The Justice Department wants to force tech workers to write code that they believe to be unethical, dangerous, and harmful to their country.

School district said Pearson software on the devices was no good.

Government conflicts with Apple and Microsoft reflect heightened resistance by businesses intent on demonstrating efforts to protect customer information.

Had things gone according to plan, every public school student in Los Angeles would be working on his or her own iPad by now and textbooks would be largely a thing of the past.

An appeal court's decision finding Apple guilty of collusion with publishers reinforces just how cozy a cartel the industry was

Apple's iOS 9 News app hasn't even seen the light of day yet …

A federal appellate court upheld most, but not all, of Apple's jury verdict against Samsung over smartphone design.

Former superintendent John Deasy canceled the iPad contract after KPCC reported he met with vendors before bids. Ramon Cortines wants to use it buy more devices.

Warrant canaries are now illegal?

THIS explains the Apple-Pearson thing.

“The amount of work required to keep pace with what Apple is doing is just not sustainable,” says Glenn Fleishman.

TechCrunch has learned that Apple has made another acquisition, one that it is using to boost its e-books effort and "beat Amazon at its own game." It has bought BookLamp, a startup based out of Boise, Idaho, that developed big data-style book analytics services. A second source says Apple bought BookLamp's employees and technology for a price that was "higher than $10 million, and lower than $15 million."  BookLamp's most well-known product was the Book Genome Project, a platform that let users find suggestions for books to read based on natural language analysis of other titles. BookLamp's tech and talent could help Apple improve its iBooks service with better recommendations, search, and categorization.

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then-Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms of the judge's ruling included a caveat. That statement was that Apple could not engage in book discounting under the agency model for at least two years, and then it could only negotiate terms of the so-called 'agency model' (in which the publishers set the prices of

For publishers, negotiating terms of sale with Amazon has always been difficult. But reports last week of Amazon’s hardball tactics with the Hachette Book Group suggest that this year’s negotiations could be among the most brutal yet.

Book startups face a number of challenges -- not least of which is the fact that they are competing with Amazon.