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"iTunes Store Sets New Record with 25 Billion Songs Sold" ["'Averaging over 15,000 songs downloaded per minute, the iTunes Store connects music fans with their favorite artists..."] Apple 10:13 AM
"iTunes Store Sets New Record with 25 Billion Songs Sold" Business Wire 10:13 AM
"Apple, Samsung dominate 103 percent of '12 handset profits: Canaccord Genuity believes Samsung lost market share to Apple in Q4 but it should gain share this period amid a possible Galaxy S4 launch by the end of March." CNET News 10:12 AM
"Apple took home 72% of all handset profits last quarter: Samsung had 29%, according to Canaccord Genuity. The rest got nothing." Fortune 3:58 PM
"Gartner: Apple's Macs will be as accepted as Windows PCs by 2015/Although Microsoft will retain its corporate-relationship advantage, users' preference for iOS and OS X will aid Apple" Network World 7:51 AM
"ITC judge schedules final ruling on Apple's complaint against Samsung for August 1, 2013" Foss Patents 7:42 AM
"OS X Snow Leopard stubbornly rejects retirement: Extends its run of trumping newer OS X Lion in usage share to four straight months" Computerworld 4:17 PM
"The Hackintosh is back; say hello to projectQ" ZDNet 3:31 PM
"Apple Releases Yet Another 10.8.3 OS X Beta To Developers" Cult of Mac 4:18 PM
"Apple seeds tenth OS X 10.8.3 beta to developers [u] MacNN 4:23 PM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"How to troubleshoot a kernel panic" Macworld 7:50 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"How To review completed Reminders in OS X: If you need to access completed items for a given Reminders list, don't worry; they aren't far away." MacFixIt 8:09 PM
"Apps we can't live without: Default Folder X" Macworld 7:50 AM
"MacMost Now 823: Image Editing With Mountain Lion Preview" MacMost 7:29 AM
"How to Wirelessly Sync Your iPhone" Macinstruct 8:55 AM
"How to use Time Machine 10.8 podcast" Amsys 12:20 PM
"Quick Tip: Share Your Mac's Printer and Scanner" Mactuts+ 7:44 AM
"Print Selection for OS X can save you ink, paper and time" AppleDailyReport 8:24 AM
"OS X: Finding Special Characters with Keyboard Viewer" The Mac Observer 7:36 AM
"Configure OS X Server's caching server" Mac OS X Hints 10:12 AM
"Yet Another Clever Way To Manage And Secure Passwords And Private Data, Mac To iPhone" Mac 360 7:28 AM
"Try The Cloud-based Mac Music Player That Does What Apple's iTunes Does Not" BohemianBoomer 7:28 AM
"The Calendar And iCal Add On That Every Mac User Really Needs" TeraTalks 7:28 AM
"How To Create And Send Your Autograph Or Official Signature Right From Your Mac" Mac 360 7:28 AM
"Here's The Free Mac App That Helps Switchers From Windows PCs Handle The Outlook Email Mess" NoodleMac 7:28 AM
"The Right Way To Use A Mac Todo App And Manage It All Using The Cloud To Sync With iPhone" McSolo 7:28 AM
"Here's A Copy And Paste Trick You Didn't Know You Could Do On Your Mac (you need an app)" Mac 360 7:28 AM
Op/Ed
"Apple's Java sabotage is bad IT business: Apple's handling of the Java vulnerability provides a textbook example of what not to do in a production environment" InfoWorld 12:22 PM
"Backup your Mac: Time Machine" ResExcellence 10:34 AM
"Is Siri Coming To The Next Version Of Mac OS X?" Digital Trends 4:08 PM
"Poll Technica: Would you use Siri on OS X?" Ars Technica 10:02 AM
Press Releases
"Firefox for Mac & H.264 Videos: a Fix is in Sight" The Mac Observer 3:29 PM
"Mac Updates: Snapheal 2.2, Firefox 18.0.2, Opera 12.14" FairerPlatform 10:02 AM
"Cities In Motion: Design Quirks Released" Inside Mac Games 9:56 AM
"Help the Islanders Escape from a Doomed Island in Island Tribe for Mac" prMac 7:37 AM
"Who Might Unseat Apple And Samsung As Handset Kings?" Forbes 4:21 PM
"Vine Now Rated 17+" ["I don't understand how Apple is being prudish or giving Vine a 'raw deal' here. If pornographic content is easy to find on Vine — and Isaac and Paczkowski agree that it is — how is 17+ not the appropriate rating?"] Daring Fireball 3:58 PM
"Will Apple Get Its Mojo Back?" Seeking Alpha 3:31 PM
"Why Apple Needs A Really Big iPhone, How It Will Happen, And What It Means" Mac 360 10:34 AM
"Five reasons Apple is doomed, doomed, doomed" Computerworld 9:30 AM
"If Apple Were To Initiate A CEO Search, Who Are Your Nominations?" The Motley Fool 9:28 AM
"What's really wrong with Apple?" Opinionations 9:03 AM
"What happens to all my digital goodies when I kick the bucket?" AppleDailyReport 8:24 AM
"Apple is... Apple's 9 definitions since 1995" Alex4D 7:51 AM
"Opinion: An Apple iOS UI redesign? Nice, but not essential" Electronista 7:49 AM
"If Content Truly Is King Then Why Isn't Apple The Worldwide King Of Content?" PixoBebo 7:28 AM
Non-Apple
"On The Vine: One of the reasons I got into the investing side of things was Instagram. Over the years as a writer, I had 'zeroed in' on many companies that would go on to become hot properties from an investment perspective (Twitter, Foursquare, Square, Quora, etc). " ParisLemon 6:03 PM
"The Rise of Bounding Asterisks in Lieu of Italicization for Emphasizing Text" Daring Fireball 5:57 PM
"Next Xbox May Not Play Used Games" Mashable 4:18 PM
"Email Overload: Can Social Really Help?" InformationWeek 2:06 PM
"Speaking in Tech: HP's snarky Dell jab 'doesn't seem very Meg-like'" The Register 1:25 PM
"KPMG: Cloud migration harder, more costly than enterprises expect" Techworld 1:22 PM
"Redbox Instant Video Heading to Xbox 360" PC Magazine 11:44 AM
"IBM's New Power Systems Challenge HP, Oracle and Dell For SMB Apps" Forbes 11:08 AM
"Oracle rebuffs MySQL security update criticisms" ZDNet 1:42 PM
"Cisco Mobile Data Shows Surge in Smartphone Users, 4G Usage" Forbes 9:38 AM
"Cisco: Mobile Internet data traffic to grow 13-fold by 2017" ZDNet 1:42 PM
"Cisco: Japan to lead global surge in mobile traffic" IDG News Service 11:48 AM
"Immigration Reform Could Open the Door for IT Talent" E-Commerce Times 10:54 AM
"US lawmakers decry UN oversight of the internet" V3 1:29 PM
"LTE-Advanced Is Poised to Turbocharge Smartphone Data: By combining data from multiple antennas and frequencies, ultrafast wireless technology is poised to turbocharge 4G." Technology Review 1:21 PM
"Meet Silicon Valley's hardcore recruiters" Fortune 11:12 AM
"Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says" Oakland Tribune 10:38 AM
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