"How the iPad Mini Could Impact Future PC Sales" Tech.pinions 10:08 AM
"Surprise! Apple has more enterprise savvy than Microsoft: IT likes to complain that Apple doesn't understand business, but the company's business presence continues to grow" InfoWorld 10:26 AM
"Analyst: iPhone 5 supply no longer appears to be an issue" Fortune 7:33 AM
"iPhone 5 supply closes in on U.S. demand" CNET News 1:53 PM
"Apple iPhone: five years on/Apple released its first iPhone in Britain five years ago today. Shane Richmond looks at the development of a device that has defined a category." Telegraph 8:26 AM
"Is a U.S. address in Foxconn's future? Don't bet on it: The contract manufacturer for many of tech's biggest companies: including Apple: is reportedly mulling the opening of a U.S. presence. Treat the news with a grain of salt." CNET News 7:13 AM
"Is Foxconn Coming to the United States?" Minyanville 7:27 AM
"UK judge slams Apple's 'lack of integrity' over Samsung apology farce" V3 8:53 AM
"English Court Fines Apple Over The Samsung Apology" Forbes 9:42 AM
"Judge slams Apple for 'lack of integrity' in Samsung legal battle" The Independent 10:29 AM
"Apple's Samsung apology includes 'false material'" BetaNews 2:14 PM
"Judge to re-examine jury foreman's role in Apple v Samsung trial" GoMo News 8:21 AM
"Apple-v-Samsung $1bn iPhone fine: 'Jury foreman was biased'" The Register 7:31 AM
"Judge Koh agrees to re-examine roles of Apple v Samsung jury foreman" Macworld UK 8:21 AM
"Judge to Review Juror Misconduct Claims in Samsung, Apple Case" PC Magazine 12:08 PM
"Apple and Samsung legal fees slashed by magistrate judge" Electronista 8:51 AM
"VirnetX Files New Lawsuit Against Apple" ["The accused products include the iPhone 5, iPod Touch 5th Generation, iPad 4th Generation, iPad mini, and the latest Macintosh computers. Due to their release dates, these products were not included in the previous lawsuit that concluded with a Jury verdict on November 6, 2012."] PRNewswire 9:46 AM
"After $368.2m award in patent lawsuit, VirnetX files another complaint against Apple" The Next Web 8:33 AM
"Apple slapped with another FaceTime suit by VirnetX" CNET News 9:45 AM
"VirnetX Sues Apple Again Over FaceTime Patents" The Mac Observer 9:29 AM
"Final Cut Pro X: Apple ProRes White Paper" Apple Support 5:23 PM
"Aperture: Aperture may quit on launch after update to Aperture 3.4.2" Apple Support 5:23 PM
"Logic Pro and Express: Rebuilding the Loop Index" Apple Support 5:24 PM
"Logic Pro/Express, MainStage: Compatible versions for OS X Lion" Apple Support 5:24 PM
"Tackle a Mac's name changing with sequential numbers: If a conflict occurs in sharing services, your Mac may start changing its name and append sequential numbers to the end of it." CNET Reviews 3:53 PM
"Bugs & Fixes: Workarounds for two preference bugs" Macworld 1:53 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Bring the Desktop to Your Users" Macworld 1:53 PM
"Overview of OpenGL Support on OS X" Geeks3D 9:18 AM
"How to set up your addresses in Messages" Macworld 8:51 AM
"How to get your pictures out of Aperture" Macworld 8:51 AM
"Google Chrome's Sham 'Do Not Track' Feature" ["So, after updating your Chrome browser to version 23, with the spanking new Do Not Track support, you might say 'Where is it?' You might think, oh, it must be turned on by default, since Google would surely want to protect my browsing privacy, and 75 percent of users say they'd like it on by default. Not so. It's off by default in Chrome."] PC Magazine 8:29 AM
"Mac Gems: FoldingText is a unique and versatile text editor" Macworld 10:02 AM
"Quicken Deluxe 2013 review: Intuit bumps the price on its personal finance software, but adds free mobile apps" PCWorld 7:33 AM
"Quicken 2013 vs. Mint: Is Intuit's free service better than its flagship software?" PCWorld 7:33 AM
"GoodSync A Good Back-Up/Sync Solution For Macs" MacNews 8:44 AM
"MacMost Now 785: Filling Cells In Numbers" MacMost 7:33 AM
"Set Three Separate Networking Names For Your Mac With Terminal [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac 8:52 AM
"12 Ways To Use The 1,000 Features In The Mac's Premium Launcher App" Mac 360 7:17 AM
"4 Ways You'll Like Using The My Medical Mac App To Record Family Medical Information" BohemianBoomer 7:17 AM
"3 Free Ways To Delete The Mac's Trash Can (even when Empty Trash doesn't work)" NoodleMac 7:20 AM
"How To Draw Or Highlight Right On Top Of Your Mac's Screen With Highlight" TeraTalks 7:20 AM
"Try The Nifty Neato Mac Outliner Which Shares Outlines With iDevices And Evernote" Mac 360 7:20 AM
"One Of The iPhone's Most Popular To-Do List Apps Comes To The Mac" Mac 360 7:16 AM
"A Fun, Almost Free, Crazy Easy Way To Capture Pixel Colors Anywhere On Your Mac" Mac 360 7:21 AM
"Kalypso Media Digital is pleased to announce that Anna, their new horror adventure game for Mac, is now available for purchase and download via Steam and the iTunes Mac Store. Anna. The haunting story of Anna takes place in the remote Italian countryside, where an abandoned sawmill holds a sinister mystery. Anna is available on the iTunes App Store (Mac) and Steam for $9.99USD." Kalypso Media Digital 11:29 AM
"Apple releases QuickTime 7.7.3 for Windows, patches critical security vulnerabilities" ZDNet 11:22 AM
"Opera for Mac OS X patches six security vulnerabilities" ZDNet 11:22 AM
"Apple donates $2.5M to Hurricane Sandy relief" 9 to 5 Mac 8:54 AM
"Apple Donates $2.5 Million to American Red Cross for Hurricane Sandy Relief" MacRumors 8:58 AM
"Apple Gives $2.5 Million To Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts, Raises Additional 'Millions' Via iTunes" TechCrunch 8:58 AM
"Apple gives $2.5 million to the Red Cross in aid of families and businesses affected by Sandy" The Next Web 9:45 AM
"Good guy Apple gives $2.5 million to Hurricane Sandy relief" Digital Trends 10:23 AM
"Docs prescribe iPad Mini - a perfect lab coat fit: Doctors glad that iPad Mini sticks with same interface as its bigger brother" Computerworld 3:13 PM
"Tablet survey: Apple products top holiday wish lists" Digital Trends 8:52 AM
"China Telecom Prepares for iPhone 5" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:26 AM
"China Telecom expects iPhone 5 launch by year-end" MarketWatch 9:26 AM
"The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing Perfection" Fast Company 8:41 AM
"British Airways planning to add support for Apple's Passbook" AppleInsider 8:55 AM
"Angry Birds Star Wars tops App Store chart in 2.5 hours: Rovio, the company behind the Angry Birds franchise, says the popularity of its new game broke its own previous records." CNET News 7:30 AM
"Feel The Force: Angry Birds Star Wars Tops U.S. App Store In Record 2.5 Hours, Says Rovio" TechCrunch 8:25 AM
"AT&T Commits To Less FaceTime Blocking: Customers with tiered data plans and LTE-capable iOS devices will soon be able to conduct FaceTime video calls over a cellular connection." InformationWeek 9:50 AM
"AT&T and FaceTime: Still Restricted, Only Less So" Techland 2:27 PM
"AT&T offering a $100 discount off iPad purchases with a two year data plan" iMore 8:52 AM
"AT&T Offers Cheap iPads ... But There's A Catch!" Forbes 10:21 AM
"Do the Math Before Leaping on AT&T's $100 Tablet Discount" LAPTOP Magazine 1:52 PM
"AT&T to be first U.S. carrier to subsidize Apple's iPad" AppleInsider 7:33 PM
"If You're Buying a $200 iPad From a Stranger at the Gas Station at Least Look at It First" Gizmodo 9:45 AM
Non-Apple News
"'Own Your Code': Facebook's Engineering Shift Tackles the Problem of Mobile" AllThingsD 11:29 AM
"Facebook Calls for Servers You Can Compost Like Coffee Grounds" Wired Magazine 11:18 AM
"Researchers find vulnerabilities in CryEngine 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3/Luigi Auriemma and Donato Ferrante of ReVuln also showed a vulnerability in the CryEngine 3 gaming platform" Techworld 11:05 AM
"Moore's Law Is Becoming Irrelevant: The CEO of ARM says power-efficient chips for mobile devices will move into desktops, laptops, and servers." Technology Review 11:02 AM
"Clear as ... paper? Scientists 'see' through solid layers: Scientists have developed a method to 'see through' layers of thin, solid material in a breakthrough that holds promise for medical imaging, nanotechnology — and the spy trade." Agence France-Presse 10:48 AM
"NYC techies gather to build disaster-relief apps" Associated Press 10:44 AM
"VMware releases micro version of Cloud Foundry PaaS" Network World 10:26 AM
"Wireless spectrum driving new design approaches" EE Times 10:08 AM
"Foxconn may release 130-inch TV products in the future, says company vice president" DigiTimes 10:06 AM
"Google TV Gains Access To Music & Movies In The UK, Germany And France Next Week" TechCrunch 11:01 AM
"Google allows bigger, faster Cloud SQL databases" ZDNet 11:23 AM
"Astronaut uses space internet to control robot on Earth" BBC 9:53 AM
"AT&T unveils pricing for Windows Phone 8X, Lumia 920, 820" CNET News 9:45 AM
"Yahoo tests new Windows 8-like home page" CNET News 9:45 AM
"HTC's Windows Phone 8X, Nokia Lumia 822 ship November 13" CNET News 9:45 AM
"Verizon to Complete 4G LTE Rollout by Mid-2013" PC Magazine 10:37 AM
"Meet The Texas Lawyer Suing Hundreds Of Companies For Using Basic Web Encryption" Forbes 8:28 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"YML Interview with Ben Bajarin of Techpinions about the iPad mini" Your Mac Life 3:26 PM
"Gene Steinberg meets industry analyst Stephen Baker, of the NPD Group, and Laptop magazine's Mike Prospero, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 1:30 PM
"Baldur's Gate for iPad: How a tiny team is bringing old school gaming back to tablets" Red Bull UK 12:07 PM
"Glenn Fleishman Takes Control of Messages in Mountain Lion" MacVoices 11:20 AM
"For Siri's New Competitor, SkyPhrase, Academia Isn't Big Enough for AI" Forbes 10:20 AM
"Commutist Podcast: Election dissection, ditching DSL and dumping the iPad" GigaOM 8:22 AM
"Exclusive: Apple iPhone 5 touchscreen glitch discovered by developer, we go hands-on" Recombu 6:24 PM
"iPhone 5 Could Have A Serious Hardware Based Touchscreen Problem [Video] Redmond Pie 6:24 PM
"Analyst: There are LOADS of iPhone 5s, Apple is keeping them back/Apple is not short on iPhone 5s but is likely to be holding them back artificially for commercial reasons, an analyst said today." The Register 10:39 AM
"It Is Getting Much Easier To Buy An iPhone 5" App Advice 8:25 AM
"Apple's iPhone 5 Supply Is Finally Improving" Business Insider 11:24 AM
"iPad Mini + 4G LTE Ships in Two Weeks, 4th Gen, Even Sooner" PadGadget 10:57 AM
"Is Apple really the world's most innovative company?" Electricpig 10:22 AM
"10 Suggested Features/Products For Apple" interopia 10:09 AM
"Steve Jobs: Guru of computing tool" EE Times 10:09 AM
"The Macalope Daily: Damned if you do..." Macworld [Insider Content] 10:02 AM
"Apple Is Done Growing? iPhone Sales Seen Hitting 100 Million Per Quarter" BGR 9:17 AM
"Apple Seems Slightly More Apologetic as It Removes Page Resizing Code" Gizmodo UK 8:58 AM
"Minding the store: Apple's Retail head was recently replaced. The hire seems to have been a mistake dealt with quite swiftly. It is tempting to think that the firing of a manager is due to a failure in their performance, measurable in quarterly reported metrics. But this is not often the case. It may be true of sales or some operations, but most strategic management decisions take months to make and years to implement before you can have the luxury of measured results. And even then the dependencies of performance are many and outside the control of specific managers." asymco 8:57 AM
"Apple's New iPad Patent Reveals The Absurdity Of Our Patent System" Daily Ticker 8:56 AM
"Time For Apple To Get Siri-Ous About Voice Technology" MacNews 8:44 AM
"Chart: Apple Walking In RCA's Footsteps" Business Insider 8:23 AM
"Tim Cook Is One Of The Three People That Saved Apple" Business Insider 3:52 PM
"Former Apple Executive, David Sobotta, Spills On What It's Like To Work Under Tim Cook" RazorianFly 8:26 AM
"Former Apple executive blasts CEO Tim Cook in interview: Tim Cook is 'not a people person,' 'poor judge of character' and 'not a natural leader,' ex-employee says" Macworld UK 8:21 AM
"Here comes the Windows Phone Hail Mary" CNNMoney 9:14 AM
"Wintel to help leading vendors promote sales of Windows 8 touch notebooks in US, say Taiwan makers: Microsoft and Intel will offer assistance to first-tier vendors to promote sales of Windows 8 touch-controlled notebooks in the US during the year-end peak sales period, with retail prices for 11.6-inch models possibly to be lowered to US$399, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers." DigiTimes 10:07 AM
"Windows 8 gets first critical Patch Tuesday security bulletins: The new OS faces threats of remote code execution" Network World 10:40 AM
"Windows 8, RT to get first critical security patches next Tuesday" CNET Reviews 9:44 AM
"Microsoft forced to ready critical Windows 8 patch" V3 11:14 AM
"Windows 8, Surface slabs ALREADY need critical security patch" The Register 11:10 AM
"Windows 8 Pro: a Windows 7 User's Reaction" The Motley Fool 9:38 AM
"Microsoft's IE 10 for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8: What's different" ZDNet 11:22 AM
"Some Surface covers are splitting seams: Microsoft is replacing some covers for the Surface tablet, Priceline names its price for Kayak, and GameFly adds PC games for download." CNET News 4:29 PM
"Microsoft Responds To Surface RT Touch Cover Tearing Issues" Forbes 11:32 AM
"Windows RT may struggle to win enterprise adoption" Techworld 11:04 AM
"Microsoft details its strategy for compiling Windows Phone apps in the cloud" ZDNet 11:21 AM
"Microsoft demos instant English-Chinese translation" BBC 9:53 AM
"Microsoft's translation breakthrough: Speak, and hear your voice in Chinese" ZDNet 11:22 AM
"Microsoft shows off real-time translation" TG Daily 11:06 AM
"Xbox 360 still one bright spot in weak video game market" CNET News 11:33 AM
"Do not downgrade new PCs to Windows 7, HP urges customers: Will not support Windows 8-to-Windows 7 moves with drivers, company-provided apps" Computerworld 11:04 AM
"HP: Look to the East, admins! Lo, it is Project Dawn/Dawn is approaching for HP storage, and the sun will rise on two new low-end 3PAR storage arrays providing a future for legacy EVA array users." The Register 11:11 AM
"HP gives mission-critical Integrity systems a new lease of life with Itanium 9500" V3 11:13 AM
"HP revs up Integrity, Superdomes for Itanium 9500s" The Register 11:11 AM
"HP unveils made-in-Singapore Itanium servers" ZDNet 11:23 AM
"The Pressure's on for Intel: Intel missed out on the shift to mobile computing. Now it finds itself in a precarious position." Technology Review 11:02 AM
"AMD Adds Second Board Member From Abu Dhabi" Bloomberg 9:34 AM
"AMD slashes prices of budget A-series and Athlon II processors" ZDNet 11:21 AM
"Cisco VP Mike Quinn Threatens to Stalk Memo Leaker" Opposing Vies 9:39 PM
"Cisco recommends McAfee switch for IronPort customers hit by Sophos flaws" IDG News Service 10:02 AM
"NASA Testing Interplanetary Internet System" PC Magazine 10:38 AM
"Top 10 technology priorities for president Obama" V3 11:14 AM
"Tablets beat out PCs on holiday shopping lists" TechHive 10:39 AM
"Mainstream and value PCs rule over high-end performance models, says IHS" DigiTimes 10:06 AM
"2013 IT salaries: 15 titles getting the biggest pay raises/Mobile application developers and wireless network engineers can expect a 9 percent and 7.9 percent increase in starting salaries" Network World 10:25 AM
"ARM chief tosses Moore's Law out with the trash, says efficiency rules all" Engadget 9:40 PM
"Manic market back to buying Apple: at least for today: Cue the cliche about what a difference a day makes: especially when we're talking about shares of Apple." CNET News 4:29 PM
"Apple, its mojo and Doug Kass: A hedge fund manager who helped drive the stock from $670 to $534 is buying now" Fortune 3:53 PM
"The Apple question: Buy low or let 'er fall?" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 3:13 PM
"Apple dividend better than Treasurys" MarketWatch 1:40 PM
"Doug Kass: Time to Buy Apple Again" WSJ Blogs 12:09 PM
"Apple, Buy When Others are Fearful" The Motley Fool 9:18 AM
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