"Analysis: Competitors Size up Apple's iBooks Author" The Mac Observer 2/10
"Mac and iOS Browsers: Options Galore" Low End Mac 2/10
"Apple OSX Lion & Microsoft Exchange: The End of Fanboy Days" ["I still carry my MacBook Air. For me, it is still the ultimate computer in the galaxy. I don't mind having the crippled Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 running on this computer because I don't do any administrative functions with it. But, if I didn't have an executive admin and an administrative assistant who keep my calendar, I would have to choose between crippled Outlook functions or non-functional appointment compatibility in iCal. Two unacceptable options."] Shelly Palmer 2/10
Press Releases
"Fun Game: A Dark Castle, A Wolf, A Ghost and You" Cult of Mac 4:49 PM
"Newly DVD to QuickTime Converter for Mac Released By E-PDF" prMac 7:49 AM
"WhatRoute gets new icon, loses legacy image" FairerPlatform 2/10
"Tension Software announces it's first sandboxed app, NoteList 3.0 to stores data in a free format" Tension Software 2/10
"Google releases Chrome 18 Beta -- get it now!" BetaNews 2/10
"Family Vacation: California Available From MGS" Inside Mac Games 2/10
"Empire: Total War Gold Edition coming to Mac" MacNN 2/10
"Newly MXF File To FLV Converter for Mac Released By iLifesoft" prMac 2/10
"Text Cleaner 3.5 Now Shipping - for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" prMac 2/10
"MacXDVD Software Upgraded Product Lines for the Upcoming iPad 3" prMac 2/10
"PixelEspresso releases BadPlastic 1.0 for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" prMac 2/10
"Book Palette: First Templates for iBooks Author on the Mac App Store" prMac 2/10
"XEffects Tech Transitions Released Exclusively for FCP X" prMac 2/10
"A New Way to Organize your Photos with Photo Transformer" prMac 2/10
"US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration drops BlackBerry for iPhone" The Verge 7:22 AM
"U.S. Air Force planning to purchase up to 18,000 iPads" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 2/10
"Google guns for Apple TV: Google is working on an in-home entertainment gadget able to stream content from the internet - or, at least, it's testing such a device in employees' homes." Register Hardware 2/10
"Apple vs. Google: The Stakes Are Rising/Google Inc. is developing a home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company's own brand, according to people briefed on the company's plans." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2/10
"63% of iPhones were activated outside the U.S. last quarter: And that percentage is likely to increase sharply now that China has the iPhone 4S" Fortune 2/10
"Sprint bondholders like iPhone strategy" Bloomberg News 2/10
"Sprint's iPhone Sales Connect With New Customers" WSJ Blogs 2/10
"Apple Manufacturer Foxconn Hit By Hacktivists" InformationWeek 2/10
"USA Today's internal app Stats show Amazon's Kindle Fire trouncing other Android tablets" GeekWire 2/10
"Apple Posts a Pair of New iPhone 4S Commercials: 'Road Trip' and 'Rock God'" Mac|Life 2/10
"Apple Highlights Siri in Two New iPhone 4S Ads" The Mac Observer 2/10
"Apple founder Steve Jobs 'took drugs and abandoned his family" Telegraph 2/10
"Steve Jobs file reveals frank assessments" CBS News 2/10
"Steve Jobs did serve in the first Bush Administration" 9 to 5 Mac 2/10
"BlackBerry out at U.S. climate agency, iPhone in" Reuters 2/10
"Apple's new Siri ad: Remind me to do WHAT again? Would that the iPhone's intelligent assistant were as smart as the latest TV ad suggests" Fortune 2/10
"Watch: Apple Wants To Convince You That Siri's Not A Silly Gimmick" Business Insider 2/10
"Ngmoco Suffers Staff Lay-Offs As Development Of iOS Title Is Cancelled" RazorianFly 2/10
"Like the Apple Store Nearby, but This One Has Windows" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2/10
"Quick Cuts: Video Showcases Almost Every Apple Product in 30 Seconds" Techland 2/10
"South African President, Jacob Zuma, Prepares Nation Address On iPad – [Photo] RazorianFly 2/10
Non-Apple News
"The Hidden Tax on Every Smartphone and Tablet You Buy" Yahoo! News 2/10
"Amazon readying 9-inch Kindle Fire for 2012, analyst predicts" CNET News 2/10
"IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop" [Video Report] The Register 2/10
"Logitech Touch Mouse M600 has no buttons" TG Daily 2/10
"Tech! Tech! Teeeeech! Women want gadgets for Valentine's" Register Hardware 2/10
"Hackers target lonely hearts with Valentine's spam and phishing scams" PCWorld 2/10
"Murtazin: The Samsung Galaxy S II Will See Ice Cream Sandwich On March 1" TechCrunch 2/10
"275 PSP games will be downloadable on Vita" TG Daily 2/10
"Hirai outlines vision for leaner Sony" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 2/10
"Sony Incoming CEO Hirai Vows to Take Painful Decisions to Cut Fixed Costs" Bloomberg 2/10
"Cars That Can Tweet Are Hitting the Road: WSJ's Joe White has details of new technologies being piled into vehicles, everything from 17-inch dashboard screens to abilities to check Facebook and purchase movie tickets." [Video Report] MarketWatch 2/10
"Alcatel to Rearrange Work Force, Including Bringing Back Outsourced Jobs" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2/10
"Google Paid Out Over $700K For Security Flaw Detections" eWeek 2/10
"Google Is Testing Wireless Entertainment Device, Filing Shows" Bloomberg 2/10
Publications/Podcasts
"The Talk Show #78: Wow, is that a Pen? John Gruber and Dan Benjamin talk about the rumors of iPad 3, Windows 8 on ARM, LTE hardware, and Google Drive, about the Super Bowl ad Apple didn't run, the Samsung stylus, and Path doing the wrong thing the wrong way." 5by5 2/10
"Engadget Podcast 280 - 02.10.2012" ["00:34:21 - Apple announcing iPad 3 first week of March? Anonymous sources think so"] Engadget 2/10
"Gene Steinberg meets commentator Kirk McElhearn, the NDP Group's Stephen Baker, and Laptop magazine's Avram Piltch this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 2/10
"iPad 3 rumors, iTunes Match royalties, universal apps, plus more! (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 2/10
"Writing Kit Review: Writing Kit is a text editor that focuses on writing and editing text in markdown format." 148Apps 2/10
"Doodlecast Pro Review: A simple recording tool with endless possibilities." 148Apps 2/10
"Remarks Review: Remarks has the raw ingredients of a great app, but lacks some basic features." 148Apps 2/10
"Apps for Cartoon-like Output on the iPhone: Cartoonatic, Cartoon the World and ToonCamera" eXtensions 2/10
"Irreverence as Art: Art Jam Paintings Free" eXtensions 2/10
"'End Night HD' iPad Review - An Ambitious and Horrifying Shooter" Touch Arcade 2/10
"iOS App Review: Football kicking games" Macworld 2/10
"Game Your Video Review: Video editing app offers easy-to-apply special effects and more" Macworld 2/10
"Lol-a-Coaster Review: Ride the rails in a roller coaster powered by sweets, but be sure to avoid any obstacles or the outrageous ride will get cut short." 148Apps 2/10
"Protoxide: Death Race Review/Battle and race futuristic craft in an alternate world" 148Apps 2/10
"Jigsaw Mansion 2 Review: Jigsaw Mansion 2 is bound to make plenty of puzzle fans (as in puzzle-puzzles) happy, so long as they don't mind having their hand held all the time." 148Apps 2/10
"Caylus Review: Caylus has all the trappings of a deep iOS board game, assuming complexity isn't a problem." 148Apps 2/10
"Rip-off Report: AT&T doubling its device upgrade fee" iDownload Blog 2/10
"Why iPad Textbooks Are Still Too Expensive for Schools [Infographic] Mashable 2/10
"9 Powerful Business Uses For Tablet Computers: From the warehouse to the sales floor, see how companies creatively use iPads and other tablets to save time and money, sell more, and delight customers. Tablets may even find a home on garbage trucks." [Slideshow] InformationWeek 2/10
"The 'Apple Should Be Worried If Anyone Else Has Any Success Whatsoever' School of Thought" Daring Fireball 2/10
"Before We Extinguish Flash, Let's Get HTML5 Right: Clearly, HTML5's star is rising. But declaring that Flash should be retired in favour of HTML5 is a bit like saying that everyone should adopt electric cars. Because although we can all agree it's a good idea conceptually, the infrastructure is just not there yet, particularly for online advertising." figaro|digital 2/10
"Four Reasons Why Google Won't Be Able To Compete With Apple" Forbes 2/10
"White MacBook, It Was Good Living With You" AllThingsD 2/10
"iPad 3: Everything we (might) know" DigitalTrends 2/10
"Enterprise Mobility: iPad 3: 10 Design Ideas Apple Should Borrow" [Slideshow] eWeek 2/10
"MacBook Air with Windows 7 review: the ultrabook to rule them all? Does putting Windows 7 on the MacBook Air make it the best ultrabook?" The Verge 2/10
"The Macalope Daily: ZDNuts" Macworld [Insider Content] 2/10
"China syndrome redux: Why it really is about Apple" iMore 2/10
"'These working conditions are appalling, especially for Apple'" The Register 2/10
"Why Does Apple's Manufacturing Bother Us So Much?" Forbes 2/10
"Apple Wins Skirmish With Motorola on the German Front" AllThingsD 2/10
"Apple Scores a Win in Motorola Patent Fight" The Mac Observer 2/10
"Motorola v. Apple 3G patent suit tossed by German court" GigaOM 2/10
"Ways An 'ITV' Could Stand Out From The Competition" MacNews 2/10
"Amazon gets creative with focus on original Video content" AppleInsider 7:02 AM
"Best Android alternatives to iPod Touch" CNET News 2/10
"Tips for keeping your browsing private" [Video Report] CNET News 2/10
"Top 10 Valentine's Day technology matches made in heaven" V3 2/10
"Verizon's Latest LTE Smartphone Leaked: Is This The HTC Incredible 3?" TechCrunch 2/10
"Is This Living Room Big Enough for My TV?" New York Times 2/10
"RIM Blackberry 7.1 and Playbook OS 2.0 video demo" V3 2/10
"Coming soon from BlackBerry: 5 things to look forward to" CIO 2/10
"Cray courts the big data market: But do we still need supercomputers when we have Hadoop?" IDG News Service 2/10
"Google: Will it be vulnerable in mobile search?" ZDNet 2/10
"Trying to Be Optimistic About a Google Music-Streaming System" Techland 2/10
"After Motorola Deal Approval, Can Google Hardware Be Far Behind?" Time 2/10
"Google pushes your buttons in its top strip bar - AGAIN: Google has once again rejigged its user account navigation bar, making it ever more slavish to the company's strange devotion to all things social within its silo." The Register 2/10
"Google 'Drive' Could Step on Cloud Partners' Toes" PCWorld 2/10
"Chrome on Android: The InfoWorld tour" [Slideshow] InfoWorld 2/10
"Thanks to the cloud, integration is back -- with a twist" InfoWorld 2/10
"FAQ: WOA vs. x86, which Windows tablet to pick? Which Windows tablet makes sense -- the upcoming ARM-based devices that might include Office apps for free or x86-based Windows 8 tablets? Matt Hamblen walks you through some of the pros and cons." Computerworld New Zealand 4:49 PM
"Windows 8 on ARM won't support Adobe Flash, to focus on apps" Pop Herald 9:35 PM
"New Xbox may use a touch screen controller" The News Tribe 7:47 AM
"Microsoft Xbox Live User Accounts Fall Victim To Hackers" ITProPortal 7:57 AM
"Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8: some secrets and impacts" Northern Voices Online 7:57 AM
"Opinion: Will Windows on ARM challenge the iPad where Android has failed?" DigitalTrends 2:54 PM
"FAQ: WOA vs. x86, which Windows tablet to pick? Much depends on how 'free' Office apps will be on ARM-based tablets" PC Advisor 11:42 AM
"Microsoft delivers E-Textbooks via the Cloud in Ireland" Good E-Reader 7:57 AM
"State drops Intel suit: Case against chip maker, begun while Cuomo was AG, had become awkward politically" Albany Times-Union 7:39 AM
"Intel Settles '09 NY Antitrust Case for Only 5 Hours Worth of its Yearly Profit: Jason Mick (Blog) - February 11, 2012 6:50 PM" DailyTech 9:37 PM
"How To Tell If IBM Is Hiding Weakness" The Motley Fool 9:38 PM
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