"Einhorn's 'Silly Sideshow' Just Got a Lot Less Silly for Apple" Wall Street Pit 7:00 AM
"Ahead of Apple's Annual Shareholder Meeting, Einhorn Claims a Victory" The Motley Fool 5:29 PM
"Apple's Sub-$500 Stock Price is Still Undeserved" Forbes 5:30 PM
"FixYa: Apple's phones 3 times more reliable than Samsung's" Fortune 7:10 AM
"Apple iWatch to lead 500m wearable computer rush: Wearable computing devices to boom" Macworld UK 7:00 AM
"Winners and Losers in the Next Smartphone War" Barron's 7:01 AM
"Consultant: Cable Companies Won't Allow That Rumored Apple TV Settop Box" Forbes 7:05 AM
"China Grants Apple 14 Design Patents for Smart Case & More" Patently Apple 12:00 PM
"Apple Finally Abandons their Iconic 'Newton' Trademark" Patently Apple 1:25 PM
"Apple Pulls Controversial Proxy Proposal After Court Ruling" AllThingsD 2/22
"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 2/22
"All eyes on Apple's next move after ruling: Company unlikely to issue dividend in interim" MarketWatch 2/22
"Judge Grants David Einhorn's Motion Against Apple" AllThingsD 2/22
"Apple Shareholder Vote Blocked at Greenlight's Request" Bloomberg 2/22
"Judge Grants David Einhorn's Bid to Block Apple Proxy Vote" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2/22
"Judge Sides With Einhorn and Halts an Apple Shareholder Vote" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2/22
"Einhorn wins ruling against Apple in stock fight" Reuters 2/22
"Einhorn scores legal victory vs. Apple in cash scuffle" Reuters 2/22
"Judge Blocks Shareholder Vote On Apple Proposal" Associated Press 2/22
"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 2/22
"Greenlight Wins Bid to Block Apple Shareholder Vote: Video" Bloomberg 2/22
"Apple loses in key issue in Einhorn battle: But NY federal court reject's injunction against say-on-pay" MarketWatch 2/22
"Einhorn wins battle to block Apple vote" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 2/22
"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 2/22
"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. 2/22
"Basically, David Einhorn Set Up A Huge Showdown With Apple's Management" Business Insider 2/22
"Morgan Stanley Meets With Apple's CFO, Comes Away More Confident Of A Low-Cost iPhone" Business Insider 2/22
"Apple: Morgan Stanley Sees Higher Div, Cheaper iPhones" Forbes 2/22
"Morgan Stanley expects 6% dividend, cheaper 'iPhone mini' after meeting with Apple CFO" AppleInsider 2/22
"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 2/22
"Will Apple's Phenomenon Continue To Grow?" The Motley Fool 2/22
"Samsung's Ill-Conceived Apple VoiceOver Suit Stayed in Germany" AllThingsD 2/22
"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 2/22
"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 2/22
"Apple's Tim Cook Demanded Competitor Innovation: He Got it" The Mac Observer 2/22
"How to Enable the New 'Composers View' in iTunes 11.0.2" MacTrast 2/22
"iOS device syncing in iTunes 11, audiobook lengths, and listening in mono" Macworld 2/22
"You're working too hard – relax and try out these 10 amazing Mac easter eggs" memeburn 2/22
"What Can I Actually Upgrade On My Mac?" Lifehacker 2/22
"Change The Default Font Size In Notes App On Your Mac [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac 2/22
"How to Email Pictures from iPhoto Using Mail.app Instead of iPhoto's Built-in Email Feature" Mac OS X Hints 2/22
"Use Lynx Browser with Image Support in X11 for Fast Low Bandwidth Web Browsing" OS X Daily 2/22
"Have New Camera, Will Take Many Thousands Of Photos, Must Have Bulk Photo Editor For Mac" TeraTalks 2/22
"Yet Another App To Control iTunes From The Mac's Menubar (and this one does Spotify, too)" Mac 360 2/22
"When It Comes To Getting Things Done On A Mac, What's New Under The Sun? Eisenpower!" NoodleMac 2/22
"The Monster Calculator From Yesteryear Is Here Today And Ready For The Mac" BohemianBoomer 2/22
"If You're A Mac User Into Drag And Drop Instead Of Point And Click Then You'll Like Dropzone" Mac 360 2/22
"Why You'll Like Using A New Mac Database App That's Simple, Fast, Powerful, And Affordable" McSolo 2/22
Op/Ed
"The Touch Screen That's Coming To The Mac And Why That's A Crazy, Brain Dead Idea" PixoBebo 2/22
Press Releases
"Mac Apps: MacTracker for Mac, iOS, SeaMonkey, DivX Updated" FairerPlatform 6:57 AM
"LiveCode: Funding Open Source via Kickstarter" TidBITS 9:32 AM
"TextWrangler 4.5 Now Retina Ready; Gets New Go Menu, Compare Against Previous Versions, and More" MacPrices 2/22
"M-SIX introduces VEO for the AEC industry" Architosh 2/22
"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 2/22
"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 2/22
"Samsung and Apple Slugging It Out in the Smart Connected Devices Market" AllThingsD 2/22
"'Post-PC Era' Predicted By Steve Jobs Taking Hold as Samsung Tops Apple in Connected Device Market" MacRumors 2/22
"Samsung has overtaken Apple in 'smart connected devices'" Fortune 2/22
"Tablets Take Off In 2012 According To Millennial, With Kindle Fire And iPad Mini Seeing Rapid Growth" TechCrunch 2/22
"Chart of the day: Apple tops Samsung in mobile ad share" Fortune 2/22
"Apple Sued for exploding iPod touch" Patently Apple 2/22
"Apple supplier penalized for polluting nearby river in China: Apple is investigating the incident, according to an environmental group" Computerworld 2/22
"Apple supplier faces sanctions over pollution" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 2/22
"Microsoft cooler than before, but Apple on top" Reuters 2/22
"LG ad riffs on Apple's panorama commercial, and expands on it" AppleInsider 2/22
"Google confirms Glass will work with iPhone" TUAW 2/22
"Ferrari edges out Apple to become world's most powerful brand" Digital Trends 2/22
"NYPD forms dedicated team to catch thieves who steal iPhones and iPads" New York Post 2/22
"Apple now working with NYPD to curb iPhone thefts" Network World 2/22
"NYPD creates special team to recover stolen Apple devices" CNET News 2/22
"How a dedicated team of NYPD cops work with Apple to catch iDevice thieves, even in other countries" 9 to 5 Mac 2/22
"NYPD Team Working With Apple to Catch iPhone, iPad Thieves" PC Magazine 2/22
"NYPD And Apple Team Up To Stop iThing Theft In NYC" TechCrunch 2/22
"Samsung takes on Apple TV with the HomeSync media streamer" The Verge 8:42 PM
"Google Glass Part Two: Binocular Vision" Patent Bolt 5:36 PM
"Hacktivists Prep For International Open Data Day" InformationWeek 2/22
"Sony's PS4 future lies in the cloud" CNNMoney 2/22
"New video games mirror debates about data privacy, hacking" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 2/22
"No touch screen, no keyboard: enter Airwriting" TG Daily 2/22
"Facebook engineers identify Graph Search's big data challenges" IDG News Service 2/22
"Facebook to put old, rarely viewed photos into 'cold storage'" NBC News 2/22
"Austrian research team develop a new flat, flexible, transparent, and potentially disposable polymer sheet for capturing images" DigiTimes 2/22
"Taiwan PC industry at a critical moment: An interview with Wistron chairman" DigiTimes 2/22
"'Star Trek'-like tricorder available soon" USA Today 2/22
"North Korea to offer mobile internet access" BBC 2/22
"LivesOn: New Service to Let You Tweet When You're Dead" ABCNews 2/22
"Amid Hacking Headaches, Twitter Begins Using Email Authentication" FOXBusiness 2/22
"Google buildings exposed to toxic vapors left by chipmakers" CNET News 2/22
"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 2/22
"Chrome 25 Adds Voice Support, Devs Get App Launcher" PC Magazine 2/22
"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 2/22
"An Apple watch, PS4, security and bug fixes, cheap iPhone and slippers" Insanely Great Mac 2/22
"Apple to launch completely redesigned iPad 5 tablet in September?" T3 12:22 PM
"Smartwatch with Flexible Display; Apple Scores Patent" DeviceMAG 7:04 AM
"Apple patent application hints at flexible touchscreen watch" TG Daily 6:55 AM
"New iPad 5 Case Consistent with Rumored Mini-Style Redesign" MacRumors 2/22
"Apple Hiring 'Maps Ground Truth Data Specialist' in Australia" MacRumors 2/22
"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 2/22
"Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 beta with passcode bug fix in tow" CNET News 2/22
"Smartphone by Manufacturer - FixYa Report" FixYa 2/22
"iPad mini vs. Galaxy Note 8.0 hands on!" iMore 9:29 PM
"It's Not Email That's Broken, It's You" TidBITS 8:03 PM
"Google laptop shows Apple a thing or two: Google's Chromebook Pixel has two killer features that MacBooks don't. Maybe it's time for Apple to rethink the MacBook concept." CNET News 5:29 PM
"How Google Stole Apple's Thunder And Became Everyone's Favorite Tech Company Again" San Francisco Chronicle 5:28 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 2/22
"Even Sony isn't sure what PS4 will look like" Mashable 2/22
"The Hottest Games Coming to Sony's PS4" PC Magazine 2/22
"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 2/22
"Why you should sign the phone-unlocking petition right now" InfoWorld 2/22
"Hands-on with the Ubuntu Touch Linux smartphone" InfoWorld 2/22
"Mobile World Congress 2013: What We Want" InformationWeek 2/22
"Where Is The Digital Work Force Growing Fastest?" Forbes 2/22
"Slideshow: Technologies that stood out at 60th ISSCC" EE Times 2/22
"What smartphone feature would you like to see in the future?" CNN 2/22
"Here's what Facebook Graph Search is doing next" VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 2/22
"How to post to Facebook, Twitter after you die" CNN 2/22
"You Will Subscribe To, Not Buy Software" BYTE 2/22
"Is Republic's $19 cell phone service too good to be true?" CNET News 2/22
"Patent Application Reveals Key Factors In Google News Algorithm" Forbes 2/22
"Hearing Is Believing: People Don'T Realize How Important Great Sound Is Until They Experience It" BGR 2/22
"Sorry, But There'S No Defense For The Chromebook Pixel" BGR 2/22
"Get Real, Google. The Pixel Is Too Pricey" PC Magazine 2/22
"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 2/22
"Chromebook Pixel: Google takes on Apple" Telegraph 2/22
"Microsoft hacked by same cyberattack as Apple and Facebook: Microsoft has revealed it is the latest high-profile internet company to have its computer system hacked." Telegraph 6:53 AM
"Microsoft hit by similar hack to Apple, Facebook" Reuters 7:00 AM
"Microsoft Is the Latest Victim in Watering Hole Attack" Softpedia 7:04 AM
"Microsoft targeted by computer hackers: Firm says no customer data stolen as it joins Facebook and Apple on list of recent US corporate victims of cyberattacks." Aljazeera 6:52 AM
"Hack On Microsoft Similar To Attacks On Apple, Facebook" redOrbit 7:20 AM
"Best Buy to cut Windows 8 touchscreen PC prices by $100/Best Buy is kicking off a limited time, $100 promotional discount for Windows 8 touchscreen laptops and desktops, starting this Sunday." ZDNet 6:54 AM
"Microsoft's Azure service hit by expired SSL certificate: The company also Reported service problems with Xbox Music and Video Store services" Computerworld 7:21 AM
"Rumor: Microsoft Revealing Xbox Infinity (720) in April" Tom's Hardware 9:02 PM
"Dell's Intentions Get a Hard Look" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5:24 PM
"Can mutual-fund managers block the Dell deal?" MarketWatch 7:16 AM
"More Proof That Dell CEO's Bid Is Too Low: Latest results show the personal-computer company remains highly profitable and generates strong cash flow. And a private-prison company, which is becoming a real-estate investment trust, gains new contracts. A $50 stock?" Barron's 7:16 AM
"Hewlett Packard Asks China Suppliers To Limit Student Labor" Jags Report 8:58 PM
"Hewlett-Packard rises to lead tech rally" MarketWatch 7:17 AM
"Intel's Still One of the Cheapest Stocks on the Market" Forbes 9:00 PM
"IBM, Deutsche Telekom Team on Smarter Cities Effort" eWeek 9:00 PM
"Oracle CEO Ellison's daughter pans for Oscar gold" Asia One 7:20 AM
"Apple cash pile fight ends with a win for Greenlight Capital, judge rules" VentureBeat 2/22
"Apple says it is 'disappointed' in court ruling, Greenlight calls its win 'significant' for shareholders" 9 to 5 Mac 2/22
"Should Apple Get Preferred Treatment?" The Motley Fool 2/22
"Court Grants Einhorn Injunction Blocking Apple Shareholder Vote" The Mac Observer 2/22
"Greenlight Wins Bid to Block Apple Shareholder Vote" Bloomberg 2/22
"Morgan Stanley Meets with $AAPL CFO, Predicts Higher Dividend" The Mac Observer 2/22
"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 2/22
"Apple Out of Favor on the Street" [Video Report] CNBC 2/22
"Analyst meets with Apple CFO; expects 6% cash return-update" Fortune 2/22
"Apple on Joel Greenblatt's 'Magic Formula' Screen" The Motley Fool 2/22
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