"Mac OS X: Happy Eleventeenth Birthday" FairerPlatform 10:32 AM
"New wave of phishing attacks serves malware to PCs and Macs" ZDNet 8:38 AM
"Shopping For Zero-Days: A Price List For Hackers' Secret Software Exploits" ["That iOS exploit price represents just one of the dozens of deals the Grugq has arranged in his year-old side career as a middle man for so-called 'zero-day' exploits, hacking techniques that take advantage of secret vulnerabilities in software. ... Who's paying these prices? Western governments, and specifically the U.S., says the Grugq, who himself is a native of South Africa."] Forbes 6:05 PM
"What the new iPad and Mountain Lion tell us about Apple's upcoming Retina Macs" 9 to 5 Mac 4:42 PM
"More 'retina' display piccies spied within Mac OS X" Register Hardware 11:12 AM
"OS X Mountain Lion Galaxy Photo Identified" The Mac Observer 4:39 PM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Q&A: MacFixIt Answers/We answer questions about moving data to new user accounts, larger virtual memory allotments, and more." MacFixIt 6:34 PM
"Detecting and removing the Flashback malware in OS X: The Flashback Trojan's latest iterations have evolved to infect Macs in different ways, but there are methods to detect and remove them." MacFixIt 6:33 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Get digital copies of your Mac manuals" Macworld 9:10 AM
"Ask the iTunes Guy: Album art and tagging" Macworld 9:10 AM
"Hands-On: TweetDeck Wants To Be Your Pro Twitter Client Again" Wired 8:22 AM
"Mail: Hiding Synced Notes in Your Inbox" The Mac Observer 8:18 AM
"Re-Index Spotlight from the Terminal, Re-Gain Valuable Time for Life [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac 8:52 AM
"Sony's Music Unlimited coming to iOS in a 'few weeks'" CNET News 12:13 PM
"Half of iPad 3s sold will sport 4G, says bank" Register Hardware 8:23 AM
"Apple iPhone 4 'combusts' during the night, reports claim" T3 8:57 AM
"Apple Store For Dijon, France Confirmed" MacTrast 10:30 AM
"Steve Jobs' Job Offer Wasn't Good Enough for Linus Torvalds" OStatic 10:29 AM
Non-Apple News
"Mystery Solved: RIM Needs iOS Talent in Push to Manage Others' Mobile Devices" AllThingsD 11:57 AM
"DuckDuckGo Founder Gabriel Weinberg Talks About Creating a More Private Search Engine" Techland 11:32 AM
"New Tivo has a half-terabyte capacity" TG Daily 11:27 AM
"HTC to Give Keynote at Computex for the First Time" IDG News Service 10:58 AM
"Panasonic Rice Cooker Can Exchange Recipes With Android App via RFID" IDG News Service 10:57 AM
"McAfee identity theft expert on which devices are safe to resell" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 10:47 AM
"Memory prices almost at bottom, says Transcend chairman" DigiTimes 10:32 AM
"Facebook warns employers not to demand passwords" Associated Press 10:32 AM
"Futuristic cars are coming faster than you think" Detroit Free Press 10:31 AM
"LG Drops as Analyst Says Phone Sales May Miss Estimates" Bloomberg 10:05 AM
"Carpathia seeks help with Megaupload data" BBC 10:04 AM
"Google's Punchd wants to replace loyalty cards with an app" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 10:46 AM
"Google charts a careful course through Asia's maps" Reuters 9:58 AM
"SAP Raises Salaries of co-CEOs, Starts New Compensation Plan" Bloomberg 9:53 AM
"Insight: Samsung: 'fast executioner' seeks killer design" Reuters 9:53 AM
"Baidu Takes Aim At Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive, With Cloud Storage Service" paidContent 9:52 AM
"T-Mobile Cutting A Net 1,900 Call-Center Jobs" Associated Press 9:54 AM
"Lenovo Dreams of Waterproof Notebooks & Acrobatic Displays" Patently Apple 8:18 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Gene Steinberg meets Avram Piltch of Laptop magazine, John Martellaro of The Mac Observer, and veteran columnist Ted Landau, from The Mac Observer and Macworld, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 2:47 PM
"MacMall Opening New Chicago Store; We Talk With The President" MacNews 8:58 AM
"New iPad controversies and thoughts on the new iPad after one week (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 8:19 AM
"New iPhone (iPhone 5,1) coming fall 2012 with LTE, similar sized screen" iMore 4:42 PM
"What's coming on iPhone 5?" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 6:25 PM
"Apple Feels Heat From Steve Jobs' Display Choices: There are widespread reports of a heat problem with the new iPad. The problem is so ubiquitous that it even prompted Consumer Reports to run a test." Forbes 10:42 AM
"Video: Apple's hot new IPad wins over reviewers" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 8:26 AM
"New iPad Battery Keeps Charging Despite 'Battery Full' Message" PCWorld 10:57 AM
"DisplayMate: New iPad Lies About Charging Status" PC Magazine 10:54 AM
"Angry users bite Apple over poor WiFi on the new Ipad" The Inquirer 8:27 AM
"Safari bug could lure iOS 5 users to malicious Web sites" CNET News 8:28 AM
"Apple now takes the biggest bite of the world's chip market" Fortune 9:08 AM
"Sharp, LG Display to increase panel shipments for iPads in 2Q12" DigiTimes 8:39 AM
"Future iPhone May Be Made Out of Glass" Mashable 8:40 AM
"Monster Wars for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch" AppleTell 8:58 AM
"The Hunger Games: Girl on Fire Review" 148Apps 9:11 AM
"SmartPlans Review: The SmartPlans project management app goes beyond the basic check list and allows users to get things done in an intuitive and simple to setup dashboard." 148Apps 1:25 PM
"Swordigo Review: Swordigo is a platforming action-RPG from the creators of Sooziz, boasting iCloud support for carrying saves across iOS devices." 148Apps 11:10 AM
"Light The Flower Review: Manipulate beams of light to collect stars and light the flower!" 148Apps 10:13 AM
How-To/Tutorial
"MacMost Now 687: Storing and Reading Documents With GoodReader For iOS" MacMost 10:26 AM
Tips
"Change the user agent string on iOS Safari" Mac OS X Hints 9:44 AM
"On iPad Heat, New Macs, Apple As Bank, Privacy Policy, Profits, RIM, And Linux" PixoBebo 8:16 AM
Non-Apple
"Why aren't there more women in tech? Wrong question" CNET News 12:07 PM
"Facebook Becomes The New Patent Punching Bag" Forbes 12:02 PM
"Micron, SanDisk slip on NAND pricing worries: Analysts stay upbeat on Micron as well as NAND prospects" MarketWatch 11:58 AM
"How to play Skyrim without a discrete GPU" TG Daily 11:27 AM
"Update: Analyst: No Angry Birds Space On WP7 Affects Nokia Recovery (Rovio Says It's Working On It)" TechCrunch 11:25 AM
"How to Use Your Xbox or PS3 Controller on a PC" PC Magazine 10:53 AM
"Time to Unplug Your Technology for One Day?" PCWorld 10:57 AM
"Step away from the tech -- just for a day" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 10:47 AM
"All you need to know about cloud data transfers" InfoWorld 10:43 AM
"Is BYOD the precursor to the open source desktop?" InfoWorld 10:43 AM
"Lost cellphones added up fast in 2011" USA Today 11:33 AM
"Most Smartphones Lost At Night: LookOut Mobile says two-thirds of lost devices vanish from pubs and bars at night." InformationWeek 10:42 AM
"'I do most of my mobile gaming . . . in bed'" Houston Chronicle 10:41 AM
"On-the-go power: Mobile chargers keep your devices alive" [Slideshow] Computerworld 10:21 AM
"Bitter over Twitter ads: Company's move to raise cash 'polluting' tweet stream" Boston Herald 10:06 AM
"LTE phone shipments to jump 10-fold in '12, analysts say: Most of the growth will come from North America and Asia, according to Strategy Analytics" IDG News Service 10:21 AM
"Did you know Verizon also throttles unlimited data service?" CNET News 9:56 AM
"2012: The year of the App-ocalypse?" CNET News 9:55 AM
"Google Voice puts voice mail in your ICS call log (hands-on)" CNET Reviews 12:06 PM
"In a Long Distance Relationship? This App Is for You" Mashable 10:21 PM
"Army Software Marketplace now live for iOS now, Android soon" Electronista 10:17 PM
"Camera+ Creators Have Sold 10 Million Apps" The Next Web 6:29 PM
"This App Lets You Chat With Nearby Users...And Call Them On The Phone" TechCrunch 10:56 AM
"Digiarty Announced Full Support for the New iPad 3" PRWeb 10:06 AM
"Explore the World's Most Famous Ship in Titanic: Unsolved Mystery" 148Apps 9:49 AM
"iTunes Movie Trailers Adds iPad Retina Display Support" The Mac Observer 9:12 AM
"'Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition' Coming to iPad" MacRumors 9:10 AM
"eMedia Guitar Method for iPad® eMedia Guitar Method for iPad®: The newest version of the award-winning best-seller is now available on the iPad!" eMedia 9:06 AM
"DOMK: Reports of Fragile AAPL iPad Design Could Be Helped by Hot New Solapad Accessory" Business Wire 9:00 AM
"Julie Kuehl Discusses Daisey's Foxconn Report, More on IMP" The Mac Observer 8:53 AM
"Jailbreak Only: CardSwitcher 2.0 - An Impressive Alternative App Switcher" App Advice 8:50 AM
"Open Source Group Urges EU Parliament Staff to Reject Microsoft 'bribe'" IDG News Service 10:56 AM
"Microsoft's Answer To The End Of Software: Microsoft's Convergence user conference convinced me that Dynamics will be a major player in the cloud, as Redmond bets big on customer choice." InformationWeek 9:59 AM
"Windows 8 To Match iPad Retina Display? Microsoft is building Windows 8 to handle a wide range of screen resolutions. But it's unclear whether hardware makers will take advantage." InformationWeek 10:00 AM
"Bing boots execs: Microsoft fires marketing bigs in surprise move" New York Post 10:52 AM
"Windows 8 update: Dell thinks it can sell Windows 8 tablets" Network World 10:59 AM
"Are Hyper-V and App-V the new Windows Servers?" ZDNet 11:42 AM
"Microsoft does Hadoop, and JavaScript's the glue" ZDNet 11:41 AM
"Is Xbox the new center of the Microsoft universe?" ZDNet 11:41 AM
"Analyst eyes Q3 2013 for Xbox 720 release" Register Hardware 11:30 AM
"Oracle investor sues directors over damages" Bloomberg News 11:12 AM
"Oracle shareholder sues over whistleblower case" ZDNet 11:41 AM
"HP and Dell Must Fight Apple in Devices (There Is no Higher Ground)" Forbes 12:00 PM
"HP Investors to HP: Be Like Apple" The Motley Fool 10:15 PM
"HP Displaces Cisco, EMC In Sabre Data Centers: $800 million deal with travel industry leader replaces rivals' aging equipment with HP's latest virtualized, converged systems." InformationWeek 10:00 AM
"HP and EMC battle for the soul of server storage" The Register 11:31 AM
"Hewlett-Packard Names Marc Levine as Controller" AllThingsD 9:39 AM
"HP and Dell Must Fight Apple in Devices (There Is no Higher Ground)" Forbes 12:59 PM
"Who's Running HP's New Printing and Personal Systems Group? Read the Memo." AllThingsD 10:21 PM
"IBM compares picture puzzles to Big Data analysis: Businesses can improve analysis by focusing on context" Techworld 11:26 AM
"Dell, Canonical Deliver OpenStack Cloud Abroad" Wired 11:38 AM
"Intel to offer new SSDs, say Taiwan makers" DigiTimes 10:33 AM
"Many Ivy Bridge ultrabooks expected to be showcased at Computex Taipei" DigiTimes 10:32 AM
"Intel next-gen netbook chip to sport Ivy Bridge graphics" Register Hardware 11:30 AM
"Web address controversy deepens after U.S. warning: (Reuters) - A controversial attempt to expand Internet addresses far beyond the likes of .com, .org or .net has provoked a rare threat from the U.S. government to withdraw a key licence from the body that runs the Internet's core functions." Reuters 12:08 PM
"Will a Dividend-Tax Hike Spoil the Party? Apple's dividend announcement this past week is good news for income investors, but bad news might be lurking around the corner." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:29 PM
"Apple Shares Resume Trading After Circuit Breaker Triggered" WSJ Blogs 11:46 AM
"Apple investors sideswiped: briefly: by erroneous trade: A mistaken order causes AAPL shares to briefly plunge 9.4 percent until authorities halt trading. Just another boring day in the life of a high-flying stock." CNET News 1:36 PM
"Apple's Starts Trading Again After A Bizarre Crash Halted The Stock" Business Insider 10:13 AM
"Apple's devoted shareholders get rich, and hang on" Reuters 12:14 PM
"Top 10 more interesting ways Apple could spend its $100bn cash-pile" V3 11:46 AM
"Apple: Oppenheimer Ponders the Downside; Risk Favorable" Barron's 9:51 AM
Industry News
"Tech stocks eke out late gains: Tech stocks managed to put in a mostly upbeat performance Friday, but it was a glitch in a trading system resulting in confusion and erroneous trades of Apple Inc. and other stocks that stood out during the day's market session." MarketWatch 4:51 PM
"U.S. stocks close tough week on bright note: Energy, resource stocks lead rebound to cap worst week of year" MarketWatch 4:52 PM
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