"As iPods fade out, Apple's iTunes turns up the volume: Apple's iTunes business continues to grow, while the product that helped catapult it heads into the sunset." CNET News 3:13 PM
"This is Tim: Apple's CEO on New categories, China growth, and free updates" Macworld 8:31 AM
"Apple profit declines as iPad sales flatten: While iPhone shipments grew, Apple's iPad shipments were flat and its Mac shipments declined in the last quarter" IDG News Service 8:12 AM
"An iPad Christmas, Sure, but Will It Be a Retina iPad Mini Christmas?" AllThingsD 8:04 AM
"Tim Cook: We're Going To Sell A LOT Of iPads This Quarter" Business Insider 8:38 AM
"Apple looks to put down roots for the next decade" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 8:04 AM
"Breaking Down Apple's 4Q Earnings" Bloomberg TV 9:08 AM
"Growth Concern at Apple? Margins Mystery Revealed" Bloomberg TV 8:16 AM
"Apple Dealing With Problems of Success: Kirkpatrick" Bloomberg TV 8:16 AM
"Apple reveals 15 acquisitions in 2013, seven mystery deals unknown" V3 8:27 AM
"The Damning Evidence That Apple Really Isn't Paying Taxes That Are Due" Forbes 8:02 AM
"Why Apple's Stock Gyrated During Earnings Release...And Is Heading Up" Forbes 8:01 AM
"Apple iWatch on the cards for 2014 as Tim Cook promises new products" V3 8:27 AM
"LG Display expected to provide OLEDs for iWatch: Samsung Display not interested in supplying, wishing to retain 'Samsung flavor' of curved displays" The Korea Herald 8:15 AM
"LG is nearing a deal with Apple to supply flexible OLED displays for iWatch 2014 launch" Unwired View 8:15 AM
"Apple to pay 12 million euros: The war between Apple and Copy France has just taken a new turn. Paris Court ordered the U.S. company to pay € 12 million for private copying. Only the amounts are dependent proceedings initiated before the Council of State. Meanwhile, these funds have been placed in receivership." Google French-to-English: PC INpact 10:16 AM
"Apple ordered to pay 12 million euros for unpaid iPad copyright fees" TUAW 10:17 AM
"Mavericks rushes onto Macs as uptake easily beats predecessor to 10% mark: But Apple is uncharacteristically mum on downloads" Computerworld 3:56 PM
"For the Mac, like the PC, it's all downhill from here: Just as businesses have begun to grudgingly accept OS X, sales are slipping in what may be the Mac's long, slow good-bye" InfoWorld 8:12 AM
"Apple faces backlash over missing, changed functions in iWork revamp" AppleInsider 8:37 AM
"Power loss: Reactions to the new iWork for OS X" Macworld 8:38 AM
"OS X Mavericks Adoption: One Week On" FairerPlatform 8:28 AM
"Popular Download Site Distributing Adware for Top Mac Software" SecureMac 10:07 AM
"CNET Adware Identification and Removal Guide" SecureMac 3:09 PM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"6 Known Issues With OS X Mavericks and How to Fix Them" Wired 8:36 AM
"Final Cut Pro X 'Cannot Allocate Memory' Error" FCPXtv 8:05 AM
"OS X: How to connect with File Sharing using SMB" Apple Support 2:05 PM
"About Apple Configurator 1.4.2" Apple Support 2:05 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Apple OS X Mavericks review: Putting shine on something shiny" Digital Spy 1:58 PM
"Mavericks Can Be Fountain of Youth for Old Macs" MacNewsWorld 8:15 AM
"OS X Mavericks: A Free OS Worth Paying For" Mashable 8:09 AM
"OS X 10.9 brings fast but choppy Thunderbolt networking: I don't need no stinking 10 Gigabit Ethernet—I have a Thunderbolt cable!" Ars Technica 1:30 PM
"Safari 7 review: Mavericks browser saves battery life, brings further refinements" Macworld 8:16 AM
"iPhoto 9.5 for OS X Shows Little Change but Still Shines" The Mac Observer 1:44 PM
"Getting the Most From Maps in OS X Mavericks" Mactuts+ 8:41 AM
"OS X Mavericks tips and tricks, get more out of Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks" Macworld UK 8:38 AM
"13 New Tricks in OSX Mavericks" Apple Gazette 8:14 AM
"System Preferences in OS X 10.9, Mavericks: Mission Control" eXtensions 8:46 AM
"System Preferences in OS X 10.9, Mavericks: Displays" eXtensions 8:42 AM
"OS X Mavericks: Ten awesome features Apple forgot to mention" The Gadget Show 9:59 AM
"OS X Mavericks: Using Interactive Notifications" The Mac Observer 7:56 AM
"How to stop iPhoto on OS X from opening when you plug in your iPhone or iPad" GigaOM 9:59 AM
"A (not so) Quick and Dirty workaround for the loss of builds and transitions in Keynote 6 -a temporary set of solutions while the engineers put the fixes in.." Les Posen's Presentation Magic 8:09 AM
"iTunes Radio Normalizes Playback Volume with Sound Check" Kirkville 8:40 AM
"Tell Mavericks To Install Software Updates When You Want [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac 8:40 AM
"The Mac App That Brings All Your Stuff To One Place So You Can Find What You Want" Mac 360 8:00 AM
"How To Find, Open, Manage Files And Folders, In Any App, Without Using The Mac's Finder" NoodleMac 7:59 AM
"Free: Mail Notifications For Your Mac Done The Right Way" TeraTalks 7:59 AM
"Try The Mac Utility That Makes Spaces In OX Mavericks Work The Way Spaces Should Work" Mac 360 7:59 AM
"How The Free Quicksand App Does File Backup Up Front, Automatically" BohemianBoomer 7:59 AM
"Free Zeitraffer Is All You Need To Know About Creating Time Lapse Movies On A Mac" McSolo 7:59 AM
Op/Ed
"Bit Rot Concerns" ["My current coping strategy for bit rot is the same as for accidental deletion and corruption by tools: defense in layers."] Duncan Davidson 4:46 PM
"Apple's Tim Cook calls companywide meeting, solicits questions" CNET News 8:45 AM
"Tim Cook Thanks Staff In Email, Holding Employee Meeting Today" AppAdvice 8:37 AM
"Apple said to unveil newfangled Brazil retail store by March: The first Latin American country to get an Apple retail shop could be saying 'ola, como vai' within the next five months." CNET News 8:04 AM
"No iPhone Bump For September Retail Sales" Forbes 8:37 AM
"Apple still rules in Japan as carriers battle to sell iPhones" Reuters 10:08 AM
"New iPhones help Apple claim a record 34% share of smartphone sales in Japan" The Next Web 8:10 AM
"iOS Smartphone Market Share Stagnant at 14%, While Windows Phone Climbs 165% Year-on-year to 4% of 3Q World Market, According to ABI Research" Business Wire 1:45 PM
"IDC: Smartphone shipments up 39 percent in 3Q" Associated Press 1:58 PM
"Samsung Hits Record High as Global Mobile Phone Shipments Reach 418 Million Units in Q3 2013" ["Apple shipped 33.8 million iPhones worldwide in Q3 2013, up from 26.9 million a year earlier. Apple grew 26 percent annually in Q3 2013, which was faster than the overall mobile phone industry, enabling Apple to raise its global marketshare slightly from 7 percent to 8 percent during the past year. We expect Apple to gain further mobile phone share in the upcoming fourth quarter of 2013 due to high demand for its new iPhone 5s model."] Strategy Analytics 1:46 PM
"Global phone sales hit 418M as Samsung sells more than Nokia + Apple + LG combined" VentureBeat 1:46 PM
"Apple hit with class action over faulty iMac screens" GigaOM 3:12 PM
"Apple Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over Failing 27" iMac Displays" MacRumors 4:10 PM
"Why Apple Wants to Bust Your iPhone" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:02 AM
"No, Apple's Not Trying to 'Bust Your Phone'" Gizmodo 9:47 AM
"92% of iTunes Radio listeners still use Pandora, says new report" AppleInsider 8:17 AM
"Apple Finally Gives Developers the Ability to Manage Game Center Leaderboards" Touch Arcade 8:11 AM
"'Thousands of iPhone, iPad apps' vulnerable to simple redirect joyriders: Wanna edit the news yourself? Here's how, say security bods" The Register 8:06 AM
"Revealed: LSD, a Zen Master's indecent offer, sublime sex and inhuman cruelty - searing new book by the mother of Steve Jobs's first child lays bare the sordid truth of life with the Apple boss" Daily Mail (UK) 9:27 AM
"Steve Jobs house added as 'historic resource'" San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 9:17 AM
"Steve Jobs' Calif. home gets historic designation" Associated Press 9:17 AM
"Steve Jobs' childhood home in Los Altos becomes protected historic site" 9 to 5 Mac 10:19 AM
"Garage Where Steve Jobs Started Apple Designated as Historic Site" Mashable 3:56 PM
"Steve Jobs house named a 'historic resource'" BBC 3:11 PM
"Why Samsung may get the last laugh with the Galaxy Round" BGR 4:45 PM
"Motorola hires Pixar moviemakers to allow Moto X owners to peek into virtual world" 9 to 5 Google 8:40 AM
"Ericsson uses Samsung's designaround tactics from Apple case against Samsung at the ITC" Foss Patents 8:14 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Episode 027: There Is No Show/It's a pocket monster sized episode as we're joined by Cody Fink of MacStories. We discuss writing for your soul, outgrowing tech news, choosing the right iPhone, the future of iWork, the 2DS & the state of Nintendo." The Menu Bar 9:48 AM
"Rumor: Big-screen 'iPhone 6' coming Sept. 2014, Apple to focus on one-handed use" AppleInsider 8:37 AM
"Another Report Claims Apple's 'iPhone 6' Will Be A Phablet" AppAdvice 8:38 AM
"iPhone 6 could be one-handed 5-inch device, report claims" Electronista 9:47 AM
"Retina MacBook Pros inexplicably freezing for many users: Many users of Apple's new Haswell-powered Retina MacBook Pro are reporting hangs and lockups, with no clear reason why and no consistent fix" InfoWorld 8:12 AM
"Supply of iPad mini with Retina display may not meet demand" TechnologyTell 8:40 AM
"Tim Cook: iPhone 5c is not an entry-level smartphone" TechnologyTell 3:13 PM
"iOS apps can be hijacked to show fraudulent content and intercept data" Ars Technica 1:46 PM
"Rumor: Apple to offer iPad Air for Personal Pickup come November 1st" O'Grady's PowerPage 9:48 AM
"How accurate is the iPhone's touchscreen? Not very: Samsung outdoes Apple as tests reveal it's inaccurate 75% of the time" Daily Mail (UK) 9:41 AM
Granted Apple Patents
"Apple Granted 40 Patents Today Covering Fingerprint Sensors, Pressure Sensor Displays, the iPad Smart Case and More" Patently Apple 7:57 AM
"Apple patent filing involves excluding locations from location sharing" AppleDailyReport 7:57 AM
"Apple files patent for personalizing digital gifts" AppleDailyReport 7:57 AM
AppleCare/Helps
"Apple confirms battery issues with some iPhone 5s units, blames manufacturing error" AppleInsider 8:55 PM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Bleach Jump For iPhone Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)" Apple Sliced 8:28 AM
"The Fluffies For iPhone Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)" Apple Sliced 8:28 AM
"Bubble Annihilator HD For iPad And Bubble Annihilator For iPhone Are Free Today (Was $0.99)" Apple Sliced 8:28 AM
"iMovie Review – The Hits And Misses For iOS & Mac" Apple'n'Apps 1:32 PM
"Calendars 5 for iOS review: Better than Calendar on all your devices" Macworld 1:14 PM
"Nike SB app for iOS helps skateboarders learn new tricks and play S.K.A.T.E with anyone in the world" The Next Web 8:10 AM
"Chromic brings professional video filters to iOS for free" iDownload Blog 8:39 AM
"Rotato might be the simplest, most difficult game in the App Store" iDownload Blog 8:39 AM
"Appidemic: The Cave for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch" TechnologyTell 8:40 AM
"'Doom and Destiny' Review - A Funny Parody With A Solid Game Backing It" Touch Arcade 10:20 AM
"LoryStripes Review: Add various stripes and ribbons to one's photography, and watch how it makes some imagery really pop." 148Apps 8:40 AM
How-To/Tutorial
"How to Set Up Your New Apple MacBook Pro: So you just cracked the white box containing your new aluminum and glass Apple MacBook Pro. We walk you through the best way to set it up." PC Magazine 4:09 PM
Tips
"iOS 7: Tweak and Disable Short Names in Messages" The Mac Observer 9:52 AM
"Finding inspiration for better presentations (in the light of Keynote 6): Virgin America's cabin safety video" Les Posen's Presentation Magic 7:44 PM
"Will Google Beat Apple To A Smart Watch - And Does It Matter?" Forbes 4:09 PM
"Is Apple busting your iPhone? The New York Times' Catherine Rampell asked if Apple is trying to bust your iPhone to get you to upgrade. While it may benefit Apple – and every other company – to make old products obsolete, there are bigger forces at work." ZDNet 4:31 PM
"Lingering glitches with Apple's iOS 7 and Microsoft's Windows 8 haunt gadgets" ABCNews 8:46 AM
"The iPad is going to suffer the same fate the Mac suffered a generation ago" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 8:45 AM
"Mac Pro: 'The computer we were insane to build'" TUAW 8:41 AM
"10 reasons to love the iMac, and one reason not to: Thinking about buying an iMac, not sure whether it's the Mac for you, read on..." Macworld UK 8:37 AM
"Apple hasn't demoed an iPad on stage all year" iMore 8:32 AM
"The Great Apple Lull: Is excitement around Apple winding down? Or winding up?" SplatF 8:31 AM
"Here's the problem with BBM for Android and iPhone" Memeburn 8:27 AM
"Tim Cook Hints At 'Great New' Product Categories" Cult of Mac 8:17 AM
"What Company Is Missing In Action From The iPhone And iPad Arena?" Mac 360 7:59 AM
"Tim Cook Channels John Sculley And Other Idiotic Analysis About Apple's Future" PixoBebo 7:59 AM
"The Crazy New Way Apple Will Make Billions On The New iPad Air And iPad mini" Mac 360 7:59 AM
"Mac sales: the good news and the bad news" AppleDailyReport 7:57 AM
Non-Apple
"Use Of Social Media For Hiring Is At An All-Time High [Infographic] Social Barrel 5:37 PM
"Surface 2 review: Cautious upgrades don't help a tablet in desperate need of relevance" TechHive 8:39 AM
"Microsoft shareholders advised to vote against director Thompson" Reuters 6:51 AM
"Microsoft Shareholders Advised Against Re-Election Of John Thompson: Proxy advisory firm says Microsoft investors shouldn't re-elect the man tasked with finding Steve Ballmer's replacement to the board" TechWeekEurope 6:53 AM
"3 Takeaways From Microsoft's Q1 2014 Results" Seeking Alpha 10:05 AM
"Microsoft's Mobile Efforts Buoyed By Nokia Innovations" Seeking Alpha 6:09 AM
"Nokia Reports Net Sales Of €5.66B, €118M Profit, And 8.8M Lumias Sold In Q3" TechCrunch 6:30 AM
"Nokia narrows Q3 loss as Lumia sales spike" BGR 8:19 AM
"Nokia makes $151M profit, high Lumia sales in third-quarter results" Electronista 8:19 AM
"Nokia is churning out even more dumbphones that can't run Microsoft Windows" Quartz 7:50 AM
"Nokia telecoms division profits down by a third: Operating profit at Nokia's telecoms solutions and networks - its main business once its phones division is sold - fell 33% in the third quarter to 218m euros ($300m; £186.6m)." BBC 8:18 AM
"Microsoft may turn to Windows Defender for unprotected PCs" PCWorld 6:51 AM
"Microsoft: Xbox One Will Not Have Live UI Demos Because of Licensing Issues" Softpedia 6:53 AM
"Microsoft security research paints bleak picture for XP users/Summary: The latest security threat report from Microsoft shows the outlook for Windows XP users is getting grimmer. Things are bad, getting worse, and in six months the trouble really starts." ZDNet 6:54 AM
"Microsoft Claims That Users Are Giving Up on Windows XP for Windows 8.1" Softpedia 6:54 AM
"Finally, Microsoft Makes The Key Shifts Investors Are Looking For" Seeking Alpha 3:17 PM
"Dell seals $24.9 billion buyout, delisting Tuesday" Reuters 11:03 AM
"Dell's deal to go private complete, no change in product plans: Dell and Silver Lake buy out the company for $24.9 billion" IDG News Service 12:43 PM
"Dell begins Nasdaq delisting as bid to go private finalized: The computer maker's founder and chief executive said the firm will continue to 'aggressively execute' its long-term strategy in a deal valued at $24.9 billion." CNET News 2:34 PM
"Dell officially goes private, says focus is on you" Engadget 4:31 PM
"Dell completes privatization bid, delists from Nasdaq at market close" Electronista 5:38 PM
"Can privately held Dell be a cloud power?" GigaOM 4:31 PM
"Dell to show its first 64-bit ARM server this week: Dell and HP are both moving forward this week with their low-power server plans" IDG News Service 6:10 AM
"HP hopes to make internet more sustainable with three new Moonshot servers" Engadget 4:31 PM
"Hewlett Packard Will Have A Serious Impact On 3D Printing Companies" Seeking Alpha 6:09 AM
"Is HP The Next Big 3-D Printing Story?" Seeking Alpha 12:11 PM
"Mind behind IBM's first PC, William C. Lowe, dies at 72" The Verge 6:29 AM
"William Lowe, the 'father of the IBM PC,' dies at 72: After his proposal for a quick market entry via Atari was rejected, Lowe was given one year to design and produce a personal computer that would be market ready." CNET News 6:50 AM
"William C. Lowe, Who Oversaw Birth of the IBM PC, Dies at 72" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 6:50 AM
"Man behind the IBM PC dies" PC Pro [Free Registration Required] 6:50 AM
"William C. Lowe, the man behind the IBM PC, dies aged 72" Engadget 12:13 PM
"Intel Makes 14nm ARM for Altera" EE Times 6:48 AM
"Xeon E5-4610 v2 and E5-4657L v2 CPUs spotted" CPU World 6:48 AM
"Intel talks a little more about Quark: Not P54C based but still makes no sense" SemiAccurate 6:48 AM
"Advanced Micro Devices: A Solid Buy At These Levels" Seeking Alpha 6:40 AM
"Is AMD making a comeback? Q3 numbers beat expectations, profits made" TweakTown 6:41 AM
"John Carmack No Longer Enthused About AMD's Mantle?" Tom's Hardware 6:41 AM
"Cisco launches Internet of things division, eyes standardization/Summary: Cisco says it has a big role in the Internet of things to promote standards, networking interconnects and industry use cases." ZDNet 6:44 AM
"Cisco Re-Org Exemplifies Rise of IoT" EE Times 6:45 AM
"MTS, Cisco launch X (FTTx) project" Voice & Data 6:44 AM
"Cisco Systems: A Strong Buy Recommendation" Seeking Alpha 6:44 AM
"Cisco delivers convergence system to boost internet growth" BusinessDay 6:44 AM
"Apple In The Green After Stock Sees Red After Earnings" Forbes 8:37 AM
"Apple's $37.5 billion quarter: What the analysts are saying/Despite the report of lower earnings: the third in a row: a light at the end of the tunnel." Fortune 8:05 AM
"The best and worst Apple analysts: Q4 2013 edition" Fortune 8:04 AM
"Apple revenues up, net profit down in fiscal 4Q13" DigiTimes 8:07 AM
Industry News
"Tech Stocks: Yahoo rallies, but Seagate, Apple slip/Shares of Sanmina, Commvault, 3D Systems also weigh on techs" MarketWatch 9:54 AM
"Stocks steady ahead of Fed meeting" CNNMoney 7:23 AM
"Dow, S&P Leap to Record Highs on Stimulus Prospects" TheStreet 5:40 PM
"Stock Futures Rise Ahead of Data" FOXBusiness 7:25 AM
"Dow, S&P 500 Finish at Record Highs: Pfizer Results, IBM Buyback Lift Market; Investors Await Wednesday's Fed Statement" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5:39 PM
"Asia Markets: Asia stocks lower as earnings roll on/Asian stock markets made small moves Tuesday ahead of Wednesday's Federal Reserve policy meeting, as investors digested a number of corporate earnings reports." MarketWatch 7:24 AM
"Europe Markets: Earnings support European stocks; BP up 3.9%/European stock markets moved higher on Tuesday, supported by encouraging earnings reports from heavyweights such as BP PLC, while investors remained cautious ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's two-day policy-setting meeting." MarketWatch 7:24 AM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 1:18 PM
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 5:39 PM
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