"Apple's Secret Plan For Its Cash Stash: A chunk of Tim Cook's $100 billion war chest is going toward outfitting factories in Asia that will be beholden to one customer: Apple." Forbes Magazine 9:55 AM
"Apple Stores Rake in Astounding Amounts of Cash" Minyanville 5:09 PM
"Apple, Google and others to face former employees' antitrust suit: The companies are accused of making agreements not to poach each other's employees" IDG News Service 8:00 AM
"Apple Vows to Build '100% Renewable Energy' Data Center" Wired Magazine 7:58 AM
"Apple, C. Ore. officials make data center tax deal" Associated Press 5:00 PM
"What Apple could gain from an iPad mini" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 5:27 PM
"Lawsuit against Apple for 'bait' apps moves forward" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 5:23 PM
"Motorola's patent enforcement against Apple will cost German taxpayers millions (of euros/dollars)" Foss Patents 8:58 AM
"Apple in Talks With IPad Trademark Challenger to Try and Settle Dispute" IDG News Service 8:09 AM
"Apple tries to rebrand 3G as 4G in new iPad palaver" Crave @ CNET 8:09 AM
"Apple wants to turn '3G' into '4G' to solve iPad 3 speed disputes" ZDNet 9:03 AM
"Apple on Australian 4G: You're Branding It Wrong" AllThingsD 9:03 AM
"Samsung Throws an Elbow at Apple on Walk to Negotiating Table" MacNewsWorld 9:06 AM
"Samsung Sues Apple Over Patents After Settlement Talks Ordered" Bloomberg 10:54 AM
"HTC battles Apple in London court" The Inquirer 8:01 AM
"Opinion: Apple, the iPhone, and the future of travel" Computerworld 8:08 AM
"Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: Battle for digital supremacy" Computerworld 8:00 AM
"Apple TV and the Trojan Horse Strategy" Tech.pinions 9:04 AM
"Apple to create 500 jobs at European headquarters in Cork" RTÉ News / Ireland 8:42 AM
"Apple announce 500 new jobs in Ireland" Reuters 8:46 AM
"Ebook price-fixing: Apple, publishers face class action in Montreal" Montral Gazette 5:10 PM
"Microsoft pulls Office 2011 SP2 from AutoUpdate: Following problems with identity database corruption after installing the latest update, Microsoft has pulled the update from its automatic update service." MacFixIt 7:32 PM
"Flashback infections down to 30,000" iTWire 7:51 AM
"Flashback Mac Infection Rates Underestimated" Intego 9:08 AM
"New report says Flashback infections remain high: Russian security firm contradicts Symantec, warns that infections of Mac OS are not declining." CNET News 7:15 PM
"Infected WordPress Blogs Blamed for Mac Flashback Trojan" Techworld 8:09 AM
"Apple Mac Attack Began With Infected WordPress Sites: Security researchers watch for a possible Flashback comeback by the botnet operators." Dark Reading 10:07 AM
"Apple's new iPad goes on sale in South Korea" AFP Relax News 8:44 AM
"iPhone Regional Carrier Rollout Hits Today" The Mac Observer 8:08 AM
"How Green Is Your iPad? [Infographic] Mashable 11:00 AM
"15 percent of TV viewing takes place on tablets, says Viacom" Digital Trends 5:12 PM
"Tim Cook Sighted at Valve? Might As Well Have Been Bigfoot Instead" Mac|Life 9:01 AM
"Valve: We never met with Apple, but we'd love to! Reports that Tim Cook visited the game designer were fabricated, but Valve wishes they were true" Macworld UK 8:44 AM
"Valve: 'No one here was meeting with Tim Cook'" ZDNet 9:03 AM
"Oh My Tech: Setting up the iPad for classrooms/iPad » Unfortunately, you can't restrict students from using iMessage on the iPad." Salt Lake Tribune 11:12 AM
"Using Empty Beer Bottles to Smuggle iPhone (Video)" M.I.C. Gadget 9:05 AM
"Instagram Has 'Jumped the Shark,' Says Top Apple Exec [Updated] Mashable 9:12 AM
"Apple's Phil Schiller ditched Instagram when it went Android: Says he liked Instagram when it was a small community of early adopters sharing their photographs, now there's too many people" Macworld UK 8:44 AM
"AT&T Watson vs. Apple Siri: Talkin' about a smackdown? AT&T handing over Watson speech recognition technology APIs, SDK to developers in June" Network World 11:04 AM
"Commemorative Steve Jobs issue wins award: The D&AD 2012 Yellow Pencil award was given to Bloomberg Businessweek for their issue 'Steve Jobs 1955-2011"." Macworld UK 8:44 AM
"Apple Stores Outperforming Other Retailers by a Factor of 17" The Mac Observer 12:06 PM
"Apple Highlights Potential For The 'iPhone At Work'" Apple Bitch 10:52 AM
"Channel bites Apple's hand off for any old iPads in Q1: Apple sales via independent distributors across Western Europe soared 42 per cent in Q1, figures from channel analyst Context reveal." Channel Register 11:27 AM
"Kick the iTunes habit and celebrate Record Store Day" CNET News 9:48 PM
"Best Buy employee accused of stealing 15 iPads" Tampa Bay Times 8:07 PM
"How Pomplamoose Got Lucky With Apple's iTunes" Forbes 10:51 AM
Non-Apple News
"Amazon adds '1-Click' software setup to its cloud" ZDNet UK 11:39 AM
"Facebook tweaks terms over censorship fears" ZDNet UK 11:38 AM
"Facebook enabling IPv6 on beta site next month" ZDNet 11:35 AM
"Amazon brings forward UK shipping date for Kindle Touch" V3 11:29 AM
"AT&T's AVP Of Technical Research Explains The New Watson Speech API" TechCrunch 11:20 AM
"VLSI confab brings technology, circuits to the fore" EE Times 11:07 AM
"Sony to Launch 5GB Online Photo Sharing Service Next Week" IDG News Service 11:01 AM
"Freescale's Q1 points to upswing, says CEO" EE Times 10:29 AM
"Mozilla smartphone to go on sale in 'late 2012''" BBC 10:13 AM
"Tomorrow's Privacy Struggles, On Display Today" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:58 AM
"Galaxy S III Reportedly Revealed In Vietnamese Hands-On Video" TechCrunch 11:19 AM
"Samsung readying iCloud competitor for May 3? That's the latest report out of Korea, where Maeil Business says the company will be unveiling its S-Cloud service in two weeks." CNET News 9:55 AM
"Nokia Plots Cheaper Lumia" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:35 AM
"SanDisk Drops After Sales Forecast Falls Short of Estimates" Bloomberg 10:15 AM
"Microsoft Invents Cool Two Sided Smartphone Display System" Patent Bolt 8:58 AM
"Unused e-waste discarded in China raises questions" BBC 8:00 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"The TouchArcade Show - 48 - Super Mario 2 Spoiler Alert" Touch Arcade 5:29 PM
"Ted Landau Talks AT&T Pricing, Game Center Stats Cheating and aNew Favorite App" MacNotables 3:19 PM
"Gene Steinberg meets Tonya Engst, from TidBITS, Avram Piltch from Laptop magazine, and Ian Schray from WellReadApps this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 3:14 PM
"Next iPhone said to get new touch panel tech: The so-called iPhone 5 could get 'in-cell touch panels,' making for a slimmer device." CNET News 8:09 AM
"Apple next-generation iPhone likely to adopt in-cell touch panels, say sources" DigiTimes 10:51 AM
"Apple's iPhone 5 Made of Metallic Glass and Arrives in October" Forbes 8:46 AM
"iPhone 5 release primed for October: 4G chipset shortage forcing Apple's hand?" Electricpig 9:02 AM
"Analyst: 'revolutionary, compelling' iPhone 5 out in October" Register Hardware 7:57 AM
"Latest iPhone rumors suggest October release, LiquidMetal case" Appolicious 8:44 AM
"Next iPhone may use Sharp, Toshiba in-cell touch technology" Electronista 9:03 AM
"How many Macs did Apple sell last quarter? Estimates range from 4.3 to 4.85 million. The best analysts' consensus: 4.64 million" Fortune 8:08 AM
"New iPad online wait time drops to just one week: Apple is now estimating five to seven business days before it'll ship a new iPad from its online store." CNET News 8:09 AM
"Apple further eases new iPad availability, orders now showing 5-7 day deliveries" The Next Web 8:45 AM
"Ivy Bridge Laptops Coming Soon, Are Laptops Crap?, Do Tablets Doom Laptops?, and More" Low End Mac 12:13 PM
"Flashback Malware on the Ropes, Ivy Bridge CPUs Coming Monday?, Dropbox 'Good Enough', and More" Low End Mac 8:55 PM
AppleCare/Helps
"A simple fix for when your iPhone won't charge" Macworld 9:01 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Panorama 360 Camera For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)" Apple Sliced 9:11 AM
"Joypad Elite -EOL (iPhone Controller For iPad Games) For iPhone Is Free Right Now (Previously $11.99)" Apple Sliced 9:11 AM
"Treasure Defense HD For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $1.99)" Apple Sliced 9:11 AM
"Hit for the fences with these games for your smartphone" CNET Reviews 9:48 PM
"Augmented Reality Toys for iPhone and iPad: A Work in Progress" Techland 11:27 AM
"SpellTower Will Become Your Next Word-Game Obsession – iPad Game Review" PadGadget 9:02 AM
"Fighter City Review: No-holds-barred street fighting hits the App Store, and it's fun!" 148Apps 5:06 PM
"Dark Sky Review: Dark Sky is a weather app that provides quick data on rain." 148Apps 12:55 PM
"CreaVures Review: CreaVures is a visual treat but falls short as a puzzle platformer." 148Apps 5:07 PM
"ILLUSIA 2 Review: GAMEVIL follows up one of their lesser-known titles, but has time (and a bit more effort) allowed the sequel to surpass the original? Not exactly, no." 148Apps 5:07 PM
"MacGuffin's Curse Review: Lucas MacGuffin messes up a robbery and in the process receives a nasty curse!" 148Apps 9:08 AM
Tips
"Report Text Message Spam to AT&T" TidBITS 12:53 PM
"MacMost Now 699: Ten iPad Typing Tips" MacMost 7:52 AM
"Apple's Phil Schiller: Instagram Snob" Techland 9:07 AM
"Can Apple dominate the digital movie/TV market?" MacNews 9:05 AM
"The Fallacies of How to Compete with the iPad" Tech.pinions 9:04 AM
"Why It Doesn't Matter If Steve Jobs Said He Hated The Idea Of A Small iPad" Business Insider 9:01 AM
"Was Siri on the iPhone hacked? Talk show host Rush Limbaugh described a technical problem with his iPhone and Apple's Siri voice assistant, encountered on his drive to work that morning." Network World 8:45 AM
"Would Jobs have been upset if Oracle had bought RIM? Jobs' friend Larry Ellison has admitted that Oracle had considered buying Research In Motion,as well as Palm, as a way to break into the smart phone market." CIO Canada 8:44 AM
"The Law Of Big Numbers Looms. Is Apple Ready For A Crash?" PixoBebo 7:50 AM
Non-Apple
"Would you pay for a shared data plan?" CNET News 11:48 AM
"Western Digital refreshes VelociRaptor hard drive line, but can it compete against SSDs?" ZDNet 11:36 AM
"The Nokia Phones You Loved ... and Hated" WSJ Blogs 11:30 AM
"Video: The Most Insanely Important, Mind-Blowing Tech News of the Week" Techland 11:26 AM
"What kind of LOSER sits in front of a PC..." Register Hardware 11:25 AM
"Can advanced technologies really help curb highway congestion?" Network World 11:02 AM
"Are zombies sucking the life out of your data center?" InfoWorld 10:42 AM
"The BYOD era may be ending already" InfoWorld 10:42 AM
"The most mortifying moments in IT security history: From Lockheed Martin and HBGary Federal to the U.S. government and Cornell University, no one is immune to humiliating security glitches" [Slideshow] Network World 10:41 AM
"Share of Canadians who want a BlackBerry slips dramatically in survey" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 10:39 AM
"Diablo 3 Beta Open to Everyone This Weekend Only" Forbes 10:35 AM
"Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: Battle for digital supremacy" Computerworld 10:23 AM
"Samsung Outsold Apple In Smartphones In Q1, Analyst Says" Forbes 9:50 AM
"A Devastating Blow in the 3-D Printing War?" [Video Report] The Motley Fool 9:44 AM
"Why men like social-media site Pinterest" MarketWatch 9:36 AM
"Surprise! Walmart's Cloud Movie Service Is Pretty Good!" AllThingsD 9:36 AM
"Law Must Be With Google in Java Dispute" TheStreet 9:30 AM
"The day my mind became open sourced" opensource 9:58 AM
Humor/Cartoons
"Apple and Samsung meet to mediate." The Joy of Tech [cartoon] 7:51 AM
"Oracle, Google Struggle To Explain APIs To Jury: Day four of Oracle's copyright and patent lawsuit against Google's Android OS brings a lesson in API design and programming that even the judge declares 'confusing.'" InformationWeek 10:02 AM
"Oracle and Google find common denominator for telling jury about use of Java APIs in Android" Foss Patents 9:30 AM
"Android, Java, and the tech behind Oracle v. Google (FAQ)" CNET News 9:56 AM
"Google's defence against Oracle in pictures" ZDNet UK 11:38 AM
"Three things are clear in Oracle vs. Google/Three things are clear about Oracle's Java patent infringement suit against Google's Android: It will likely drag on for years, it poses a great but remote risk to Android and Java developers and it will make for lots of fascinating reading." EE Times 10:29 AM
"No sign of Sun in Oracle conference rooms: Oracle's plan to dump unique room names at former Sun campus draws ire of current and former employees" InfoWorld 10:42 AM
"Feds Banish Oracle From Popular Contract Vehicle: Federal government cancels Oracle's services contract on the General Services Administration's IT Schedule 70. Feds spent $388 million on Oracle products and services through Schedule 70 in fiscal 2011." InformationWeek 9:47 PM
"IBM speeds push for 500-mile EV battery: Big Blue signs on partners for its Battery 500 Project to design an 'air-breathing' lithium air battery that would create a leap in energy density." CNET News 9:54 AM
"IBM electric vehicle battery project adds two materials partners" ZDNet 11:36 AM
"HP: Printed images can 'come alive' with Autonomy tech" ZDNet UK 11:39 AM
"HP: Fewer security vulnerabilities reported, but risk escalating" ZDNet 11:36 AM
"Intel supports China-based makers to promote ultrabooks" DigiTimes 10:28 AM
"Why Intel Cove Point Ultrabook Is No iPad Killer" BYTE 11:51 AM
"Chambers: 90% of Acquisitions in Hi-Tech Fail" [Video Report] Bloomberg 9:43 AM
"Cisco Outlines Insieme Software Networking Venture" eWeek 10:31 AM
"Security, privacy ideas emerge at Demo conference: Amid the companies presenting are startups doing two-factor authentication, Facebook profile-cleaning, and clearer terms of service" IDG News Service 10:42 AM
"New process promises cheap, flexible electronics: Televisions as thin and flexible as a sheet of paper could be on the way, thanks to a new technique for printing electronics." TG Daily 11:21 AM
"IT Administrators Experience High Stress Levels" eWeek 10:31 AM
"Apple Keeps Rolling Downhill: Apple Inc. shares continued their descent, extending a decline from an April 10 intraday peak to more than 10%." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:15 PM
"Selling Off Before Earnings Nothing New For Apple" Forbes 6:14 PM
"Stock Market and Investing: Apple Down 10% From All-Time High, Enters Correction Territory" CNBC 5:29 PM
"Apple Weighing on the Nasdaq" [Video Report] CNBC 5:21 PM
"Time to Cut Back on Apple?" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5:20 PM
"Apple's Stock: Greed, Fear, and Fundamentals" Forbes 5:19 PM
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