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Fitness Checkup Pro is FREE today with AppGratis !!
Are you in shape?
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The Fitness Checkup application helps you assess your physical shape
using 11 health tests: Flexibility, Balance, Body Core, Strength,
Capacity for effort, Muscle Tone, Explosiveness, Pulse at rest, Body
mass index, Body fat index and Reaction speed.
With these 11 tests, your health score can be restored. It comes with
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- Overview Fitness Checkup to know your health score
- Health rewards to motivate you and help you progress
- Webcam pulse measurement for the Cardio and Effort tests!
- Share your scores and rewards
- Manage your health profile
The Cardio and Effort tests of the Fitness Checkup application measure
your heart rate thanks to an innovative process using your Smartphone
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real-time heart rhythm displayed! The application works with telephones
possessing a flash.
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Stunning detail of levels, in-depth gameplay, finely tuned balance of all levels and turrets.
During the game you will hold your defence with your turrets against the massive hordes of enemies.
With every level you will have the use of new weapons at your command.
It is up to you, commander, how to spend the resources: restore and upgrade your veteran units or to purchase some new ones.
Different types of weaponry and landscape provide you with a variety of choices of defence tactics.
Choosing the right weapons and the correct placement is key to any successful defence.
The weapons have different firepower, rate of fire, firing range, blast radius and price.
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"The graphics are bright and appealing, the controls are
dead-on...Most importantly, once you start playing, it’s hard to stop." -
slidetoplay.com
Ride your motorcycle at insane speeds through ever changing traffic.
Your reflexes will mean the difference between surviving or crashing in
spectacular fashion. Do you have what it takes to reach TOP SPEED?
Over 12 million players have experienced the thrill of Lane Splitter!
HOW TO PLAY
• Tilt your phone/tablet to steer left and right
• Stay away from cars, walls, and cops
• Touch the screen to wheelie and perform other special abilities
• Pick up coins to earn money for awesome items
• Hang on for dear life!
FEATURES
✰ Crazy addictive gameplay with ultra smooth tilt controls
✰ 10 different characters to play, each with their own unique abilities and gameplay
✰ Fun upgrades and items to earn
✰ Eye popping high definition 3D graphics
✰ Environments that change every day you play
✰ Lifelike character animations and physics
✰ Global leaderboards
✰ Facebook integration: compete with your friends for top score and post brags to your wall
✰ Awesome realistic sound effects recorded from real motorcycles, including a sport bike, chopper, dirt bike, and a cafe racer!
BONUS TIPS
➔ Pick up "Lane Splitter" bonuses by navigating your way in between cars during heavy traffic areas
➔ Compete for best wheelie score by holding the screen to wheelie while playing as Jake, Jonny, or Scary Harry
➔ If a cop is on your tail, get 500ft away to evade him, or buy some donuts to bribe him
➔ Buy a helmet to protect yourself from one crash
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Smash the gems to gain power! Escape the evil wizard's chase! Travel over the Galaxy!
Fantasy Graphic and Magnificent Music!
##### The latest 3D block puzzle game created by Unreal Technology!
##### The definitive visual experience in all device and you only buy one time!
##### All features available without any iAPs!
The super hit game The Sorcerer's Stone is now available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch!
Match tokens to unlock incredible riches in The Sorcerer's Stone! With
100 levels, amazing visual effects, explosive audio and stunning
backgrounds that shatter the boundaries of art in casual games, The
Sorcerer's Stone is a guaranteed blockbuster and a must-have game for
match-three fans! Switch and match your way through more than 100 levels
in this delicious and addictive puzzle adventure. Isn’t it the sweetest
game ever?
You, The greatest sorcerer, need flee away and defeat the Shadow Devil,
with the help of your pet, and lead a flight of the floating city
through the Galaxy in order to finding a new homeland.
The Sorcerer's Stone is a delightful and unique matching game with a
creative twist on the classic matching styles, which is created by
FlashChannel studio with gorgeous visual effect and delicious music.
With the progress of dreamlike journey, your assistant, fifi, would be
more and more powerful and help you to find a livable planet!
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You and your assistant, fifi, in their epic adventure through the splendid starry sky.
Take on this deliciously sweet saga alone or play with friends to see who can get the highest score!
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The Sorcerer's Stone features:
· FULL optimized for all Retina Display device, support all resolution
including iPhone5, iPhone4s, iPad, iPad mini and iPod touch.
· A game people of all ages can enjoy
· Touch-screen optimized control
· Easy and fun to play, but a challenge to fully master
· Over 100 epic levels
· Amazing power-ups to double or even four-fold your scores
· Leaderboards for you and your friends
· Lots of items can be Exchanged by red hearts earned in the game
· Draw the awards include over 100 kinds of flowers by crush rewarded Gold Egg.
· Elegant small garden, you can adorn it with all kinds of flowers
· Splendid starry backgrounds as you play at amazing space with your fifi
· All features are available without any IAPs.
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Last, but not least, a big THANK YOU goes out to everyone who has played The Sorcerer's Stone!
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###Important: Please read the following before purchase.###
·Compatible with iPhone 4S and later, iPod touch 5th gen. and later,
iPad 2(iOS 5.0 and later), iPad Mini. Not compatible with any other
devices.
Please note: You can turn-off the payment feature by disabling in-app purchases in your device’s settings.
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miCal is THE missing calendar for your iPhone and iPod touch.
★ Award winning App: "App-Developer Conference 2010" and third at "Best iPhone App"
★ Listed in "iTunes Rewind 2010" in productivity
★ Recommended as "App of the Week" in 13 countries
With miCal, planning your events will be much more efficient, well-arranged – and even more beautiful.
miCal is different – even for Business Users!
• The well-structured day-, week-, month- and year-views help you to keep an eye on your events.
• landscape week view with 5 or 7 visible days as a choosable option.
• Innovative functions like a customizable default time and default titles enable you to create new events faster.
• Moreover, invite other attendees quickly and easily to an event via mail. Now with iCal format.
More features:
• Clearly arranged Dashboard as welcome page with every event of the day
• export an event in iCal format (.ics-files) via email. That allows the
receiver to import the event on either any iOS device without having
installed miCal
• Add different contacts to an event. Show address in map view.
• Show own availability information to an event
• Detailed weather forecast for the next three days. Including sunrise/sundown, huminity and wind for the current day
• Zoomable day and week view
• Displays calendar week and current time in every view
• Supports every calendar that can be synchronized with the iPhone
calendar (Outlook, Exchange, Google Calendar, Facebook Events etc.)
• Shows every imported calendar with the correspondent colour
• Set own colours for calendars and events
• Easy swiping through every view to move forward or backward
• Add a new event quickly by tapping twice on a day, a free timeline or the navigation bar
• Set events in 5 minutes-intervals
• Unlimited quantity of reminders and all-day events. Many custom alarm options.
• Add a place, GPS-coordinate or map section to any event
• Symbols show you at once, if an event is repeated or added with an alarm
• Long press onto an empty section to open a view below (day, week or month)
• Tap on already existent events within the day and week view to display details
• Search your events
• Optimized for iPhone 5 Display
Additionally you can buy add-ons throughout In-App Purchase. Manage your
tasks as easily as your events with our todo add-on! Try it 7 days for
free. (You'll find the add-on in the miCal settings)
******* Known issues *******
Since version 1.2, miCal's startup and overall performance has been
improved and is clearly faster on every device. Nevertheless, you should
use a 3GS or higher, because there can be performance and memory issues
on 3G devices.
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Tap Studio 3 PRO - Rhythm Game for YOUR Music! - Share with Your Friends! - Thousands Online!
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Create, Play and share song taps for all of the popular artists with
your own music! Taps for Avenged Sevenfold, Black Eyed Peas, Blink 182,
Beatles, Kanye West, Chris Brown, Big Bang, Dragon Force, Evanescence,
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With over 5 million downloads, Tap Studio is the most popular series of games for creating and sharing song taps on iOS!
Do you love Tap games? What if you could tap ANY song you own? What if
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if you could access a Tap Vault of over 380,000 song taps for an amazing
variety of songs, from todays hottest artists to some of the strangest
music you can imagine, with more added every day?
Tap Studio 3 PRO features:
■ Create and play and share taps for all the music on your iPod touch, iPhone or iPad
■ Edit your taps until they are perfect
■ Access the Tap Vault containing user submitted taps for nearly any
song imaginable! See details such as high scores and ratings with
comments!
■ Tap Vault Library tab will automatically find highly rated song taps in the Tap Vault that match the music in your library
■ Browse the Tap Vault by Featured, Most Popular, Highest Rated, Most
Recent or perform an easy Search with suggestions as you type
■ Game Center integration with achievements and global leader boards!
■ Play with up to 3 of your friends with Multiplayer through Game Center!
■ Retina and iPhone 5 / 4" iPod touch support
■ Choose from a variety of play skins with different graphics in portrait or landscape orientations
■ 3 and 4 rail recording and playback in all game play skins
■ Album artwork is part of the game play background in some play skins
■ Share your best taps with your friends and all the world
■ Send and receive Tap Challenges. Beat your friends high scores
■ Adjustable difficulty level setting that controls the playback speed
■ Facebook and Twitter integration so you can share your high scores
Tap Studio 3 PRO users rock! Keep the good reviews coming and we'll keep the updates coming!
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■ PLEASE NOTE that we do not store songs on our database, nor do we
facilitate the sharing of songs. Tap Studio 3 PRO simply uploads and
downloads the tap data. Each user is required to have their own copy of
the matching song on their device.
■ Tap Studio 3 PRO matches song taps to songs by an exact match of song
name, album name, and album artist name. If there is not an exact match
found on your device, you will be given the option to purchase the song
from iTunes (if available), or to browse your library to manually match
the song. Be sure to choose the correct song or your taps may not line
up properly!
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It's
time for a pair of tech heavyweights to report quarterly earnings after
the markets close Thursday. Let's look at the technology stocks to
watch. Google shares up slightly. With its stock price slowly marching toward the $1,000 mark, the tech titan reports second-quarter earnings after the bell.
Analysts expect Google to report an earnings per share of $10.78 with revenue of just over $14 billion.
Shares
of Google have surged in the past 12 months, adding more than $300 in
value since hitting a 52-week low of $580.76 on this day a year ago. Microsoft to report earnings.
Shares of the Redmond, Wash., company are barely up in pre-market
trading as the company reports quarterly earnings after unveiling a
massive restructuring.
Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced a major reorganization of the company he says will help them become more efficient.
The
company has also made news related to its product line. Last week, the
company slashed prices on its Surface RT tablets by $150. In May, the
company revealed the Xbox One, its video game console that will succeed
the Xbox 360. However, reception to the console has been mixed,
primarily due to restrictions to software that have since been removed.
Electronic
Arts says they will continue to publish college football video games
after the NCAA revealed it would not renew its contract for theNCAA Footballfranchise.
In a statement published Wednesday, EA Sports chief Andrew Wilson says the publisher will press forward without the NCAA brand.
"Our relationship with the Collegiate Licensing Company is strong and we are already working on a new game," says Wilson.
The statement follows comments from the NCAA that it would not renew its license for NCAA Football in the wake of a lawsuit over the use of college athletes' names and likenesses.
The
contract with the NCAA allowed EA to use their branding on the video
game, such as the name. According to the CLC website, they represent
"nearly 200 of the nation's top colleges, universities, bowl games,
athletic conferences, (and) the Heisman Trophy."
Wilson says the
game will appear on next-generation consoles starting next season. No
details were provided on the franchise's new name. Before EA first used
the NCAA brand in 1997, the series was called College Football USA.
How you can save your soul: In 140 characters or less
Following
Pope Francis's Twitter feed may be good for your soul - both in this
life and the next. He plans to grant plenary indulgences by Twitter
during the World Youth Day 2013 event, to be held July 23-28 in Brazil.
Bob Smietana, USA TODAY
11:55 p.m. EDT July 17, 2013
Following Pope Francis's Twitter feed may be good for your soul — both in this life and the next.
The
spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church plans to grant plenary
indulgences by Twitter during the World Youth Day 2013 event, which will
be held July 23-28 in Brazil. STORY: Pope Francis takes to Twitter right away
The
indulgences, which Catholics believe can reduce the time a soul spends
in purgatory, will be available to Francis' nearly 7.5 million Twitter
followers in all languages — if they tune in to World Youth Day
broadcasts or take other spiritual actions. To get an indulgence,
Catholics must have already had their sins absolved by a priest.
Pope
Francis issued a decree about indulgences and social media on July 9,
according to the Rome-based Zenit news organization, which covers the
Vatican.
"The faithful who on account of a legitimate impediment
cannot attend the aforementioned celebrations may obtain Plenary
Indulgence under the usual spiritual, sacramental and prayer conditions,
in a spirit of filial submission to the Roman Pontiff, by participation
in the sacred functions on the days indicated, following the same rites
and spiritual exercises as they occur via television or radio or, with
due devotion, via the new means of social communication," the decree
states.
Patricia Maldonado, director of digital media for the
Archdiocese of Detroit, approves of the idea. She said it will help the
Catholic church better connect with young people who are already on
Twitter and other social media.
"By using Twitter in new ways to
reach out to people spiritually, Pope Francis is setting the example and
laying the foundation for the rest of the church to follow in his
footsteps," said Maldonado, who oversees the dioceses Twitter feed
@DetroitCatholic.
Giving indulgences by social media means the
faithful get the spiritual benefits of World Youth Day even if they
can't be there, said Bob O'Gorman, a retired religion professor and
author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Catholicism.
O'Gorman
said that major Catholic events such as World Youth Day have been seen
in the past as opportunities for forgiveness and renewal.
Even
people who can't travel to a major church event or pilgrimage can still
experience that forgiveness, O'Gorman said, if they take some kind of
spiritual action.
The idea comes from the Bible, O'Gorman said.
Jesus
told his disciples in the Gospel of Matthew that where two or more of
them are gathered in his name, he would be present in their midst. Being
in Jesus' presence is a way to be forgiven, O'Gorman said.
"This is a way to reconnect with God," he said. "A lot of this is about the sense of separation we feel from God."
In medieval times, that spiritual action often involved making a donation, which led to corruption, he said.
Today, that can mean tuning in to broadcasts from World Youth Day or following it on Twitter.
"I
think it's a great idea," said Eileen Daily, assistant professor of
pastoral studies at Loyola University in Chicago. Daily, who has studied
how Catholics use social media, said Twitter can help Catholics make
faith part of their everyday life.
It's a bit like keeping count
of the time spent on a treadmills or other exercise equipment as part of
maintaining physical health.
"In order to pay attention to the
pope's Twitter feed, they have to be integrating that into their daily
life," she said. "It is about people making the effort to bring faith
into their daily life."
Following Twitter or interacting through other social media will make World Youth Day interactive, Daily said.
Instead of just sitting and passively watching the telecasts from World Youth Day, Catholics will actually be taking part.
"It gives people a chance to apply it to their lives," she said.
Daily
said that as a Jesuit, Pope Francis is used to seeing God in every part
of life. So combining Twitter and with the ancient practice of
indulgences makes sense.
But the pope's new decree doesn't make
it easy to get an indulgence, said Scot Landry, cabinet secretary for
Catholic Media in the Archdiocese of Boston. He worries that some people
may misunderstand how the church views indulgences.
"Receiving an
indulgence by the church is a high bar," he said. "What you need to be
able to do is to go to confession, receive communion… A lot of the
headlines are making it seem like this is an easy step."
Grant Gallicho, the associate editor of Commonweal magazine and a prolific blogger @gallicho, also believes the pope's Twitter indulgences are a good idea.
"In
2001, Pope John Paul II granted indulgences to Catholics who walked
through the bronze door of St. Peter's Basilica," he said. "A door is
just another kind of technology. For most young people today, their
doorway to the marketplace of ideas is social media. Why shouldn't
Twitter serve as a way into the church?"
Brooke Happ, 21, a
student at Illinois State University, said she will be following World
Youth Day events using Facebook and other websites. She said it is
important that followers understand the meaning of an indulgence.
"Just
because they read something on Twitter, or just because the pope says
he will offer indulgence on Twitter, it doesn't mean that the person
automatically receives indulgence," Happ said. "There is a
responsibility on the person that he has to fulfill."
USA
TODAY's Jefferson Graham previews SoundCloud, the popular "YouTube of
Audio," website, used by everyone from President Obama and Beyonce to
NPR, CBS and comedian Jeff Garlin.
Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY
10:46 p.m. EDT July 17, 2013
HELSINKI
(AP) — Nokia Corp. says its net loss narrowed in the second quarter to
227 million euros ($298. million) compared to a net loss of 1.41 billion
euros a year earlier.
The struggling Finnish cellphone maker said
sales fell by 24% to 5.7 billion euros from 7.5 billion in the second
quarter last year.
Sales of the company's flagship Lumia phones increased by 32% compared to the first quarter to 7.4 million handsets.
The
results, however, were weaker than analysts had expected. The company's
share price fell 3 percent to 2.99 euros at the Helsinki Stock
Exchange.
On the Nasdaq, shares of Nokia were down 3.47% in pre-market trading. Copyright
2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not
be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Reuters
news service reported about 8:45 a.m. ET, Thursday that Dell did not
have the votes it needs to get shareholder approval of a buyout offer
led by founder Michael Dell.
If true, a shareholder vote scheduled
for Thursday would be delayed on a sale of the company to an investment
group, including founder and CEO Michael Dell.
CEO Dell and
Silver Lake Partners investing partners are offering to take the company
private for $13.65 per share, or $24.4 billion. But so far,
billionaire investor Carl Icahn, a vocal critic of the offer, has
refused to drop his counteroffer.
In pre-market trading, the
shares briefly jumped 2.5% after the Reuters report was published and
were about 1.5% higher within 10 minutes of the news service report.
The
outcome is far from certain, experts say. On Monday, brokerage and
shareholder T. Rowe Price voiced its opposition to Michael Dell's offer.
At the urging of Icahn, some shareholders are grousing that the offer
undervalues Dell, hinting that they might balk at the vote in hopes of
getting CEO Dell and his group to sweeten the bid.
Icahn and
Southeastern Asset Management partners have offered $14 a share in cash
plus one warrant for every four shares tendered. The warrant would give
shareholders the right to buy one Dell share for $20 in the next seven
years. In a letter to shareholders, Icahn valued his counteroffer at
about $15.50 to $18 a share. Both offers would add substantial debt to
Dell's balance sheet and require loans from private-equity firms or
major customers.
On Tuesday, a special committee of Dell's board
tasked with evaluating the offers declined to endorse Icahn's latest
proposal as superior. The committee does not accept Icahn's financing
terms, which are conditioned on replacing Dell's board with Icahn and 11
others who work for Icahn and Southeastern.
"We wish to note
that it is unfortunate Mr. Icahn continues to conduct his campaign by
trying to discredit the special committee and accuse it of frightening
Dell stockholders," the committee said Tuesday in a statement.
Icahn
and his partners own a 13% stake in Dell. Under the terms of the Dell
offer, the founder cannot use his shares — a 16% stake — in the
shareholder vote. That means he and his partners need 42% of
shareholders to approve their offer.
Since shareholders don't need
to commit until the voting begins, Dell might delay Thursday's meeting,
some Dell watchers said, and offer to sweeten their bid to ensure
getting enough votes for approval.
Struggling PC maker Dell,
based in Round Rock, Texas, has fallen victim to shrinking PC sales
globally and failed to ride the mobile computing wave of the past few
years. The founder says his proposal to take the company private would
give it time away from meeting investor demands for short-term profit
and allow for a dramatic overhaul aimed at developing data centers,
services and software in a bid for higher margins.
However, "there
hasn't been a compelling case that the current business strategy is
wrong and an alternative is superior," said Jay Ritter, a professor of
finance at the University of Florida, of the contentious proposals.
Last
week, proxy advice firm Institutional Shareholder Services and two
other major firms in that industry endorsed the buyout offer from Dell,
who founded the company in 1984, and Silver Lake. Ritter says "a bidding
war would result in a much higher price," if shareholders don't approve
the offer on the table Thursday.
Shares of Dell fell 1% Wednesday
to close at $12.88. Founder and CEO Dell owns about 16% of the
company's shares. Under the deal, he would relinquish his publicly
traded shares and throw in $750 million in cash (of his $16 billion
fortune) to contribute about $4.5 billion to the offer.
The US intelligence whistleblower, Edward Snowden, has applied for temporary asylum in Russia, according to his lawyer.
The former National Security Agency worker has been holed up at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since June 23 after leaking details of US surveillance programmes.
Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said he had met Snowden on Tuesday and
"the application has been filed with the Russian authorities".
Wikileaks, the whistleblowing website, has been supporting Snowden and
confirmed in a post on Twitter: "Edward Snowden today has filed for a
temporary protection visa with Russia's ministry of immigration."
Washington has urged Moscow to return the 30-year-old to the US, where
he is wanted on espionage charges after revealing details of secret
surveillance programmes.
Speaking to human rights activists last week, after three weeks of
silence, Snowden said he planned to apply for temporary asylum in Russia
until he had won "safe passage" to Latin America, where three countries
have offered him political asylum.
Snowden has been able to remain at the airport transit lounge for so
long after fleeing Hong Kong, because technically it is not Russian
territory.
However, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made clear that Snowden
can only stay in Russia if he "stops damaging our US partners".
Sky's Moscow Correspondent Katie Stallard said that Snowden's application for asylum was a "PR coup for Russia".
"It makes Russia look like the only country strong enough to stand up
to the US and protect this young man but also that he (Putin) is doing
the US a favour," she said.
"Yes he might be going to take this man in but he will do so by
shutting him up by stopping him from passing on any more of America's
secrets so it's a bit of a win: win for the Russian President."
However, a Kremlin spokesman said shortly after the asylum bid that the
final decision on the matter did not rest with the president.
On Monday, Mr Putin accused the US of "trapping" Snowden in Russia,
saying no other country wanted to take him because of pressure exerted
by America.
Snowden has consistently made it clear that he does not intent to stay
in Russia but eventually wants to move to a Latin American country.
However, the prospects of him successfully travelling there appear limited.
Washington has called for
Edward Snowden to be returned to the US, after Russian President
Vladimir Putin said the countries' relationship outweighed "squabbles"
over information leaked by the whistleblower.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the matter should not be allowed
to damage connections between the US and Moscow, which he accused of
providing Snowden with a "propaganda platform".
"He is not a human rights activist, he is not a dissident," Mr Carney said.
"He is accused of leaking classified information. For those reasons, he should be returned to the United States.
"We want to continue (the US-Russia) relationship unimpeded by this
issue and we believe there is a way to move forward here that allows for
Mr Snowden to return to the United States ... and for Russia to resolve
this situation that they have been dealing with now for three weeks."
The former National Security Agency contractor has been stuck at
Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since fleeing there from Hong Kong on June
23.
He faces espionage charges after leaking details of a massive US
surveillance programme that has strained ties with Washington's allies.
He also divulged information about the activities of British
eavesdropping agency GCHQ.
Mr Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Russia, in a handwritten letter that has been released to the media.
Mr Putin has been quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying:
"Relations between states are much more important than squabbles
surrounding the work of security services."
The Russian leader has described Mr Snowden as an "unwanted Christmas present".
"He arrived on our territory without an invitation. Russia was not his destination," he said.
"He was a transit passenger flying to other countries. The moment news
arrived that he was in mid-air, our American partners actually blocked
his further movement.
"In fact, the US itself scared other countries into denying entry to
Snowden and actually trapped him on our territory. Such a present to us.
Merry Christmas."
Edward Snowden could leave
the transit zone of a Moscow airport after Russian authorities review
his request for asylum, his lawyer has said.
Anatoly Kucherena told the Interfax news agency he believes Moscow
could decide within a week whether to grant the 30-year-old fugitive
asylum.
"The question of giving him temporary asylum won't take more than a week," he said.
"I think that in the near future he will have the possibility to leave the Sheremetyevo transit zone."
Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Russia three weeks after arriving at a Moscow airport from Hong Kong on June 23.
The United States wants him sent home to face prosecution for espionage
after he leaked details of the Prism surveillance programme.
Granting Snowden asylum would add new tensions to US-Russian relations
already strained by a number of issues including sanctions against the
regime of Syrian president Bashar Assad.
How long the asylum process could take is unclear. The Federal
Migration Service is required to consider the application within three
months, but could speed up the process.
Snowden is believed to have spent his time since arriving in Moscow in
the Sheremetyevo Airport transit zone, which is technically not Russian
territory.
Russian news reports have suggested the former National Security Agency
contractor could be taken to one of the facilities operated by the
migration service for those seeking refugee status.
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Snowden has been warned
against taking any actions that would damage relations between Moscow
and Washington.
On a visit to the Siberian city of Chita, Mr Putin was quoted as
saying: "We have warned Mr Snowden that any actions by him connected
with harming Russian-American relations are unacceptable."
Earlier White House spokesman Jay Carney said the wrangle over Snowden
should not be allowed to damage relations with Moscow, which had
provided the fugitive with a "propaganda platform".
"He is not a human rights activist, he is not a dissident," Mr Carney
said. "He is accused of leaking classified information. For those
reasons, he should be returned to the United States.
"We want to continue (our) relationship unimpeded by this issue and we
believe there is a way to move forward here that allows for Mr Snowden
to return to the United States ... and for Russia to resolve this
situation that they have been dealing with now for three weeks."
Snowden is refusing to go back to the US, which has revoked his
passport. He has been offered asylum in Venezuela, Bolivia and
Nicaragua, but says Washington is making it impossible for him to leave
Russia.