"Eddy Cue: Apple's Rising Mr. Fix-It" ["Now the affable executive, a 48-year-old Miami native of Cuban descent, has become a prime architect of Apple's software strategy and one of the most important product voices at a company where no clear chief product visionary has emerged since Mr. Jobs's death last year."] WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:00 PM
"Apple's Cue Seeks Overhaul of Maps Amid Duel With Google" Bloomberg 7:43 AM
"Apple's Latest Firing May Be for the Best (but won't save its Map App)" Forbes 8:09 AM
"Apple's Map sackings continue, so why does it matter?" Computerworld 8:38 AM
"Apple fires Maps head Richard Williamson" TG Daily 8:08 AM
"iOS 6 Maps boss reportedly fired as Apple fights for your trust" Crave @ CNET 8:16 AM
"Report: Apple Fires Manager Of Buggy Maps App" CRN 10:36 AM
"iPad Owns Black Friday Mobile Shoppers: Apple's iPad won a Black Friday victory by being the device more mobile shoppers used than any other for online purchases. iPads were used in 10 percent of all mobile commerce purchases, IBM reported, and iPhones made up another nearly 9 percent. It's because of iOS' shopping-friendly structure, said John Feland, CEO of Argus Insights." MacNewsWorld 8:37 AM
"Apple hit with patent lawsuit over iPhone's use of headphones: An apparent shell company files a $3 million lawsuit over a 2008 patent covering an interface for sending and receiving audio signals from a phone." CNET News 8:01 AM
"Apple maintains 70% grip on China's tablet market, as industry sales jump 63% year-on-year" The Next Web 8:03 AM
"Apple gets sales ban on some Samsung Galaxy products in the Netherlands: Dutch court bans sale of Samsung products that infringe on an Apple patent on navigating images in a photo gallery" IDG News Service 8:16 AM
"Dutch ruling on Apple's photo gallery patent assertion against Samsung doesn't change anything" Foss Patents 1:47 PM
"Samsung Galaxy products infringe Apple patent: Dutch court" Reuters 10:05 AM
"Some Samsung Galaxy Products Banned From Sale In The Netherlands As Court Sides With Apple" TechCrunch 8:23 AM
"Apple Wins Partial Dutch Ban on Galaxy Devices in Samsung Clash" Bloomberg 10:30 AM
"Apple gets Galaxy sales ban in Netherlands, Samsung to pay $130K per day if it continues infringing photo gallery patent" 9 to 5 Mac 8:34 AM
"WSJ: iTunes 11 to be released as soon as Thursday" AppleInsider 8:38 PM
"Rumor: Adobe to announce Retina display-ready Photoshop CS6 on Dec. 11" AppleInsider 8:35 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Migration Assistant + Thunderbolt/FireWire Adapter = huh!?" Macworld 8:32 AM
"Apple zaps Thunderbolt glitches with firmware update: The small update fixes communications problems with some Thunderbolt devices." CNET Reviews 1:46 PM
"OS X Updates: Thunderbolt Firmware Update v1.1" FairerPlatform 8:13 AM
"Apple branches out with new campus in Santa Clara: While there have been construction hold-ups on the tech giant's forthcoming spaceship-like headquarters, the company has to build new offices to hold all of its workers." CNET News 9:37 PM
"Perception vs. reality: Apple's sustainability gap/A survey of 100 global brands finds Apple is perceived as far more responsible than it is" Fortune 2:46 PM
"Apple Has Again Ceded The Super Bowl To Samsung, Risking More Ridicule" Business Insider 2:52 PM
"Who's Buying What in Super Bowl 2013: From Anheuser Busch to Volkswagen, Ads Are Shaping Up for the Big Game" Advertising Age 2:51 PM
"Android seven-inchers swipe rug from under Apple: The question is, does Apple's tablet market share - or Android's for that matter - actually matter? Apple is certainly selling more of the darn things, but after a brief year's relief, sales of Android alternatives are rising even more quickly." The Register 8:23 AM
"iPad And Android Tablet Market Share Margin Narrows Much Faster Than Originally Predicted" TechCrunch 7:47 AM
"Apple's tablet lead over Android could be shrinking faster than earlier thought" iDownload Blog 1:00 PM
"Apple's iPad Mini Cannibalizes Other iPad Sales While Google's Android Tablets Steal Share" Forbes 4:02 PM
"iPad Still Leads Tablet Market, but for How Much Longer?" AllThingsD 8:10 AM
"ABI Research Finds Apple iPad Losing Share to Androidin Q3" The Mac Observer 8:37 PM
"iPhone 5 can't take Android crown as BlackBerry nosedives" Crave @ CNET 8:17 AM
"New Detailed Renders & Plans of Apple's Wheel-Shaped Campus" Apple Gazette 8:37 AM
"Check Out Apple's Clever New iPad Mini Magazine Ad" Business Insider 8:25 AM
"'Six strikes' copyright enforcement postponed until 2013: Head of CCI says she wants to be sure 'I's are dotted and T's crossed.'" Ars Technica 6:23 PM
"Microsoft's 7-Year Old Xbox 360 Puts up Impressive Black Friday Numbers" Forbes 3:46 PM
"Jeff Hawkins Develops a Brainy Big Data Company" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 11:53 AM
"Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers" Wired Magazine 11:36 AM
"E-readers in demand as tech gifts" USA Today 11:32 AM
"Alcatel-Lucent takes on Cisco, VMware with new SDN virtualisation strategy" Network World 11:26 AM
"General Electric Pitches an Industrial Internet" Technology Review 11:25 AM
"New Splashtop variant to let you access Ubuntu desktop from anywhere: Linux-based version of the remote desktop application Splashtop has been released" Network World 10:55 AM
"Mozilla mods Firefox to feature Microsoft's MSN: Second customized version in two years with a Redmond tie-in" Computerworld 10:23 AM
"How Facebook's Top Engineer Is Trying to Read Your Mind" Wired 11:36 AM
"Facebook tackles groups membership glitch: Facebook says it is investigating a fault which has seen some of its members re-registered to groups that they had quit." BBC 10:13 AM
"Google Nexus 4 Ships In 4 To 9 Weeks: Crush of orders for Nexus 4 Android smartphone leaves Google's servers gasping for breath. It's not sold out, but you face a wait." InformationWeek 11:55 AM
"Google mingles Drive and Gmail for 10GB attachments" The Register 11:30 AM
"Samsung printers have secret admin account" The Register 11:30 AM
"Samsung printers pose security risk with hardcoded backdoor accounts" Techworld 11:26 AM
"Marissa Mayer on God, family and Yahoo" Fortune 10:33 AM
"Yahoo's Mayer keeps focus on 'huge opportunity' in mobile" CNET News 9:58 AM
"'Making' Is the Biggest Tech Merger Ever" TheStreet 9:29 AM
"Patent Wars: Nokia seeks sales block of BlackBerry devices in US" GigaOM 10:11 AM
"RIM loses arbitration, has to agree with Nokia on royalties or stop selling WiFi products" Foss Patents 8:37 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"YML Archives for November 28th, 2012" Your Mac Life 9:39 PM
"TUAW TV Live at 5 PM EST: Join KellyG for trash talk about Apple" TUAW 2:50 PM
"Developer Spotlight: Lady Shotgun" 148Apps 12:01 PM
"Apple CPU orders raise concerns over TSMC production capacity" DigiTimes 8:35 AM
"Apple's rumored chip switch from Samsung to TSMC may send shockwaves through industry" AppleInsider 8:35 AM
"Apple may ditch Samsung to move A-series mobile chips to 28nm process: News has TSMC's major clients concerned about division of production capacity." Ars Technica 11:28 AM
"Apple's Plan to Dump Samsung for TSMC Makes Watchers Nervous" The Mac Observer 1:43 PM
"Apple's rumored chip switch understood to upset hotshots Nvidia and Qualcomm" iDownload Blog 12:51 PM
"Growing pains for new touch-sensor technology in latest iPhone, iPad" ZDNet 12:00 PM
"iPad Mini, iMac to face supply shortages, report claims" CNET News 8:47 AM
"New iMacs Likely to Be in Short Supply Until Q1 2013" Mac|Life 8:47 AM
"Here's Why You Can't Get an iPad Mini" TheStreet 8:16 AM
"Apple awarded patent for its EasyPay in-store wireless payment technology" The Next Web 8:04 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Tower Siege For iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99), The iPhone Version Is Also Free" Apple Sliced 7:47 AM
"Montezuma Puzzle For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)" Apple Sliced 7:47 AM
"iColorama S For iPhone Is Free Today (Was $1.99)" Apple Sliced 7:47 AM
"15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 8:18 AM
"13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 8:18 AM
"Chart shows Apple's amazing profit: Statistica chart shows just how much money Apple is making" Macworld UK 9:36 AM
"The Apple Beat: 5 Technologies Apple pioneered that became tech standards" Canadian Reviewer 8:37 AM
"iPad falling: Apple holds lead in tablets but market share dented by Android rivals" Digital Trends 8:26 AM
"iPhone being bought 'in droves' by businesses as BB10 waits to launch" Digital Trends 8:26 AM
"Risk Aversion: Was having an interesting conversation this morning with Om and Hunter about the recent firing of Richard Williamson from Apple over the Maps debacle." Cap Watkins 7:59 PM
"Gmail users are switching to Outlook.com? Dream on, Microsoft" BetaNews 3:46 PM
"Hardware Upgrade Decisions Not Simpler In Post-PC Era – The 'Book Mystique" MacPrices 1:12 PM
"Why I Think Google's Ingress Could Redefine Mobile Gaming [Video] ReadWrite 1:00 PM
"Take action before the UN, Russia, and China hijack the Internet" ZDNet 11:39 AM
"Six slick technologies re-shaping the future" ZDNet 11:38 AM
"Cheap Windows 8 notebook [Gift Guide 2012] ZDNet 11:38 AM
"How Best Buy Picks Its Windows 8 Tablets (and Why Its Stores Have So Few of Them)" Techland 11:32 AM
"Now Available As A Gmail Add-On, PhilterIt Lets You Browse Your Inbox Visually" TechCrunch 11:21 AM
"How to hire a graphic-design pro on the cheap" PCWorld 10:54 AM
"Cell Phone Users More Interested in Snapping Pics, Texting Than Calls" PC Magazine 10:53 AM
"Quiz: What set the Internet on fire in 2012?" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:42 AM
"The latest case of extreme baby naming? Has a mother really named her new baby 'Hashtag' after Twitter?" The Independent 10:40 AM
"Stand back and let IT do its job" InfoWorld 10:37 AM
"Review: Rackspace Cloud keeps IaaS simple/Rackspace stands apart with familiar tools, open standards, and enterprise-grade support" InfoWorld 10:36 AM
"How design can help voice interaction go big: While the last five years have made touch interaction ubiquitous, the next interface frontier could be voice. Design can help people become more inclined to speak to -- instead of prodding and poking -- machines." Fortune 10:33 AM
"Chinese smartphones upset the Apple cart" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:31 AM
"Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Premium review: Accurate voice recognition" Computerworld 10:23 AM
"A Proposal For IT: Set Just One Goal For 2013" InformationWeek 10:06 AM
"12-Step Plan to Slash Software Costs" InformationWeek 10:06 AM
"BYOD: Why Mobile Device Management Isn't Enough" InformationWeek 10:05 AM
"Can you ditch your smartphone data plan for Wi-Fi?" CNET News 9:59 AM
"H-P, Autonomy may trigger tougher FASB rules" MarketWatch 9:52 AM
"Create a Web site right on your iPhone: Clever app Zapd just got social, allowing friends and family to add content to your sites. Could be ideal for commemorating weddings, parties, and the like." CNET Reviews 9:37 PM
"This 3-inch Lightning cable fits on your key ring" iDownload Blog 8:38 PM
"Help Bill Nye Fund This iPad Game To Teach Aerodynamics On Kickstarter" Cult of Mac 7:59 PM
"Hollywood Monsters coming to iOS" AppleTell 6:25 PM
"Leather Cases That Are More Beautifully Crafted Than Your iPad" Gizmodo 4:47 PM
"App Of The Day: Flashometer – Weather And Flashlight In One" Apple'n'Apps 3:46 PM
"Free version of SightSpace 3D model viewer available" Architosh 3:14 PM
"ArchiCAD 16 is Product of the Year in the UK" Architosh 3:14 PM
"Google Drive for iOS, Android gains mobile spreadsheet editing" GigaOM 2:52 PM
"If You're Going to Use an iPhone Case, It Might as Well Come With Insurance" Gizmodo 1:47 PM
"Will.i.am Wants Your iPhone To Look Like This" AppleBitch 12:00 PM
"Lazerwood Industries Lazerwood Keys + Mac" iLounge 10:10 AM
"Beautiful 500px app arrives on the iPhone" iDownload Blog 10:11 AM
"500px Brings Beautiful Photography To Your iPhone With New iOS App" Cult of Mac 10:10 AM
"Couples App Avocado Adds A Shared Calendar And Switches To A Freemium, Subscription-Based Business Model" TechCrunch 10:05 AM
"Gorgeous Photos, In Your Pocket: 500px Arrives On iPhone" TechCrunch 8:58 AM
"Spaced Receives An Out Of This World Update For All iOS Devices" App Advice 8:44 AM
"ZooGue iPad Case Prodigy for iPads" Coolest Gadgets 8:34 AM
"NYNE Debuts NB–250 Bluetooth Speaker Compatible with iOS Devices" PadGadget 8:34 AM
"Rock the Holiday Party with these iPad Tips" PadGadget 8:34 AM
"George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire – A Game of Thrones Guide for iPhone and iPad" iMore 8:32 AM
"Pocket's Native Mac App Gets Twitter & Facebook Support, New Keyboard Shortcuts, More" Cult of Mac 8:24 AM
"iPhone Case Transforms Touchscreen into Keypad [Video] Mashable 8:08 AM
"View Presentations On The iPhone And Edit On The iPad With New Prezi Apps" TechCrunch 8:05 AM
"Big updates to Skype, Vimeo, & TomTom iOS apps, deals, more" 9 to 5 Mac 9:14 AM
"Vimeo Launches Faster, More Social Video App for iPhone" Mashable 9:14 AM
"Vimeo Updates Its iPhone App To Simplify Uploads And Improve Sharing" TechCrunch 8:05 AM
"Skype iOS App Update Adds Microsoft Login Support" PC Magazine 11:28 AM
"Skype Brings Microsoft Account Support, Animated Emoticons To iOS App" Cult of Mac 8:24 AM
"Skype for iOS updated with Microsoft account support, additional emoticons and message editing" The Next Web 8:03 AM
"Kickstarted: Podi-m Dock For Lightning iPhones, iPads - The Perfect Christmas Gift?" App Advice 8:02 AM
"Everything.me, The Search App That Bridges The Native And HTML5 Divide, Gets $25M From Telefonica, Mozilla And Singtel" TechCrunch 7:52 AM
"Tablet Weights, a new 2 in 1 acrylic display stand designed to hold most tablets, including the iPad, in multiple positions. As a display, Tablet Weights holds all popular tablets in the portrait or landscape position. As a work base, Tablet Weights hold your tablet on a non-skid silicone ring on a comfortable 20 degree angle." newPCgadgets 7:51 AM
"TomTom updates for iPhone 5 and iOS 6 (but loses Google Local Search)" SlashGear 7:51 AM
"Boldomatic App For iPhone - Attention Made In Switzerland" prMac 7:50 AM
"Hado Labs releases Snowflakes 1.0 for iPad with Retina display" prMac 7:50 AM
"I Wanna Duck'n Roll All Night, and Tap Every Day on iOS" prMac 7:50 AM
"iDoMath - Tips + Tricks for iOS: Learn Advanced Math Shortcuts with Ease" prMac 7:50 AM
"Jet Raiders New Action Packed Arcade Game Released on iPhone and iPad" prMac 7:50 AM
"Convertible 1.5 for iOS - A Truly Unique Conversion Tool" prMac 7:50 AM
"Art App Best Of Cezanne is Released For iOS" prMac 7:50 AM
"The Best Free iPhone App to find and enjoy Indian Movies from YouTube" prMac 7:50 AM
"Super Mad Cats is Available Now for iOS and Android Devices" prMac 7:50 AM
"Why HP Should Fire Meg Whitman And Hire Scott Forstall" Forbes 9:39 AM
"The H-P boot hasn't kicked Meg Whitman yet" MarketWatch 11:48 AM
"To Save H.P., Break It in Two" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:39 AM
"HP Should Focus on Small Acquisitions, Milano Says" [Video Report] Bloomberg 9:43 AM
"HP preps memristor-based successor to server CPUs" EE Times 10:25 AM
"Lynch Fires Back at HP" [Video Report] Bloomberg 12:50 PM
"Hewlett-Packard Credit Rating Cut by Moody's on Competition" Bloomberg 3:46 PM
"Critics pile on HP as Moody's cuts rating" CNET News 9:37 PM
"Moody's downgrades HP credit rating" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 6:24 PM
"Audit firms sued in HP's Autonomy acquisition" Reuters 6:29 PM
"Microsoft Declares Quarterly Dividend: Board of directors also announces committee appointments." PRNewswire 6:30 PM
"Microsoft: Windows 8 Sales Match Early Win7 Results/Despite analyst reports suggesting a slow start for new OS, Microsoft says early sales and upgrades are strong." InformationWeek 10:35 AM
"Windows 8 launch outdoes Windows 7's, says Microsoft bigwig" The Register 11:29 AM
"Windows 8 off to an awkward start, Nomura says" CNET News 9:57 AM
"Microsoft's promises slow upgrade for loyal Phone 7 customers" The Register 6:24 PM
"'Microsoft to make its own Surface phones' - mutterings: Microsoft has, apparently, signed up with iPhone manufacturer Foxconn to build its own handset next year, extending the Surface brand into mobile telephony." The Register 11:30 AM
"Microsoft's Ads Deride Google A Bad Place To Shop" Associated Press 9:55 AM
"#StuffMicrosoftSays: 'Don't Get Scroogled,' Launches Holiday Bing Campaign" TechCrunch 11:21 AM
"Microsoft Says Don't Get Scroogled, but Bing is Not So Scot-Free" AllThingsD 8:37 PM
"Microsoft annual shareholders meeting today" Seattle Times 11:10 AM
"IBM flash interconnect aims to bust bottlenecks" EE Times 10:25 AM
"Dell's Quest: Bring Business Insights To Email Data/Quest Software's first 'big data play,' MessageStats 7.0, adds email mining and analytics tools for business-side users." InformationWeek 10:35 AM
"Latest Java zero-day exploit renews calls to disable it: Oracle contributes to the problem by not working more closely with the security industry on Java defenses, one security expert said" CSO 10:37 AM
"Intel 'preparing' to put an end to user-replaceable CPUs" ZDNet 11:39 AM
"Intel updates CPU roadmap for 1Q13" DigiTimes 9:35 PM
"Apple to join special-dividend trend ahead of fiscal cliff?" MarketWatch 12:00 PM
"A Chip Contractor With Apple Opportunity" Barron's 12:00 PM
Industry News
"Asia Markets: Asia stocks advance on 'cliff' deal optimism/Asia stocks rose Thursday, after U.S. shares rallied as President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner expressed optimism about a deal to solve the upcoming 'fiscal cliff.'" MarketWatch 9:37 PM
"Apple leads early tech slump; Groupon up ahead of CEO appearance" MarketWatch 9:52 AM
"U.S. stocks gain as politicians talk deal" MarketWatch 3:41 PM
"U.S. Stocks Rise as Boehner, Obama Fuel Optimism on Talks" Bloomberg 3:41 PM
"Stocks Swing Higher on Budget, QE Hopes" FOXBusiness 3:41 PM
"Stocks Swing Up After Obama's Budget Comments" TheStreet 3:42 PM
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