"Creating jobs through innovation. Throughout our history, Apple has created entirely new products — and entirely new industries — by focusing on innovation. As a result, we've created or supported more than 500,000 jobs for U.S. workers: from the engineer who helped invent the iPad to the delivery person who brings it to your door." Apple 12:54 PM
"Apple Claims Credit for 514,000 U.S. Jobs" AllThingsD 12:52 PM
"Apple Touts Its US Job Creation: Apple Inc. released a study Friday saying that the ecosystem associated with its devices has created 514,000 U.S. jobs, in the wake of criticism about the company's manufacturing and supply chains." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1:34 PM
"Putting Apple Into Perspective: Apple—darling of retail investors and hedge funds alike —has been creating buzz in the market for years as it continues its meteoric rise as its market capitalization moved above the $500 billion mark in February." [Slideshow] CNBC 3:51 PM
"Apple, Amid China Criticism, Boasts of U.S. Job Creation" TheStreet 3:11 PM
"Mannheim court throws out third Samsung 3G lawsuit against Apple and one of two slide-to-unlock lawsuits against Samsung" Foss Patents 8:08 AM
"German Court Dismisses Samsung, Apple Patent Suits: A German court on Friday dismissed patent suits brought by Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. against each other, the latest twist in the battle for supremacy in the rapidly growing and highly lucrative smartphone arena." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:52 AM
"German court dismisses 2 Apple-Samsung patent suits" Reuters 8:35 AM
"Apple and Samsung patent cases dismissed: Apple and Samsung have both had patent lawsuits - taken out against each other - thrown out by a German court." BBC 9:31 AM
"Apple wins an injunction against Motorola in German court" IDG News Service 8:34 AM
"Finally! Judge tosses two Apple-Samsung patent cases" CNET News 9:01 AM
"Apple wins Motorola injunction over gallery scrolling" ZDNet UK 12:32 PM
"Politics on Apple's side as it faces trademark dispute in China: Apple's iPad could be banned in China if the company loses a high stakes appeal in Chinese court" IDG News Service 8:04 AM
"Now Apple opens fire on EPAD trademark in China: Apple has filed an official complaint over an application for the EPAD trademark by Guangzhou-based computer kit maker ebox." The Register 12:27 PM
"Euro Company Sues Apple Over 3GPP Standards using 8 Nokia Patents" Patently Apple 10:07 AM
"Confidence in Apple's Cash Management" Forbes 8:10 AM
"Apple's tough talk backfires in negotiations for new streaming TV service" VentureBeat 8:36 AM
"Apple to launch TV streaming service by Xmas" Register Hardware 10:16 AM
"Apple vs. Microsoft: War at the store/One generates lines around the block with every product launch. The other one wants to. A by-the-numbers comparison reveals their differences." Fortune 9:45 AM
"Reading the tea leaves on app sandboxing in OS X" GigaOM 4:17 PM
"Can You Hear the Difference Between Lossless and Lossy Audio?" Techland 12:25 PM
"Dear Safari Team....: Safari used to be a great browser for my work at MacSurfer. Once upon a time I was able to have a page open, hop up to my bookmark bar, click on a folder, run the mouse over to the contents of that folder, hold down the Apple/Splat key and click 'Open In Tabs' and those bookmarks would open in new tabs without replacing the existing tab(s) I had open." Thoughts and Ramblings 11:44 AM
"Lion discussion has some interesting notes about how DNS server choices can create performance problems via misinterpretation by download applications; plus notes on Bluetooth/Magic Mouse problems and some explanation about 'EXC_BAD_ACCESS' errors." MacInTouch 10:52 AM
"Microsoft 9, Apple 1: Apple Wins!" MacSponge 12:24 PM
"The 9 Flavors Of Windows 8 Show The Key Difference Between Microsoft And Apple" TechCrunch 9:01 AM
"OS Showdown: Will 8 Be Great? Will Mountain Lion Roar?" MacNewsWorld 8:20 AM
"We have a lot to thank Bill Atkinson for." Mac Floppy 8:10 AM
"Air Force Gives $9 Million Award for as Many as 18,000 IPads" Bloomberg 2:42 PM
"U.S. Air Force to spend $9M on iPads for flight manual reboot" CNET News 4:13 PM
"Air Force Buys 18,000 iPads for Air Mobility Command" The Mac Observer 4:01 PM
"Apple again tops Fortune's list of most admired companies" CNET News 9:03 AM
"City beginning to go paperless: If you attend a Vancouver City Council or a City manager meeting, you are likely to see iPads at the desk in lieu of stacks of papers" City of Vancouver: Washington, USA 8:19 AM
"Switching to iPads saves Vancouver $336 per device per year on data, decreases printing by 40 percent" The Verge 2:26 PM
"Switching to iPads saves Vancouver City Council 50K pages a year" AppleInsider 8:19 AM
"Virgin prepares to leave: the Champs Elysees" ["This is simply one of the best commercial brands of Paris. Apple would be in the running, but other signs, without declaring themselves, dream of settling there."] Google French-to-English: Le Figaro 11:49 AM
"Apple could move into Champs-élysées Virgin Megastore" MacNN 11:49 AM
"Apple: We never said Siri would actually work in the UK/Ad watchdog says punter's expectations too high" The Register 8:36 AM
"Apple complaint quashed over 'misleading' Siri advert" ZDNet 12:25 PM
"Nearly one-third of mobile users expected to buy iPad 3: Report" ZDNet 12:25 PM
"For Robot Maker, the Future Is Getting Closer" ["Now Mr. Angle's company is trying to do Rosey one better — with Ava, a 5-foot-4 assistant with an iPad or an Android tablet for a brain and Xbox motion sensors to help her get around. But no apron, so far."] New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:12 PM
"Startup sued for sending local TV to the iPhone" Associated Press 9:44 AM
"Smartphone text autocorrect locks down school" Tech.Blorge 4:15 PM
"When will tablets outsell traditional PCs?" asymco 8:17 AM
"Apple speeding toward 25 billion app downloads: Guesses vary but milestone could be met as soon as tonight" Network World 11:45 AM
"Snubbed by Apple, China's Renren becomes the first social network app for Windows 8" The Next Web 8:36 AM
"Charges pare back Apple supplier Laird: More than £130m of exceptional charges have widened the full-year pre-tax loss at Laird, in spite of strong demand for tablets and smartphones driving up revenues at the British electrical components provider." Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:57 AM
"AT&T Clarifies 'Unlimited' Data Plans in New Policy" The Mac Observer 9:34 PM
"AT&T Throttles Unlimited Plan Users at 3 GB" TidBITS 4:15 PM
"Google TV hasn't even hit a million users" TG Daily 12:03 PM
"Disabled Google Apps Account Deletion Mechanism Affecting Admins, Users" IDG News Service 11:20 AM
"Google responds to reader questions about privacy changes" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 11:09 AM
"Nokia To Issue Lumia 800 Battery Fix: Patch also addresses problems with backlighting, diagnostics, and camera." InformationWeek 11:00 AM
"Brogrammers Bring Frat-House Ethos to Engineers' Geeky Coding World" Bloomberg 10:39 AM
"New potato-spotting AI built with off-the-shelf tech" BBC 10:37 AM
"Magnificent Men Of Mobile World Congress: Booth babe pictures are so 2011. So we give you the men of Mobile World Congress, in all their geeked-out glory." InformationWeek 10:20 AM
"Mobile-Phone Leaders Boost Battered Barcelona" Bloomberg 10:06 AM
"AT&T Adds Speed Caps for Heavy Data Users" Bloomberg 10:38 AM
"Retailers Join Payment Chase/Two Words: Digital Wallet—Wal-Mart and Target Join Project Aiming to Make Plastic Obsolete" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:39 AM
"Shutterfly to Buy Kodak's Online Photo Service" The Mac Observer 10:04 AM
"Google Introduces New Camera Motion & Timing Gesturing for Android" Patently Apple 7:51 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"ATPM 18.03 / March 2012: Volume 18, Number 3" ATPM 8:12 PM
"Gene Steinberg meets Neil Ticktin of MacTech magazine, Greg Bell of 'Radio Classics,' and Macworld's Dan Frakes this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 11:45 AM
"iPad 3, Apple TV, Mastered for iTunes and high quality music (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 8:55 AM
"Performance Comparison: All Apple May, 2011 iMacs and July, 2011, Mac Mini Server 2.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7" MacReviewZone 8:13 PM
"Practical Mac: Take mobile control of your sound system/Although the $399 Sonos Play:5 sound system offers a $349 remote, the company's free iOS app makes your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch your remote." Seattle Times 2:26 PM
"Timbuk2 Crater case: A little air for your Air" CNET News 4:13 PM
"Coming Soon To Mac Pro? The Radeon HD 7970 versus existing GPUs" Bare Feats 10:03 AM
"Belkin Power Pack 4000: Make sure you never run out of juice in the middle of nowhere again." Register Hardware 8:36 AM
"PlayStation Vita (vs iPad) review/With Apple ruling the mobile gaming market, we take a comparative look at what Sony's response is: the PlayStation Vita" Macworld UK 9:30 AM
"Review: Skech Custom Jacket Flip for iPhone 4/4s" Run Around Tech 3:28 PM
"Sena's Folio IPad Case Is A Classic" MacNews 8:56 AM
"Trello review: A to-do list program for teams, Trello makes project management really easy" Macworld UK 8:22 AM
"About.me review: Home pages are all about social networks, friends and following, now it's about.me" Macworld UK 8:22 AM
"Why the iPad 3 Won't Replace Your Laptop: Will the new tablet smack down lightweight laptops, or is it Apple versus oranges? Our lead analyst for laptops delivers his totally unbiased opinion." PC Magazine 11:21 AM
"67 Books Every Geek Should Read to Their Kids Before Age 10" Wired 12:25 PM
"Android and iPhone Photo Snooping: What You Need to Know" Techland 12:11 PM
"Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet: The formal fondeslab" Register Hardware 12:07 PM
"As Brizzly Enters Its Final Hibernation, AOL Tries To Sharpen Its Social Media Claws" TechCrunch 12:00 PM
"Android Apps And Your Photos/Warning: Google Found Another Way To Invade Your Privacy" AskMen 3:53 PM
"The end of online privacy?" The Guardian 11:54 AM
"Notable quotes from RSA 2012" Network World 11:22 AM
"8 Ways Tech Could Throw You in Jail, Or Worse" PC Magazine 11:17 AM
"AT&T's app developer billing scheme: Will app makers buy in?" Network World 11:05 AM
"Redefining cloud computing -- again: Hype, misuse, and misplaced aspirations have clouded the term's definition. Here's what it's really about" InfoWorld 11:04 AM
"The bright future of LibreOffice" InfoWorld 11:04 AM
"Hands-on: Dell's XPS 13, a next-gen ultrabook/Dell's new XPS 13 ultrabook offers a great balance of style and performance at a reasonable price." Computerworld 10:48 AM
"Can 'Mass Effect 3' appeal to fans and new players?" CNN 10:45 AM
"Mobile World Congress 2012: four companies that stood out" ZDNet 12:24 PM
"Mobile World Congress 2012 roundup: All you need to know from Barcelona" Computerworld Blogs 10:48 AM
"Did cheap mobiles steal show over sexy gadgets?" CNN 10:44 AM
"Galaxy Note a gigantic 'phablet,' but l love it anyway" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 11:00 AM
"Hipstreet Introduces New iPhone Projector to Boost Users' Entertainment and Business Options" PRWeb 11:58 AM
"The top 25 iPhone and iPad apps for business: Here are 25 go-to iOS apps for business users, from travel planning to document editing using Microsoft Office tools to time tracking to getting a good night's sleep" [Slideshow] CIO 11:03 AM
"Barry Diller app sued for showing TV broadcasts on iPhone" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 9:31 AM
"'Monty Python: The Holy Book of Days' coming to iPad" AppleTell 9:30 AM
"Turn Your iDevice Into A Mobile Security System With Smartcam+" iClarified 9:30 AM
"Reflection For Mac Brings AirPlay Mirroring From iOS To Mac" Run Around Tech 9:30 AM
"Apple vs. Microsoft: War at the store" Fortune 10:06 AM
"The 9 Flavors Of Windows 8 Show The Key Difference Between Microsoft And Apple" TechCrunch 11:59 AM
"Windows 8: Sugar coating on Microsoft's hard-to-swallow tablet/Refreshing, delightful, puzzling, awkward, annoying" The Register 12:09 PM
"Windows 8 Consumer Preview: A Power User's Perspective" Techland 12:10 PM
"Shortcuts and surprises in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview" ZDNet 12:23 PM
"Windows 8 Beta: How To Boost Performance/Features like Secure Boot, Hyper-V virtualization, and touch-screen computing need the right combination of hardware, software, and settings to work as advertised." InformationWeek 10:20 AM
"Windows Server 8 Beta: 10 Big Feature Boosts/Microsoft has tweaked and tuned up Windows Server 8 since the Developer's Preview. Here are the biggest updates in the latest version." PC Magazine 11:17 AM
"Microsoft wooing startups with free software, business advice" IDG News Service 11:06 AM
"Microsoft to offer government-only cloud option for Office 365" IDG News Service 11:06 AM
"Rumor: Xbox 720 may have Windows 8 interface" TG Daily 12:03 PM
"ITC to review initial determination on Microsoft's complaint against Motorola Mobility" Foss Patents 7:20 PM
"ITC denies Barnes & Noble retry of Microsoft antitrust claim" Electronista 7:20 PM
"4 ways consumerization threatens Dell and HP: You'd think the employee-driven tech trend would be good for the PC makers. But it ain't necessarily so" InfoWorld 11:03 AM
"HP: Beware Long and Winding Road, Says Gimme Credit" Barron's 12:37 PM
"RSA: HP encourages firms to eschew new security tools" V3 12:13 PM
"IBM Dominated Worldwide Server Market in Q4 2011" eWeek 10:54 AM
"IBM Vs. Oracle: The Tortoise and the Hare" The Motley Fool 3:59 PM
"Judge Hints at Stay of Oracle-Google Trial Until Patent Reexamination Is Over" IDG News Service 11:20 AM
"Spinnaker expands Oracle support services, aims at Rimini Street" IDG News Service 10:47 AM
"Will AMD's Big Deal Pay Off? Patience, Young Grasshopper!" The Motley Fool 10:01 AM
"AMD's acquisition of SeaMicro puts Intel on the defensive: Intel says it is building its own fabric and I/O technology for servers" Computerworld 4:43 PM
"RSA: Intel pitches Sandy Bridge for networking" V3 12:13 PM
"Networks Offer Best Security for BYOD, Consumerization of IT: Cisco" eWeek 10:54 AM
"Republicans introduce new cyber security bill" Reuters 11:52 AM
"F.C.C. Reviews Need for Rules to Interrupt Wireless Service" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12:46 PM
"PHP 5.4 Aspires to Elegance: PHP, one of the most widely used languages for building websites, has been updated with a number of improvements to ease development and speed performance." IDG News Service 11:20 AM
"Twisting radio waves could boost capacity" TG Daily 12:02 PM
"'Twisted' waves could boost capacity of wi-fi and TV" BBC 10:37 AM
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