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Buying a new computer, phone or tablet is a pricey proposition, especially if you want an Apple. The company is known for its price controls, but it's still possible to find deals.

The longer you wait after a new product introduction, the more money you'll save. But don't head to your local Apple Store, advised the team at DealNews.com, a consumer bargain site. "Authorized resellers like Amazon, MacMall and MacConnection frequently undercut Apple Store prices," he said.

After analyzing three years' worth of Apple data, they found that deals on Apple products are happening more quickly and are getting more aggressive. Here are tips on when you can find the best deals on electronics from Apple, and what to expect in the way of new products.

FARMINGTON — As library patrons increasingly use electronic media to access information, Davis County Library is working to meet their demands.

Libraries have historically been a major source of knowledge, traditionally in the form of paper books. However, with the increased use of technology, libraries are beginning to expand their resources.

Davis County Library is working to enhance its technology assets by purchasing more e-books, offering online learning games and tools for children and providing access to online car repair manuals, genealogy databases and foreign language courses.

The tablet could be just what the doctor ordered for the ailing newspaper industry.

The Pew Research Center’s annual Project for Excellence report indicates that the growing number of tablet computers and smartphones is contributing to an influx of people returning to traditional news sources, like newspapers, online. The growing use of social media has also led to more digital exposure to news stories through referrals.

We’ve seen this trend in our own analytics. Traffic to our mobile site has doubled in the last year, especially since we introduced an app.

NEW YORK -- Apple is expected to reveal a new iPad model on Wednesday, with a sharper screen and perhaps an option for faster wireless broadband. The upgrades are relatively minor, but the iPad is secure in its position as the king of tablets.

SYRACUSE — The 3-foot-tall, extra-soft, stuffed monkey sat on Isabel Hadley’s lap.

The fourth-grader had dropped by her Cook Elementary classroom Wednesday to say hello to her classmates and to see firsthand what the animal — officially named Monkey — was up to.

BREMERTON, Wash. -- A classroom full of fourth-graders scrambled to their seats as teacher Scott Wisenburg announced it was time for a reading lesson.

Some reached straight for iPods and others hurriedly wrote down predictions about the text they were soon to read.

Last year, he and two other teachers in fourth and first grades began using iPods, and this year the program -- called iLearn -- has expanded to 15 classrooms. "They're a great discipline tool," Wisenburg said of the devices, which he is using in his classroom at View Ridge Elementary School in Bremerton. But Wisenburg and other educators say that mobile devices like iPods and touch-screen tablets are much more than that.

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s antitrust watchdog is probing whether Apple helped five major publishing houses illegally raise prices for e-books when it launched its iPad tablet and iBookstore in 2010.