"Apple Announces Changes to Increase Collaboration Across Hardware, Software & Services: Jony Ive, Bob Mansfield, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi Add Responsibilities to Their Roles" ["Apple also announced that Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple next year and will serve as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook in the interim. ... Additionally, John Browett is leaving Apple. A search for a new head of Retail is underway and in the interim, the Retail team will report directly to Tim Cook."] Apple 4:16 PM
"Inside Apple's major shakeup: What is really behind the biggest management shakeup at Apple since the Steve Jobs putsch that eliminated Gil Amelio in 1997?" Fortune 6:29 PM
"Apple's Forstall leaving in shake-up: Federighi will take over iOS leadership; retail head Browett out" MarketWatch 6:28 PM
"In Shake-Up, Apple's Mobile Software and Retail Chiefs to Depart" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:01 PM
"Apple boss Tim Cook shows ruthless streak in firing senior staff: John Browett's departure will come as a relief to many Apple staff in their retail stores who hated the ideas the former Dixons boss tried to introduce, says Charles Arthur" The Guardian 9:12 PM
"Apple software, retail chiefs out in overhaul" Reuters 8:01 PM
"Apple ousts Scott Forstall, executive in charge of Maps and Siri" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 6:28 PM
"Apple shakes up senior ranks" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 6:52 PM
"How America Won the Tablet Wars" ["The story is centered on Apple, whose new CEO, Tim Cook, failed with his 'new iPad' launch in March. ... Cook did two things to bring the value back: 1. He found a new source for the bright 'Retina' screen ... 2. Apple engineers also perfected a new assembly technique, borrowed from aerospace, enabling flat screens to be crisply attached to a flat bank of chips"] TheStreet 7:31 AM
"As Google And Amazon Fight Up, Apple Refuses To Fight Down" TechCrunch 7:53 AM
"Apple ran out of iPad minis -- all models -- in three days" Fortune 7:41 AM
"The iPhone and Apple's Margins" ["The iPhone is a profit monster, but when it launches there are many costs associated with it: components tend to be more expensive, there are more warranty returns, there are higher shipping costs are units are shipped in smaller lots to more points of sale."] asymco 8:02 AM
"Office Will Determine Whether Microsoft Can Beat Apple: Earlier this year, I returned to Apple's Mac after too many years as a Windows guy. Then a strange thing happened. There was a technical problem with the download. While waiting to hear back from customer service, I used Apple's Pages word processing program." ["My solid experience with Pages prompted me to get a refund on my Office order."] TheStreet 8:18 AM
"Pride: Apple's biggest weakness gives Amazon Kindle easy fire in the iPad mini war" Computerworld 8:47 AM
"Apple stores batten down their hatches for Sandy: Like many East Coast retailers, both tech and non-tech, Apple is bracing for the 'storm of the century' by closing protecting its stores." CNET News 8:47 AM
"East Coast Stores Prepare for Hurricane Sandy" ["At least 35 stores are within the landfall prediction zone defined by the National Weather Service, and another 15 stores are just outside the zone, particularly New York City and the region north."] ifoAppleStore 9:41 AM
"Hurricane Sandy: Apple closes up to 50 stores, Google cancels Nexus media event, crisis maps" iDownload Blog 10:42 AM
"New Shenzhen Apple Store To Open This Saturday!" M.I.C. Gadget 7:39 AM
"Apple to open retail store in Shenzhen, China on November 3rd" The Next Web 7:30 AM
"Apple to open yet another retail store in China: The company's store will open at 9 a.m. local time on Saturday in the Nanshan district of Shenzhen." CNET News 9:56 AM
"Manage errant mice in OS X: Though rare, sometimes mice may stop clicking or otherwise behaving properly after updates or other events." MacFixIt 2:21 PM
"Move the OS X Dock to the corners of your screen" MacFixIt 2:22 PM
"Can't save PDF files from Safari with Mountain Lion? Here's the fix" TUAW 4:18 PM
"Ask the Script Doctor: Solving Mail problems" Macworld 8:09 AM
"Apple forecast to sell 102M iPads, 194M iPhones in 2013" AppleInsider 6:54 PM
"iPads in education: Where's the money coming from?" Macworld 8:09 AM
"The Truth About Cats and Dogs: Smartphone vs Tablet Usage Differences" Flurry 5:01 PM
"Study Shows Why Tablets Could Become The New Center Of Living Room Entertainment" TechCrunch 10:47 AM
"Flurry: Tablet users older than smartphone users, use them for gaming and are more dedicated to apps" The Next Web 10:59 AM
"Apple, Samsung Take 106% of Smartphone Profits" Forbes 4:19 PM
"IPad mini cools interest in Nexus, Surface tabs; Kindle stays on Fire" MarketWatch 12:19 PM
"Challenging Apple by Imitation" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:27 AM
"It's A Samsung Smartphone World - We Just Live In It: Apple's iPhone might be in the driver's seat when it comes to the top three U.S. cellular carriers, but when it comes to global volume of smartphone shipments, it is a Samsung world and everyone else is just living in it." ReadWrite 7:49 AM
"Apple, Samsung control 106 percent of industry's profits" CNET News 12:19 PM
"Samsung to extend smartphone lead over Apple in 2013" ZDNet 9:29 PM
"iPad University: IT Lessons From College Pilot/At Long Island University, iPads are changing the way information technology is managed and applied." InformationWeek 10:11 AM
"Pentagon plans to buy iPhones, Androids in threat to BlackBerry's market share" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 7:57 AM
"DOD lays groundwork to install over 160k iOS and Android devices, capacity could hit 8 million" 9 to 5 Mac 10:41 AM
"Pentagon replacing Blackberry with iOS, Android" TG Daily 10:45 AM
"China Telecom, Unicom set to narrow 3G gap with iPhone 5" Reuters 7:30 AM
"Apple iPhone 5 to finally arrive in India on Nov 2" YourMoneySite 7:32 AM
"Steve Jobs' custom, aluminum-hulled super-yacht 'Venus' now seaworthy: The 'Starck' design melds elements of Dieter Rams and Frank Lloyd Wright." Ars Technica 9:36 AM
"Watch: Steve Jobs' yacht makes public debut in Holland" Macworld UK 7:41 AM
"Steve Jobs' Yacht: 'One More Thing'" TheStreet 9:33 AM
"Steve Jobs high-tech yacht unveiled" BBC 12:59 PM
"China Exclusive: Apple blocks software's prostitute-finder function amid controversy" Xinhua 7:55 AM
"China Upset With Apple Because Siri Can Find Prostitutes" Kotaku 8:45 AM
"Meet Philips Hue: The smart LED light bulb exclusively hitting Apple Stores on October 30" The Next Web 7:31 AM
"Apple Will Sell App-Enabled, Color-Changing Light Bulbs" Mashable 7:45 AM
"Light show, anyone? Apple Stores start stocking $199 Philips Hue custom LED light kits" VentureBeat 10:46 AM
"Riots With iPads: When SF Won The World Series" TechCrunch 4:31 PM
"6 ugliest Apple products" [Slideshow] Fortune 12:39 PM
Non-Apple News
"Skyrim Premium Edition confirmed for December" TG Daily 3:09 PM
"Man in line for Wii U forced to evacuate" TG Daily 3:08 PM
"Roku Adds Universal Search For Netflix, Amazon, Hulu Plus, Crackle, Vudu, And HBO To Its Streaming Devices" TechCrunch 2:48 PM
"HTML5 web tools 'just not there yet': After popping the bubble of expectation round Facebook's financial performance, Mark Zuckerberg has been taking the hype out of hypertext." Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:30 AM
"Best tech gadgets for spooky Halloween fun" USA Today 11:20 AM
"Longtime Ingram Micro Exec Exits For Software Startup" CRN 11:06 AM
"Retro Chrono Trigger goes live for Android gamers" TG Daily 3:08 PM
"Google to issue credits for App Engine outage: The Web app development and hosting service ran into performance trouble for about four hours on Friday" IDG News Service 11:42 AM
"Google officially announces Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 3:21 PM
"New Nexus 7 Pricing Confirmed: $199 For 16GB, $249 For 32GB" TechCrunch 2:50 PM
"Hurricane Sandy starts to hit IT providers" The Register 3:11 PM
"Solution Providers Hunker Down As Hurricane Sandy Pummels East Coast" CRN 11:06 AM
"Nokia Fully Details The Windows Phone 8-Powered Lumia 822, Coming To Verizon This Fall" TechCrunch 2:50 PM
"Top U.S. supercomputer guns for fastest in world" CNNMoney 9:31 AM
"Google Music to launch free scan and match next month: The feature that helps users avoid having to upload every song individually to Google's cloud will be offered free of charge to consumers, first in Europe and then in the U.S." CNET News 12:17 PM
"Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile Hunker Down For Hurricane Sandy, AT&T Is Like 'Whatevs'" TechCrunch 8:55 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"MacVoicesTV #12125: Joe Kissell Takes Control of Calendar Syncingand Sharing with BusyCal" MacVoicesTV 12:15 PM
"Another Sign the iPad Mini Isn't Too Pricey" The Motley Fool 7:48 PM
"iPad Mini Ship Times Now At Two Weeks For All Wi-Fi Models" TechCrunch 7:53 AM
"Apple sells out of initial iPad mini pre-order stock in 72 hours" iDownload Blog 8:09 AM
"Apple Sells Out of All iPad Mini Models" Mashable 8:14 AM
"Apple Sells Out of Remaining Launch Day iPad Mini Pre-Order Stock" MacRumors 8:46 AM
"Apple: iPad Mini Is Smaller, Not Cheaper iPad." X-bit labs 7:38 AM
"Apple CEO: Expect delays for new thinner iMacs" Macworld UK 7:42 AM
"The danger of counterfeit iPhone/iPad USB adapters" TUAW 1:11 PM
"Apple to release iOS 6.0.1 update with major bug fixes within weeks: The company is also believed to be working on iOS 6.1 for release in new year" Macworld UK 7:42 AM
"Apple Promises to Work 'Non-stop' to Fix Maps" Brighthand 10:12 AM
"Apple Files for Passbook Icon Trademark, Samsung Loses Apple's Rechargeable Battery Business & the Yacht that Steve Jobs Built Launches" Patently Apple 10:40 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
"System Monitor with Battery Max For iPhone Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)" Apple Sliced 9:13 AM
"DrawRace 2 HD For iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $2.99), The iPhone Version Is Also Free" Apple Sliced 9:13 AM
"Action Truck For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $1.99)" Apple Sliced 9:13 AM
"13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:21 AM
"15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:21 AM
"Hands on: Pandora 4.0 focuses on mobile music, social sharing" Digital Trends 8:22 PM
"Pandora's New iOS And Android Apps Get The Facebook Treatment: Listening Timelines, Activity Feeds And Social Sharing Features To Do Battle With Spotify (And Perhaps Apple)" TechCrunch 4:30 PM
"Pandora's New Mobile App Will Rock Your World" Mashable 4:29 PM
"Mobile News Revisited (Again) - An App That Deconstructs Facts From Fluff To Reconstruct News For Mobile" Forbes 8:03 AM
"Instapaper isn't Instaworth it anymore – switching to Pocket" Gravitational Pull 10:53 AM
"Hands on app review: Letterpress keeps words simple" Tap For Mobile 7:22 AM
"Ten Tips to Get Your iPad Ready for Hurricane Sandy or Other Emergency" PadGadget 4:18 PM
"How to get an iPhone 5 in less than 24 hours: Impatience is a virtue. If you don't want to wait almost a month for a new iPhone 5, follow these guidelines and you might be able to snag one in a day." CNET 2:22 PM
"View More Of A Webpage On Your iPhone With Full Screen Safari [iOS Tips] Cult of Mac 2:22 PM
"Online tools to use to track Hurricane Sandy's power" TechHive 2:22 PM
"Mapping Scott Forstall's departure from Apple" TUAW 9:07 PM
"Apple's Scott Forstall's fatal mistake was not signing iOS 6 Maps apology letter: sources" The Verge 8:40 PM
"Now, the Real Jony Ive Era Begins at Apple" Techland 8:38 PM
"Observations on Forstall and Browett departures from Apple" 9 to 5 Mac 8:24 PM
"Why Is Apple's Retail Chief Out After 8 Months on the Job?" Mashable 6:53 PM
"Why Apple's Mobile Leader Scott Forstall Is Out" Business Insider 6:54 PM
"Why Firing Scott Forstall Means iOS Will Get A Lot Better" Cult of Mac 6:53 PM
"iOS and OS X teams joined under Craig Federighi" TUAW 6:29 PM
"Forstall Out" ["In what was almost a mere postscript to the press release, Apple also announced that they've canned retail chief John Browett, whose performance has garnered zero acclaim. Canning Forstall is a big change; Browett, on the other hand, is still so new that he never even got around to managing a single holiday quarter."] Daring Fireball 5:40 PM
"Why Scott Forstall And John Browett Got Fired From Apple Today" Cult of Mac 5:13 PM
"Scott Forstall, Once Considered Tim Cook's Likely Successor Is Out: Wow, who saw this coming?" App Advice 5:00 PM
"Major executives leaving Apple; Retail temporarily reporting to Tim Cook" Ars Technica 4:59 PM
"Tim Cook takes full control of Apple; John Browett and Scott Forstall out; Jony Ive, Bob Mansfield, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi get expanded responsibilities" MacDailyNews 4:59 PM
"Apple iOS Chief Leaves, Jon Ive Takes Control (Updating)" Gizmodo 4:28 PM
"13 People Cursing Hurricane Sandy—For Delaying Their iPhone Deliveries" Gizmodo 4:19 PM
"BOO! – 7 Fun Halloween Apps for Your iPhone and iPad" MacTrast 10:45 AM
"Mac-accessory Roundup: Wi-Fi webcams, aluminum stands, USB 3 updates, and more" Macworld 10:06 AM
"Pickie Raises $1 Million as App Catalog Trend Kicks Into High Gear" AllThingsD 10:06 AM
"Flashlight apps for the iPhone: With Hurricane Sandy set to pound the Eastern seaboard, now seems like the right time to look at some helpful flashlight apps for the iPhone." CNET News 10:04 AM
"10 Holiday Shopping Apps You Should Download Now" TheStreet 10:02 AM
"AshTag app launched to prevent spread of devastating tree disease" The Guardian 9:55 AM
"Beamr For iPhone Lets You Share Photos In Full Resolution" TechCrunch 9:40 AM
"ColorStrokes for iPhone updated for iPhone 5 and speed" TUAW 9:18 AM
"Do You And Pixelated Puzzler Pixld Make A Perfect Match?" App Advice 8:46 AM
"Monstrous Aliens Have Invaded Your Town ... Good Thing You Have Your Mysterious Raygun!" App Advice 8:46 AM
"iPad Only Time Management Magazine Issue 2 Continues Saving Readers' Time" PRWeb 8:41 AM
"Outdoor Alabama Mobile App Now Available on iTunes" Business Wire 8:40 AM
"Xignite Powers MoneyChakra iPad App for Tracking Investments by Top Hedge Fund Managers" Business Wire 8:40 AM
"Briefly: Touchscreen gloves by Mujjo, Flip3D iPhone case" Electronista 8:17 AM
"The Ultimate iPad and iPhone Halloween Costume" PadGadget 8:11 AM
"Ubooly iPhone/iPod Interactive Pet" Coolest Gadgets 8:09 AM
"'Pixld' from Airtight Games is Now Available" Touch Arcade 8:09 AM
"Must Have Zagg Accessories for your New iPad Mini" PadGadget 8:06 AM
"The MUG Event Calendar for the Week of October 29: Jason Snell of Macworld and David Head of FileMaker" The MUG Center 7:54 AM
"Hurricane Sandy: Eight Apps To Help You Weather The Storm" App Advice 7:44 AM
"QTrak iPhone and iPod App: For Internal Package Delivery Tracking" PRNewswire-iReach 7:27 AM
"Battle Your Way to Shoot All Opponents with Tiny Tank Combat" prMac 10:42 AM
"New iOS game turns the presidential election into a trivia game" prMac 8:56 AM
"Feeling stressed out? Get Magic Relax" prMac 8:56 AM
"Alien Hatchi Comes Alive, Hatching a Modern Tamagotchi Game on iPhone" prMac 7:44 AM
"Sooty, Britain's most beloved bear, makes first ever app appearance" prMac 7:44 AM
"Picture Safari brings hours of fun to the whole family" prMac 7:43 AM
"River Tests Puzzler for iOS is Updated with 3 New Puzzles and New Design" prMac 7:26 AM
"Ghosts!!+ is a new, silly way to celebrate Halloween on your iOS device" prMac 7:26 AM
"Powerful and Beautiful QR Code Scanner" prMac 7:26 AM
"IBM moving to replace silicon with carbon nanotubes in computer chips: The company said it has greatly increased the number of carbon nanotubes that can be accurately placed on a single chip" IDG News Service 11:09 AM
"IBM has developed a new carbon nanotube based chip making technology" GigaOM 9:30 AM
"Microsoft Windows Phone 8: The 'Third Mobile Platform' Is Finally, Really Here" Wired 3:23 PM
"Microsoft Launches New Smartphone Program" [Video Report] Bloomberg 9:58 AM
"Ahead of the Bell: Windows Phone event/Microsoft holds San Francisco event on new software for mobile phones" Associated Press 9:58 AM
"Windows Phone 8 Device Availability: Phones Hit Europe This Weekend, U.S. In November" TechCrunch 2:47 PM
"Windows Phone Users, Rejoice: More Apps On The Way" BYTE 11:36 AM
"Microsoft app syncs Windows 8, Windows Phone 8: The companion app, published just ahead of today's big Windows Phone 8 event, lets you sync devices running the phone OS with laptops and tablets running Windows 8 or RT." CNET Reviews 10:04 AM
"Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Companion App For Syncing Media With Windows Phone 8 Devices Ahead Of Big WP8 Reveal" TechCrunch 2:50 PM
"Windows 8 companion app helps Microsoft desktops and phones sync better" ZDNet 3:30 PM
"Office Will Determine Whether Microsoft Can Beat Apple" TheStreet 9:35 AM
"Microsoft CEO says Windows 8 sales rate higher than Windows 7" Reuters 4:01 PM
"Poll: Scant Demand For Microsoft's Windows 8" Associated Press 10:01 AM
"Poll Finds Lackluster Demand for Windows 8" PC Magazine 12:07 PM
"Windows 8 won't help DRAM makers" EE Times 11:25 AM
"Windows Store has enough apps to prevent Windows RT flop, say analysts: But Microsoft must boost the number of high-quality tablet apps to make its bet pay off" Computerworld 11:09 AM
"App wars: Windows 8 Metro vs. the iPad/Microsoft's Metro environment in Windows 8 and Windows RT takes the iPad approach to apps, but is it better?" [Slideshow] InfoWorld 11:42 AM
"Here's The Massive Budget Microsoft Is Gambling On Windows 8 Ads" Business Insider 9:56 AM
"Pre-ordered a Microsoft Surface? So SORRY it's late, have a voucher: Microsoft is dishing out vouchers to disgruntled Surface customers burned by delays and confusion over shipments of their pre-ordered fondletops." The Register 3:11 PM
"Where is my Microsoft Surface? Here's what we know" ZDNet 3:30 PM
"Yahoo, Microsoft Tiff Highlights the Epic Failure of 'Do Not Track': Microsoft continues to take a beating for its decision to enable the Do Not Track privacy setting by default in the company's brand-new Internet Explorer 10." Webmonkey 3:24 PM
"What Microsoft should deliver at its BUILD developer conference" PCWorld 12:09 PM
"Alienware assimilates Dell FROM THE INSIDE!" The Register 3:13 PM
"Intel improves SSD range with 335 Series" V3 3:15 PM
"Courts widening view of data breach damages, lawyers say" CSO 12:14 PM
"Communications to pass computers as top market for ICs" EE Times 12:26 PM
"Killing the Computer to Save It" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:06 PM
"Phone, Tablet Insurance Set To Flourish" BYTE 4:09 PM
"Welcome to the New Era of Personal Computing: These are remarkable times to be a gadget lover. Between the iPad mini, Windows 8, and the forthcoming Windows Phone 8 and new Android tablets, personal computing has been revolutionized in a matter of weeks." PC Magazine 12:08 PM
"Investor Reaction to CEO Tim Cook's Dramatic Management Upheaval at Apple Will Be Delayed by Sandy" AllThingsD 6:53 PM
"Apple: 'From a tech titan into a dinosaur' -- but not for a year/An analyst predicts the company's demise, yet still rates it a 'buy'" Fortune 12:16 PM
"Concern over Apple's 'cyclical' margins called 'overblown'" AppleInsider 8:55 AM
"Deja vu: Apple's plunging profitability" Fortune 8:16 AM
"Apple Is Sandbagging More Than You Think" Seeking Alpha 9:18 AM
"Is This The End Of Apple's Run?" Seeking Alpha 2:21 PM
"U.S. markets to remain closed Tuesday" CNNMoney 3:53 PM
"Sandy Forces Closure of Stock Markets Through Tuesday" TheStreet 3:53 PM
"Hurricane to close Wall St on Monday, possibly Tuesday" Reuters 9:52 AM
"All US exchanges shut down ahead of hurricane landfall; electronic trading closes early" Associated Press [Free Registration Required] 9:49 AM
"NYSE and Nasdaq closed as Hurricane Sandy hits" CNNMoney 11:34 AM
"Sandy Strengthens as It Moves Toward East Coast: The New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and the CME Group in Chicago closed their physical trading floors and electronic trading Monday in accordance with emergency actions by government officials as Hurricane Sandy closes in on the East Coast." TheStreet 3:48 PM
"U.S. Markets Left in Limbo" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:19 PM
"U.S. Stock Futures Decline as East Coast Braces for Sandy" Bloomberg 10:55 AM
"Stock Futures Fall as Sandy Forces Market Closures" TheStreet 9:32 AM
"Asia Markets: Most Asia stocks drop; developers weigh Hong Kong" MarketWatch 9:41 AM
"Asian Stocks Drop on Earnings; Hurricane Sandy Halts U.S. Trade" Bloomberg 9:48 AM
"Europe Markets: Hurricane, earnings fears weigh on Europe stocks/Peripheral markets, Spain, Italy, Greece see biggest losses" MarketWatch 3:48 PM
"European Stocks Drop as Insurers Decline; UBS Gains on Job Cuts" Bloomberg 9:48 AM
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