to learn more about the state's chief executives. see inaugurals of new governors and your state of the state addresses, all free on-line research, watch, click, and share, anytime. >> the supreme court heard oral arguments on tuesday in the case of carol and bond, sentenced to six years in prison for spreading chemicals on her husband's mistresses car and mailbox. the issue is whether an individual can challenge federal law on to the men and grounds which concerned congressional versus state

>> guest: oh, i use an android phone, i've got the, just got the 11-inch macbook air. i've got a lennox desktop, and i'm playing with the ipad although now that i've got the phone, the ipad doesn't fill in enough of a gap. i like it, but i'm not transformed by it in part because so much of what i do with these devices is to write, not just to read. and the little laptop is better for writing than the little ipad. >> host: author, professor and technology thinker clay shirky has been our get on "the communicators." shirky.com is his web site. >> guest: great. thank you so much. >> ahead on c-span2, leaders in the independent movement discuss their influence in the american political system. in about an hour, live coverage of a hearing on the commission of wartime contract anything iraq and afghanistan as members hear from representatives of the military and federal agencies on how u.s. tax dollars are being spent toward reconstruction efforts. and later at 2 eastern, the senate reconvenes with a reading of george washington's farewell address in observance of his birthd

people are saying download it, i want to play with us, friends are like, i have an android, i can't, and they're mad at us, and so this is -- i think it's goods to be massive. >> absolutely. i think for us, the more people use it on the devices, the better kind of experience becomes, because you can discover new things more -- >> reporter: already popular on the ipad, the makers of pulse are about to see their audience grow as android users snatch up one of the half dozen google-ized tablets coming to market. >> you can see what we have is a three-dimensional object. >> reporter: this one is called body. think google maps, but inside you. >> you can interact in things in a way that wasn't possible before. as a physician, i love the idea of new tools to explore anatomy, but most remarkable to me has been seeing my 6-year-old daughter as well as my doctor friends just think, wow, this is fun and useful. >> reporter: some will choose google, some apple, but the best news is more choices and more competition. yeah, which means eventually we'll see the prices come down. most of the tablet

however, the wall street journal says many of the 2 million android tablets remain on the shelves. meanwhile apple sold 7 million ipads in the last quarter 2010. >> reporter: the european great wine moth was found last september and ends a second million-dollar industry. one of nine california counties under quarantine because the young incense burrow into grapes leaving bacteria behind. >> it just means we have to do is a bit more work because of the quarantines. >> reporter: it covers 94 square miles. starting in two weeks, these bright orange tarps will go well up to find out if the insect has spread. >> we have not had much opportunity to determine if it is moved. this is a key time. >> reporter: a problem was mapped out today for 300 grape growers and they are required to put a cover over and the fruits. this farmer has planted lowers to attract insects -- planted wildflowers to attract insects. >> reporter: the barrel of a female moth is trapped to lure male moths and at this point it appears the quarantine will last until at least next year. >>> complaints about red light ca

net slicks coming to android phones in google. 4: 1:00 p. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. more rain today, more that we saw yesterday the latest coming up. >> james: welcome back to the kron 4 news. a live like here at i-e zero, we ha som sno80 white of conditions are possible today and tomorrow. more on your forecasts, louisa is standing by. >> louisa: 2-4 ft. there expected, when-to around 5000. plenty of snowfall in the sierra. san jose, picking up some raindrops. a bit of a breeze. you can see the camera shaking. the rain is expected late morning in the north bay, heavier rain expected until late afternoon. really dusty winds are expected.gusty winds s well. a few leftover rain drops through danville, livermore, fremont. also in san jose. future cast, you can see by 10:00 a.m. you see the rain in the north bay. in the afternoon better chance of rain really picking up. no. 8, santa rosa, petaluma really starting scene of some moderate downfalls. evening can you looks like a we

as well as growing competition, especially from devices using google's android operating system. >> androidis the fastest- growing operating system out there. and because of the fact that it's being backed by google, it's not something that you want to trivialize and put aside lightly. >> reporter: the investment horizon is not nearly as bright for verizon. although the company is expected to sell over 10 million iphones this year, most analysts recommend putting the shares on hold. in fact, the median price target of the 26 analysts following verizion is right in line with today's close. analyst todd rosenbluth says there are better telecom stocks to own. >> s&p equity research has a sell recommendation on the shares. we think that the stock run-in* has run up in advance and for positive expectations for the iphone. at&t trades at a cheaper multiple. >> reporter: and he's not convinced verizon will be able to grow its market share much by poaching at&t's customers. >> at&t, despite the news and the headlines, has an extremely loyal customer base in our opinion. their churn, or turnover rat

. >>> cnn should be redk ready to launch its and droi android ap. >> they won't be drawn to something that is really high end for the i dn phone because that is the only thing that can run it. >>> google is adding an online version of the app store called android web market. >> it shows up on the device a second later. everybody like whas is does for the user. >> reporter: for many of the application developers this is an advertising platform. cnn already has two million mobile phone users and one million iphone users. they hope to have the same success with android. >> the bay area air quality district is trying to make driving an electric car more convenient. the distric district doled outy $4 million in spare the air funds to install charging stations around the bay area. theehere are the companies that will make and install 2800 stations. eco. ka loan technology. aeroviron 34-7b9 and corporate vehicle. it will make the electric vehicle a viable option for bay area drivers. >>> consumer news and another story about a vehicle. a local minister has been having problems getting his ca

. >> what these android are vacuum carpet. >> what these android are trying to accomplish now. ♪ going to the bank without going to the bank... that's a step forward. with chase quickdeposit on your smartphone, you just snap a picture, hit send and done. chase quickdeposit. take a step forward and ♪ we just keep ons.e jun keepin' on ♪ ♪ keep on . >> new study suggest the positive side to those uncomfortable hot flashes that come with menopause. women who experience hot flashes at the start of menopause seem to have a lower risk of heart attack and death compared to women who either never experience hot flashes or have them years after menopause began. study is publish in the journal menopause. >> marathon of different kind is unway in osaka, japan. competent division between pinto size robots7. goal is to run around the track 4 23 times to complete a full 26 mile marathon. should take him something like 4 days to finish. organizers say first marathon of its kind anywhere in the world. >> i should say so. >> slow but steady wins the race. >> 4 days or 4 year. it's rivetting. ri

previously the android market was only available on android- running devices. >>> a pair of comedy centralng to hulu. jon stewart and steven colbert were gone from the site for a year but they are coming back. terms of the deal not disclosed. >>> it was one of the biggest television moments of the '80s. everyone wanted to know, who shot jr ewing? well, now larry hagman is about to put that stetson back on for a remake of dallas. they have signed several original cast members for a pilot including patrick duffy and linda gray. but what about victoria plains principal? it was a big drama. >> will it be about their grandchildren? [ laughter ] >> them with canes ? >> i used to watch dallas every friday. it was a tradition. that and twilight zone. i remember that? >> i do. i do. and a lot more you don't remember. [ laughter ] >>> it is 5:50. only the difference makers get it. the elite award wikileaks has been nominated for. >>> and happy lunar new year. it starts today. what you can't do or else you'll get bad luck. the next, you start one feeling a bit off.ne. the moment you feel run down or

android users will be enjoying it. google is launching a place for its ap. it will let users buy apes from computers and have them, installed to their smart phones. it was previously available only on androids. >>> starting on march 1st, a prepaid card will be the only way to ride the clipper. you can buy it online or on the phone or at walgreen's. if you have a day pass or one- way ticket, you can buy a paper ticket at the station. >>> how a flashlight and a telescope can help explain today's spending scientific discovery about planets still ahead. >>> and i'm tracking some warm temperatures now but it's going to get cold in your neighborhood tonight. down to the 30s in some places. >>> >>> representatives gabriel gifford's husband will decide whether he will be on board the space shuttle endeavour in april. according to mark kelly's twin brother scott who is the commander of the space station. kelly has been on leave to attend to his wife that was injured in the january 8th shootings in tucson. >>> bay area scientists announce a spectacular discovery sugge

this, with the mobile phone with the coup will android operating system and with a slight out gaming pad. this phone will run on the verizon network. and on that the market in three weeks. no price, yet. >> with the >>catherine: wind advisory, and the traffic is moving slowly in all directions. the specially to the lower deck of the bay bridge. >>catherine: the dow jones fell five points, and rob how much as one dozen roses? >>rob: $120-$200. >>catherine: in the new york city, you are going to have this crazy. you can e-mail him at rob@robblack.com were going to pay. >>catherine: the budget and what happened today? you can e-mail him at rob@robblack.com the dull jones was >>rob: the dow jones was down. which was not normal. from the last previous couple of days. with the budget proposal. and we are trying to figure out if we use alternative energy? while back? transportation? agitation. for oil. education >>catherine: twitter predictions for the futur oh my and with red lights, for valentine's day on the empire state building. and if you do not have a valentine? you could be looking

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android beat out the rest. a new report says almost 43 million android phones were sold worldwide in the final three months of last year. when will google music debut? some sources say it could start next month, but others say it's months away. before google can offer music for sale, it has to negotiate licensing agreements. also digital music sales are sagging. >>> churches say they often get a big turn out on super bowl sunday. the ministry is sponsoring a nationwide antipornography campaign called porn sunday. the church enlisted nfl and former nfl players to help and released a video where they talked about their experience with pornography. more than 300 churches signed on to talk about pornography. hayward is one of them. >> like the elephant in the room. everyone knows it is there but no one wants to say anything about it. we want to collaborate with the rest of the churches and begin to expose this epidemic. >> xxx church held its first porn sunday event in 2005. >>> a bay area girl who vanished without

android beat out the rest.new report says almost 43 million android phones were sold worldwide in the final three months of last year. when will google music debut? some sources say it could start next month, but others say it's months away. before google can offer music for sale, it has to negotiate licensing agreements. also digital music sales are sagging. >>> churches say they often get a big turn out on super bowl sunday. the ministry is sponsoring a nationwide antipornography campaign called porn sunday. the church enlisted nfl and former nfl players to help and released a video where they talked about their experience with pornography. more than 300 churches signed on to talk about pornography. hayward is one of them. >> like the elephant in the room. everyone knows it is there but no one wants to say anything about it. we want to collaborate with the rest of the churches and begin to expose this epidemic. >> xxx church held its first porn sunday event in 2005. >>> a bay area girl who vanished without a

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the delayed shipments may give the android camp a brief opportunity. & p is at its highest level since june of 2008. at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king with the bloomberg business report. >> it's 5:55 now. the american red cross says it desperately needs the public's help in collecting blood. the silicon valley blood donation center was one of the few red cross centers open in northern california as part of a campaign called 2011. severe weather across the nation prompted people to stay home and january donations were at their lowest level in a decade. >> today happened to be a holiday because there wouldn't be too many people. i'm working today but it was convenient to come in. >> it makes me think i'm doing something. what else can you do to save a life? i can't think of anything else i can do except give blood. >> since january more than 750 blood drives have been cancelled because of bad weather. >> persistence is paying off for the first woman to pitch batting practice at major league spring training in arizona. siegel wore the clevelan

just go to android market or visit our website, latenightwithjimmyfallon.com.got "axl rose relaxation tapes" on there. so you can go to sleep to the great soothing sounds of axl rose. we have "bieber yourself." where you take a picture and you can move the bieber hair around so you can tweet that out to your friends. what else do we have? "moldova, yes or no" is a great one. it tells you, use your gps and tells you if you are in fact in moldova or not. [ laughter ] it is a great app, so check it out. go to market place and get that. it's free, you guys. [ cheers and applause ] we have such a great finish for the week. one of my all-time favorites, from the "today" show and "dateline: nbc," the lovely ann curry is here. [ cheers and applause ] a super, super funny man, the one and only comedian patrice o'neal is joining us. [ cheers and applause ] he's got a comedy central special. he's a funny dude. i love that guy. we got some great, great music from raekwon featuring ghostface killah. [ cheers and applause ] come on. all little wu. come on. guys, today is fri

the google and ric androd and i concede that if somebody would like their approval android but wouldming? if this new hybrid will fail or succeed. this will hit the market in three weeks, no price known yet. this will be on the verizon network. follow me on twitter. and i will let you know one that review will be hearing. i will get my hand on one of those soon and i will let you know. >>catherine: a look a traffic and we're back it's really delicious, mom. it's not too well done? nope. but it is a job well done. what are you reading, sweetie? her diary. when you're done, i'd love some feedback. sure. your mom and i read that thing cover-to-cover. loved it. thanks. would you mind if i cut the lawn this weekend? only if you let me talk to your mother on the phone for hours on end. done. [ male announcer ] u-verse brings peace to the family. at&t u-verse lets you record four shows at once from any room and play them back on any tv. get u-verse tv for only $29 a month for 6 months. in the network, everyone can get along. [ female announcer ] starbucks via is planted the same... ♪ ...har

it's an android tablet. >> jimmy: xoom. >> yeah. >> jimmy: xoom. >> xoom, yeah.eck this out. it's got a front face and you guys can't see this. front face camera and then it also has a camera on the back. if you can swing around and do hd video. >> jimmy: -- ipad -- [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: xoom. i will get one. >> i appreciate it. >> jimmy: no problem. >> $800. you remember palm? the first time i was on the show, i brought a palm phone. >> jimmy: that's right. >> palm got purchased by a company called hp. maybe you've heard of them. they make lap tops. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and they're making a bunch of new stuff. they've got this phone which is the smallest smartphone on the market. it's called the veer. and as you can see, it's like for babies. a phone for babies. >> how cute. >> little baby keyboard on it. >> jimmy: oh my god. >> it's the first phone for little people. and -- it actually does -- it does like 3-d gaming. it's like a real -- >> get out of here. >> it's like a real -- i don't know if you guys can see that. >> jimmy: it's a really tiny phon

apple needs to do something to compete with the android phones. a think there will be a new i phone by june at the latest. smaller? i don't know if there's people who would want smaller smartphones in their pocket. it would be a smartphones. it the other way to think about this is the screen size might be the same age as my be release in and later. e-mail me at your 100 favorite songs but she wouldn't be able to store all those tv shows and movies so you give up storage weather be lighter, cheaper. let's roll the next video. it's a smaller smartphones, it's not that ridiculous this is the age beefier. it's coming out this spring we don't have a price release date yet. it's 2 in. wide it's a fully loaded smartphones. it's like the small smartphones effort yet to. it's coming out soon so h-p to dock with palm, they think people are sick of this giant smartphones wind down their pocket. apple might be thinking we need to get something out there that's a little smaller, and cheaper. we will see by june. >>pam: we will wait and see them. u.s. something

>> running on my android phone, this gives me the ability to control the media are around my connected home. i can play things on my consoles, television, and that says media from home, getting my internet media content and playing at around the home. here i can take my facebook photographs, browsed through my media player, go through my photographs, my friends photographs, then put them up on the television screen. >> of course, south korea has really led the way with a lot of this technology. a couple of robots here with mobile-embedded technology. for instance, this robot is connected to his mother's phone. putting it on their -- putting it on theire, h that is initiated in your phone can talk to the child's robot found. want to sing a nursery rhyme? just press here. by the wonders of mobile technology, out comes a song. >> slightly higher up on the technological staircase, a 5 hour walk in space was taken outside of the international space station, installing equipment for sensing earthquakes and lightning. the station now consists of 10 modules built by the united states, russia,

a little more complicated on the android phone, but you've got to disable the in-app purchases. keep your pass code private from your kid so they don't go in there and make a purchase without your permission. most of all, talk to your kids about your smartphone. i don't believe you should give kids smartphones until maybe they are in late high school or college. i'm actually quite conservative about that. i think you shouldn't give your kids cell phones until they are much older than a lot of people. >> but then there's the safety factor. >> that's safety with the parents thing. let me be frank with you. the kids know much more. they sit there and they are not using it for safety. and the steyer children don't get a cell phone until high school and they have turned out okay. we didn't have cell phones! and the problem with smartphones, you can do so much more. there's so much content on there, like a computer. you've got a computer. the phone is a computer now. you give your 8-year-old a laptop? i wouldn't. and so be careful. talk with them. set rules. and beware. again, go to c

and the powerful android platform. ♪ so we took both... ♪ ...and used them to make something new.uble hearing on the phone? visit sprintrelay.com. introducing the new htc evo shift 4g. only from sprint, the now network. introducing the new htc evo shift 4g. host: could switching to geico 15% or more on car insurance? host: what, do you live under a rock? man: no way! man: hey rick check this out! anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save 15% or more on car insurance. >> announcer: "nightline" continues from new york city with terry moran. >> he depends on a voluptuous ukrainian nurse who is his constant companion. he's afraid of flying over water and refuses to climb more than 35 steps at a time. those are just a few of moammar gadhafi's quirks, as described in u.s. cable cables. but his behavior goes beyond mere quirks. now, he's slaughtering his own people. so, just how mad is he? here's jeffrey kofman. >> reporter: even by gadhafi standards, it was a speech that went beyond the bizarre. speak i speaking on state tv, the man who has ruled libya for almost 42 years railed against the l

android is different from the platforms out there. you will see that in honeycomb, as well. we hope that people enjoy it. >> the first tablet to use it is the motorola zoom scheduled for release in two weeks. >> a new newspaper made a debut today. first ever newspaper created just for the apple i-ipad out. they charge 99 cents a week that will provide news, entertainment and gossip. murdoch is hoping to lure consumers who is used to getting news for free on line and certainly many in the industry are hoping his model succeeds. >> the price of traffic citation is going up. >> keep in mind it would be for a good cause. michael finney he is here with the story. >> it might take a little sting out of it. it could be considered both bad and really good. under the bill motorists cited for any moving violation would be fined an extra $3 for ticket. it's to raise money for the research of spinal cord injuries. >> we drive fast and some people don't pay attention and there are accidents. one of the society al harms that occur is people are left paralyzed. >> and roman reid who suffer

when the real race begins next week, the androids will run the full 26-mile course that will take themstimated 4 days to complete. as you can see there, they're really not going that fast. >> i want that assignment. i will cover that in depth for the network. >> why would that be? >> so i can get four days off to just watch the robot. >> sit and hanging out and watching robots. okay. we'll work on that, bill. >> thank you. >>> time now for an early look at some of the stories we'll follow throughout the day here on nbc. there will be a hearing for the man accused of going on a 28-hour stabbing spree through new york city last weekend. four people were killed and four others were injured. the suspect, originally from ukraine, claims he was set up. >>> nascar fans will be remembering dale earnhardt. ten years ago today, the auto racing star died in a crash at the daytona 500. earnhardt was 49. >>> and congratulations to actor john travolta. today, he celebrates his 57th birthday. >>> all day long, you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they bre

it's a ten-inch tablet to compete with the ipad and various android devices. it's got a camera and will interact with two new phones hp is releasing all with the phone on board. all due out by this summer. big news for twitter today. the company says it has an investor familiar with dot com success stories. he says he invested $80 million in twitter. big night for earns, but nervous times for cisco stockholder. the san jose networks giant reporting an 18% drop in earnings. cisco on the nasdaq and dow dropping by nearly 9% this evening. it's the end of the video game era. "guitar hero" is hanging up its amp. activision says the franchise isn't selling like it used to. this was a game that topped a billion in sales quickly, but recently, sales have been slow. so, we say good-bye to a video game trail blazer. >> it was so popular for so long. >> here's my question. what will my son do now? >> he'll have to find something new to play? >>> still ahead, firefighters rushed to the aid of a south bay toddler caught in a most unusual jam. we'll tell you how they saved

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the g c inspire is an android mobile phone. the back of the phone is curved sword so good in the hand. it's a touch screen with the big 4.3 in. super lcd screen. it great for watching videos. it features an eight make pixel camera with a dual elegy flash and this camera will record h d video. as a " feature called friend stream which delivers to you facebook, twitter and flicker all in one consolidated view. it could put the future to give you peace of mind from any computer you can locate your phones location on amount and if you lost in you need to you can wipe it clean, race. this is the first-and smartphones of this caliber that i've seen for only $100 on launch day. bus to see if other wireless carriers will have to follow at&t. this goes on sale the senate. >> agendas survives of fretting landing and legislators brawl in venezuela. kimberly sakamoto is here with today's edition of take a look at this. >> the gymnast champion in florida. he had a heroin close call with paralysis and death during a practice for tryouts. thi

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android, our mobile operating system is shipping 250,000 units a day. >> they're number one now. >> yes. and doubling the traffic over the last year, display advertising over a half billion. our mobile business is generating over a billion a year. for so many successes, to pick two or three things that we wish could have succeeded more is fine, right? because as a dpcompany, you hav to do several things and several succeed tremendously. several we wish had succeeded more but we learned from what we did there. >> and be allowed to fail. >> be allowed to fail. >> let's throw this up on the wall. >> google is all about failing fast. >> when you have facebook and you can't get in and see what's going on completely in facebook or some other site, when you have twitter moving so fast, these are the future of the web or at least the e citing parts -- exciting parts of the web, that's got to be a threat to the web. >> facebook is good for the web and whatever is good for the web, is good for google. as the web grows billions of dollars of advertising money comes online and we benefit from that

google platforms, the hope is more customers will find a reason to switch from iphones and ipads to androids. but there are risks. >> it is saying "improvise, innovate, let's get creative." that creativity and innovation gets messy. and in a new technology market that can be challenging. >> reporter: apple is acting as a gatekeeper, providing a seamless user experience but controlling subscriber information and refusing to allow links outside an app to websites like amazon or netflix. on top of that, industry analyst ross rubin says apple is charging publishers a hefty 30% for each new subscriber apple brings to the table. >> the apple system may help smaller publishers gain subscribers, but larger publishers feel that they are doing much more to get subscribers outside of apple's products, and therefore feel they shouldn't have to pay that 30%. >> reporter: if they go to google, they'll only pay 10%. the battle to sell digital content is another example of how apple and google are becoming fierce frenemies. sometimes cooperating, more of lately competing. darren gersh, "nightly business rep

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