"Apple loses shareholder vote lawsuit and drops plan/Apple has dropped a planned vote of shareholders after a US judge blocked the move in an ongoing spat over what to do with the tech giant's huge cash pile." BBC 6:33 AM
"David Einhorn's Rather Trivial Victory Over Apple" Forbes 1:00 PM
"Apple vs. Greenlight: deconstructing the battle over preferred stock/Hedge fund manager DaVid Einhorn makes the case for 'iPrefs' yielding $0.50 a quarter." Ars Technica 6:29 PM
"iPad and File Systems: Failure of Empathy/The iPad placed a clear bet on simplicity — and was criticized for it. The bet won. But now, can the iPad evolve toward more business applications without sacrificing its simplicity, without becoming a 'fridge-toaster'?" Monday Note 2:40 PM
"Apple's Revenue By Region: There's More To The Company's Story" Seeking Alpha 6:32 AM
"iPad mini helping Apple grow its lead in mobile ad impressions to third of market" AppleInsider 5:47 PM
"Samsung 'VoiceOver' suit stayed, waiting on patent ruling" Electronista 6:33 AM
"We know why Apple makes computers. But why Google?" Fortune 7:04 AM
"Is Huawei's New Phone Infringing on Apple's Virtual Clickwheel?" Patently Apple 11:35 AM
"Apple signals emerging-market rethink with India push" Reuters 8:10 PM
"Einhorn's 'Silly Sideshow' Just Got a Lot Less Silly for Apple" Wall Street Pit 2/23
"Ahead of Apple's Annual Shareholder Meeting, Einhorn Claims a Victory" The Motley Fool 2/23
"Apple's Sub-$500 Stock Price is Still Undeserved" Forbes 2/23
"FixYa: Apple's phones 3 times more reliable than Samsung's" Fortune 2/23
"Apple iWatch to lead 500m wearable computer rush: Wearable computing devices to boom" Macworld UK 2/23
"Winners and Losers in the Next Smartphone War" Barron's 2/23
"Consultant: Cable Companies Won't Allow That Rumored Apple TV Settop Box" Forbes 2/23
"China Grants Apple 14 Design Patents for Smart Case & More" Patently Apple 2/23
"Apple Finally Abandons their Iconic 'Newton' Trademark" Patently Apple 2/23
"LiveCode: Funding Open Source via Kickstarter" TidBITS 2/23
"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
"NFL turning to Apple's iPad to diagnose concussions during 2013-14 season" AppleInsider 5:41 PM
"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
"Dalek designer Ray Cusick dies at 84" The Verge 6:38 PM
"Google's Chrome OS Coming to Tablets with Floating Menus & Touch Sensitive Housing" Patent Bolt 5:36 PM
"Samsung takes on Apple TV with the HomeSync media streamer" The Verge 2/23
"Google Glass Part Two: Binocular Vision" Patent Bolt 2/23
"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
"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
"If Apple had unveiled Google Glasses...: What would the reaction have been if Apple, and not Google, unveiled futuristic glasses?" Network World 11:05 PM
"Apple's Oscar Ad Puts iPad Apps in Spotlight" Mashable 11:06 PM
"On Steve Jobs' birthday, here are some of his funniest moments" The Next Web 7:06 PM
"Today is the 58th anniversary of Steve Jobs' birth" MacDailyNews 11:26 AM
"Life, death, calligraphy: The world of Steve Jobs" Fortune 9:14 AM
"On Steve Jobs' 58th birthday, a look back at Jobs' greatest Video hits" Network World 5:36 PM
"Apple, Fans, Friends Mark Another Weird Steve Jobs Birthday" FairerPlatform 1:29 PM
"How Not to Write an 'X Totally Pwned an Apple Product' Article, by Brooke Crothers" TheMacAdvocate 7:08 PM
"10 things Apple totally messed up: Apple is perfect, except when it isn't" TechRadar UK 1:02 PM
"How could Apple make a cheap iPhone Mini?" ZDNet 2/23
"Why the Apple iWatch and Google Glass Don't Matter" Cult of Mac 2/23
"Will Apple Scare Pandora and Sirius XM This Week?" Forbes 2/23
"The Macalope Weekly: People hate clowns" Macworld 2/23
"Rumor: iPad 5 Cases Show New Design" AppleBitch 2/23
"Apple Loop: Considering iPrefs, Patenting The iWatch, Living In A 'Weird' Post-Jobs World" Forbes 2/22
"iPad problems: What users complain about most" Digital Trends 2/22
"1 More Way Samsung Is Beating Apple -- for Now" The Motley Fool 2/22
"Judge tells Apple and Samsung to narrow their new patent case" Ars Technica 2/22
"Samsung's outrageous VoiceOver suit against Apple stayed in Germany" iDownload Blog 2/22
"HP's Android-Powered Slate 7 Tablet Is Cheap And It Works, But Is That Really Enough?" TechCrunch 6:23 PM
"Google News: The Secret Sauce" Monday Note 2:39 PM
"Feeling Blue: Microsoft, You're Releasing it Wrong/Why is Microsoft working on a major update to Windows 8 when so many small things need to be fixed first, and faster?" Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows 12:51 PM
"iPad mini vs. Galaxy Note 8.0 hands on!" iMore 2/23
"It's Not Email That's Broken, It's You" TidBITS 2/23
"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 2/23
"How Google Stole Apple's Thunder And Became Everyone's Favorite Tech Company Again" San Francisco Chronicle 2/23
"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
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"Google Glasses Remixed with Google Ads" The Loop 6:22 PM
"Microsoft preparing Windows Blue public preview with significant search improvements" The Verge 6:40 AM
"Windows Blue to be free for Windows 8 users, will RTM at build 9600 and launch in August" WinBeta 7:01 AM
"Report: Microsoft Blue Is Coming this Summer with Internet Explorer 11 Baked In" Gizmodo 12:40 PM
"Microsoft Discloses It Too Was Hit by Hackers" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:42 AM
"Microsoft adds new features to Office Web Apps" Neowin 7:02 AM
"Microsoft And The Raiders Of The Lost App" Seeking Alpha 10:13 AM
"Behind the next-gen Xbox leaks and police raid of hacker SuperDaE" The Verge 9:15 AM
"LG has no plans for Windows Phone 8 handsets: The Korean consumer electronics company isn't closing the door on Microsoft's mobile operating system, but it isn't particularly enthusiastic about it either." CNET Reviews 9:28 AM
"U.S. court filings show Google refuses to withdraw German injunction requests against Microsoft" Foss Patents 6:36 AM
"Surface RT rumored for Japan launch; 128 GB Surface Pro still hard to find" Neowin 7:01 AM
"David Moon: With Dell on both sides, buyout deal presents a conflict" Knoxville News Sentinel 6:54 AM
"Davy clients pile into €18bn Dell buyout" Irish Independent 6:55 AM
"HP's first Android tablet is $169 and will be at Mobile World Congress: And this tablet is Reportedly the first of many." Ars Technica 12:59 PM
"HP's Going Android With Its $169 Slate 7 Tablet" Gizmodo 12:45 PM
"HP switches to Android for $169 Slate 7, phones planned too: Hewlett-Packard is making a tablet comeback, switching to Android and taking on the Google Nexus 7 with the HP Slate 7." CNET Reviews 2:38 PM
"HP to make $169 Android tablet, eschewing Windows" Associated Press 12:53 PM
"Can hackers control your HP Printer remotely and set it on fire" VR-Zone 6:56 AM
"Lithium air battery gives IBM hope of power without fire" Bloomberg News 7:00 AM
"New Lenovo tablets run Android 4.2, quad-core processors: Lenovo's 7-inch A3000 and 10-inch S6000 combine the latest hardware with fast ARM processors" Computerworld 11:42 AM
"Mobile Revolution Buffets Taiwan PC Rivals" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:24 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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