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Magazines and newspapers are still trying to figure out how to make money off Apple’s iPad by either charging for applications or rope in high-paying advertisers to appear alongside their content. In the meantime, they are spending a lot of time and money finding dazzling new ways ways to shuffle their content onto a tablet device. Here’s one example sent to us by Alexx Henry Photography for VIVmag , a completely digital magazine. Along with co-directors Cory Strassburger and Ming Hsiung, they produced a motion magazine cover and feature spread for the bimonthly women’s title distributed by Zinio. Read the rest of this story

Tech Today gathers all the biggest technology news of the morning’s Wall Street Journal into one place for your reading pleasure. Tech Wealth Gap Widens: A handful of cash-rich companies are consolidating power in the tech industry, using their wealth to expand into new businesses and making it harder for small competitors to break through. Start-Ups Take Chips Into 3-D: Silicon Valley start-ups Tier Logic and Tabula are breaking from conventional chip designs by taking a step into the third dimension to squeeze more features onto chips. Google’s China Partners Issue Plea: A group of Google’s partners in China have sent an impassioned plea to the Internet giant, saying their businesses are in jeopardy if Google closes its Chinese search engine and demanding to know how they will be compensated. Google’s Nexus One to Compete With iPhone: Google has started selling a version of its Nexus One phone that runs on AT&T’s 3G network, putting it in direct competition with Apple’s iPhone. App With a Knack for Contacts: Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry compiles contact information on the BlackBerry for anyone you’ve emailed—regardless of whether or not you saved their information in your address book. Twitter Working on Chinese Site: Twitter’s co-founder said “it’s just a matter of time” before users can register in Chinese, though access to the popular service is still blocked in China. Perking Up Passover’s Plagues on Twitter: Building on a growing movement to add a bit of fun to the tale of plagues and pestilence, some rabbis are acting out the Passover story in 140-character Twitter messages.

Law firm Bingham McCutchen said Tuesday that Daniel Cooperman, the former general counsel at Apple and Oracle, will rejoin its Silicon Valley office and focus on “corporate and transactional matters.” One of things that Mr. Cooperman says he intends to do: bring the firm up to speed. In a phone interview, the 59-year-old attorney, who spent almost 11 years at Oracle and was at Apple between 2007 and 2009, provided a glimpse into the pressures of being a general counsel at major corporations. He said law firms in general don’t fully understand the speed, urgency and virtual nature of corporations’ operations. “They move from one matter to the next in alarming, breathtaking speed. You don’t have a great deal of mindshare,” said Mr. Cooperman, adding that part of his role would be to help his firm better understand its clients–even if it’s something as small as learning not to be offended when clients hang up the phone abruptly. “It’s really just crazy,” said Mr

Tech Today gathers all the biggest technology news of the morning’s Wall Street Journal into one place for your reading pleasure. Wireless Transforms a Shipyard: Hyundai Heavy, the world’s largest maker of ships, is building a broadband wireless network to track the movements of parts across its shipyard and communicate with workers inside of vessels. Google Exit Would Benefit Microsoft:  If Google decides to close the door on its Chinese search engine, it might open a door for rival Microsoft, whose Bing service has made little headway in China. Twitter Looks to Extend Its Reach:  Twitter announced a feature that will enable users to send and receive its short messages while they are browsing other Web sites, a step that seeks to extend the service’s reach. Google Hire Takes On Apple: Tim Bray, who has joined the company as a “developer advocate” with a focus on the Android operating system, is decrying Apple’s vision for the cellphone market and strategy for the iPhone.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster put out a bullish note on Apple today after analyzing the NPD data on Macs and iPods. In short, he expects the Mac business to beat the street, and iPods to meet expectations. Read the rest of this story