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Weekend Highlights: Would switching to Intel processors really give Apple an edge in mobile? Mac Predictions contradicts popular 'wisdom' with the thought that assuming Jonathan Ive will remove all skeumorphism from iOS 7 isn't entirely realistic; Over at Maworld, the Macalope skewers the Motley Fool for unrealistic criticism of Siri before moving on to critique the ridiculous position that Apple should develop apps for Android; at AppleInsider, Daniel Eran Dilger calls out the hypocrisy of the tech press comparing Samsung's S4 sales data to the iPhone 5's; Tim Cook proposes offshore cash tax reform prior to his appearance before the US Senate; maintains Apple will be able to create more US jobs with these changes; Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt suggests it is important to observe Tim Cook's press run in advance of his Senate testimony; more on Cook's tax talks in our Apple/Macintosh, and Op/Ed sections; sure to rile Apple fans, Derek Brown at ReadWrite pretty much hands Google the victory in its battle with Apple claiming "the company's days of dominance, let alone an effective monopolist, are behind it"; and supposedly three out of every four investors believes Apple is losing its edge in innovation; meanwhile, the U.S. Military Networks have approved Apple's iDevices for use, and another report shows AirForce saving upwards of $5.7 million per year thanks to iPads; Harry Potter spell unlocks the secret backdoor hack in OS X, but Ars Technica says it is "more the stuff of spy movies than hack attack"; Delicious Library 3 is another software gem for the Mac according to Joel Mathis; Skype improves performance on the Mac; Mactuts+ illustrates how you can use "15 cool ways to personalize your Mac"; Samsung courting rival Apple suppliers; Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene promoting the "Dream Act" for immigration reform.
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"Moving Apple's Moolah Mountain: Apple's wallet is stuffed with nearly $100 billion in cash. It's smart to have a rainy day fund, but too much idle money can be troubling to investors. What, then, should Apple spend it on? It is known to buy companies, though it doesn't have a history of gaudy purchases. Investment in its supply chain is one option on the table, as is a stock buyback." MacNewsWorld 8:00 AM
"Apple's Enterprise Invasion: Why Winning in Consumer Means Winning in Enterprise" Tech.pinions 8:58 AM
"Apple not turning 'blind eye' to supply chain problems: CEO" Reuters 2:57 PM
"Tim Cook blasts the New York Times' Report on Apple's Chinese iPad factories" Fortune 11:25 AM
"Apple and Labor: Following a scathing Report, Apple CEO Tim Cook gets defensive." Technology Review 1:24 PM
"Apple's Cook Won't Turn 'Blind Eye' to Problems With Suppliers' Conditions" Bloomberg 10:12 AM
"Apple's Cook Steamed Over Labor Practices Report" MacNewsWorld 6:42 PM
"Apple's Tim Cook Responds to Reports of Worker Abuse" PC Magazine 8:33 AM
"Apple CEO calls Times supplier Report 'patently false and offensive'" Ars Technica 9:47 AM
"Apple customers reaction mixed to Reports of poor working conditions" IDG News Service 3:00 PM
"Apple-Foxconn tale goes well beyond Apple, and tech" CNET News 10:02 AM
"Steve Jobs told Google to stop poaching workers: Apple's Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee's job, according to a court filing." Reuters 6:40 PM
"Apple is the No. 1 smartphone vendor again, say research firms: Samsung had overtaken Apple in Q3, as customers waited for the iPhone 4S" IDG News Service 7:41 AM
"Apple Claimed Smartphone Lead in Fourth Quarter" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:49 AM
"Smartphone wars: Apple won the quarter, Samsung the year" Fortune 7:52 AM
"iPhone grabs 6% of world phone shipments" Register Hardware 7:36 AM
"Apple overtakes Samsung in Q4 smartphone sales" Reuters 7:52 AM
"Apple Overtakes Samsung As World's Largest Smartphone Vendor In Q4" TechCrunch 10:43 AM
"Welcome to the New MacWorld: The venerable expo doesn't have Apple leading the charge anymore, but it's embracing the rise of the mobile lifestyle by adding iWorld to its name. PCMag.com swings by." PC Magazine 10:43 AM
"Welcome to the New MacWorld" [Slideshow] PC Magazine 10:42 AM
"Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg on Greatest Innovators List" Mashable 7:56 AM
"Apple Estimated to Retake Title of World's Largest Smartphone Vendor" MacRumors 7:56 AM
"Apple is #1 Smartphone Vendor for Q4 2011" Vernon Chan 3:04 PM
"iPads save parliament cash, says IT chief" ZDNet UK 8:42 AM
"Ex-VP Using Apple Experience To Remake Penney" ifoAppleStore 8:01 AM
"'Steve Jobs Would Have Called This Insanity.' Ron Johnson's Transformation Of JC Penney Begins" Cult of Mac 9:38 AM
"Stolen iPhone Saved By iCloud: New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police follow Find My iPhone directions to nab a suspect and recover an iPhone in the space of four hours." InformationWeek 4:52 PM
"T-Mobile to offer unlocked iPhone users additional support starting Jan. 30" 9 to 5 Mac 2:59 PM
"AT&T posts huge loss on charges, iPhone subsidy: AT&T lost $6.7 billion in the fourth quarter, its first lost in three years. AT&T remains heavily dependent on iPhone for subscribers." Associated Press 7:37 AM
Non-Apple News
"Former Palm Head Jon Rubinstein Leaves Hewlett-Packard" AllThingsD 11:09 AM
"The World's First Computer Password? It Was Useless Too" Wired Magazine 11:16 AM
"New Vizio HDTV breaks widescreen barrier for movies, apps" USA Today 11:07 AM
"Ubuntu creator warns businesses to be wary of cloud lock-in: Canonical and Citrix highlight the pitfalls of proprietary cloud computing" Techworld 10:57 AM
"First 'Super Wi-Fi' Network Goes Live in North Carolina" Network World 10:43 AM
"One-on-One With Sean Parker: Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker talks with Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, former president of Facebook Inc. and investor in Spotify Ltd." [Video Report] Bloomberg Businessweek 10:12 AM
"LG Display's Fourth-Quarter Loss Narrows on 3-D Television, Mobile Demand" Bloomberg 10:11 AM
"Google+ opened up to teens to compete with Facebook" Bloomberg 10:54 AM
"Google Music Manager Update Lets You Download All Songs" PC Magazine 10:40 AM
"Schmidt: We Are Happy to Talk to the Government/Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the government's investigation into its privacy policies and push for legislation on intellectual property on the Internet." [Video Report] FOXBusiness 10:27 AM
"Google Tells Android Developers to Stop Using the Menu Button" eWeek 10:21 AM
"Google Earth 6.2 seamlessly stitches over mismatched patchwork" CNET News 9:58 AM
"RIM slashes BlackBerry PlayBook tablet prices: Up to 58 per cent off launch cost" Register Hardware 11:01 AM
"RIM CEO: We're Not Baking Cookies/Research In Motion's new CEO says his earlier comments regarding change at the BlackBerry maker were a bit misunderstood. Instead of taking the easy way out, RIM hopes the more difficult path leads to success." InformationWeek 10:29 AM
"Nintendo Chief Promises To Do Wii U Launch Right" Associated Press 9:54 AM
"Marvell Lowers Guidance on Hard-Drive Shortage" Minyanville 9:50 AM
"Cisco Fellow Bruce Davie Joins Stealth Start-Up Nicira" AllThingsD 9:45 AM
"Samsung eyes enormofridges for see-through screens" Register Hardware 11:04 AM
"Smartphones drive record Samsung profit" Reuters 10:01 AM
"Gene Steinberg meets The Mac Observer's John Martellaro, The NPD Group's Ross Rubin, and Laptop magazine's Avram Piltch this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 2:50 PM
"Macworld|iWorld Interview with Johan-Till Broer of Garmin" Your Mac Life 2:37 PM
"Engadget Podcast 278 - 01.26.2012" Engadget 9:07 AM
"Spotlight on Game Your Video: Macworld Video #167" Macworld 8:59 AM
"Apple Makes Money, MW3, Macworld Expo, Evil Apple (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 8:51 AM
"Q&A: Lytro's Charles Chi talks light field, battery life, and licensing" PCWorld 7:58 AM
"Happy 2nd Birthday, iPad. What Will This Toddler Be When it Grows up?" Mashable 6:41 PM
"Happy birthday, iPad! RIP, pretenders: Two years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad. And computing has never been the same, despite all the 'iPad killers'" [Slideshow] InfoWorld 10:31 AM
"Samsung Loses Patent Complaint; Apple Complies With Italian Court Ruling" The Mac Observer 11:07 AM
"Apple iPhone is top dog --and Samsung's Google problem" Computerworld 8:48 AM
"Apple's 7 most stubborn decisions: Apple's legendary strong will has led to some puzzling product designs and choices: some of which ultimately became trends, and others that decidedly didn't." CNNMoney 8:42 AM
"Why Apple shouldn't be reining in its legal team" memeburn 8:03 AM
"More About the Apple Cult (Even Though I Said It Was Time to Stop Talking About It)" Technologizer 8:02 AM
"The Problem With The iOS Home Screen" MacStories 8:00 AM
"4 Tech Companies Apple Should Consider Buying Now" Seeking Alpha 7:52 AM
"Bill Gates: 'I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed'" Telegraph 7:49 AM
"Real Chinese talk about Apple, manufacturing and labor" Mac.Blorge 6:43 PM
"Apple's an easy target, but you can't blame them for Foxconn" The Loop 6:43 PM
"Dear Apple: Do something about Chinese working conditions" CNET News 2:57 PM
"The 'punishing' iPhone factories: Will Apple customers care?" The Week 11:29 AM
"Why Apple is held accountable for supply chain mistreatment" ZDNet 11:29 AM
"Apple's supply chain flap: It's really about us" ZDNet 8:47 AM
"Will the World Ever See Fair Trade iPads?" Techland 8:47 AM
"Apple: Is Tim Cook Insane (Or Just One Heck Of A Guy)?" Seeking Alpha 3:03 PM
"Apple CEO Tim Cook Responds to Factory Condition Mistreatment, Promises to 'Dig Deeper'" Mashable 10:18 AM
"Apple's Tim Cook Fires Back on Worker Abuse Allegations" TheStreet 9:34 AM
"Apple: Yes there are horrendous accidents, but we CARE/Tim Cook sends letter after Chinese factory horror exposé" The Register 8:46 AM
"Tim Cook Responds to Allegations That Apple Has Known About Factory Labor Abuses" iClarified 8:01 AM
"Tim Cook Responds to NYT Article Over Apple Supplier Working Conditions" iPhoneinCanada 7:45 AM
"Report: Apple's Suppliers Continuously Violate Code of Conduct, Apple Does Nothing to Change It/According to Apple executives and Foxconn management, safety is the last thing on Apple's mind" DailyTech 7:42 AM
"Confessions of an iPhone Data Hog: AT&T Wags Finger at 'Unlimited' Data Users; A Letter Warns 'You May See Reduced Speeds'" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:37 AM
"Ways for parents to ease tussle with teens over tech use" Seattle Times 7:28 PM
"Will 2012 be the year of the cloud?" ZDNet UK 11:20 AM
"How Wi-Fi could squeeze wireless carriers" ZDNet 11:19 AM
"Privacy vs. digital age: Where's the balance?" ZDNet 11:18 AM
"Top 10 challenges facing RIM's new chief executive" V3 11:09 AM
"Two Minute Video: Getting Started with Facebook Timeline" Techland 11:05 AM
"Super Bowl TV sales aren't that super" TG Daily 10:58 AM
"Why 3D Printing Isn't Like Virtual Reality: Before you dismiss it as a fad, consider the evolution of 2D printing." Technology Review 10:56 AM
"10 ridiculous Super Bowl party gadgets" MSNBC 10:37 AM
"Why big data means a big year for Hadoop: Companies from IBM to Amazon are turning to Hadoop to manage the surge in data that needs storing. IDGE's Michael Friedenberg says the buzz around Hadoop is no joke" CIO 10:32 AM
"Gamification: The buzzword that can ruin your apps and business" InfoWorld 10:31 AM
"webOS daddy Jon Rubinstein exits HP/Enough is enough: 'I'm gonna go for a swim, have a little lunch...'" The Register 7:28 PM
"HP's Discontinued TouchPad Sells Out ... Again" AllThingsD 11:29 AM
"HP-Microsoft Alliance Renewed In The Cloud" Seeking Alpha 3:03 PM
"PC Sales Have 'Not Been the Best,' Microsoft Says: Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, talks about computer sales and innovation." [Video Report] Bloomberg 9:53 AM
"Microsoft exec says Safe Harbor framework is 'alive and well'" The Register 11:01 AM
"Will Silverlight live or die? Microsoft won't say: The company has given little indication of what it plans to do with the plug-in technology, leaving developers in a lurch" InfoWorld 10:31 AM
"Is your phone faster than a Windows Phone? We've heard claims by Microsoft that Windows Phone is far more efficient at everyday tasks than other phones on the market. Well, the Windows Phone team issued a $100 challenge to anyone whose phone could beat the Windows Phone." [Video Report] ZDNet 11:18 AM
"10 things we love and hate about Windows Server 8: The high and low points after spending some time with the Windows Server 8 developer preview release" [Slideshow] Network World 10:31 AM
"Microsoft schtum on Dropbox snags with IE: Microsoft has so far declined to explain why Internet Explorer this week flagged Dropbox as a phishing threat, in an apparent clash with Amazon's S3 cloud storage." The Register 11:01 AM
"Dell launches pre-packaged private cloud for your datacenter" ZDNet 11:18 AM
"IBM And Cisco - Good Value, Above-Average Growth And A Dividend Kicker" Seeking Alpha 8:42 PM
"Jacques Maisonrouge, Who Steered IBM's Global Growth, Dies at 87" Bloomberg 11:32 AM
"Conversation about UCS with Todd Brannon of Cisco" ZDNet 11:19 AM
"Most EU states sign away internet rights, ratify ACTA treaty: European Parliament observer resigns in protest" The Register 11:04 AM
"European Parliament rapporteur quits in Acta protest: Negotiations over a controversial anti-piracy agreement have been described as a 'masquerade' by a key EU official." BBC 10:09 AM
"European Parliament website taken offline in retaliation of ACTA: The denial-of-service attacks follow new signatures to ACTA, an intellectual property treaty" Techworld 10:57 AM
"Aneesh Chopra leaving the White House: The nation's first chief technology officer plans to step down from his White House job, according to administration officials." Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 11:12 AM
"US Cybersecurity Efforts Trigger Privacy Concerns: The federal government's plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans' civil liberties." Associated Press 9:54 AM
"How consumer-electronics makers are faring: A look at how selected makers of phones and other consumer electronics are faring" Associated Press 11:32 AM
"Thai flooding impact on tech companies, suppliers: What tech manufacturers and suppliers say about the impact from heavy flooding in Thailand" Associated Press 11:31 AM
"How chips, PCs, services companies are faring: A look at how selected chip-makers, computer manufacturers and services providers are faring" Associated Press 11:31 AM
"A look at recent tech-industry earnings: What recent tech industry earnings reveal about the state of spending and the economy" Associated Press 11:30 AM
"U.S. Stocks Retreat as American Economy Grew Less Than Forecast in Quarter" Bloomberg 4:35 PM
"Disappointing GDP Data, Chevron Pressure Dow" FOXBusiness 10:27 AM
"Stocks Finish Mixed After GDP Data Disappoints" TheStreet 4:36 PM
"Dow slips to first losing week of 2012" Associated Press 4:36 PM
"Blue Chips Close Down 74 Points" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:36 PM
"Stocks: Investors unimpressed by U.S. growth" CNNMoney 9:30 AM
"Canada stocks rise marginally on RIM, gold miners" MarketWatch 11:29 AM
"Asian Stocks Edge Up on Commodities; Yen's Rise Hits Exporters" Bloomberg 11:12 AM
"Asia Markets: Sydney, Hong Kong stocks rise; Tokyo retreats" MarketWatch 9:39 AM
"European Stocks Extend Losses: Jittery European stock markets extended losses on Friday afternoon after U.S. growth data fell short of expectations." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:45 AM
"European Stocks Retreat as U.S. GDP Misses Estimates; BP Falls" Bloomberg 11:12 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks end week in red after U.S. GDP/Resources, banks drive downward direction" MarketWatch 11:26 AM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 4:34 PM
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