"It's time to stop waiting for the Apple Watch's killer app/Having 15,000 wrist-sized apps available has taught us something: most Apple Watch apps just aren't very good." Macworld 7:20 AM
"Who Needs iPhones? Apple Banks On iPad Growth" Benzinga 4:13 PM
"Apple takes its eye off the ball: Why Apple fans are really coming to hate Apple software" ["As a technology reviewer at the Wall Street Journal and subsequently co-founder of the tech news site Re/code, Mossberg consistently rallied in favor of Apple products. Steve Jobs reportedly once slammed a problem-plagued rollout of a new service by shouting, 'Mossberg, our friend, is no longer writing good things about us.' But just last week, Mossberg pointed to 'a gradual degradation in the quality and reliability of Apple's core apps.' He fingered iTunes for the desktop ('I dread opening the thing'), and the Mail, Photos, and iCloud programs. Not even Mossberg could get a cogent response from Apple, which told him: 'We have dedicated software teams across multiple platforms. The effort is as strong there as it has ever been.'"] Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 2:37 PM
"The 10 Most Powerful And Valuable Brands In The World" [Apple #1 most valuable brand] Forbes 7:19 AM
"Apple mulling iMessage port to Android, sending encrypted messaging mainstream: iMessage is though to be the biggest mass-market encryption messaging app today." ZDNet 1:58 PM
"Apple Said to Be on Course for Approval to Open India Stores Business" Bloomberg 10:55 AM
"Indian government ready to push through approval of local Apple Stores - report" AppleInsider 10:55 AM
"Report: Apple's quest for retail stores in India on track as government plans to approve application" 9to5Mac 8:04 PM
"Apple, Google and Facebook face tough competition from China" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:07 AM
"Apple's Notes for Mac to support Evernote file imports in OS X 10.11.4" AppleInsider 9:28 PM
"Apple open-sources benchmarking software for its Swift programming language" VentureBeat 5:24 PM
"Apple makes its Swift benchmark suite open source" Apple World Today 5:27 PM
"Apple open-sources Swift benchmarking suite" AppleInsider 5:40 PM
"Microsoft looks to be ending its short-lived Office Accreditation Program for Mac" 9to5Mac 5:28 PM
"Why the market for paid-for Windows and OS X upgrades no longer exists" ZDNet 8:57 AM
"FCPX: The Faire-est of Them All/How does Final Cut Pro X perform when it comes to editing a comedy web series? Michael Hadley from Screen D'Or Pictures tells us about his workflow on Knights of New Jersey and how FCPX was the best choice of NLE." fcp.co 7:55 AM
"CSS variables are finally landing in Chrome" The Next Web 7:15 AM
"OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 beta 3 heads out to developers" iMore 1:58 PM
"Apple seeds third developer beta of OS X 10.11.4" AppleInsider 1:58 PM
"Apple Seeds Third OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan Beta to Developers" MacRumors 3:01 PM
"Intego Warns of Fake Flash Update that Installs Scareware" The Mac Observer 7:19 PM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"The mysterious case of the undead iMac" Six Colors 5:25 PM
"El Capitan discussion includes Apple's Disk Utility; menubar changes; Apple user interface issues and bugs; network volume automounting; iWeb replacements; calendar vs. server compatibility; Magicjack problem; troubleshooting tips; All Mail issue and tips." MacInTouch 6:50 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"How to manage media when migrating to a Mac with a smaller drive" Macworld 7:34 AM
"Reasons to love TextEdit, a secret powerhouse of rich text" Macworld 7:34 AM
"Viewing your download history in the Mac App Store is as easy as that" iDownload Blog 7:49 AM
"How to move Photos library to a separate drive" iDownload Blog 3:38 PM
"Sharing Files Between Users On the Same Mac" MacMost 10:47 AM
"HazeOver 1.6 review: Dim those background windows so you can focus on the task at hand" Macworld 11:11 AM
"Pointers: Backup your Quicken data right now" MacNN 6:51 AM
"Set Outlook 2016 for Mac as default email app" OfficeforMacHelp 3:25 PM
"When it comes to ripping DVDs to your hard drive, RipIt is as simple as it gets" Apple World Today 7:56 AM
"Cheap: A Smart Mac Menubar Battery Time And Stats App For 99-cents" Mac360 10:47 AM
"How Your Mac Can Display Real-time Network Traffic Data" Mac360 7:21 AM
"An Old Way To Grab Colors On A Mac Is Back, Baby!" TeraTalks 8:58 AM
Press Releases
"Firewatch Release on February 9th for Mac, Windows, Linux, PlayStation 4" The Mac Observer 7:23 PM
"Parallels New Remote Application Server v15 Serves Up Windows Apps to Any Platform" Architosh 1:37 PM
"Top New Presentation Templates of 2016" Tuts+ 11:25 AM
"Dropshare 4 for Mac - Major update to Popular Secure File Sharing Tool" prMac 10:56 AM
"Apple's Tim Cook, Eddy Cue attend Super Bowl 50 amid talks of NFL streaming deal" AppleInsider 1:57 PM
"Apple sneaks into several Super Bowl 50 commercials" AppleInsider 7:13 AM
"Ad-Less Apple Maintains Presence at Super Bowl 50" MacRumors 7:16 AM
"Tim Cook finds himself receiving Twitter snark over motion-blurred Super Bowl photo" 9to5Mac 7:34 AM
"The Internet is having a field day with Tim Cook's blurry Super Bowl photo" BGR 7:16 AM
"Tim Cook Proves It's The Photographer, Not The Camera, That Takes Awesome Pictures" Digital Trends 7:50 AM
"Tim Cook just tweeted the worst iPhone camera advert ever: Superbowl? Superfail, more like" The Inquirer 7:14 AM
"Internet Mocks Tim Cook's Blurry Super Bowl Photo" PC Magazine 4:02 PM
"Tim Cook Sacked By Salty Internet Trolls For Showing Lack Of iPhone Super Bowl Photography Skills" HotHardware 5:32 PM
"Everyone is slamming Tim Cook for posting a blurry Super Bowl photo" Mashable 11:07 AM
"Game Rejected From App Store for Depicting Child Abuse" PC Magazine 4:02 PM
"Apple rejects indie game The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth over child violence" AppleInsider 11:25 AM
"Amazon Now Has Twice as Many Employees as Apple" Fortune 11:16 AM
"Apple's GPU supplier ditches CEO, seeks new strategy: Imagination Technologies is selling non-core activities in an effort to end a stream of losses" IDG News Service 7:49 AM
Non-Apple News
"Chips are down at Imagination as Apple's iPhone sales slow: Chief executive quits British tech firm as value slumps from £2bn to £350m" The Independent 9:29 PM
"TV producers may start making you wait for new shows online: Some television companies are balking as more people watch shows online, and may start delaying the release of shows to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu" Associated Press 6:42 PM
"Verizon reportedly in the market to buy Yahoo for large user base" Ars Technica 5:30 PM
"Verizon Said to Enlist AOL CEO Armstrong to Explore Yahoo Deal" Bloomberg 5:31 PM
"AdBlock Plus, websites draft peace deal so ads can bypass blockade" The Register 3:26 PM
"Google CEO Gets Equity Award of $199 Million: Stock-unit grant makes Sundar Pichai one of world's best-paid executives" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:17 PM
"Safer Internet Day: Earn yourself an extra 2GB of Google Drive cloud storage for free" BetaNews 1:58 PM
"India bans Facebook's Free Basics for contravening net neutrality rules" BetaNews 7:20 AM
"Flash memory's density surpasses hard drives for first time" Computerworld 7:18 AM
"Wall-Smart is Now Shipping the Invisible Flush Wall Mounts for iPad Air and iPad Mini" PRNewswire 11:21 AM
"Tommy Hilfiger's NYFW Show Will Have an Express Line for Apple Watch Users" Re/code 11:25 AM
"New York Fashion Week attendees can now check-in from this Apple Watch app" 9to5Mac 10:55 AM
"Twelve South Introduces Two New iPad BookBooks For Air 2 & mini 4 – 14% Off Sale Until Valentines Day" MacPrices 10:48 AM
"How to seamlessly use two numbers on your iPhone: A startup called Mast just launched a mobile service for gig economy workers with a common communications problem." ZDNet 7:49 AM
"Apps To Help You Survive and Conquer Valentine's Day" Wired 7:32 AM
"A Fast and Convenient Way to Write Emoji-Rich Texts on iOS Devices" prMac 10:56 AM
"Best Congratulation eCards - Design and Send Congratulation Greetings" prMac 10:56 AM
"DigitLoc Securely Stores Content in the Cloud" prMac 7:37 AM
"newMacgadgets Introduces The Ultimate iPhone Promotional Stand" prMac 7:32 AM
"Offline Czech to English Language Dictionary Translator 3.0 for iOS" prMac 7:32 AM
"FOR neXtSoft introduces Kittens Vs. Zombies 1.0 for iOS" prMac 7:32 AM
"Art Channel Valentines come with $2 billion in art" prMac 7:32 AM
"Microsoft's Azure Stack beta gets new services and DevOps tools: The updates come less than two weeks after Azure Stack's first beta was released to the public" IDG News Service 7:28 PM
"BT, IBM, Accenture Win European Commission Cloud Contracts" TechWeekEurope 7:31 AM
"Europe makes it rain for cloud biz: £30m of gold showered on BT, IBM etc/And Accenture and Atos and ... wait, no Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure?" Channel Register 7:30 AM
"Inside IBM's $1.9 billion digital ad agency, iX" DigiDay 7:29 AM
"FT columnist Lucy Kellaway was right to call out HP's pushy PR – and the rest of us should follow suit" The Drum 7:28 AM
"Cisco, IBM, Dell M&A Brawl May Whack Symantec, Palo Alto, Fortinet" Investor's Business Daily 7:26 AM
"The Dell And Market Pessimism For EMC Is Too Much" Seeking Alpha 7:25 AM
"Intel Skylake overclock record of 7025.66MHz achieved" Hexus 7:24 AM
"Intel diversity report reveals 100pc gender pay parity in US" SiliconRepublic 7:23 AM
"A Deep Dive Into Intel's 2015 Results And Why 2016 Could Be Much Worse" Seeking Alpha 5:38 PM
"Apple: A Safe Haven In A Turbulent Market" Forbes 10:55 AM
"Apple or Alphabet: Make this your No. 1" USA Today 7:46 AM
Industry News
"Stocks trim steep losses; S&P 500 still posts lowest close since April 2014: Twitter falls to all-time-low; FANG stocks, financials crumble" MarketWatch 4:05 PM
"Bank Stocks Fuel Selloff in U.S. Markets" TheStreet 4:04 PM
"Stocks Slammed As Global Worries, Oil Weigh; Tesla Crashes To 2-Year Low" Investor's Business Daily 4:04 PM
"Stocks trim losses, Dow halves 400-point dive" USA Today 4:04 PM
"Stocks Pare Declines, Shed More than 1%: U.S. equity markets staged a partial comeback in the final 15 minutes of trading, clawing back sharp losses of more than 2% on the major averages." FOXBusiness 4:04 PM
"Tech Stocks: Why the Selloff Could Get Worse/The technology sector is getting buffeted on multiple fronts, and relief could be a long time coming" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:38 PM
"Japan stocks rise, as Asian markets wrestle with Fed uncertainty: Japanese stocks led Asian markets higher Monday, driven by relatively solid earnings results, despite some uncertainty about the U.S. Federal Reserve's pace of interest-rate increases following U.S. jobs data Friday." MarketWatch 7:03 AM
"European stocks drop to 15-month low, DAX closes in bear zone: European stock markets built on last week's selloff on Monday, with the benchmark index slumping to its lowest close in more than 15 months as investors continued to dump risky assets such as equities." MarketWatch 12:54 PM
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