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Apple has launched the 8GB iPhone 5c in 14 new markets including Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Poland and the Czech Republic. The unapologetically plastic phone was first spotted at a carrier retail location in the Netherlands before landing on Apple's online store for €549.

The 8GB iPhone 5c is around €50 cheaper than the 16GB model in most regions. The new model has also been spotted in Switzerland, Austria, Ireland and Portugal at around the the same price differentiation as the Netherlands.

Match-three games like Candy Crush are a dime a dozen, but Puzzle Breaker for iOS features a fun twist that separates it from the rest of the clones available on the App Store. Instead of trying to earn points and beat a timer, players must match weapon tiles to defeat monsters in a turn-based battle to the death. Here's how it works:

The game is played like most match-three titles. It features a board filled with differently colored tiles which players must swap horizontally or vertically to make sets of three or more of the same color. Each time a player makes a match it results in an attack on their opponent. Players can also move titles as many times as they want without making a match, however, this uses up precious turns which gives an opponent more time to counter attack. Instead of a beating a timer or a completing a certain objective, players win by reducing their opponent's health to zero. A player loses when they themselves run out of health.

A&E was one the first television networks to add on-demand programming to its iOS apps, and now the company has added live television streaming. Both the A&E and History mobile apps have been updated with a new "LIVE TV" option for cable subscribers.

The A&E app for the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad offers access to full episodes, exclusive clips and deleted scenes from popular shows such as Duck Dynasty and Storage Wars. The History app from A&E features full episodes and clips from shows like Vikings, Pawn Stars and so on. Each app also allows users to create a customized "Watchlist," and access never before seen footage from their favorite shows.

On Friday, after five days of court proceedings, Apple's attorneys wrapped up their arguments in the company's suit against Samsung for patent infringement. Their last witness to take the stand was Apple's damages expert Chris Vellturo, who, according to The Verge, estimates that Samsung could be liable for close to a whopping $2.2 billion. A portion of that number (about $1.5 billion) was derived by adding up Apple's royalty figures, which range from $1.61 to $15.03 per feature, per device, which comes out to $40.10 for each of the 37.36 million units Samsung has sold in the U.S. Samsung argues that the five features in question (which include slide to unlock and text auto-correct) are a part of Google's Android OS, not Samsung's devices, and that Apple is suing the wrong company.

Also on Friday, Apple hired Wolff Olins Global (a branding agency) CEO and creative director Karl Heiselman to fill a new marketing communications role. He worked with Apple in the early 1990s as a design contractor before leaving for another job

After changing the way mobile providers dealt with cellphone subsidies, T-Mobile has now decided to "abolish consumer overages". The mobile carrier today announced part three of its new three part Un-carrier movement. Part one involved rolling out the company's Starter Plan which gave "value-conscious Americans" unlimited talk, text and up to 500MB 4G LTE data for only $40. Part two, entitled "Operation Tablet Freedom," allowed tablet owners to save money while upgrading to a 4G LTE model.

Part three challenges AT&T, Verizon and Sprint to eliminate overage penalties. John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile, who says "overage fees are flat out wrong," has created a petition on Change.org asking all wireless carriers to abolish their "greedy, predatory" practices.