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"iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top Two Million in First 24 Hours: Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 5 topped two million in just 24 hours, more than double the previous record of one million held by iPhone 4S. Demand for iPhone 5 exceeds the initial supply and while the majority of pre-orders will be delivered to customers on September 21, many are scheduled to be delivered in October" Apple 8:10 AM
"iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top Two Million in First 24 Hours" Business Wire 8:10 AM
"Apple sells 2 million new phones, shares touch $700" Reuters 7:05 PM
"AT&T Sets Sales Record for iPhone 5: Most Successful iPhone Launch Ever" AT&T 8:09 AM
"AT&T: 'Most successful' iPhone 5 launch smashes sales records/The giant carrier says Apple's latest iPhone has broken sales records in the first weekend of the highly anticipated smartphone going on sale." CNET News 8:01 AM
"AT&T Says Latest iPhone Set New Sales Record" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:51 AM
"Apple: iPhone 5 pre-orders topped 2M in 24 hours" USA Today 10:21 AM
"Apple sells 2 mln new phones, sets early order record" Reuters 11:28 AM
"iPhone 5 Fastest Selling iPhone Since Last One, Says AT&T" AllThingsD 8:08 AM
"AT&T: iPhone 5 Set Sales Record, Was 'Most Successful iPhone Launch Ever'" TechCrunch 8:42 AM
"Apple IPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top 2 Million, Doubling Record" Bloomberg 10:06 AM
"AT&T Sets Sales Record With iPhone 5" Forbes 8:06 AM
"AT&T says it sets iPhone 5 sales record" Associated Press 8:10 AM
"Why It's Unnecessary to Completely Reinvent the iPhone Year After Year" Techland 9:07 AM
"Are the Networks Ready for an Influx of iPhone 5? Carriers say 4G LTE infrastructure will cope with the flood of new demand. Others aren't so sure." Technology Review 8:39 AM
"Apple's Leadership and Magic Shine Through" Patently Apple 10:47 AM
"Square's Rabois: Retailers Will Opt for iPads Over Registers Within 18 Months" AllThingsD 8:38 AM
"VirnetX Re-Files ITC Complaint Against Apple" PRNewswire 8:07 AM
"Siri Provides False Advertising on Your iPhone, Too." Pocketnow 9:47 AM
"Huge iTunes patch: Apply it and move on/While 163 security fixes is a big update for any product, Apple users should be more concerned with recent Java issues" InfoWorld 11:57 AM
"iMessage outages hit again (Update: back up for many)" 9 to 5 Mac 7:00 PM
"With iMessage outage, another hiccup for iCloud" GigaOM 6:59 PM
"Apple sends apologies for iCloud Mail outage: Apple has emailed customers affected by last week's iCloud outage apologising for the interruption to the service" Macworld UK 8:25 AM
"Apple admits iCloud 'unacceptable', vows to not go titsup again" The Register 8:06 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Benchmarking Parallels, Fusion, and VirtualBox Against Boot Camp" The Mac Observer 3:08 PM
"Dropbox: My New Photo Management App" 512 Pixels 11:45 AM
"MacPhun ColorStrokes review: Add stylish effects to your photographs with the click of a mouse" Macworld UK 9:05 AM
"Analyst claims Apple and Google will control 98% of the smartphone market this year" BGR 6:57 PM
"Apple sees 2 million iPhone 5 orders in 24 hours, doubles previous record held by iPhone 4S" The Next Web 8:32 AM
"Apple: First day pre-orders of iPhone 5 top 2M" GigaOM 8:31 AM
"New Apple Record: 2 Million iPhones in 24 Hours" CNBC 10:06 AM
"Apple 'hasn't really run out of iPhone 5s AT ALL'/In a revelation that seems set to shake the technology world to its very foundations, a clandestine Register source has informed us that secretive shiny-stuff behemoth Apple could easily supply more than enough iPhone 5s to meet initial demand: but that it deliberately chose not to." The Register 8:06 AM
"iStunt? Apple iPhone 5 'sell-out' questioned" Melbourne Age 8:40 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"The 404 1,132: Where we're waiting in line for the iPhone Whatever (podcast)" CNET 7:06 PM
"iPhone 5 line sitters: Give us $40-$150 a day" CNET News 7:07 PM
"Apple ups iPhone 5 deliveries for some late preorders, report says" CNET News 8:04 AM
"Customers queue up for iPhone 5 outside Apple's Fifth Ave store" AppleInsider 8:58 AM
"People are already in line for the iPhone 5 at New York Apple Store" iDownload Blog 9:02 AM
"Apple lines are party time -- for a night or two" CNET News 10:11 AM
"iPhone 5 queue starts at Apple Store in Little Rock, Arkansas (with photos)" MacDailyNews 3:07 PM
"iPhone 5 units now likely shipping from China for Friday launch" CNET News 8:04 AM
"Now Nokia joins the anti-iPhone 5 party" CNET News 7:08 PM
"Google takes on Instagram and Facebook by acquiring top iOS photo app Snapseed" The Verge 11:28 AM
"Google acquires iOS Snapseed developer Nik Software: Google just bought the brainchild behind popular iOS app Snapseed, Nik Software." 9 to 5 Google 11:25 AM
"Google's Loss=Yandex's Gain In iOS6: Russian Search Giant Nabs Apple Maps API; Search Deal In The Works" TechCrunch 8:37 AM
"Yandex to Power iPhone Map Services in Russia" WSJ Blogs 10:21 AM
"Backlash against Rip Off Britain pricing for iPhone 5 Lightning converter: With the Lightning accessory costing 16% more in the UK, can Apple be forgiven for changing the iPhone dock connector once a decade" Macworld UK 8:25 AM
"Yahoo CEO gives every employee an iPhone 5" Telegraph 8:50 AM
"Yahoo staff given free iPhone 5s" TG Daily 8:38 AM
"Samsung opens fire at iPhone 5 in new attack ad" BGR 9:08 AM
"Korea Times: Samsung to leapfrog iPhone 5 in February" Fortune 8:39 AM
"iPhone 'Paintings' Created Using Oil from Human Pores [Pics] Mashable 8:46 AM
Non-Apple News
"GPS shoes guide you home from the pub" TG Daily 11:45 AM
"TV's next generation may come from China: Ice Screen, the upcoming 26-inch Android-based smart display from China's TCL, looks like the kind of TV a younger generation would appreciate." Fortune 10:52 AM
"ARM TechCon probes road to 14-nm ICs" EE Times 10:44 AM
"Acer to release second-generation Chromebook in October" DigiTimes 10:43 AM
"SignalGuru app helps drivers avoid red lights" Reuters 10:11 AM
"Samsung takes jab at iPhone 5 with SIII ad" Mashable 11:25 AM
"Samsung Goes On Offensive Against iPhone 5: Samsung releases attack ad pitting the Galaxy S III against the iPhone 5. Parodies of the ad are quickly conjured up by Apple and Nokia fans in response." InformationWeek 10:57 AM
"Korea Times: Samsung to leapfrog iPhone 5 in February" Fortune 10:51 AM
"Box unveils Accelerator tool for fast and secure uploads" V3 11:53 AM
"Box Gives Uploads a Speed Boost, Isn't Worried About Salesforce" AllThingsD 9:56 AM
"Start-ups fight back as patent wars intensify" Reuters 9:54 AM
"Your smartphone will (eventually) be hacked" CNNMoney 9:27 AM
"Microsoft bod dreams up 'Star Trek holodeck' games console" The Register 8:39 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"The 404 1,132: Where we're waiting in line for the iPhone Whatever (podcast)" CNET 7:06 PM
"Beatweek Magazine Best of 2012 issue: Carly Rae Jepsen, Best of iPad+iPhone and more" Beatweek Magazine 5:05 PM
"The Samsung Galaxy S III is better than the new iPhone 5 since it uses Micro USB connectors to charge. Disregard the fact that Micro USB comes in different sizes and doesn't play music. Plus more thoughts on Apple's new products." The MT Show 3:05 PM
"The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 5" AnandTech 11:02 AM
"iMore show 313: Smartly compromised" iMore 9:13 AM
"Pegatron reportedly nabs 50 to 60 percent of iPad mini orders, breaks up Foxconn's monopoly" Engadget 9:06 PM
"Apple's iPad mini said to be made by Pegatron, Foxconn: A Taiwanese news report says that assembler Pegatron scored 50 percent to 60 percent of production orders on the iPad mini, Foxconn will supposedly get the rest." CNET News 9:06 PM
"iPhone 5 benchmarks surface: Performance doubles/The iPhone 5's A6 chip could be a performance monster if Geekbench results are legitimate." CNET News 8:05 AM
"Your iPhone 5 may already have shipped. Here's how to tell." Houston Chronicle 11:00 AM
"How Do I Correctly Identify My iPhone So I Can Sell It?" Forbes 8:38 AM
"Q&A: Icon Housekeeping on the iPhone/I have dozens of icons on my iPhone screens. What's the easiest way to rearrange them in the order I choose?" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 8:33 AM
"Attack Of The Rude Facebook Shoes: What should you tell your Facebook friends to do when their accounts are hijacked by rogue sites that spam their feeds or worse? Here are some steps they can take." InformationWeek 10:14 AM
"Why Android has a reason to be paranoid" ZDNet 11:59 AM
"Vizio Co-Star: Google TV for Cheap, but Not for Everyone" Techland 11:51 AM
"10 Best Business Tools In Google+" [Slideshow] InformationWeek 10:14 AM
"Mark Zuckerberg's opinion of HTML5 is meaningless" InfoWorld 11:00 AM
"Can you believe in Facebook's optimism?" MarketWatch 9:47 AM
"I think, therefore I choose: How brain control will change how we do everything" Digital Trends 9:02 AM
"Greg's Bite: Google News And Censorship Of The Web" MacNews 8:43 AM
"Meg Whitman and HP: Everything That Is Wrong With Tech" TheStreet 9:30 AM
"H-P Tries On a Sleeker Look: Taking a Cue From Apple, CEO Whitman Makes Better Design Central to Turnaround" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:59 PM
"HP's CEO admits her company's computers are design-poor 'bricks'" Tecca 6:55 PM
"HP Heeds an Apple Lesson of the Day" The Motley Fool 9:26 PM
"Telefonica picks HP's Aurasma for augmented reality expansion" Reuters 9:54 AM
"UK's O2 to get first taste of HP's augmented reality via Telefonica deal" ZDNet 12:00 PM
"Ballmer: 'Google Is Just Another Big Company'" Business Insider 9:58 AM
"Microsoft and Windows 8: The Doomsday Scenario" TheStreet 9:57 AM
"Windows 8 pricing for system builders said to be roughly the same as Windows 7" ZDNet 11:59 AM
"Microsoft: Come 'celebrate' Windows 8 on Oct. 25" CNET Reviews 12:12 PM
"Microsoft confirms October 25 launch for Windows 8" ZDNet 11:59 AM
"Microsoft Holding Windows 8 Event October 25" Business Insider 12:09 PM
"How Middle-Aged Microsoft Can Save Itself" InformationWeek 10:13 AM
"Ballmer confirms Surface to be sold at Microsoft's pop-up stores" Seattle Times 11:21 AM
"Microsoft Surface price range revealed" VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 9:49 AM
"SAP: Patent Turmoil Will Help Give Windows 8 Tablet The Number Two Spot In Enterprise" TechCrunch 9:27 PM
"Microsoft urges customers to install security tool" Reuters 7:05 PM
"Office to propel Windows tablets past Android in 2015: Taiwan-based analyst TrendForce says Windows-based tablets will overtake Android's market share by 2015, thanks to the presence of Microsoft Office on the devices." The Register 11:48 AM
"Microsoft Unveils Office 365 Pricing, Packages" PC Magazine 9:03 PM
"Microsoft prices Office 2013 at $99.99 — a year" VentureBeat 7:35 PM
"Smack your phones up, says Microsoft: Microsoft has filed for a patent on a new technique that allow users of mobile devices to silence them by delivering a firm whack." The Register 11:49 AM
"Dell's New Dividend Shouldn't Distract Investors From Dell's Disappearance Into Irrelevance" Seeking Alpha 12:07 PM
"Linux can't run on Clover Trail Atom chip, says Intel" Techworld 11:44 AM
"Intel Taps WiGig For 7 Gbps Wireless Data: Intel Developer Form keynote outlines a future of wire-free workspaces, high-speed transfers, and network connections that unite virtually all devices." InformationWeek 12:14 PM
"Oracle to buy SelectMinds social recruiting firm" Associated Press 6:41 PM
"Cyber clues link U.S. to new computer viruses" Reuters 10:11 AM
"Euro-based body starts handing out its last block of IPv4 addresses: Puts more pressure on operators and enterprises to roll out IPv6" IDG News Service 11:15 AM
"RIPE NCC starts handing out last block of IPv4 addresses: Puts more pressure on operators and enterprises to roll out IPv6" Techworld 11:44 AM
"Boffins receive quantum key from moving plane: A group of German researchers has taken a step closer to achieving quantum key distribution with satellites, receiving quantum keys transmitted by a moving airplane." The Register 11:49 AM
"IT biz bosses are 'BIGGEST job cutters' in the US" The Register 11:47 AM
"9 key career issues software developers face" InfoWorld 10:59 AM
"How 7-Inch Tablets Will Help Laptop Sales" PC Magazine 11:12 AM
"Stocks Snap Win Streak: Stocks snapped a four-day win streak as concerns about steel demand weighed on materials shares and a late selloff in crude oil dented the energy sector." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5:11 PM
"Stocks: Investors take a time out/U.S. stocks were headed for a flat open Monday as investors took a breather from last week's Fed-inspired rally." CNNMoney 9:26 AM
"Asia Markets: China stocks tumble as most Asia markets edge up" MarketWatch 9:38 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks retreat from 15-month high" MarketWatch 9:38 AM
"European Stocks Fall: European stocks slipped Monday, while the euro held near four-month highs against the dollar, as investors reassessed whether recent moves by U.S. and European central banks will help revive global growth." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12:02 PM
"World markets dip as boost fades from Fed stimulus, European banking union faces long talks" Associated Press [Free Registration Required] 9:50 AM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at the close of trading" Associated Press 5:12 PM
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 5:12 PM
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