"Photo gallery scrolling patent: Apple likely to win German ruling against Motorola in February" Foss Patents 5:35 PM
"German court says Galaxy Tab 10.1 revision is just fine: Apple has been dealt a significant blow in its efforts to ban the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany." CNET News 10:04 AM
"Apple nears German court rebuff in row with Samsung" Reuters 5:32 AM
"Apple loses one in its iPad tablet war with Samsung" ZDNet 3:59 PM
"Apple Unlikely to Win Ban on Samsung Galaxy 10.1N, Court Says" Bloomberg 8:03 AM
"Apple unlikely to secure Galaxy Tab 10.1N ban in Germany" GigaOM 8:02 AM
"Apple Confirms Future Glass-Roofed Store: In a rare public admission, an Apple spokesperson has confirmed construction of a replacement retail store in Palo Alto (N. Calif.), which building plans indicate will include a vaulted glass roof identical to the design of the Upper West Side (NYC) store." ifoAppleStore 10:04 PM
"Construction to begin soon on 'prototype' Apple store in downtown Palo Alto" ["'It's a very unique building,' Palo Alto planning manager Steven Turner told The Daily News. 'The retail space within the building is very visible to pedestrians who are walking past.'"] San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 4:33 AM
"Apple to begin construction on new prototype Palo Alto Store with a skylight, trees and more" The Next Web 4:48 AM
"Evolution of the Apple Store as Told by Thomas Park" Arch Daily 4:46 AM
"Anobit acquisition keeps Apple ahead in flash memory" CNET News 8:01 AM
"Steve Jobs' legacy and the tech lessons of 2011" CNET News 8:02 AM
"iPad gets 83% satisfaction rating" The Loop 4:02 PM
"Distimo: Apple's App Store Still Beats Android On Revenues; Freemium Rules" paidContent 4:49 AM
"New iPhone? No thanks, say cash-conscious Europeans" Reuters 4:36 AM
"Apple at work in the kitchen" ["Indeed, the key reason why many people prefer apps rather than leafing through dog-eared pages of a cookbook is the step-by-step instructions with visual aids that help them learn as they go. 'As these apps become more widely available, everyone with a smart phone or iPad will use them,' says Paolo."] Independent Online: South Africa 4:56 AM
"How much do the Chinese love their Apple iPads? A lot. Despite delayed launches, they download nearly as many iPad apps as U.S. users" Fortune 9:58 AM
"GCI buys 'thousands' of iPhones and other devices, memo says, in ramp-up of mobile newsroom tech" Gannett Blog 8:05 AM
"USA Today Parent Company Gannett Stockpiling iDevices for Journalists" MacTrast 8:05 AM
"1976 letter calls 21-year-old Steve Jobs a hard bargaining, secretive 'joker'" AppleInsider 4:01 PM
"HTC Announces It's Completed Patent Workaround" iDownload Blog 8:03 AM
"Apple advertises Boxing Week iTunes sale in Canada, 69-cent songs and albums from $5.99" 9 to 5 Mac 4:36 AM
"Steve Jobs to get Grammy for revolutionizing music" Reuters 9:52 PM
"Steve Jobs gets posthumous Grammy AND a bronze statue" Register Hardware 8:06 AM
"Steve Jobs to be given posthumous Grammy" Financial Express 4:59 AM
"More Picture-Takers Are Phoning It In" AllThingsD 11:58 AM
"Smartphones killing point-and-shoots, now take almost 1/3 of photos" GigaOM 1:48 PM
"Smartphone snaps on the rise" Tech.Blorge 1:48 PM
"Apple drops 180-day deadline for Complete My Album discount" SlashGear 8:02 AM
"Video: Santa's Digital Downtime" AllThingsD 4:03 PM
Non-Apple News
"Seagate backup biz deletes name, restores EVault brand" The Register 11:17 AM
"Nintendo finds a way to patch Wii Zelda game" TG Daily 11:16 AM
"Paint-on solar cells could power homes: Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have developed a 'solar paint' that could be slapped on the outside of a house to help generate power for the devices inside." TG Daily 11:15 AM
"Verizon To Launch a Home Media Server In 2012, Plans To Eliminate Set-Top Box" TechCrunch 11:12 AM
"3D Printing: A Technology Awaits its iPad Moment" Computerworld 10:55 AM
"Cricket Becomes Fourth U.S. LTE Carrier" PC Magazine 10:54 AM
"Sony Xperia Starting Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade in March" eWeek 10:31 AM
"Self-healing system repairs broken wires, traces" EE Times 10:31 AM
"Amazon separates servers from IP addresses" ZDNet UK 11:29 AM
"Amazon adds networking tools for private clouds: Enterprises will be able to connect two virtual networking interfaces to one cloud instance" IDG News Service 10:22 AM
"Nimbula Launches Cloud Migration Service: Startup urges enterprises with systems running in public clouds to move their workloads to in-house private cloud environments." InformationWeek 10:43 AM
"RIM: Boy Genius Says Development Issues Delayed BB 10" Barron's 11:38 AM
"RIM BlackBerry 10 Doesn't Work, Says Insider: BlackBerry 10 is delayed because the software isn't ready, an inside source says, not because the company is waiting for a new chipset as RIM CEOs claim." InformationWeek 11:42 AM
"Nintendo's President Expecting a Strong Holiday and Says What He Really Thinks of Zynga" AllThingsD 9:46 AM
"Cellphone Jugglers Seek Best Deals" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:40 AM
"Nest Thermostat Teardown Reveals Beautiful Innards, Powerful ARM CPU, Zigbee Radio" TechCrunch 10:04 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Mac Geek Gab Premium Podcast: MGG 371: Managing Your Media, Viruses, Cool Stuff Found" The Mac Observer 4:14 PM
"Ask Dave Podcast: Change the Color of an Area without Making a Selection" Layers Magazine 10:54 AM
"YML Archives for December 21st, 2011" Your Mac Life 5:14 AM
"Living a Microsoft lifestyle using Apple iOS products - Lync, OneNote, Xbox for iPhone and iPad and more, oh my" Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen 4:45 AM
"Microsoft SkyDrive for iOS mini-review" BetaNews 3:59 PM
"Skitch's new iPad app is worthy of drawing your attention" VentureBeat 5:19 AM
"WD TV Remote iPhone app: Mostly a hit" CNET News 3:45 PM
"Rolling Stone's Beatles Album-by-Album Guide Review: Beatles guide delivers, but slightly disappoints" Macworld 8:51 AM
"Download M.U.S.E. for iPad for a Console-Like Shooter Game Experience" PadGadget 8:16 AM
"'Wind-up Knight' Review - The Little Knight That Could" Touch Arcade 4:13 PM
"Curio Review: Escape a mental asylum and insanity at the same time by running as far as possible without letting Ron lose his wits." 148Apps 9:11 AM
"Kingdom Rush Review: Orcs, trolls and evil wizards oh my. Kingdom Rush proves that the tower defense genre is still alive." 148Apps 10:08 AM
"SpySpy Review: SpySpy can be a surprisingly fun action/platformer/espionage kind of game, when the controls aren't getting in the way." 148Apps 4:02 PM
"Blockwick Review: The next step in the evolution of the block sliding puzzler genre." 148Apps 4:02 PM
"ZENONIA 4 Review: Get ready to embark on an epic quest, spanning multiple time periods, in ZENONIA's most recent and refined offering." 148Apps 8:08 AM
How-To/Tutorial
"How to prevent stolen iMessages" Macworld 5:48 PM
"How to use Siri to type on your Mac" MacFixIt 4:13 PM
Tips
"How To Make Your iPhone's Home Button More Responsive [iOS Tips] Cult of Mac 10:19 PM
"Microsoft, Apple Mount Legal Attack on Android" Forbes 4:03 PM
"iPhone is for games, Android is for other apps" GigaOM 3:49 PM
"An Overlooked Apple Acquisition" ["My counter is always the same: if Apple is going to make a fairly large acquisition, they better be buying Nintendo"] The Motley Fool 3:45 PM
"How U.S. Carriers Fool You Into Thinking Your iPhone 4S Is Unlocked" Forbes 10:52 AM
"Editorial: As CES Grows, Will Microsoft's Loss Be Apple's Gain?" iLounge 10:08 AM
"I Used to Be a TV Producer, Until Apple Canceled My Show" Wired 10:08 AM
"Support Vs. Optimization: Dealing With Mobile Web Browsers" Webmonkey 10:07 AM
"Apple Versus AT&T: Who Makes the Money?" Forbes 9:59 AM
"The vacuum left in presenting on things technology now that Steve Jobs has gone. Can All Things Digital's Kara Swisher fill the gap? Um, er, No." Les Posen's Presentation Magic 8:08 AM
"Apple's Juicy 2012 Hardware Harvest" MacNewsWorld 8:04 AM
"Smart TV is ready for the Apple television moment" Computerworld 7:48 AM
"Here We Go Again: First Apple, Then Microsoft" The Tech Night Owl 7:46 AM
"Isn't it finally time to retire the Apple's Reality Distortion Field label?" ZDNet 4:55 AM
"Was Woz Right?" ["Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder, alleged that a company like his could have never emerged in 'structured' Singapore, a place he said does not encourage people to think for themselves and dishes out 'severe' punishment for bad behavior."] WSJ Blogs 4:49 AM
"Explosions, delays and smaller iPads: iPad 3 rumour roundup for the past week" Network World 4:48 AM
"The Steve Jobs Statue & the Four-Dimensional Visionaries of BIM" ReadWriteWeb 4:48 AM
"Judge: 'We don't think someone buys a Samsung to make his table neighbor at the coffee house believe he owns an iPad'" 9 to 5 Mac 8:03 AM
"Apple May Get To Remove Obvious Features From Android" Techdirt 4:34 AM
Non-Apple
"Forget Siri: Google Voice Phone Searches May Display Results on TV" SEO by the Sea 10:05 PM
"RIM and Nokia Face Major Challenges in 2012" View From Above 1:49 PM
"Will There Ever Be A Universal, MP3-Like Standard For E-Books?" paidContent 11:38 AM
"Best of Google Maps and Google Earth 2011" [Slideshow] PCWorld 10:55 AM
"Gadget Round Up: Some of the coolest gadgets Technology Review has come across in the past year." [Video Report] Technology Review 11:13 AM
"The 12 Coolest Gadgets: Take a look at some of the most interesting, drool-worthy, and lust-inducing products to pass through the PCMag Labs lately." PC Magazine 10:54 AM
"3 game-changers in the cloud: Get ready -- or else" InfoWorld 10:45 AM
"The tech industry's biggest bozos of 2011: Léo Apotheker, Mark Zuckerberg, Reed Hastings, and the RIM twins are the bozos of the year, along with the iPhone 5 rumormongers" InfoWorld 10:44 AM
"Samsung Focus S: Slick Windows Phone -- for consumers only/The sleek smartphone's Windows Phone 7.5 'Mango' OS has real appeal, but it can't work in most businesses" InfoWorld 10:44 AM
"Who should kick off CES with Microsoft no longer opening the show?" Houston Chronicle 10:42 AM
"Mark your calendar now for the big data days of 2012" GigaOM 10:39 AM
"Webpages showing sharp growth in girth" BBC 10:16 AM
"The 12 treats of Christmas: 2011's best tech releases/From the perfect camera to the top phone, read David Phelan's guide to this year's must-have gadgets" The Independent 10:46 AM
"Last Minute Christmas Gifts: Chargers as Stocking Stuffers" ABCNews 10:15 AM
"5 Ways The Smartphone Market Evolved In 2011" InformationWeek 10:08 AM
"7 Strategies For Better Database Security In 2012" InformationWeek 10:08 AM
"Why Skyrim is Not My Game of the Year" Forbes 9:55 AM
"Is there a cloud bubble? There are plenty of signs that the cloud computing market is maturing -- including blockbuster acquisitions. But is it starting to froth?" Fortune 9:52 AM
"2012: The Year Of The Disposable Computer" Seeking Alpha 9:52 AM
"Android tablets to buy if you don't want (or can't afford) an Apple iPad 2" Bloomberg [Free Registration Required] 9:50 AM
"The Tech.pinions Predictions For 2012" Tech.pinions 8:59 AM
"Opinion: The best hope for the future of Firefox/Even as Google extends Mozilla's funding for another three years, Firefox is losing market share" PCWorld 4:48 AM
"Good Riddance: 9 Bad Tech Ideas That Expired In 2011" Business Insider 4:48 AM
"Bill that could 'break the Internet' delayed until 2012" CNNMoney 11:32 AM
"Enterprise IT spending: Blips or worries headed into 2012?" ZDNet 11:27 AM
"Year of the Talking Phone And a Cloud That Got Hot" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:41 AM
"2012: Virtual desktops are all the rage" Network World 10:56 AM
"Tech Trends in 2012: What's Hot, What's Not?" E-Commerce Times 10:30 AM
"A Few New Year's Resolutions for Tech Companies: Constructive advice for HP, Google, Netflix and RIM--because hey, nobody's perfect." Techland 11:18 AM
"U.S. stocks lifted by economic data/For 2011: Dow up 5.1%, S&P 500 off 0.3%, Nasdaq down 2%" MarketWatch 5:31 PM
"Financials Lead Wall Street Higher" FOXBusiness 5:32 PM
"Stocks Gain Steam on U.S. Economy" TheStreet 5:32 PM
"Stocks end higher on positive jobs data" CNNMoney 5:32 PM
"Stocks Finish Higher as Banks, Tech Lead" CNBC 5:33 PM
"Dow Makes It Three in a Row: Stocks headed into the last day of trading before Christmas in good cheer, notching a third straight advance on a batch of better-than-expected economic readings." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5:33 PM
"Stock futures fall from highs on mixed economic news" CNNMoney 9:36 AM
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