"Apple Inc. battles US over scope of e-books injunction" Reuters 8/24
"Apple and Samsung do not have to publicly disclose profits, judge rules" T3 8/24
"Icahn to press Apple CEO Tim Cook on stock buyback over dinner" Computerworld 8/24
"Apple and Microsoft, Then and Now" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8/24
"Apple Revamps Its Education Web Page Ahead Of iOS 7 Launch" AppAdvice 8/24
"iPhone Needs More Than Gold To Regain Mojo" InformationWeek 8/24
"On The Symmetry Between Microsoft And Apple" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8/24
"Krugman: Apple might be in bigger trouble than Microsoft/While admitting he's not a tech expert, famed New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman says that Apple relies on individual, whimsical purchasers, while Microsoft relies on conservative IT managers." CNET News 8/24
"Why are Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung so interested in Best Buy?" The Next Web 8/24
"Apple's iWork for iCloud open to masses" iTNews Australia 7:52 PM
"Apple quietly launches iWork for iCloud public beta: Anyone with an iCloud account can try the Web-based apps that are free for now" Computerworld 8/24
"iWork for iCloud beta now open to anyone with an Apple ID" Engadget 8/23
"Apple's iWork for iCloud Beta now open to everyone: The services were previously only available to developers and then those who received invitations." CNET News 8/23
"iWork For iCloud Beta Launches To Public" TechCrunch 8/23
"Apple's iWork for iCloud Beta Open to Public" PC Magazine 8/23
"Mac Gems: Google Earth a fun way to see the world through your Mac" Macworld 8/24
"Review: When speed is all you care about in a browser, turn to Chrome for Mac" Macworld 8/24
"Hands-on: iWork for iCloud beta almost as good as Mac, iOS versions" Macworld 8/23
"Apple iMovie '11 review: Updated with 2013 comparisons/iMovie '11 offered a number of standout features including Movie Trailers and one-step-effects, how does it stand up three years later" Macworld UK 8/23
"Mac Gems: Looking for the perfect beat? Start with DM1" Macworld 8/23
"Sort artists by last name and find missing digital booklets" Macworld 8/23
"OS X Tip: Pipe Sound Through Different Devices" Kirkville 8/23
"Rearrange the Finder's sidebar sections via drag and drop" Mac OS X Hints 8/23
"Use Spotlight To Find And Reveal Files In The Finder [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac 8/23
"Mac App Store: Hiding Purchased Programs" The Mac Observer 8/23
"How Is Your MacBook's Battery Health? Find Out With A Click (and it's free)" Mac 360 8/23
"Is Your Mac Low On Memory? Free It Up With FreeMemory. It's Free!" Mac 360 8/23
"Free: An Easy Way To Create HDR Photos" Mac 360 8/23
"How Many Photos Do You Have Lost In Your Email? Find Them For Free With Lost Photos" NoodleMac 8/23
Op/Ed
"Why free-to-play app pricing is so effective, and what you can do about it" GigaOM 8/24
"Will iWork for iCloud work for you?" PCWorld 8/23
Press Releases
"InDesign CC updated with Sync Settings" Adobe 12:52 PM
"Apimac introduces free version of Strip HTML for Mac" AppleDailyReport 8/24
"Final Cut Pro X AutoGrade released by FxFactory" AppleDailyReport 8/24
"Apple releases Digital Camera RAW update adding support for new cameras" TUAW 8/23
"Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Backed Popular Tile Product Campaign" AppAdvice 6:48 AM
"Joshua Hill's Developer Resource OpenJailbreak Launches For All" AppAdvice 6:48 AM
"Apple TV rumours won't go away: Apple has no incentive to try to crack the TV market – far more likely is a wearable Apple fitness device" The Guardian 8/23
"Apple negotiating directly with TV content providers for television product, report says" Macworld UK 8/23
"iPhone Leads Android in Smartphone Loyalty" AllThingsD 8/23
"iPad and Samsung Galaxy gain market share as Kindle Fire sputters, says Jumptap" DigiTimes 8/23
"iPad and Samsung Galaxy Gain Market Share as Kindle Fire Sputters" MacPrices 8/23
"Is Apple Finally Adding Ratings Into Ranking Factors?" The Fiksu Blog 8/23
"Apple changing app store ranking: adding ratings, now updating every 3 hours" VentureBeat 8/23
"China Mobile's 4G Network Good News for Apple, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson - China Mobile" 24/7 Wall St. 8/23
"Your Future iPhone May Be Stuffed With Wax" ["It's a Core i7 microprocessor — the same chip that runs many of today's desktop and laptop PCs — and the wax is stuffed into a metal mesh surrounding this tiny sliver of silicon. When someone cranks the chip well beyond its recommended speeds, the wax absorbs the extra heat coming off the silicon, and at 54 degrees Celsius, it starts to melt."] Wired Magazine 8/23
"Let the smartphone wars continue; 85% of iPhone owners are likely to upgrade to a new model" AppleDailyReport 8/23
"Central FL's Lynn University ditches textbooks for iPads for freshmen" MacNN 8/23
"Apple Posts Summer Theater Mac Pro Commercial to YouTube" The Mac Observer 8/23
"Apple narrows date for next Mac Pro – Says Coming Fall in new Trailer" Architosh 8/23
"Magic Beard: Man Uses iPhone App And Ton Of Facial Hair To Create Amusing Viral Video" Digital Trends 8/23
"Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs...and Sheryl Sandberg? The star of the movie Jobs lights up Twitter and YouTube with an inspiring speech that evokes not only Apple's late CEO but also Sheryl Sandberg and her Lean In lessons." Fortune 8/23
Non-Apple News
"AWS Server Issues Take Down Instagram, Vine, Airbnb And IFTTT" TechCrunch 6:38 PM
"Amazon Web Services experienced minor outage on Sunday" GigaOM 7:39 PM
"Double trouble: Both Vine, Instagram suffer outages/What are the odds? Both services experience downtime Sunday afternoon." CNET News 5:05 PM
"Google blocks Chromecast app that let you stream your own videos" The Verge 4:20 PM
"LG Prepares for the Next Wave of Mobile TV Smartphones" Patent Bolt 10:09 AM
"Yahoo buys image recognition firm IQ Engines to reorganize Flickr" Engadget 8/24
"Guardian teams up with New York Times over Snowden documents" Reuters 8/24
"Regulators beware, Uber has a very powerful friend: Google" The Next Web 8/23
"NSA Paid Tech Companies Millions For Prism: Leaked documents show taxpayer cost of involving Google, Microsoft and other tech companies in Prism digital dragnet." InformationWeek 8/23
"Sleep Texting Is The Latest Digital Epidemic You Don't Need To Be Worried About" Digital Trends 8/23
"Apple supplier Foxconn sells augmented reality patents to Google, probably for Google Glass" VentureBeat 8/23
"iPhone 5S 5C Release Date: China launch on November 28th?" BGR 8/23
"iPhone 5S, 5C release date set in China, rumor claims: Following news about Japan's release date for the iPhone 5S, a new rumor from China tries to peg that country's date for the iPhone 5S and 5C." CNET News 8/23
"New report claims iPhone 5S, 5C will launch in China on November 28" iDownload Blog 8/23
"Apple Inc. iPhone 5S, 5C Release Date For China Out" ValueWalk 8/23
"Alleged retail packaging leak confirms iPhone 5S name and 128GB model" TechnologyTell 8/23
"The Drowning – Call The Lifeguard, This Game Is Sinking" Apple'n'Apps 8/23
"SolForge Review: Control armies of zombies, mystical creatures, cybernetic troops, and more in this free-to-play trading card game." 148Apps 8/23
"Zombies Ate My Friends Review: This sidescrolling RPG puts players right in the rotting heart of a zombie apocalypse." 148Apps 8/23
How-To/Tutorial
"How to Set Your iOS Device Data to Auto-Destruct" The Mac Observer 8/24
"How-to: Setup and use Dropbox to manage and share photos, files" 9 to 5 Mac 8/24
"How to get great graphic designs using stock images" Macworld 8/23
"How to save storage space by removing photos from your iPhone" iDownload Blog 8/23
Tips
"How will a cheaper iPhone 5C affect pricing for older iPhones? In this edition of Ask Maggie, CNET's Marguerite Reardon offers some advice about buying an older iPhone in light of a new, less-expensive iPhone 5C potentially hitting the market." CNET News 8/23
"iPhone 5C: What we expect about the announcement, specs, and release date of Apple's rumored cheaper iPhone/Apple's cheaper iPhone 5C doesn't officially exist, but plenty of gossip suggests that it does. CNET details what we know, what we think we know, and what we don't know." CNET Reviews 8/23
"How We Came to Understand Apple's Unreleased iPhone 5C" The Mac Observer 8/23
"A Quick Fix for Apple TV's Netflix Woes" TidBITS 8/23
"Apple, Samsung do not have to publicly disclose profits, court rules" AppleInsider 8/23
"Why Steve Jobs worked as a manager but not in a movie" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 8/23
"Apple Could Lead the Next Big Tech Trend--Security as a Service" Tech.pinions 8/23
"Exclusive T3 render of the Apple iPad Pro" T3 8/23
"What Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Living In The Post PC Era" Forbes 8/23
"Does Apple Really Need The Aluminum Cover For Its iPhones?" Seeking Alpha 8/23
"Champagne iPhone 5S: The New Gold?" Tapscape 8/23
Non-Apple
"Microsoft: Google's corrupting your kids at school/Oh, those terrible people at Google. In the latest 'Scroogled' ad, Redmond says Google is peddling vitamin supplements to kids. And that's not all." CNET News 5:06 PM
"How 'Minecraft' Is Shaping The Future Of Touch Interfaces" Digital Trends 9:35 AM
"5 Reasons Why You Should Get a Tracking App on Your Mobile Device" Social Barrel 7:03 AM
"VMware Killed the Past. Can It Claim the Future?" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8/24
"Medium needs to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up" GigaOM 8/24
"My History with Computers - Part 1" Chambers Daily 8/24
"Why you plug gadgets into the wall like a Neanderthal: Wireless charging? We have the technology; what we don't have is industry vision: or unity." Computerworld 8/24
"iFixit teardown of Moto X finds it plenty repairable" Engadget 8/23
"Running with Google Glass: This app lets you race against a ghost version of yourself" GeekWire 8/23
"This Insane Samsung Ad Is Insane for a Reason That Samsung Wants Hidden" Valleywag 8/23
"My Lady Brains Can't Comprehend This Terribly Sexist Samsung SSD Commercial" Digital Trends 8/23
"Is Ballmer's Retirement a Prelude to a Microsoft Split-Up? With Ballmer leaving Microsoft within a year, I can see the company splitting into separate divisions." PC Magazine 8/23
"Microsoft, With CEO Ballmer Headed For Exit, May Need Outsider To Drive Innovation Fix" Forbes 8/23
"Microsoft's Big Risk As Ballmer Departs: Windows Phone" InformationWeek 8/23
"Crowdfunding roundup: eleMount car & camera mount, TILT Stealth Cooling Station, Piper home automation, more" 9 to 5 Mac 6:14 PM
"Simple Generative Music App Poly Gains Universal Support For iPhone And iPod touch" AppAdvice 5:09 PM
"Photoful Updated With Empty Trash Workaround, Screenshot Support And Other Features" AppAdvice 11:32 AM
"What Do You Want To Be? - An Educational Mobile Application" prMac 7:03 AM
"HelloLab 1.0 - A different kind of Photo Camera for iOS" prMac 8/24
"InWeby - The First and The Only Full-featured Website Builder for iPad" prMac 8/24
"See through government censorship in Blackbar" iMore 8/24
"Right Wrong Word Game now available on iPad" prMac 8/24
"Wheel Introduces A Quick New Way To Apply Photo Effects On iOS" AddictiveTips 8/24
"New Job Listing Suggests League Of Legends For iOS Could Be Incoming" AppAdvice 8/24
"Oceanhorn - Debut Trailer is here!" Oceanhorn 8/23
"Powerocks Magicstick Lipstick/Cigar Shaped Charges Smartphones, Tablets & Other Devices" Thomas PR 8/23
"Coming August 24: Gene Steinberg meets John Martellaro, from The Mac Observer, and Avram Piltch, from Laptop magazine, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 8/23
"iOS Hackers And Devs Gather For JailbreakCon 2013" Cult of Mac 8/23
"Rdio For iOS Gets Station Tuning, New Collection Options" MacStories 8/23
"Rdio For iOS Gets Station Tuning, Improved Search, And Redesigned Collection" Cult of Mac 8/23
"'Candy Crush Saga' Update Adds a New Episode and More Levels" Touch Arcade 8/23
"Tempo Smart Calendar Adds A New Company Card To Better Connect You With Companies" 148Apps 8/23
"Music Libraries Become Personalized Radio Stations with New iPhone App SongSpeaker" PRNewswire 8/23
"The Next Candy Crush Saga? Colorful Match-Three Game Jelly Splash Launches On iOS" AppAdvice 8/23
"Cloud Spin lets you take to the skies in a fantasy adventure" iDownload Blog 8/23
"Jimdo for iOS Enables Website Creation, Editing On the Go" Mac|Life 8/23
"BlackBerry leaks BBM manuals for iOS, Android, hints at launch" Electronista 8/23
"Pandora's iOS and Android apps get sleep timer, might protect against data-limit night terrors" Engadget 8/23
"Pandora To Drop 40-Hour-Per-Month Limit On Mobile Ahead Of iTunes Radio Launch" AppAdvice 8/23
"iPad Animation App Loop Captures The Fun Of Making Doodled Flipbooks" TechCrunch 8/23
"Modus III Is A Portable Workstation That Wants To Turn Your iPad Into A Desktop" TechCrunch 8/23
"ControlCraft 3 - Sequel to Popular Action Strategy Game Now on iOS" prMac 8/23
"Eric Schmidt calls Oracle CEO's claims about Google 'simply untrue'" The Verge 6:13 PM
"Lenovo, Taking Page From Apple, Chases Samsung in China" Bloomberg 7:50 PM
"CEO Exit Sets Microsoft on New Path: Steve Ballmer to Leave Within a Year; Stock Jumps 7%" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8/24
"3 people who can lead Microsoft after Steve Ballmer" TG Daily 8/24
"Needed at Microsoft: A Catch-Up Artist" New York Times 8/24
"Only an outsider CEO can help Microsoft: Unless Microsoft finds its next CEO outside its current and former ranks, it won't change, say analysts" Computerworld New Zealand 8/24
"Ballmer's Exit Marks the End of an Era at Microsoft" eWeek 8/24
"How Ballmer Missed the Tidal Shifts in Tech" New York Times 8/24
"A New Direction For Microsoft As CEO Steve Ballmer Retires Within 12 Months" Seeking Alpha 8/24
"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months; board searches for successor" Asian Age 8/24
"Tech Stocks: Microsoft up on Ballmer exit; Facebook rises/Microsoft Corp. jumped Friday on news that CEO Steve Ballmer is planning to retire, which gave a boost to the tech sector despite post-earnings selloffs on stocks like Pandora Media and Marvell Technology." MarketWatch 8/23
"U.S. Stocks Gain: Nasdaq Shares Climb a Day After Trading Glitch" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8/23
"Asia Markets: Japan stocks rally, as China shares retreat/Japanese stocks led most Asian markets higher Friday, cheering gains on Wall Street and a weakened yen, while Chinese stocks retreated amid concerns about liquidity conditions" MarketWatch 8/23
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks rise after German, U.K. data/European stock markets moved mostly higher on Friday, after data confirmed that the German and U.K. economies are on track for a sustainable recovery. Investors awaited the latest take on consumer confidence in the euro zone, due in the afternoon" MarketWatch 8/23
"Nasdaq in Fresh Market Failure: Glitch That Locked Out Investors for Three Hours Is Latest Malfunction in Electronic Trading" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8/23
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at the close of trading" Associated Press 8/23
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 8/23
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