"Good-Bye Desktop PC, Hello iPhone: The Apple iPhone SDK marks the beginning of the end for the venerable deskbound PC." PC Magazine 10:58 AM
"The iPhone Is No Desktop: People are willing to make a device that you can drop in the toilet or leave in a taxi cab the next desktop computing platform. Ridiculous." PC Magazine 11:23 AM
"Microsoft looks to cash in on the iPhone" ["'It's really important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone,' Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Specialized Devices and Applications Group, told Fortune on Monday. 'To the extent that Mac Office customers have functionality that they need in that environment, we're actually in the process of trying to understand that now.'"] Fortune 8:45 AM
"Microsoft hints at Office, voice recognition iPhone apps" AppleInsider 11:14 AM
"'iPhone effect' ripples through smart phone market" Silicon.com 9:02 AM
"Apple's Mac sales are 'recession proof' - analyst: Mac and iPod sales remain strong in Q2, an analyst reports" Macworld UK 9:03 AM
"Al Gore gains 10,000 Apple options" Macworld UK 8:26 AM
"Apple Director Gore Gets Option to Buy 10,000 Shares" Bloomberg 8:25 AM
"Apple grows with new South Jersey store: Apple will open its fourth retail site in the Philadelphia area this weekend, it said Tuesday. The store will open Saturday at the Cherry Hill Mall in Cherry Hill, N.J." Philadelphia Business Journal 10:49 AM
"Apple Targets the Midlands for UK Store" ifoAppleStore 8:58 AM
"Fourth Store Coming to Phoenix Area" ifoAppleStore 8:58 AM
"Mozilla raps Apple over Safari bundling" vnunet.com 8:51 AM
"Firefox chief fumes over Apple Safari update" ZDNet Australia 8:49 AM
"Flaws found in Safari browser: Safari An Argentinian security researcher has discovered two flaws in Apple's Safari for Windows browser." Web User 9:04 AM
"Turning over a new leaf at Quark: Criticised heavily in recent times for selling what some believe to be an overpriced and outdated product with a lack of customer support, Quark is at pains to affirm that it has finally got its house in order." ZDNet UK 10:30 AM
"New York Apple Stores Sold Out Of iPhones" Huffington Post 1:37 PM
"Briefly: NYC iPhone sellout; new Jersey store; 2008 PC shipments" AppleInsider 3:06 PM
"Report Buyer: New Report Highlights how Music is a Key Drive in the Mobile Phone Market" Business Wire 9:59 AM
"The US Mobile Media and Entertainment Market is Set to More Than Double, Increasing from $3.1 Billion in 2007 to $6.8 Billion in 2012" Business Wire 9:59 AM
"This Day in Apple History/March 25, 1997: Brother, Can You Spare 700 Million?" AppleMatters 9:49 AM
Non-Apple News
"OpenSocial backers form foundation: The main backers of OpenSocial - Google, MySpace and now Yahoo! - are setting up a foundation to oversee the development of the platform." iTWire 3:48 PM
"A glimpse at Hewlett-Packard history: Palo Alto garage commemorates humble beginnings of tech giant." Austin American-Statesman 3:28 PM
"Printing displays screen promise: Flat-panel computer displays could be manufactured quickly and cheaply using novel inkjet printing equipment demonstrated by Japanese scientists." BBC 3:27 PM
"Brits Unveil New High-Tech Security Camera: Device Can See Bombs, Weapons Through Clothes 80 Feet Away" CBS 3:20 PM
"Google holders seek human rights, censorship review" Reuters 4:10 PM
"Google Reveals How Gphone Might Work" TheStreet.com 3:54 PM
"Google developing hosted translation, video tools: Company hopes to let users add features to collaboration tools like e-mail, instant messaging" Computerworld 3:03 PM
"Tales from the crypt: Our first computers/Computerworld editors share stories of their first PCs, from classics to clunkers." Computerworld 3:02 PM
"Mobile Browser Field Gets Another Player: TeaShark is the latest to offer a Web browser for mobile phones." InformationWeek 2:15 PM
"Gartner: notebooks, economy define 2008 PCs" Electronista 10:50 AM
"TiVo takes a break while cable giants do the heavy lifting" Ars Technica 9:12 AM
"The year 2008 is year one for flexible active-matrix displays, says iSuppli" DigiTimes 8:25 AM
"Sony BMG Chief Ruminates on Player-Agnostic Music Service" Associated Press 11:28 AM
"Sony BMG mulling digital music subscription offering" BetaNews 10:59 AM
"Sony subscribes to 'all-you-can-eat' music" MacUser (UK) 9:02 AM
"Apple updates iPod shuffle reset software" Macworld UK 9:05 AM
"Rise of the Microsoft Monopoly, Shafted by Gizmos2go, the End of PowerPC Software, and More" Low End Mac 10:50 AM
Granted Apple Patents
"Apple Granted Patents for iPod Click Wheel, iMac Flex Arm, More" MacNN 9:14 AM
"Computer controlled display device: The present invention is a computer controlled display device. In one embodiment, the display device includes a flat panel display having an input for receiving display data. Additionally, a moveable assembly may be coupled to the display. The moveable assembly may provide at least three degrees of freedom of movement for the flat panel display device. Additionally, the moveable assembly may have a cross-sectional area, which is substantially less than a cross-sectional area of a display structure of the flat panel display. Additionally, the moveable assembly may include a plurality of stacked ball-and-socket assemblies." United States Patent and Trademark Office 8:32 AM
"Jobs, Ive among inventors listed on patent for computer controlled display device" Macsimum News 9:44 AM
"Spacing for microphone elements: A speech recognition device with a frequency range with an upper frequency limit f.sub.max is provided." United States Patent and Trademark Office 8:31 AM
"Apple Forced to Reissue Virtual Keyboard Patent" MacNN 9:14 AM
AppleCare/Helps
"Apple Offers Further Details on Season Pass Credits" World of Apple 6:32 PM
"Mac Pro - migration, Bluetooth devices, optical drive, etc." MacInTouch 3:27 PM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Paperclip: Buy at a 46% discount. Promo runs today only." MacUpdate Promo 8:26 AM
"There are five new refurbished items in The US Apple Store -all previously listed iPod nanos with a free $15 iTunes Gift Card -starting with the 4GB model for $129, 14 were restocked, 47 were unchanged, and five were sold out." While Supplies Last 8:23 AM
"Microsoft bringing Office apps to the iPhone?: Microsoft may collaborate with Apple on the iPhone" Tech.co.uk 9:04 PM
"Reality Check: Yes, Microsoft Loves Apple's — Money!" The Mac Night Owl 9:31 PM
"Wow, a pig just flew past my window" M Cubed Blog 5:53 PM
"Renting From iTunes? Not so fast." Kung Fu Quip 3:02 PM
"Microsoft, Apple, and the death of the desktop" ZDNet Blogs 1:57 PM
"iPhone for enterprise - Apple's olive branch for business users" Talkibie 1:57 PM
"Does iPhone SDK mark the end of Click Wheel iPod Gaming?" iLounge 1:52 PM
"Will we see more or less of Apple fan attitude as Apple's sales increase?" Incremental Blogger 1:49 PM
"Apple after Steve Jobs: In many ways, Steve Jobs is Apple. So what happens to the company after its co-founder, chairman and CEO is gone? There's no indication the 53 year-old is slowing down or getting bored, but when a company is so closely tied to its leader, the succession question is worth asking. So I did - to Wired.com news editor Leander Kahney." Future Tense 1:48 PM
"Study: Just Thinking About Apple Boosts Creativity" Wired 11:27 AM
"Is Apple Developing a 3-D Video Game Platform?" Seekhub 8:46 AM
"Crap! If anyone buys this thing, we'll all have to give back our $100 iPhone credits!" Macenstein 8:59 AM
Non-Apple
"Microsoft Succeeds in Making Vista Even Worse" Seeking Alpha 6:01 PM
"Rich Parents Prefer Google, Are Better At Spotting Suspect Info: A Tufts University study sees the emergence of a 'digital skills divide' based on socioeconomic status." InformationWeek 4:15 PM
"AOL's Sudden Implosion: Ubiquitous Brand On A Journey To Nowhere" paid.Content.org 3:21 PM
"A Vista Service Pack 1 Story: This morning I got an e-mail about a failed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 installation. Gulp. From my boss." Microsoft Watch 1:51 PM
"24/7 Wall St. Exclusive Interview With Steve Ballmer, CEO Of Microsoft" 24/7 Wall St. 1:51 PM
"Does open source need a Micro-cop?" ZDNet 1:41 PM
"Survey: Devs Dip Into Both Open, Closed Apps" InternetNews.com 12:12 PM
"Our Favorite File-and-Folder Backup Tools: Are you the type who backs up your precious data once a year, whether it needs it or not? That's a recipe for disaster. Use one of these backup apps and eliminate the risk of losing years' worth of pictures, docs, and e-mails." PC Magazine 11:34 AM
"Forrester: AJAX-Powered Web Apps Disappoint" Computerworld 11:31 AM
"Loss of personal data on rise: 'Breaches' up 40 percent in '07, although fraud losses drop" San Jose Mercury News 11:08 AM
"Modu claims lightest mobile phone; Will you buy it?" ZDNet 10:30 AM
"'My wife calls it a crapberry'" The Guardian 9:06 AM
"When Open Access Kept the Door Closed" New York Times 8:50 AM
"How to succeed in the high-tech boys' club: Women are bypassing IT careers in droves, but these five executives show it doesn't have to be that way" InfoWorld 8:49 AM
"Mobile Web Browsing: What Optimized Sites Leave Out" OSWeekly 8:23 AM
"Yahoo upgraded to buy on expected higher Microsoft bid: Citigroup analyst sees software giant raising offer to $34 a share" MarketWatch 9:48 AM
"Citigroup says Microsoft likely to raise Yahoo offer" Reuters 9:48 AM
"Microsoft may raise bid for Yahoo to $34 per share – analyst" TG Daily 6:42 PM
"FAQ: What you need to know about Microsoft's proposed takeover of Yahoo" Computerworld 3:02 PM
"24/7 Wall St. Exclusive Interview With Steve Ballmer, CEO Of Microsoft" 24/7 Wall St. 1:51 PM
"Microsoft looks to cash in on the iPhone" Fortune 9:48 AM
"Microsoft Quietly Launches Interoperability Forum: When Microsoft laid out its broad commitment to more openness last month, one of the concrete steps it said it would take was the opening of the Interoperability Forum to allow customers around the world to have an open dialogue on how Microsoft products could work better with those of other vendors. That forum is now online, albeit empty and unannounced." InformationWeek 10:04 AM
"Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn Work To Share Contacts: Microsoft and four social networks have joined to exchange contacts APIs securely." InformationWeek 10:04 AM
"Microsoft Offers Way to Share Data With Social Networks: The move is intended to give users control of their data and remove the need for the kind of work-around used to share such data today." IDG News Service 11:32 AM
"Multi-OS PCs suffer Vista SP1 installation hitches: Owners of Vista Ultimate and Vista Enterprise who also run a non-Microsoft operating system on the same PC may not be able to install Vista Service Pack 1 without changing the boot process of their machines." Builder AU 10:22 AM
"Microsoft admits it knew about, but didn't patch, bugs: Microsoft's security team acknowledged that it knew of bugs in its Jet Database Engine as far bask as 2005 but did not patch the problems because of other fixes in place" InfoWorld 6:26 PM
"Standards expert defends OOXML fast-track bid: A European standards expert has defended the move to fast-track the International Organization for Standardization approval process for Microsoft's Office Open XML document standard, dismissing criticisms that the decision to do so is flawed and unfair." ZDNet Asia 10:23 AM
"ODF editor: ODF loses if OOXML does/The editor of the Open Document Format (ODF) standard has written a letter that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) file format as a standard, arguing that if it fails, ODF will suffer." IDG News Service 12:00 PM
"Netflix surveys members on Microsoft Xbox" Reuters 9:57 AM
"Head of Sun's Chip Business Resigns" WSJ.com 9:49 AM
"Sun Microsystems' long-time chip chief David Yen has left the building for an undisclosed role at Juniper Networks." The Register 10:48 AM
"Sun`s Chip Chief Departs: David Yen, who led the microelectronics division, will take a position with Juniper Networks." eWeek 2:48 PM
"Steadiness helps IBM buck tech-sector losses: Big Blue's shares have outperformed market; Wall Street sees further upside" MarketWatch 3:50 PM
"IBM Invests In Open Source EnterpriseDB: Four weeks after Sun Microsystems locked up the open source MySQL database system, IBM has decided to become one of four investors in EnterpriseDB." InformationWeek 10:03 AM
"IBM is putting some of its financial muscle behind the business trying to rival Sun Microsystems' MySQL, pushing PostgreSQL." Reg Developer 10:50 AM
"IBM Takes Stake in Open Source Database Vendor" InternetNews.com 12:13 PM
"IBM moves to expedite mashups for mobile: IBM has released a new version of its Lotus Expeditor software, which is targeted at mobile application developers building both business and consumer Web 2.0 mashups." CNET News.com 4:07 PM
"Q&A: Lenovo takes the high-end road/PC maker's chairman on why the company is pushing high-end models and has yet to issue a low-end PC outside China" IDG News Service 1:43 PM
"Dell Offers Migration Services For Deploying Windows Vista: Dell's Client Migration Solution helps customers with 2,500 or more computers plan, deploy, and manage the migration to Windows Vista." InformationWeek 2:17 PM
"Dell: Call Us to Upgrade to Vista/The PC vendor is offering a new service for desktop OS upgrades and migrations." eWeek 2:47 PM
"Dell enters PAN Manager's Labyrinth" The Register 10:51 AM
"Dell Will Sell Computers At India's Croma Stores" WSJ.com 8:08 PM
"Dell ties up with Indian retailer for selling PCs" Reuters 9:44 AM
"Dell picks Tata's Infiniti to retail PCs in India" IDG News Service 12:01 PM
"Dell, HP confronting laptop battery shortage" Reuters 8:06 PM
"NEC Breaks Two Records With Itanium Server" IDG News Service 11:31 AM
"AMD's New York Fab Plans Show Signs of Life" TheStreet.com 9:41 AM
"AMD chief executive upbeat about Luther Forest project, spokesman says" Albany Business Review 9:41 AM
"AMD to update single-core desktop CPU lineup" DigiTimes 2:52 PM
"Intel Rolls Out Low-Voltage Quad-Core Xeons" ChannelWeb 3:08 PM
"Intel ups speed of quad-core processors" Network World 11:59 AM
"Intel launches server processors based on 45nm technology" DigiTimes 2:52 PM
"Carbon could enable fastest chips: Carbon transistors could outperform the fastest chip materials, including indium antimonide, according to researchers at the University of Maryland." EE Times 11:03 AM
"Gartner sees PC growth of 11%, but remains cautious" MarketWatch 3:49 PM
"Market researcher Gartner Inc. trimmed its 2008 forecast for personal-computer shipments and warned the estimate could drop further 'if global economic headwinds strengthen.' The firm now sees growth of 10.9% to 293 million shipments, versus its December forecast of an 11.6% increase, and that 'growth could fall into single digits.'" WSJ.com 10:40 AM
"PC sales facing strong economic headwinds: Gartner warns on global slowdown" vnunet.com 10:45 AM
"Red Hat: Open source benefits from U.S. unpopularity" InfoWorld 6:14 PM
"Tech Stocks: Yahoo upgrade leads early tech action/Technology stocks showed some signs of life in early trading Tuesday, with Yahoo Inc. shares among the advancers after Citigroup raised its rating on the stock due to a belief that Microsoft Corp. will add to its current $31-a-share hostile bid for Yahoo." MarketWatch 9:43 AM
"Watch for Breakouts From These Three Chip Stocks" TheStreet.com 9:40 AM
"Fall in consumer confidence dings stocks: Wall Street is weaker after a surprisingly anemic reading on a measure of consumer sentiment and a large drop in home prices." CNNMoney 9:34 AM
"Wall Street again on edge: Futures little changed ahead of readings on consumer confidence; overseas markets surge." CNNMoney 9:33 AM
"Asia Markets: Hong Kong, Mumbai and Sydney stocks take off/Asian markets advanced strongly Tuesday, with Hong Kong and Mumbai notching gains of more than 6% as buyers returned in force for beaten-down financial stocks such as China Life Insurance Co. and India's ICICI Bank." MarketWatch 9:36 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe surges following four-day break/Double-digit gains for HBOS and Taylor Wimpey in London" MarketWatch 9:36 AM
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