"Jobs' vision not only factor keeping Apple ripe: Steve Jobs' return to Apple this week following a liver transplant cheered investors and customers for many reasons beyond simple compassion. Conventional wisdom has it that the Apple co-founder's continued presence is essential to his company's own health." Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 3:03 PM
"Apple's silence on Steve Jobs' health may have broken federal securities rules: Firms aren't required to disclose medical details about executives, lawyers say. But they are required to divulge 'material' information investors should know before buying or selling stock." Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 7:40 AM
"Is Apple Obliged To Say More About CEO's Health?" NPR 4:21 PM
"The Steve Jobs/SEC Question, Take II: Did Apple Say Enough?" WSJ Blogs 11:30 AM
"Jobs' liver transplant shows power of wealth" Associated Press 8:51 AM
"Apple courting took eight months: North Carolina officials began negotiating with Apple in September about a project that ultimately led the California computer company to agree this month to build a $1 billion data center in the state." News & Observer, NC 3:06 PM
"Apple Sued For iTunes Gift Card Fraud: Illinois plaintiffs seek a refund for songs purchased for $1.29 while using Apple's $.99 iTunes gift cards." InformationWeek 10:01 AM
"Jackling House deal remains under wraps: Details of a deal to save Woodside's historic Jackling House likely won't be made public until July 7, a lawyer for the town indicated Wednesday." San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 8:20 AM
"Just Because I'm Paranoid Doesn't Mean My Mac Is Secure" MacNewsWorld 7:22 AM
"New attack is socially engineered, cross-platform badness: Every security expert will tell you it's just a matter of time before the Mac OS X becomes a more focused target of malware authors. Apple die-hards will argue that the Mac hasn't yet had a serious virus/spyware/Trojan problem, and thus users shouldn't worry." Houston Chronicle 11:25 AM
"Tidbit: Apple naming Leopard point release after ancient gods" AppleInsider 12:42 PM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"iCal, iPhone, and MobileMe calendars not showing same times" MacFixIt 2:22 PM
"Mirrored and concatenated RAID options in Mac OS X" MacFixIt 11:25 AM
"'8 Bit Weapon: A Chiptune Odyssey' is new loop and sample library" MacTech Magazine 11:57 AM
"Archive for Mac OS X update modifies the search interface behavior" MacTech Magazine 10:04 AM
"Firefox Launches New 3.5 Release Candidate (3.5rc3)" The Mac Observer 4:14 PM
"Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 3 available" ZDNet Blogs 8:33 AM
"iPhone Voicemail and Voice Memos Can Now Be Transferred and Saved to Mac With 2.0.2 Update to The Missing Sync for iPhone" Market Wire 8:23 AM
"Vemedio today release the first major improvement update to Snowtape, the easiest and most intuitive software for recording internet radio." Vemedio 7:38 AM
"iSkysoft has released DVD Copy Pro for Mac ,and we hope that you can release the PR of our new product, following is the detailed information about this new products." iSkysoft 7:33 AM
"Josh Lockhart announces RapidSearch 3 Search Plugin for RapidWeaver" prMac 10:41 AM
"KavaSoft releases HyperImage 2.1 - Download Web Galleries" prMac 10:41 AM
"Palm's loss narrows, shares jump: Smartphone maker reports an adjusted loss of 40 cents per share for its fiscal first quarter. Analysts had expected a 65 cent loss." Reuters 4:07 PM
"Why Google Wave makes Tim Bray nervous: XML co-author on complexity and the web" The Register 3:29 PM
"Google says it's looking into search interference in China" Associated Press 2:50 PM
"Google Voice Calls Out To New Users: Google has started sending out invitations to use Google Voice, the company's online voice mail and communication management service." InformationWeek 4:27 PM
"Who moved my 'Delete' key? Lenovo did. Here's why." Associated Press 1:24 PM
"Plug Computer hits Europe: Tiny PC plugs into wall socket" PC Advisor UK 12:07 PM
"Kosmix tries new twist on search to avoid Google's dominance" San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 10:50 AM
"New Ericsson CEO will face fierce competition: Hans Vestberg, Ericsson's new CEO, will have to fight off Chinese companies and a bolstered Nokia Siemens venture." Fortune 4:07 PM
"Cable Grabs the Web Remote: Industry to Test Services That Limit Online-Show Access to TV Subscribers" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:38 AM
"SAP to Stick to Software, Says CEO" WSJ Blogs 9:37 AM
"No Storms at This Year's Yahoo Shareholder Meeting" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 4:23 PM
"Yahoo CEO promises shareholders to get 'mojo back'" Associated Press 4:16 PM
"Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google" ZDNet Blogs 3:38 PM
"New Yahoo Homepage Spotted In The Wild" TechCrunch 1:36 PM
Publications/Podcasts
"Interview: Steve Gehrman of Path Finder/CocoaTech" The Apple Blog 9:05 PM
"Gene Steinberg meets security guru Rich Mogull, author Joe Kissell, and Macworld's Peter Cohen this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 6:55 PM
"Shelly Brisbin Discusses The Arrival of iPhone 3GS Accessibility" MacVoices 10:59 AM
"iPhone 3.0 Software hits 75% Adoption in 5 Days" Wired 9:28 AM
"Upgrade fee sees few iPod touch users updating to 3.0 software" AppleInsider 9:08 AM
"iPod Touch Firmware Upgrades Scant: Just 1% of iPod Touch owners have downloaded and installed Apple's latest firmware, compared to 44% of iPhone owners." InformationWeek 9:05 PM
"New Mac Laptops Use Batteries Sealed for Power" AllThingsD 7:41 AM
"Giz Bill Nye Explains: The iPhone 3GS's Oleophobic Screen" Gizmodo 7:24 AM
"Apple Computer Performance: MacBook Pro 2.66GHz 15 Inch vs iMac 2.66GHz 24 Inch Performance Comparison" MacSpeedZone 2:36 PM
Apple Patent Applications
"Active Impact Protection Mechanism: Active cushioning mechanisms that detect imminent impact and activate a damper by driving power from an onboard power supply into an electromagnetic actuator." United States Patent and Trademark Office 8:59 AM
"Games with Issues Under Firmware 3.0 - Updates Pending" Touch Arcade 2:32 PM
"About Remote for iPhone and iPod touch" Apple Support 4:16 PM
Price Trackers/Deals
"13'' MacBook Air Prices & Current Bundles" MacPrices 9:49 AM
"15'' MacBook Pro Prices & Current Bundles" MacPrices 9:49 AM
"13'' MacBook Pro Prices & Current Bundles" MacPrices 9:49 AM
"Apple Refurbished/Used Product Price & Deal Tracker.... Laptops Start At $389.. Big Discounts Off Other Apple Products" MacReviewZone 10:59 AM
"Refurbished& Used iPod Price Tracker -iPod Nano Prices Up To $100 Off Original Price" MacReviewZone 11:33 AM
"In The US Apple Store three refurbished items were restocked including the Mac mini 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for $469, 84 were unchanged, and nine were sold out." While Supplies Last 7:36 AM
"Macware Offering 50% Off Summer Savings Sale" prMac 8:29 AM
"Harman Kardon SoundSticks II 2.1 Plug & Play Multimedia Speaker System $107.88" The Mac Observer 11:51 AM
"Apple, put that porn app back in the App Store" The Loop 12:48 PM
"Just when you thought Rob Enderle couldn't get any dumber" Edible Apple 11:56 AM
"Most Ad-Funded iPhone Apps Don't Earn Enough To Buy A Sandwich" Silicon Alley Insider 11:25 AM
"Associated Press: Apple CEO Steve Jobs' liver transplant shows power of wealth: It's simply natural selection in a modern age" MacDailyNews 11:17 AM
"Apple's netbook and why we'll never see it" The Loop 10:29 AM
"Kindle, iPhone upgrades not worth the hefty price" Boston Globe [Free Registration Required] 10:27 AM
"Why Steve Jobs Should Talk About His Health" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 11:24 AM
"When Will Steve Jobs Level With His Investors About His Health?" Wired 9:06 AM
"Are Steve Jobs' Innards Really Any of Our Business?" GigaOM 8:51 AM
"Long Tail of iPhone Apps Is Extra Long — and Not In a Good Way" GigaOM 8:51 AM
"There May Be 50,000 Apps For The iPhone, But Only A Select Few Become Popular" TechCrunch 8:51 AM
"The Apple iPhone 3G S, or Is It 3GS?" WSJ Blogs 2:33 PM
"iPhone 3GS or 3G S? Apple finally makes up its mind" 'Phone + 'Book Zone 8:42 AM
"Major investor fumes at Apple" The Inquirer 8:52 AM
"Apple should have revealed Jobs' op, claims Warren Buffett: Apple was wrong not to let shareholders know that Jobs was so sick he required a transplant" Macworld UK 8:24 AM
"iPhone Keeps Research in Motion on Its Toes" Seeking Alpha 8:23 AM
"Would Jobs' illness make you think twice about a Mac rollout?" ZDNet 8:20 AM
"LogMeIn Ignition App May Pave Way for Listening to Howard Stern on iPhone" SiriusBuzz 7:40 AM
"Steve Jobs Jackling shack woes continue" Mac.Blorge 7:37 AM
"iPhone 3GS JavaScript Speed is NOT Faster Than Apple Claimed" The Small Wave 7:36 AM
"Steve Jobs gets new liver, but at who's cost?" domain-b 7:35 AM
"How to Eliminate Compulsive Internet Fiddling" GigaOM Network 1:29 PM
"Does VoIP Still Confuse You?" Network World 12:17 PM
"What's Behind Google's Speed Push?" Network World 12:17 PM
"The Worst Cities for Tech Workers: Tech workers have their choice of many great U.S. cities for work and play (Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle), but what are the cities that you probably should avoid? Here's a very unscientific, highly subjective and unapologetically snarky list of our least favorite U.S. tech job locales." [Slideshow] PC World 12:17 PM
"Instant Messaging: Your Desktop Productivity Powerhouse" PC Magazine 12:11 PM
"Make IT 'Storefront' A Reality With Service Catalogs" InformationWeek 11:27 AM
"Twitter software applications prone to crashes, tests show" Boston Globe [Free Registration Required] 10:27 AM
"Heads of top U.S. companies snub blogs, Facebook: study" Reuters 10:00 AM
"What Do Yahoo-to-Microsoft Defections Mean?" Seeking Alpha 9:50 AM
"Silicon Valley silence on China scandal deafening" MarketWatch 9:43 AM
"Sony: Lost in transformation/Sir Howard Stringer has been pushing for years to revive the Japanese conglomerate. Will a youthful (by Sony standards) new team help him realize his digital dream?" Fortune Magazine 9:33 AM
"Windows 7 Pricing Official: It's still too expensive, but very good deals exist for early shoppers and new PC buyers." The Small Wave 4:02 PM
"The big game deal: Why id's John Carmack shelved his ego and sold out to ZeniMax" VentureBeat 9:08 AM
"Blu-ray still facing an uphill battle" Macsimum News 9:07 AM
"More Blackout Workaround Strategies" Low End Mac 9:06 AM
"Microsoft Outlook to remain HTML non-compliant" Hawk Wings 7:28 AM
"Megan Fox Makes Cameo On First Explicit iPhone App" iPhone Savior 7:27 AM
"Porn now available on the iPhone" Macworld UK 7:22 AM
"ListMonger for iPhone Sales Top 1,000; App Rockets Past 0.0024% Market Share" ["ListMonger is an easy-to-use yet powerful list-making app for iPhone and iPod touch. Casual users will find it easy to grok, yet ListMonger offers a robust feature set to meet the needs of demanding list-aholics (you know who you are)."] Inspiretis 7:17 AM
"Yahoo CEO Bartz 'Nothing to Say' About Possible Microsoft Deal" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:31 PM
"Microsoft Offers Incentives to Goose Windows 7 Sales" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:38 AM
"Microsoft discounts Windows 7 Home Premium to $50; deal to last two weeks: Pre-orders last just two weeks; after that, prices only slightly lower than Vista's" Computerworld 10:38 AM
"Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing: Microsoft has disclosed what you'll have to pay to get hold of its next operating system." InformationWeek 10:02 AM
"Microsoft says Vista buyers to get free Windows 7: Microsoft says Vista PC buyers will get free Windows 7 upgrades, kicks off pre-order discounts" Associated Press 9:49 AM
"Microsoft to cut prices on Windows 7 system" Reuters 9:43 AM
"Windows 7 pricing gets unveiled: Microsoft will not be offering an upgrade version of Windows 7 in Europe." BBC 10:24 AM
"Official: Windows 7 upgrades not available in Europe" TG Daily 2:21 PM
"Microsoft reveals Windows 7 pricing for UK users" PC Advisor 2:15 PM
"Bing Filters out Sensitive Results for Chinese Searches" IDG News Service 12:18 PM
"Greenpeace Protests Hewlett-Packard in Beijing" ABCNews Blogs 10:14 AM
"HP Offers Free Windows 7 Upgrades: Offer comes under Microsoft's Windows 7 Upgrade Option but does not extend to all HP systems." InformationWeek 4:27 PM
"HP Boosts Telcom Computing Capabilities: Carrier can't do MMS? Don't blame HP. It's offering Nehalem-powered servers for the fastest capacity servers at central offices." InternetNews 11:39 AM
"HP whips out blades for future: Comment HP's next-generation arrays will be based on a scale-out, virtualised storage architecture using bladed storage processors and a separate storage management software layer - oh, and industry-standard drives and components." The Register 3:29 PM
"Sun Exec: Cloud Changes Sysadmin Job/Sun VP Hal Stern tells Wall Street that system administrators should monitor software and services and leave the hardware to others." InternetNews 11:39 AM
"IBM touts encryption innovation: IBM Researcher Craig Gentry creates'fully homomorphic encryption.'" Network World 12:06 PM
"Gateway Launches First Small Form Factor Desktop" PC World 12:19 PM
"Dell Two-Socket PowerEdge Servers Meet EPA Energy Star Spec" eWeek 11:00 AM
"Breaking Down Intel's New Products" Zacks 9:42 AM
"AMD aims to gain back 15% share of notebook market" DigiTimes 10:51 AM
"Cramer: Enterprise Brings Back Oracle/Jim Cramer believes that enterprise spending is making a comeback and Oracle is a winner on that turn." [Video Report] TheStreet 9:44 AM
"Red Hat CEO Calls on Oracle to Keep Java Open" InternetNews 11:40 AM
"Should Oracle's Linux strategy be...Ubuntu?" CNET News 4:21 PM
"Oracle Automates E-Commerce Personalization: Real-Time Decisions 3.0 upgrade supports offline marketing and adds prebuilt 'decision patterns' for cross selling and customer retention." Intelligent Enterprise 4:28 PM
"Google slammed as China, U.S. quarrel over Internet" Reuters 9:59 AM
"U.S. Objects to China's Web Filtering" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 9:58 AM
"U.S. Trade Officials Urge China to Revoke PC Rule" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:45 AM
"PC makers race to comply with China's Web filter: PC makers race to comply with China Web filter order as Washington presses for repeal" Associated Press 9:43 AM
"Quantum computing hurdle overcome: Ann Arbor, Michigan - Physicists have overcome one of the major hurdles to quantum computing by finding a way to increase the shelf life of quantum bits by 1,000 times." TG Daily 2:21 PM
"Tech Companies See Hurdles Again This Year: Asia's export-reliant technology companies are likely to face slow sales growth during the year's typically strong second half, and some may even extend losses despite signs of an upturn in several Asian-Pacific economies." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:17 PM
"Recovery In Sight For PC Market: Stronger consumer PC shipments -- especially netbooks -- will revive the battered hardware sector, Gartner says." InformationWeek 4:27 PM
"Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments on Pace for 6 Percent Decline in 2009: 2Q09 Worldwide PC Forecast Indicates Likely Return to Market Growth by Fourth Quarter of This Year, but Vendors Should Brace for Two More Difficult Quarters" Gartner 4:14 PM
"Final Glance: Computer companies" ["Apple Inc rose $3.64 or 2.7 percent, to $139.86."] Associated Press 9:04 PM
Industry News
"Buy Telecoms, Not Treasuries: Donald Quigley, portfolio manager for the Artio Total Return Bond Fund, says investors should steer clear of Treasury bonds and stick with telecom bonds from companies like Vodaphone and Comcast." [Video Report] TheStreet 9:35 AM
"Tech Stocks: Broad rally gives tech sector a big boost at the close/The tech sector flexed its muscles Thursday as most bellwethers advanced along with the broad market and helped the Nasdaq Composite Index rise more than 2% for its best performance of the week." MarketWatch 3:55 PM
"Led by Nasdaq, Stocks Shed Early Losses: With the attention shifting to lawmakers grilling Ben Bernanke on Capitol Hill, Wall Street climbed out of an early hole Thursday as the bulls look to end the Dow's four-day slump despite a surprise jump in jobless claims."<" 11:06 AM
"Bulls Hijack Wall Street: Dow Adds 173/Ending a four-day slide for the blue chips, the Dow climbed nearly 200 points on Thursday as a wave of buying in the retail sector helped Wall Street forget about a disappointing labor report." FOXBusiness 3:56 PM
"U.S. Stocks Gain as Bernanke Defends Actions on Merrill Lynch" Bloomberg 3:56 PM
"Stocks bounce back: After several down sessions, Wall Street stages an advance, with consumer, commodity and tech shares leading the charge." CNNMoney 3:58 PM
"Traders Shrug Off Jobs Data, Drive Stocks Higher: Stocks rallied on Thursday, snapping a four-day losing streak despite signs that the job market remains in dismal health." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:00 PM
"Stocks headed for lower open: Futures fall as investors react to higher-than-expected jobless claims and await Bernanke's testimony on Bank of America-Merrill deal." CNNMoney 9:34 AM
"Tokyo, Seoul energized by techs; properties lift Hong Kong: Financials also tally gains in broad-based Asian advance" MarketWatch 9:53 AM
"European markets pare losses as US turns higher: European markets pare losses as US turns higher after 'less bad' Q1 contraction" Associated Press 4:00 PM
"Europe Markets: European shares pare gains as banks pull back/H&M higher as profit beats forecasts; Adidas, Puma lower after Nike profit drop" MarketWatch 9:39 AM
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