"iPad Pro: The Missing Workflow" ["But the best news is that Apple has, finally, some competition when it comes to User Experience. For example, tablets that run Microsoft or Google software let users slide the current window to show portions of another one below, making it easier to select parts of a document and drop them into another. (Come to think of it, the sliding Notifications 'drawer' on the iPad and iPhone isn't too far off.) This competition might spur Apple to move the already very successful iPad into authentically 'Pro' territory."] Monday Note 1:22 PM
"Is This Apple's Biggest Tablet Opportunity Yet?" The Motley Fool 4:07 PM
"Apple overtakes Samsung in U.S. mobile phone market" Bloomberg 8:09 AM
"Samsung slowly closing the Apple gap: South Korean powerhouse edges closer to Apple in latest NPD report" Network World 1:21 PM
"Google tops Apple in creativity" Bloomberg 8:07 AM
"Patent war pushes Samsung's innovation: The patent dispute with rival Apple has strengthened Samsung Electronics' innovation drive, according to industry experts and Samsung officials." Google Korean-to-English: Korea Times 8:09 AM
"Foxconn plans Chinese union vote" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 8:42 PM
"iPhone Users Pay More for Data Plans, but There's More to the Numbers" Brighthand 1:03 PM
"Can Apple Still Dent the Universe?" Cult of Mac 2/2
"iPhone Plus Could Steal A Winning Play From The iPad Mini's Playbook, In Reverse" Forbes 2/2
"Paul Kedrosky Has A Fascinating Theory About What Has Gone Wrong At Apple" Business Insider 2/2
"Java updates available for OS X on February 1, 2013" Apple Support 2/2
"Oracle rushes out another Java update, fixing 50 vulnerabilities" PCWorld 2/2
"Apple updates Java for Snow Leopard following blockage: Following a recent addition of Java to its plug-in blacklist, Apple has issued an update to its supported Java versions." CNET Reviews 2/2
"Apple Product Security - Java for Mac OS X v10.6 Update 12" Help Net Security 2/2
"Apple ticks off Mac users with silent shutdown of Java 7: Company sets XProtect to treat Java as malware, leaving Java-dependent users scrambling for guidance" InfoWorld 2/1
"Apple Thinks iWork Pro with Newly Acquired Patents" Patently Apple 2/1
"Apple nabs 18 patents related to 'axis-based user interface technology'" CNET News 2/1
"Apple Looking To Reimagine User Interface In iLife Apps?" AppleBitch 2/1
"Desktop Operating System Market Share" [Mac: 7.08%] NetMarketshare 2/1
"Obscure OS X Mountain Lion bug makes many apps crash" TUAW 4:07 PM
"Crash Almost Any OS X App By Typing These Specific Characters" The Mac Observer 7:02 AM
"Don't type this phrase on your Mac unless you like crashing it: 'File:///'" 9 to 5 Mac 2/2
"Strange Bug Causes Instant App Crashes in Mac OS X by Typing File:///" OS X Daily 2/2
"Typing Eight Characters Will Crash Almost Every OS X 'Mountain Lion' App" Forbes 2/2
"Q&A: MacFixIt Answers/This week, readers sent in questions about keeping a Mac clean and optimized, external drive permissions, and other topics." CNET Reviews 2/1
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Stream iTunes Music to Multiple Devices with AirPlay" OS X Daily 7:48 PM
"Mastering The Option Key On Your OS X Mac [Feature] Cult of Mac 2/2
"SCSC Releases a Major Update of Scannerz for Mac OS X" prMac 2/1
"MacX DVD Ripper Pro Updated to Rip DVD to ISO Image/MKV with Fast Speed" prMac 2/1
"Omni Group unveils OmniFocus 2, OmniPlan, OmniOutliner 4 for Mac: After going 'iPad or bust,' the company's getting back to the Mac." Ars Technica 2/1
"Apple's AppStore.com makes stealth Super Bowl debut/Apple now lets developers create vanity domains in its long-held AppStore.com domain as a way to jump quickly to apps. We find this out in a 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' ad." CNET News 9:32 PM
"FTC fines maker of Path app $800,000 for privacy violations" PCWorld 3:44 PM
"Samsung's Superbowl spot: Get-a-Mac's revenge? The creator of Apple's best-known ad campaign left after his Mac Genius spots bombed" Fortune 7:13 AM
"Samsung's Super Bowl Ad Leaves Apple Alone" AllThingsD 7:45 AM
"Flint mobile payment system replaces card readers with iPhone's camera" AppleInsider 1:05 PM
"Meet Karen Jacobsen. The Voice Behind Siri [Video] Funky Space Monkey 1:04 PM
"Football helmet sensor sends concussion warnings to your iPhone" iDownload Blog 8:19 AM
"The Super Bowl of Video Games. Literally." Time 2/1
"Quantum crypto still not proven, claim Cambridge experts" The Register 2/1
"Filthy! old! blog! bug! blamed! for! Yahoo! webmail! hijacks! Yahoo! webmail accounts are being hijacked by hackers exploiting an eight-month-old bug in the web giant's blog, security biz Bitdefender warns." The Register 2/1
"GTA V delayed, will launch on September 17" TG Daily 2/1
"TeliaSonera Chief Nyberg Quits After Uzbek Bribery Report" Bloomberg 2/1
"Facebook doesn't talk to Google, says Zuckerberg" Mashable 2/1
"Google Gets Its Act Together: New Nexus 4 Orders Reaching Customers In As Little As 48 Hours" TechCrunch 2/1
"Google begs for secrecy as it files Glass design with FCC" The Register 2/1
"Rotund Mega baron Dotcom offers bounty for breaking his crypto: Kim Dotcom is offering a prize of € 10,000 ($13,600) for anyone who can break the cryptography of Mega, his recently launched cloud-based storage site." The Register 2/1
"French website hits stumbling block indexing Mega files: Mega is keen to avoid copyright infringement accusations" IDG News Service 2/1
"Verizon launches prepaid plans for 3G phones starting at $60" CNET News 2/1
"Panasonic-Sharp Win Time for Turnarounds as Yen Boosts Earnings" Bloomberg 2/1
"PlayStation 4 buzz begins as Sony teases February event" PCWorld 2/1
"Mega explains removal of public files after blocking a third-party search engine that indexed user uploads" The Next Web 2/1
Publications/Podcasts
"Interview: The Omni Group's Ken Case On OmniFocus 2, OmniOutliner 4, And More" MacStories 1:01 PM
"Macworld – Boom's Bluetooth Speaker Takes Your Music Almost Everywhere" MacVoicesTV 2/2
"Gene Steinberg meets TechnoBuffalo's Roy Choi, AppleInsider's Daniel Eran Dilger, and the NPD Group's Stephen Baker, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 2/1
"iPad Mini wait times fall to 1 to 3 days in U.S.: Delivery times are down from 3 to 5 days, but CEO Tim Cook doesn't expect to achieve 'supply-demand balance' until March." CNET News 8:44 PM
"Apple Patents Plastic iPhone Without Home Button" Tom's Hardware 1:09 PM
"Apple to End Mac Pro Sales in Europe — For the Time Being" AllThingsD 2/1
"Apple to stop shipping Mac Pro to Europe from March" ZDNet 2/1
"The End Of The Mac, Depicted In Beautiful Charts" Business Insider 2/1
"Apple ditches Mac Pro line in run up to EU policy changes" V3 2/1
"Apple acquires eighteen user interface patents from Maya-Systems" iMore 2/1
"Royal Envoy HD (Premium) For iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $4.99)" Apple Sliced 2/1
"SimplePhysics For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $1.99)" Apple Sliced 2/1
"EDGE Extended For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $2.99)" Apple Sliced 2/1
"Rarefied Retina MacBook Pros get priced closer to earth: The Retina MacBook Pro gets price cuts ranging between $150 and $200 at Best Buy." CNET News 2/1
"How to follow along with the Super Bowl on iPhone and iPad" iMore 2/2
"Ask Rick: do iPhone and iPad use GPS? A reader wants to know if he can use an iPhone and iPad as an emergency backup for the navigation equipment on his boat." Telegraph 2/2
"Cassandra: Monday Review -It will Soon be Friday" eXtensions 7:48 PM
"With Hilarious 2-Minute Super Bowl Ad, Samsung Officially Steals Cool Factor From Apple" Forbes 2:13 PM
"More on a 5-inch iPhone and scaling the interface" iMore 7:41 AM
"Did Someone Really Receive a Trademark for the Name Steve Jobs in Turkey?" Patently Apple 2/2
"Windows 8 iPad killers: Round 1/Be careful what you wish for: Windows 8 tablets that promise to offer a twofer tablet-laptop device -- something not offered by Apple on the iPad -- are here. But are they up to the task?" CNET News 2/2
"How I was able to achieve all my computing needs, for one week, just by using my iPhone 5" PalmAddict 2/2
"The Macalope Weekly: So much better than Apple" Macworld 2/2
"Reality Absorption Field: Forms without Apple function" TUAW 2/2
"Are transparent displays dumb or brilliant? The answer is yes. See-through screens won't be used in phones and tablets, but they'll enable your windows to run Windows. A see-through iPhone hit the Google+ 'What's Hot' list this week. One day later, a transparent-display iPad hit the list as well." Computerworld 2/2
"When Rumors Go Left on Stupid, They're Actually Quite Funny" Patently Apple 2/1
"Meet, The Transparent iPad – [Concept, Video] RazorianFly 2/1
"What's Apple's next big thing? A low-cost iPhone? An Apple TV set? Four experts tackled the issue at Macworld 2013" Fortune 2/1
"This Awesome iPad Concept Features An All-Transparent Body [Video] Redmond Pie 2/1
"Apple May be Reluctant to Revitalize the Mac" The Mac Observer 2/1
"Year-old iPhone 4S spontaneously combusts and oozes acid, but Apple refuses to replace it" VentureBeat 2/1
"FTC Wants Apple, Others to Improve Mobile Privacy" The Mac Observer 2/1
"The Collapse Of Steve Jobs' Empire And Other Quaint Tales" Forbes 2/1
"Graphic: Is this Apple's new lineup of mobile devices?" Fortune 2/1
"If Apple's iPad Has A 50-percent Market Share, What Do Other Tablets Owners Do With Their Tablets?" PixoBebo 2/1
Non-Apple
"What was that BlackBerry commercial you just saw? If you watched the Super Bowl, chances are you're scratching your head over BlackBerry's different commercial. CNET gets the lowdown on the spot from the company's marketing chief." CNET News 8:48 PM
"Nintendo and the hardware business" Marco Arment 2/2
"BlackBerry 10: Right For You? Use these smartphone decision points to compare BlackBerry 10 to its Apple, Android and Windows Phone rivals." InformationWeek 2/2
"Novell aims to remake image: Will it work?" ZDNet 2/1
"Q&A: can my tablet replace my cable TV?" USA Today 2/1
"Why you should care about cyber espionage" PCWorld 2/1
"The cloud is coming to your business, like it or not/Survey: Significant adoption often had nothing to do with IT, suggesting many businesses have pulled ahead of their CIOs" InfoWorld 2/1
"Hot or not: 10 tech trends for 2013" [Slideshow] InfoWorld 2/1
"Sony Likely To Unveil PlayStation 4 On Feb. 20, But We'll Need To See More Than A Spec Show" TechCrunch 2/1
"Microsoft explains how Office 365 allow you to access your files anywhere, just by signing in" WinBeta 2/2
"Suddenly, A Bunch Of Yammer Employees Are Reporting To A Microsoft Exec" Business Insider 2/2
"Microsoft at Bett: UK has 'so much more to do' in IT education" ITProPortal 2/2
"Oracle Loses Bid to End HP Itanium Lawsuit" eWeek 2/2
"AMD Announces New Winter Video Game Bundle: Never Settle Reloaded" AnandTech 2/2
"Google moves closer to resolving EU investigation: Google's offer includes labelling its own services in search results to make them stand out from rival services" Reuters 2/2
"Google's attempts to circumvent grant-back clauses are evil, hurt its reputation as a licensing partner" Foss Patents 2/2
"Schmidt book, Post attacks spotlight Made in China hacks" CNET News 2/2
"FTC issues guidelines for mobile applications" Reuters 2/2
"Google's Schmidt: 'Twitter Can No More Produce Analysis Than A Monkey Can Type Out A Work of Shakespeare'" TechCrunch 2/2
"WSJ: Eric Schmidt calls China 'the most sophisticated and prolific' hacker of foreign firms" Engadget 2/2
"China's Cyberattacks — At What Cost?" ChinaFile 2/2
"Asia Markets: Asia stocks higher after U.S. jobs data/Asian stocks mostly advanced Monday, as investors took their first chance to react to employment data indicating some improvement in the health of the U.S. economy, with earnings providing an extra boost for Sharp Corp. and Panasonic Corp." MarketWatch 9:29 PM
"Stocks: Will Dow stay above 14,000?" CNNMoney 1:15 PM
"Dow Crosses 14,000: What's Next?" Seeking Alpha 7:39 AM
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