"Your Love of Your Old Smartphone Is a Problem for Apple and Samsung: Some shoppers are balking at new-phone price tags pushing $1,000 or features that don't impress" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:20 AM
"Why Amazon Can Crush Apple in the Smart-Home Market: Amazon continues to make headway in the smart-home market while Apple mostly watches from the sidelines." TheStreet 1:08 PM
"Apple is under fire for moving iCloud data to China" CNNMoney 7:58 AM
"Apple officially moves its Chinese iCloud operations and encryption keys to China" The Verge 8:16 AM
"Apple Plans Healthcare Clinics as Employee Perk" TechNewsWorld 3:47 PM
"Apple 'wellness' unit launched for staff: The genius will see you now" The Register 7:51 AM
"Cellebrite can unlock any iPhone (for some values of 'any'): Forensics contractor's 'Advanced Unlocking Service' still has to brute-force passcodes." Ars Technica 8:42 PM
"Amazon, Apple Struggle to Sit Out NRA Gun-Control Debate" Bloomberg 7:41 AM
"Activists call for boycott of Apple and Amazon over National Rifle Association streaming app" AppleInsider 8:01 AM
"Growing calls for boycott of Apple purchases over NRA TV channel" 9to5Mac 8:01 AM
"Smartphone security comparison gives Apple top billing, only two Android brands do ok" 9to5Mac 8:20 AM
"Apple signed up another top director to make an exclusive TV show" Business Insider 8:10 AM
"Phone makers are rushing to rip-off the worst part of the iPhone X design" Quartz 8:20 AM
"10% of young adult Americans have used Apple Pay in-store, well ahead of rival mobile wallets" 9to5Mac 9:17 AM
"Apple Pay Users Are on the Rise" Market Realist 9:27 AM
"Couple Seeks $600K from Apple After 'Faulty' iPhone Burned Down Their Business" iDrop News 3:47 PM
"Stepping Back from the iPhone Precipice: Dialog Semiconductor buys some time to find other source of revenue." BloombergGadfly 9:28 AM
"Apple targets Android users with new 'Switch to iPhone' ad campaign" Mashable 11:10 AM
"Woz was scammed out of Bitcoins now worth over $70,000: His bad luck proves banks are right to ban buying bitcoin with credit cards." Engadget 8:13 AM
"Steve Wozniak says he was scammed out of $74,000 in Bitcoin" BGR 9:26 PM
"Vintage computer museum on sale with 80 classic Macs" Cult of Mac 8:24 AM
"Former Apple exec tapped to lead Computer History Museum" Cult of Mac 8:24 AM
Non-Apple News
"YouTube's New Moderation Team Stumbles Out the Gate" Gizmodo 9:22 PM
"Verizon and a company it bought just paid $614M in biggest FCC fine ever: Straight Path failed to use spectrum, resulting in $614M fine and sale to Verizon." Ars Technica 5:38 PM
"Video: FCC Commissioner Calls Out Net Neutrality 'Blunder'" PC Magazine 4:07 PM
"Piccolo is building a gesture-based smart home 'vision assistant'" TechCrunch 3:47 PM
"Baidu's new A.I. can mimic your voice after listening to it for just one minute" Digital Trends 2:15 PM
"China's Internet Censors Ban Use of the Letter 'N': Censors in China are so powerful they can detect when a single letter is used and auto-ban the content." PC Magazine 9:51 AM
"Children are finding it harder to hold pencils because of technology, paediatricians have warned" Business Insider 9:17 AM
"Leaked images supposedly show Fitbit's next 'mass appeal' smartwatch" The Verge 8:16 AM
"New Leak Suggests Fitbit's Next Smart Watch Will Actually Be Attractive [Updated] Gizmodo 8:16 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Apple Enters Medicine, Vero Viability, Cellebrite Insecurity -ACM 451" The Mac Observer 5:51 PM
"#230: An Adult With a Credit Card/Apple's foray into healthcare, the one thing we think Siri needs to improve, where we stream most of our content, and our feelings on the latest social network, Vero." Relay FM: Clockwise 3:46 PM
"037: Spotify IPO, Apple Watch skiing and snowboarding, Sketch design update Daily" 9to5Mac 3:32 PM
"Apple's Expanding TV Show Lineup, John's Big Screen iPhone Love -TMO Daily Observations 2018-02-28" The Mac Observer 1:04 PM
"Intego Mac Podcast: To Beta or Not to Beta..." Intego Mac Podcast 8:21 AM
"Review: Apple HomePod — Part 2: The Smart Speaker" iLounge 3:47 PM
"Best Smartphone Cameras: There are good ones, but these are tops for photos and video" [iPhone X top choice, total of 6 iPhones in top 10] Consumer Reports 3:29 PM
"Consumer Reports says the iPhone X has the best smartphone camera, and it's not even close" BGR 5:59 PM
"5 ways the Galaxy S9 might be better than iPhone X: Welcome to the fight, emoji." Macworld 8:01 AM
"DropMix review: Make amazing remixes with your iPhone and playing cards" Macworld 8:19 AM
"TotalMount Pro makes it easy to attach an Apple TV to the back of a television" Apple World Today 7:53 AM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"Like an Elephant, Reminders Never Forgets" The Mac Observer 7:38 AM
How-To/Tutorial
"How to Tag Files on iPhone and iPad" OS X Daily 3:46 PM
"Here's How to get HomePod to Recognize Updated Apple ID Payment Information" The Mac Observer 11:03 AM
"How to improve battery life on your smartphone or smartwatch" Engadget 9:17 AM
"How to Successfully Replace a Laptop With an iPad" Envato Tuts+ 8:25 AM
"Is iCloud required when you upgrade to iOS 11? Apple really wants to use its services, many of which are effectively free, but you can avoid them." Macworld 8:02 AM
"We've had our first glance of the LG G7, and it looks like an iPhone X" TechRadar UK 5:59 PM
"Facebook's 'Cat and Mouse Game'" [Video Report] New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:07 PM
"You can use a VPN to battle ISP net neutrality abuse" ZDNet 3:41 PM
"Why Do Amazon, Etsy, and Google Still Sell Gun Accessories?" Slate 3:36 PM
"How the IoT and Related Tech Are Helping to Update the Energy Sector" ReadWrite 8:24 AM
"As blockchain heats up, so do job prospects for devs" Computerworld 7:57 AM
"Bad Internet In The Big City: New York was supposed to be a model for big-city high-speed internet. Here's how it became a cautionary tale for uneven connectivity." Wired 7:57 AM
"Is Facebook's Loss In User Engagement A Massive Gain For Google?" Forbes 7:56 AM
"What Is The Difference Between Bitcoin And Ripple?" Forbes 7:51 AM
"US Supremes take a look at Microsoft's Irish email slurp battle, and yeah, not a great start" The Register 7:50 AM
"Microsoft Looks to Lure Health-Care Companies to Its Cloud With New Tools" Bloomberg 8:28 AM
"A hospital group in New Orleans is working with Microsoft to help predict patient emergencies" CNBC 8:04 AM
"Teams, Microsoft's Slack competitor, is about to become a whole lot more competitive: Two large feature deficits should be getting fixed." Ars Technica 5:22 PM
"Microsoft Patch day brings bug warnings, another Office CtR, and the return of KB 2952664" Computerworld 8:12 AM
"Microsoft to power Singapore datacentre services with rooftop solar" ZDNet 9:25 PM
"Intel's Spectre fix for Broadwell and Haswell chips has finally landed: Chips that sparked Intel's recall of microcode for Spectre Variant 2 attack now have stable fixes." ZDNet 8:10 AM
"Intel Dangles Machine Learning Chips at the Edge" Electronic Design 12:06 PM
"Apple could hit $1 trillion by this summer: Technician" CNBC 6:00 PM
"Why Warren Buffett Is Bullish on Apple" Market Realist 1:07 PM
"Warren Buffett is now almost out of IBM and heavily into Apple" ZDNet 12:05 PM
"Apple Stock Price Hits All-Time High" MacTrast 8:24 AM
Industry News
"U.S. stocks finish lower; Dow, S&P 500 log worst monthly drop in two years: All 11 S&P 500 sectors close out February in the red" MarketWatch 3:52 PM
"As February Comes to Bitter End, Wall Street Looks Back on Wild Month for Stocks: Not one, but two: two! - 1,000-point drops on the Dow followed by a bold comeback? February may have been short, but it didn't lack any drama." TheStreet 3:51 PM
"Dow loses 381 points as stocks shed early gains" FOXBusiness 3:51 PM
"U.S. Stocks Fall Again as Dow, S&P 500 Snap 10-Month Winning Streaks: Investors continue to weigh the impact of higher interest rates on the nearly nine-year bull market" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:51 PM
"Asian stocks decline following Wall Street's post-Powell selloff: Shanghai, Hong Kong indexes fall on weak economic data" MarketWatch 8:50 AM
"European stocks drive lower as Fed chief hints of more rate hikes: Bayer shares drop after results" MarketWatch 8:50 AM
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