"US DEA upset it can't break Apple's iMessage encryption" AppleInsider 8:32 AM
"Mac Flashback trojan hacker may have been identified, researcher says FBI will likely investigate" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 8:27 AM
"Steve Jobs' 'spaceship' threatened by massive cost overruns" The Register 4:04 PM
"Inside Apple's Plans for Its Futuristic, $5 Billion Headquarters" Bloomberg Businessweek 11:40 AM
"The Crazy Details About How Apple Is Going To Construct Its $5 Billion Spaceship HQ" Business Insider 11:57 AM
"Apple's perfectionism could delay iSpaceship further as budget balloons to $5 billion" iDownload Blog 11:44 AM
"Apple's New HQ Has World Trade Center Style Delays and a Tech Campus Curse" Yahoo! News 11:43 AM
"Apple 'spaceship' campus behind schedule, over budget" SlashGear 8:38 AM
"Apple's 'spaceship' campus budget balloons from $3 billion to $5 billion" AppleInsider 8:35 AM
"Apple's planned 'spaceship' HQ will reportedly cost $5B" CNET News 8:33 AM
"Microsoft ending support for Office for Mac 2008" CNET News 2:08 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Quickly manage documents from the path menu in OS X: Passing documents between programs and copying them to new locations can be done easily using a relatively hidden feature in OS X." MacFixIt 8:55 PM
"Snail Is Just The Wrong Name For This Useful Time And Task Manager App For Your Mac" Mac 360 8:09 AM
"How Samsung Changed the Game on Apple" Forbes 2:07 PM
"3 Years of iPad Schadenfreude and Lessons Learned" Tech.pinions 1:29 PM
"If a dumb shmo like me sitting in far away Australia got it so right about the iPad in 2010, why didn't those smarties on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley see the future too? And still can't...'" Les Posen's Presentation Magic 1:05 PM
"Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy" GigaOM 6:40 PM
"Facebook Home: The Death of Android" Tech.pinions 6:27 PM
"Why Your Shitty Android Phone Won't Get Facebook Home" Gizmodo 6:26 PM
"SimCity's Nissan DLC: the right idea at the wrong time/I actually think that in-game ads are great. Just not this one." Ars Technica 7:38 PM
"TED: 100 Websites You Should Know + Use" The Big Picture 8:38 AM
"Unreal Engine 4 looks much better on the PC compared to the PS4" ExtremeTech 8:38 AM
"From touch displays to the Surface: A brief history of touchscreen technology/The beginnings of capacitive, resisitive, and multitouch screens." Ars Technica 8:33 AM
"Is Google Making A Critical Mistake?" Seeking Alpha 6:30 AM
"Facebook Privacy Settings Guide" Techland 6:17 AM
"Today's Browser News: A Second Act for Firefox?" Techland 6:17 AM
"The strange and inglorious history of tech boutique retailers: Samsung plans to put mini stores within all of Best Buy's stores in the next three months. Can it succeed where others have failed?" CNET News 6:15 AM
"Adobe Reveals Next Generation Video Software" Larry's Blog 6:13 AM
"Live blog: Facebook's new Home on Android" GigaOM 6:13 AM
"What walled gardens do to the health of the Web, and what to do about it" Boing Boing 6:07 AM
"Hands on with Vdio, Rdio's curiously invasive cousin: Vdio has little competitive edge, but it sure wants to share your activity." Ars Technica 6:06 AM
"HP Chairman Ray Lane steps down: Hewlett-Packard turns over its board as investors are still seething over the Autonomy acquisition debacle." CNET News 4:07 PM
"H-P's Lane to Step Aside as Chairman" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:56 PM
"Hewlett-Packard chairman Raymond Lane steps down/Hewlett-Packard has announced a boardroom shake-up that includes its chairman Raymond Lane stepping down." BBC 7:37 PM
"HP chairman steps down in the wake of corporate difficulties: Ray Lane botched an acquisition, so famed investor Ralph Whitworth takes the helm." Ars Technica 7:19 PM
"HP chairman Lane resigns, Whitworth takes over for now" Reuters 4:10 PM
"HP co-chair resigns, two others follow" Electronista 6:39 PM
"HP shares slump after Goldman Sachs downgrade to 'sell'" Reuters 6:19 AM
"Hewlett-Packard Does Not Impress Me At All" Seeking Alpha 1:06 PM
"Microsoft threatened as smartphones and tablets rise, Gartner warns: PC market begins to slip and tablets will outsell desktops and laptops combined by 2015, as Android ascendancy means challenge to relevance of Microsoft, research group warns" The Guardian 6:33 AM
"Gartner: Microsoft Risks Becoming Irrelevant If Windows Phone, Tablet Efforts Fail" BGR 8:33 AM
"Microsoft rumored to debut Google Glass competitor in 2014" Yahoo! News 8:56 PM
"The Real Reason Windows Phone Is Failing" ReadWrite 6:35 AM
"A less-than-warm welcome for Windows 8.1" ITProPortal 6:35 AM
"Michael Dell wants to invest in India, emerging nations" Agence France Presse 6:18 AM
"Hewlett-Packard Still Has Room to Run" The Motley Fool 6:19 AM
"Intel board dissatisfied with CEO Paul Otellini, cuts compensation" Associated Press 6:31 AM
"The Big Bet at Intel Corp. That Could Change TV" Variety 6:39 AM
"Customer designed ARM chips will give Intel headaches" The Inquirer 6:20 AM
"Intel Continues To Prove Naysayers Wrong" Seeking Alpha 6:29 AM
"Intel-based smartphone gives Samsung Galaxy a thrashing" TG Daily 6:25 AM
"Review: Intel Next Unit of Computing barebones desktop PC/Is Chipzilla's nano machine too polished to rival the rough'n'ready Raspberry Pi?" The Register 6:26 AM
"The Past, Present, And Future Of Intel" Seeking Alpha 1:06 PM
"The End of Moore's Law Is on Horizon – AMD.: AMD Reiterates Slow Transition to 20nm Node" X-bit labs 6:21 AM
"AMD makes APU offer you can't refuse" TG Daily 8:28 AM
"AMD extends its Never Settle bundle deal" Fudzilla 6:21 AM
"IBM: We have placed the Big Data moon on this stick" The Register 6:36 AM
"Cisco buys Ubiquisys for $310m" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 6:22 AM
"Cisco buys its way into mobile networking" TG Daily 10:15 AM
"Oracle brings data center fabric to Sparc systems: Sparc T5, T4 and M5 servers will work with the high-speed interconnect technology" Computerworld 6:07 AM
"PC, Tablet, Smartphone Shipments to Top 2.4 Billion in 2013: Gartner" eWeek 8:37 AM
"Buy Apple for the memory, analyst says" MarketWatch 11:44 AM
"New Stock Coverage: Time to Go Apple Picking Again?" Minyanville 8:39 AM
"iTV Can Rescue Apple From Uncertainty" TheStreet 8:34 AM
"Apple is a buy, the worst is behind stock: Lazard" MarketWatch 8:31 AM
"Zynga, Apple rise on mixed day for tech stocks" MarketWatch 4/3
"iPhones are insanely expensive in Russia, cheapest in the U.S." Covestor 4/3
"Here's What Makes NO Sense About Goldman Sachs' Downgrade Of Apple" Business Insider 4/3
"Apple Could Take Another Beating" Seeking Alpha 4/3
"Here's Where Apple Turns From Sad to Depressing" TheStreet 4/3
Industry News
"Stocks Push Higher in Late Trading" FOXBusiness 2:33 PM
"Showdown Looms Over LightSquared Wireless Venture: Falcone's Control Faces Challenge as Fund Linked to Dish Networks' Ergen Buys Debt" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12:29 PM
Apple News
"U.S. Stock Futures Rise" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:46 AM
"Stock Futures Rise on Big Bank of Japan Stimulus" TheStreet 6:46 AM
Industry News
"The startup bubble hasn't burst" CNNMoney 6:45 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks wobble ahead of ECB, BOE/ European stock markets struggled for direction on Thursday, as investors awaited the latest monetary decisions from the European Central Bank and the Bank of England later in the day." MarketWatch 6:37 AM
"Japan Initiates a Bold Bid to End Falling Prices" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:38 AM
"Asia Markets: Japan stocks rebound on central-bank move/Asian stock markets were mostly lower Thursday, with shares in Seoul struggling amid heightened tensions surrounding North Korea, though the Nikkei rebounded after the Bank of Japan's announcement of additional easing measures." MarketWatch 6:37 AM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 12:41 PM
"Early Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at 10 a.m." Associated Press 9:54 AM
Industry News
"Stocks Push Higher in Late Trading" FOXBusiness 2:33 PM
"Showdown Looms Over LightSquared Wireless Venture: Falcone's Control Faces Challenge as Fund Linked to Dish Networks' Ergen Buys Debt" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12:29 PM
"Stocks Edge Higher After Wednesday's Drop" Associated Press 6:55 PM
"The startup bubble hasn't burst" CNNMoney 6:45 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks wobble ahead of ECB, BOE/ European stock markets struggled for direction on Thursday, as investors awaited the latest monetary decisions from the European Central Bank and the Bank of England later in the day." MarketWatch 6:37 AM
"Japan Initiates a Bold Bid to End Falling Prices" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:38 AM
"Asia Markets: Japan stocks rebound on central-bank move/Asian stock markets were mostly lower Thursday, with shares in Seoul struggling amid heightened tensions surrounding North Korea, though the Nikkei rebounded after the Bank of Japan's announcement of additional easing measures." MarketWatch 6:37 AM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 12:41 PM
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 6:46 PM
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