"Apple begins appeal in renewed bid to ban Samsung phones: Apple today took a step in trying to appeal a decision by a district court judge not to ban a number of Samsung phones in the U.S." CNET News 4:07 PM
"Apple Appeals After Failing to Block Samsung Devices" Bloomberg 4:11 PM
"Apple appeals ruling over Samsung ban" USA Today 7:14 PM
"Apple takes quest for Samsung product ban to appeals court" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 8:26 PM
"Apple Appeals Samsung Injunction Ruling" The Mac Observer 7:14 PM
"Apple's Patent Battle Against Samsung Loses Steam" Chosunilbo: S. Korea 9:27 PM
"A 2011 law made it easier to challenge Apple's patents" Fortune 7:42 AM
"Tentatively invalid: the most valuable multitouch patent asserted by Apple at Samsung trial" Foss Patents 8:16 AM
"U.S. agency rejects Apple 'pinch-to-zoom' patent in initial ruling" Reuters 7:53 AM
"US patent office: Nice try Apple, but pinch-to-zoom is NOT a new invention" The Register 7:54 AM
"Apple's Billion-Dollar Patent Rejected But The War Is Not Over" Forbes 11:45 AM
"Apple's patent victory may be small in larger battle with Samsung" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 7:53 AM
"EU to make antitrust charges against Samsung soon" ["The EU competition watchdog is investigating whether Samsung broke EU competition rules by filing patent lawsuits against Apple."] Reuters 8:05 AM
"Samsung Faces EU Antitrust Objections Over Apple Patent Clash" Bloomberg 8:39 AM
"2012: The Year Apple Was Forced To Play Defense" ReadWrite 7:48 AM
"Tim Cook Named TIME Person of the Year Runner-Up" MacNewsWorld 1:47 PM
"Apple's Chinese App Store opens loophole that dodges censorship safeguards" The Next Web 7:46 AM
"iPhone 5's Impact On U.S. Economy Estimated At $75 Billion in 2012" BGR 8:43 PM
"Apple Sued over Apple TV & iTunes Interactive Video Services" Patently Apple 10:25 AM
"Apple seeds OS X v10.8.3 beta to developers" AppleTell 8:14 AM
"Apple releases OS X 10.8.3 build 12D44 to developers" 9 to 5 Mac 4:09 PM
"Apple seeds new OS X 10.8.3 build two days after previous version's release" AppleInsider 4:09 PM
"Mac users get an official Ubuntu One client" PCWorld 7:58 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"How to tame annoying alert sounds in OS X: OS X supports a few custom handling options for alert sounds to make them less intrusive." CNET Reviews 8:27 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Review: MailMate 1.5 is no frills, all business when it comes to email" Macworld 8:01 AM
"MacCleanse 3 review: Removing apps, duplicate files and unwanted logs from your Mac is much easier dedicated clean-up tool MacCleanse." Macworld UK 8:13 AM
"Project Canvas review: Presentation building tool Project Canvas proves to be inspiring and infuriating in equal measure." Macworld UK 8:13 AM
"Home-Automation Startup R2 Studios in Acquisition Talks: A secretive startup founded by the man who popularized the Slingbox has been in talks with companies considering buying it, people close to the company say, with Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Apple Inc. cited as participants." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:46 PM
"Apple, Google, Microsoft all in bids to purchase home automation company, reports WSJ" The Verge 3:46 PM
"Apple's Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers" Wired 8:49 AM
"Australian university to issue 11,000 iPads next year: The initiative is part of a curriculum overhaul at the University of Western Sydney that will stress a 'blended learning model.'" CNET News 7:56 AM
"UK retailers look to Apple's iPad mini to save high street sales" Computerworld 9:16 AM
"The iPhone Is Bringing Billions Of Dollars And Thousands Of Jobs Into Texas" Business Insider 7:53 AM
"Nielsen: Apple, Google Big Winners in Year of the Smartphone" PC Magazine 8:41 PM
"Google Play is growing faster, but Apple's App Store brings in way more money: Distimo" The Next Web 8:59 AM
"Google Play Grows Fastest, But App Store Sees Four Times As Much Revenue [Report] Cult of Android 9:56 AM
"Distimo app market Report: iOS app store revenues 430% bigger than Google Play, but growing slower" VentureBeat 11:36 AM
"Google Play surges, but Apple's App Store is still No. 1" CNET News 10:29 AM
"Android conversion rates higher than iPhone: Stats" Econsultancy 9:29 AM
"Study shows Apple devices actually gained mobile ad share in 2012: now 63%, up from 47% the year before" VentureBeat 11:37 AM
"In Piper Jaffray re-test, Siri raises her grade from a D to a C: In a quiet room, the latest version understood 91% of questions, correctly answered 77%" Fortune 11:05 AM
"Siri's reliance on Google cut in half with iOS 6" AppleInsider 8:18 AM
"Apple's Siri fast becoming a stranger to Google" iDownload Blog 9:56 AM
"Apple Maps Are 3x More Likely to Get You Lost Than Google Maps [Chart] iClarified 8:13 AM
"Apple rejected Conroy's big red button app, as devs feared/Summary: The government's cybersafety app for iOS was deemed too similar to a web link for Apple to approve." ZDNet 10:29 AM
"Seeking Labor Compliance, Apple Suppliers Curb Overtime For Factory Workers" Forbes 7:57 AM
"Apple to launch a Credit Card, apparently: Could Apple launch its own credit card? The people at Credit Card Companies think so" Macworld UK 7:47 AM
"Nintendo Moves Into The Living Room, Where Apple Will Eat Its Lunch Again" ReadWrite 7:48 AM
"Apple Suppliers Bring Jobs Back to Taiwan" WSJ Blogs 1:23 PM
"Top 10 Christmas gifts for Apple fanbois" The Inquirer 7:59 AM
"NYC and 13 more cities get T-Mobile's iPhone-friendly upgrade" GigaOM 1:27 PM
"Minecraft documentary to stream Saturday on Xbox Live" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 2:17 PM
"Vybe game pad is haptic driven" TG Daily 12:06 PM
"VMware patches 'critical' vulnerability: Problem with VMware View product could allow hackers access to in-network files" Network World 11:29 AM
"Report: TSMC confirms U.S. wafer fab site hunt" EE Times 10:46 AM
"McAfee Inc. takes reputation beating after founder fled police: Brand measurement firm links John McAfee's bizarre behavior to nosedive of security company's 'Buzz' score" Computerworld 10:23 AM
"Adobe to patch 2-year-old Shockwave flaw next year" IDG News Service 10:22 AM
"Wireless phone charging in cars planned by Toyota" BBC 10:12 AM
"Verizon responds to AT&T, adds 29 LTE markets" CNET News 9:57 AM
"Samsung promises fix for vulnerability in Android Galaxy devices" Techworld 12:03 PM
"Google Updates Mod_Pagespeed With Smarter Caching, Progressive JPEGs" TechCrunch 11:47 AM
"Report: Google Prepping $99 Nexus 7 Tablet" PC Magazine 11:24 AM
"The real Brothers Grimm were stranger than fiction: The Google homepage celebrates the 200th anniversary of the first edition of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales,' a collection of stories which transformed Western literature. Here's a quick look at the men who worked tirelessly for 50 years to assemble the tales." Christian Science Monitor 10:20 AM
"Google's Head of Shopping Says Company Has No Plans to Become a Retailer" AllThingsD 9:40 AM
"HP Granted a Patent for a Wild Futuristic Product: Robotic Skin" Patent Bolt 11:46 AM
"Study: In 5 years, 4.4% of all ads (not just digital) will appear on a phone screen" GigaOM 11:04 AM
"Apple supplier Foxconn buys stake in camera maker GoPro" CNET News 10:29 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"A rare interview with famous iOS hacker pod2g" iDownload Blog 1:48 PM
"Big iOS 6 uptick linked to China launch, instead of Google Maps: Since Google's new iOS mapping app hit Apple's App Store, adoption of iOS 6 has jumped 30 percent. But new data says the rate in North America stayed flat and that the global jump may be due to iPhone sales in China." CNET News 8:27 PM
"Chitika: iOS 6 Spike Likely Due To iPhone In China, Not Google Maps, As U.S. Growth Remains Flat" TechCrunch 4:09 PM
"iOS 6 Adoption Uptick Due to iPhone 5 Release in China, Not Google Maps?" MacRumors 4:19 PM
"Apple Increases iPad Mini Orders By 2 Million" Business Insider 8:18 AM
"Apple to Ship 12 Million iPad Mini Units in 2012" Benzinga Insights 11:00 AM
"Buoyed by strong sales, Apple orders 2M extra iPad minis" iDownload Blog 9:27 AM
"Apple Reportedly Bumps iPad mini Orders to 10-12 Million in Q4" The Mac Observer 4:24 PM
"Analyst: Get Ready for iPad mini 2 in Spring" The Mac Observer 8:36 AM
"US Patent Office invalidates another key Apple patent" iDownload Blog 8:02 AM
"TSMC confirms it seeks a U.S. site, but denies link to Apple" The Oregonian 9:29 AM
"Apple said to be testing 46, 55-inch big-screen TVs: To be shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in January? Wait a minute..." The Register 8:27 PM
"Apple looking at 46- to 55-inch displays for TV?" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:37 AM
"Rumor: Apple TV Products To Be Shown Off Next Month" AppleBitch 7:40 AM
"Apple Reminds Developers of App Store Freeze During Holidays" MacRumors 3:24 PM
Apple Patent Applications
"Apple's Passbook Patent Comes to Life Along with Many Others" Patently Apple 7:49 AM
"Apple files for patent Passbook's digital coupon feature, hints at NFC" AppleInsider 8:06 AM
"Apple files patent for Passbook coupons with a touch of NFC" CNET News 1:25 PM
"New Haptics to Enhance Virtual Keyboards, Replace Home Button" Patently Apple 7:31 AM
"Apple is for electronic text manipulation and display" AppleDailyReport 10:15 AM
"A Big Misunderstanding/Cliff Edwards's 2001 'Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work' piece for Businessweek is deservingly notorious in the annals of claim chowder, but there are a few things about it worth keeping in mind even today. There's more to it than just a few guys who were wrong about Apple's prospects in retail." Daring Fireball 7:17 PM
"Cassandra -Friday Review: The Weekend Arrives" eXtensions 7:14 PM
"Would Apple want to run your whole living room?" GigaOM 4:20 PM
"Apple kills a Kickstarter project: Portable power project POP refunding $139,170 to backers" VentureBeat 3:20 PM
"Let's Use Patent Fees to Stop the Trolls" Wired 3:24 PM
"Former top patent judge: system works 'quite well,' needs to be 'stronger'/Prominent judges with radically different perspectives square off in debate." Ars Technica 2:14 PM
"The Apple semiconductor analyst who keeps crying wolf" Fortune 1:53 PM
"If You Weren't Worried About iPhone Sales Before, You Will Be After Reading This Report" Business Insider 1:53 PM
"What we'll see in 2013 from Apple" GigaOM 1:27 PM
"Exclusive: Corrupt Apple Store Employees Come Forward Across America" Gizmodo 1:25 PM
"Another Apple Patent Gets Smacked Down, And Its 'Thermonuclear War' Becomes Even More Of A Farce" ReadWrite 11:38 AM
"Apple/Samsung Smartphone Duopoly Tightens Grip" Forbes 11:00 AM
"Hey Apple - Make Innovation, Not War: Right now, it seems as if there's a lot of energy and mindshare being focused on Apple patent litigation, primarily against Samsung since Samsung is one of the few competitors that actually produces smartphones and tablets people buy on a regular basis. In the latest case heard by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, the judge basically told both parties to get real." MacNewsWorld 10:48 AM
"HP Envy Ultrabook 6t-1000 Review" HotHardware 11:13 AM
"The top 5 tech bozos of the year: From HP to Apple and Nokia, the tech world suffered as these bozos made a mess the rest of us had to clean up" InfoWorld 11:09 AM
"9 app dev projects you should cancel in 2013" InfoWorld 11:09 AM
"Oracle Buys Eloqua: Watch Out Salesforce?" InformationWeek 11:07 AM
"The Mobile Opportunity That Nokia Let Slip Away" Forbes 11:03 AM
"IT Executives Not Worried About Finding Cloud Computing Expertise: Survey" Forbes 11:01 AM
"iPhone, Android or Something Completely Different?" E-Commerce Times 10:47 AM
"'Black swan' predictions for 2013 include solar storm: U.S. Global Trends report does not include Mayan calendar worries, but a 'solar maximum' or cyberwar could cause problems" Computerworld 10:23 AM
"PR Gone Wild, 2012: 12 Hall Of Shamers" InformationWeek 10:03 AM
"Five big tech stories to watch for in 2013" CNET News 9:58 AM
"Android Is Dead, Part 3: The Numbers" Seeking Alpha 9:49 AM
"Google's Singular Silence on Kurzweil" TheStreet 12:40 PM
"Selling Motorola's TV Group: a Strategic Mistake for Google?" Forbes 9:49 AM
"10 tech blunders to avoid in 2013" MarketWatch 9:41 AM
"Outlook 2013 spurns your old Word and Excel documents: Microsoft is cutting support for legacy Office documents in the latest version of its Outlook email client." The Register 12:10 PM
"Microsoft Goes After Apple Developers to Extend Its Library" Minyanville 12:46 PM
"HP ElitePad 900 Windows 8 tablet hits pre-order for $649" TG Daily 12:06 PM
"Oracle To Pay $871 Million for Marketing Software Company Eloqua" AllThingsD 9:40 AM
"Oracle to Buy Software Maker Eloqua for $871 Million" Bloomberg 9:51 AM
"Oracle buying software co. Eloqua for about $811M" Associated Press 9:52 AM
"Oracle to buy software maker Eloqua for $810 million" Reuters 9:46 AM
"Oracle to Buy Eloqua in $810 Million Deal" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:35 AM
"Oracle buys web firm Eloqua to boost cloud presence" Reuters 12:46 PM
"6 Dell Storylines To Watch In 2013" InformationWeek 10:02 AM
"IBM: Sterne Agee's Wu Calls Big Blue A 'Top Pick' For 2013" Forbes 9:48 AM
"The year in processors: Intel and ARM competition hots up" V3 12:16 PM
"Intel, AMD, Nvidia: Evercore Slices Ests On Soft PC Sales" Forbes 9:45 AM
"ACTA gets final stake through heart as EC drops court referral" ZDNet 12:33 PM
"FCC issues security guidance to smartphone users: FCC publishes 10-step plan for securing mobile devices and their data" IDG News Service 11:30 AM
"Report: US government plans legal assault on foreign hackers/The US is planning a legal assault on the international hacking community and the companies – and governments – that use IP stolen from America." The Register 12:09 PM
"DOJ to use prosecutorial powers in state-sponsored cyberespionage: National Security Division of Department of Justice is creating a new position called the National Security Cybersecurity Specialist" CSO 11:29 AM
"IT jobs light up top 100 careers for 2013: Systems analysts, DBAs, and developers in especially high demand among employers, says U.S. News & World Report" InfoWorld 11:09 AM
"Apple's Top Institutional Shareholders for Q3 2012" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 10:30 AM
Industry News
"Asia Markets: Asia stocks drop as cliff optimism fades/Asia stock markets fell Friday after optimism for a resolution to the U.S. 'fiscal cliff' received a dent from Republicans canceling a vote on a back-up tax-cut plan." MarketWatch 9:28 PM
"Amazon, RIM up, while H-P shares slip: Eloqua shares soar on Oracle plan to buy cloud-based firm" MarketWatch 9:51 AM
"U.S. stocks close higher on budget-deal hopes: Shares of NYSE Euronext rally on news of deal with ICE" MarketWatch 4:03 PM
"U.S. Stocks Advance as Boehner Vows to Work With Obama" Bloomberg 1:50 PM
"Stocks Rise, But Caution Remains Over Fiscal Cliff" FOXBusiness 4:03 PM
"Stocks Rebound as Investors Grow Upbeat on Economy, Fiscal-Cliff Deal" TheStreet 4:03 PM
"Waiting on fiscal cliff compromise, stocks inch up" Associated Press 4:03 PM
"Stocks: Still all about the fiscal cliff/U.S. stocks drifted higher Thursday as fiscal cliff negotiations in Washington seemed to be headed for a showdown." CNNMoney 1:50 PM
"Stocks Stage Late Rally" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:04 PM
"U.K.'s FTSE 100 index ends slightly lower" MarketWatch 12:38 PM
"Asia Markets: Tokyo stocks retreat, as Sydney hits 17-month high" MarketWatch 9:36 AM
"Asian Shares Up; BOJ Eases Further" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:40 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks eke out gain; U.S. 'cliff' optimism fades" MarketWatch 12:38 PM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at the close of trading" Associated Press 9:28 PM
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 9:27 PM
"Midday Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares down at 1 p.m." Associated Press 12:44 PM
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