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Friday Highlights: Citing inside information, 9 to 5 Mac reports of new details on Jony Ive's redesign of iOS 7 which will be "black, white, and flat all over", additional coverage in our Hardware/Software section; in what sounds like bad news for Apple, Judge in e-book antitrust case believes the US Department of Justice has sufficient evidence to show Apple guilty of price-fixing; fellow defendant, Penguin, decides to settle with DoJ; more OS X spyware has been found by researchers; WWDC keynote to land on 10 June; Macworld advises upgrade to 11.0.3 citing app improvements; Macworld UK reviews Acorn 4, powerful, "affordable image editor"; restore your Mac from Time Machine; PopClip is a little app for OS X which presents an iOS-like clipboard aide; Techland lists what could be "the most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts"; should we be upset that Apple is thinking about ditching the folder structure of OS X?; iPhone 5 loses lead in camera tests to Samsung's Galaxy S4; Apple releases new ad for iPhone 5, Jay Yarow says the ad is "great"; reports in our General Interest section; Memorial Day weekend sale at Best Buy offers $50 off iPhone (begins Sunday); the first Apple computer made still works, on sale for $400,000; iPhone 5 repair costs rising; Mashable shows steps to take in order to sync your Facebook contacts to your iPhone; TUAW's Ross Rubin looks at all the companies that attempted to compete with the iPod in what he calls a "trail of tears"; AllThingsD's D11 conference is next week, Tim Cook to be interviewed, and here's a list of four questions Horace Dediu hopes will be asked; John Mello on the news surrounding the mysterious iWatch, now slated for a 2014 release; Ted Landau says the joy of Apple TV is not just having one, but many in the house.
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"Apple TV No IPhone As Talks Bog Down With Media Companies" ["This battle is nothing like Apple's previous forays into the music and mobile phone spheres, when the maker of iPods and iPhones negotiated with weakened record labels and a fractured wireless industry. Now the stakes are even higher and the competition tougher."] Bloomberg 8:03 AM
"Revamped, cable-friendly Apple TV? Not in 2012, but someday: Disagreement over who will control the UI and sell the set-top box." Ars Technica 10:56 AM
"Apple TV rebuffed by the cable guys" MarketWatch 3:05 PM
"How Apple outflanked Microsoft in both business and education: The iPad is challenging Microsoft in its business stronghold and stealing sales of Windows PCs in education, where tomorrow's customers are" InfoWorld 8:21 AM
"iPhone 5 component supply challenges could threaten Apple's empire" Computerworld 8:30 AM
"Apple Beats Competition With Design--And Design Patents: Apple has invested more in design patents than many other tech companies since it launched the iPhone in 2007. Is that good news for consumers?" InformationWeek 9:11 AM
"Judge approves DOJ settlement in e-book case: A federal judge has approved a U.S. government settlement with three major publishers accused of conspiring with Apple to fix the prices of electronic books." Associated Press 3:59 PM
"Judge Approves E-Book Pricing Settlement Between Government and Publishers" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:05 PM
"Judge Koh denies Apple's request to synchronize dissolution of existing and grant of new injunction" Foss Patents 4:01 PM
"Judge denies Apple motion to reschedule post-trial decisions" AppleInsider 4:02 PM
"South Korea Regulator Looks Into Apple Complaint: South Korea's antitrust regulator said Thursday it is looking into a complaint from Apple Inc. that Samsung Electronics Co. allegedly abused its position as a market leader in third-generation wireless technology." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:21 AM
"South Korea probes Samsung over Apple antitrust complaints" Reuters 8:44 AM
"SKorean antitrust watchdog probing Samsung" Associated Press 8:25 AM
"iPhone owners can't sue Apple over broken glass, court rules" GigaOM 12:31 PM
"Mountain Lion's Facebook Integration Fast Approaching As Apple Seeds Second Beta In 7 Days" Cult of Mac 8:37 AM
"Apple releases new OS X 10.8.2 beta to developers" MacNN 8:41 AM
"Apple Java update fails to address mega-flaw – researcher" The Register 8:49 AM
"Apple patches Java 6 for OS X Snow Leopard, Lion" Computerworld 8:18 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"How To prevent a volume from mounting at boot in OS X: You can keep any combination of volumes from automatically being available for read and write in OS X." MacFixIt 9:11 PM
"New utility nabs OS X keychain passwords: Though currently only a proof-of-concept, this approach and code may allow malware developers to more easily capture keychain contents." CNET Reviews 4:07 PM
"The New Establishment: 1. Tim Cook and Jonathan Ive" Vanity Fair 8:07 AM
"VF's 'New Establishment' List: Apple's Cook and Ive Knock Facebook's Zuckerberg Off No. 1, While Yahoo's Mayer Debuts at No. 7" AllThingsD 8:06 AM
"2012 U.S. Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study And 2012 U.S. Wireless Traditional Mobile Phone Satisfaction Study: Apple Ranks Highest in Customer Satisfaction among Smartphone Manufacturers, While LG Ranks Highest Among Traditional Mobile Phone Manufacturers" J. D. Power and Associates 12:22 PM
"J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Social Networking and Gaming Applications Driving Smartphone Usage and Revenue" PRNewswire 12:25 PM
"For 8th Time, Apple Is No. 1 in Smartphone Customer Satisfaction" The Mac Observer 4:29 PM
"AntiSec Probably Stole 12 Million UDIDs From An App Publisher, Not The FBI" Cult of Mac 12:30 PM
"Leaked Training Doc Shows Sprint iPhone 5 Not Launching Until October 15th" iSource 8:20 AM
"Sprint training docs cast doubt on 2012 iPhone launch timing, but don't panic yet" Engadget 8:20 AM
"Sprint to increase in-store service for iPhone customers" TUAW 8:42 AM
"Students say they are forced to work on new iPhone 5" ShanghaiDaily 3:11 PM
"Chinese students 'forced' to work on iPhone 5 sent back to school" The Verge 3:11 PM
"Apple Urged By China Dissident To Act Against One-Child Rule" Bloomberg 9:43 AM
"Apple urged to defy China's one child policy: Chinese activist and exiled dissident Chen Guangchen has waded into the controversy surrounding working conditions at the Chinese suppliers of big name tech brands by calling on Apple and others to stand up against his country's infamous one child policy." The Register 8:13 AM
"Iconic Shanghai Apple Store floods, temporarily closes" 9 to 5 Mac 3:33 PM
"With Apple's iPhone 5 in wings, competitors make pitches" Philadelphia Inquirer [Free Registration Required] 8:16 AM
"NFL starting to ditch old paper playbooks: NFL teams going digital, replacing old paper playbooks with iPads for X's and O's and video" Associated Press 4:24 PM
"Apple to blame for high rents in San Francisco, report" Macworld UK 8:25 AM
"Apple co-founder Wozniak to speak at Tech Valley High, GlobalFoundries" The Business Review 8:08 AM
"Laurene Powell Jobs spotted at DNC" FairerPlatform 8:36 AM
"Steve Jobs's Widow Was Hanging Out With Chelsea Clinton At The Democratic National Convention" Cult of Mac 8:36 AM
Non-Apple News
"Amazon's Crazy New 4G LTE Plan Gives You 250MB a Month for $50 a Year (Updated)" Gizmodo 2:41 PM
"Amazon takes aim at Apple's iPad with Kindle Fire HD" CNET News 2:41 PM
"Amazon Shines Light on Kindle Paperwhite" AllThingsD 2:36 PM
"Goodness Gracious, Three Kindle Fires" AllThingsD 2:35 PM
"Amazon announces new wave of Kindles" CNN 2:34 PM
"Amazon unveils Kindle Fire HD, but sales will remain a mystery" CNNMoney 2:33 PM
"Google to rent Chromebooks for $30 per month" The Register 11:05 AM
"Electronic Arts exec in single-player snub" TG Daily 11:01 AM
"Interactive gravestones link mourners to online profiles" Reuters [Free Registration Required] 10:29 AM
"Smart TVs are failing to connect: Consoles and set top boxes are proving much easier for consumers to use than even the most advanced new TVs." Fortune 10:28 AM
"Western Digital announces its smallest external drive with USB 3.0" Computerworld 10:17 AM
"Cheetah robot 'runs faster than Usain Bolt'" BBC 10:05 AM
"Samsung sells 20 million Galaxy S3s, adds new colors" CNET News 9:54 AM
"Amazon teases unannounced Kindles during NFL game" CNET News 9:56 AM
"Possibility of Amazon smartphone has tech community bubbling with excitement" VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 9:27 AM
"Verizon to sell Windows phones; Nokia plan seen" MarketWatch 9:32 AM
"Kobo takes aim at Google Nexus 7 with Arc Android tablet" V3 11:07 AM
"Kobo revamps e-reader line, intros mini model" Register Hardware 11:05 AM
"Nokia Apologizes for Faking Lumia PureView Camera Demo" PC Magazine 10:44 AM
"Nokia cuts prices of older Windows phones, shares fall" Reuters 9:48 AM
"Nokia Windows Phone 8 Devices Arrive With Thud" InformationWeek 10:29 AM
"Nokia, Motorola Race Against Apple" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:22 AM
"Google to Apple: Get off our lawn!" CNNMoney 9:16 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Live @ 10 PM ET - Apple Announcements, Apple HDTV, iOS Getting Stale?, stolen UDIDs" Insanely Great Mac 3:49 PM
"MacTalk Podcast Special | Horace Dediu" asymco 2:41 PM
"Jim Dalrymple On The Samsung Verdict, The Lumia Launch, iPhoneMania and Quantum Leaps" MacVoicesTV 2:33 PM
"This Amazing Startup Turns Your iPad Into A Robot" Business Insider 8:30 AM
"Ecoute iPhone app review: Do you need a new music player app for your iPhone? You might think so once you've tried this one." Telegraph 8:29 AM
"'Dragon Island Blue' Review - A Competent Monster-collecting RPG" Touch Arcade 2:42 PM
"Appidemic: Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart, Collector's Edition HD" AppleTell 8:41 AM
"Bubbly Review: Bubbly hopes to be the Instagram of voice. It ticks all the right social networking boxes but it needs more users to be a real must try." 148Apps 2:41 PM
"Apple as Innovator: Three Contributions That Changed Computing" Tech.pinions 9:53 AM
"The Macalope Daily: Failure to launch" Macworld [Insider Content] 9:44 AM
"Over 30% Of IPad Owners Want Other Screen Sizes --Do You?" MacNews 9:13 AM
"Bruce Willis is not suing Apple" TG Daily 8:45 AM
"This Is Where Apple Is Really Going To Miss Steve Jobs" Business Insider 8:40 AM
"Facebook abandons HTML5 on iOS: A shift or exception? Developers balance HTML5's broad reach with the performance and specialty capabilities of native code" InfoWorld 8:38 AM
"No new Apple TV this year? How about never?" TUAW 2:41 PM
"No new Apple TV this year, report says" CNET News 8:49 AM
"No New Apple Television Products Coming in 2012 as Content Negotiations Stall Once Again" MacRumors 8:45 AM
"Apple TV -- Release date delayed until 2013" BGR 8:42 AM
"Bloomberg: No New Apple TV This Year" Gizmodo 8:30 AM
"Video: Amazon's 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD in action" GeekWire 3:59 PM
"First Thoughts on Amazon's New Kindle Family" Mike McHargue 3:36 PM
"Amazon blows carriers out of the water with $50 4G LTE data plan" VentureBeat 3:05 PM
"Amazon announces slew of new Kindle tablets" MacDailyNews 2:35 PM
"Amazon is Poised to Become a Powerhouse in Tablets" Tech.pinions 2:32 PM
"The Nest makes tangled earbuds a thing of the past" ZDNet 11:16 AM
"Can Nokia take wireless charging mainstream?" ZDNet 11:14 AM
"Nokia and Motorola and the failed art of the soft launch" ZDNet 11:13 AM
"Video: Introducing the upgradable tablet concept" TG Daily 11:01 AM
"The BlackBerry 10 and BES confusion untangled: Research in Motion has finally clarified how today's BlackBerrys, the promised BlackBerry 10, and its BES tools will work together" InfoWorld 10:32 AM
"How Google Earth changed the world" The Independent 10:35 AM
"The ultimate Android tethering guide" PCWorld 10:33 AM
"No Jelly Bean on Motorola's newest phones? #GoogleFAIL" Houston Chronicle 10:32 AM
"12 'best practices' IT should avoid at all costs" [Slideshow] InfoWorld 10:32 AM
"Telecommuting: Lower pay, but fewer annoying colleagues" Fortune 10:28 AM
"4 security suites that protect all your devices: McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro and Webroot offer protection for all your devices plus Web-based management." Computerworld 10:18 AM
"How do you wrap a digital gift? MIT startup Delightfully has a clever answer" Boston Globe [Free Registration Required] 10:09 AM
"Now may not be time to buy next gadget" [Video Report] Boston Globe [Free Registration Required] 10:08 AM
"Bridging Hot And Cold Cloud Storage: Pogoplug takes the chill off Glacier, turning it into a continuously replicated archive." InformationWeek 9:59 AM
"Samsung's Value Recovers After Lawsuit" Investopedia 9:48 AM
"Samsung's challenge: keep the customer" Reuters 9:44 AM
"Is Amazon's one more thing an Android smartphone?" ZDNet 11:14 AM
"Amazon: Thursday is another test for Jeff Bezos" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 11:09 AM
"What Amazon is expected to reveal today" NBC News 10:40 AM
"Lumia 920"s demo builds credibility for Nokia, Windows" Chicago Sun-Times 9:59 AM
"Motorola's DROID RAZR M is incredible, and it's an iPhone 5 preview" BGR 8:42 AM
"Vizio's Laptop Debut Dazzles, Then Fizzles" AllThingsD 8:16 AM
Humor/Cartoons
"Jerry Seinfeld not a fan of iPhone cases" TUAW 8:42 AM
"Microsoft's real target should be BlackBerry" MarketWatch 9:32 AM
"Why 2012 will be remembered as year Microsoft was bold" V3 11:07 AM
"Microsoft: With PC Demand Weak, Estimates Start To Slip" Forbes 9:40 AM
"Ballmer predicts 400 million Lumia and Surface fumblers: Steve Ballmer's back in the numbers game, this time predicting sales of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 kit to draw in application developers." The Register 11:04 AM
"Microsoft adding staff, R&D in China mobile push: Microsoft hiring 1,000 additional staff in China, adding to R&D in mobile push" Associated Press 9:50 AM
"Microsoft to hire 1,000 in China over next year: executive" Reuters 9:50 AM
"Microsoft Invests In China R&D, Eyes Mobile Uptake" Forbes 9:49 AM
"Microsoft to Increase Hiring, Investment in China" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:47 AM
"Microsoft plans large expansion in China to push cloud services" IDG News Service 10:46 AM
"Bing It On: Microsoft Claims 2:1 Users Prefer Bing's Search Results Over Google's In Blind Test" TechCrunch 10:59 AM
"Microsoft Bing takes on Google in search challenge" USA Today 11:06 AM
"Microsoft to Google: Proof our search is better" Fortune 9:48 AM
"Microsoft tells Google searchers to 'Bing it on'" CNET News 9:54 AM
"Bing takes on Google with a 'Pepsi Challenge'" CNNMoney 10:15 AM
"Can Microsoft's New Alternative To Hotmail Take On Gmail?" Forbes 9:47 AM
"Is Windows 8 phone confusion good for Microsoft?" ZDNet 11:14 AM
"Microsoft puts Windows 8 users at risk with missing Flash update" ZDNet 11:13 AM
"Internet Explorer 10's bundled Flash leaves users exploitable" Ars Technica 4:22 PM
"Dell: Give our transformation time" ZDNet 11:15 AM
"Dell makes unexpected grab for the PAYG storage cloud: Dell quietly released an announcement a few days ago that it was offering a cloud storage service in partnership with Nirvanix." The Register 11:03 AM
"IBM Interactive Unveils New Services for CMOs, CIOs" eWeek 10:22 AM
"Oracle seeks to delay cloud features in enterprise Java: Oracle hopes to stay on schedule for Java EE 7 by deferring planned cloud capabilities to Java EE 8, due in 2015" InfoWorld 10:33 AM
"Java Still Not Safe, Security Experts Say: Oracle needs to fix holes faster, say some security experts. Leave Java disabled for now, because Oracle's emergency patch is insufficient." InformationWeek 11:29 AM
"Oracle-Google judge ends probe into paid bloggers" Reuters 9:50 AM
"Intel forum is next front in x86 vs. ARM war" EE Times 10:22 AM
"Intel to promote Haswell platform at IDF San Francisco" DigiTimes 10:21 AM
"Intel's 'Mobile Etiquette' survey uncovers global peevishness" The Register 11:05 AM
"Dataram executes agreement with AMD for Radeon RAMDisk" Theflyonthewall 9:37 AM
"Is AMD Going Out Of Business?" Seeking Alpha 2:37 PM
"Cisco hints at major collaboration product overhaul for 2013" V3 11:07 AM
"Cisco challenges Microsoft-Skype on video interoperability" V3 11:08 AM
"Cisco Physical Security Updates Target Large-Scale IP Video Deployment" CRN 10:16 AM
"Physicists Quantum Teleport Photons Over 88 Miles" Forbes 10:26 AM
"5 key new improvements in OpenSuse Linux 12.2: It's been almost a year since the last release, but a raft of updates make this new Linux distribution well worth checking out" PCWorld 10:33 AM
"Audience says Apple may drop its technology from iPhones, shares slump" Reuters 4:06 PM
"Apple may ditch Audience noise suppression tech in next-gen iPhone" AppleInsider 4:53 PM
"Apple quietly breaking up with Audience for Siri's noise filtering tech: Could it mean that Siri is ready to exit beta status and spread to more phones?" Ars Technica 9:50 PM
"With Apple Driving Sales, Cirrus Logic Stock Cruises To A Triple" Forbes 2:42 PM
Industry News
"Tech Stocks: Amazon jumps on new Kindles; techs surge/Micron, SanDisk post gains, leading S&P 500; chips lead techs" MarketWatch 4:02 PM
"U.S. stocks applaud ECB's bond-buying plan: S&P 500 surges to a four-year high" MarketWatch 4:03 PM
"Wall Street Races Higher; S&P Notches 4-Year High" FOXBusiness 10:28 AM
"S&P 500 Climbs to Four-Year High as ECB Details Bond Plan" Bloomberg 4:03 PM
"Stocks Soar on ECB Bond-Buying Plans, Jobs Report Optimism" TheStreet 4:04 PM
"Stocks Hit a High Point: Stocks marched to their highest level in years, fueled by the promise of stimulus from Europe's top bankers and hints of a strengthening U.S. economy." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:04 PM
"London stocks up after rate decisions, bond plan: Miners lead FTSE higher" MarketWatch 9:25 AM
"Asia Markets: Asia stocks higher ahead of ECB meeting" MarketWatch 9:22 AM
"Australian Stocks Lead Asian Markets Higher" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 11:20 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks, Spain bonds rally on ECB bond plan/European Central Bank leaves key lending rate at 0.75%" MarketWatch 11:20 AM
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