"Apple's big year outshines mixed result for Silicon Valley" Silicon Valley 5:55 PM
"Caution over Apple despite sweet sales: iPhone maker faces analysts amid souring relations with network providers" The Independent 7:05 PM
"Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Reflects On His Innovations" Neon Tommy 6:57 AM
"Why Apple's Stock Drives People Crazy" Business Insider 7:07 AM
"Apple iPhone Launches in Five U.S. Regional Carriers" Social Barrel 7:15 AM
"Apple Adding 500 Jobs to Its European Headquarters" The Mac Observer 9:22 AM
"Apple Makes a Deal with Local Governments for Oregon Data Center" The Mac Observer 3:57 PM
"Apple's Secret Plan For Its Cash Stash: A chunk of Tim Cook's $100 billion war chest is going toward outfitting factories in Asia that will be beholden to one customer: Apple." Forbes Magazine 4/20
"Apple Stores Rake in Astounding Amounts of Cash" Minyanville 4/20
"Apple, Google and others to face former employees' antitrust suit: The companies are accused of making agreements not to poach each other's employees" IDG News Service 4/20
"Apple Vows to Build '100% Renewable Energy' Data Center" Wired Magazine 4/20
"Apple, C. Ore. officials make data center tax deal" Associated Press 4/20
"What Apple could gain from an iPad mini" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 4/20
"Lawsuit against Apple for 'bait' apps moves forward" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 4/20
"Motorola's patent enforcement against Apple will cost German taxpayers millions (of euros/dollars)" Foss Patents 4/20
"Apple in Talks With IPad Trademark Challenger to Try and Settle Dispute" IDG News Service 4/20
"Apple tries to rebrand 3G as 4G in new iPad palaver" Crave @ CNET 4/20
"Apple wants to turn '3G' into '4G' to solve iPad 3 speed disputes" ZDNet 4/20
"Apple on Australian 4G: You're Branding It Wrong" AllThingsD 4/20
"Samsung Throws an Elbow at Apple on Walk to Negotiating Table" MacNewsWorld 4/20
"Samsung Sues Apple Over Patents After Settlement Talks Ordered" Bloomberg 4/20
"HTC battles Apple in London court" The Inquirer 4/20
"Opinion: Apple, the iPhone, and the future of travel" Computerworld 4/20
"Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: Battle for digital supremacy" Computerworld 4/20
"Apple TV and the Trojan Horse Strategy" Tech.pinions 4/20
"Apple to create 500 jobs at European headquarters in Cork" RTÉ News / Ireland 4/20
"Apple announce 500 new jobs in Ireland" Reuters 4/20
"Ebook price-fixing: Apple, publishers face class action in Montreal" Montral Gazette 4/20
"Flashback bonnet still around 650,000 Macs: Russian AV firm says rivals got the numbers wrong, botnet still controls 650,000 Macs" Macworld UK 7:10 AM
"Microsoft pulls Office 2011 SP2 AutoUpdate for Mac" AppleInsider 6:55 AM
"Microsoft pulls Office 2011 SP2 from AutoUpdate: Following problems with identity database corruption after installing the latest update, Microsoft has pulled the update from its automatic update service." MacFixIt 4/20
"Flashback Mac Infection Rates Underestimated" Intego 4/20
"New report says Flashback infections remain high: Russian security firm contradicts Symantec, warns that infections of Mac OS are not declining." CNET News 4/20
"Infected WordPress Blogs Blamed for Mac Flashback Trojan" Techworld 4/20
"Apple Mac Attack Began With Infected WordPress Sites: Security researchers watch for a possible Flashback comeback by the botnet operators." Dark Reading 4/20
"Luxembourg CIRC develops LaunchAgent monitoring tool for OS X: Following a recent procedure I outlined for monitoring LaunchAgents, the Luxembourg CIRC created an easy-to-use setup utility for implementing this feature." MacFixIt 7:09 AM
"Should You Disable Java on Your Computer?" TechNewsDaily 7:09 AM
"Q&A: MacFixIt Answers/Firmware passwords not resetting on new Mac systems, and more questions answered." CNET Reviews 4/20
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"DropKey Makes Exchanging Encrypted Files a Snap" TidBITS 4/20
"Week in Apple: Mac malware saga continues, Jobs interviews, and more" Ars Technica 3:49 PM
"Apple's new iPad and iPhone business sections promote iOS' enterprise capabilities" The Verge 7:36 AM
"Apple pushing the iPhone to business with new 'iPhone at Work' webpage" iMore 7:33 AM
"Apple's new iPad goes on sale in South Korea" AFP Relax News 4/20
"iPhone Regional Carrier Rollout Hits Today" The Mac Observer 4/20
"How Green Is Your iPad? [Infographic] Mashable 4/20
"15 percent of TV viewing takes place on tablets, says Viacom" Digital Trends 4/20
"Tim Cook Sighted at Valve? Might As Well Have Been Bigfoot Instead" Mac|Life 4/20
"Valve: We never met with Apple, but we'd love to! Reports that Tim Cook visited the game designer were fabricated, but Valve wishes they were true" Macworld UK 4/20
"Valve: 'No one here was meeting with Tim Cook'" ZDNet 4/20
"Oh My Tech: Setting up the iPad for classrooms/iPad » Unfortunately, you can't restrict students from using iMessage on the iPad." Salt Lake Tribune 4/20
"Instagram Has 'Jumped the Shark,' Says Top Apple Exec [Updated] Mashable 4/20
"Apple's Phil Schiller ditched Instagram when it went Android: Says he liked Instagram when it was a small community of early adopters sharing their photographs, now there's too many people" Macworld UK 4/20
"AT&T Watson vs. Apple Siri: Talkin' about a smackdown? AT&T handing over Watson speech recognition technology APIs, SDK to developers in June" Network World 4/20
"Commemorative Steve Jobs issue wins award: The D&AD 2012 Yellow Pencil award was given to Bloomberg Businessweek for their issue 'Steve Jobs 1955-2011"." Macworld UK 4/20
"Apple Stores Outperforming Other Retailers by a Factor of 17" The Mac Observer 4/20
"Apple Highlights Potential For The 'iPhone At Work'" Apple Bitch 4/20
"Channel bites Apple's hand off for any old iPads in Q1: Apple sales via independent distributors across Western Europe soared 42 per cent in Q1, figures from channel analyst Context reveal." Channel Register 4/20
"Kick the iTunes habit and celebrate Record Store Day" CNET News 4/20
"Best Buy employee accused of stealing 15 iPads" Tampa Bay Times 4/20
"How Pomplamoose Got Lucky With Apple's iTunes" Forbes 4/20
Non-Apple News
"Amazon adds '1-Click' software setup to its cloud" ZDNet UK 4/20
"Facebook tweaks terms over censorship fears" ZDNet UK 4/20
"Facebook enabling IPv6 on beta site next month" ZDNet 4/20
"Amazon brings forward UK shipping date for Kindle Touch" V3 4/20
"AT&T's AVP Of Technical Research Explains The New Watson Speech API" TechCrunch 4/20
"VLSI confab brings technology, circuits to the fore" EE Times 4/20
"Sony to Launch 5GB Online Photo Sharing Service Next Week" IDG News Service 4/20
"Freescale's Q1 points to upswing, says CEO" EE Times 4/20
"Mozilla smartphone to go on sale in 'late 2012''" BBC 4/20
"Tomorrow's Privacy Struggles, On Display Today" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4/20
"Galaxy S III Reportedly Revealed In Vietnamese Hands-On Video" TechCrunch 4/20
"Samsung readying iCloud competitor for May 3? That's the latest report out of Korea, where Maeil Business says the company will be unveiling its S-Cloud service in two weeks." CNET News 4/20
"Unused e-waste discarded in China raises questions" BBC 4/20
Publications/Podcasts
"The TouchArcade Show - 48 - Super Mario 2 Spoiler Alert" Touch Arcade 4/20
"Ted Landau Talks AT&T Pricing, Game Center Stats Cheating and aNew Favorite App" MacNotables 4/20
"Gene Steinberg meets Tonya Engst, from TidBITS, Avram Piltch from Laptop magazine, and Ian Schray from WellReadApps this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 4/20
"Analyst: 'revolutionary, compelling' iPhone 5 out in October" Register Hardware 4/20
"Latest iPhone rumors suggest October release, LiquidMetal case" Appolicious 4/20
"Next iPhone may use Sharp, Toshiba in-cell touch technology" Electronista 4/20
"How many Macs did Apple sell last quarter? Estimates range from 4.3 to 4.85 million. The best analysts' consensus: 4.64 million" Fortune 4/20
"New iPad online wait time drops to just one week: Apple is now estimating five to seven business days before it'll ship a new iPad from its online store." CNET News 4/20
"Apple further eases new iPad availability, orders now showing 5-7 day deliveries" The Next Web 4/20
"Ivy Bridge Laptops Coming Soon, Are Laptops Crap?, Do Tablets Doom Laptops?, and More" Low End Mac 4/20
"Flashback Malware on the Ropes, Ivy Bridge CPUs Coming Monday?, Dropbox 'Good Enough', and More" Low End Mac 4/20
AppleCare/Helps
"A simple fix for when your iPhone won't charge" Macworld 4/20
Price Trackers/Deals
"My Sketch For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99)" Apple Sliced 9:44 AM
"Bird's the Word For iPhone Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)" Apple Sliced 9:44 AM
"Night of the Living Dead Defense For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $1.99)" Apple Sliced 9:44 AM
"There are no new item in The US Apple Store, 14 were restocked , 95 were unchanged, and four were Sold Out." While Supplies Last 7:17 AM
"Panorama 360 Camera For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)" Apple Sliced 4/20
"Joypad Elite -EOL (iPhone Controller For iPad Games) For iPhone Is Free Right Now (Previously $11.99)" Apple Sliced 4/20
"Treasure Defense HD For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $1.99)" Apple Sliced 4/20
"Hit for the fences with these games for your smartphone" CNET Reviews 4/20
"Augmented Reality Toys for iPhone and iPad: A Work in Progress" Techland 4/20
"SpellTower Will Become Your Next Word-Game Obsession – iPad Game Review" PadGadget 4/20
"Fighter City Review: No-holds-barred street fighting hits the App Store, and it's fun!" 148Apps 4/20
"Dark Sky Review: Dark Sky is a weather app that provides quick data on rain." 148Apps 4/20
"CreaVures Review: CreaVures is a visual treat but falls short as a puzzle platformer." 148Apps 4/20
"ILLUSIA 2 Review: GAMEVIL follows up one of their lesser-known titles, but has time (and a bit more effort) allowed the sequel to surpass the original? Not exactly, no." 148Apps 4/20
"MacGuffin's Curse Review: Lucas MacGuffin messes up a robbery and in the process receives a nasty curse!" 148Apps 4/20
How-To/Tutorial
"How To Make Text-To-Speech On OS X Lion Sound Exactly Like Siri" Redmond Pie 11:11 AM
"Apple's Phil Schiller: Instagram Snob" Techland 4/20
"Can Apple dominate the digital movie/TV market?" MacNews 4/20
"The Fallacies of How to Compete with the iPad" Tech.pinions 4/20
"Why It Doesn't Matter If Steve Jobs Said He Hated The Idea Of A Small iPad" Business Insider 4/20
"Was Siri on the iPhone hacked? Talk show host Rush Limbaugh described a technical problem with his iPhone and Apple's Siri voice assistant, encountered on his drive to work that morning." Network World 4/20
"Would Jobs have been upset if Oracle had bought RIM? Jobs' friend Larry Ellison has admitted that Oracle had considered buying Research In Motion,as well as Palm, as a way to break into the smart phone market." CIO Canada 4/20
"The Law Of Big Numbers Looms. Is Apple Ready For A Crash?" PixoBebo 4/20
Non-Apple
"Valve's 'Handbook for New Employees' leaked, hilarious illustrations included" The Verge 8:40 PM
"How mobility is stressing the chip industry" GigaOM 8:14 PM
"Don't Be Evil, but Don't Miss the Train" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 6:40 PM
"Can advanced technologies really help curb highway congestion?" Network World 4/20
"Are zombies sucking the life out of your data center?" InfoWorld 4/20
"The BYOD era may be ending already" InfoWorld 4/20
"The most mortifying moments in IT security history: From Lockheed Martin and HBGary Federal to the U.S. government and Cornell University, no one is immune to humiliating security glitches" [Slideshow] Network World 4/20
"Share of Canadians who want a BlackBerry slips dramatically in survey" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 4/20
"Diablo 3 Beta Open to Everyone This Weekend Only" Forbes 4/20
"Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: Battle for digital supremacy" Computerworld 4/20
"Samsung Outsold Apple In Smartphones In Q1, Analyst Says" Forbes 4/20
"A Devastating Blow in the 3-D Printing War?" [Video Report] The Motley Fool 4/20
"Why men like social-media site Pinterest" MarketWatch 4/20
"Surprise! Walmart's Cloud Movie Service Is Pretty Good!" AllThingsD 4/20
"Law Must Be With Google in Java Dispute" TheStreet 4/20
"The day my mind became open sourced" opensource 4/20
Humor/Cartoons
"Pearls Before Swine" [comic] GoComics.com 10:01 AM
"Apple and Samsung meet to mediate." The Joy of Tech [cartoon] 4/20
"PaperDesk, the Popular iPad Note Taking App, Announced Boxwave Sponsored Stylus Contest that Puts User Designed Screenshots in the App Store" PRWeb 4:13 PM
"RedSn0w updated for Mac and Windows: adds Corona A5 jailbreak, other tools" Engadget 7:05 AM
"iBamboo is eco-friendly, natural speaker 'dock' for iPhone" Electronista 4/20
"Microsoft Surprises Business Pundits by Posting Strong Q1 Performance" Social Barrel 7:12 AM
"Did Microsoft run out of time with Windows RT? Analyst argues that Windows RT is all Microsoft could create before it fell further behind in tablet race" ITworld 7:54 AM
"Microsoft Windows RT tablets will be more security friendly than iPad, Android devices" ITworld 7:58 AM
"Microsoft Benefits From a Raft of Products" Barron's 7:54 AM
"Microsoft Files Patent for Kinect-Powered 3D Audio" Gizmodo UK 7:58 AM
"Oracle, Google Struggle To Explain APIs To Jury: Day four of Oracle's copyright and patent lawsuit against Google's Android OS brings a lesson in API design and programming that even the judge declares 'confusing.'" InformationWeek 4/20
"Oracle and Google find common denominator for telling jury about use of Java APIs in Android" Foss Patents 4/20
"Android, Java, and the tech behind Oracle v. Google (FAQ)" CNET News 4/20
"Google's defence against Oracle in pictures" ZDNet UK 4/20
"Three things are clear in Oracle vs. Google/Three things are clear about Oracle's Java patent infringement suit against Google's Android: It will likely drag on for years, it poses a great but remote risk to Android and Java developers and it will make for lots of fascinating reading." EE Times 4/20
"No sign of Sun in Oracle conference rooms: Oracle's plan to dump unique room names at former Sun campus draws ire of current and former employees" InfoWorld 4/20
"Feds Banish Oracle From Popular Contract Vehicle: Federal government cancels Oracle's services contract on the General Services Administration's IT Schedule 70. Feds spent $388 million on Oracle products and services through Schedule 70 in fiscal 2011." InformationWeek 4/20
"IBM speeds push for 500-mile EV battery: Big Blue signs on partners for its Battery 500 Project to design an 'air-breathing' lithium air battery that would create a leap in energy density." CNET News 4/20
"IBM electric vehicle battery project adds two materials partners" ZDNet 4/20
"HP: Printed images can 'come alive' with Autonomy tech" ZDNet UK 4/20
"HP: Fewer security vulnerabilities reported, but risk escalating" ZDNet 4/20
"Intel supports China-based makers to promote ultrabooks" DigiTimes 4/20
"Why Intel Cove Point Ultrabook Is No iPad Killer" BYTE 4/20
"Chambers: 90% of Acquisitions in Hi-Tech Fail" [Video Report] Bloomberg 4/20
"Cisco Outlines Insieme Software Networking Venture" eWeek 4/20
"Security, privacy ideas emerge at Demo conference: Amid the companies presenting are startups doing two-factor authentication, Facebook profile-cleaning, and clearer terms of service" IDG News Service 4/20
"New process promises cheap, flexible electronics: Televisions as thin and flexible as a sheet of paper could be on the way, thanks to a new technique for printing electronics." TG Daily 4/20
"IT Administrators Experience High Stress Levels" eWeek 4/20
"Apple Keeps Rolling Downhill: Apple Inc. shares continued their descent, extending a decline from an April 10 intraday peak to more than 10%." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4/20
"Selling Off Before Earnings Nothing New For Apple" Forbes 4/20
"Stock Market and Investing: Apple Down 10% From All-Time High, Enters Correction Territory" CNBC 4/20
"Apple Weighing on the Nasdaq" [Video Report] CNBC 4/20
"Time to Cut Back on Apple?" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4/20
"Apple's Stock: Greed, Fear, and Fundamentals" Forbes 4/20
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