"Apple yanks proxy proposal after judge backs Einhorn: The company removes a proposal that would eliminate its ability to issue 'blank check' preferred stock without investor approval." CNET News 8:12 PM
"All eyes on Apple's next move after ruling: Company unlikely to issue dividend in interim" MarketWatch 7:12 PM
"Judge Grants David Einhorn's Motion Against Apple" AllThingsD 3:46 PM
"Apple Shareholder Vote Blocked at Greenlight's Request" Bloomberg 3:48 PM
"Judge Grants David Einhorn's Bid to Block Apple Proxy Vote" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:48 PM
"Judge Sides With Einhorn and Halts an Apple Shareholder Vote" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:25 PM
"Einhorn wins ruling against Apple in stock fight" Reuters 3:50 PM
"Einhorn scores legal victory vs. Apple in cash scuffle" Reuters 7:11 PM
"Judge Blocks Shareholder Vote On Apple Proposal" Associated Press 3:57 PM
"Court backs Einhorn bid to stop Apple proxy vote: Legal victory for hedge fund manager's bid to force Apple to share more of its wealth with investors." CNET News 3:49 PM
"Greenlight Wins Bid to Block Apple Shareholder Vote: Video" Bloomberg 3:49 PM
"Apple loses in key issue in Einhorn battle: But NY federal court reject's injunction against say-on-pay" MarketWatch 3:58 PM
"Einhorn wins battle to block Apple vote" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 3:59 PM
"How Apple should deal with its cash: Go with the Flo. Progressive has an intelligent, rational, and transparent way to deal with the surplus cash that its operations generate. Apple doesn't." Fortune 8:10 AM
"Apple's Weak Board/For a company of its size and prominence in the global business and tech world, Apple Inc. does not have much of a board of directors, in terms of their backgrounds and likely ability to steer the company through a difficult period and calls for it to part with its cash hoard." 24/7 Wall St. 8:23 AM
"Basically, David Einhorn Set Up A Huge Showdown With Apple's Management" Business Insider 8:38 AM
"Morgan Stanley Meets With Apple's CFO, Comes Away More Confident Of A Low-Cost iPhone" Business Insider 8:38 AM
"Apple: Morgan Stanley Sees Higher Div, Cheaper iPhones" Forbes 8:42 AM
"Morgan Stanley expects 6% dividend, cheaper 'iPhone mini' after meeting with Apple CFO" AppleInsider 8:58 AM
"iPhone Mini launch this summer makes sense, analyst says: Morgan Stanley argues that new iPhones, including one for emerging markets, could launch this summer, while the iPad will likely be refreshed by the middle of the year." CNET News 10:15 AM
"Will Apple's Phenomenon Continue To Grow?" The Motley Fool 9:41 AM
"German court stays Samsung's voiceover patent lawsuit against Apple: patent likely invalid" Foss Patents 8:56 AM
"Samsung's Ill-Conceived Apple VoiceOver Suit Stayed in Germany" AllThingsD 12:52 PM
"Apple may have to compensate iPad 3 owners in Brazil: Apple is being sued for making the iPad 3 obsolete with the launch of the iPad 4" Macworld UK 8:38 AM
"How Tim Cook Rose To Become Apple's CEO: Here's a short video we put together on Apple CEO Tim Cook. He's leading the most valuable tech company in the world, but most people outside of tech don't know much about him. This little primer should help." [Video Report] Business Insider 12:59 PM
"Apple's Tim Cook Demanded Competitor Innovation: He Got it" The Mac Observer 3:45 PM
"How to Enable the New 'Composers View' in iTunes 11.0.2" MacTrast 7:17 PM
"iOS device syncing in iTunes 11, audiobook lengths, and listening in mono" Macworld 8:50 AM
"You're working too hard – relax and try out these 10 amazing Mac easter eggs" memeburn 7:48 AM
"What Can I Actually Upgrade On My Mac?" Lifehacker 9:08 PM
"Change The Default Font Size In Notes App On Your Mac [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac 8:51 AM
"How to Email Pictures from iPhoto Using Mail.app Instead of iPhoto's Built-in Email Feature" Mac OS X Hints 10:25 AM
"Use Lynx Browser with Image Support in X11 for Fast Low Bandwidth Web Browsing" OS X Daily 3:59 PM
"Have New Camera, Will Take Many Thousands Of Photos, Must Have Bulk Photo Editor For Mac" TeraTalks 7:54 AM
"Yet Another App To Control iTunes From The Mac's Menubar (and this one does Spotify, too)" Mac 360 7:54 AM
"When It Comes To Getting Things Done On A Mac, What's New Under The Sun? Eisenpower!" NoodleMac 7:54 AM
"The Monster Calculator From Yesteryear Is Here Today And Ready For The Mac" BohemianBoomer 7:54 AM
"If You're A Mac User Into Drag And Drop Instead Of Point And Click Then You'll Like Dropzone" Mac 360 7:54 AM
"Why You'll Like Using A New Mac Database App That's Simple, Fast, Powerful, And Affordable" McSolo 7:54 AM
Op/Ed
"The Touch Screen That's Coming To The Mac And Why That's A Crazy, Brain Dead Idea" PixoBebo 7:52 AM
Press Releases
"TextWrangler 4.5 Now Retina Ready; Gets New Go Menu, Compare Against Previous Versions, and More" MacPrices 12:32 PM
"M-SIX introduces VEO for the AEC industry" Architosh 11:53 AM
"Essential Mac management tools: If you're trying to add Macs to a fleet of Windows machines, you'll want to check out these offerings" [Slideshow] InfoWorld 11:38 AM
"Apple's App Store, iTunes back online after outages: The company's online services all seem to be back in business now after hit by outages yesterday." CNET News 8:42 AM
"Apple – The iPhone Smashes Samsung" The Motley Fool 10:19 AM
"Samsung and Apple Slugging It Out in the Smart Connected Devices Market" AllThingsD 9:53 AM
"'Post-PC Era' Predicted By Steve Jobs Taking Hold as Samsung Tops Apple in Connected Device Market" MacRumors 9:43 AM
"Samsung has overtaken Apple in 'smart connected devices'" Fortune 10:30 AM
"Tablets Take Off In 2012 According To Millennial, With Kindle Fire And iPad Mini Seeing Rapid Growth" TechCrunch 7:49 AM
"Chart of the day: Apple tops Samsung in mobile ad share" Fortune 8:11 AM
"Apple Sued for exploding iPod touch" Patently Apple 7:07 PM
"Apple supplier penalized for polluting nearby river in China: Apple is investigating the incident, according to an environmental group" Computerworld 8:11 AM
"Apple supplier faces sanctions over pollution" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 9:19 AM
"Microsoft cooler than before, but Apple on top" Reuters 12:15 PM
"LG ad riffs on Apple's panorama commercial, and expands on it" AppleInsider 9:35 AM
"Google confirms Glass will work with iPhone" TUAW 8:09 PM
"Ferrari edges out Apple to become world's most powerful brand" Digital Trends 1:06 PM
"NYPD forms dedicated team to catch thieves who steal iPhones and iPads" New York Post 10:56 AM
"Apple now working with NYPD to curb iPhone thefts" Network World 10:56 AM
"NYPD creates special team to recover stolen Apple devices" CNET News 9:27 PM
"How a dedicated team of NYPD cops work with Apple to catch iDevice thieves, even in other countries" 9 to 5 Mac 10:30 AM
"NYPD Team Working With Apple to Catch iPhone, iPad Thieves" PC Magazine 11:53 AM
"NYPD And Apple Team Up To Stop iThing Theft In NYC" TechCrunch 1:00 PM
"Hacktivists Prep For International Open Data Day" InformationWeek 12:56 PM
"Sony's PS4 future lies in the cloud" CNNMoney 12:46 PM
"New video games mirror debates about data privacy, hacking" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 12:35 PM
"No touch screen, no keyboard: enter Airwriting" TG Daily 12:23 PM
"Facebook engineers identify Graph Search's big data challenges" IDG News Service 11:56 AM
"Facebook to put old, rarely viewed photos into 'cold storage'" NBC News 11:46 AM
"Austrian research team develop a new flat, flexible, transparent, and potentially disposable polymer sheet for capturing images" DigiTimes 10:49 AM
"Taiwan PC industry at a critical moment: An interview with Wistron chairman" DigiTimes 10:48 AM
"'Star Trek'-like tricorder available soon" USA Today 10:46 AM
"North Korea to offer mobile internet access" BBC 10:24 AM
"LivesOn: New Service to Let You Tweet When You're Dead" ABCNews 10:23 AM
"Amid Hacking Headaches, Twitter Begins Using Email Authentication" FOXBusiness 11:10 AM
"Google buildings exposed to toxic vapors left by chipmakers" CNET News 12:55 PM
"Google adds fee-based support services for cloud platform customers: Users of products like App Engine, Compute Engine and Big Query will be able to purchase access to a variety of technical support services" IDG News Service 11:57 AM
"Chrome 25 Adds Voice Support, Devs Get App Launcher" PC Magazine 11:52 AM
"Google patches Chrome browser, bans stealth add-ons" PCWorld 11:55 AM
"Conan can't resist making an ass of Google Glass" CNET News 10:12 AM
"Nokia to fight rivals with cheaper models -sources" Reuters 10:06 AM
"Samsung Wants to Be a Media Giant. Meet the Guy in Charge of Getting Them There." AllThingsD 12:51 PM
"Samsung Copies the BlackBerry Playbook" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:43 AM
"Combes Named to Lead Alcatel-Lucent Through Troubled Time" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:15 AM
"Gene Steinberg meets tech writer Kirk McElhearn, and Laptop magazine's Avram Piltch, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 7:07 PM
"An Apple watch, PS4, security and bug fixes, cheap iPhone and slippers" Insanely Great Mac 12:52 PM
"New iPad 5 Case Consistent with Rumored Mini-Style Redesign" MacRumors 9:22 PM
"Apple Hiring 'Maps Ground Truth Data Specialist' in Australia" MacRumors 7:15 PM
"iWatch-y Patent Greases the Gears of Concept Designers: There's been much ado about the possibility that an iWatch is in the works, and the buzz was fueled this week by the publication of a patent application Apple filed back in 2011. More than a few renderings of possible designs have been circulating on the Web as well: and one of them in particular seems more Apple-ish than the rest." MacNewsWorld 9:04 AM
"Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 beta with passcode bug fix in tow" CNET News 9:42 AM
"Smartphone by Manufacturer - FixYa Report" FixYa 2:56 PM
"Apple's iPhone Tops Smartphone Reliability Ratings" ReadWrite 11:40 AM
"iPhones are 3X more reliable than Samsung smartphones, Fixya says" VentureBeat 11:38 AM
"Apple v. Samsung: What are the most reliable smartphones on the market?" ZDNet 12:06 PM
"FixYa Study Finds Apple Smartphones to be the Most Reliable" MacRumors 2:57 PM
"Leaked iPad Mini Images Hint at Retina Display" PC Magazine 11:53 AM
"AU Optronics reportedly started mass producing iPad mini 2 Retina panels" iDownload Blog 4:22 PM
"Supposed 2nd-Gen iPad mini Images Surface with Blue Logo" PadGadget 12:39 PM
"GIS expected to bump up touch panel lamination shipments for iPad mini" DigiTimes 8:09 AM
"Is A Retina Display Coming To The MacBook Air In Q3 Of 2013?" Apple'n'Apps 1:51 PM
"Apple working on techniques for presenting sound effects on a portable device" AppleDailyReport 8:24 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Doors&Rooms[PLUS] For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)" Apple Sliced 8:39 AM
"Nuclien For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)" Apple Sliced 8:39 AM
"FLASHOUT 3D For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $2.99)" Apple Sliced 8:39 AM
"15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:53 AM
"13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:53 AM
"6 ways to speed an old computer" USA Today 12:31 PM
"I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates" ["But I walked away convinced that this wasn't just one of Google's weird flights of fancy. The more I used Glass the more it made sense to me; the more I wanted it. If the team had told me I could sign up to have my current glasses augmented with Glass technology, I would have put pen to paper (and money in their hands) right then and there. And it's that kind of stuff that will make the difference between this being a niche device for geeks and a product that everyone wants to experience."] The Verge 12:23 PM
"Even Sony isn't sure what PS4 will look like" Mashable 12:11 PM
"The Hottest Games Coming to Sony's PS4" PC Magazine 11:50 AM
"Review: HP brings sizzle to Windows Storage Server/The HP StoreEasy 5530 puts serious muscle behind Windows file serving, Hyper-V virtualization, and SQL Server workloads" InfoWorld 11:17 AM
"Why you should sign the phone-unlocking petition right now" InfoWorld 11:16 AM
"Hands-on with the Ubuntu Touch Linux smartphone" InfoWorld 11:16 AM
"Mobile World Congress 2013: What We Want" InformationWeek 11:11 AM
"Where Is The Digital Work Force Growing Fastest?" Forbes 11:06 AM
"Slideshow: Technologies that stood out at 60th ISSCC" EE Times 10:49 AM
"What smartphone feature would you like to see in the future?" CNN 10:39 AM
"Here's what Facebook Graph Search is doing next" VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 12:35 PM
"How to post to Facebook, Twitter after you die" CNN 10:39 AM
"You Will Subscribe To, Not Buy Software" BYTE 10:19 AM
"Is Republic's $19 cell phone service too good to be true?" CNET News 10:12 AM
"Patent Application Reveals Key Factors In Google News Algorithm" Forbes 11:07 AM
"Hearing Is Believing: People Don'T Realize How Important Great Sound Is Until They Experience It" BGR 10:16 AM
"Sorry, But There'S No Defense For The Chromebook Pixel" BGR 1:51 PM
"Get Real, Google. The Pixel Is Too Pricey" PC Magazine 11:52 AM
"Inside Google's ultrabook gambit: With a new laptop, Google is betting that living in the cloud on an ultrabook is not just cheaper, but much better." Fortune 11:08 AM
"Chromebook Pixel: Google takes on Apple" Telegraph 8:03 AM
Humor/Cartoons
"Low Latency No. 52: The waiting game" CNET News [cartoon] 10:15 AM
"H-P stock rally not seen since Mark Hurd era: But Meg Whitman's 'better together' gets mixed reviews" MarketWatch 12:49 PM
"HP shares jump after strong results, analysts raise targets" Reuters 10:01 AM
"H-P Shares Rally 8% on Upbeat Guidance" FOXBusiness 11:10 AM
"HP's first 'Project Moonshot' server due next quarter: HP claims the server consumes up to 89 percent less energy than a traditional x86 server" IDG News Service 11:17 AM
"HP's challenge: Sticking with its Project Moonshot fueled R&D plan" ZDNet 12:41 PM
"In Dell's Waning Cash Flows, Signs of Concern" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:16 AM
"Dell to sue Philips, alleges cathode-ray tube price fixing" ZDNet 12:42 PM
"Google requests more time to respond to Oracle's appeal brief and in-depth amicus curiae briefs" Foss Patents 9:53 AM
"Jazzed-up Microsoft is cooler than before" Reuters 12:12 PM
"Is Microsoft Now a Cool Brand Thanks to the Surface?" Minyanville 10:07 AM
"Hipsters have spoken: Microsoft is 'hip to be square'" The Register 12:29 PM
"What Will Microsoft Learn from the Wii U and PS4?" Forbes 10:08 AM
"Microsoft suffers from same hacking attack as Apple, Facebook, small number of computers infected" The Next Web 7:17 PM
"Microsoft says small number of its computers hacked" Reuters 7:10 PM
"Microsoft Hacked, Just Like Facebook and Apple" AllThingsD 7:12 PM
"Microsoft Joins Apple, Facebook as Target of Cyberattack" Bloomberg 7:13 PM
"Aussie hacker in international probe: An Australian hacker has found himself at the centre of an international corporate espionage investigation after leaking details of Microsoft's new Xbox and listing a prototype on eBay as a joke." Sydney Morning Herald 12:13 PM
"IBM MobileFirst aims to smooth enterprise path to mobility" V3 12:34 PM
"IBM plugs big data capabilities into Deutsche Telekom's M2M infrastructure for smarter cities" GigaOM 9:35 AM
"Intel acquires appMobi for HTML5 developer tools: The Pennsylvania company will continue to offer its cloud services to mobile app developers" IDG News Service 10:41 AM
"Gaming Will Revitalize Advanced Micro Devices" Seeking Alpha 9:59 AM
"Cisco wins big in India as Chinese set-top box manufacturers surge, says ABI Research" DigiTimes 10:49 AM
"FCC Ruling Could Set Connected Cars and Wi-Fi on Collision Course" Wired 12:37 PM
"Cellphone unlocking petition hits 100,000 signatures: The US government will have to reconsider its decision to ban cellphone unlocking, after an online petition reached the necessary 100,000 signatures." TG Daily 12:25 PM
"What to expect at Mobile World Congress 2013" PCWorld 11:54 AM
"What to Expect at Mobile World Congress 2013: MWC 2013 is on its way, and sure to bring lots of exciting news about new phones and tablets alike. Here's what we think we might see." PC Magazine 11:51 AM
"Mobile World Congress: Will the Windows ecosystem be relevant in Barcelona?" PCWorld 11:54 AM
"Tablets Take Off In 2012 According To Millennial, With Kindle Fire And iPad Mini Seeing Rapid Growth" TechCrunch 12:20 PM
"iPrefs Aren't the Answer for Apple" The Motley Fool 8:40 PM
"Apple cash pile fight ends with a win for Greenlight Capital, judge rules" VentureBeat 8:12 PM
"Apple says it is 'disappointed' in court ruling, Greenlight calls its win 'significant' for shareholders" 9 to 5 Mac 7:18 PM
"Should Apple Get Preferred Treatment?" The Motley Fool 7:11 PM
"Court Grants Einhorn Injunction Blocking Apple Shareholder Vote" The Mac Observer 3:53 PM
"Greenlight Wins Bid to Block Apple Shareholder Vote" Bloomberg 3:48 PM
"Morgan Stanley Meets with $AAPL CFO, Predicts Higher Dividend" The Mac Observer 1:56 PM
"Einhorn Says Apple Should Issue Preferred Stock: Bloomberg's Adam Satariano reports on Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn's call for Apple to return more cash to shareholders." [Video Report] Bloomberg 12:56 PM
"Apple Out of Favor on the Street" [Video Report] CNBC 12:03 PM
"Analyst meets with Apple CFO; expects 6% cash return-update" Fortune 11:25 AM
"Apple on Joel Greenblatt's 'Magic Formula' Screen" The Motley Fool 10:57 AM
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