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Users of Barnes & Noble’s Nook app on iOS will love to hear that the app has just been updated to version 3.3.0. The key feature of the new update is the support for Apple’s VoiceOver accessibility feature which helps people with reading disabilities. This also means that the Nook app is now in par with Apple’s very own iBooks, previously the only iOS e-reader app that can read aloud content on books.

Version 3.3.0 also includes the nifty screen magnifier or zoom which also aids those with vision problems. Zoom isn’t just about increasing the font size, it also has buttons, icons, and other functionalities that users can operate on their iOS device. That’s not all. The Nook app on iOS now also supports iPhone 5 and more languages including British English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. The update also brings U.K. NOOK Books and Magazines support.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Google To Fix December Omission In Android 4.2, Skype For Android 3.0 Available,

WASHINGTON — A group of high-profile corporate CEOs are lobbying Capitol Hill this week to put Social Security and Medicare cuts at the forefront of deficit reduction negotiations. Their own retirement funds, however, are secure: The coalition includes 54 CEOs who have amassed combined pension assets of more than $649 million from their companies’ executive retirement plans, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, titled “A Pension Deficit Disorder: The Massive CEO Retirement Funds and Underfunded Worker Pensions at Firms Pushing Social Security Cuts.”

The CEOs’ employees are much less secure in their retirement than the CEOs. According to the report, less than 60 percent of the 71 public companies offer pension plans for their employees. Of the 41 companies that do, 39 of them haven’t contributed enough to their workers’ pension funds to enable the plans to pay out their anticipated obligations. Among the companies with employee pension funds in the red, these deficits exceed $100 billion.

The CEOs are among 71 chief executives of publicly traded companies who belong to the Fiscal Leadership Council of the influential Campaign to Fix the Debt, a group which has raised more than $60 million to lobby for a debt deal driven by cuts to “entitlements.” The coalition will meet Wednesday morning with congressional leaders, according to sources familiar with the group’s lobbying activities. The group, funded in part by former private equity magnate Peter G. Peterson’s foundation, has pledged to push for austerity during the lame duck congressional session, and beyond. Peterson has spent nearly half a billion dollars in recent years pushing his austerity agenda.

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Nintendo’s Wii U has yet to launch in Japan, but over there it’s been revealed that the innovative Nintendo TVii app will be available when the console launches December 8th. Interestingly, the IR remote functionality that we’ve already seen packed in will cost 100 yen ($1.21) from Nintendo’s eShop. The TV guide data will be pulled from Rovi’s G-Guide service, ready to pull up even when you’re not using the console, or in the middle of a TV show or video game. We still don’t have an exact release date for the i.TV-based feature in North America (it’s due in “select” European regions next year) but at least gamers can enjoy their Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and YouTube access until then.

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