"Apple Under Siege: Two years after Steve Jobs left us, Apple now wears Tim Cook's imprint and, for all the doubt and perpetual doomsaying, seems to wear it well. One even comes to wonder if the Cassandras aren't in fact doing Apple a vital favor." Monday Note 11:56 AM
"Tim Cook Writes to Staff on Anniversary of Steve Jobs' Death" Tom's Hardware 8:25 AM
"Apple's 'Incandescent' iPhone Team" Forbes 8:26 AM
"Canaccord: iPhone 5S is No. 1 at all U.S. carriers; 5C is No. 2 or 3" Fortune 8:45 AM
"Scott Forstall may re-emerge as witness in upcoming Apple/Samsung trial on damages" TUAW 9:22 AM
"Apple's Schiller, Forstall set to testify in retrial over Samsung damages" Australian Macworld 5:25 PM
"Samsung Seeks U.S. Veto of Import Ban Just Like Apple Got" Bloomberg 5:41 PM
"New photos show progress, working fountain at Apple's Austin campus" AppleInsider 8:35 PM
"On this Day, We Respectfully Remember Steve Jobs" Patently Apple 10/5
"Remembering Steve Jobs Two Years On" FairerPlatform 10/5
"Apple CEO Tim Cook Reflects on Second Anniversary of Steve Jobs' Passing" AllThingsD 10/5
"What's Apple achieved since Steve Jobs died? Er, quite a lot: Apple can't innovate any more? The evidence suggests otherwise" Macworld UK 10/5
"How Apple has changed since Steve Jobs" CNBC 10/5
"Data bites dogma: Apple's iOS ate up Android, Blackberry U.S. market share losses this summer" AppleInsider 10/5
"SEC ends review of Apple taxes, overseas cash: Four months after raising questions about Apple's foreign earnings and taxes, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ended its investigation without plans to take any further action. " AppleInsider 10/5
"Samsung Could Be Entering A Whole World Of Pain Over The Apple Patentgate Affair" Forbes 10/5
"Apple Said To Have Begun OS X 10.10 Development" UberGizmo 3:25 PM
"Developers Now Able to Remove iOS 6 Apps" Run Around Tech 8:31 AM
"Apple releases OS X 10.9 Mavericks Golden Master to developers" T3 10/5
"Apple's new non-feline Mac operating system, OS X Mavericks, ready to go: Golden Master released to developers, along with Xcode 5.0.1" The Register 10/4
"Apple seeds 'gold master' of OS X Mavericks to devs: Past practice hints that Oct. 23 is the upgrade's likely launch date" Computerworld 10/4
"OS X Mavericks Goes Gold, Meaning New Retina Products May Be Imminent" Techland 10/4
"Apple releases OS X Mavericks GM to developers" BetaNews 10/4
"OS X Mavericks Golden Master Reportedly Sent to Developers" PC Magazine 10/4
"Apple issues Golden Master build of OS X 10.9 to developers" Ars Technica 10/4
"Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 Update And Supplemental Update" MacPrices 10/4
"Apple seeds OS X Mavericks Golden Master to developers" iDownload Blog 10/4
"Mavericks gold master (GM) seed now available - Developers, go get it!" iMore 10/4
"What's New in OS X 10.8.5 Supplemental, iTunes 11.1.1" FairerPlatform 10/4
"Apple To Launch Its Volume Purchase Program In The Mac App Store" AppAdvice 10/4
"Volume Purchase Program Coming to Mac App Store" FairerPlatform 10/4
"Apple Intros Mac App Store Volume Purchases" The Mac Observer 10/4
"Reader Reports: iTunes 11.1.1/Apple addresses some frustrating problems with podcasts in its initial iTunes 11.1 release (though some user interface issues remain)." MacInTouch 10/5
"Q&A: MacFixIt Answers/Creating workarounds for unsupported text characters, and more covered in this week's Q&A." MacFixIt 10/4
"Bugs & Fixes: When iTunes warns about untransferred items" Macworld 10/4
"Apple OS X 10.8.5 Supplemental Update Fixes Directory Services Flaw" Intego 10/4
"Apple draws criticism after pulling Chinese anti-censorship app" AppleInsider 10/5
"LA students get iPads, start playing video games" Associated Press 10/5
"Apple's New Job Listing Suggests Imminent Launch Of iTunes Radio In Canada" AppAdvice 10/5
"Tim Cook reflects on second anniversary of Steve Jobs' passing in letter to employees" 9 to 5 Mac 10/4
"Apple's iPhone 5S top buy at all major US carriers in September: Apple's new handset has supplanted Samsung's Galaxy S4 as the top-seller at many US carriers." CNET News 10/4
"iTunes Radio launch in Canada imminent as Apple seeks programmers" 9 to 5 Mac 10/4
"comScore Reports August 2013 U.S. Smartphone Subscriber Market Share: Android and iPhone Combine to Account for More than 92 Percent of U.S. Smartphone Market" ["Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 40.7 percent OEM market share, while Google Android led as the #1 smartphone platform with 51.6 percent platform market share."] comScore 10/4
"comScore: Apple takes 40.7% share as top US smartphone maker, Samsung gains too; Android back to losing share" The Next Web 10/4
"Power Listicle: Disruptive Bezos Displaces Apple Execs as No. 1 on VF Annual Ranking/Vanity Fair magazine thinks Jeff Bezos is top dog of the digerati this year, giving him the No. 1 spot on its annual New Establishment list." AllThingsD 10/4
"'I'm the original voice of Siri': For the past two years, she's been a pocket and purse accessory to millions of Americans. ... She is Siri, Apple's voice-activated virtual 'assistant' introduced to the masses with the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011." CNN 10/4
"Voice of Siri Reveals Herself — And Why The iPhone 'Assistant' Sounds So Snippy" Techland 10/4
"This woman from Atlanta is (almost certainly) the voice behind Siri" The Next Web 10/4
"iPhone 5S fingerprint spoof could lead to ID theft, German researchers says" The Guardian 10/4
"Easy access to Airplane Mode an iOS 7 security flaw -- researchers" CNET News 10/4
"Unlikely fingerprint hack plus Airplane Mode from lockscreen prevents remote wipe" 9 to 5 Mac 10/4
"Apple's iPhone 5s shows better availability than iPhone 5 at the same point" AppleInsider 10/4
"Apple to enter smaller Indian towns with iPhones, iPads" The Economic Times 10/4
"Apple wants to boost sales in India by targeting consumers in smaller cities and towns" The Next Web 10/4
"Report: Apple to add 100 standalone stores, SWAS models to India" MacNN 10/4
"Calif. Appeals Court Tosses iPhone Theft Charge as 'Temporary Taking'/An appellate court in Contra Costa County, Calif., has discovered a previously unknown pastime: cellphone joyriding." ABCNews 10/4
"Apple Pulls App That Helped Chinese Internet Users Over the Great Firewall" Slate 10/4
"Apple pulls VPN app, helps censors' job in China" The Register 10/4
"Apple slammed in China for pulling firewall-busting app OpenDoor" CNN 10/4
"Pebble + Glass + iWatch + Gear + FitBit + Fuelband = 64M units shipped by 2017" VentureBeat 10/4
"New Book Erects Photographic Shrine to Apple/'Iconic: A Photographic Tribute to Apple Innovation,' documents every Apple product ever created, from the Apple I computer to the iPad mini" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 10/4
"In HTC, Apple and Samsung Claim Another Victim - Google" 24/7 Wall St. 10/4
"Apple's iPhone 5C now costs $45: RadioShack and Wal-Mart latest to slash prices" MarketWatch 10/4
"Walmart sells iPhone 5C for $45 with two-year contract" CNET News 10/4
"The iPhone 5C's Price Is Cut In Half At Best Buy After" Business Insider 10/4
"Best Buy offering iPhone 5c for $50... kinda" iMore 10/4
"RadioShack Is Selling The iPhone 5c For $50 Now Too [Deal] Cult of Mac 10/4
"Android phone beats Apple to fingerprint enabled payments" ITProPortal 10/4
"Apple's New iPhone 5c print ads focus on color" AppleInsider 10/4
"Hayward: Robber pulls out wire cutter, steals iPhone while store is open" Bay Area News Group [Free Registration Required] 10/4
"Elmo loves iPads: Close to half of Sesame Workshop's audience now uses mobile devices" GigaOM 10/4
"See Steve Wozniak and Trip Hawkins deliver keynotes at Apps World" Mobile Entertainment 10/4
Non-Apple News
"China Has 2 million Working As 'Internet Opinion Analysts'" Social Barrel 5:50 PM
"BlackBerry's Busy Weekend of Shareholder Lawsuits and Buyout Chatter" AllThingsD 5:35 PM
"BlackBerry accused of propping up stock with false claims: Shareholder lawsuit accuses the struggling handset maker of making false and misleading statements about the company's financial health and the prospects for the BlackBerry 10." CNET News 1:35 PM
"Smartphone accessories market grows exponentially every month" Gulf News 8:24 AM
"Poor Windows 8, Surface RT performance means pay cut for Ballmer" AppleInsider 10/5
"Google Seeks 'Glass' Patent for Fame and Prescription Lenses" Patent Bolt 10/5
"Cellular Communications Equipment Sues Microsoft with Nokia Patent" Patent Bolt 10/5
"Memories of Facebook cloud Twitter's IPO" Reuters 10/5
"2.9M Adobe User Accounts Stolen in Hacker Attack" The Mac Observer 10/4
"Amazon said to be launching Apple TV competitor before the holidays" iDownload Blog 10/4
"HTC Vs. Samsung & The WinDroid Nuclear Option" TechCrunch 10/4
"Samsung says it's on pace for a record operating profit" BGR 10/4
Publications/Podcasts
"Iconic: Photos of Every Apple Product" cek.log 6:00 PM
"MacBreak Weekly 370: A Simple, Humble Potter" iMore 3:05 PM
"MGG 469: Get Your Own Email Domain, Save a Headache" The Mac Observer 11:09 AM
"The TouchArcade Show - 125 - Assuming the Executive Position" Touch Arcade 10/4
"Speck GemShell & CandyShell for the iPhone 5c" Run Around Tech 8:31 AM
"Design duel: iPhone 5S takes the Moto X/The Moto X is a good phone, but it doesn't reach the rarefied industrial-design heights of the 5S." CNET News 10/5
"A look at cover and case options for protecting the iPhone 5c" AppleInsider 10/5
"Arkon Water Resistant Bike Mount for Smartphones" Run Around Tech 10/5
"Review - Western Digital My Cloud Review" Electronista 10/4
"Review: Twelve South GhostStand for MacBooks" 9 to 5 Mac 10/4
"Projector Up! Review: Designed for freelancers and small businesses, Projector Up! helps make managing finances a less daunting task." 148Apps 10/4
"Dragon Academy Review: Sticking very close to some familiar source material, it's not so much that Dragon Academy is a poor Match-3 game, more that it offers nothing new." 148Apps 10/4
"Nakama Review: Nakama throws plenty of fast-paced ninja action at players in a blocky 2D landscape." 148Apps 10/4
"Gappy's Mystery Letters Review: Gappy's Mystery Letters is a charming letter drawing app with a fun mystery theme and coloring pages." 148Apps 10/4
How-To/Tutorial
"How-to: Set time limits on your Wi-Fi network using Airport Utility" 9 to 5 Mac 8:20 AM
"How-to: Automatically set up an Apple TV by touching it to your iOS Device" 9 to 5 Mac 10/5
"iClarified - iPhone - How to Tweak iOS to Improve the Battery Life of Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch" iClarified 10/4
"iOS 7: How to Decide Which Apps Get to Know Your Location" The Mac Observer 10/4
"Four biggest iOS 7 complaints and how to fix some of them" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 10/4
"6 Known Issues With the iPhone 5s and iOS 7 — And How to Deal With Them" Wired 10/4
"Using a Raspberry Pi as an AirPlay Receiver" Mactuts+ 10/4
"How to update your iPhone or iPad to iOS 7: The newest iPhone & iPad operating system brings a raft of new features and security upgrades. Here's how to get iOS 7 now" Macworld UK 10/4
"Can I update to iOS 7 on my iPhone or iPad? List of devices compatible with iOS 7" Macworld UK 10/4
"More Steve Jobs Action Figures Are On Their Way" Gizmodo 1:34 PM
"Tesla, the fire, the market, and Apple" The Loop 9:23 AM
"The Second Anniversary of Steve Jobs Death" Macs Future 9:16 AM
"Dear Apple, what's wrong with shenanigans? This week, Apple's Phil Schiller took to Twitter to sniff at Samsung's alleged 'shenanigans.' But, as a CNBC broadcast about JP Morgan underlined, shenaniganing is just part of businessing, isn't it?" CNET News 10/5
"And Then Steve Said, '?Let There Be an iPhone'" ParisLemon 10/5
"Why Apple Bought Cue (Hint: To Build You a Better iWatch)" Cult of Mac 10/5
"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish: In Memory of Steve Jobs" MacTrast 10/5
"Apple's Most Important Branding Lesson For Marketers" Forbes 10/5
"Laurene Powell Jobs Continues To Inch Her Way Into The Spotlight" Cult of Mac 10/5
"As MacBook Air ages, Apple rivals show the way to Retina: It's time for Apple to update the Air and/or a thinner, lighter Pro with a Retina screen. It's certainly doable." CNET News 10/5
"Will iOS ever be the most popular smartphone OS in the US?" The Verge 10/5
"Inside the iPhone: Apple's Security-Filled Product Development" PC Magazine 10/5
"iSteve, Rest In Peace; Apple's Future Of Digital Living" USAfrica Online 10/5
"The Story Of The Creation Of The iPhone Explains Why Apple Can't Just 'Innovate' A New Product Every Other Year" Business Insider 10/5
"Terrible reporting about iPhone security leads to people being less secure. Great job, media!" iMore 10/5
"Analogue Meets Digital: Fixing the Media; and a Kodak iOS App for Professionals" eXtensions 10/5
"Steve Jobs Or Elon Musk— Which Legendary Executive Actually Achieved More?" Business Insider 10/5
"The Macalope Weekly: Fairness and accuracy in the media" Macworld 10/5
"Apple Stores Stale 'Since Steve Jobs Died'" Tapscape 10/5
"Developing the First iPhone: Behind the Scenes" Mashable 10/4
"The Apple team behind the original iPhone recalls its stressful, terrifying development" The Verge 10/4
"Apple: Sizing Up the Critical Failure Points of the TV Industry" The Mac Observer 10/4
"Why Did Apple Buy Cue? Because Google Now Eats Siri's Lunch" TechCrunch 10/4
"Death by review: Samsung's preemptive strike at Apple's iWatch/Stung by the copy-cat label, Samsung set out to prove it can out-innovate the innovator." Fortune 10/4
"Who Do You Really Trust More? A Den Of Liars, Thieves, And Cheaters? Or, Walt Disney World?" Mac 360 10/4
"Why tablet magazines are a failure" GigaOM 3:06 PM
"The Quartz Way (1): Quartz, a web-only business publication, just turned one year old. On both editorial and business dimensions, Quartz features all components of a modern media venture. Is this a formula for the long run? To answer the question, in the first of two articles, we take a closer look at the editorial product." Monday Note 11:55 AM
"Big companies still don't get Android" The Verge 8:25 AM
"Rise of the prosumer analyst: How mobile is driving a new brand of business analysis" GigaOM 10/5
"Finland and Nokia: An affair to remember/The company that built a country has lost its aura and relinquished the controls." Ars Technica 10/5
"Science, art collide in amazing psychedelic photos: Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner captures the beauty of basic scientific principles, using sound waves, feral liquid, and magnets to create art." CNET News 10/5
"Why Twitter isn't like Facebook: Twitter wants to be more than a busy town square with targeted ads dropped into the flow of tweets. The company aspires to reach Facebook heights." CNET News 10/5
"Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition: For Serious Users Only [Review] Mashable 10/4
"Estimating HTC's post-traumatic life expectancy" asymco 10/4
"Coming October 5: Gene Steinberg meets The Mac Observer's John Martellaro, and Macworld's 'iTunes Guy,' Kirk McElhearn, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 10/4
"TMO's Jeff Gamet, Dave Hamilton Talk Mobile Tech" The Mac Observer 10/4
"Tiny Tower meets Star Wars in upcoming Tiny Death Star game" iMore 10/4
"Awesome Note Gets Entirely New Design and Features for iOS 7" iClarified 10/4
"Epocrates Bugs + Drugs Informs Users About Different Types of Bacteria" 148Apps 10/4
"10 Sticky iPhone Cases With Good Grip" Mashable 10/4
"New App Emoji Quiz Introduces Emojis In Trivia Games" prMac 10/4
"Build 16 exceptional models with 3D bricks" prMac 10/4
"NuMac LLC announces Optical Disc Burning solution for new Mac Pro" prMac 10/4
"Microsoft Surface selling out? We've seen this movie before: Microsoft claims its Surface tablet is selling out. That should give pause to anyone who remembers the first-generation Surface debacle." CNET News 2:46 PM
"Microsoft's Xbox One engineers reveal more about console's CPU" Neowin 9:18 PM
"Windows Phone grabs one in ten smartphone sales in Europe" TechHive 8:37 AM
"Intel: Its New Ivy Bridge Positions The Company For Margin Increase And Growth" Seeking Alpha 5:37 PM
"Intel: Its New Ivy Bridge Positions The Company For Margin Increase And Growth" Seeking Alpha 8:16 AM
"AMD details upcoming GPU Tech" The Asian Age 5:34 PM
"Advanced Micro Devices: A Path To Profitability" Seeking Alpha 8:33 AM
"Review: XPS 12"s Haswell upgrade improves an already-good convertible PC/Dell improves the battery life but doesn't fix what isn't broken." Ars Technica 6:57 PM
"Dell's Latitude 10 a decent tablet" Canoe Tech Blog 3:24 PM
"HP documents hint at unannounced Chromebook 11" Engadget 8:32 AM
"IBM now employs more workers in India than US" New York Post 8:36 AM
"Cisco Appoints Mike Weston as Vice President for Middle East and Turkey" Zawya 8:34 AM
"Microsoft was hammered by Six Patent Troll Lawsuits this Week" Patent Bolt 10/5
"Microsoft's Ballmer sees pay dock due to Windows, Surface performance" Electronista 10/5
"Microsoft Could Outstrip Apple's Market Value In The Next Year Or Two" Seeking Alpha 10/5
"Skype attempts to whitewash wiretap concerns with improved battery life and cloud services" The Verge 10/5
"Rumor: Microsoft offering to drop Windows Phone license fee for HTC/Form an orderly queue for your free Windows Phone license." Ars Technica 10/5
"Microsoft Surface Vs. Dell Venue: Tablet Rivals" InformationWeek 10/5
"Microsoft is quietly recycling Outlook email accounts" PCWorld 10/5
"Dear Intel: Please put your best tech into the PC/In Depth: Its in Intel's interests to give the tech community something to be really positive about" TechRadar UK 10/5
"Heads up, Intel: TI chips bring ARM to Arduino gadget market/A Texas Instruments ARM-based chip means hardware hackers who like Arduino will have another choice besides Intel's Quark for computing projects." CNET News 10/5
"For better or worse, HP has finally found its cloud religion" GigaOM 10/5
"Google in Jeopardy: What If IBM's Watson Dethroned the King of Search?" Wired 10/5
"Google, SAP, Cisco & Samsung Among Potential Tech Buyers For Some Or All Of BlackBerry, Says Reuters" TechCrunch 10/5
"How much did Nvidia pay Origin PC to drop AMD?" SemiAccurate 10/5
"Origin PC Opting for Nvidia Over AMD GPUs for Gaming PCs" Tom's Hardware 10/5
"U.S. Stocks End Broadly Higher: Dow Industrials Fall for a Second Straight Week; Service-Sector Data Disappoint" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 10/4
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