"Samsung, Apple, and Their Very Awkward Chip Relationship" Bloomberg Businessweek 12:51 PM
"Apple's controversial cash cow: Free apps that sell extras" Fortune 8:19 AM
"In-App Purchases are Here to Stay – Revenue Hits New Record High" PadGadget 8:34 AM
"Apple + WiFiSLAM = Game on for Indoor Location" Forrester 11:55 AM
"State-owned film studio sues Apple for 'selling unauthorised movies'" South China Morning Post 8:56 AM
"State-Owned Chinese Film Studio Sues Apple: Shanghai Animation Film Studio claims the Cupertino-based tech giant sold its films in the iTunes store without proper permission." The Hollywood Reporter 8:13 AM
"Apple's China woes mount as Shanghai film studio reportedly sues it over unauthorized App Store downloads" The Next Web 8:33 AM
"State-owned Chinese film studio sues Apple for $500,000 over App Store downloads" AppleInsider 8:57 AM
"China Piles It On, Government Studio Sues Apple" The Mac Observer 3:12 PM
"China orders stepped-up scrutiny on Apple" AFP 8:13 AM
"Chinese regulator calls for tighter oversight of Apple: Watchdog wants greater supervision of the iPhone maker's consumer-right practices in the wake of state-run media reports critical of the company's warranty policies." CNET News 8:20 AM
"China Scolds Apple Again, Cites Consumer Complaints" Forbes 9:58 AM
"Chinese regulators call for stricter supervision of Apple" MacNN 8:35 AM
"iOS ups lead over Android among business users, report says: Apple's iOS accounted for 58 percent of all mobile devices found among the enterprise crowd in a new report from Citrix." CNET News 10:23 AM
"Google Overtakes Apple As Most Popular Publisher in iOS App Store" PadGadget 8:34 AM
"A Visual Guide to the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile" AnandTech 11:29 AM
"Apple Launches New 'Why You'll Love An iPad' Promotional Webpage" App Advice 8:08 AM
"Apple sings praises of iPad in second part of iDevice Web campaign" Digital Trends 8:14 AM
"Report: Apple pushing to get 'iRadio' going this summer" MacNN 8:27 PM
"Apple once again rumored to be readying an iRadio subscription music service" iMore 8:29 PM
"Omnicom's Paul Wright to run iAds Eurpoe" TUAW 8:32 AM
"Cassidy on Nolan Bushnell: 'Steve was difficult,' says man who first hired Steve Jobs" San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 8:08 AM
"1985 TV show discusses the Apple Macintosh" TUAW 10:20 AM
"1985: Computer Chronicles Looks at the Original Mac" FairerPlatform 10:21 AM
"Private collector builds Apple Pop-Up Museum to 'tell the story of Apple': Apple's averse to building its own museum, so collectors are filling the gaps." Ars Technica 8:33 AM
"Brand New Photo Confirms That Kim Jong-un Is A Mac User" Business Insider 8:11 AM
"'Massive' Cyberattack Wasn't Really So Massive" Technology Review 4:32 PM
"Sony May have Invented a Killer eBook Design" Patent Bolt 2:21 PM
"Best Buy to give Samsung Apple-style store-in-store facilities" 9 to 5 Google 8:35 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"056 - I'm Delicate Like a Flower: Stephen and Myke discuss Apple's iPad marketing, the Retina MacBook Pro, Stephen's impressions of his Pebble smartwatch and the rumored Facebook phone." 70 Decibels 8:28 PM
"The TouchArcade Show - 97 - GDC Special Edition" Touch Arcade 8:27 PM
"Gene Steinberg meets Bryan Chaffin from The Mac Observer and Joe Wilcox from Beta News, this week on the Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 7:49 PM
"Ars Technicast, Episode 23–Ghosts of online services we abandoned: Forgotten and dead accounts tell us a lot about where the Internet was back then." Ars Technica 3:14 PM
"T-Mobile, Final Cut Pro, Apple 4K TV, April Fools (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 7:57 AM
"Exclusive: Apple will launch an official gaming joypad soon/Secret revealed as it opens up to devs at GDC" PocketGamer 1:34 PM
"Apple again said to be planning game hardware: A new report says Apple is shopping around the idea of a physical game controller to developers, with plans to launch it next month." CNET News 3:07 PM
"Apple Working on Dedicated iOS Game Controller?" MacRumors 3:05 PM
"An Apple Game Controller Could Be Coming Soon For An Unidentified Device" App Advice 3:14 PM
"iMessage denial of service 'prank' spams users rapidly with messages, crashes iOS Messages app" The Next Web 8:26 PM
"Newfound iMessage security issue spams, crashes app: A reported attack method can target Apple's iMessage service and flood it with messages. So far it remains highly isolated." CNET News 8:14 PM
"iPhone 5S to launch June 20, go on sale July, claims report: A report from Japanese Web Site MacFan seems the first to suggest a specific date for the launch of the next iPhone." CNET News 9:21 AM
"iPhone 5S Announcement Rumored For June 20Th, Launch In July" BGR 10:22 AM
"Chatter hints June 20 iPhone 5S, budget iPhone launch" iDownload Blog 11:26 AM
"Rumor: iPhone 5S Launch Date Proposed To Be June 20" AppleBitch 9:58 AM
"iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Mar. 29/Apple iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 scuttlebutt: The June boon, chopped fingers, AppleBerry, stormy iClouds" Network World 9:59 AM
"Apple Has Designs on a Curvy, All-Screen iPhone" MacNewsWorld 8:14 AM
"Apple's new iPhone? Wraparound display, no buttons" ZDNet 8:16 AM
"That Apple Flexible Display For a Future iPhone, Cool And Cute" Forbes 8:11 AM
"Apple iTV May Launch 4Q13 With 4K Resolution" Tom's Hardware 8:11 AM
"Maps: Apple hiring 'ground truth managers' around the world to fix app" Digital Trends 8:14 AM
"MacBook Pro Prices -15 Inch Models -$1,201 to $3,049 -Best Deals, Reviews & Information" MacReviewZone 7:56 AM
"MacBook Pro Prices -13 Inch Models -$1,019 To $2,194 -Best Deals, Reviews & Information" MacReviewZone 7:56 AM
"MacBook Air Prices -$650 To $1,599 -Best Deals, Reviews And Information" MacReviewZone 7:56 AM
"Pad Closeout & Refurbished & Used Prices $218 To $779 -Best iPad Deals Reviews & Information" MacReviewZone 9:39 AM
"How low can the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro go? $1,299: The price of 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro has been slashed $200 by one retailer." CNET News 8:21 AM
"PadGadget Daily App Deal – 11 iPad Apps on Sale" PadGadget 8:34 AM
"Abbyy FineReader Touch (for iPhone)" PC Magazine 10:21 AM
"Tempo Smart Calendar for iPhone review" iMore 8:35 AM
"Review: For a different way to type on the iPhone, try Fleksy" Macworld 8:34 AM
"MeteoEarth for iPad review: The weather on your iOS device" Macworld UK 8:32 AM
"Mobli Review: With some rather cool video features in particular, Mobli is a photo and video social networking app that deserves to be noticed." 148Apps 9:22 AM
"Get Going With 3 Fabulous Free iOS Apps" The Mac Observer 7:49 PM
"Free: The Ultimate Ancient Timer For The iPhone Customizes The Past For The Present" Mac 360 7:57 AM
"The Room for iOS review: An excellent all-around puzzle game" CNET Reviews 8:59 PM
"Daily iPhone App: Nimble Quest arrives on the App Store" TUAW 4:17 PM
"It's Time To Lead Your Tiny Troopers To Victory" App Advice 8:26 PM
"Ms. Splosion Man Review: A few concessions had to be made, naturally, but Ms. Splosion Man is just as chaotic and hilarious on iOS as she is on Xbox and PC." 148Apps 3:05 PM
"Snoopy Coaster Review: It's a little too safe in its interpretation of Chillingo's Madcoaster, but kids and Peanut fans will still enjoy what's here." 148Apps 8:38 AM
"Stone Age: The Board Game Review/An impressive port of the original award-winning board game that requires players to lead their tribe and build a village in order to become the most powerful chief." 148Apps 10:22 AM
"Pirrrates! HD Review: It's an action-packed freemium strategy game that puts pirates against confederates, but its level of difficulty may cause some gamers to swear like a sailor." 148Apps 11:27 AM
"2 Letters from Steve: During the 12+ years I worked at Apple I never met with Steve Jobs for work purposes. Of course like all Apple employees I saw Steve in Caffé Macs or walking with Jony Ive around the courtyard inside the Infinite Loop campus. And of course there were Comm meetings that he would run. But I didn't have any direct contact. Until..." David Gelphman 8:59 PM
"Which of These Apple Patents Will Ever See the Light of Day?" Wired 8:38 AM
"The iPhone could be the brains behind your car's 'intelligent cockpit" AppleDailyReport 8:36 AM
"I am NOT a PC repair man. I will NOT get your iPad working: Everybody needs good technology loving neighbours" The Register 8:23 AM
"Steve Jobs was very hard to work with" TG Daily 8:08 AM
"Apple accused of appalling arrogance. By China" TG Daily 8:08 AM
"China Bites The Hand That Feeds It And Attacks Apple In The Media. What's Going On?" Mac 360 7:56 AM
Non-Apple
"Microsoft May Be Developing Smaller Surface Tablets, E-Readers" Forbes 9:36 PM
"Does Anyone Actually Want a 'Facebook Phone'?" AllThingsD 2:04 PM
"Is Microsoft Building a Smaller Sized Surface to Compete with iPad mini?" PadGadget 1:36 PM
"Ihnatko: New Blackberry Functional, Not Fantastic/For managing contacts, calendar and inbox, Z10 works beautifully. Keyboard rocks. But for everything else, it badly trails Apple, Android." Chicago Grid 11:50 AM
"Why BlackBerry's Gain Was A Mirage" Seeking Alpha 11:26 AM
"Netbooks 2.0 and the Era of Good Enough Computing" Tech.pinions 11:18 AM
"Amazon's New Secret Weapon: Goodreads" The Mac Observer 9:47 AM
"Does Firefox OS Have A Chance? Maybe" ReadWrite 8:35 AM
"Microsoft's changes to Windows 8 certification rules hint at potential iPad mini competitor" AppleInsider 8:31 AM
"Did Andy Rubin Leave Android, Google For Facebook?" Forbes 8:23 AM
"Peering into the sci-fi future of PC displays" PCWorld 8:23 AM
"If Google is going to be a defacto monopoly, it needs to start acting like one" Digital Trends 8:14 AM
"Dell tells the world it's terrible: Dell tells shareholders that it extracted a higher price from Silver Lake... and also that it's got big problems." Fortune 3:44 PM
"Dell Makes Case to Go Private in Grim Filing" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:26 PM
"Dell opens window on efforts to sell company" Associated Press 8:14 PM
"Dell directors foresee unremitting brutality in PC market" The Register 8:27 PM
"Dell working on ARM supercomputer prototypes: The company believes an ARM supercomputer will be applicable in specific use cases" IDG News Service 3:53 PM
"Dell working on ARM supercomputer prototypes" PCWorld 8:29 PM
"AMD Plans For The Cloud, Once Again Teases The Fastest Graphics Card You Can't Buy" Digital Trends 11:37 AM
"eBay Plans To Double Its Sales To $300 Billion In The Next 3 Years And Take On Amazon" Business Insider 9:51 AM
"HP's $169 Slate 7 tablet delayed until June" Geeky Gadgets 11:45 AM
"HP Slate 7 Quietly Delayed To June" UberGizmo 11:44 AM
"Intel (Finally) Gets Into The Gaming Game" Digital Trends 9:37 AM
"Intel reportedly in talks to acquire Omek Interactive" VentureBeat 1:35 PM
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