"Apple Watch Owners Glance at Their Wrists 60 to 80 Times a Day" Fortune 9:22 AM
"UnionPay, Apple Said to Reach Apple Pay Agreement for China" Bloomberg 9:02 AM
"Apple And China UnionPay Said To Have Finalized Apple Pay Deal For China" Redmond Pie 8:03 PM
"Led by Apple and China brands, high tech smartphone panel shipments rising, says IHS" DigiTimes 8:51 AM
"Apple's iPhone continues to dominate the business smartphone market" The Inquirer 8:42 AM
"Analyst: The iPad Pro won't save Apple's falling tablet sales" Business Insider 8:50 AM
"Banks splurge on IT to fight threat from Google and Apple: Tech companies are seen as a big competitive threat to banks, which fear customers will prefer the financial services on offer from the trendy Silicon Valley firms" Telegraph 8:08 AM
"Apple Posts New 'Someday At Christmas' Ad With Stevie Wonder and Andra Daye [Video] iClarified 10:01 AM
"Apple Commercial: Someday At Christmas -Stevie Wonder + Andra Day (Video)" The Mac Observer 2:13 PM
Non-Apple News
"Samsung yanks plug out of rumors of networking biz sell-off" The Register 4:18 PM
"T-Mobile is giving Sprint customers $200 to switch" BGR 10:04 AM
"Fossil Q Founder Available Now: Taking On Tag In Smartwatch Fashion" Forbes 8:40 AM
"European smartwatch brand Vector Watch raises $5M to become the 'industry standard' in wearables" VentureBeat 8:33 AM
"Li-Fi: 100 times faster than Wi-Fi, tests prove" Telegraph 8:36 AM
"Get ready for Li-Fi, a technology 100 times faster than Wi-Fi" Mashable 8:30 AM
"Silicon Valley Is Growing Up, Giving Parents a Break" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:16 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"ACM 334: Apple's Mac Pro vs. The Devil's Advocate" The Mac Observer 4:02 PM
"Podcast 485: Home for the holidays" Macworld 2:28 PM
"Apple to adopt OLED display for iPhone from 2018" ["Apple's shift to OLED displays will have major implications for two Japanese suppliers -- Sharp, which is scrambling to rebuild its faltering operations, and Japan Display, which relies on the technology giant for 30% of its business."] Nikkei 2:21 PM
"Report: Apple to begin shifting iPhone displays from LCD to OLED in 2018" 9to5Mac 2:22 PM
"iPhones Expected to Have OLED Displays Starting in 2018" MacRumors 2:21 PM
"China firm reportedly lands SiP device orders from Apple" DigiTimes 8:51 AM
"China's JCET wins orders for Apple system-in-package modules, may hint at Apple Watch plans" AppleInsider 10:34 AM
"iPad Pro Smart Keyboard teardown shows off clever internals, scores 0/10 for repairability" 9to5Mac 8:12 AM
"Video: See the iPad Pro in action with Smart Keyboard and Pencil" Macworld 8:11 AM
"Apple Files Trademarks for 'GameplayKit' and 'ReplayKit' in Europe" Patently Apple 10:33 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Today's Top iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV, Mac App Freebies And Price Drops" App Sliced 10:39 AM
"Pixelmator For Mac Is Temporarily Available For $14.99 (Normally $29.99)" App Sliced 10:39 AM
"To-Fu Fury For iPhone/iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $1.99)" App Sliced 10:39 AM
"15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 8:05 AM
"13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 8:05 AM
"iPad Pro review: It can't replace your laptop yet, but Apple is getting closer" VentureBeat 2:31 PM
"iPad Pro review: Why the best iPad yet won't work for everyone" Macworld 8:12 AM
"Tested: Why the iPad Pro really isn't as fast a laptop" PCWorld 8:12 AM
"Benchmarks: The iPad Pro is the fastest iPad ever (for now)" Macworld 8:11 AM
"Review: Apple Pencil for iPad Pro" iLounge 10:45 AM
"Apple Pencil review: Much sharper than the average smart stylus" Macworld 8:12 AM
"Logitech Create review: Bulky iPad Pro keyboard case has awesome backlit keys" Macworld 8:12 AM
"13-Inch Haswell MacBook Air At Two Years – The 'Book Mystique" MacPrices 12:38 PM
"Review: Urban Armor Gear's Composite Case for iPad Pro kills 3 birds with 1 stone" 9to5Mac 1:11 PM
"Mophie Juice Pack Air (for iPhone 6/6s)" PC Magazine 1:11 PM
"This smart thermometer completely changed the way I cook" ["To use the Range, I just plug it into my iPhone and open the app. If you want the alerts to sound on other Apple devices, you have to plug it in once to make sure it is paired."] Business Insider 9:40 AM
"The premium leather Nodus iPhone case collection" iDownload Blog 8:35 AM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"This Beautiful App Lets You See the Cell Towers, Wifi Signals, and Satellites All Around You" Gizmodo 9:43 AM
"Preview: Infuse for Apple TV + developer interview" iDownload Blog 4:18 PM
"Hands On: Medibang Paint 6.0 (iPad)" MacNN 10:45 AM
"Feature Request: Logic Pro for iPad (Pro)" 9to5Mac 6:10 PM
"Irony: Samsung's pushing Apple to make the iPhone better than ever" BGR 2:22 PM
"The Macintosh TV: The worst of both worlds" iMore 10:45 AM
"Here's Why the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Is Better Than the iPad Pro" TheStreet 10:03 AM
"What are Apple's plans after buying Faceshift, which helped make virtual creatures for Star Wars latest episode?" Silicon Valley Business Journal 1:13 PM
"Does Apple's acquisition of motion-capture firm Faceshift signal VR ambitions?" SiliconBeat 1:13 PM
"Opinion: Why has Apple bought Faceshift? Six intriguing possibilities ..." 9to5Mac 8:48 AM
"Apple is Doing Something That Could Accidentally Torpedo the iPad Pro" The Mac Observer 4:02 PM
"Opinion: Things about the iPad Pro that are evading people" MacNN 8:45 AM
"Dell faces fresh security questions as new issue found" BBC 8:43 AM
"Dell in hot water again as second 'Superfish' root certificate surfaces" ZDNet 8:19 AM
"Dell PCs have not 1, but 2 dangerous security flaws that could let hackers spy on you" The Next Web 8:49 AM
"Second Dell backdoor root cert found" The Register 9:04 AM
"Speaking in Tech: Is Dell's EMC acquisition doomed, or just too big to fail?" The Register 9:03 AM
"Dell-EMC deal difficulties: VMware and daddy postpone roadtrip" The Register 9:45 AM
"Why Microsoft yanked its latest Windows 10 update download: It hijacked privacy settings" The Register 9:04 AM
"Microsoft brings back manual upgrade option for Windows 10, blames takedown on minor bug" GeekWire 9:39 AM
"Microsoft Pulled Windows 10 Update Over Privacy Settings Bug" PC Magazine 4:06 PM
"Microsoft Windows: The Next 30 Years" The Register 9:04 AM
"Microsoft rolls out a basic phone that's big on selfies" Engadget 7:07 PM
"IBM Is Beginning to Work Through Heavy Resistance" TheStreet 8:39 AM
"IBM's Watson Won't Be Predicting Eruptions Anytime Soon" Wired 8:16 AM
"IBM, Databricks Advance Apache Spark: Apache Spark hit two more incremental milestones as the IBM SystemML machine learning engine for Spark was accepted to the Apache Incubator program and Databricks unveiled a preview of its SaaS edition of Spark 1.6." InformationWeek 8:59 AM
"HP Inc. Shares Fall Following Weak Earnings Outlook: Shares decline 14% as company hurt by 'weaker' printer market" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:20 PM
"HP Inc plunges after printer business underwhelms" Reuters 9:11 PM
"Why HP Needs to Keep the Ink Flowing: A sharp slowdown in printer supplies poses growing problem for new HP" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1:13 PM
"For Hewlett-Packard, a tale of two diverging stocks: HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares head in different directions after Hewlett-Packard earnings" MarketWatch 10:45 AM
"Apple Big Cloud Spender As China's Alibaba Moves Up: Capital spending on cloud computing infrastructure by Apple and U.S. Internet companies has slowed as Chinese companies, led by Alibaba, come on stronger, says RBC Capital in a research report." Investor's Business Daily 10:03 AM
"Apple Swoons Like The Proverbial 80 pound Weakling: This morning the analyst at Cleveland Research (who?) who has had a Neutral rating on Apple decides its time to try and goose his bonus check and comes out with his 'supply checks' indicating/suggesting a softening in the March quarter." Forbes 9:22 AM
Industry News
"Stocks end little changed; data keep December rate hike on table: Hewlett-Packard shares tumble after weak quarterly sales" MarketWatch 4:10 PM
"Stocks Go Into Holiday Mode, Posting Small Gains" TheStreet 4:10 PM
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