"Apple's hazy, big-screen iPhone ambitions: 'It is really easy to make a new product that's bigger...everyone does that. That's not the challenge. The challenge is to make it better and smaller,' says Apple's Phil Schiller. But is Apple ready to make a bigger and better iPhone?" CNET News 7:51 AM
"Yahoo's Mayer Looks for Deeper Apple Integration" Bloomberg 8:11 AM
"Apple Is Said to Discuss Closer Mobile Collaboration With Yahoo" Bloomberg 8:39 AM
"Apple reportedly in talks for more Yahoo, less Google in iOS" Crave @ CNET 8:11 AM
"Apple, Yahoo working towards extended iPhone partnership: report" ZDNet 2:36 PM
"Apple, Yahoo Consider a Future, Despite Ties to Google, Microsoft" eWeek 7:01 PM
"Yahoo and Apple in talks over deeper iOS integration, report says" Digital Trends 8:40 AM
"Apple wins invalidation of 3G 'standard-essential' Samsung patent in Germany" Foss Patents 4:09 PM
"Samsung agrees with Apple that Judge Koh's appeal-before-retrial plan doesn't work" Foss Patents 8:51 AM
"Apple, Google Not Interested in Settlement, Judge Says" Bloomberg 4:16 PM
"Apple excludes Samsung from chip development project: The chasm between Samsung Electronics and Apple is expected to widen further as the U.S. electronics giant has excluded its Korean rival from a project to develop A7 application processors, due to be released in the first half of next year." The Korea Times 7:53 AM
"Apple finally kicks Samsung from chip development" Computerworld 7:53 AM
"Apple severs more ties with Samsung, taps TSMC to build its upcoming A7 processors" The Next Web 9:19 AM
"Apple Faces Heightened Oversight in China After Tim Cook's Apology" Forbes 11:21 AM
"Apple Operations VP Jeff Williams In China Dealing With Recent PR Backlash" Cult of Mac 4:16 PM
"Apple Will Revert To Niche Status As Chinese Advance, Expert Says" Forbes 9:01 AM
"Don't ask court to 'mop up mess' over patents, Apple, Google told: A U.S. district judge in Florida admonished Apple and Google in their spirited patent fight, telling the companies' lawyers that their tactics are 'not a proper use of this court.'" Bloomberg News 9:26 PM
"Apple readying support of 802.11ac high-speed WiFi in OS X: Second beta of OS X 10.8.4 (build 12E30) includes a reference to the new, as yet ungratified, standard" Macworld UK 8:25 AM
"Upcoming Macs to support 802.11ac, suggests OS X code" CNET News 8:37 AM
"OS X Code Reveals Apple's Plans For Super-Fast Wi-Fi" Gizmodo 8:37 AM
"New Macs Might Support Super-Fast Gigabit Wi-Fi" Mashable 8:37 AM
"Mac OS X Mountain Lion code hints that new Macs will support Gigabit Wi-Fi" Digital Trends 11:24 AM
"Code in OS X 10.8.4 beta suggests upcoming Macs will feature Gigabit 802.11ac Wi-Fi" TUAW 3:13 PM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Fix permissions errors for sandboxed applications in OS X: Sometimes file access errors in OS X may actually be related to a program's sandboxing rather than being a classic file permissions error." MacFixIt 9:10 PM
"Google Hangout and the uncooperative camcorder: Reader David d'Angelo has a camcorder and Mac, but can't make a desired connection between the two." Macworld 8:51 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Mac Gems: iPhoto Library Manager lives up to its name" Macworld 8:33 AM
"Six ways to master the Mac App Store and the iTunes Store" Macworld 8:33 AM
"Quicksilver 1.0: Out Of Beta After Ten Years – The 'Book Mystique Review" MacPrices 7:44 AM
"Ulysses III, enhanced plain text editor" IT.Enquirer 7:56 AM
"Shine review: Add a touch of style to drab photos/Add rays, lens flare and colour to your drab photos" Macworld UK 8:52 AM
"Pixa 1.0.4 review: could this be the photo organiser to rival Apple's iPhoto? A promising new photo organiser to rival Apple's iPhoto" Macworld UK 8:52 AM
"MotoGP Video Coverage on Computer, iPad and iPhone" eXtensions 9:08 AM
"MacMost Now 850: Putting Your Videos On Your iOS Device" MacMost 7:46 AM
"Quick Tip: Revealing Hidden Files in OS X" Mactuts+ 8:50 AM
"Photo Booth: Turn Off the Flash or the Countdown" The Mac Observer 7:46 AM
"Take a Copy of All Your Data With Google Takeout" The Mac Observer 8:10 AM
"Mastering OS X Calendar: Change The Time You Get Notified Of All Day Events [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac 8:37 AM
"The New Way To Diagram, Brainstorm, And Mind Map On A Mac Is The WYSIWYN Way" McSolo 7:43 AM
"Tired Of Paying For Apps? Try The Little Known, Less Used Free Super Browser On Your Mac" Mac 360 7:43 AM
"How To Rename Or Renumber Hundreds Of Photos Or Files At A Time On Your Mac" BohemianBoomer 7:43 AM
"The Free Way To Use A Multiple Clipboard Manager App On A Mac" TeraTalks 7:43 AM
"Another Easy Way To Use Your Mac To Remove Unwanted Objects From Digital Photographs" Mac 360 7:43 AM
"Printer Ink Is Expensive So Print Only A Selection Of What You Need From Each Page To Save Money" NoodleMac 7:43 AM
Op/Ed
"Seems Apple has a year to make iWorks an Office killer" AppleDailyReport 2:35 PM
"The sync conundrum: Rethinking Apple's cloud services" Macworld 8:33 AM
Press Releases
"Cheaters cleans up its act, gets a date with Siri" Brett Terpstra 7:06 PM
"Apple hires Norman Foster's architecture firm to revamp its retail stores: Sources close to the project said Foster + Partners, which has designed buildings including the McLaren Technology Centre and Hearst Tower in New York, is helping Apple on the retail store design brief." Marketing 9:57 AM
"Apple rumored to tap Foster + Partners for new Apple Store designs" AppleInsider 11:21 AM
"Norman Foster pulled in to revamp Apple Stores" Architosh 2:34 PM
"Apple Hires 'Spaceship' Firm To Design Future Retail Stores" App Advice 11:21 AM
"Google, Microsoft Being Disrupted by Mobile Apps: Pro/The current crop of big tech players - Google, Microsoft and Apple - are being disrupted by the burgeoning mobile app industry, an industry expert told CNBC on Wednesday." CNBC 8:13 AM
"Samsung Still Trails Apple In This Crucial Demographic" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 8:12 AM
"Survey: Nearly 50 Percent of Teens Own an iPhone" PC Magazine 11:34 AM
"Apple licenses $10M in patents from Access including those formerly from Palm" 9 to 5 Mac 8:39 AM
"Apple licenses $10M in patents originally created by Palm, others" AppleInsider 8:44 AM
"Apple pays $10M to license Palm, other patents" CNET News 2:37 PM
"Apple Licenses Palm Patents in $10M Deal" The Mac Observer 9:37 AM
"Apple licenses former Palm smartphone patents for $10M" VentureBeat 11:40 AM
"Mobile dominates new game sector investments in Q1" VentureBeat 8:53 AM
"T-Mobile Hopes Trade-In Offer Will Lure iPhone Customers From Rivals" AllThingsD 7:52 AM
"T-Mobile offers iPhone 5 at no upfront payment in trade-in deal" IDG News Service 7:56 AM
"Ahead of iPhone 5 launch, T-Mobile touts trade-in program: Customers can trade in their existing iPhones (or other smartphones) for a better monthly rate." CNET News 7:53 AM
"T-Mobile offering iPhone 4/4S users a trade-up to iPhone 5" Insanely Great Mac 8:25 AM
"Concluding the Saga #12 saga" ["As a partner of Apple, we have an obligation to respect its policies for apps and the books offered in apps. Based on our understanding of those policies, we believed that Saga #12 could not be made available in our app, and so we did not release it today. ... Given this, it should be clear that Apple did not reject Saga #12."] ComiXology 3:41 PM
"Comixology, not Apple, responsible for comic book's censorship [updated] AppleInsider 3:25 PM
"Apple blocks explicit comic in App Store, but not iBookstore" Macworld 9:12 AM
"Here Comes Steve Jobs: The Shakespearean Opera" Cult of Mac 9:12 AM
"iPad survives flight from car roof, embedding in bumper and being hit by a hammer" 9 to 5 Mac 8:38 AM
"PC Shipments Post the Steepest Decline Ever in a Single Quarter, According to IDC" ["Apple fared better than the overall U.S. market, but still saw shipments decline as its own PCs also face competition from iPads."] IDC 3:59 PM
"Apple's U.S. Mac Shipments Fall 7.5% as Overall PC Market Plunges 14% Year-Over-Year" MacRumors 4:00 PM
"Indications show Apple's Retina MacBook Pro still overpriced: Apple's 13.3-inch Retina MacBook Pro still isn't selling in numbers that would indicate the price is right." CNET News 7:51 AM
"iPhone 5S could come in different sizes, colours" Crave @ CNET 8:18 AM
"iPhone 5S: More talk of multiple colors with August launch possible" Digital Trends 8:40 AM
"Turn Your iPad Into Your Very Own Status Board" App Advice 8:13 PM
"Topps Bunt for iPad: Baseball cards make a digital comeback!" Digital Trends 11:32 AM
"Hands On With the New Foursquare" Mashable 4:09 PM
"Foursquare 6.0 finally brings Explore recommendations to center stage" The Verge 8:37 AM
"BBC Earth Wonders Review: This image- and video-dense, detail-light app from the BBC showcases a planet full of natural splendor, but the interface lacks the artistry of the pictures." 148Apps 10:06 AM
"How, exactly, do Apple's iPhone sales 'disappoint'? A Reuters headline has some Apple watchers scratching their heads" Reuters 2:58 PM
"FUD Alert: Despite much evidence to the contrary, Reuters continues to Report 'disappointing demand for the iPhone': This is laughable. Why is Reuters lying about Apple? Something is rotten at Reuters." MacDailyNews 9:08 AM
"Maybe an Ultra HD Apple TV might not be as price as first suspected..." AppleDailyReport 8:34 AM
"Metaphor of the day: If Google is a rain maker, what is Apple?" Fortune 8:18 AM
"How Apple's App Store crackdown could hurt mobile game discovery" NBC News 2:37 PM
"Apple bans app in possible new wave of crackdowns" CNN 11:40 AM
"Apple bans digital comic over gay sex images, say its creators" CNET News 11:24 AM
"Apple's AppGratis move a sign of things to come -- report" CNET News 10:05 AM
"AppGratis Won't Be The Last To Fall As Apple Moves To Keep Charts Pure And Avoid Stores-Within-A-Store" TechCrunch 8:23 AM
"Apple's Ouster of AppGratis Is Just the Start of an App Store Crackdown" AllThingsD 8:18 AM
"Failed Apple CEO John Sculley: If I were Samsung, I would tap Ron Johnson" MacDailyNews 8:23 AM
"Sculley: If I Were Samsung, I Would Tap Ron Johnson" [Video Report] Bloomberg 8:12 AM
"John Sculley on Ron Johnson's Exit From J.C. Penney" [Video Report] Bloomberg 8:11 AM
"Why Ron Johnson's Apple magic failed J.C. Penney: Innovation and change takes time and vision" MarketWatch 7:51 AM
"iPhone Is Not Cool? US Teens Say Otherwise" Tapscape 7:44 AM
"How Apple Separates Mac, iPhone, and iPad From The Growing Crowd Of Competitors" Mac 360 7:44 AM
"Does Apple's Magic Transfer To Other Companies?" PixoBebo 7:44 AM
Non-Apple
"The PC inside your phone: A guide to the system-on-a-chip/Can't tell a Snapdragon apart from an Exynos? We're here to help." Ars Technica 9:04 PM
"Really, Microsoft? Your vision for the future of TV is... an HDMI cable?" GigaOM 6:39 PM
"Microsoft Slaps the Facebook Phone, Apple, Google Smirk Quietly" The Motley Fool 4:27 PM
"The spammer who logged into my PC and installed Microsoft Office: Spam text made a tempting offer—so I let the spammer take control of my PC." Ars Technica 3:19 PM
"The School Standards Debate: Time for Tech to Weigh In" Tech.pinions 2:35 PM
"Essential gadgets for summer travels" [Slideshow] ZDNet 2:25 PM
"Boxee Cloud DVR Is Not Quite Ready for Prime Time" Wired 2:18 PM
"Hands-on with the Facebook phone" VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 2:16 PM
"Scottevest's new jacket has 22 slots for gear" USA Today 1:40 PM
"Will germanium replace silicon in semiconductors?" TG Daily 1:35 PM
"Old Java can learn new tricks from C, Android: Experts say the language should crib app isolation, locality, and automated parallelism from more modern sources" InfoWorld 11:41 AM
"Free Amazon Web Services -- and how to make the most of them" InfoWorld 11:41 AM
"How Dropbox plans to conquer business: The startup's newest features are aimed at making nice with IT." Fortune 11:34 AM
"Need a Great Archive Utility? Give PeaZip a Chance" LinuxInsider 11:29 AM
"Hidden gems of the Webby Award nominees" CNN 11:06 AM
"How to: Using Google Cloud Print for working with PDFs" ZDNet 2:23 PM
"Google Leads App Downloads, Apple Cashes In" InformationWeek 11:37 AM
"This Case Adds Four Extra Camera Lenses to Your iPhone" Mashable 9:26 PM
"Turn Your Favorite Instagram Photos Into Professionally Mounted Art With Pixuru" App Advice 6:52 PM
"Pixuru Produces World's Largest iPhone Photo Print" Run Around Tech 3:39 PM
"Baby Name Blues? 10 Apps to Help You Choose" Mashable 3:13 PM
"Movile Helps Users Get Connected With Apps To Find And Share Access To Free Mobile Hotspots" TechCrunch 2:58 PM
"Vaavud Wind Meter Measured Wind Speed with Your iPhone" The Mac Observer 1:25 PM
"Chrome for iOS gets wireless printing, full-screen browsing: The latest update to Google's mobile browser also provides a save-as-PDF option for Google Drive users." CNET Reviews 11:33 AM
"Top 10 Tablets Available Right Now" [Slideshow] LAPTOP Magazine 11:21 AM
"Pioneer Elite Receivers Offer Studio Quality Content Playback and Multi-Zone / Multi-Source Capabilities" ["The VSX-70 works with the new iControlAV2013 App, which has been completely redesigned for 2013, featuring a new user interface and easier to navigate feature menu1, as well as a dedicated 'ECO MANAGER' page for energy efficient settings."] Business Wire 9:56 AM
"RemotePlay Launches on iOS Allowing Cross-Platform Content Sharing for the First Time" Business Wire 9:56 AM
"'Burner – Disposable Phone Numbers' iPhone app goes free, gets referral program, improved call history, custom voicemail, more" 9 to 5 Mac 9:19 AM
"tap tap tap ~ Rosetta stoning... introducing Camera+ 3.8" tap tap tap 9:19 AM
"Deal of the Day: 50% off Trident Kraken AMS Case for iPhone 5" iMore 9:11 AM
"Foursquare's latest iOS update proves its future is in local search, not badges" VentureBeat 8:53 AM
"Dropcopy Shares Your Mac and iOS Clipboards Via Dropbox" Cult of Mac 8:38 AM
"ZenDock Hides All your Messy Peripherals And Cables Out Of Site" Cult of Mac 8:37 AM
"RemotePlay launches iOS app for cross-platform media sharing" GigaOM 8:37 AM
"Eat24 launches its iPad app, mimicking the iPhone version with Yelp and PayPal integration, and more" The Next Web 8:25 AM
"Panic releases Status Board dashboard iPad app" Insanely Great Mac 8:24 AM
"CalDigit announces Thunderbolt docking station, RAID boxes" Insanely Great Mac 8:24 AM
"AOptix Stratus lets iPhone users check ID through eyes, faces, fingers and voices" Engadget 8:21 AM
"Innovative Essay Editing App Now on Sale- Essay Editor" prMac 3:25 PM
"ABBYY TextGrabber for iOS Now Accessible for People with Low Vision" prMac 9:59 AM
"Baby-on-Board 1.0.0 for iOS - An Easy Way to Predict Your Baby's Gender" prMac 9:12 AM
"SmartTime Celebrates 5th Year Organizing iPhone Users, With New Features" prMac 7:48 AM
"Veggie Bottoms Teaches Kids About the Benefits of Fruits and Veggies" prMac 7:48 AM
"Shaderific now with camera support, movie textures and video capture" prMac 7:48 AM
"My Videos for iPhone - The Missing Video Overview" prMac 7:48 AM
"London Lines & Stations - A Must-Have For London Travelers" prMac 7:48 AM
"Tips Guide for iPad - Revolutionary Guidebook App Launched" prMac 7:48 AM
"TapDownApps releases AutoDash for iOS - Real-time GPS and Location App" prMac 7:48 AM
"Video Converter App for iPhone and iPad Version 1.5 Released" prMac 7:48 AM
"Blackstone seeks allies for its Dell bid" MarketWatch 9:49 AM
"Dell shareholder: 'Rush' is because Michael D wants to buy" The Register 1:37 PM
"Michael Dell faces uphill battle in bid to go private" V3 2:10 PM
"Dell: Data complexity forces need for agnostic tool chain approach" ZDNet 2:23 PM
"H-P Affirms Commitment to Autonomy" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:42 AM
"Will Microsoft be Obsolete by 2017?" The Motley Fool 9:58 AM
"At long last, Microsoft has an Apple-beating vision" CNNMoney 2:40 PM
"After Apple, China state media train their fire on Microsoft" MarketWatch 9:43 AM
"Microsoft Says Surface's 2-Year Warranty Follows China Law" Bloomberg 10:26 AM
"Microsoft follows Apple into the dock over warranty terms in China" The Register 1:39 PM
"Microsoft pushes yet another Surface RT update meant to fix Wi-Fi woes" PCWorld 11:55 AM
"What Microsoft's job vacancies tell us about the chances of a Surface phone" ZDNet 2:25 PM
"Microsoft Will Stop Supporting Windows Phone After 18 Months" The Motley Fool 9:57 AM
"Microsoft unlikely to extend Windows XP support past 2014" V3 2:09 PM
"Windows 8 Tablets: Why Microsoft Must Slash Prices" InformationWeek 10:18 AM
"Microsoft Outperforms Symantec in Antivirus Test" PC Magazine 11:53 AM
"Exchange 2013 is finally ready for production use: Microsoft's late-2012 general release of Exchange was a beta in all but name, but now the meat of the update has arrived" InfoWorld 11:41 AM
"Microsoft makes available 2013 release of Desktop Optimization Pack" ZDNet 2:23 PM
"9 features the next Xbox must have: Microsoft is likely to reveal its new hardware in May. Here's what it must include if it wants to beat Sony and Nintendo." [Slideshow] Fortune 11:34 AM
"Oracle reveals big data starter appliances and software" V3 2:10 PM
"Oracle Cuts Big Data Appliance Down To Size: Few big data deployments start really big, so Oracle's new six-node 'Starter Rack' Big Data Appliance stores 216 terabytes and costs $160,000." InformationWeek 10:19 AM
"Intel renews efforts in server market" TG Daily 1:35 PM
"Intel Wants to Redesign Your Server Rack" AllThingsD 9:50 AM
"Intel hints at server processor plans for the rest of this year: New chippery all around, from tiny Atom to big bad Xeon E7" The Register 1:38 PM
"Intel's Bay Trail silicon promises significant performance increase for tablets" TG Daily 1:34 PM
"Intel aims for easy server upgrades: Intel will introduce a server reference design that could change system topology in data centers" IDG News Service 11:11 AM
"Intel brings Haswell to servers with Xeon E3 chip: Intel also announces Xeon E5 and E7 chips, which are based on Ivy Bridge" IDG News Service 11:10 AM
"Intel 'Bay Trail' chip set to bring budget convertible PCs to the market: PCs using the Bay Trail chip will cost under $599" IDG News Service 11:10 AM
"Intel lays out plans for the hyperscale datacentre" ZDNet 2:24 PM
"Cisco Matures Into A Dividend Darling" Forbes 9:53 AM
"PC Shipments Post the Steepest Decline Ever in a Single Quarter, According to IDC: Worldwide PC shipments totaled 76.3 million units in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), down -13.9% compared to the same quarter in 2012 and worse than the forecast decline of -7.7%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. The extent of the year-on-year contraction marked the worst quarter since IDC began tracking the PC market quarterly in 1994. The results also marked the fourth consecutive quarter of year-on-year shipment declines." IDC 3:59 PM
"IDC: Global PC Shipments Drop 13.9% in First Quarter" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:20 PM
"Worst PC sales drop in history: PC sales certainly haven't been good over the past year or so, but this past quarter was record-setting bad." CNNMoney 4:23 PM
"PCs are Dead: Long Live Tablets" TheStreet 4:27 PM
"Research firm: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops" Associated Press 3:25 PM
"Windows blamed as PC market tumbles 14%" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 4:23 PM
"CFAA: Where the computer security law is broken/CFAA would allow frivolous prosecutions and stiffer penalties, while damping invention and free speech, opponents say" InfoWorld 11:40 AM
"FCC Budget Aids Wireless Broadband" WSJ Blogs 2:12 PM
"The Space Station Could Be The Next Frontier Of Quantum Communications" Forbes 11:32 AM
"USB says new specification to double transfer speed in the works: USB-IF says data transfer rates will double to 10Gbps, but it will still trail Intel's Thunderbolt" IDG News Service 12:34 PM
"AT&T Researchers Set a Long-Haul Data Record: New optical technology paves the way for more efficient ocean-spanning transmissions." Technology Review 1:28 PM
"Gartner: Long hard climb to high level of cloud computing security" Network World 12:35 PM
"IT manager hiring, unemployment rates rise: Analysts try to explain paradox of government data that shows more workers, and boosts unemployment rate" Computerworld 11:09 AM
"Foxconn's big earnings miss means potential problems for Apple's Q2 earnings, coming in 2 weeks" VentureBeat 9:28 PM
"How many iPads did Apple sell last quarter? The analysts' estimates range from 13 million to 21.7 million. The median is 18 million." Fortune 11:00 AM
"iPad Estimates Range from 13 to 21.7 million" Forbes 3:13 PM
"Time to Double-Dip Apple Shares" TheStreet 8:39 AM
Industry News
"Tech Stocks: Facebook, network stocks drive tech gains/Social-media leader gets a boost in wake of views on mobile ads" MarketWatch 4:23 PM
"U.S. stocks up for third day to record highs: Best session in six weeks for Dow and S&P 500" MarketWatch 4:24 PM
"Markets Reach New Highs on Fed Support" TheStreet 4:24 PM
"Dow and S&P 500 close at new record highs" CNNMoney 4:24 PM
"Stocks Extend Record Run" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:24 PM
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