"Apple execs reflect on the Macintosh at 30: 'The best thing to happen to the Mac in last 10 years was iOS,' says Bud Tribble, Apple's vice president of software technology and a member of the original Mac team." CNET News 1/24
"Apple's Macintosh has forced the world to change for 30 years" AppleInsider 1/24
"20 Ways Apple's Mac Changed Everything (Other Than the Most Obvious Ones)" Techland 1/24
"The Macintosh Is 30, and I Was There for Its Birth" Wired Magazine 1/24
"My Ringside Seat at the 1984 Mac Unveiling: As I sat third row center at the Flint Center in Cupertino on January 24, 1984, I had no idea that I was witnessing history." Techland 1/24
"Macintosh At 30: Interesting, Profound And Curious Things Said About Apple's 'Insanely Great' Computer" Forbes 1/24
"Apple's Macintosh: 30 years doomed" Computerworld 1/24
"Apple Moves Toward Expanded Mobile-Payment Service: Apple Inc. is laying the groundwork for an expanded mobile-payments service, leveraging its growing base of iPhone and iPad users and the hundreds of millions of credit cards on file through its iTunes stores." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1/24
"Apple Said to Be Exploring Expansion of Mobile Payments" Bloomberg 1/24
"Apple looking to build mobile payments service, report says" CNET News 1/24
"Apple TV: From High Hopes to Has-Been/Verizon now has the potential to become a catalyst in a way that seems impossible for Apple. While Apple focuses on iOS-ing the world, the Apple TV is languishing. Love or hate Amazon, the company has proven that it has the ability to create competitive hardware products and connect them to competitive content products. Both of these companies could leave Apple TV in the dust." TechNewsWorld 1/24
"Apple's next big bet: A TV box that monetizes the living room? Apple TV may hold a tiny fraction of overall quarterly sales, but adding an app store directly in a user's living room could mean a significant profit boost for the iPhone and iPad maker." ZDNet 1/24
"DOJ: court didn't abuse power by appointing Apple monitor/The US government says an appeals court should deny Apple's motions to get rid of the monitor overseeing its compliances with antitrust laws." CNET News 1/24
"U.S. Urges Court to Resume Monitoring Apple's e-Book Pricing Reform: Justice Department Says Apple Couldn't Show 'Irreparable Harm' From Monitoring" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1/24
"US to NY court: Reject Apple's monitor challenge" Associated Press 1/24
"The Apple Inquisition: An appeals court looks at the extra-judicial mugging of the tech firm." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1/24
"Emails Show Apple's Steve Jobs And Google's Eric Schmidt Allegedly Conspired To Screw Over Employees" Business Insider 1/24
"Apple tops Samsung as world's largest chip buyer in 2013: At $30 billion, Apple tops Samsung in 2013 chip spending, but market dynamics could favor the South Korean giant in 2014." CNET News 1/24
"Apple Campus Celebrates 30th Mac Anniversary With One Republic Performance" MacRumors 1/24
"Tim Cook interview with ABC about the Mac's 30th anniversary airing tomorrow" 9to5Mac 1/24
"Happy Birthday, Mac: Apple Celebrates With 'Thirty Years Of Innovation' Video" AppAdvice 1/24
"A nostalgic look back at the Mac launch, and early advertising [Videos] 9to5Mac 1/24
"Apple Reflects On The Mac At 30 With New Video And Website Retrospective" TechCrunch 1/24
"Apple's 'Happy Anniversary' Tribute to the Mac" WSJ Blogs 1/24
"Video: Apple celebrates 30 years of Mac innovation" BGR 1/24
"Celebrating the 30th birthday of the Mac(intosh): a 30-year Infographic" 9to5Mac 1/24
"Commemorative Posters at Apple Campus List All Former and Current Apple Employees" MacRumors 1/24
"Happy birthday to the Mac! 30 years and still going strong" BetaNews 1/24
"Schiller says Apple is the last PC maker from the Mac era, forgets about HP" The Next Web 1/24
"Original Mac 'software wizard' Andy Hertzfeld on storytelling, the Mac Pro and changing the world" The Next Web 1/24
"Marc Benioff's teenage affair with the Macintosh: guest post Six months after watching Apple's 1984 Super Bowl commercial, the 19-year-old future Salesforce.com CEO was a summer intern at Apple writing a sample game, 'Raid on Armonk.'" CNET News 1/24
"Dave Winer's first encounters with the Macintosh: Dave Winer's ThinkTank outliner was among the first wave of Macintosh software products. It was love at first site, but he believes the Mac stopped short of where it could have gone." CNET News 1/24
"Mac at 30: Stephen Fry on Apple's genius" Telegraph 1/24
"The Mac at 30: Tales from the Berkeley Mac Users Group" Macworld 1/24
"What the first Macintosh ads looked like" TUAW 1/24
"Do you remember your first Apple Mac?" The Next Web 1/24
"Chart Of The Day: From $400K Macs to $23K iPods" CNBC 1/24
"The Mac turns 30: a visual history" The Verge 1/24
"Macintosh at 30: Apple's Computer Evolution" [Slideshow] Techland 1/24
"5 Macs that changed everything" [Slideshow] Macworld 1/24
"Unboxing a 30-year-old Macintosh 128K" [Slideshow] Macworld 1/24
"Ministers gives Apple tit for tat" ["The federal government on Friday a proposal by Economy Minister Johan Vande Lanotte (SP.A) approved making it forbidden for electronics manufacturers to block. 4G Thus, Apple suggests that network for fast mobile Internet only open for iPhone 5 users connected at Mobistar."] Google Belgian-to-English: Belga 1/24
"Belgium approves bill asking Apple, others to unlock 4G support" Electronista 1/24
"Up To Apple if They'd Like to Retain Ties: Nest CEO" Bloomberg TV 1/24
"Tony Fadell on Nest deal, relationship with Apple, Google data sharing, home automation and more" Bloomberg 1/24
"'Up to Apple' if it still wants ties with Nest, says Fadell" Electronista 1/24
"Nest CEO Says That It's Up To Apple If It Wants To Keep Ties After The Google Acquisition" Business Insider 1/24
"New iPhones Torpedo Samsung's Fourth Quarter" Mashable 1/24
"Honda Jumps the Gun on Apple's iOS in the Car with HondaLink" Apple Gazette 1/24
"China Mobile: Frequently asked questions" Apple Support 1/24
Non-Apple News
"Why buy a drone when this $30 Bluetooth chip can make your paper airplane fly?" GigaOM 8:11 PM
"Amazon cuts cloud storage prices, Microsoft immediately follows suit" Ars Technica 1/24
"Samsung's slumping sales suggest China is the next mobile battlefield" Engadget 1/24
"Gmail is back up, but strange problem persists" BetaNews 1/24
"Gmail Goes Down Across The World" TechCrunch 1/24
"The dumb state of the smart home: Consumers are ready to connect their homes, but their appliances aren't" The Verge 1/24
"OnePlus confirms first smartphone launch for summer 2014" Digital Trends 1/24
"Alienware Steam Machine Allows Upgrades, Won't Be Easy to Do Them" Digital Trends 1/24
"Qualcomm purchases Palm patents from HP" USA Today 1/24
"Qualcomm Buys Several Thousand Granted and Pending Patents from HP" GovConwire 1/24
"HP Sells their Palm Patent Portfolio to Qualcomm" Patent Bolt 1/24
"Eric Schmidt warns of a war between computers and humans -- he hopes humans win" BetaNews 1/24
Publications/Podcasts
"The TouchArcade Show - 139 - In Which We Discuss Sister Wives" Touch Arcade 1/24
"Apple Said to Be Exploring Expansion of Mobile Payments" Bloomberg 9:10 AM
"Rumor: Apple Supplier Foxconn Testing Production of Sapphire iPhone" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 9:08 AM
"How to choose the best turn-by-turn app for your iOS device" GigaOM 8:08 PM
"Apple iPhones to Come Out With Bigger Screens: New Models, Expected in Second Half, Won't Include Curved Displays" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1/24
"New iPhone 6 concept video emerges, based on the latest 4.8" screen size rumor" phoneArena 1/24
"iPhones With Bigger Screens, Coming Up!" Apple Gazette 1/24
"Apple plans to waggle iNormous 4½-incher in fanbois' faces: Relax, Brit 'bois, it's still below your average. But only just..." The Register 1/24
"Report: Apple Preparing to Launch Two Larger iPhones in 2014" Mashable 1/24
"Study: Apple's 16GB iPhone 5C Offers Consumers More Storage Space" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 1/24
"Analyst: NFC Coming to iPhone 6 for iWallet" The Mac Observer 1/24
"Samsung and Apple consume 17% of 2013 chip sales, says Gartner" DigiTimes 1/24
"Apple now spends more on chips than top three PC makers combined" The Register 1/24
"Apple boss confirms interest in sapphire crystal glass" TechRadar UK 1/24
"iPhone screen saver and then upgrade: Hon Hai Chuan sapphire substrate surface mining has a small amount of trial production" Google Chinese-to-English: Apple Daily 1/24
"iPhone with Sapphire Display Glass Reportedly in Trial Production" MacRumors 1/24
"In Fear I Trust Review – Embracing The Eery Mystery On iOS" Apple'n'Apps 1/24
"'In Fear I Trust' Review - Is It the Bugs You Fear?" Touch Arcade 1/24
"Beyond the Dead review: Build a settlement of zombie killers on iOS" iMore 1/24
"Sugar Roll Review: A marvellous magical affair, Sugar Roll is an engaging casual platforming game that delights, amuses, and entertains." 148Apps 1/24
"Snowball Shootout Review: Snowball Shootout is a quirky game with arcade elements children and their parents will enjoy." 148Apps 1/24
How-To/Tutorial
"30 years of Macs: Up close and personal" ZDNet 1:38 PM
"Apple's Mac turns 30: How Steve Jobs' baby took its first steps/Part 1: Love it or loathe it, the Mac shapes every nook and cranny of your computing life" The Register 1/24
"The Mac and other things turning 30 in 2014" Macworld 1/24
"Falling in love with the Macintosh 128K back in 1984" 9to5Mac 1/24
Non-Apple
"Why video is the next big thing in big data" Gigaom 1/24
"Target Breach: Why Smartcards Won't Stop Hackers/'Chip and PIN' smartcard adoption in the United States is long overdue. But the security improvement wouldn't have stopped Target's BlackPOS malware attackers." InformationWeek 1/24
"When The Open Cloud... Isn't: Cloudscaling CEO Randy Bias argues that using public APIs and open-source code doesn't make your cloud service 'open.'" InformationWeek 1/24
"Facebook Predicts Princeton Won't Exist In 2021" InformationWeek 1/24
"Kindle Fire HDX 8.9-inch tablet review: Great hardware, but no iPad slayer yet" ZDNet 1/24
"Which wireless carriers will follow T-Mobile's lead? In this edition of Ask Maggie, CNET's Marguerite Reardon offers a reader some advice about whether T-Mobile's competitors will respond to its aggressive marketing tactics." CNET News 1/24
Humor/Cartoons
"Apple's working on a big iPhone!" The Joy of Tech [cartoon] 1/24
"How to get an iPhone or iPad game controller for under $50: Before you drop $100 for a controller from Logitech, Moga, or SteelSeries, read this." CNET 1/24
"Coming January 25: Gene Steinberg meets Adam Engst, of TidBITS and Take Control Books, and Rob Pegoraro, of Yahoo! Tech and USA Today, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 1/24
"MacMiniColo Launches $99/Month Mac Pro Colocation Service" MacRumors 1/24
"MCE Ships First Internal Blu-ray Recordable Drive for MacBook Pro" MacPrices 1/24
"Zen apps for mindful living and meditation" CBS News 1/24
"Transform Your iPhone Into a 3-D Camera: The Poppy, a View-Master-like gizmo, adds another dimension to iPhone photos" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1/24
"Announcing MakerBot Thingiverse Android App and iOS 1.1 Update" Business Wire 1/24
"iOS, Android app recommends videos based on your personality" CNET News 1/24
"A Fantastic 1984 Macintosh Built from LEGO Blocks Doubles as iPad Stand" OS X Daily 1/24
"Incipio & AT&T finally launch NFC-enabled Cashwrap iPhone case for ISIS payments" 9to5Mac 1/24
"Is SwiftKey coming to save your iPad?" The Gadget Show 1/24
"Time to get creative with the new Doodle Fun! app" prMac 1/24
"Seaburngames first game release Helicopter Bob" prMac 1/24
"The iOS app The Guardian of Imagination for free until Sunday" prMac 1/24
"Third-Party Android Keyboard SwiftKey Teased as iOS App" Mac|Life 1/24
"Gaze Into Palantir, The Wikia-Powered Middle-earth: Shadow Of Mordor Companion App" AppAdvice 1/24
"Has Microsoft transformed from a software factory into a maker of devices and online services?" The Economic Times 8:17 AM
"Microsoft Surface: It's on a roll (and why it exists)" CNET News 6:09 PM
"IBM Seeks to Make Watson Elementary for Customers: IBM customers discussed their work with Watson software, which they are using to enable computers to think more like humans." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:21 PM
"Why You Shouldn't Overreact to IBM's Earnings" DailyFinance 6:13 PM
"Dell's Financial Chief Steps Down" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:38 AM
"Microsoft Needs More Than Nokia for Windows Phone to Succeed" The Motley Fool 8:16 PM
"Intel Giveaway: Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 and $50 Intel Coupons" Barista Kids 8:48 AM
"The 5 most important things I've learned working for a startup (and watching Anchorman)" VentureBeat 8:47 PM
"Microsoft's Lethargy In Full View In CEO Selection Process" Forbes 1/24
"Microsoft CEO Hunt: Why There Are No Clear Contenders" TheStreet 1/24
"Should Microsoft Keep Steve Ballmer?" 24/7 Wall St. 1/24
"Microsoft's Slightly Better Surface Problem: In Its Latest Earnings Report, Microsoft Reported $893 Million In Revenue On The Surface--More Than Double The Previous Quarter." Fast Company 1/24
"Microsoft's Strong Quarter: 5 Key Facts/Microsoft's enterprise sales are booming, but Surface is still no match for the iPad." InformationWeek 1/24
"Market Hustle: Dow Drops Triple Digits, Treasuries Surge on Somber Global Outlook" TheStreet 1/24
"US stocks slammed; Dow falls 300-plus points in worst week since 2011" CNBC 1/24
"Fear of slowing growth pushes down global markets" Associated Press 1/24
"Dow Drops Most Since June: Emerging-Market Rout Sparks Flight to Safety" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1/24
"Stocks Battered As Emerging Markets Selloff Spreads" Forbes 1/24
"Europe Markets: European stocks slide 3.3% on the week amid EM woes/Europe's benchmark stock index posted the biggest weekly loss in seven months on Friday, reflecting a week where weak Chinese data created fresh concerns about an economic slowdown with a negative spillover to other emerging markets" MarketWatch 1/24
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at the close of trading" Associated Press 1/24
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares down at the close of trading" Associated Press 1/24
"Midday Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares down at 1 p.m." Associated Press 1/24
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