"Apple: The iPhone Was a Big Breakthrough and Samsung Copied It: Apple kicked off its latest patent infringement case against Samsung on Tuesday, arguing that the iPhone was a revolutionary product and that by 2010, Samsung was in a crisis and resorted to copying the fast-selling rival." Re/code 2:21 PM
"Apple lays out its new case against Samsung, says 50 patents could have been at stake" The Verge 1:57 PM
"Apple vs Samsung patent jury selected, Phil Schiller confirmed as first witness" 9to5Mac 8:01 AM
"Apple v Samsung First Witness: Phil Schiller" The Mac Observer 10:09 AM
"Apple-Samsung Jury Is Seated in Patent Trial in California" Bloomberg 8:02 AM
"Apple Again Seeks Decisive U.S. Court Ruling Against Samsung" Reuters 8:49 AM
"What are the five iOS features Apple is claiming that Samsung (or Google) stole?" 9to5Mac 10:17 AM
"Apple looking to buy Japanese chipmaker: Apple is in talks with Japan's Renesas Electronics to take over a unit that designs chips for smartphone displays, whose engineering may help it improve image sharpness and battery life." Nikkei 1:00 PM
"Apple Seeking to Boost iPhone Display Quality by Acquiring Chip Firm Renesas SP Drivers" MacRumors 1:00 PM
"Report: Apple in talks to buy chipmaker Renesas SP Drivers to improve iPhone display/battery life" 9to5Mac 1:58 PM
"Visionaries of the tech world who foresaw Apple's future" AppleInsider 8:11 AM
"Why Los Angeles Is Giving Away 651,000 iPads" Bloomberg TV 8:02 AM
"Apple's premium-priced Macs 'defy the laws of economics,' but iPhone does not, Needham says" AppleInsider 9:24 AM
"Apple's Halo Effect Is Alive And Well When It Comes To Mac Sales" AppAdvice 10:17 AM
"Is Tim Cook Going To Break His Promise? Today is April 1, the first day of the second quarter of the year, and so far, Apple has delivered bupkis in terms of new products." Business Insider 11:04 AM
"The mobile web is still losing out to native apps, by more than 6 to 1" VentureBeat 8:48 AM
"The Mobile Web Is Dead, It's All About Apps" Business Insider 11:24 AM
"How Different Tablet Users Spend Their Time: When it comes to e-book reading among tablet users, Kindle Fire owners are way ahead, little surprise given Amazon's affinity with books, both paper and electronic. Interestingly, however, they do not browse the Internet or check their email accounts as often as Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy owners. 67 percent of Kindle Fire owners frequently use their devices for e-reading as opposed to 33 percent of iPad and Galaxy users." Statista 11:25 AM
"Apple Is Struggling to Beat Android in Europe, Despite Slight Good News From UK" Minyanville 11:26 AM
"Happy Birthday Apple! It was 20 years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play... and by 20 we mean 38 and by Sergeant Pepper and the band, we mean Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne (you can decided for yourselves who was doing the teaching). Yes, it's Apple's birthday today, so let's just take a moment to reflect." Australian Macworld 9:45 AM
"Delayed: Apple Is Reportedly Struggling To Make A Giant iPhone With A 5.5-Inch Screen" Business Insider 8:35 AM
"New iPhone 6 screens to enter production as early as May: sources" Reuters 7:41 AM
"Report: Apple to begin production of new iPhone screens in May — and they're big" Gigaom 2:29 PM
"Next iPhone will come with 4.7" or 5.5" screen" Ars Technica 12:59 PM
"The iPhone 6 Rumor That Won't Go Away: 4.7- and 5.5-inch Screens" Time 8:47 AM
"Larger screen for new iPhone reportedly begins production next month" The Verge 4:20 PM
"iPhone 6 screen pegged at 4.7-inches, production starting as soon as next month" iMore 8:08 AM
"iPhone 6 Looks Crazy Thin in New Leaked Photos" LAPTOP Magazine 8:49 AM
"Apple Will Start Making The 4.7-Inch iPhone 6 In May" Business Insider 8:35 AM
"iPhone 6 To Have 4.7 Inch Screen, No 5.5 Inch Model This Fall" AppleBitch 7:49 AM
"iPhone Air? 'Foxconn plant' images show much slimmer iPhone" Digital Trends 8:03 AM
"Mac Pro shipping estimates slip to 5-6 weeks from April delivery into May" 9to5Mac 9:44 AM
"Apple's Mac Pro Shipping Estimates in U.S. Move to 5-6 Weeks" MacRumors 11:05 AM
"2013 Mac Pro now to ship closer to May" MacInTouch 5:13 PM
"Report: Apple's new A7 mobile SoC is 'desktop class'" TG Daily 8:47 AM
"It turns out the A7 really is a desktop-grade processor" BGR 8:08 AM
"Apple Makes it Easier to Create and Buy iAds, Introduces Short Video Ads" MacRumors 1:45 PM
"Apple Opens iAd Workbench To All Apple ID Users" RazorianFly 1:58 PM
"Now Anyone Can Use Apple iAd to Advertise" iClarified 5:48 PM
Granted Apple Patents
"Apple Granted 51 Patents Today Covering a 3D Apple TV Remote, the MacBook Pro Unibody Design and More" Patently Apple 8:52 AM
"Apple may use bayonet mounts for interchangeable iPhone camera lenses" AppleInsider 7:44 AM
"Apple Granted an Attachable Camera Lens Patent in Record Time" Patently Apple 7:44 AM
"Apple Explores Bayonet Mounts For Swappable iPhone Camera Lenses" TechCrunch 7:47 AM
"Cassandra: Attachable Camera Lenses for the iPhone -Patent Awarded to Apple" eXtensions 8:30 AM
"Apple is granted a Patent for one of their Most Important Gesturing Inventions Ever" Patently Apple 7:48 AM
"Apple working on a remote control device for gaming on the Apple TV?" Apple Daily Report 7:48 AM
"Apple 'personal items network' invention could tell you how effective your karate hand strike is" Apple Daily Report 7:59 AM
"Apple patent involves location-based emergency information" Apple Daily Report 8:06 AM
AppleCare/Helps
"I have two completely dead MacBook Pro 17-inch (late 2011) laptops; both failed the same way (flakey video, then no boot condition - only a grey screen and not even a startup chime). One was a work laptop, which I replaced with another late 2011 17', which is now starting to show signs of flakiness after 13 months (no AppleCare, which I now regret). The other was my personal MacBook Pro, which failed after about 20 months. I'm taking all three to a Genius Bar later this week (we are 3+ hours from the closest Apple Store) and will see what they say..." MacInTouch 11:19 AM
"iPhone/iOS Platform - problems moving movies to Mac; battery drain; message deletion, etc." MacInTouch 11:20 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
"The Island: Castaway HD (Full) For iPad And The Island: Castaway (Full) For iPhone Are Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $6.99/$4.99)" Apple Sliced 9:49 AM
"Briefcase Pro -File Manager, Cloud Drive, Document & PDF Reader For iPhone And iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $4.99)" Apple Sliced 9:49 AM
"iBooks Sale: Helpless By Daniel Palmer Is Free Today (Was $8.99)" BookSliced 9:49 AM
"Backing up on a Mac -External Hard Disks, Bangkok Post, Life" eXtensions 7:03 PM
"iPhone 5s vs. HTC One M8: Camera shootout!" iMore 8:04 AM
"Dell UP3214Q Review: Last year I spent time with one of the first UltraHD monitors to be come out and came away convinced of the benefits. Even though the screen size was not much larger than my usual display, the extra clarity and detail was totally worth it. It sealed my decision to buy a MacBook Pro Retina when it was updated last fall as well. Now we've seen the field of UltraHD displays expand considerably and so we now look at another 32' UltraHD display, the Dell UP3214Q." AnandTech 8:33 AM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"The Secret iOS Feature That Could Change the Internet" Fortune 8:47 AM
"Batter Up: The best ways to watch baseball on your digital devices" TechHive 8:46 AM
"'Perils of Man: Chapter 1' for iPad Review - A Gripping Mystery On A Journey Through Time" Touch Arcade 8:47 AM
"Tiny Space Adventure Review: Tiny Space Adventure is a mostly delightful puzzler that will test players' memory and pattern recognition skills." 148Apps 11:24 AM
"Hoots Review: A Match-3 game taken right back to its basics, but sometimes that's all anyone could want." 148Apps 9:24 AM
"Keyword VS. Review: Keyword VS. is a pleasant way to test vocabulary with friends, strangers, and anyone in-between." 148Apps 1:45 PM
"Eets Munchies Review: Eets Munchies is a puzzler that offers some entertainment, but won't set the world on fire." 148Apps 8:33 AM
How-To/Tutorial
"How to add additional dictionaries for iOS 7's define feature" iMore 4:19 PM
"Florian Müller: When all is said and done, despite years of Apple litigation, Android will continue to be world's most popular mobile platform" MacDailyNews 9:43 AM
"About That Free Microsoft Office App For iPhone" AppAdvice 9:24 AM
"Apple: Yes To iPlay - Hybrid Console/Streaming TV Product" Seeking Alpha 8:58 AM
"2 Reasons Apple Will Buy Netflix" TheStreet 8:58 AM
"Watch the Apple Store Grow, From One to Hundreds" FairerPlatform 8:31 AM
"Spring cleaning: Five Google projects that need to die/Google has lots of redundant products. Here are the ones we'd like to see merged." Ars Technica 5:38 PM
"9 People Who Thought Gmail Might Be an April Fools' Prank" Gizmodo 1:45 PM
"With Windows 9, Microsoft may finally forget the past and embrace the future" BGR 9:23 AM
"Wearables: one-third of consumers abandoning devices/Hundreds of Galaxy Gear smartwatches are listed on eBay barely six months after launch. Why isn't the wearable tech market taking off?" The Guardian 9:23 AM
"HTC One (M8) Review: A Better HTC One – is That Its Problem?" The Next Web 8:28 AM
"Everyone Loves the Cloud Price Wars — For Now" Mashable 8:28 AM
"Where are XP users moving to? Windows 7" BetaNews 8:11 AM
"Review: Phosphor Touch Time Digital Watch" Run Around Tech 8:24 AM
"Review: Phosphor Touch Time watch sports a clever buttonless design" Apple Daily Report 7:46 AM
Humor/Cartoons
"The origins of Samsung's logo.. and its relation to Apple" TUAW 6:47 PM
"4 Goofy April Fools Day Pranks to Play on Mac Users" OS X Daily 2:28 PM
"Windows XP: Old Platforms Die Hard, Security Risks Live On/Utilities, Banks Have Been Slow to Upgrade Machines, ATMs" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:00 PM
"Windows 8 Updates Expected At Microsoft Conference" Associated Press 11:52 AM
"With Windows 9, Microsoft may finally forget the past and embrace the future" BGR 9:07 AM
"Microsoft wants to kickstart the next billion-dollar Indian tech company" VentureBeat 2:04 PM
"Microsoft names Phil Spencer as Xbox head in latest executive shuffle: Scott Guthrie and Stephen Elop also get promotions" The Inquirer 7:11 AM
"Microsoft slashes Azure prices, introduces new basic tier: Amazon Web Services and Google also cut prices in March" Computerworld New Zealand 6:58 AM
"Microsoft Joins Amazon and Google in Cloud Price War" Re/code 8:16 AM
"Windows XP hangs tough as support deadline looms: Microsoft cuts off support for XP in another week, yet the 13-year-old OS still holds a significant chunk of the market as seen by Net Applications." CNET 8:16 AM
"Microsoft may launch Windows Phone 8.1 later this month" KitGuru 8:17 AM
"Intel to turn Dublin into world's first 'internet of things' city" SiliconRepublic 8:03 AM
"Intel chooses Atom for Edison PC to capture Internet of Things explosion: Lightbulb moment for wearable tech and IoT" TechRadar UK 8:04 AM
"Much Of Intel's $740M Cloudera Investment Likely Went To Existing Shareholders" TechCrunch 3:47 PM
"Intel, Cloudera get data centre tech boost" EE Times Asia 6:40 AM
"Intel rallies vendors in 100G CLR4 Alliance to make optical fibre a data centre standard" The Inquirer 8:03 AM
"Intel upgrades MinnowBoard developer computer, cuts price to $99: Bay Trail brings CPU boost to Raspberry Pi/Arduino competitor." Ars Technica 5:04 PM
"WebOS betrayal costs HP $57 million in class action settlement: The reverberations of a takeover gone terribly wrong" The Verge 7:38 AM
"HP agrees to pay $57 million to settle shareholder lawsuit" Reuters 7:45 AM
"HP settles lawsuit after Mad Leo's WebOS and PC biz shenanigans: Firm to pay $57m to investors" The Register 8:21 AM
"HP Reaches $57 Million Settlement in Shareholder Lawsuit" Bloomberg 8:24 AM
"HP pays $57 million to finally put WebOS behind it: The company was hit with a class-action lawsuit accusing HP of rash decision-making that left shareholders in a weaker financial position." CNET 8:36 AM
"HP is still paying for its botched Palm acquisition — with a $57M court settlement" VentureBeat 2:04 PM
"HP brings out first 'ac' access points" Canada 8:02 AM
"Dell unveils BYOD-focused mobility product plans: 'Bring Your Own Device' strategy include per-app VPN controls" Network World 7:14 AM
"Cisco Suspected of Paying Kickbacks to Russian Company Managers" The Moscow Times 8:01 AM
"Oracle serves up silo-busting database in the cloud/Summary: Oracle hopes its Database as a Service offering will deliver a silo-busting database option for IT businesses, aiming for automation in the cloud and freeing up resources for administrators." ZDNet 8:08 AM
"These 2 Likely Announcements Will Drive Apple Inc. Significantly Higher" The Motley Fool 1:45 PM
"Apple's Cash Reserves Are 30x What They Were 10 Years Ago" Cult of Mac 8:08 AM
"Can Microsoft Outperform Apple In 2014?" Seeking Alpha 8:59 AM
"Apple will announce second quarter earnings on April 23rd" TechnologyTell 8:11 AM
Industry News
"Tech Stocks: Nvidia, Marvell lead tech stocks higher" MarketWatch 11:12 AM
"Stocks: S&P 500 closes at all-time high" CNNMoney 3:48 PM
"Dow Climbs as Manufacturing Data Accelerates" TheStreet 3:48 PM
"Stocks rise as US manufacturing recovers" Associated Press 1:58 PM
"Stock Futures Tick Up on Encouraging Factory Data" FOXBusiness 8:32 AM
"S&P 500 Closes at Record High: Stocks Kick Off Second Quarter With Broad Gains" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:49 PM
"Asia Markets: Asian shares rise on China manufacturing data/Asian stocks were mostly higher on Tuesday, overcoming weakness from early in the session, after official data showed a better-than-expected expansion in Chinese manufacturing activity." MarketWatch 8:32 AM
"Europe Markets: European stocks gain on steady output data/Miner BHP Billiton examining its portfolio/European stocks rose Tuesday, with major indexes starting the second quarter with gains as data showed the euro zone's manufacturing sector remains on a path to recovery." MarketWatch 8:32 AM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 1:57 PM
"Midday Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares up at 1 p.m." Associated Press 1:57 PM
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares up at the close of trading" Associated Press 7:09 PM
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