"Next week's Apple-Google FRAND trial may be canceled on Monday morning" Foss Patents 6:38 AM
"Apple Finally Posts The Correct Apology: Hurrah!" Forbes 6:50 AM
"Apple finally complies with latest UK ruling, apologizes for snarky letter, runs correct Samsung/Apple judgement" 9 to 5 Mac 7:56 AM
"Apple posts revised 'Samsung did not copy' statement, acknowledges first version was inaccurate" Engadget 6:49 AM
"Apple's mea culpa: U.K. site posts apology, new statement/After testing a British court's patience with a not so apologetic public statement, the iPhone and iPad maker is finally eating humble pie." CNET News 9:17 AM
"Apple's iPad Mini Tests Crowded Market" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:49 AM
"A tale of two execs: Microsoft's Sinofsky and Apple's Forstall/commentary Both were growing in influence, with a reputation for being difficult. Now one is the architect of Microsoft's comeback attempt in consumer markets and the other is being forced out of Apple. What happened?" CNET News 7:06 AM
"Uh-Oh Insider Trading: SVP Legal Bruce Sewell Sells AAPL Stock" Patently Apple 8:21 AM
"Apple's Minimalist Jony Ive Assumes Jobs's Role for Design" ["Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was able to keep the executives' long-simmering tension under control. Cook made the final decision to revamp management after Forstall refused to sign a public apology for the mishandling of mapping software, people with knowledge of the matter said. ... Forstall was also the most divisive member of Apple's executive team, people who worked with him told Bloomberg Businessweek last year."] Bloomberg Businessweek 11/2
"Ive and Forstall: A Tense History/Bloomberg's Peter Burrows and Adam Satariano discuss the tense history between Apple's Jonathan Ive and Scott Forstall." [Video Report] Bloomberg 11/2
"How Jony Ive Will Make Checking The Weather On Your iPhone A Religious Experience" Forbes 11/2
"The future of the iPad: Microsoft has the Surface. Apple has the iPad Mini. Where do things go from here? The immediate future may look a lot like the present." CNET Reviews 11/2
"iPad Mini to hurt Windows 8 devices, says analyst: Apple's diminutive new tablet will take a bite out of sales of new Windows 8 devices this holiday season, says Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu." CNET News 11/2
"How many iPad Minis could Apple sell this weekend? Including pre-orders, unit sales of the new tablet may reach as high as 1.5 million over the next three days, says Apple analyst Gene Munster." CNET News 11/2
"Apple: Piper's Munster Sees First Weekend Mini Sales Of 1-1.5M" Forbes 11/2
"Apple expected to ship 850K iPad minis in first week of sales" AppleInsider 11/2
"Court Orders Apple to Revise Cheeky Apology: Apple has been ordered to post a new statement on its UK website after the original one declaring that Samsung didn't copy its tablet design didn't meet with the judges' approval. 'The court may not have been perfectly happy about Apple's statement, but it was 100 percent truthful and in the free world everyone should be free to say accurate things,' said intellectual property analyst Florian Mueller." MacNewsWorld 11/2
"Apple's reformed 'apology' to Samsung makes an appearance in UK newspapers" The Next Web 11/2
"The ultimate productivity suite shootout for OS X & iOS" The Next Web 10:25 AM
"Hands-On With Evernote 5 for Mac (Beta)" iSource 11/2
"Ask the iTunes Guy: The iTunes Store and Apple IDs" Macworld 11/2
"SeaMonkey PPC: Another Browser Option for PowerPC Macs" Low End Mac 11/2
"Take Screenshots Of Single Windows Or Sheets With Command-Shift-4 [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac 11/2
"Quick Tip: Setting up Google mail on iOS and OS X" GigaOM 11/2
"OS X 10.7 & 10.8: Resetting Lost Account Passwords" The Mac Observer 11/2
"The Pain Of Searching For iPhone And iPad Apps Made Easy In iTunes (no, really!)" Mac 360 11/2
"For Graphic Designers: Yet Another Elegant Color Scheme App For Your Mac" Mac 360 11/2
"Stream Free Music To Your Mac With The Coolest New Music Player In The Mac's Menubar" NoodleMac 11/2
"A New Way To Get Daily News On Your Mac's Desktop (hint: it's RSS)" TeraTalks 11/2
"How To Enlarge Small Photos On Your Mac And Reduce Pixelation, Grain, And Jaggies" McSolo 11/2
"An Easier Way To Drag And Drop On Your Mac Also Has A Price Tag" Mac 360 11/2
"Free: The Minimalist Network Scanner App For The Mac (with the best app icon)" BohemianBoomer 11/2
Op/Ed
"Skeuomorphism is (finally) dead: So what is Apple's next design move?" GigaOM 5:30 PM
"My Must-Have Mac Apps, 2012 Edition" MacStories 11/2
Press Releases
"Daylight Saving Time reminder: The US makes the switch to Daylight Saving Time Sunday, November 4, 2012. If you use Entourage or Outlook for Mac, you'll need to quit and relaunch before it recognizes the time change." OfficeforMacHelp 11/2
"You have the following search engines installed" Rixstep 11/2
"MacMate takes on Google, Dropbox and Microsoft with MacMate Disk" prMac 11/2
"Physicians Are Excited by Apple's iPad mini's Smaller Size" MacTrast 6:12 PM
"Tinker, teacher, thinker, reacher: Apple's Steve Wozniak" Easy Reader News 11:06 AM
"Apple Begins Running iPad Mini 'Piano' TV Ad" MacRumors 6:45 AM
"iPad Mini sells out quick at Apple's top NYC store" CNET News 11/2
"Apple Sold Out Of The iPad Mini At Its New York Store In ~2 Hours" Business Insider 11/2
"iPad Mini launch fails to impress Wall Street: Long lines and sellouts of Apple's new tablet don't appear to impress Wall Street much. The company's stock takes another dip." CNET News 11/2
"Initial iPad mini stock selling out at various Apple Stores around the world" 9 to 5 Mac 11/2
"iPad Mini goes on sale as thousands queue: Apple's iPad mini has gone on sale around the world, with analysts predicting that the company could sell more than one million this weekend." Telegraph 11/2
"After Declaring It the Future of Yahoo, CEO Marissa Mayer Appoints IntoNow's Adam Cahan as Mobile Kingpin (Internal Memo, Natch!)" AllThingsD 11/2
"Alcatel-Lucent dips into loss as sales decline and margins get thinner" IDG News Service 11/2
"Alcatel-Lucent Vows to Fix Finances" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 11/2
"Verizon: Sandy could have 'significant' impact on profit" CNNMoney 11/2
"iOS 6.0.1 already jailbroken -- for some devices" CNET News 11/2
Publications/Podcasts
"24 Hours With iPad Mini: Our First Impressions On A Special Edition CultCast" Cult of Mac 9:03 AM
"The TouchArcade Show - 76 - The Hunt for Cheese Dusted Corn Products" Touch Arcade 11/2
"Gene Steinberg meets the 'iTunes Guy,' Kirk McElhearn, Macworld's Jim Galbraith, and Mac|Life's Adrian Hoppel this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 11/2
"Bryan Chaffin on Steve Balmer's Competence, Apple's Management Shake-Up and Evil Amazon (Part 1)" MacNotables 11/2
"The Vergecast 053 - November 1st, 2012" ["00:42:50 - iPad mini review; 00:54:00 - 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display review; 01:01:00 - Apple's Scott Forstall's fatal mistake was not signing iOS 6 Maps apology letter: sources"] The Verge 11/2
"So many iPads, so tough to decide: The iPad mini is the latest member of the growing family, making it increasingly complicated to settle on the right one for you." Seattle Times 11/2
"Getting the most out of Game Center" Macworld 11/2
"How to setup and start using your new iPad mini or iPad" iMore 11/2
"Dragging an image on iPhone: Often we want to drag an image view or other control around the main view. Since all user interface controls inherit from UIView, this is a simple matter of adjusting the view's frame at runtime in response to touch events. Let's see how it's done." The iPhone Developer Resource 11/2
"How to Own Apple Products Without Getting Screwed" Mactuts+ 11/2
Tips
"The iPad mini has landed: Your questions answered/A full review is in the works, but here are answers to several reader questions." Ars Technica 11/2
"Syncing music playback between two iPhones" iLounge 11/2
"Should You Buy The iPad Mini Or The New iPad?" Business Insider 11/2
"iPad Mini available today, so here's how to get one fast" NBC News 11/2
"How to keep your phone juiced longer/Question: How can I keep my phone running as long as possible during a natural disaster like Sandy?" USA Today 11/2
"Why You Can Still Sell Your Original iPad for $250" Wired Magazine 11/2
"Q&A: Putting the iPad on the Big Screen/Is there a way to show iBooks pages on my iPad on an HDTV screen? If so, what would I need to do it?" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 11/2
"This Is An iPad Launch Day Like No Other" App Advice 11/2
"Apple's Gorgeous-Looking New Laptop Gets A Surprisingly Mediocre Review" Business Insider 11/2
"iPad mini is here, and some thoughts on non-Retina" iMore 11/2
"iPad Mini's quite a handful: Accelerometer could use some extra speed" The Register 11/2
"'This is Apple. It will take them 2 weeks to alter their website, will it?'" The Register 11/2
"People Expecting Long iPad mini Lines Can't Do Math" The Mac Observer 11/2
"Attention yellow journalists: Wi-Fi-only iPad minis launch today, 4G LTE models later this month, that is why lines are 'shorter' today: Advice for certain media outlets: Report the news, don't attempt to create it lest your credibility end up in tatters." MacDailyNews 11/2
"Revised Apple statement on iPad 'copying' appears in UK papers" Ars Technica 11/2
"Apple's Non-Apology Smacks Of Same Arrogance That Took Down RIM, Nokia" Forbes 11/2
"How does Apple's 'non-apology' to Samsung rank?" FOXNews 11/2
"Apple Apologises To Samsung: But Will They Have To Do It Again?" Forbes 11/2
"Here's The Absurd Advertisement Apple Is Being Forced To Run About Samsung" Business Insider 11/2
"The Apple apology that I would write: British judges are insisting that Apple posts an 'accurate' apology: explaining that Samsung didn't copy the iPad: within the next 48 hours. Here's my humble suggestion." CNET News 11/2
"Why Doesn't Apple Give Critics What They Want?" PixoBebo 11/2
"How Apple Gouges iPhone And iPad Customers With High Prices On Storage" Mac 360 11/2
"No One Cares About Your Decision to Leave Apple Products and No One from Apple Will Read Your Poorly-Written Open Letter" Curious Rat 11/2
"Nov 3, 2012 - 12:00AM PT: How data helped me learn to love the small screen" GigaOM 6:44 AM
"When is a kids' online game actually an ad?" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 11/2
"One in seven North American home networks full of malware" The Register 11/2
"Researchers Turn The Tables On A Hacker, Infecting His PC With Malware And Grabbing Video Of Him At Work" TechCrunch 11/2
"Making a smart decision on which phone" Fairfax NZ News 11/2
"Native mobile app dev vs. HTML5: Why not both?" InfoWorld 11/2
"The San Francisco tech scene, fictionalized: Robin Sloan's buzzy novel Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is set in an old-school bookstore, sure, but it is packed with startup name-dropping and exciting technology." Fortune 11/2
"Samsung's 10-Inch Android Tablets: Which Is Best?" InformationWeek 11/2
"Android 'Jelly Bean' usage share grows in October, but 'Ice Cream Sandwich' grows faster" ZDNet 11/2
"Amazon Kindle Fire HD review: Amazon's tablet is a great buy for Kindle fans, but it's let down by sluggish performance and an unintuitive interface" The Inquirer 11/2
"Ultrabook Sales To Rise Dramatically? I Don't Think So" MacNews 11/2
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