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Thursday Highlights: Apple changed the world of computing by offering "the computer for the rest of us", now perhaps the company will change the United States corporate tax code while they're at it; Ireland claims no special tax deals given to Apple, "refuses to be US 'whipping boy'" in the Senate's Apple tax hunt; meanwhile, Apple said to be doubling lobbying expenditure over issues including taxes; a warning issued to Mac users not to become complacent over viruses, malware; Mactuts+ explains ins and outs for setting up your Mac for iOS AirPrinting; Macworld UK's Mark Hattersley answers questions for those who've held out upgrading to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion; Macworld features cover the usefulness of "About This Mac", and how you can do "more with Messages"; Adelaide's City Messenger posts photos from inside city's first Apple Store; Michael Gartenberg, analyst with Gartner, joins Apple's marketing team; Mailbox was acquired by Dropbox, new app released for iPads, founder interviewed by Business Insider, and Wired, app reviews from Techland, The Next Web, iDownload Blog; and maker of thin, tough cases, LifeProof, has been acquired by OtterBox, patent suit also settled; AppGratis hopes Android platform is the ticket to survival following ban on Apple's App Store; iWatch now said to be unveiled in late 2014 according to one analyst, may use tech from iPod Nano; Pfeiffer Consulting releases "user experience benchmarks" for 7" tablets; and Apple applies for Airplay interactivity, orientation audio adjustment, among other patents in our Hardware/Software section; KFSN TV on the Yellow Jacket stun gun case for iPhone; and here's a tutorial on saving PDFs on your iDevice to iBooks; TechCrunch says Microsoft's "cheap shot at the iPad" backfires, pointing out "exactly why the Surface sucks"; remember what life was like before smartphones?
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"Apple's iPhone Opportunity in China Keeps Getting Bigger" The Motley Fool 10:10 AM
"Five Biggest Challenges for Apple in China" Forbes 1:00 PM
"Senator Schumer asks FTC to probe Apple, Android: A U.S. senator has urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Reports that applications on the Apple Inc and Google Inc mobile systems steal private photos and contacts and post them online without consent." Reuters 6:34 PM
"Where next for Samsung, Apple patent dispute? Samsung to appeal German ruling, but sources say two tech giants could agree on cross-license deals in the future" The Korea Herald 7:51 AM
"iPad trademark row in China threatens Apple" Caixin Online 8:28 PM
"Apple wins Siri Advertising Standards Agency case: Apple has triumphed in an Advertising Standards Agency investigation that saw a number of complaints brought against the iPhone 4S' Siri features" T3 7:35 AM
"Amsterdam Warms To New Apple Store" ifoAppleStore 7:37 AM
"Can the iPad3 Hit iPhone Growth Levels?" The Motley Fool 8:28 PM
"Hands-on with iPad 3 Front Glass, Rear Shell, and Cases (Video)" M.I.C. Gadget 7:37 AM
"iPad 3 Might Feature iOS 6, 'HD' Name: Apple's next iPad might feature 'HD' in its name, and include a major update to iOS, which one blog terms 'iOS 6.'" eWeek 8:18 AM
"Apple highlights its U.S. job creation" AppleTell 7:46 AM
"Apple and Foxconn will not feel happy for these 'iKill' Infographic Charts" M.I.C. Gadget 3/3
"iPad 3 'to be same same price' as iPad 2" Crave @ CNET 3/3
"Elgan: This year's mobile screens will stun and amaze/How phone and tablet makers will dazzle you with displays" ["Rumors and circumstantial evidence suggest that the upcoming iPad, which Apple is expected to announce on Wednesday, will have twice the screen resolution as the current iPad."] Computerworld 3/3
"Microsoft: Apple Makes Old iPhones 'Unusably Slow' On Purpose" Business Insider 3/3
"Reading the tea leaves on app sandboxing in OS X" GigaOM 3/2
"Can You Hear the Difference Between Lossless and Lossy Audio?" Techland 3/2
"Dear Safari Team....: Safari used to be a great browser for my work at MacSurfer. Once upon a time I was able to have a page open, hop up to my bookmark bar, click on a folder, run the mouse over to the contents of that folder, hold down the Apple/Splat key and click 'Open In Tabs' and those bookmarks would open in new tabs without replacing the existing tab(s) I had open." Thoughts and Ramblings 3/2
"Lion discussion has some interesting notes about how DNS server choices can create performance problems via misinterpretation by download applications; plus notes on Bluetooth/Magic Mouse problems and some explanation about 'EXC_BAD_ACCESS' errors." MacInTouch 3/2
"Will Apple create the all-iPad classroom?" San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 6:32 PM
"Archbishop Mitty High School embraces iPad as learning tool" Silicon Valley 8:04 AM
"Cracking the iPhone: iCracked/A college student stealing business from Apple? AJ Forsythe has built his business on fixing iPhone cheaper and more conveniently." Inc. 7:51 AM
"5 Enormous Things Apple is Bigger Than" MacTrast 7:40 AM
"iPad 3 Appears -- in Social Network Scams" Macworld UK 4:03 PM
"Chinese Man Kills Vendor After Realizing He Was Sold A Fake iPhone" Business Insider 7:40 AM
"Apple's App Store hits 25B downloads right when we predicted, at a current rate of 48.6M a day" The Next Web 3/3
"25 Billion Downloads: Apple's App Store Hits Giant Milestone" Cult of Mac 3/3
"Apple's App Store Hits 25 Billion Downloads: How Many Per iPhone?" PC Magazine 3/3
"Apple: 25 Billion Apps Have Been Downloaded From The App Store" MacStories 3/3
"iOS App Store serves 25 billion downloads" The Verge 3/3
"Apple serves up 25 billion iOS apps to users" iPodNN 3/3
"Apple May Face Difficulties On Making A 4G LTE iPhone For China's 4G Network" M.I.C. Gadget 3/3
"Apple may have second Ottawa retail store" MacNN 3/3
"Air Force Gives $9 Million Award for as Many as 18,000 IPads" Bloomberg 3/2
"U.S. Air Force to spend $9M on iPads for flight manual reboot" CNET News 3/2
"Air Force Buys 18,000 iPads for Air Mobility Command" The Mac Observer 3/2
"Apple again tops Fortune's list of most admired companies" CNET News 3/2
"City beginning to go paperless: If you attend a Vancouver City Council or a City manager meeting, you are likely to see iPads at the desk in lieu of stacks of papers" City of Vancouver: Washington, USA 3/2
"Switching to iPads saves Vancouver $336 per device per year on data, decreases printing by 40 percent" The Verge 3/2
"Switching to iPads saves Vancouver City Council 50K pages a year" AppleInsider 3/2
"Virgin prepares to leave: the Champs Elysees" ["This is simply one of the best commercial brands of Paris. Apple would be in the running, but other signs, without declaring themselves, dream of settling there."] Google French-to-English: Le Figaro 3/2
"Apple could move into Champs-élysées Virgin Megastore" MacNN 3/2
"Apple: We never said Siri would actually work in the UK/Ad watchdog says punter's expectations too high" The Register 3/2
"Apple complaint quashed over 'misleading' Siri advert" ZDNet 3/2
"Nearly one-third of mobile users expected to buy iPad 3: Report" ZDNet 3/2
"For Robot Maker, the Future Is Getting Closer" ["Now Mr. Angle's company is trying to do Rosey one better — with Ava, a 5-foot-4 assistant with an iPad or an Android tablet for a brain and Xbox motion sensors to help her get around. But no apron, so far."] New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3/2
"Startup sued for sending local TV to the iPhone" Associated Press 3/2
"Smartphone text autocorrect locks down school" Tech.Blorge 3/2
"When will tablets outsell traditional PCs?" asymco 3/2
"Apple speeding toward 25 billion app downloads: Guesses vary but milestone could be met as soon as tonight" Network World 3/2
"Snubbed by Apple, China's Renren becomes the first social network app for Windows 8" The Next Web 3/2
"Charges pare back Apple supplier Laird: More than £130m of exceptional charges have widened the full-year pre-tax loss at Laird, in spite of strong demand for tablets and smartphones driving up revenues at the British electrical components provider." Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 3/2
"AT&T Clarifies 'Unlimited' Data Plans in New Policy" The Mac Observer 3/2
"AT&T Throttles Unlimited Plan Users at 3 GB" TidBITS 3/2
"AT&T: Use Of Tablets On The Rise Among Small Businesses" MacNews 3/2
"Soluto Saucily Sunders Apple's Seriousness With Salacious Squib" TechCrunch 3/2
Non-Apple News
"Papers Put Faith in Paywalls: Digital Subscription Sales Are Slow, but Publishers Are Encouraged by Trends" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:30 PM
"Android a photo-slurper too: Report/On the heels of last week's controversy regarding the photo-slurping habits of iPhones come Reports that Android can play similar games with privacy." The Register 6:31 PM
"Pandora may open its box downunder: Internet radio outfit Pandora is set to disrupt the Australian radio landscape eroding advertising revenue and asset valuation, according to a new Report from Morgan Stanley." The Register 6:30 PM
"Sony SmartWatch: The watch the iPod nano wishes it was" ZDNet 7:35 AM
"CBS's '60 Minutes' Casts Its Eye on Stuxnet Worm" AllThingsD 3/3
"Panasonic powers back to mobile with Elugas" [Slideshow] CNET News 3/2
"New potato-spotting AI built with off-the-shelf tech" BBC 3/2
"Magnificent Men Of Mobile World Congress: Booth babe pictures are so 2011. So we give you the men of Mobile World Congress, in all their geeked-out glory." InformationWeek 3/2
"AT&T Adds Speed Caps for Heavy Data Users" Bloomberg 3/2
"Retailers Join Payment Chase/Two Words: Digital Wallet—Wal-Mart and Target Join Project Aiming to Make Plastic Obsolete" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3/2
"Shutterfly to Buy Kodak's Online Photo Service" The Mac Observer 3/2
"Google Introduces New Camera Motion & Timing Gesturing for Android" Patently Apple 3/2
Publications/Podcasts
"CNET Roadside Assistance 47: All you need is Bluetooth (podcast)" CNET 3:19 PM
"iPad 3, PlayBook 2.0, MWC, Nokia N9 1.2 (MobileTechRoundup show #261)" ZDNet 1:05 PM
"iPhone & iPad Live 282: iPad 3 event, Photoshop Touch, home automation" iMore 7:47 AM
"ATPM 18.03 / March 2012: Volume 18, Number 3" ATPM 3/2
"Gene Steinberg meets Neil Ticktin of MacTech magazine, Greg Bell of 'Radio Classics,' and Macworld's Dan Frakes this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 3/2
"iPad 3, Apple TV, Mastered for iTunes and high quality music (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 3/2
"Performance Comparison: All Apple May, 2011 iMacs and July, 2011, Mac Mini Server 2.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7" MacReviewZone 3/2
"Practical Mac: Take mobile control of your sound system/Although the $399 Sonos Play:5 sound system offers a $349 remote, the company's free iOS app makes your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch your remote." Seattle Times 3/2
"Timbuk2 Crater case: A little air for your Air" CNET News 3/2
"Coming Soon To Mac Pro? The Radeon HD 7970 versus existing GPUs" Bare Feats 3/2
"Belkin Power Pack 4000: Make sure you never run out of juice in the middle of nowhere again." Register Hardware 3/2
"PlayStation Vita (vs iPad) review/With Apple ruling the mobile gaming market, we take a comparative look at what Sony's response is: the PlayStation Vita" Macworld UK 3/2
"Review: Skech Custom Jacket Flip for iPhone 4/4s" Run Around Tech 3/2
"Apple's over-compliant media: Instead of writing breathless press releases for the next iPad, journalists should be asking harder questions of the tech giant" The Guardian 3/3
"Will the iPad 3 really cost more? New rumor: Nope" CNET News 3/2
"What An iOS Game Looks Like On The iPad 3's Retina Display" Cult of Mac 3/2
"MacOS KenDensed: The iPad 3 is Coming & AT&T is Choking Your Data" The Mac Observer 3/2
"This is why you should ignore the lot of them" bynkii 3/2
"Why the iPad 3 Won't Replace Your Laptop: Will the new tablet smack down lightweight laptops, or is it Apple versus oranges? Our lead analyst for laptops delivers his totally unbiased opinion." PC Magazine 3/2
"Hands-on: Dell's XPS 13, a next-gen ultrabook/Dell's new XPS 13 ultrabook offers a great balance of style and performance at a reasonable price." Computerworld 3/2
"Can 'Mass Effect 3' appeal to fans and new players?" CNN 3/2
"Mobile World Congress 2012: four companies that stood out" ZDNet 3/2
"Mobile World Congress 2012 roundup: All you need to know from Barcelona" Computerworld Blogs 3/2
"Did cheap mobiles steal show over sexy gadgets?" CNN 3/2
"Galaxy Note a gigantic 'phablet,' but l love it anyway" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 3/2
"iOS 86: A kickback iOS theme for nostalgic Mac lovers" Digital Trends 8:27 PM
"Londoners: Join the London MUG for the iPad 3 event on Wednesday" TUAW 6:27 PM
"Quirky App Of The Day: Bubblin" App Advice 3:22 PM
"Survey Says: Yes on iPad 3 (Not So Much on Final 'Twilight')" AllThingsD 1:00 PM
"Catch the Airplanes" [From developer email: "I'm a swiss boy of 15 years old on my free time I love the game development. For this I publish my first game on the app store. I work on this game about 1 month and it's very good."] Patrick Balestra 12:53 PM
"Get Yourself In The Picture With The Tiltpod" App Advice 10:11 AM
"Plugication For iPhone Forces Music To Resume Playback When Headphones Are Plugged In" Redmond Pie 8:04 AM
"Dubstep Arena - Over 1,000 greatest Dubstep Tracks in your Device" prMac 7:52 AM
"Mobile Game developer? Adapt your game to the Xappr gun for smartphones" prMac 7:52 AM
"Hunka Technologies launches iPhone Game on Dinosaurs - iDino Jump" prMac 7:52 AM
"Website for Christian Meditation Resources Launched" prMac 7:52 AM
"New iPhone/iPad Game For Kids To Learn Flags of All Countries" prMac 7:52 AM
"New iPhone Game Donates Proceeds to Environmental Charities" prMac 7:52 AM
"Blue Quoll Launches Puss In Boots The Great Adventure StoryBook App" prMac 7:52 AM
"I Want These Headphones' Quick-Folding Design On All My Cables" Gizmodo 7:46 AM
"'Zombies, Run!' mashes gaming and fitness together for iOS users" The Verge 7:45 AM
"Five apps to entertain and educate your toddlers" TUAW 7:36 AM
"Valve Rumored To Be Working On Steam-Based Console" TechCrunch 3/3
"Learn How To Create iOS Games From Scratch [Deals] Cult of Mac 3/3
"'SMSmileys' automatically converts text smiley faces into Emoji icons" iDownload Blog 3/3
"Poll: Will You Buy the iPad 3? (Plus Cool Concept Video)" AllThingsD 3/3
"iOS Simulator hack allows developers to test their apps for Retina iPad display" AppleTell 3/3
"Spring into your vacation with these mobile apps" Appolicious 3/3
"'Read Later' Instapaper and Read It Later client now free in the Mac App Store" The Verge 3/3
"Localscope Continues To Be One Of The Best GPS Apps With The Latest Update" App Advice 3/3
"We are pleased to Report the release of new product To do Checklist - Organize task, events and time for iPhone from BrainInStock: To do Checklist provides you with the simpliest yet flexible way to manage your everyday tasks and checklists. It keeps all your planned activities, reminds you carefully through notification center and makes it possible to share your task lists with others even without Internet connection." BrainInStock 3/3
"Burst! 4.0 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad" prMac 3/3
"New myGuardianAngel App - Never Face Trouble Alone Again" prMac 3/3
"Play retro-style text adventures on your iOS devices with Narratavius" prMac 3/3
"Remember When Virtual Pets Were All The Rage?" prMac 3/3
"Stamp Art Fever Updated With New March Themed Collections" prMac 3/3
"IfAlarm: Wakeup Alarms Set By Real World Conditions" prMac 3/3
"New Picture Puzzles Game For Kids To Learn First Words on iPhone/iPad" prMac 3/3
"Would you like to know what is currently popular upon Internet, Social Media and Social Network like twitter, youtube, flickr, instagr.am, foursquare Around The World right now with a single touch?!? Well this app is the answer." Geo Socialmedia Trends 3/3
"Hipstreet Introduces New iPhone Projector to Boost Users' Entertainment and Business Options" PRWeb 3/2
"The top 25 iPhone and iPad apps for business: Here are 25 go-to iOS apps for business users, from travel planning to document editing using Microsoft Office tools to time tracking to getting a good night's sleep" [Slideshow] CIO 3/2
"Barry Diller app sued for showing TV broadcasts on iPhone" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 3/2
"'Monty Python: The Holy Book of Days' coming to iPad" AppleTell 3/2
"Turn Your iDevice Into A Mobile Security System With Smartcam+" iClarified 3/2
"Reflection For Mac Brings AirPlay Mirroring From iOS To Mac" Run Around Tech 3/2
"Windows 8 on ARM: No legacy, no legs? Will running older software be less of a concern with Windows 8?" CNET News 6:31 PM
"Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Windows Server 8 Marked Microsoft's Week" eWeek 8:18 AM
"Microsoft Details Windows 8 Consumer Preview System Recommendations" eWeek 8:18 AM
"Hands on with Windows Server 8 beta: The Metro user interface doesn't work well for a server OS: but other than that, no major complaints" Computerworld 8:15 AM
"Window shopping: A look at the Windows Store" PCWorld 8:20 AM
"Five Windows 8 features businesses should watch" PCWorld 8:20 AM
"A tip of the hat to Microsoft for allowing Kinect innovation" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 8:21 AM
"Microsoft: Having Blown Past $30, Could $40 Be Next?" Forbes 3:22 PM
"Why Google, Microsoft Will Kill Facebook" Seeking Alpha 8:18 AM
"Microsoft, Intel were hits at MWC -- Nokia was a miss, Barron's Reports" The Fly On The Wall 3:21 PM
"Choose the best CPU for your dream PC/Here are the best Intel and AMD processors suitable for a budget or performance desktop. Plus: a look at the best CPU coolers." PCWorld 8:14 AM
"Intel quietly launches Atom D2550 CPU" CPU World 8:17 AM
"Disk storage system sales in Q4 top $8.5B, 6.2 petabytes: For 2011, disk storage systems grew 7.7%" Computerworld 8:15 AM
"Windows 8 Tablets Could Be Risky Business: Microsoft's admission that Windows on ARM tablets are best for 'unmanaged environments' could lock them out of the enterprise computing market." InformationWeek 3/3
"3 Big Challenges to Microsoft's Windows 8: The new operating system is versatile, but could face resistance from those who prefer the familiar over the untested" InvestorPlace 3/3
"Will Windows 8 Eat Android's Tablet Lunch?" The Motley Fool 3/3
"Metro breakdown! Windows 8 UI is little gain for lots of pain" The Register 3/3
"Microsoft's Windows 8 might come in nine different versions" DVICE 3/3
"What Different Windows 8 Flavors Will We See?" NotebookReview 3/3
"Windows 8's new way of working: Messaging, Mail, and People" Ars Technica 3/3
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