"Looking for a reason to love the iPad/Trying out Apple's tablet computer yields indifference to the popular device. Among its biggest drawbacks: poor screen resolution, the lack of a keyboard and the company's totalitarian approach to its App Store." Los Angeles Times 7:46 AM
"Procrastinator's Gift Guide to iOS Apps" PCWorld 7:54 AM
"Future, past collide over Miami Beach Apple store's next move/Read more here: http://ww" Miami Herald 9:39 PM
"Apple picks up legal win, a chip company, and a Grammy" CNET News 12/24
"Apple Stays Fresh Despite the Turmoil" The Motley Fool 12/24
"iOS users rule mobile shopping, spend 19% more than Androids" Electronista 12/24
"iOS Dominates 92% of Mobile Shopping Market" MacTrast 12/24
"China Makes Almost Nothing Out of Apple's iPads and iPhones" Forbes 12/24
"Android, iOS Squeezing Out Blackberry, Windows Phone" eWeek 12/24
"Q&A: Trouble-Shooting Browser Problems with PDF Files" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12/23
"Yesterday I tried to quit Safari 5.1. It did not quit. When I looked under File, Quit was grayed out. Restart and Shut Down were locked out by Safari. So I had to perform a cold shut down and restart to restore Safari back to normal. How did this happen? Don't know yet. Any other similar experiences?" MacInTouch 12/23
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Tracking Santa's Christmas flight on Mac and iPhone" TechnologyTell 12/24
"Review: My New Mac, Lion Edition" [Book Review] Apple Gazette 12/23
"Tired Of The Mac's Dock? Try A Tab Launcher Instead" Mac 360 12/23
"Photo Stream and Multiple iPhoto Libraries" TidBITS 12/23
"11 Easy Ways To Use Instagram On Your Mac" Mac 360 12/23
"iChat Matte Mod for OS X Lion Removes Glossy Bubble Text Blocks from iChat" OS X Daily 12/23
"How to Set File Permissions in Mac OS X" Macinstruct 12/23
"Fix a Finder glitch when updating apps by drag and drop" Mac OS X Hints 12/23
"Mac Tip: Add & Remove Applications From The Dock" MacTrast 12/23
Op/Ed
"Why Hasn't Safari Skyrocketed Like Chrome Has?" TechCrunch 12/24
"Why it's impossible to build a digital recipe library" GigaOM 12/24
"I recently logged into my MobileMe account and was told I had to change my password for 'security reasons'. This was odd as I'd typed my password correctly this time and the past 8 years or so. I emailed Apple (Express Lane) and was told I had to change it. Reluctantly I did and realised that Apple now require a capital letter and a number (mine was lowercase letters and numbers). I felt I was being forced into changing, changed it, kicked the cat and thought no more about it." MacInTouch 12/23
"Study: Apple's iPhone, iPad account for 90 percent of mobile purchases" GigaOM 12/23
"Apple's iPad still beating Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet in sales" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 12/23
"Apple Flexes Bargaining Power With Carriers For Fat iPhone Margins" Forbes 12/23
"Apple iPad and ebook readers again define the year on The Mobile Gadgeteer" ZDNet 12/23
"Sejm wants to buy 500 tablets. The savings: Seimas closed the tender for the purchase of tablets for Members. Poland is one of the first countries in Europe, where the iPad will be the official instrument of lawmaking." Google Polish-to-English: wyborcza 12/23
"Video: Steve Jobs on TV's go-to-market problem/He laid out the reasons NOT to build an Apple television at All Things D in 2010" Fortune 12/23
"Peek Into Store's Wi-Fi Network Finds 335 Devices" ifoAppleStore 12/23
"Arcade emulator MAME slips under Apple radar" The Register 12/23
"Lost iPhone? iMessages might be sent to new 'owner'" CBS 12/23
"Every 60 seconds: Apple sells 925 iPhones, 2 million people watch online porn, more" BGR 12/23
"iPhone Case Gift Guide: A Case to Suit Any Personality" [Slideshow] Techland 12/23
"NORAD brings Santa -- and elf tossing -- to iPads, iPhones, Android devices" Network World 12/23
Non-Apple News
"GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support, But Not As Such" TidBITS 12/23
"Vietnam store makes Christmas tree from cellphones" Associated Press 12/23
"The CIO's lament: 20-something techies who quit after 1 year/Harry Fox Agency's IT chief discusses how hard it is to retain younger IT professionals, especially Java programmers" Network World 12/23
"Razer Delays Gaming Laptop -- But Sweetens Release" PCWorld 12/23
"No Ice Cream Sandwich For Galaxy S And Galaxy Tab, Says Samsung" TechCrunch 12/23
"Republic Wireless Scraps Data Restrictions" PCWorld 12/23
"RIM Counters Charge of 'Lying' About BlackBerry 10 Delay" PC Magazine 12/23
"Insurance Against Cyber Attacks Expected to Boom" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12/23
"Facebook fails to deliver on 'social shopping' this holiday season" Financial Times [Free Registration Required] 12/23
"With Home Entertainment Sales Spiraling Downward, Movie Studios Turn to UltraViolet" Forbes 12/23
"Say goodbye to Google's App Inventor: Google has reminded its users that the flagship platform to allow anyone to create an Android app will permanently shut down at the end of the year." TG Daily 12/23
"Here Comes Google's Christmas (Er, Holiday) Greetings" AllThingsD 12/23
"Face.com: Facial recognition for the masses" CNNMoney 12/23
Publications/Podcasts
"Gear Guide: Products we'd like to see" Macworld 12/24
"Gene Steinberg meets cutting-edge commentator Daniel Eran Dilger and Laptop magazine's Avram Piltch this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 12/23
"Iphone Maker Foxconn's Entry Into Solar May Cut Industry Margins" Bloomberg 12/24
"Talk of the Day -- iPad3 to be launched on Steve Jobs' birthday?" Focus Taiwan 12/23
"Report claims Asian suppliers scramble to meet special iPad 3 launch date: Jobs' Feb. 24 birthday anniversary" 9 to 5 Mac 12/23
"Rumor: Apple Aiming For iPad 3 Release Date Of February 24th 2012" Apple Bitch 12/23
"Report: Apple Launching iPad 3 on Steve Jobs's Birthday" PC Magazine 12/23
"Storage talk of 2011: Apple takes control/Though not a storage vendor, Apple had arguably the biggest influence on consumer-grade storage products during 2011." CNET News 12/23
"iMessages going to stolen iPhones? There may be a fix in the works" Ars Technica 12/23
"Find My Friends Review: Location-sharing social networking app is handy and surprisingly fun (friends not included)" Macworld 12/23
"Hands on: five podcast apps that improve on iOS functionality" Ars Technica 12/23
"Scribe, an iPad Text Editor With HTML, Markdown" Wired 12/23
"Wish you Were Here: Postcards on the Run, for the iPhone" eXtensions 12/23
"NCInstaCall For iPhone Lets You Make Phone Calls Directly From Notification Center" Redmond Pie 12/23
"'Home Sheep Home 2' Review - More Teamwork Puzzling Starring Your Ovine Friends" Touch Arcade 12/23
"Consume Review: Consume is your one stop shop for all your accounts and clubs, be they phone, broadband, shopping cards or gaming. Monitor everything with ease, from just one app." 148Apps 12/23
"MEGA MAN X Review: The latest game in the classic Mega Man series of action platformers finally makes its way to the iOS platform." 148Apps 12/23
"Jurassic Park: Episode 2 Takes A Bite Out Of iPad 2" 148Apps 12/23
"M.U.S.E. Review: M.U.S.E. is a third-person shooter with cover elements and arcade-style high scoring." 148Apps 12/23
"Area 51 Defense Review: Area 51 Defense might feel like Epic War TD with a new (ish) coat of paint at times, but it can still hold its own... right?" 148Apps 12/23
"Word Lubbers Review: A challenging but fun pirate themed word game." 148Apps 12/23
"Tweens HD Review: Connect colored pigs in this fast-paced, addictive puzzle game." 148Apps 12/23
How-To/Tutorial
"How To Set Up Your Brand New iPad 2" Gizmodo 11:18 AM
"Get Started With Your New Mac – The Right Way [Setup Guide] Cult of Mac 7:44 AM
"Get Started With Your New iPod Touch — The Right Way [Setup Guide] Cult of Mac 7:45 AM
"Get Started With Your New iPhone — The Right Way [Setup Guide] Cult of Mac 7:45 AM
"Get Started With Your New Apple TV – The Right Way [Set-Up Guide] Cult of Mac 7:45 AM
"How To Enter Text In Any Mac App Using iPhone 4S Siri Dictation" Redmond Pie 12/24
"How to arrange your iPhone home screen to get things done" Macgasm 12/23
"How To Recalibrate iPhone Home Button To Make It More Responsive" Redmond Pie 12/23
"Make room, internet, there's another 5 million domains to fit in: .com and .de top the charts in Q3 figures" The Register 12/23
"Cheating Spreads Like Infections In Online Mulitplayer Games: If you have friends who cheat, you are more likely to become a cheater, according to computer scientists who say this can be used to label you as a potential cheater" Technology Review 12/23
"Have a White Christmas With Google Maps, YouTube" PC Magazine 12/23
"Best gameplay of 2011" [Video Report] MSNBC 12/23
"10 nightmares traveling with tech -- and how to prevent them" InfoWorld 12/23
"Mozilla's 3 bold bets to keep the Web open: Google's latest agreement with Mozilla will ironically fund three new areas of competition between Google and Mozilla" InfoWorld 12/23
"Why Deus Ex: Human Revolution is My Game of the Year" Forbes 12/23
"BlackBerry Bold 9900: The swan song of a standard/The last BlackBerry using the historic OS adds touch, but otherwise is the BlackBerry you've long known and perhaps loved" InfoWorld 12/23
"Holiday Fun With Personal Collaboration: Use your free time to explore new consumer-driven products--and maybe pick up some valuable IT skills." InformationWeek 12/23
"Is Yahoo Finally Coming Back To Its Long-Lost Senses?" Forbes 12/23
"5 reasons to be optimistic about technology innovation in the year ahead" ZDNet 12/23
"2012: Year of the Female CEO? The accomplishments of Virginia Rometty and Meg Whitman will be closely scrutinized in the new year." Barron's [Paid Membership Required] 12/24
"What Has Microsoft Been Doing All Year? For Microsoft, 2011 has mostly come and gone with a whimper." The Motley Fool 12/24
"Microsoft passes Yahoo as 2nd most popular Web property -ComScore" GMA News 12/24
"Why Running A Mobile OS By Committee Can Be Very Hard" mocoNews 12/24
"GoDaddy's domain registration after SOPA: behind the numbers" The Verge 12/24
"Sorry Brick-and-Mortar Retailers: Despite the Glitches, Consumers Prefer the Online Channel" Forbes 12/24
"Go Daddy loses over 37,000 domains due to SOPA stance" VentureBeat 12/24
"Go Daddy lost 21,054 domains yesterday in wake of SOPA PR disaster" The Next Web 12/24
"FTC Fishes for Info on Facial Recognition" PCWorld 12/24
"Best Buy Apologizes For Web Sales Blunder" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12/24
"New Nokia smartphone fails to turn tide" Reuters 12/24
"The other Google search: Google has launched a competition among Egyptian start-ups for promising young entrepreneurs in which everyone gets a world-class training, says Nader Habib" Al-Ahram 12/24
"Logging In With a Touch or a Phrase (Anything but a Password): Passwords are a pain to remember. What if a quick wiggle of five fingers on a screen could log you in instead? Or speaking a simple phrase?" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 12/24
"Hidden Dragon: The Chinese cyber menace/'Any decent government does industrial espionage'" The Register 12/24
"Stocks close higher; S&P turns positive for 2011" Associated Press 12/23
"S&P 500 Back to a Gain for 2011" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12/23
"Canadian stocks up ahead of long weekend" MarketWatch 12/23
"Asian Shares Rise: Asian markets rebounded Friday after fresh data painted an improving U.S. economic picture, and China's stocks rose for the first time this week." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12/23
"Asian Stocks Rise as U.S. Data Overshadow Europe Debt Concern" Bloomberg 12/23
"Asia Markets: Asia markets rebound after U.S. gains" MarketWatch 12/23
"Europe Stocks Rise: European stocks closed higher in thin pre-Christmas trade, helped by energy and drug stocks." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12/23
"European Stocks Rise as U.S. Data Offsets Debt-Crisis Concern" Bloomberg 12/23
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks log gains ahead of holidays/Oil prices gain, lifting shares of BP in London and Total in Paris" MarketWatch 12/23
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 12/23
"Midday Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares up at 1 p.m." Associated Press 12/23
"Semis: Wells Sees Bright Spots Amidst the Gloom" Barron's 12/23
"Picks and Pans in Semiconductors for 2012: Broadcom, EZchip and others are favored in the new year." Barron's 12/23
"10 Tech Dividend Stocks With Impressive Profitability" Seeking Alpha 12/23
"Best Ideas 2012: Gilder Is Gaga For Holy Land Tech Stocks" Forbes 12/23
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