"FY 17 Third Quarter Results: Apple's conference call to discuss third fiscal quarter results is scheduled for Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET." Apple Investor News 4:53 PM
"BRIEF-Apple Hospitality REIT president, CEO Justin Knight injured in plane crash" Reuters 4:55 PM
"Imagination Technologies Attacks Apple's GPU Plans in Latest Earnings Report" The Mac Observer 7:07 AM
"Trump on collision course with Brussels again as White House backs Apple in EU court case: DONALD Trump has set the US on a collision course with Brussels yet again after the White House lodged a formal intervention on behalf of Apple ahead of an upcoming EU court case." Express UK 8:36 AM
"EU lawmakers back tax clampdown on Google, Apple" MarketWatch 8:23 AM
"U.S. Government Is Going to Bat for Apple" TheStreet 8:35 AM
"Trump administration supporting Apple's appeal of EU tax case" The Hill 10:18 AM
"U.S. Government Comes To Apple's Defense In Tax Evasion Case" Redmond Pie 7:12 AM
"U.S. Government Seeks to Intervene in Apple's EU Tax Appeal" The Mac Observer 7:09 AM
"Apple's India expansion plans in full throttle: Firmly sets eyes on what users buy the most" The Economic Times 8:23 AM
"On Apple And The Death Of Passwords" NoodleMac 8:28 AM
Press Releases
"Cocktail 10.4 (Sierra Edition) has been released" Maintain 8:39 AM
"Little Snitch 4.0: Enjoy a completely redesigned Network Monitor with map view for visualizing network connections based on their geographic location, a new, improved Silent Mode, an option to minimize the connection alert to defer decisions about pending connections, improved hostname based filtering accuracy using Deep Packet Inspection, and much more." Objective Development 7:54 AM
"AirBeamTV Now Supports Video File Playback from Mac to Smart TVs" prMac 7:29 AM
"Screenshot Auto-Rename for Mac - Take Full Control of Your Screenshots" prMac 7:12 AM
"Losslessly Convert iTunes M4V Movies to MP4 with DRmare M4V Converter" prMac 7:13 AM
"Graphic Inspector Now Can Search Images by Bit Depth" prMac 7:10 AM
"irisVR Announces Prospect 1.5 Is Available—New 360-Degree Panoramas Support" Architosh 7:09 AM
"Apple 2017 Third Quarter Earnings Report Scheduled for August 1" The Mac Observer 9:02 PM
"Fender partners with Apple for Apple Music curated playlists featuring its guitars" AppleInsider 9:09 PM
"Apple News Will Soon Have More Ads, Maybe Micropayments" The Mac Observer 5:26 PM
"Apple's 'spaceship' rumbles" The Straits Times [Free Registration Required] 5:47 PM
"Houses Near Apple Park Met With Increased Tourism and Rising Real Estate Values" MacRumors 8:37 AM
"Apple Park campus creating property boom as both developments and prices soar – NYT" 9to5Mac 7:45 AM
"Apple firmly sets eyes on what Indians buy the most: A colleague has just bought an iPhone 5S (16GB) at a little over Rs 16,000 and another has made up his mind to book the Bengaluru-assembled iPhone SE (32GB) at Rs 26,000 that features several flagship iPhone specifications at a lower price." The Indian Express 8:38 AM
"Report: U.S. Government Files Application to Intervene in Apple's Tax Appeal in Europe" MacTrast 7:59 AM
"Former Employee Claims Google, Not Apple, Wanted Out of iPhone YouTube Deal" The Mac Observer 7:07 AM
Non-Apple News
"Nvidia, Baidu expand AI partnership to include cloud GPUs and self-driving cars" GeekWire 7:30 AM
"Moovit wants to use its crowdsourced mapping data to transform public transportation" VentureBeat 7:28 AM
"China's Alibaba debuts low-cost voice assistant speaker to rival Amazon's" VentureBeat 7:28 AM
"The biggest technology flops in history" Telegraph 7:15 AM
"Airline cabin ban on laptops & tablets further eased, with two more airlines exempted" 9to5Mac 6:50 AM
"Xiaomi Goes Old School to Reclaim Smartphone Crown in China" Bloomberg 7:32 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"iPhone 8 Face Scanning, Building a Hackintosh, High Sierra Beta – ACM 418" The Mac Observer 2:45 PM
"Mac, iPhone, and Apple Watch Tips -TMO Daily Observations 2017-07-05" The Mac Observer 2:08 PM
"iPhone 8 release date, specs and price: Retail packaging leak points to dual cameras, aluminium body/Shady leak claims the iPhone 8 will look a lot like the iPhone 7" The Inquirer 8:00 AM
"This is definitely not the iPhone 8's retail box" BGR 7:45 AM
"Apple Wants Face Scanning to Replace Touch ID" Investopedia 8:23 AM
"Report: Facial Recognition to Replace Touch ID on iPhone 8" The Mac Observer 7:07 AM
"Apple to switch to facial recognition to unlock iPhone devices" ABCNews 7:46 AM
"iOS 10.3.3 Developer and Public Beta Available" The Mac Observer 2:09 PM
"Wireless Apple CarPlay goes on sale" Inquirer.net 8:35 AM
"Apple wants to help you improve your golf game" Apple World Today 7:39 AM
"Black Apple AirPods are available now, but not from Apple: I see a white AirPod and I want to paint it black." CNET 10:18 AM
AppleCare/Helps
"Apple iOS 10.3.2 Is Causing New Problems" Forbes 9:20 PM
Price Trackers/Deals
"MacBook Air Still Offers Excellent Notebook Value – The 'Book Mystique" MacPrices 10:36 AM
"The Smart Keyboard makes the 10.5-inch iPad Pro a better device [Video] 9to5Mac 12:07 PM
"Best Laptops for Video Editing" ["The MacBook Pro can make any video editor drool. Available in both 13-inch and 15-inch configurations, the Retina displays are superb."] ExtremeTech 8:13 AM
"New Apple TV (2015) review: So much potential, at present wasted/The latest iteration of the Apple TV has the potential to be a game changer, but the software just isn't there – yet" Alphr 7:47 AM
"How much of a performance boost does the eGPU dev kit provide?" iMore 7:29 AM
"GEAR 4's Buckingham is the perfect keyboard less iPad case" Apple World Today 6:50 AM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"Affinity Photo gets big update headlined by resolution support for 10.5-inch iPad Pro, and portrait mode" 9to5Mac 9:28 PM
"10 New Features in iOS 11 Notes App" iPhone Hacks 9:02 PM
"Your iPad is Your Art Teacher with ShadowDraw" Apple Must 2:50 PM
"Inside iOS 11: Apple Music's social sharing isn't just Ping reborn" AppleInsider 12:29 PM
"Five iPhone apps to help you stop losing your stuff" iMore 10:23 AM
"Do Not Disturb While Driving in iOS 11 can change your habits if you let it" iMore 8:22 AM
How-To/Tutorial
"Storing Local Documents When Using iCloud Drive" MacMost 6:36 PM
"How To Choose The Mac You Want And Need" Mac360 8:40 AM
"How to clear the cache on your iPhone or iPad: Deleting junk files, memory hogs and unwanted cache items is a great way to give your iPhone (or iPad) a spring-clean speed boost and get it running faster than ever." Macworld UK 7:46 AM
"How to Add Google Hangouts Account in macOS Messages App" WCCFTech 7:45 AM
"How to permanently delete your Instagram account" Telegraph 7:15 AM
"How To Use Your iPhone As NFC Keycard" Redmond Pie 7:12 AM
"How to Embed Excel Files and Link Data into PowerPoin" Envato Tuts+ 6:57 AM
Tips
"5 Ways to Keep Your Mobile Devices Charged When You Travel" Terry White's Tech Blog 2:44 PM
"5 3D Touch Maps Tips You'll Use — if You Don't Already!" Apple Must 9:14 AM
"Apple On Tracking: A Split Personality" BohemianBoomer 7:41 AM
"Goodbye, Touch ID, Hello F.B.I." TeraTalks 8:14 AM
Non-Apple
"Artificial Intelligence Will Redefine the World: How big of a deal is artificial intelligence? Microsoft researcher James McCaffrey explains AI's origins and why we can expect profound effects from it." InformationWeek 9:29 PM
"And It Just Doesn't Work/We're planning a big move, and while this is a stressful and uncertain time, I'm rethinking the personal technology we use day-to-day with an aim to make things better. And that means finally pulling the trigger on some changes I've been considering for a long time: Getting rid of cable TV and our phone lines, being smarter about connected speakers, implementing a mesh wireless network, and more." Thurrott 8:06 AM
"May we never find a perfect smartphone" The Verge 7:17 AM
"The world's oldest websites that are still around today" Telegraph 7:15 AM
Humor/Cartoons
"Comic: The Grim Visage of a Beta Tester" iMore 8:22 AM
"Hackers are posing as Microsoft staff in bid to obtain MPs' passwords: Parliament says 'no usernames or passwords' have been disclosed to scam callers" The Inquirer 7:04 AM
"Windows ransomware found to be incredibly rare" ZDNet 7:35 AM
"Microsoft chatbot turns controversial yet AGAIN: Zo AI calls the Qu'ran 'violent' and gives its opinion on Osama Bin Laden in bizarre chat" Daily Mail (UK) 9:48 AM
"Drilling down on Microsoft's new plan to sell to consumers" ZDNet 9:17 AM
"Dell EMC Commercial Chief: HPE's stratgey is not working, which is why we are going to win...and already are" Computer Business Review 7:48 AM
"Oracle Debuts Three New Open-Source Container Tools" eWeek 9:00 PM
"Oracle is riding the cloud to all-time highs above dotcom bubble levels" CNBC 9:36 AM
"Oracle Has a Business That Is Going to Double in Size and Help Send Its Stock Soaring 24%" TheStreet 9:36 AM
"Oracle: Here Comes the Big Cloud Wave, Says Keybanc/Oracle's resellers are telling KeyBanc analyst Monika Garg the company has real momentum to convert its vast base of customers: over 400,000: to cloud computing, which could boost Oracle's overall cloud sales by 2019 to a quarter of revenue, prompting KeyBanc to upgrade the stock to the equivalent of a Buy." Barron's 9:36 AM
"Oracle's stock climbs after analyst upgrade on cloud optimism" MarketWatch 9:36 AM
"Lenovo Moto X4 leaks, features dual rear cameras and water resistance" Neowin 7:29 AM
"The UK remains Europe's tech hotspot as VC deals rise despite Brexit vote" Neowin 7:11 AM
"Germany's power sector making serious strides in renewable energy: But the country is still struggling with heating and transportation." Ars Technica 8:13 AM
"Samsung Replacing Intel, Qualcomm As Top Chipmaker, Taking Lead In Other Smartphone Components As Well" International Business Times 7:50 AM
"S&P Rises on Rebound in Technology Shares: Semiconductors led the tech sector higher, offsetting declines in energy shares as oil fell" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5:54 PM
"China's Caixin services PMI slips to 51.6 in June" MarketWatch 7:37 AM
"European stocks struggle to rise, as auto makers and pharmas drag" MarketWatch 7:38 AM
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