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Tim Cook may love secrecy, but those pesky government notices always seem to rain on his classified parades. Apple has confirmed that the fourth-generation iPad and iPad mini will arrive in China on December 7th, while the iPhone 5 turns up a week later on December 14th. Customers eager to reserve the devices can do so the day before launch, and while the company hasn’t detailed which networks the hardware is coming to, we’re reasonably sure that China Unicom and China Telecom will be making some announcements of their own very soon.

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To honor World AIDS Day this coming December 1, Apple and Starbucks are working together with (RED) to give a little back to help fund AIDS research. Just in time for the holiday season, Starbucks and Apple are now offering what they call the Starbucks iTunes (RED) eGift basket combo, which is composed of two digital eGifts ($15 eGift to Starbucks and $15 eGift to iTunes) – all for $30.

For every gift sold, Apple and Starbucks will contribute 5 percent of the purchase price to the Global Fund to help deliver an AIDS free generation by year 2015. You can make the 30-dollar purchase here. Additionally, Apple is also donating a small percentage of its sales from its (PRODUCT)RED merchandise. Products from its (PRODUCT)RED merchandise include the iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPod touch, and other accessories. Get them here.

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By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Apple Requiring Carriers To Pass LTE Test For The iPhone 5, Apple Announces iPhone 5, iPad mini, & iPad 4 Availability In China,

It’s no secret that Rahul Sood, who now runs Microsoft’s Bing Fund, feels a twinge of bitterness towards his previous employer. Having worked for HP until 2010, and having endowed it with the Envy sub-brand, he’s since been forced to watch from the sidelines while the mothership floundered. But it’s not the u-turns or bad investments that have jerked Sood’s chain this time — it’s actually the slightly awkward (and potentially emotional) branding of a model in HP’s desktop range. After seeing details of the product pop up online, he tweeted:

“Thought I’d seen everything… then I saw the ‘HP ENVY H8’ desktop… what the heck guys? Is this code for I give up?”

Tom’s Hardware reached out to Sood for an explanation and got a carefully-worded response in which he implied that HP has become preoccupied with the “logo on the box” at the expense of “culture” and “community.” Meanwhile, the old Pavilion h8 has somehow slipped by unnoticed.

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Source: Tom’s Hardware, @rahulsood (Twitter)

While Russia and some African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries want to tax foreign content providers and track web-based traffic, the EU has formed a bloc with the US to kibosh any such changes. The showdown will happen at the ITU in Dubai next month, during a meeting of the 193 member countries. All 27 EU states are stolidly opposed to the changes (though many of its network providers aren’t), some of which were leaked from a draft Russian document proposing more control over traffic entering its networks. Other nations like Cameroon said that Google and other content providers should pay to have their traffic routed to the nation, which it said would help pay for network expansion there. But the European Commission believes “there is no justification for such proposals,” that the internet functions fine as is and “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The EC added what others were likely thinking, namely “some countries treat this as a euphemism for controlling freedom of expression.”

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Source: Reuters

In a recent episode of “Iyanla: Fix My Life,” author, inspirational speaker and relationship expert Iyanla Vanzant worked with a group of women known as The Six Brown Chicks, whose business and relationships had suffered because they couldn’t get along. The women’s business partnership had crumbled due to jealousy, anger and backstabbing, but Iyanla was able to help them mend their broken friendships.

In this video, Iyanla explains why, in her opinion, female friends sometimes can’t get along. “Why can’t women get along? Because we’re afraid,” she says. “We’re afraid to be vulnerable. We’re afraid to be soft. We’re afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we’re afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.”

You can catch “Iyanla: Fix My Life” on Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET on OWN.

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