"Apple Cuts Annual Spending Forecast By $1 Billion: Reduction comes on more efficient spending on tooling gear and facilities; no product changes planned" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:59 PM
"Why Apple's Stock Slide Isn't the Company's Fault: Wall Street overestimated iPhone sales" Time 2:36 PM
"For Apple, more success raises more questions: Apple posted quarterly results on Tuesday that virtually any other company would kill for. Yet CEO Tim Cook still found himself on the defensive." CNET 8:24 AM
"Apple Watch sales figures: what we know, and what Apple won't tell us" Wired UK 9:03 AM
"The billion-dollar watch: It's a good start, but where will it wind up?" The Verge 11:32 AM
"Tim Cook verbatim: In defense of the Apple Watch" Fortune 3:03 PM
"Why are Apple shares plunging when it just reported record profits?" The Telegraph 7:19 AM
"What Apple's Bizarre Stock Tumble Really Means: Investors are starting to worry about one part of the business in particular" Time 7:49 AM
"Apple Loses $62 Billion in Value in 3 Minutes on iPhone Sale" TheStreet 7:19 AM
"Investors 'Overreacting' to Apple's Numbers: Munster" Bloomberg Video 8:18 AM
"iPhone Sales Power Strong Apple Earnings: With 47.5 million iPhones sold during the quarter, demand for the smartphone continues to fill Apple's coffers." InformationWeek 8:34 AM
"How Strong Is Apple's Grip Over Mobile Phones? The Short Answer: The iPhone commands 55% of industry revenue" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 11:43 AM
"Apple Results: iPhone Blooms, But Whither The iPad? Apple's third-quarter results were dominated by iPhone sales, but the company's iPad business continues to slide." InformationWeek 2:03 PM
"Apple posts record third-quarter as iPhone sales surge" BBC 7:41 AM
"Apple says Watch sales ticking along just fine" CNBC Videos 7:18 AM
"Apple's job just got a lot harder: While the tech giant's performance has been remarkable, its latest earnings signal trouble for anyone investing in the company long-term." Fortune 12:17 PM
"How the Apple store took over the world/'Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work,' proclaimed a headline in BusinessWeek in May 2001. Published the day after Apple opened its first retail store in Tyson's Corner, Va., the opinion piece argued that Apple's focus on a few products and a 'perfectionist attention to aesthetics' would limit the company's appeal." Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 8:14 AM
"As leaders of the nonprofit nonpartisan group Consumer Watchdog, we are writing on behalf of consumers to express grave concerns about Apple's new streaming music service. Based on information received by our group, Apple's new streaming music service raises serious antitrust concerns that require the government to put limitations on Apple as it develops its service if consumers are to continue to have access to free streaming music services and soTcalled 'freemium' music." [3-page PDF] Consumer Watchdog 1:10 PM
"Consumer Watchdog Asks Feds to Investigate Apple Music for Antitrust Violations" Inside Sources 1:09 PM
"U.S. Senator, consumer rights group call for an official investigation into Apple Music" iMore 3:58 PM
"'Apple lures labels from free streams – and why is no one doing anything about it' shrieks group: Rabble rousers demand FTC, DoJ into Music service" The Register 2:21 PM
"Apple seeds public beta 2 of OS X El Capitan" iDownload Blog 12:57 PM
"OS X El Capitan Public Beta 2 now available for testers" iMore 12:42 PM
"Apple releases OS X 10.11 Public Beta 2 to testers" 9to5Mac 12:41 PM
"Researcher unveils new privilege vulnerability in Apple's Mac OS X: The flaw allows attackers to exploit a Mac system for full privilege escalation and take over a machine." ZDNet 7:35 AM
"Bug in latest version of OS X gives attackers unfettered root privileges" Ars Technica 2:06 PM
"Get root on an OS X 10.10 Mac: The exploit is so trivial it fits in a tweet/If you want it fixed, upgrade to the El Capitan beta" The Register 3:58 PM
"Apple Criticised for Not Patching OS X Yosemite Zero-Day Vulnerability" Intego 11:32 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Yosemite discussions include Apple Mail problems; Finder bugs (and workarounds); two-step authentication issues; and text substitution problems." MacInTouch 11:01 AM
"Storage discussion focuses on issues of updating SSD firmware via crude, specialized boot volumes." MacInTouch 11:01 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Gestimer: Effortlessly Set Timers on a Mac" MacStories 10:45 AM
"How to configure a cheap, secure RAID backup system: Sure, your standard Time Machine backup is a good start, but a mirrored RAID setup will keep your data doubly backed up. Here's how to get started." Macworld 7:26 AM
"An Introduction to Python – Part 1" Amsys 10:55 AM
"Which Data Recovery Software Should I Use on my Mac?" The Mac Observer 9:40 AM
"Create, Manage, Merge, Switch Photo Libraries In The Mac's Photos App" BohemianBoomer 7:13 AM
"Search Text By Doing What Spotlight Does Not Do On Your Mac" TeraTalks 7:12 AM
Op/Ed
"Software Rental Models = Wallet-Siphoning Poor Value – The 'Book Mystique" MacPrices 9:40 AM
"Why a strong password doesn't help as much as a unique one" Macworld 7:26 AM
Press Releases
"Terraria is finally coming to Mac tomorrow!" Mac Gamer HQ 4:56 PM
"Apple again lands behind Samsung at #15 on Fortune Global 500 list, #2 by profit" 9to5Mac 10:46 AM
"iPhone 6, Apple Pay help keep Apple ranked 15th in global Fortune 500 rankings" AppleInsider 1:42 PM
"Apple Watch user satisfaction tops iPhone, iPad" BetaNews 7:43 AM
"Apple Watch Grabs 75% of Wearables, Says Strategy Analytics" Barron's 10:54 AM
"Report: Apple Watch sales took an estimated 75% of global smartwatch marketshare in Q2 2015" 9to5Mac 10:54 AM
"Apple Watch snags 75% of global smartwatch market" CNET 12:58 PM
"Why there's record number of switchers from Android to iPhone (again): Even with a few key differences, iOS and Android are more alike than ever. And with big iPhones available, Android is no longer the only game in town for the large screen crowd." ZDNet 10:01 AM
"Tim Cook confirms he is at war with Android for market share, and he's winning" Business Insider 7:24 AM
"Why there's record number of switchers from Android to iPhone (again): Even with a few key differences, iOS and Android are more alike than ever. And with big iPhones available, Android is no longer the only game in town for the large screen crowd." ZDNet 9:08 AM
"Apple Hires Former Chrysler Executive, Fueling EV Rumors: Apple's hiring of a former Chrysler executive for its undisclosed electric vehicle project, Titan, adds more grist to the rumor mill." InformationWeek 8:34 AM
"Apple hires former Fiat Chrysler VP, possibly for a mysterious car project" Mashable 10:00 AM
"Apple Pay: the little guys may just benefit more than the big guys" Memeburn 7:40 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"ACM 316: AAPL Q3 2015 Earnings Report Wrapup and Apple Watch" The Mac Observer 5:39 PM
"#96: Faraday Cave/In a special dystopian future edition of Clockwise, Dan Moren and I are joined by Katie Floyd and James Thomson to discuss the Apple of 2020, fear ever getting in a car again after the latest car hack, complain about autocorrect, and take the measure of the need for Apple Watch apps." Six Colors 2:05 PM
"TMO Daily Observations 2015-07-22: AAPL Q3 Earnings, Jeff gets Excited About Home Automation" The Mac Observer 1:40 PM
"Happy Hour Podcast 024 | New iPods, September hardware expectations, and Apple's latest earnings call" 9to5Mac 1:13 PM
"Podcast 466: Baby you can park my iPod" Macworld 12:42 PM
"Let's Talk Jailbreak 117: Handy with the hex codes" iDownload Blog 8:29 AM
"Apple Music and Why it Rocks My World" The Mac Observer 8:30 AM
"Why you should hold off ordering that 'MagSafe for iPhone' adapter: Were you interested in Znaps, MagSafe adapter for Lightning connectors that we posted yesterday? You might want to hold off on ordering them. There's a big possibility that patent issues could derail them from being delivered as promise." Cult of Mac 8:15 AM
"How the Apple Watch is pushing me to better health" iMore 8:11 AM
"Analysis: China continues to be growth engine for Apple" MacNN 7:50 AM
"Microsoft announces highest net loss in history: Microsoft has reported a quarterly net loss of $3.2bn, the worst in the company's history, following major job cuts and writing billions off the value of Nokia" Telegraph 7:45 AM
"Microsoft's hardware strategy under scrutiny after record loss" Reuters 2:02 PM
"Microsoft Q4 FY2015 by the numbers: $22.2 billion revenue, $2.1 billion loss" BetaNews 7:43 AM
"Microsoft sees loss of $3.19 bn on Nokia writedown" AFP 7:18 AM
"Why Microsoft's next billion-dollar business is such a radical change" Business Insider 1:42 PM
"Microsoft Buys Back Stock, Cuts Costs" WSJ Blogs 7:18 AM
"Microsoft's silver lining? It's in the cloud" CNBC Videos 7:16 AM
"Has Microsoft blown it? Microsoft has dominated the 'office productivity' tools market for decades and is a de facto way of working in most companies. Having significantly held back innovation in the last 10 years, Office is arguably reaching the end of its useful life as modern digital tools make it look like an old bureaucratic anachronism." ZDNet 3:59 PM
"Lenovo says Microsoft's cross-platform software makes Windows Phones less relevant" Neowin 5:15 PM
"Microsoft Addresses Flagshipgate and the Future of Windows Phones" Thurrott 9:08 AM
"The more customers Microsoft adds to Office 365, the less it makes from each subscriber" Computerworld 8:26 AM
"IBM Woos Cloud Developers via New Programs" eWeek 9:00 PM
"IBM's Cloud, Analytics Moves Haven't Paid Off, Yet: Despite a move to cloud and big data analytics, IBM is still suffering through a tough financial time, with revenues still down." InformationWeek 8:33 AM
"IBM moves open source business software to the cloud" IDG News Service 12:42 PM
"IBM pilots 'Ask Watson' in British Columbia smart city app: A new app will allow Surrey residents to 'Ask Watson' a range of questions, like why trash wasn't collected, how to contest a parking violation, or how to locate a lost pet." ZDNet 12:07 PM
"IBM open sources 50 enterprise apps, tools: Big Blue is hoping it can bridge the gap between open source development and meeting business goals." ZDNet 12:07 PM
"Apple Inc. And IBM Expand Partnership With 10 New Business And Workplace Apps" International Business Times 8:41 AM
"Overheard: IBM's Blue Period" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:45 AM
"IBM Pursuing Academic and Training Traction for Bluemix Cloud Platform" Campus Technology 8:41 AM
"Ottawa firm Purple Forge uses IBM's 'Watson' to deliver city services" Ottawa Citizen 8:41 AM
"Lenovo's CTO talks R&D, IoT, Windows 10, servers and more" ZDNet 8:33 AM
"HP CEO Whitman Signs On With Chris Christie's Presidential Campaign" Re/code 6:44 PM
"HP signs deal with SunEdison to source wind power for its Texas data centres" Power Technology 8:38 AM
"HP slams smartwatch security due to poor encryption and privacy measures" The Inquirer 10:01 AM
"Intel Selling $7 Billion in Bonds to Finance Altera Takeover" Bloomberg 3:58 PM
"How The Intel Acquisition Of Altera Affects Taiwan Semiconductor" Seeking Alpha 2:43 PM
"Dell unveils Latitude 12 Rugged Tablet based on Intel Core M processor" V3 8:36 AM
"Dell releases new version of Cloud Manager solution" OnWindows 8:36 AM
"Cisco Systems Enhances Network Security to Curb Open Networking" Market Realist 7:28 AM
"Trends That Will Impact Cisco Systems" Market Realist 7:29 AM
"Game over? How the slowdown in new technology will affect us all: Micro-chips are already so powerful it just isn't going to be possible to keep doubling their speed, at least not nearly as quickly as in the past" Telegraph 7:45 AM
"Arm needs to prove it has value longevity" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 2:52 PM
"Major Averages Close Lower as Tech Giants Drag" FOXBusiness 4:02 PM
"Technology shares lead a slump in US stocks; Apple sinks" Associated Press 10:56 AM
"U.S. Stocks Drop, Weighed Down by Apple, Microsoft: Investors poured out of technology stocks Wednesday, spooked by disappointing results from Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:01 PM
"Asia Markets: Asian stocks pull back after recent gains/Disappointing results from Apple, IBM spark growth fears" MarketWatch 8:42 AM
"Europe Markets: European stocks drop, with tech shares under pressure/Shares in Apple suppliers fall" MarketWatch 8:42 AM
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