"Why Apple's ResearchKit signals a Golden Age for health care" Fortune 3/28
"Apple Watch becomes a study on attention: The Apple Watch will play with your attention — increasing it in some cases and reducing it in others." Seattle Times 3/28
"As Apple Prepares To Disrupt The Cable Industry, Don't Expect An Apple TV Set Any Time Soon" The Motley Fool 3/28
"Apple TV 'skinny' package likely to accelerate cord cutting" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 3/28
"How did Tim Cook become head of Apple?" Investopedia 3/28
"Can a Mac be a gaming Pc? How the planet is altering for Mac gamersFor years, Mac gaming has been virtually an oxymoron - not definitely worth thinking of if your appreciate of games extends beyond Football Manager. But factors are changing. Big games are coming to Mac faster and quicker, instead of arriving 3 years later..." Sentry Review 7:58 AM
"Six surprising facts about who's winning the operating system and browser wars in the U.S." ZDNet 3/28
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Security notes include photo exposure in Apple's Messages app, ATT network surveillance, Apple two-step authentication, Adobe Flash, Apple ID changes, Safari webarchive warning, and browser vulnerabilities." MacInTouch 6:53 PM
"Yosemite discussion talks about recovering documents whose formats Apple abandoned (ClarisWorks and AppleWorks), fonts, Apple Mail performance, hosts file hacking and Snapz Pro." MacInTouch 6:53 PM
"Get help using iCloud Contacts: Learn what to do if you're having issues using iCloud Contacts. For example, you might make changes to Contacts that don't update across all of your devices." Apple Support 3/28
"iTunes: Frequently asked questions about viewing and syncing videos" Apple Support 3/28
"Automatically re-open windows, apps, and documents on your Mac: OS X re-opens your document windows and tabs when you log in or open an app, so you can quickly continue where you last left off." Apple Support 3/27
"Yosemite discussion includes tricks for reading Apple's abandoned ClarisWorks and AppleWorks documents; fonts; a replacement for Snapz Pro; Apple Mail problems; memory requirements (for different uses); and more about hosts file hacking (for performance and security improvements)." MacInTouch 3/27
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"GitHub recovering from massive DDoS attacks" IDG News Service 8:33 PM
"Tim Cook: Pro-discrimination 'religious freedom' laws are dangerous" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 9:08 PM
"Apple boss Tim Cook 'deeply disappointed' by Indiana's anti-gay law: Apple boss slams new law and says 'Apple is open for everyone'" Telegraph 7:28 AM
"Apple CEO asks Arkansas governor to veto 'right to discriminate' law" MacNN 7:36 AM
"Hundreds rally against Indiana law, say it's discriminatory" Associated Press 7:28 AM
"Indiana governor plans to 'clarify' religious objections law" Associated Press 8:12 AM
"Telstra wins $1.3m iPad deal with NSW Roads: Telstra has clinched a $1.3 million contract to deliver iPads, iPhones and other devices to Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) in NSW." CRN 7:25 PM
"Apple's $848M solar farm deal is better than it seems" TechnologyTell 4:29 PM
"Apple And NBCUniversal Haven't Talked About A TV Streaming Service" UberGizmo 7:25 PM
"Why Steve Jobs said meeting the founder of Polaroid was 'like visiting a shrine'" The Economist 1:23 PM
"Steve Jobs biographer talks the late Apple great: Steve Jobs biographer Brent Schlender was at Apple's Soho store Friday speaking about the CEO's life from his new book, 'Becoming Steve Jobs.'" New York Post 8:06 AM
"Is this what an Apple drone would look like?" [Slideshow] Telegraph 7:28 AM
"Apple is like HITLER says Chinese billionaire" The Register 8:31 PM
"Angie's List Joins Tim Cook In Scolding Indiana Over Law" Bloomberg 3/28
"Apple's Tim Cook and Salesforce's Marc Benioff declare war on anti-gay Indiana" The Register 3/28
"'Becoming Steve Jobs' – Meet the Authors Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli at SoHo Apple Store [Video] 9to5Mac 3/28
"A Wi-Fi Barbie Doll With the Soul of Siri" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3/28
"Comcast Says It's Not Talking to Apple About Apple TV, Because Apple Hasn't Asked" Re/code 3/27
"Apple Hasn't Approached NBC Over Content Deal for Upcoming Streaming TV Service" MacRumors 3/27
"Your iPhone could help lower medical bills: Your iPhone could save you time and money at the doctor's office. At least that's what doctors hope." CNNMoney 3/27
"Apple officially confirms Apple Watch sales in department stores in London, Paris and Tokyo" 9to5Mac 3/27
"Where to try on the Apple Watch? Selfridges, Isetan, Galeries Lafayette, and more" Pocket-lint 3/27
"Apple Announces April 10 Grand Openings for Apple Watch Shops in London, Paris, and Tokyo" MacRumors 3/27
"It's time for Apple Watch mini-stores" Cult of Mac 3/27
"How Apple is making money off of its landmark solar deal" Fortune 3/27
"Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaks Out Against Indiana's 'Religious Freedom' Law" MacRumors 3/27
"Apple CEO: 'We are deeply disappointed in Indiana's new law'" Business Insider 3/27
"Silicon Valley Firms Rebuke Indiana for Religious Freedom Law" Bloomberg 3/27
"Tim Cook calls out controversial Arkansas and Indiana legislation, says 'Apple is open for everyone'" 9to5Mac 3/27
"Apple CEO Tim Cook joins criticism of Indiana religious-objections law" MarketWatch 3/27
"Apple is Hitler, says Chinese CEO: Chinese tech firm LeTV is rumored to be entering the smartphone market" The Verge 3/27
"Keep hate alive: Chinese TV CEO compares Apple to Hitler" VentureBeat 3/27
"Apple to launch iPhone trade-in program in China in growth push" Digital Trends 3/27
"This is what Steve Jobs looked like as a high school freshman" Cult of Mac 3/27
Non-Apple News
"At Google, the Science of Working Better: Start by hiring the right people, says Laszlo Bock, then give them freedom" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:36 PM
"Fingerprints Were Just The Start: 5 Futuristic Ways Your Phone May Identify You" Digital Trends 4:29 PM
"Parents who let kids play Call of Duty could be reported to police: The adult video games could increase 'early sexualised behaviours', primary school headteachers in Nantwich warn" Telegraph 9:18 AM
"Publishers and adblockers are in a battle for online advertising" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7:47 AM
"New Study Shows How Age Affects Your Social Network Of Choice" Digital Trends 7:36 AM
"A problem of coverage: how tree policy cripples mobile phone signals/Just under a third of Britain's 36,000 mobile masts are struggling to pick up signals because of trees that operators were obliged to plant" Telegraph 7:27 AM
"Angie's List put expansion on hold, citing new Indiana law" Chicago Tribune [Free Registration Required] 3/28
"Facebook reveals the logic behind its forced Messenger split" IDG News Service 3/28
"Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Bias Case Against Kleiner Perkins" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3/27
"Ellen Pao Disrupts How Silicon Valley Does Business" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3/27
"The Jury Rules Against Pao On Three Claims In Pao Vs. KPCB, Fourth Claim In Dispute" TechCrunch 3/27
"New mobile-malware detection technique uses gestures" IDG News Service 3/27
"YouTube's new 4k, 60fps videos are gorgeous — but probably won't run on your laptop" The Verge 3/27
"Storage Breakthrough Will Improve SSD Capacity Tenfold" Wired 3/27
"You'll soon get 10TB SSDs thanks to new memory tech" Engadget 3/27
"Toshiba announces BiCS as the first 48-layer 3D flash chip" The Inquirer 3/27
Publications/Podcasts
"MGG 546: Calendars, Flaky Connections and NAS Backups" The Mac Observer 1:02 PM
"Fitbit's CEO discusses the looming Apple Watch, and how having friends with Fitbits makes you healthier: Resize Text Print Article Comments 5" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 7:41 AM
"Podcast: Becoming Steve Jobs and Facebook F8" Tech.pinions 3/28
"My Interview With 'Becoming Steve Jobs' Authors Brent Schlender And Rick Tetzeli" Daring Fireball 3/27
"Focused on the New MacBook with Mark Fuccio" MacVoices 3/27
"Steve Jobs' biographer thinks Elon Musk is the next great visionary: The authors of 'Becoming Steve Jobs' discuss legacy, the future" MarketWatch 3/27
"'Becoming Steve Jobs': The Story Behind the Legend/Rick Tetzeli, co-author of 'Becoming Steve Jobs,' speaks with Cory Johnson about the process behind the writing of the latest biography of Apple co-creator Steve Jobs." Bloomberg TV 3/27
"TMO Daily Observations 2015-03-27: Tim Cook is the Top Leader, Leshi TV says Apple is Hitler" The Mac Observer 3/27
"How Apple's new MacBook gets nearly as much battery life as the MacBook Pro with a battery half the size" AppleInsider 4:26 PM
"iPhone 6C With 4-Inch Display? Expert Says No: This week, the Apple rumor mill started to churn with talk of three different iPhone 6 series devices, including a 4-inch iPhone 6C. However, a smaller iPhone doesn't seem to jive with the company's plans." InformationWeek 4:27 PM
"Will Google Inc. Pair Android Wear With Apple Inc.'s iPhones?" The Motley Fool 8:06 AM
"Inconsistent Support Bedevils MacBook Pros Suffering from 'Staingate'" TidBITS 3/28
"The Apple Watch doesn't need GPS to help you keep in shape" BGR 3/28
"Apple's new MacBook employs unorthodox keyboard design to achieve maximum thinness" AppleInsider 3/28
"iPhone 6 and 6 Plus: six months on, choice is king" iDownload Blog 1:21 PM
"New 12-in MacBook vs. 11-in MacBook Air (2015)" Gizmag 8:07 AM
"iPhone 6 case review: X-Doria Defense Shield" TechnologyTell 8:57 PM
"iPhone 6 case review: The Scarf from Totallee" TechnologyTell 1:21 PM
"Review: 'Becoming Steve Jobs' looks to dispel accepted Jobs myth" AppleInsider 3/28
"Latest MacBook could use some fresh Air: When evaluating any piece of tech, time has a funny way of warping your perspective. Laptops, especially, tend to advance so quickly that laptops from a few years ago quickly feel stale and dated." Reviewed 3/28
"Using a MacBook Pro with a 25" Dell U2515H Monitor" Low End Mac 3/28
"iPhone 6 vs Samsung Galaxy S6: Here's the difference/These two top flagship smartphones both pack high-end designs and features to boot. Here's how they stack up against each other." CNET 3/28
"iPhone vs. Android: Which is better? Enough talk. We compared how Android and the iPhone perform 15 basic tasks. See for yourself how they rank." CNNMoney 3/28
"AirMask Colors for iPhone 6 hands-on: Add color and light protection in seconds" ZDNet 3/28
"Review: The Only Portable Charger in the World with Apple Lightning Input Port" Run Around Tech 3/28
"Review: The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 for Mac" TechnologyTell 3/28
"Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display (Early-2015) review: A Broadwell upgrade provides impressive battery life for Apple's business laptop." IT PRO 3/27
"New 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro (early 2015) review: Faster, amazing battery life & a cool trackpad" Macworld UK 3/27
"MacBook Pro vs MacBook Air: Which should you buy?" TrustedReviews 3/27
"Hands-On With the Apple Watch: A Developer's Experience at Apple's WatchKit Labs" MacRumors 3/27
"Temperatures and Fan Speeds: iMac 5K versus iMac 2.5K" Bare Feats 3/27
"Ask: How to Archive Magazines in Newsstand for iOS" Mac|Life 3/27
"How To Send GIFs On Facebook Messenger [iOS] AddictiveTips 3/27
"Speed Up And Slow Down Playback For Different Parts Of A Video [iOS] AddictiveTips 3/27
"How to set up a paperless office using your Mac or iPhone" Cult of Mac 3/27
Tips
"Need a Quick iPhone Stand? Use Sunglasses" OS X Daily 2:23 PM
"Mr Jump: Tips, hints, and cheats you need to know!" iMore 1:18 PM
"Cleaning Out Gmail: Q. I am close to my storage limit for Gmail but even though I dumped hundreds of messages in Trash, I don't seem to have regained any space. Why?" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 3/27
"Why there will be lines for the $10,000 gold Apple Watch" Fortune 3/28
"The limits of Android Wear compatibility with iOS" iDownload Blog 3/28
"What would you change about iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus?" iMore 3/28
"How App Store optimization can harm indie developers" Indie Research 3/28
"My Work Here is Done" ["My final advice is: don't overthink Apple. Instead, remember Steve Jobs and his boundless enthusiasm and joy—especially on stage—for what the products can accomplish and make possible."] ifoAppleStore 3/28
"Apple Loop: When Steve Jobs Was Interesting, Apple Killed The iPad, Is There A New Petite iPhone 6?" Forbes 3/28
"Book club: Beating up Apple execs over their book picks" Macworld 3/28
"Why Apple Feels the Need to Defend Steve Jobs: Executives criticize Walter Isaacson's book as a new biography comes out. What's really biting them?" Bloomberg 3/27
"Steve Wozniak: Apple Watch Edition Won't Move the World Forward" The Mac Observer 3/27
"The REAL Reason Apple's iPad is Faltering" The Mac Observer 3/27
"First Click: the great Mac vs. PC touchscreen debate" The Verge 3/27
"Everything you need to know about the (rumored) Apple Web TV service" AppleDailyReport 3/27
Non-Apple
"This Microsoft help page comes with a warning: 'this process requires patience'/How could something so simple become so hopelessly complicated?" The Verge 4:54 PM
"Selling Songs for a Song? Scrutinizing the Streaming Model" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2:21 PM
"Why data breaches need their own Richter scale" VentureBeat 1:18 PM
"A Brief History Of Bitcoin - And Where It's Going Next" The Next Web 7:43 AM
"Google controls what we buy, the news we read — and Obama's policies" New York Post 3/28
"The Samsung Galaxy S6 is the Android phone of the year [Review] Mashable 3/28
"Facebook's big show this week was all about Facebook. That's a problem" Business Insider 3/28
"Why Facebook Messenger will fail as a 'platform'" Computerworld 3/28
"What Silicon Valley Learned From the Kleiner Perkins Case" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3/27
"How Microsoft's Crazy New Strategy Might Work" TeraTalks 3/27
"Review: Galaxy S6 phones are Samsung's best yet" Associated Press 3/27
"Has Windows 10 Fixed Microsoft's App Store Woes? Not Exactly: The Windows Store is slowly improving, but after almost three years shouldn't it be better?" Digital Trends 4:27 PM
"Microsoft Aims To Kill Google Chromebooks With $149 Windows 10 Laptops" Forbes 7:57 AM
"Microsoft announces list of devices that will be able to run Windows 10 preview soon" ANI 7:27 AM
"Microsoft Vastly Expands Windows 10 Technical Preview To Dozens Of Smartphones" Forbes 1:07 PM
"Windows 10 Mobile on track for most Lumia phones: Microsoft's next test version of Windows 10 Mobile, expected around the first week of April, will support a lot more devices than the first one did." CNET 1:06 PM
"Microsoft's acquisition of LiveLoop changes PowerPoint work" Digital Trends 1:22 PM
"Yahoo! and! Microsoft! extend! tricky! search! deal! talks! by! 30! days!" The Register 7:58 AM
"Former HP CEO Fiorina: chances of presidential bid 'higher than 90 percent'" Reuters 9:16 AM
"Intel acquisition of Altera not expected to hurt TSMC: analysts" Focus Taiwan 7:54 AM
"Intel and Micron team up to conceptualise 10 TB SSDs, but they are a year away from launch, at least" Tech Portal 7:57 AM
"Israeli Startup Innovid Raises $10M from Cisco" NoCamels News Flash 8:00 AM
"Cisco Invests $5M In South Africa's SKA, Plans To Be Tech Partner" AFK Insider 8:01 AM
"Cisco Systems Earns Buy Rating from Zacks" Sleek Money 8:01 AM
"Chairman Wheeler Predicts FCC Will Beat Legal Challenge To Net Neutrality" TechCrunch 6:48 PM
"Can we just link everything to the internet and call it China's new economy? Latest mainland strategy needs game-changing products to work, not more fancy new concepts" South China Morning Post 8:05 AM
"'Big Data Revolution' studies the effect of number-crunching on business" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 7:53 AM
"Europol chief warns on computer encryption" BBC 7:46 AM
"Yahoo, Microsoft extend search partnership talks for 30 days" Reuters 3/28
"Microsoft, Yahoo extend their possible search-deal termination date" ZDNet 3/28
"Yahoo, Microsoft extend search alliance re-negotiation deadline by 30 days" Techie News 3/28
"Why Buffett is sticking with IBM: The Oracle of Omaha tells CNBC why he is sticking with IBM despite its recent woes." CNBC 3/28
"Troll Bill Threatens To Weaken All Patents, GCs Say" Law360 3/28
"Intel's Rumored Acquisition Of Altera Could Help Protect Its Massive Monopoly In Servers" Forbes 3/28
"Intel in talks to buy smaller rival Altera in over $10-bn deal" domain-b 3/28
"Intel is said to be in talks to acquire chip maker Altera" Bloomberg 3/28
"Salesforce aims to surpass SAP on German market: executive tells WiWo" Reuters 3/28
"FCC Nears Opening Some Airwaves for Cheaper Wireless Use: A sharing system would allow some users free access to airwaves, while others could buy licenses in small areas on short-term basis" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3/28
"FCC will vote next month on plan to share valuable 3.5GHz spectrum: Carriers and consumers would get access to a fat frequency band used mostly by government" IDG News Service 3/28
"The way the Internet has changed the way we communicate" Mashable 3/28
"Dimensions Of Flash And Storing The World" Forbes 3/28
"Market Snapshot: U.S. Stocks Post Steepest Weekly Loss In Two Months" MarketWatch 3/27
"US stocks end a tough week with tiny gains, have second-worst week of the year; Oil slumps" Associated Press 3/27
"US stock indexes are mostly higher at end of a tough week: U.S. stocks are mostly higher in midday trading after four straight days of losses." Associated Press 3/27
"U.S. Stocks Snap Losing Streak: Major indexes still posted weekly losses" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3/27
"Asia Markets: Chinese stocks notch weekly win/Chinese stocks ended mixed Friday, but Hong Kong shares posted a modest advance for the week, while Shanghai's benchmark scored its third straight week of gains." MarketWatch 3/27
"Europe Markets: European stocks snap win streak; DAX logs first weekly loss in 2 months/European stocks finished higher Friday, but the region's key benchmark saw its lengthy string of weekly wins come to an end." MarketWatch 3/27
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 3/27
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 3/27
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