"Tim Cook Honors Steve Jobs With Company-Wide Email" Re/code 10/4
"Steve Jobs remembered by Apple CEO Tim Cook" TrustedReviews 10/4
"Model Liu Wen believed to be involved in Apple Watch launch campaign" SlashGear 10/4
"Pension funds should feather our own nest – not Apple's: In Singapore, the compulsory pension fund is used to help build local housing. So why is Nest, the UK fund, investing just 8.5% of its pot in the UK?" The Guardian 10/4
"Apple's Ireland tax case: Should US states also stop unjustified tax breaks?" The New York Times 10/4
"Why Apple is at the core of auto-enrolment pensions" The Guardian 10/4
"Americans are proud of Apple, but it has a civic duty to pay tax: The EU finding that Apple negotiated a tax deal with Ireland is a step forward, but more needs to be done, argues US senator Carl Levin" The Guardian 10/4
"How Apple's Cork HQ became the centre of a bitter global war over corporate tax avoidance: The Californian corporation is Cork's largest private employer, but has not won over all local hearts and minds. Now the city is at the heart of a fight over taxation that involves not just Ireland but also the European commission and the US senate" The Guardian 10/4
"Apple's old DRM policies are about to go on trial" Engadget 10/4
"T-Mobile CEO Legere on iPhone Bendgate: It's horse dung/The ever-flamboyant John Legere says that if you could see the face of the man trying to bend an iPhone 6 Plus, it would probably be purple." CNET 10/4
"Apple Pay is poised to change the way we pay - maybe" St. Paul Pioneer Press [Free Registration Required] 10/4
"How to know if you have been infected with Mac.Backdoor.iWorm" Among Tech 10/4
"iWorm Is Not a Worm: Are You Infected? Find Out" FairerPlatform 10/4
"Recovering from a failed drive with Apple's Software RAID" rentzsch.tumblr.com 10/4
"Using app-specific passwords: App-specific passwords are a feature of two-step verification that allow you to sign in to iCloud securely when you use third party apps." Apple Support 10/4
"Since I installed Yosemite Public Beta 4, I have been running out of memory: it tells me to quit applications but doesn't actually succeed. Even with no applications running except Activity Monitor, Activity Monitor shows 5.98G of 6G memory in use. Is anyone else seeing this? I didn't have this problem with Yosemite Public Beta 3. Safe Boot does not help. Any other ideas?" MacInTouch 10/3
"I have noticed in the past 3-4 weeks that some incoming email messages are getting scrambled. A message in the sidebar list says it is from XYZ.com with a subject, but when I click on that message in the list what opens is a message from someplace else with a different subject. I look down the list and find a message from that other entity, click on it, and the message is the one from XYZ. I can't recall if this started happening before or after the 10.9.5 update, but it is annoying. Anyone else see this happening or have a suggestion how to fix it? I'm on a mid-2010 iMac. This does not happen in the iPhone mail app, so I know it's not something that's happening on the mail server." MacInTouch 10/3
"How To Add Custom Icons And Colors To Folders And Files On A Mac" Mac 360 10/3
"Add a SharePoint bookmark in Microsoft Office 2011 to 100 Macs using Bash" Amsys 10/3
"2 Ways To Add Launch Power To A Mac" BohemianBoomer 10/3
"What MacPaint Would Be Today If Anybody At Apple Actually Cared" Mac 360 10/3
"How To Cut, Copy, Paste, And Check Spelling The iPhone And iPad Way But On Your Mac" NoodleMac 10/3
"Clone A Mac: The Backup Utility App Goes On An Upgrade Cycle" Mac 360 10/3
"Calling All Writers! Here's A 'Writing Suite' For The Mac" TeraTalks 10/3
Op/Ed
"All You Need to Know to Leverage Barcodes in Your Apps" Cocoanetics 8:42 AM
"Best practices running an iOS open source project on GitHub" Cocoanetics 8:43 AM
"I'm finding it hard to care about Windows 10: MACFORMAT There again, I'm finding it hard to care about OS X as much as I used to, either" TechRadar UK 8:21 AM
"Why is software OS specific? Windows and OS X require different system calls." Ars Technica 10/4
"Tim Cook emails employees to reflect on third anniversary of Steve Jobs' death" 9to5Mac 10/3
"Tim Cook Emails Apple Employees Ahead of the Third Anniversary of Steve Jobs' Death" iClarified 10/3
"Tim Cook asks employees to remember Steve Jobs on third anniversary of his passing" iDownload Blog 10/3
"Is Apple about to lose Siri to Samsung? The core technology behind Apple's voice-command assistant Siri may wind up in Samsung phones, which would leave Tim Cook with a whole chicken coop's worth of egg on his face for letting this get away." ITworld 10/3
"Apple has just about killed the iPhone crime wave" Computerworld 10/3
"Apple Watch Overcomes Design Challenges, Sets New Standard for Functionality" Pyramid Research 10/3
"Roughly Half Of Users Are Finding Apps Via App Store Search, Says Study" TechCrunch 10/3
"Google's Eric Schmidt's shock confession: Steve Jobs is.... MY HERO" The Register 10/3
"Bill Gates: Apple Pay is 'fantastic' and a 'real contribution'" TUAW 10/3
"Apple Pay receives a most unexpected endorsement" BGR 10/3
"Are mobile payments safe? OCTOBER 3, 2014, 10:15 AM|This year hackers have been able to grab credit card numbers from several major retailers. Now Apple and other tech companies are offering a safe way to pay with your phone. Julie Watts reports for CBS News." CBS News 10/3
"Apple May Have Already Racked Up 4 Million Orders For The iPhone 6 In China" Business Insider 10/3
"iPhone 6 bendgate: Apple left red-faced after giant 'bendy' billboard appears to promote design flaw" Mirror Online UK 10/3
"Digital accounts for nearly 70% of U.S. music revenues" AppleDailyReport 10/3
"Geek out on technology with world's largest collection of Apple prototypes: Design Week Portland (photos)" The Oregonian 10/3
"iPhone 6 Plus Listed on Airtel Website; Official India Launch Imminent" NDTV Gadgets 10/3
"The 20 Schools With The Most Grads At Apple — And Harvard And Yale Didn't Make The List" Business Insider 10/3
"Samsung Poised for 'Ugly' Quarter as IPhones Get Bigger" Bloomberg 7:42 PM
"Samsung faces 'ugly' quarter following Apple's bigger iPhones" Sydney Morning Herald 7:39 PM
"Marriott Pays $600,000 For Jamming WiFi Hotspots: Marriott International has agreed to settle an FCC complaint regarding blockage of guests' WiFi hotpsots." InformationWeek 10/4
"Bose signs NFL deal blocking official Beats appearances on camera" 9to5Mac 10/4
"Patent war pushes Samsung's innovation" The Korea Times 10/4
"Facebook CTO Says They'll Still Mess With Your Head, They'll Just Think About It First" HotHardware 10/3
"BadUSB Malware Code Released to the World and There is no Fix" The Mac Observer 10/3
"Tablet shipments continue to drop due to pressure from notebooks, large-size smartphones" DigiTimes 10/3
Publications/Podcasts
"Two And A Half Geeks 10/3/14: Windows 10, Acer XB280HK, Dell Inspiron 11 and More" HotHardware 10/3
"Christopher Breen on Macworld Changes, The State of Publishing, and Snark" MacVoices 10/3
"'Turbo Dismount' Review - A Bang Up Good Time" Touch Arcade 10/3
"Smarter Than You Review: Psych-out friends and random players in this simple but psychologically complex game from the makers of 10000000." 148Apps 10/3
"Cloud Knights Review: Cloud Knights is fun and fluffy but also a big mess." 148Apps 10/3
"Nightmares from the Deep: Davy Jones Review/It's business as usual for the last installment in the Nightmares from the Deep series, but it's a fun ride." 148Apps 10/3
"The Moaning Words Review: The Moaning Words is a strange beast, much like Lovecraft's own tentacled monstrosities, but there's a lot of content for a low price of entry." 148Apps 10/3
"Bike Rivals Review: Behind Bike Rivals' flat look and freemium annoyances is a surprisingly creative physics racer." 148Apps 10/3
How-To/Tutorial
"iOS 8 How-to: Manually control the exposure in the Camera app" 9to5Mac 4:23 PM
"How to save space on your iPhone by setting video messages to expire in iOS 8" iMore 10/4
"iOS 8 How-to: Have your iOS device read text for you" 9to5Mac 10/4
"How to Use Family Sharing in iOS 8" Mashable 10/4
"How To Mute And Get Out Of Group Texts In iOS 8" Digital Trends 10/3
"How to repair/replace the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus battery, display, & more (Repair Guides)" 9to5Mac 10/3
"How to replace the rear iSight camera in an iPhone 5s" iMore 10/3
"iOS 8 lets you easily hide photos and App Store purchases" AppleInsider 10/3
"Forgot your iCloud Keychain security code? Here's how to change it!" iMore 10/3
"RIP: Disney Pulls 'Tiny Death Star' and 'Star Wars: Assault Team' from the App Store" Touch Arcade 10/3
"Coming October 4: Gene Steinberg meets Kirk Mcelhearn, from Macworld, Jessica Hoffman from SquareTrade, and Avram Pitch from Laptop magazine, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 10/3
"You will not want to hit the brakes with Asphalt Overdrive" TUAW 10/3
"Flic uses Tinder-like swipes to whittle down your iPhone's photo library" AppleInsider 10/3
"The 6 craziest new iOS 8 keyboards in Apple's App Store" BGR 10/3
"iOS App Flic Is Basically Tinder For Your Photo Library" Gizmodo 10/3
"Logitech announces Type+ portfolio for iPad Air, good option for BYOD" ZDNet 10/3
"iPhone 6 BendGate Case – the only case pre-bent and ready for when your phone ... ahem ... matures" The Red Ferret Journal 10/3
"Hulu Plus on iOS looks a lot flatter and cleaner now" Engadget 10/3
"Genii Games Releases Adventures of the Tortoise App for iPads" prMac 10/3
"Conferencia Launches - One Touch Conference Call and Smart Calendar" prMac 10/3
"DreamWalk Makes Waves With The Release of Their New iOS Game Surfy" prMac 10/3
"Selfie:Wars turns the Photo Trend into an Outrageously Fun & Risque Game" prMac 10/3
"Big Monk Games announces Tribal Fruit for iOS" prMac 10/3
"Polyes! A More Advanced 3D Printing Pen from Future Make LLC" prMac 10/3
"Colorful Keyboard - Custom keyboard for iOS 8" prMac 10/3
"Hewlett-Packard Plans to Break in Two: Split Would Separate PC, Printer Operation From Corporate Hardware and Other Units" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2:16 PM
"HP Returns to Breakup Plan It Shelved Three Years Ago" Re/code 4:39 PM
"Hewlett-Packard Is Said to Be Planning a Reorganization" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5:59 PM
"HP to split into two businesses: report: HP could announce plans to separate into two businesses, one focused on PCs and printers and the other handling corporate hardware, as early as Monday, reports The Wall Street Journal." CNET 2:18 PM
"HP reportedly set to split off PC, printer business: A split would be an about-face on CEO Meg Whitman's original strategy to keep the company together" IDG News Service 4:24 PM
"Report: HP plans to split into two companies/WSJ: PC and printers in one company, enterprise products and services in the other." Ars Technica 2:18 PM
"Hewlett-Packard plans to split into two companies: WSJ report" Reuters 2:18 PM
"HP is reportedly splitting into two companies" Engadget 2:18 PM
"Hewlett-Packard Plans To Split In Two, WSJ Reports" Forbes 2:18 PM
"HP allegedly planning to split itself into separate consumer and business companies" Neowin 8:50 PM
"HP's big split: Five reasons it's a good move/Summary: Splitting PCs and printers from HP's enterprise business would leave both sides with more focus as well as more options in the future." ZDNet 8:17 PM
"What Hewlett-Packard and Groupon Know About Smart Recruiting" The Motley Fool 9:19 AM
"Windows 10 isn't the hero we deserve, but it's the one your Dad needs right now: FIGHTING TALK Windows 10's resurrection of the old ways helps the aged" TechRadar UK 9:23 AM
"Microsoft Should Protect Its Lucrative Patent Licensing Business" Seeking Alpha 8:12 AM
"Microsoft needs to stop starting over with Windows Phone" Digital Trends 9:23 AM
"Boost for SMBs as Microsoft NZ unveils ModernBiz Tour: 'Technology can be a major differentiator for your business, but the challenge is how to get there.'" Computerworld New Zealand 12:21 PM
"Can Windows 10 Win Back The Business Community?" Seeking Alpha 4:22 PM
"AMD Catalyst 14.9 Drivers Causing System Crashes" Game Debate 9:21 AM
"AMD begins slashing the prices of its Radeon R9 290, R9 290X GPUs" TweakTown 9:21 AM
"IBM Patent Applications: Business, Medical Data Analysis" IPWatchdog 9:23 AM
"Silicon Valley Teens on the Future of Technology" Re/code 11:48 AM
"Samsung paid Microsoft over $1 billion in Android patent royalties in 12-month period: court filing" Foss Patents 10/4
"Samsung paid Microsoft $1 billion last year to build Android phones: Microsoft says Samsung is trying to avoid its future payments" Computerworld New Zealand 10/4
"Microsoft earned $1 billion from Samsung Android patent licensing last year: Redmond makes a lot of money from Google software" The Verge 10/4
"Windows 10 to offer lock-down for businesses, feature updates for consumers" Neowin 10/4
"Windows 10: 5 Unanswered Questions/Microsoft's Windows 10 preview shows users some of the things they can expect from the new OS, but it also raises several questions." InformationWeek 10/4
"Microsoft's Cortana can now speak Klingon" Digital Trends 10/4
"Intel issues apology after backlash from #GamerGate opponents" The Verge 10/4
"Did Intel Stand Up for White Males on Thursday?" VDARE.com 10/4
"Intel meets its 'makers,' with chips for DIY set and the firms they'll found (Q&A): The next wave of consumer electronics could come from the maker movement and indie developers. Intel's Edward Ross wants to make the company's chips a key part of that trend." CNET 10/4
"The graphics on Intel-based tablets are going to impress you" VentureBeat 10/4
"Will Hewlett-Packard's New $200 Stream Laptops Reverse This Shocking Trend?" The Motley Fool 10/4
"HP 7 VoiceTab With Android 4.4.2 KitKat Launched in India at Rs. 10,990" NDTV Gadgets 10/4
"Dell Venue 8 review: mid-range and proud" SlashGear 10/4
"IBM and NVIDIA Partner to Make OpenPower a Real Threat" TG Daily 10/4
"Red Hat Storage Server 3 Advances File Storage and Apache Hadoop Big Data Services" insideBIGDATA 10/4
"Questions Surround Lack of Diversity of Wall St. Arbitrators" Reuters 10/3
"Dow jumps 200 points following surge in hiring" Associated Press 10/3
"U.S. Stocks Rally on Jobs Data: Strong Payrolls Report Reassures on Economy" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 10/3
"Asia Markets: Hong Kong stocks snap losing streak as China Mobile rallies/Hong Kong stocks closed higher on Friday, snapping a four-day losing string, as China Mobile Ltd. rallied on separate reports the carrier recorded robust growth in 4G subscribers." MarketWatch 10/3
"Europe Markets: Woeful week overshadows European stock rebound on Friday/European stocks finished higher Friday, but the positive move came in the backdrop of the markets suffering their biggest weekly fall in about two months." MarketWatch 10/3
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at the close of trading" Associated Press 10/3
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 10/3
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