"Apple Leads Record Return of Cash to Shareholders" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 8:11 AM
"Taiwan Fines Apple for iPhone Price-Plan Meddling: Island's fair-trade body says Apple told mobile-service providers how to charge for handsets" WSJ.com 8:01 AM
"Apple fined in Taiwan for fair trade violation" AFP 8:16 AM
"Apple Fined $670,000 In Taiwan For Price Fixing" Forbes 8:11 AM
"Taiwanese FTC fines Apple for interfering in iPhone handset and contract pricing" Engadget 8:01 AM
"Apple Slapped With $667K Fine For Trying To Influence Taiwanese iPhone Prices" TechCrunch 1:30 PM
"Taiwan FTC fines Apple for seeking to manage retailers' iPhone pricing" AppleInsider 12:54 PM
"Apple lands on Taiwan's naughty list for dictating iPhone pricing" TechRadar UK 3:58 PM
"Apple Fined by Taiwanese Regulators Over iPhone Price Fixing" MacRumors 3:58 PM
"Taiwan fines Apple $666K over iPhone pricing: The country's Fair Trade Commission finds that Taiwan's three main mobile service providers have been submitting pricing plans to Apple for approval, which violates the law." CNET News 6:45 PM
"The Apple And Microsoft Backed Rockstar Starts To Find Problems With Its Patent Portfolio" Forbes 8:10 AM
"Adobe Premiere Elements 12 Review" Mac|Life 10:20 AM
"Review: Dragshare for Dropbox makes sharing links less painful" Macworld 9:12 AM
"Speed Up TenFourFox On Your G3/G4." Low End Mac 1:30 PM
"Give the Gift of Tech Support: Simple Tips to Fix Up the Family Mac While Visiting Home This Holiday" OS X Daily 12/24
"SystemStats offers quick overview of Mavericks system activity: Apple's report-generating routines in OS X Mavericks give in-depth views of your system's activity, which may help if you need to troubleshoot problems with your system." MacFixIt 12/24
"iResizer Mac App Review: Rescale Photos Without Rescaling the Subject!" Tapscape 12/24
"Return to innocence: Classic Mac OS on a Mac Plus emulator in any web browser" TechnologyTell 12/24
"Got New Holiday Photos On Your Mac? Make Them Better With This App" McSolo 12/24
"AudioNote: A Good, Affordable Gift App For Students With A Mac" Mac 360 12/24
Op/Ed
"So, you've just got a Mac? Download these apps first" The Next Web 8:16 AM
"ARM set to cash in on Apple's deal with China Mobile" Techworld 12:40 PM
"The Story Behind Evasi0n7 Untethered Jailbreak [Part 2] Redmond Pie 8:07 AM
"The evad3rs post 2nd letter to the jailbreak community" iDownload Blog 8:16 AM
"Evad3rs Deny Taking Payment For iOS 7 Jailbreak, Denounce Cracked Version of Evasi0n" iClarified 2:45 PM
"Jailbreak team Evasi0n drops Chinese app store Taig after backlash" The Verge 2:39 PM
"Evasi0n iOS 7 jailbreak funding supplied by Chinese app piracy site" AppleInsider 2:39 PM
"Piracy Controversy Mars Release of iOS 7 Jailbreak" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 2:47 PM
"800lbs Apple Store Door Falls on Customer Breaking His Pelvis in Maryland" American LiveWire 11:58 AM
"Tossed into the Thames a century ago, a destroyed typeface is brought back to life" The Verge 8:07 AM
"Apple, Microsoft and others now regret spending $4.5 billion on patents" BGR 12/24
"Briefly: Japanese Apple Stores likely to kick off 'lucky bag' sales on Jan. 2" AppleInsider 12/24
"Smartphone growth slowing in China as Apple expands iPhone presence" AppleInsider 12/24
"Analysts say Samsung Edges Apple for #1 Ranking" TG Daily 12/24
"Google edges Apple as most talked about company of 2013" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 12/24
"The best and worst of smartphones in 2013: Gearing up for the next big thing" VentureBeat 12/24
"I Can Make Your Parking Tickets Disappear" ["Eventually, I boned up on LA parking law and saved a lot of money, but I kept hearing friends complain about getting tricked into tickets. So I decided I should stop my complaining and try to do something to help LA's bewildered parkers. First, I looked around for a mobile phone app that would help. I expected such a thing would already exist, since people have been complaining about parking and traffic in LA since the beginning of curbs, but it didn't. So I decided to make my own."] City Watch LA 12/24
"Samsung Set to Attack the iPhone 5C Aggressively in China and India in 2014" Patently Apple 12/24
"Apple Dragged into New Lawsuit in China over App Store Game" Patently Apple 12/24
"A look back at some of Apple's old Christmas commercials" iDownload Blog 12/24
"Three Christmas videos: Samsung, Apple and Nokia/One creepy, one poignant, one bizarre." Fortune 12/24
"iPhone 5 Replaces Galaxy S3 as the Most Popular Smartphone In UAE" iClarified 12/24
"Missouri football players react to getting free iPad Minis for playing in the Cotton Bowl [Video] Network World 12/24
"Steve Wozniak trivia: 10 surprising facts about Woz/How well do you know Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak? Here, we bring you 10 fun facts about Apple's co-founder that may surprise you." Macworld UK 12/24
Non-Apple News
"BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis won't pursue bid for company" The Verge 5:21 PM
"Google strikes back at Apple and Microsoft's anti-Android patent consortium" BGR 3:58 PM
"The 2013 Year In Review In Review" TechCrunch 3:05 PM
"Co-founder officially drops bid for BlackBerry: Mike Lazaridis abandons his plans to buy the ailing smartphone maker via a joint bid with a fellow co-founder." CNET News 3:05 PM
"Online Retailers Stole Christmas, Many Shoppers Say: Shipping Delays Left Many People With Little to Put Under Tree" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 11:47 AM
"Set Up and Get to Know Your New Tech Gifts" Lifehacker 8:12 AM
"Astronauts take Christmas Eve spacewalk, make critical repair: But now they're home for the holidays: home at the International Space Station, that is, after a high-stakes repair job clearing the way for reactivation of a critical coolant system." CNET News 12/24
"Online Sales Jumped 37% During Weekend: Sales Through Mobile Devices Rose 53%" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12/24
"Rounded Rectangles' 8 Best Design Innovations of 2013" Mac|Life 12/24
"This is what a $7.2 billion smartphone looks like" BGR 12/24
"What your manufacturer's warranty doesn't cover" IDG Creative Lab 12/24
"Chromebooks charge into business market, capture 20% of commercial notebooks: According to NPD, tablets continued their push to replace the PC market. But so did Chromebooks, with great effect." PC World 12/24
"Porn firewalls and self-driving cars: How tech invaded culture in 2013" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 12/24
"2013: The year in numbers/How much is Evan Williams worth? What percentage of YouTube traffic is mobile? It's all right here" IDG News Service 12/24
Publications/Podcasts
"TUAW TV Live, 5 pm ET: Hanging out for the holidays" TUAW 9:12 AM
"Let's Talk iOS 008: The MacBook derailment" iDownload Blog 12/24
"Picturing Apple's Biggest Failures" Zero Hedge 12/24
"Apple's Strategy For Patenting Technology" Business Insider 12/24
"A Quick Intro To Jailbreaking... Should You?" Low End Mac 12/24
"Op-Ed: Next Issue Needs To Show iOS And Mac Users More Love" AppAdvice 12/24
"Why Apple Sends All iPhones And iPads By Air: It's Cheaper" Forbes 12/24
"Everything you know about earbuds is wrong/Earbuds and in-ear headphones: what exactly is the difference? The Audiophiliac breaks it down." CNET News 12/24
"The Macalope: Just do something, anything!" Macworld 12/24
"Apple Has All The Pieces It Needs To Become A Powerful Force In Payments In 2014" Business Insider 12/24
"Missing The Point Of Apple's China Mobile Deal" Forbes 12/24
"The Mac Pro and the 4K 'Retina' Question" ParisLemon 12/24
"Reviews agree: the new Mac Pro is a dream desktop with some serious oomph for pros" iDownload Blog 12/24
"Apple's new Mac Pro a better value than the sum of its parts" AppleInsider 12/24
"4K Displays and the New Mac Pro: It's More Complicated than You Think" The Mac Observer 12/24
"iPhone 6 release date, rumours and leaked images - May 2014 iPhone launch?" Macworld UK 12/24
"Opinion: The new Mac Pro makes the iMac the power user's desktop" Macworld 12/24
"'Small, fast and in a league of its own' – the early Mac Pro verdicts are in" 9to5Mac 12/24
"Top holiday sales on the best iOS games for your iPhone or iPad" TUAW 2:39 PM
"135 Best iPhone Apps (New: Photo & Drawing Apps)" Digital Trends 1:30 PM
"There's even an Israeli app for Christmas: Help get Santa unstuck from a chimney so he can deliver presents in time for Christmas Day." Haaretz 12:41 PM
"18 Apps We Couldn't Live Without In 2013" Business Insider 8:12 AM
"Best Free iPhone and iPad Games of 2013" Touch Arcade 8:06 AM
"Want the absolute best apps for your iPhone, iPad, or Mac? Here they are!" iMore 12/24
"Geohot: iOS 7 jailbreak has not been 'backdoored' by China" BGR 12/24
"25 apps you should download right now" CNNMoney 12/24
"Castro for iPhone gets URL subscriptions for your festive podcast feasting" iMore 12/24
"99 Stamps App is a whole new approach to philately and self education for the curious minds. Each stamp is a reflection of different events and facts with text description." 8 Moons Media 12/24
"IconLover gets updated to version 5.38. This new release receives the ability to import vector images, supports super-size Mac OS X and introduces masking support for raster images. New visual effects allow combining icons and objects, making it easier to create perfectly flat 2D icons." Aha-Soft 12/24
"Helpingu2save now Stocking Water Damage Repair Kits for iPhone" PRNewswire 12/24
"Dragonfly Small Business Analytics Now Available in the Apple App Store" PRNewswire 12/24
"Myspace for iOS gets a redesigned stream, a better profile editor, event live streaming and more" The Next Web 12/24
"Announcing Elixr for iPhone and Android: Discover Great Drinks" prMac 12/24
"Parodizer app is like a camera-bot that makes parodies" prMac 12/24
"Geo World Deluxe for iOS - Learn Countries and States with Fun" prMac 12/24
"TENideas: The App for Anyone Who Has Ever Said, I Have a Great Idea!" prMac 12/24
"Brainwaves - The Unexplainable Store 4.0 for iOS - Brainwave Entrainment" prMac 12/24
"Parachuting Frog launches Solisqr for iOS" prMac 12/24
"Playground 1 Lite - Free-to-Try Version of Award-Winning App Released" prMac 12/24
"SwingSong - Musical Pendulums App Released for iPad" prMac 12/24
"Alcohoot Adds A Portable Breathalyzer To Your Smartphone" Forbes 12/24
"Microsoft in 2014: Reboot or Game Over?" Mashable 1:30 PM
"Why Does Microsoft Run So Many Attack Ads?" The Motley Fool 8:07 AM
"Microsoft Should Avoid Corporate Superstars And Source Its CEO Internally" Seeking Alpha 8:10 AM
"Windows 8 Survival Guide: All the Tips, Tricks, and Workarounds" Gizmodo 8:07 AM
"HP could launch smartphones next year" T3 8:10 AM
"Google strikes back at Apple and Microsoft's anti-Android patent consortium" BGR 3:59 PM
"Google files lawsuit to fight off patent consortium that includes Microsoft" Neowin 3:59 PM
"Microsoft grabs 200 acres for a new data center in Washington" SlashGear 12/24
"Microsoft-Backed Rockstar Consortium Planning To Sell Patents" Microsoft News 12/24
"Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sells private island for $8 million" The Economic Times 12/24
"Asus teases new dual-booting Android and Windows tablet" Crave @ CNET 12/24
"HP mounts channel attack on EMC: We're a Bugatti, they're a VW bug" Channel Register 12/24
"2013 is almost over, but HP will reportedly launch new smartphones this year" BGR 12/24
"HP's new tablets may be its way back into the smartphone world" Engadget 12/24
"HP to launch low-cost phablets in India by year-end: Report" NDTV Gadgets 12/24
"Dell Venture Fund Targets Big Data, Cloud, Next-Gen Technologies" The VAR Guy 12/24
"AMD unveils graphics processor for Apple's Mac Pro: AMD's FirePro D300, D500 and D700 professional GPUs offer exceptional compute power and reliability for creativity and productivity in a wide range of applications, the firm said in a release." PTI 12/24
"Next Generation of AMD Professional GPU Detailed, FirePro D700 Leads the Pack with 3.5 Teraflops of Compute" WCCF Tech 12/24
"AMD unveils new FirePro graphics processor for Apple's Mac Pro" The Economic Times 12/24
"Football club FC Barcelona puts Intel inside" Tech2 12/24
"Daily Report: Resurgent Game Console Market Keeps Supplies Sparse" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12/24
"Apple, Microsoft and others now regret spending $4.5 billion on patents" BGR 12/24
"What we want in 2014: Break the mold, tech companies/Heading into the new year, it wouldn't hurt for the high-tech powers that be to get a little more stupid and crazy. Seriously." CNET News 12/24
"U.S. Mobile Internet Traffic Nearly Doubled This Year" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12/24
"Looming disasters, and other tech predictions, for 2014 and beyond: Predictions and miscellany, a reading list" Computerworld 12/24
"Three words sum up 3D printing in 2013: Money, money, money" VentureBeat 12/24
"What I Want For Christmas From Each Major Tech Company Next Year" TechCrunch 9:44 PM
"Tech Stocks: Twitter rises, Apple off in shortened trading day/Activity was muted as stock market close early ahead of Christmas holiday" MarketWatch 12/24
"Record rally continues on Wall Street" CNNMoney 12/24
"Stock Futures Flat as Market Awaits Key Data Ahead of Christmas Break" TheStreet 12/24
"Stocks end on a high note before Christmas" Associated Press 12/24
"Stock Futures Steady Ahead of Durable Goods Data" FOXBusiness 12/24
"Stocks End Higher as Dow Sets Record: Treasurys Fall, Sending Benchmark 10-Year Yield Closer to 3%" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12/24
"Asia Markets: Asia stocks rise, with Nikkei Average above 16,000/Japan's Nikkei Stock Average extended its six-year high, pushing comfortably above the psychologically important 16,000 mark Thursday as a weak yen attracted foreign investors, and as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tackled some of the remaining doubt over his stimulus measures." MarketWatch 9:41 PM
"Europe Markets: European stocks poised for fifth positive day/European stock markets headed for a fifth straight day of gains in thin holiday trade on Tuesday, as investors waited for durable-goods orders data from the U.S." MarketWatch 12/24
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 12/24
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