"Here's Why I Think Apple Might Be Buying Beats, and Some Other Things I Think They Should Do" Re/code 7:31 PM
"Apple's Beats buyout may be delayed by complicated negotiation process, culture clash" The Verge 12:13 PM
"Apple reportedly 'freaked out' about the drunken Dr. Dre video" VentureBeat 7:31 PM
"Apple's Global Picture In 1,500 Words" Seeking Alpha 8:12 AM
"Patent battle: Apple tries again to ban sale of Samsung devices" Digital Trends 8:35 AM
"Apple and Samsung: A Brief History of Mutual Copying" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 8:16 AM
"Apple wheels out sueball cannon, again: Samsung damages inadequate, claims Cupertino" The Register 7:28 PM
"Apple Requests Retrial, Seeks Sales Ban And More Money From Samsung For Copying iPhone" Redmond Pie 12:18 PM
"Apple requests ban on several Samsung devices after patent lawsuit" Seeking Alpha 8:15 AM
"30 Women Who Are Changing The World: 7. Angela Ahrendts" ["Ahrendts is whip smart, stylish, and well liked by her employees. Some speculate that if she does a good job, she has a chance of becoming Apple's next CEO."] Business Insider 5/24
"Apple seeking U.S. permanent injunction against Samsung based on this month's jury verdict" Foss Patents 5/24
"Apple Seeks Order Blocking Sale of Some Samsung Phones" Bloomberg 5/24
"Apple Seeks Court-Imposed Ban on Sale of Some Samsung Devices" Re/code 5/24
"Apple requests retrial of Samsung patent case, demonstrates dissatisfaction with jury verdict" Foss Patents 5/24
"Apple seeks Samsung product ban, retrial in second California lawsuit" AppleInsider 5/24
"Apple Files New Motion Seeking Triple Damages from Samsung" Patently Apple 5/24
"Apple wants to ban past and future Samsung devices from being sold in the US" 9to5Mac 5/24
"Apple rolls out Safari update with critical security fixes" The Inquirer 5/23
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Mavericks discussion includes more about OS X 10.9.3 graphics bugs; hidden folders (with troubleshooting tips); Apple Mail problems; alias/Dock issues when running disk utilities; confusing hooks between iTunes, Safari, etc." MacInTouch 5/24
"Final Cut Pro X 10.1: Scroll bars intermittently disappear" Apple Support 5/23
"iAd Producer 4.2 release notes: iAd Producer makes it easy for you to design and assemble rich interactive content without any programming." Apple Support 5/23
"Mavericks discussion includes DiskWarrior testing procedures; OS X 10.9.3 graphics problems; hidden folders; and Apple's confusing inter-app/OS software hooks (e.g. with iTunes)." MacInTouch 5/23
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Samsung to Advance Smart Wearables to Hazard Suits" Patently Mobile 1:42 PM
"How to change or unlink a files from applications in OS X" MacIssues 12:13 PM
"Hands On: Steam game streaming/Stream Steam games from a Windows computer to OSX, Linux" Electronista 5/24
"Recording Voicemail from an iPhone to an Apple MacBook Pro 13"" Training Revolution 5/24
"Watch this! How to use OS X Server for mobile device management" The Register 5/24
"Six Clicks: Cool stuff buried in OS X" ZDNet 5/23
"Apple's Expanded 'My Verse' Campaign Pitches iPad As Mobile Creation Tool" TechCrunch 3:14 PM
"iPad globe-trots, gets symphonic in new Apple ads" CNET 7:34 PM
"Apple debuts new stories for its 'Your Verse' iPad campaign" iDownload Blog 7:28 PM
"Cheaper smartphone brands take on Apple and Samsung in Europe" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7:27 PM
"iPhones, not clothes, represent social status for teens, says researcher: Research from Piper Jaffray suggests gadgets and food, rather than clothes, are the main areas where teens spend money." CNET 5/24
"Brand Values 2014: Apple Inc. Sinks, Google Inc. Soars, and the Recession is Over" The Motley Fool 5/24
"Apple Stores to go 100 percent renewable soon" TechnologyTell 5/24
"How a text-based RPG got to No. 1 on iOS App Store" Dallas Morning News [Paid Membership Required] 5/24
"Watch This DJ Pound The Default iPhone Ringtone Into A Crazy Catchy Dance Track" TechCrunch 5/24
"Boeing Wants to Become More Like Apple: Are Planes the New iPad?" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 5/24
"Apple Could See a Flurry of Upgrades With the iPhone 6" The Motley Fool 5/23
"The 62 Brands Young Americans Love Most: Apple was by far the most popular response, claiming 7.5% of the 3,000 possible answers." [Slideshow] Forbes 5/23
"The best tablet of 2014: Apple vs Sony vs Samsung" PCWorld Australia 5/23
"'Spaceship' campus can't come soon enough for Apple, with firm looking to flood Sunnyvale offices instead" ITProPortal 5/23
"Apple getting a new California campus" TechnologyTell 5/23
"Apple's 8 GB iPhone 5c launches in India" Gigaom 5/23
"Apple created its first iWatch in the 1980s" Geek 5/23
"Here's What An Apple Smartwatch From The 1980s Looks Like [Photo] Redmond Pie 5/23
"Apple now offering free shipping on all online purchases through May 29th" 9to5Mac 5/23
"Online Apple store gets free shipping on everything through May 29th" MacNN 5/23
"Apple removes weed dealing game from app store" CNNMoney 5/23
"Osmo iPad Game System Dodges Apple Tax: Osmo sells physical game pieces directly to consumers, bypassing Apple's efforts to grab a slice of the revenue." InformationWeek 5/23
"Hopscotch: iPad App to Help Teach Children Programming Basics" eXtensions 5/23
"TeeVee 3 premiers: native iPad UI, iCloud/Trakt.tv sync, fullscreen iOS 7 layout and more" iDownload Blog 5/23
"Sakoos for iOS is a photo-sharing app that answers one simple question: 'What's in your bag?'" The Next Web 5/23
"You Should Play: Another Case Solved" TechHive 5/23
"All-you-can-read kids service Epic adds a thousand new books from HarperCollins" TechHive 5/23
"Threes vs. 2048 Review: which is the best tile sliding game for iPhone and iPad?" Macworld UK 5/23
"'Axl & Tuna' Review - The Feel-Good Game That You'll Keep Running Back To" Touch Arcade 5/23
"Alone in the Dark Review: Not even the deeply ingrained nostalgia over one of the world's earliest 'Survival Horror' games is enough to make this port worthwhile." 148Apps 5/23
How-To/Tutorial
"How to replace the rear iSight camera in an iPhone 5" iMore 3:14 PM
"How-to: Conserve battery power on your iOS devices" 9to5Mac 5/24
"How To Fix iOS 7 iMessage Delivery Bug" Redmond Pie 5/24
"How-to: Conserve battery power on your iOS devices" 9to5Mac 5/24
"iOS 7: the ultimate Spotlight search guide" iDownload Blog 5/24
"How parents can use the iPad to keep their kids learning this summer" Gigaom 5/24
"Remove Color Filters from Photos in iOS to Restore the Original Image" OS X Daily 5/24
"How To Make Sure You Still Get Texts If You Ditch Your iPhone" Business Insider 5/24
"eBay hack: how you can stay safe online" Telegraph 5/24
"iPhone 101: Turn off read receipts to hide the fact that you've read an iMessage" TUAW 5/23
"The Tuts+ Guide to Transcribing Audio Notes" Tuts+ 5/23
"How to prevent your iMessages getting lost: Apple has said it's working to fix a bug in its iMessaging system that causes messages to get lost once the owner switches to an Android or Windows phone" Telegraph 5/23
Tips
"Sunday Tips: 10 Quick iPhone Tips, Part 2" Cult of Mac 11:58 AM
"Bubble Witch Saga: Top 10 tips, hints, and cheats you need to know!" iMore 5/24
"2 iPad and iPhone Keyboard Tips for Better Efficiency" The Mac Observer 5/23
"Three hacks for adding permanent storage to your MacBook Air or Retina Pro through the SD card slot" 9to5Mac 5/23
"The dangers of increasingly relying on digital tools that could fail" News & Observer, NC 9:14 PM
"What you really agree to when you click 'accept': You can spot the words 'privacy policy' at the bottom of nearly every website. Don't be fooled. Those policies are more about data collection than privacy." CNNMoney 3:14 PM
"How Cloud Startups Are Changing The Face Of Innovation" TechCrunch 9:16 AM
"Who's Wearing the Black Hat, Amazon or the Book Publishers?" 24/7 Wall St. 8:36 AM
"Will Pandora and Spotify Ever Make Money?" The Motley Fool 8:16 AM
"Why Mechanical Keyboards Aren't Just For Geeks Anymore" Digital Trends 8:10 AM
"Hands-on: HTC One (M8) Harman Kardon Edition" Electronista 8:10 AM
"Don't Believe Anyone Who Tells You Learning To Code Is Easy" TechCrunch 5/24
"Samsung Tab Pro 8.4: More Like Semi-Pro" Mashable 5/24
"Better than Scientology? The new Zuckerberg-based religion: An anonymous Craigslist poster seeks collaborators for a new religion based on the life and works of the Facebook CEO." CNET 5/24
"Forget malware — stolen credentials are the real enterprise threat" VentureBeat 5/24
"Gusto Goes 2.0 With Yahoo Email Support, Facebook Photo Integration And More" AppAdvice 5/24
"Update your Tweetbot iOS apps before they stop working" iDownload Blog 5/24
"Infinity Blade III gets new content and 50% off this weekend" TechnologyTell 5/24
"A third self-checking comprehensive math practice app from MaypopDesigns" prMac 5/24
"Sports Replay is an All-in-One Video Analyzer and Coaching Solution" prMac 5/24
"Download and Play HotDifferences App: Spot Women Now on the App Store" prMac 5/24
"Baby Dragon - Impressive Endless Flying Game Hits the App Store" prMac 5/24
"Announcing The Release Of Top Vs Bottom The New Party Game For Students" prMac 5/24
"Tapbots rolling out critical update for Tweetbot" iMore 5/23
"iRing turns you into a gesture-control iPad DJ" CNET 5/23
"Stash For iPhone Finds The Best Prices For Beauty Products And Personal Care Items, Makes Re-ordering Easy" TechCrunch 5/23
"Bellabeat Lands $4.5M Seed Round To Grow Its Quantified Self App For Pregnancy" TechCrunch 5/23
"Addictive Puzzle Game Spotology Will Test Your Wits And Reflexes" AppAdvice 5/23
"Coming May 24: Gene Steinberg meets Dorothy Pomerantz from Forbes, Daniel Eran Dilger from AppleInsider, and Rob Pegoraro from USA Today and Yahoo, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 5/23
"Video: Hewlett-Packard could axe up to 16,000 jobs" Telegraph 8:14 AM
"HP: You know what's hot right now? Cold storage" The Register 8:12 AM
"Increased Operational Efficiency Will Push HP Up To $42" Seeking Alpha 8:19 AM
"The $100 HP 7 Plus Can Help Hewlett-Packard Reach Deutsche Bank's $40 Price Target" Seeking Alpha 8:14 AM
"New Surface: Good PC, but no iPad killer/So far, Microsoft has failed to convince many people that its Surface can replace both their PC and their iPad. Will that change with the new Surface Pro 3?" CNNMoney 11:56 AM
"IBM's Investor Day Fails to Impress" The Motley Fool 8:13 AM
"AMD: A Mullins Powered $349 Clone Of The Surface 3 Is Attractive" Seeking Alpha 8:12 AM
"The Net neutrality debate Part I: How we got here/Don't get what the Net neutrality debate is all about? CNET's Marguerite Reardon explains in Part I of her Ask Maggie column." CNET 8:08 AM
"Europe's order to mute Google angers US" Associated Press 12:12 PM
"Amazon has gone too far: The e-book monopolist, having strong-armed Hachette, may finally get its day in court." Fortune 8:16 AM
"FCC rural broadband initiative back on track after court appeal" Electronista 1:22 PM
"Still running Windows XP? That's the way Bill Gates planned it: Bill Gates's vision was of 'a computer on every desk, each one running Microsoft software'. Now the true cost is emerging" The Observer 5/24
"Four things Microsoft can do to take Windows to the next level" The Next Web 5/24
"Microsoft confirms Windows with Bing for low cost devices" ANI 5/24
"Reducing Bill Of Materials - Windows 8.1 With Bing" AnandTech 5/24
"Inside the Microsoft Surface Pro 3: Intel keeps things humming/Intel, Microsoft partnered for internal design of Surface Pro 3, resulting in power-efficient and powerful internals." CNET 5/24
"Why Windows laptops and tablets are about to get a whole lot cheaper" Geek 5/24
"What should I do now that Microsoft Windows XP support has ended?" Consumer Reports 5/24
"Lenovo sees $5b enterprise business from IBM deal" Gulf News 5/24
"IBM Study: Organizations Unprepared to Tackle Next Wave of Technology Trends" The Financial 5/24
"What do Intel Z97 Motherboards Mean for PCs Now, and in the Future" Digital Trends 5/24
"Government gag orders violate free speech, tech giants contend: Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook want clearance to disclose what type of national security information requests they receive." CNET 5/24
"Tech giants team up to take on US Government gag orders" TechHive 5/24
"The FCC's plan to overhaul rural broadband escapes court battle" The Verge 5/24
"The Internet Is Burning: Online security is a horrifying nightmare. Heartbleed. Target. Apple. Linux. Microsoft. Yahoo. eBay. X.509. Whatever security cataclysm erupts next, probably in weeks or even days. We seem to be trapped in a vicious cycle of cascading security disasters that just keep getting worse." TechCrunch 5/24
"For Google Inc., A Secret Weapon Hiding In Plain Sight" The Motley Fool 5/24
"Google tops in employee pay satisfaction survey" domain-b 5/24
"U.S. may act to keep Chinese hackers out of Def Con hacker event" Reuters 5/24
"US may block visas for Chinese hackers attending DefCon, Black Hat" Ars Technica 5/24
"Why Apple Is The Perfect Stock For Anyone" Seeking Alpha 8:12 AM
"Smart money bet against Apple just before it hit a 12-month high: Institutional ownership in Apple last quarter was near an historic low." Fortune 5/23
"Low institutional ownership of Apple shares continues, despite stock's recent highs" AppleInsider 5/23
"Buy Apple Shares Before All Of The Smart People Start Buying, Says Morgan Stanley" Business Insider 5/23
Industry News
"Tech Stocks: H-P rallies; analysts see profit gain from job cuts/Apple shares rally to new 52-week high; Nasdaq ends week with 2.3% gain" MarketWatch 5/23
"S&P 500 hits new record of 1,900.5" CNNMoney 5/23
"Hey, Economy Doomsdayers, U.S. Stocks Just Closed Above 1,900" TheStreet 5/23
"Stock Futures Up Ahead of Housing Data: U.S. stock-index futures advanced on Friday ahead of housing data in what was expected to be a quiet trading day ahead of the Memorial Day holiday." FOXBusiness 5/23
"S&P 500 Closes at Record in Quiet Preholiday Session: S&P 500 Adds 8.04 Points to 1900.53, Finishing 1.2% Higher on Week" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5/23
"Asia Markets: Asian stocks mostly up; Thai markets fall after coup/Asian stocks were mostly higher on Friday, following a positive U.S. lead, while Thai markets fell after the country's military took control in a coup." MarketWatch 5/23
"Europe Markets: Stoxx Europe 600 rises for sixth straight week/European stocks markets ended a volatile day on an upbeat note on Friday after U.S. housing data spurred a positive mood on both sides of the Atlantic, while a fall in German business confidence prompted investors to assess the chances of action by the European Central Bank." MarketWatch 5/23
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 5/23
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares up at the close of trading" Associated Press 5/23
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