"Apple's Million Dollar Per Day Retail Store (in Words and Pictures)" TheStreet 10:43 AM
"Reports of Tim Cook's Pay Cut Greatly Exaggerated: Despite appearances, Apple CEO Tim Cook's $1.3 million cash salary actually was a $400,000 increase over his pay in 2011. The company compensated him with $378 million last year, but the overwhelming majority of it was in restricted share units: a sort of stock grant that has no actual current value." MacNewsWorld 9:11 AM
"Apple gives Tim Cook 51 percent salary increase: Apple CEO Tim Cook received compensation totaling $4.17 million in 2012, down 98.9 percent on last year—although his 2011 compensation of $378 million consisted mostly of a one-off stock grant, worth $376.2 million at the time." IDG News Service 10:47 AM
"Huge Christmas for iTunes, App Store" PC Magazine 12:21 PM
"2012 in review: The year in Apple news" Macworld 8:09 AM
"Lack Of Online Reviews Hurts Apple's Online Store [Infographic]" ["Apple's score of 80 is still considered very good, but the fact that the company did not make the list of top five online retailers should be a wake-up call. 'It is a little bit of a yellow caution flag,' said Larry Freed, president and chief executive of Foresee."] ReadWrite 8:18 AM
"AAPL: iPad mini Sells Out in Hong Kong, Says Topeka" Barron's 9:18 PM
"Apple to drop patent claims against new Samsung phone: Apple Inc has agreed to withdraw patent claims against a new Samsung phone with a high-end display after Samsung said it was not offering to sell the product in the crucial U.S. market." Reuters 2:45 PM
"Apple Will Drop Galaxy S III Mini From Samsung Patent Suit" Bloomberg 9:17 PM
"Apple to drop patent claims against Samsung phone" AFP 5:52 PM
"How to quickly set calendar times in OS X: If needed, you can take advantage of the OS X Calendar's ability to identify time frames to enter events faster." MacFixIt 7:26 PM
"How to Create a Keyboard Shortcut for Menu Items Everywhere" Mactuts+ 8:23 AM
"Get Emoji Definitions Quickly in iOS" OS X Daily 2:43 PM
"Let's Talk About One-Trick Pony Apps For Your Mac (the app that's always on top)" NoodleMac 7:31 AM
"How An App Makes Your Mac Faster And Makes Your Battery Last Longer" BohemianBoomer 7:31 AM
"A Simple, Inexpensive Way To Create Subtitles Or Captions On Your Movies" McSolo 7:31 AM
"Is There A Simple, Easy, Inexpensive Way To Hide Files And Folders On A Mac?" Mac 360 7:30 AM
"How This Clever, Free App Can Help You Become A Mac Power User" TeraTalks 7:30 AM
"Inky: Hands On with a New Mac eMail Client" FairerPlatform 7:27 AM
"Google's new VP9 video technology reaches public view" CNET News 11:23 AM
"Here Comes the First Smartphone for Baby Boomers" TheStreet 11:17 AM
"LG Display bringing Retina Display-like resolution to 7-inch tablets, 12.9-inch laptop screen" ZDNet 11:10 AM
"Help for students to scrub online prints" Associated Press 10:53 AM
"Japanese mobile carriers beg users to limit New Year's texts, calls" IDG News Service 10:42 AM
"Ouya game consoles now on their way to developers" CNET News 11:23 AM
"OUYA Ships 1,200 Development Consoles, Shows Off Its Pre-Release Android Gaming Hardware On Video" TechCrunch 11:01 AM
"Mobile gift cards increase in popularity" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:18 AM
"Schools use smart devices to help make kids smarter" USA Today 10:13 AM
"All is well after Zuckerberg photo flap" CNN 10:07 AM
"Bug reveals 'deleted' Snapchat videos" BBC 9:54 AM
"Kim Dotcom To Host Mega's Launch Event At His New Mega Zealand Mansion Next Month" TechCrunch 11:00 AM
"DotCom promises splashy launch for Mega" CNET News 9:46 AM
"Report: Fujitsu President Says Windows 8 Demand Weak, Intros New Smartphone" PC Magazine 10:40 AM
"Weak Windows 8 Demand Saps PC Sales, Fujitsu President Says" Bloomberg 9:34 AM
"Cisco, HP, Walmart, others support Judge Posner, propose methodologies for patent damages" Foss Patents 8:16 AM
"Android-Android war raging in Korea as LG seeks injunction against Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1" Foss Patents 8:15 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Gene Steinberg meets Peter Cohen, from The Loop and the Angry Mac Bastards radio show, and Kirk McElhearn, Macworld's 'iTunes Guy,' this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 4:37 PM
"New iPads In March And Our iOS 7 Hopes And Dreams On Our All-New CultCast" Cult of Mac 9:40 AM
"Podcast: End of Year Review - 2012 Apple products plus Holiday wrap up" Insanely Great Mac 8:18 AM
"Ultrabook vendors concerned about revision of MacBook Air in 2013" ["The sources pointed out that the MacBook Air for 2013 will feature a new processor platform, but its industrial design will not see any major changes."] DigiTimes 7:40 AM
"Apple to Update MacBook Pro and MacBook Air in June 2013 with New Processors, All Retina?" MacRumors 8:24 AM
"Here Come New, More Powerful Versions Of Apple's Best Computer, The MacBook Air" Business Insider 7:48 AM
"Suppliers hint at changes to MacBook Air -- Digitimes" CNET News 9:11 PM
"Rumor: New MacBook Pro and MacBook Air Due In June 2013" Apple Bitch 11:10 AM
"Apple Suppliers To Continue Work During Chinese New Year To Meet High Market Demand" App Advice 8:10 AM
"Strong demand prompts Apple suppliers to work during Chinese New Year" AppleInsider 8:17 AM
"'Insatiable demand' for iPad mini drives stock-outs in China" AppleInsider 11:27 AM
"iPad mini in hot demand in China -- analyst" CNET News 4:33 PM
AppleCare/Helps
"I have a little later (mid-year vintage) model of that machine and so far am having no issues. However, there are some things to try and sleuthing to do. I would first try two things: Try resetting the PRAM and the SMC. There are instructions for both procedures all over the place. Also, determine if this happens only when the 9400 is involved, or does it happen with the 9600 (or with both). Are there any console messages that occur just prior to the panic? What software is running at the time of the crash? Do you recall installing any particular software or attaching any special hardware just prior to this syndrome beginning?" MacInTouch 12:18 PM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Defender II For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)" Apple Sliced 7:26 AM
"LensFlare For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)" Apple Sliced 7:26 AM
"Puzz For iPad Is Free Today (Was $1.99)" Apple Sliced 7:26 AM
"15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:44 AM
"13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:44 AM
"The Pen Is Mightier Than the Swipe: Whether you're a Matisse or a Molière, there's a tablet stylus out there for you" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2:44 PM
"SHARKK Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard Review" Run Around Tech 8:24 AM
"Review of Proporta's iPhone 4/4S Mizu Shell" It's All Tech 8:24 AM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"Review: iTrack Solo is a fun musical gadget" USA Today 8:14 PM
"Rethinking The Mobile App 'Walkthrough'" TechCrunch 11:10 AM
"The Year of Doom For Microsoft, Google and Apple" Forbes 10:53 AM
"Why I Might Drop the iPhone 5 for the Galaxy Note II, and you should too." ["All in all, Apple has fallen behind the curve. After trying the Galaxy Note II for two weeks, it's clear that Android Jellybean (4.1) has managed to pull ahead. And the second iteration of the Note – a device I've made fun of since before it even made it to the shelves – is a far better phone, semantically and as a competitive computer."] Forbes 10:41 AM
"Tim Cook's $4.2M Compensation; Foxconn's Improving Conditions; EA Scrubs Gun Links" PC Magazine 9:37 AM
"Are tablets now disposable computing devices? Summary: With the price of 7" tablets now reaching the sub-$200 level, should they be considered disposable computing devices?" ZDNet 9:16 AM
"Can the N.Y. Times ride Apple all the way to a Pulitzer? Part 9 in its iEconomy series, published Thursday, is the hammer that tries to nail it" Fortune 9:11 AM
"Apple's Slow And Steady Search Attack" Seeking Alpha 8:58 AM
"Social networks, Apple, Microsoft and Linux in 2013" The Inquirer 8:57 AM
"Looking back at my Apple-related predictions for 2012" AppleDailyReport 8:27 AM
"This is (almost) the iMac I've always wanted" AppleDailyReport 8:27 AM
"Apple is Not Always Emperor in China" The Motley Fool 7:37 AM
"The Most Disturbing New Trend For Apple Customers In 2012" PixoBebo 7:29 AM
Non-Apple
"The Wii U Is The Nintendo'S Last Console" BGR 10:50 AM
"5 common computer problems you can fix yourself" USA Today 11:06 AM
"Raspberry Pi Hack Turns The Ultra-Affordable Computer Into An AirPlay Receiver" TechCrunch 11:00 AM
"ASUS Matrix Radeon HD 7970 Platinum Review" HotHardware 10:44 AM
"16 of the most useful cloud management tools" Network World 10:28 AM
"Digitimes Research: Loss of Apple processor orders unlikely to affect Samsung" DigiTimes 10:14 AM
"Zuckerberg Photo Flap: 4 Lessons/What Randi Zuckerberg's 'private' Facebook photo -- and subsequent Twitter fuming -- can teach the rest of us about social business." InformationWeek 9:50 AM
"Tips to help your smartphone work better" [Video Report] CNET News 9:46 AM
"Can New BlackBerries Help Save Research in Motion?" [Video Report] TheStreet 9:41 AM
"Google Music Scan and Match swaps explicit songs for clean tracks" TG Daily 11:04 AM
"Can This Program Launch Google Over Apple and Microsoft?" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 9:33 AM
"2 Tech Moments of 2012 That Made You Say 'WTF?'" Wired Magazine 11:09 AM
"2012: The tech year in cartoons/From SOPA to the Petraeus affair, here's a look at some of the year's biggest IT stories from the pen of Computerworld's editorial cartoonist, John Klossner." Computerworld 10:10 AM
"Mobile's Biggest Losers In 2012: The last twelve months have been turbulent for smartphone makers and wireless network providers. Here's who took it on the chin hardest." InformationWeek 9:50 AM
"Drones, phones and other 2012 privacy threats" Computerworld 10:10 AM
"The top 10 trends in enterprise cloud for 2013" VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 9:30 AM
"Security in 2013: The rise of mobile malware and fall of hacktivism" PCWorld 10:41 AM
"2012''s worst security exploits, fails and blunders" PCWorld 10:40 AM
"10 Biggest Information Security Stories Of 2012: From John McAfee's escape from Belize to the privacy debacle that compromised CIA director Petraeus' career, 2012 had no shortage of security shockers." InformationWeek 9:50 AM
"Video games in 2012: A year of high-octane sequels" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 9:30 AM
"How Amazon ruined my Christmas: Netflix's Christmas outage is yet another reminder that downtime happens at the worst possible time and the cloud is not inherently resilient." ZDNet 9:16 AM
"Will Free Music Save This PC Giant?" Seeking Alpha 8:23 AM
"Could These 6 Pending Regulations Destroy The Internet In 2013?" ReadWrite 8:17 AM
"After initial flop, does Google+ have a secret weapon for a comeback?" Beatweek Magazine 7:31 AM
"Seriously, Google? Really? How Google's Math Kills The Web As You Know It" Mac 360 7:29 AM
"HP Goes Radio Silent Into 2013 on Autonomy Debacle" TheStreet 11:16 AM
"HP confirms DOJ investigation into Autonomy acquisition: HP said in a regulatory filing with the SEC that it has provided information to U.S. and U.K. authorities" IDG News Service 10:09 AM
"Hewlett-Packard Says Justice Department Probing Autonomy" Bloomberg 9:36 AM
"HP discloses US probe into Autonomy" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:18 AM
"H-P Confirms DOJ Probe Over Autonomy Mess" FOXBusiness 9:36 AM
"HP-Autonomy acquisition under US govt investigation" ZDNet 11:11 AM
"Autonomy's Lynch defends record as HP confirms Federal probe" Reuters 9:37 AM
"HP Has Been Slammed With 10 Lawsuits Over The Autonomy Debacle" Business Insider 11:21 AM
"Will Free Music Save This PC Giant?" Seeking Alpha 9:34 AM
"Year in Review: Windows 8, roadmaps, Office Next top the reader charts" ZDNet 11:10 AM
"You need a touchscreen for Windows 8: Windows 8's best feature isn't being used by most Windows 8 PC owners." CNNMoney 9:18 AM
"This Dumb Year: The 57 Lamest Moments in Tech 2012" Techland 11:06 AM
"2012: The year in application development/Native vs. Web, the rise of GitHub, hard truths for HTML5 -- here's a look back at the year in programming trends" [Slideshow] InfoWorld 10:27 AM
"Top 10 Tech News Stories of 2012: From Apple vs. Samsung to Facebook's IPO, here's what had the tech world talking in 2012." PC Magazine 10:39 AM
"2012: The year that netbooks DIED" The Register 11:05 AM
"Developers push the technology frontiers" Fairfax NZ News 10:54 AM
"Apple Tumbles To 10-Month Closing Low" BGR 4:43 PM
"Apple: Target Stays Over $1,000 - iPad mini Major Catalyst" Forbes 2:44 PM
"Apple vs. Bank of America: A Vital Comparison Every Investor Should Know" The Motley Fool 9:14 PM
"The truth about Apple's fundamentals" MarketWatch 11:32 AM
"Tom Gardner: How You Need to Look at Apple Today" The Motley Fool 9:15 PM
"An Apple Play Basket for the New Year" The Motley Fool 11:25 AM
"In search of Apple's microprocessor" asymco 9:40 AM
"The average Apple analyst's price target has fallen to $740: Eleven lowered their 12-mos. targets in December, yet few stocks have as far to go" Fortune 8:23 AM
"How Apple Determined Tim Cook's $4.2 Million Salary" Business Insider 10:53 AM
"Apple supremo Tim Cook's pay packet Slashed 99% in 2012" The Register 8:22 AM
"Stocks sink 2% for the week: Stocks closed lower for the fifth straight day Friday, ending the week down nearly 2%, as investors continue to fear the impact of falling over the fiscal cliff." CNNMoney 4:52 PM
"Stocks Tumble 2% for Week, Spooked by 'Cliff' Talks" CNBC 4:52 PM
"Fiscal Thrashing: Dow Sinks in Longest Losing Streak Since July" FOXBusiness 4:52 PM
"Stocks under fiscal cliff pressure: Investors braced for another day of waiting and worrying Friday, as lawmakers fumbled to find a solution to the fast-approaching fiscal cliff." CNNMoney 9:18 AM
"'Cliff' Concerns Sink Europe Markets" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:23 AM
"U.K. stocks erase gains as miners fall: Lonmin shares in retreat as CEO to resign for health reasons" MarketWatch 9:28 AM
"Asia Markets: Asia stocks extend gains at week's end" MarketWatch 9:24 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks drop on fiscal-cliff impasse/Bankia plunges as shares to be excluded from IBEX-35" MarketWatch 9:24 AM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at the close of trading" Associated Press 9:16 PM
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares down at the close of trading" Associated Press 9:16 PM
"Midday Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares down at 1 p.m." Associated Press 1:19 PM
"Our Outlook for Tech and Communication Services Stocks" Morningstar 9:34 AM
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