"How Apple snookered Proview to get the iPad trademark: Fresh details of the subterfuge emerge in a U.S. lawsuit. Apple doesn't deny any of it." Fortune 7:59 AM
"Proview accuses Apple of fraud, unfair competition" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 8:05 AM
"Proview drags Apple through a legal hailstorm" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 3:01 PM
"How do you like THEM apples? Proview seeks global rights to iPad name" Associated Press 9:25 AM
"Proview Hits Apple With Big-Bucks iPad Lawsuit, Claims It Was Tricked" MacNewsWorld 5:40 PM
"Proview's Apple iPad rights war goes global, reaches ESSEX: Failed Asian monitor biz Proview has filed an amended complaint to a US court against Apple, implicating a company registered in the UK and seeking to regain worldwide rights to the IPAD trademark." The Register 11:19 AM
"On the ropes, Apple's China nemesis still dreams" Reuters 8:05 AM
"Samsung mum on Apple ahead of critical rulings" The Korea Times 8:09 AM
"Samsung nervous ahead of critical Apple rulings: CEO of South Korean firm keeping quiet on Apple and German court cases" Macworld UK 8:08 AM
"German Court Rules in Favor of Apple" Zacks 8:47 AM
"Google, Apple Named in 'Street View' Patent Suit" PCWorld 9:25 AM
"Apple Proposes Spectacular Store For Portland" ifoAppleStore 5:40 PM
"Apple introduces its Developer ID program" AppleTell 8:13 AM
"Apple Developer IDs Bring Us One Brick Closer to an OS X Walled Garden" Gizmodo 8:13 AM
"Apple developing new audio file format to offer 'adaptive streaming': Format will provide high- or low-quality files to iCloud users" The Guardian 8:47 AM
"Apple Reportedly Developing High-Definition Audio Format with 'Adaptive Streaming'" MacRumors 8:47 AM
"Apple Really Is Developing a New Streaming Audio Format" Gizmodo 8:44 AM
"Apple rumored to be developing new audio format designed for iCloud streaming" AppleInsider 8:59 AM
"Review: Palua 3.0: Function Key Toggle Switch for the Rest of Us" The PC Weenies 7:37 AM
"Upload Video To Multiple Hosts With OneLoad" BYTE 11:57 AM
"How To: create your own iPhone ringtones" Ars Technica 8:40 AM
"Automator workflow of the month: System Information on a stick/Generate detailed Reports about others' computers using this workflow on a flash drive" Macworld 8:43 AM
"10.7: A look at /etc/authorization usage" Mac OS X Hints 10:04 AM
"Use iTunes to rip audio from Videos" Macworld 5:40 PM
"Winclone tool for Boot Camp imaging comes back as paid app" TUAW 8:38 AM
"Hate Using Google To Search In Safari? Add A Dozen More Search Engines" Mac 360 7:39 AM
"Yet Another Free And Easy Way To Get Album Art For iTunes On A Mac" NoodleMac 7:39 AM
"Why Mac To-Do Lists Are About To The Way Of The Dodo Bird" TeraTalks 7:38 AM
"The App Apple Forgot To Include In Your Mac Is Available Now (and why you need it)" BohemianBoomer 7:38 AM
"All About The Only Free Mac Audio Converter Tool You'll Ever Need" McSolo 7:38 AM
"Pages '09 Tip: Shortcut for creating hyperlink" Betalogue 3:02 PM
"Ditch the Launchpad Fade Animation [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac 8:47 AM
"Find & Scan Wireless Networks from the Command Line in Mac OS X" OS X Daily 5:40 PM
"Mac Tip: Create A Compressed Zip File" MacTrast 8:37 AM
"Find a MAC Address in Mac OS X" OS X Daily 8:36 AM
Op/Ed
"Open Source Arduino Platform Makes Robotics on the Mac Easy" Low End Mac 9:52 PM
"The Sandbox Conundrum: Security vs. Innovation" TidBITS 4:39 PM
"The Google Cookie That Seems to Come Out of Nowhere" WSJ Blogs 11:49 AM
"Assumptions, Assumptions and More Assumptions" The Tech Night Owl 9:20 AM
Press Releases
"New 'HTTPS Everywhere' Web browser extension released" ZDNet 8:34 PM
"PandaWare TimeCache updated to 8.0.16" PandaWare 2:20 PM
"Church Fathers Resources: new and on sale" Oak Tree Software 2:06 PM
"Float Does Simple Scheduling For Teams (And Simple Is Hard!)" TechCrunch 10:51 AM
"More feds ditch BlackBerrys: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is planning to start the process of ditching Research in Motion's signature BlackBerry wireless phone largely in favor of the iPhone, the agency's top tech official told Politico." Politico 8:28 PM
"Sprint To Purchase 24 Million iPhones" App Advice 8:48 AM
"Sprint expected to stay with iPhone, trade off subsidized prices for lucrative contracts" O'Grady's PowerPage 9:23 AM
"Sprint reveals it spent $15.5 billion to fuel its iPhone hunger" Engadget 5:28 PM
"eBay's iPad trade-ins up tenfold from same time last year" CNET News 9:47 PM
"Apple In Catbird Seat With China Mobile iPhone Deal" Forbes 10:35 AM
"Apple Maintains Top Mobile PC Share Position for Q411 and Full Year – NPD DisplaySearch" MacPrices 11:48 AM
"RSA teams to bolster security for Apple, Google, RIM devices: Goal is SecurID and evolving anti-fraud risk detection for iOS, Android, BlackBerry smartphones" Network World 10:56 AM
"Mozilla to go after Android, Apple with cheap phone OS" Agence France-Presse 8:04 AM
"Mozilla has a plan to outduel iPhone and Android" CNNMoney 8:06 AM
"Apple debuts new TV ad 'iCloud Harmony' (with Video)" MacDailyNews 7:51 AM
"Best Buy to Offer 30-day Returns on iPhone, iPad" The Mac Observer 8:08 AM
"Best Buy to simplify return policy: 30 days, all products (including iPad)" TUAW 5:28 PM
"Mercedes Benz working Apple's Siri into its cars" Appolicious 9:08 AM
"Mercedes-Benz Integrates iPhone 4S and Siri into New Models" PC Magazine 10:51 AM
"Mercedes Assimilates Siri with Digital DriveStyle App" The Mac Observer 7:33 PM
"President Obama In The Oval Office Getting Briefed On An iPad 2 [Image] Cult of Mac 8:12 AM
"Video: iPads for Orangutans -- Program would let apes Skype other zoos" Postmedia News 9:50 PM
"Phishing scam promising free iPhones and Walmart giftcards popping up on Tumblr blogs" The Next Web 7:52 AM
Non-Apple News
"Thumbdrive-sized computer now available for preorder" CNET News 11:51 AM
"Networking at 10,000 Feet: Airlines Are Making the Skies 'Social'" Techland 11:20 AM
"Wearable electronics can add a sparkle to your outfit" New York Times 11:07 AM
"Cell-site on a chip could revolutionise 4G: Chipmaker Freescale have announced they've achieved the near impossible feat of putting an entire cell-site onto a single piece of silicon." Stuff: New Zealand 11:05 AM
"Top Rambus attack dog Harold Hughes to retire" The Register 11:17 AM
"Mozilla Dropped Android From Boot-to-Gecko Project" IDG News Service 10:52 AM
"Malware authors expand use of domain generation algorithms to evade detection" IDG News Service 10:39 AM
"Suse builds on Linux kernel 3.0 in major SLES upgrade: SLES 11 Service Pack 2 delivers file-system enhancements, broader virtualization support, snapshot features, and more" InfoWorld 10:39 AM
"HTC, Polycom Bring RealPresence Video Conferencing to Smartphones, Tablets: MWC" eWeek 10:29 AM
"Samsung Brightside coming to Verizon March 1 with dim specs" CNET News 11:51 AM
"Verizon to sell Galaxy Tab 7.7 on Thursday for $500 over LTE: Data plan required, starting at $30 a month, with purchase of Android 2.3-based Samsung Galaxy tablet" Computerworld 10:24 AM
"Mega-powerful camera phone, super-fast gadgets dazzle at mobile show" CNN 10:22 AM
"Eye-controlled computer games for disabled children" BBC 10:15 AM
"RIM Touts PlayBook Apps, Actively Courting Bigger Players" PC Magazine 10:49 AM
"Chrome Now Able to Open E-Mail Links in Gmail" PCWorld 10:51 AM
"Android team to be independent of Motorola" TG Daily 11:16 AM
"Forget About Android 4.0! Google Exec Hints Android 5.0 Will Launch In Fall Of 2012" TechCrunch 11:13 AM
"Google Hints at 'Android Jelly Bean': In Google's booth at Mobile World Congress, there's a bowl of jelly beans. Make of that what you will." PC Magazine 10:48 AM
"Google puts $1M on the line for Chrome exploit rewards: Pulls out as Pwn2Own sponsor, but will pay up to $60K for each proven exploit" Computerworld 10:25 AM
"Public Wi-Fi On Your Cell Phone Will Soon Stop Being Such A Pain To Use" Business Insider 9:54 AM
"Panasonic introduces waterproof smartphones" USA Today 11:22 AM
"Panasonic Names Tsuga President After Predicting Record Loss" Bloomberg 10:18 AM
"Yahoo, Facebook in a shoving match" CNNMoney 9:34 AM
"A glimpse into the remote-controlled house of the future" MSNBC 10:45 AM
"Your Jetsons home is almost here" CNNMoney 9:34 AM
"Japan's biggest mobile carrier announces Siri competitor, 'Shabette Concier'" ZDNet 11:48 AM
"Quad-core smartphones could have price, battery issues" IDG News Service 8:42 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"The Portable Podcast, Episode 126" 148Apps 1:49 PM
"'Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space Ep 2' Review - Another Entry in the Fantastic Series Comes to iOS" Touch Arcade 8:36 AM
"'League of Evil 2' Review - Still As Evil As Ever" Touch Arcade 9:23 AM
"Review: Spirits – A Stunningly Gorgeous Puzzle Game For Mac" MacTrast 7:46 PM
"Spin Yourself a Web in Itzy3D – iPad Game Review" PadGadget 5:27 PM
"Dead Space™ for iPad Review: Compelling third-person shooter is good for a few scares" Macworld 1:50 PM
"Cinemagram Review: Cinemagram is an Instagram-like app that allows users to create a combination of a still photograph and Video." 148Apps 5:27 PM
"Hyper Snake Review: Hyper Snake is a revamped version of the classic Snake game with motion-based controls." 148Apps 3:01 PM
"Midway Arcade Review: Midway Arcade is a compilation of 12 arcade games from the annals of Midway history, with prizes to collect, and a virtual arcade to look around." 148Apps 1:50 PM
"SpaceOff Review: A fast and furious two-player asteroid-based action game that could do with some adjustments." 148Apps 11:24 AM
"Super Word Search! Review: Simple to look at but an ideal game for fans of word search puzzles." 148Apps 9:24 AM
"WrestleFest HD Review: WrestleFest HD is a modern-day revival of the classic Technos arcade game for iOS, bringing WWE legends past and present into the ring." 148Apps 8:48 AM
"After German FRAND setback, Google and Motorola should pursue licensing, not litigation" Foss Patents 8:35 AM
"What the iPhone 5 is up against and its battle" Phones Review 7:53 AM
"Motorola puts Google's Voice Actions against Apple's Siri in a fierce death-match" Phandroid 8:13 AM
"Apple tells Siri rival Evi: Get a facelift and you can stay" The Register 9:25 AM
"Does Apple want rid of Evi? Reports claim that Apple has threatened to pull Siri rival from App Store, though another Report contradicts this claim" Macworld UK 8:08 AM
"How Evi spent a weekend in App Store limbo" GigaOM 7:52 AM
"This Was Apple's Trick to Snatch the iPad Trademark From China" Gizmodo 9:09 AM
"Is anyone surprised? None follow Apple's China inspection lead" Mac.Blorge 7:38 AM
"Google TV may have less than 1m viewers" Electronista 9:49 PM
"iPad 3?" [Nook Tablet review] MacNews Blog 9:40 PM
"A Lawyer Who Is Also A Photographer Just Deleted All Her Pinterest Boards Out Of Fear" Business Insider 11:53 AM
"HTC, Nokia: I'm Too Sexy For This Smartphone/At Mobile World Congress, HTC and Nokia try hard to cast smartphones as femme fatales--but leave us more bothered than hot." InformationWeek 11:55 AM
"Nokia Still Struggles Even As Windows Phone Poster Child" Forbes 11:48 AM
"BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 — outstanding value (review)" ZDNet 11:33 AM
"AT&T's Terrible Plan to Bill App Makers for Your Data Use" Techland 11:20 AM
"TC@MWC: Hands-On With The Surprisingly Solid Asus Padfone" TechCrunch 11:13 AM
"We Watch Our Phones More Than We Watch TV, But The PC Wins The Day" TechCrunch 11:12 AM
"Huawei, The Latest Android Player: Who Are These Guys?" PCWorld 10:53 AM
"First Look at Mozilla's Web Platform for Phones: 'Boot to Gecko'" PCWorld 10:51 AM
"Hands On With Toshiba's Thin AT270 Quad-Core Tablet" PC Magazine 10:48 AM
"5 smartphone trends at Mobile World Congress" IDG News Service 10:39 AM
"Lapdock: From avant-garde to awful/Motorola's laptop dock for Android smartphones has terrible hardware -- and faces a new generation of post-PC competition" InfoWorld 10:38 AM
"Canonical's Ticking Time Clock" LinuxInsider 10:28 AM
"So It's the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo — The Last Refuge of the Vaguely Patented" AllThingsD 9:45 AM
"Most Users In the Dark About Google's New Privacy Policy" PC Magazine 10:48 AM
"The Google+ 'ghost town' has plenty of life left" CNET News 10:06 AM
"The Mounting Minuses at Google+: Playing Catchup to Facebook, Google's Social Network Is a Virtual Ghost Town by Comparison" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:40 AM
"Mozilla has a plan to outduel iPhone and Android" CNNMoney 9:34 AM
"Google Needs More Than Seven-Inch Tablet To Beat Back Apple, Amazon" Forbes 11:53 AM
"The privacy arc: How do we build satisfying connections back into our lives without the superficiality of automated sharing?" O'Reilly Radar 8:46 AM
"Samsung seasons failure with confusion" Tech.Blorge 7:36 AM
"Microsoft, others in Google+ complaint to EU: sources" Reuters 9:47 AM
"Microsoft's next Steve: Windows boss faces biggest test" Reuters 10:03 AM
"Microsoft Dishes On Windows Phone 'Tango' And More: Here at MWC, a Microsoft exec tells us which new features will be coming to Windows Phone—and whether we'll ever see more MS-powered phones on Verizon and Sprint." PC Magazine 10:48 AM
"Microsoft's future riding on Windows 8" Associated Press 11:47 AM
"Can Microsoft make Windows 8 the mobile OS?" CNET News 10:07 AM
"U.S. district court to hold special FRAND mini-trial in Microsoft-Motorola case" Foss Patents 5:27 PM
"Microsoft shows off NUI, Kinect-focused research projects" ZDNet 11:33 AM
"How Kinect could end up in your grocery store" USA Today 11:21 AM
"Microsoft's 3D computer offers a world for your hands" CNET News 8:35 PM
"H-P's big problem? Hardly anyone prints any more" MarketWatch 9:45 AM
"HP Cutting 275 WebOS Jobs as It Makes Software Open-Source" Bloomberg Businessweek 8:36 PM
"Dell: 'We're Not Really A PC Company Anymore'/Dell evolving its business away from a reliance on PC shipments toward supplying high-end servers, appliances, and rack-mount virtualization packages for the enterprise data center." InformationWeek 10:37 AM
"Dell is a PC company (for now): The numbers don't lie" ZDNet 11:33 AM
"Dell: 'Now they see they HAVE to consider working with us'/Dell is relying on its EMEA channel to take it into enterprise data centres as the big biz becomes a bigger and bigger focus for Round Rock." Channel Register 11:18 AM
"Dell sees more double-digit growth in China -exec" Reuters 9:56 AM
"Hungry Dell iron monsters FEAST on your puny apps: Dell is adding Micron-based Express Flash to its servers and will feed the server flash beast from Compellent arrays." The Register 11:19 AM
"IBM Scores a Touchdown With Football's Miami Dolphins" AllThingsD 9:58 AM
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