"U.S. judge says she is troubled by Apple $450 million e-books deal" Reuters 8:07 PM
"Judge voices concern over Apple's $450M e-book settlement, says may hurt consumers" AppleInsider 8:09 PM
"The other Apple economy: $2B in devices on eBay/CEO Cook thinks Apple device resale boosts the company's ecosystem" Computerworld 4:21 PM
"Why Apple is like an oil company - and what it will explore next" Telegraph 8:11 AM
"Swatch Group denies working with Apple on smartwatch" ["A spokeswoman for Swatch Group said on Thursday the report was unfounded. She said the only business relationship Swatch Group had with mobile phone makers was as a supplier of integrated circuits and other electronic components."] Reuters 7:57 AM
"Swatch Denies It's Cooperating With Apple on Smartwatch" Bloomberg 8:44 AM
"Can Apple Optimism Spread Through Tech Industry?" Bloomberg TV 8:09 AM
"Hitting for the cycle: why Apple should move its product launches" Tech.pinions 2:29 PM
"The iPad Continues to Struggle, and a New iPhone Could Make It Worse" Bloomberg Businessweek 1:29 PM
"With the IBM Deal, Tim Cook Takes Apple Where Steve Jobs Never Could" The Motley Fool 8:36 AM
"Long replacement cycle drags down iPad sales: Tablets aren't in trouble, but slower upgrade tempo causes another decline for Apple" Computerworld 8:21 AM
"Apple could be 'obsolete' in 3 years: Analyst/Apple could be 'obsolete' in three years, due to increasing competition and 'make-believe' valuations in the technology sector, one analyst told CNBC on Thursday." CNBC 8:43 AM
"Apple Faces Class-Action Suit Over Alleged Unfair Work Practices" Digital Trends 8:38 AM
"IBM began mass adoption of iOS prior to its exclusive partnership with Apple, Inc." AppleInsider 5:21 PM
"Apple's Q3: iPhone Does Well Across Price Points; Mac Defies Shrinking PC Market" Forbes 10:06 AM
"Worldwide Tablet Market Grows 11% in Second Quarter on Shipments from a Wide Range of Vendors, According to IDC" ["Despite declining shipments of its iPad product line, Apple managed to maintain its lead in the worldwide tablet market, shipping 13.3 million units in the second quarter."] Business Wire 10:05 AM
"Apple maintains lead over Samsung as top tablet vendor in Q2 as both lose share to others" 9to5Mac 10:07 AM
"Review: Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse" TechnologyTell 8:38 AM
"Get up and groove with Dance Party TV for iPhone and Apple TV" iMore 8:39 AM
"Trip Hawkins releases second chapter of his 'If' iPad game for teaching kids emotional life skills" VentureBeat 8:36 AM
"LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is a fantastic, family friendly game" Apple Daily Report 8:03 AM
"Heroes Rise: HeroFall Review/The last instalment in the Heroes Rise trilogy put players back into the cape and brightly coloured boots and lets them choose how their story will end." 148Apps 11:14 AM
"Revolution 60 Review: Revolution 60 is a bold, cinematic action game with ambition to spare." 148Apps 10:03 AM
"Meerkatz Challenge Review: Cute and challenging, Meerkatz Challenge is a fun puzzle game, particularly for fans of Lemmings." 148Apps 1:29 PM
How-To/Tutorial
"How to enable unread-mail view in iOS" CNET 4:24 PM
"The Complete Guide to Setting Up and Using an Apple TV—Part 1" Tuts+ 8:26 AM
"How To Record Slow Motion Video With Your iPhone 5s" MacTrast 8:25 AM
"Amazon Fire Phone teardown reveals hints of Apple, Samsung: Gadget repair expert iFixit takes a deeper look into the guts of Amazon's first smartphone and finds several new details." CNET 9:17 PM
Humor/Cartoons
"Humor: Watch Conan O'Brien Trash The iPhone 6 Before Launch [Video] Redmond Pie 4:47 PM
"Watch Jimmy Kimmel convince people that a $20 Casio is Apple's iWatch" The Verge 2:06 PM
"You won't be able to stop watching this embarrassing Microsoft promo video" BGR 9:01 AM
"Gmail app update for iPhone and iPad lets users insert Google Drive files into emails" iMore 3:43 PM
"Gmail for iOS updated with 'Insert from Drive' and 'Save to Drive'" 9to5Google 2:06 PM
"The penultimate episode of Telltale's Walking Dead: The Game - Season 2 is out now" AppAdvice 11:08 AM
"'Hearthstone' Curse of Naxxramas Guide: Free to Play Decks to Beat the Heroic Arachnid Quarter" Touch Arcade 10:07 AM
"PadGadget's Sound Stage: Nearly App Yamaha Music Apps Go Free" PadGadget 10:07 AM
"Thomas Was Alone is now available on iPhone as the game goes universal" AppAdvice 10:06 AM
"Research and Markets: South Korea Smartphone Market to 2015: Mobile Handset Sales by Vendor - Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony Mobile, RIM, Apple & HTC" Business Wire 10:05 AM
"iOS apps Square & IFTTT launch automation tie-up for merchants" AppleInsider 10:03 AM
"Spigen introduces new cases for 4.7-inch iPhone 6" iDownload Blog 8:40 AM
"Modern Combat 5 for iPhone and iPad now available" iMore 8:40 AM
"Pixite's new 3D photo editing app Matter debuts on iPhone and iPad" 9to5Mac 8:37 AM
"Language Learning App Lingua.ly Lands for iPhone" The Next Web 8:17 AM
"Simply Mac to buy MacAuthority stores in Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina" AppleDailyReport 8:06 AM
"2-in-1 24X and 12X Telephoto (Fixed Zoom) Lens for Apple iPhone 5s / iPhone 5" Allputer 8:02 AM
"Introducing First-of-a-Kind PhysIQ Predictive Analytic Technology for Proactive Health Monitoring" Business Wire 7:58 AM
"Space Hopper - Moon Surfers out today on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch" prMac 10:03 AM
"Follow: Dots And Lines Mania 1.0 for iOS - Connect the Colored Dots" prMac 7:55 AM
"Paper Camera changes everything, including going free - Massive change" prMac 7:54 AM
"Three Pieces Kids Match ZOO - First puzzle matching game for toddlers" prMac 7:54 AM
"Pixite Launches Matter 1.0 for iOS - Embed Unique 3D Objects into Photos" prMac 7:54 AM
"Talking Cat Toby - A Funny Tiger Tomcat Arrives at App Store" prMac 7:54 AM
"Misonix, Inc. Enhances its Digital Presence with the Unveiling of its New BoneScalpel™ App" PRNewswire 7:45 AM
"Microsoft's OneNote now offered on Amazon devices: Microsoft makes its note-taking app available for free for the Fire Phone and Kindle Fire tablets through Amazon's Appstore for Android." CNET 3:52 PM
"Microsoft moves Yammer under Office 365; Co-founder David Sacks is out/Summary: Microsoft is fine-tuning further its Office businesses and is moving Yammer under Office 365. Yammer Co-founder David Sacks is leaving Microsoft." ZDNet 4:57 PM
"Yammer co-founder David Sacks leaving Microsoft, two years after $1.2B acquisition" GeekWire 5:20 PM
"Here's Yammer co-founder David Sacks' goodbye memo to Microsofties" VentureBeat 7:46 PM
"Microsoft verging on single OS across all devices: Next version of Windows will pull together Windows for PCs and tablets, Windows Phone, and Xbox One, CEO Nadella told investors" InfoWorld 7:13 AM
"Microsoft confirms decision to can new Surface tablet" CRN UK 7:13 AM
"Microsoft's Open Interoperability Gamble Rolls New Dice" Forbes 7:13 AM
"Nokia Gets Boost From Sale of Handset Business: Finnish Company Swings to Second-Quarter Profit After Selling Unit to Microsoft" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:40 AM
"How Microsoft's Job Cuts Will Affect the 'Shadow Workforce'" The Motley Fool 9:26 AM
"Can Microsoft's Satya Nadella Learn Anything From GE's Jeff Immelt?" Seeking Alpha 2:38 PM
"HP Makes $50 Million Strategic Investment in Hortonworks" Re/code 7:05 AM
"HP joins the Hadoop backers club, pours $50M into Hortonworks" Gigaom 9:38 AM
"H-P, Hortonworks Extend Partnership on Big Data: Venture-Backed Hortonworks Is Preparing to Go Public Next Year" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:44 AM
"HP and musician Chubby Checker settle lawsuit over penis-measurement app" The Verge 7:18 PM
"Oracle launches Data as a Service offering similar to PRISM: Offers collated data from many sources to drive business decisions" The Inquirer 6:50 AM
"IBM & California Partner On Private Cloud: CalCloud, the State of California's private cloud managed by IBM, aims to streamline services for 400 state and local government agencies." InformationWeek 3:55 PM
"IBM Watson's new job: reintroducing soldiers to civilian life" Engadget 9:25 AM
"Cisco CEO John Chambers: My Dyslexia Is A Weakness AND A Strength" Business Insider 9:24 AM
"Open Compute: Bringing enterprise-grade IT infrastructure to SMBs/ SMBs can reap the benefits of open source" TechRadar UK 7:09 AM
"Researchers tout 1TB RRAM storage for future mobile devices" Electronista 6:51 AM
"Future phones could house a terabyte of storage" Engadget 6:51 AM
"Lenovo shows smart glasses prototype as it seeks hardware partners: Lenovo has established the 'NBD' program to partner with companies on smart devices" IDG News Service 9:43 AM
"EU hears Google, Microsoft, Yahoo on 'right to be forgotten': Civil rights campaigners say uniform guidelines are necessary to prevent information that should be publicly available being suppressed" IDG News Service 2:37 PM
"Stock Market Today: Futures Advance Is Supported by Upbeat Earnings" TheStreet 7:27 AM
"US stock market inches higher at open after Facebook, Ford and others report quarterly results" Associated Press 9:29 AM
"Stocks End Little Changed After Data: Positive Jobless Report Clashes With Disappointing Housing Data" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:40 PM
"Facebook shares hit record high as market likes earnings" Reuters 9:32 AM
"Asia Markets: Hong Kong stocks climb to three-year high/China PMI at 18-month high/Hong Kong stocks hit their best close in more than three years Thursday, after a preliminary reading of Chinese manufacturing sector rose to an 18-month high, adding to signs that the economy is stabilizing." MarketWatch 7:27 AM
"Europe Markets: EasyJet, Kingfisher fall; Europe's stocks on the move/These stocks are making notable moves in European trading Thursday" MarketWatch 7:28 AM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 12:34 PM
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