"How Many Laws Did Apple Break? Apple's most recent quarterly numbers broke all sorts of records and, as we shall see, a number of laws." Monday Note 2:04 PM
"Is Apple Finally Set To Launch Its Web-Based TV?" Social Barrel 6:51 AM
"Apple's iPhone Market Share Leveling Off In Some Countries" Forbes 7:12 AM
"Apple's new Swift programming language takes flight with Getty Images, American Airlines, LinkedIn, and Duolingo: Apple's new Swift programming language has only been available for a few months, but iOS and OS X developers from American Airlines, Getty Images, LinkedIn and Duolingo are reporting favorable impressions—ranging from increased productivity to fewer bugs in their shipping apps—as interest in the new language rapidly accelerates. " AppleInsider 2/7
"Too much book learning: Convincing yourself Apple's doomed" Macworld 2/7
"Intel CFO: We're so far ahead that Apple has no choice but to work with us" Business Insider 2/7
"Intel's CFO says Macs would 'take a big step off performance' if they used another chip" iMore 2/7
"Apple preps to DUMP crappy, sluggish iPhoto FOR GOOD: Fruity firm flings out pre-release version of Photos app-loaded OS X 10.10.3 to devs" The Register 2/7
"Apple is dropping iPhoto, Aperture for cleaner Photos app" Memeburn 2/6
"Say Farewell to iPhoto, Hello to Apple Photos: The new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library replaces iPhoto and Aperture." PC Magazine 2/6
"OS X 10.10.3 beta points toward better emoji diversity: Update includes placeholders for different skin tones and new Unicode 7.0 emoji." Ars Technica 2/6
"OS X 10.10.3 Puts More Focus on Emoji, Lays Groundwork for Skin Tone Modifiers" MacRumors 2/6
"Devs Get OS X 10.10.3 14D72i: Here Comes Photos!" FairerPlatform 2/6
"OS X 10.10.3 Beta Adds Support for Google 2-Step Verification on Internet Accounts" MacRumors 2/6
"Apple Forces Users to Upgrade to Newest Adobe Flash Player to Patch Vulnerabilities" MacRumors 2/6
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"A Problem When Using Numbers to Calculate a Simple Total" eXtensions 2/7
"How to reset your Mac's NVRAM, PRAM, and SMC" Macworld 2/6
"Yosemite notes include a Finder copy bug (confirmed); a Mavericks-to-Yosemite migration experience; Apple Mail restore procedures; and game emulators." MacInTouch 2/6
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"ScreenShot PSD for Mac review" Download.com 4:04 PM
"Apple highlights artists making music with iPad apps in new video ad" 9to5Mac 2:42 PM
"A pilot and his wife used their iPads to crash land a plane after their navigation systems failed" Associated Press 10:14 AM
"The iPad still dominates global tablet market" AppleDailyReport 2/7
"With employee help, ID theft ring allegedly stole $700,000 in Apple gift cards" IDG News Service 2/6
"Store Employees Indicted, Gift Card Fraud Ring" ifoAppleStore 2/6
"Apple Store employees stole $700K in gift cards" Cult of Mac 2/6
"Universities Are Banning All Watches From Exams Because Of The Apple Watch" BuzzFeed 2/6
"Thanks to Apple Watch Some Schools Ban Smartwatches" The Mac Observer 2/6
"How Steve Jobs almost leaked the original iPhone's existence to a FedEx worker" Business Insider 2/6
"Did Obama Predict the iPhone's Success? An early look at Apple's first smartphone convinced Obama it would be a hit, according to David Axelrod." PC Magazine 2/6
"Thanks Obama! Prez predicted iPhone mania back in 2007" The Register 2/6
"People don't trust mobile wallets and apps" Computerworld 2/6
"Twitter Says iOS 8 Bug Cost It 4M Users" PC Magazine 2/6
"Here's how iOS 8 cost Twitter four million users" Business Insider 2/6
"Twitter blames iOS 8 bug for loss of four million users" The Inquirer 2/6
"Twitter: We Lost 4M Users Thanks to Apple" The Mac Observer 2/6
"New iOS spy app listens in to conversations: A new front has opened up in the Operation Pawn Storm cyber-espionage operation: an iOS app that spies on users, up to and including secretly turning on the phone's microphone to listen in to meetings and conversations." CSO 2/6
"Samsung: The Apple Watch doesn't worry us" CNBC 2/6
"The Apple Watch Just Got a Huge New Competitor" Time 2/6
"This Man Bought A MacBook Off eBay, Look What He Got Delivered In Mail" Redmond Pie 2/6
"Fake university uses Apple Store pics to lure unsuspecting students" Cult of Mac 2/6
Non-Apple News
"RadioShack Suffered as Free Time Evaporated: Chain Built Itself as Hub of Leisure Activities Enjoyed to a Degree Now Hard to Fathom" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:15 PM
"Your Samsung TV hears—and shares—everything you say" The Daily Dot 2/7
"UK Universities ban watches in exam halls ahead of Apple Watch release" Neowin 2/7
"Lawmakers want US Congress to be able to (finally) deliberate online" Ars Technica 2/7
"Number of mobile market devices sold in Japan down 19.9% year-over-year" AppleDailyReport 2/7
"Oh Hey, An Ubuntu Phone Is Actually Happening" Gizmodo 2/6
"Apple interested in putting Touch ID sensor directly into touchscreen displays" SlashGear 10:14 AM
"Apple Wins 9 Detailed iPhone 6 Design Patents that could Pack a Punch in Court Should Samsung's S6 Design Cross the Line" Patently Apple 2/7
"Microsoft will be a leading iOS, Android developer" Computerworld 2/6
"Apple hiring medical-tech engineers for biometric research" MacNN 2/6
"What is Apple's HealthKit? As it emerges more than half of major US hospitals are trialing Apple's HealthKit, Rhiannon Williams refreshes your memory on what the framework does" Telegraph 2/6
"Corning fires up new super scratch-resistant glass: The glassmaker reveals Project Phire, a new Gorilla Glass-like material that's both extremely sturdy and hard to scratch." CNET 2/6
"Corning takes shot at sapphire with 'Project Phire' ultra scratch-resistant glass" AppleInsider 2/6
"Corning Unveils 'Project Phire' Super Scratch-Resistant Glass" MacRumors 2/6
"Corning claims upcoming 'Project Phire' glass is nearly as scratch-resistant as sapphire" 9to5Mac 2/6
"Apple begins training retail employees about the Apple Watch" 9to5Mac 2/6
"Apple Store employees have reportedly begun training to sell you Apple Watch" iDownload Blog 2/6
"Apple reportedly to diversify LCD driver IC suppliers" DigiTimes 2/6
Price Trackers/Deals
"Monster Madness For iPhone/iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99)" Apple Sliced 2/7
"Alien Shooter -Survive For iPhone/iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)" Apple Sliced 2/7
"J-Werewolf: EP1 For iPhone/iPad Is Free Today (Was $0.99)" Apple Sliced 2/7
"Today's Top iPhone /iPad /Mac App Freebies And Price Drops" Apple Sliced 2/6
"Will It Rain? For iPhone/iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99)" Apple Sliced 2/6
"Video Downloader Pro For iPhone/iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $3.99)" Apple Sliced 2/6
"Is Amazon Ready To Follow Apple Again?" Mac 360 2/6
Non-Apple
"The Year That Tech Needed The Art Industry" TechCrunch 8:54 PM
"Samsung's warning: Our Smart TVs record your living room chatter/Technically Incorrect: Samsung's small print says that its Smart TV's voice recognition system will not only capture your private conversations, but also pass them onto third parties." CNET 6:48 PM
"Understanding M.2, the interface that will speed up your next SSD" Ars Technica 4:54 PM
"Google 'Friends Furever' ad attempts to turn debilitating Android fragmentation negative into a positive" MacDailyNews 1:53 PM
"The mobile phone is dead. Long live the mobile phone." CNET 2/6
"Can the Samsung Galaxy S6 win back the fans?" ZDNet 2/6
"Are carriers trying to steal Wi-Fi's spectrum? Not exactly" IDG News Service 2/6
"Cassandra: Security Agencies Destroying Society Instead of Protecting" eXtensions 2/6
"How Leatherman Made That Amazing Multi-Tool You Wear on Your Wrist" Wired 2/6
Humor/Cartoons
"Little Caesar's laughs at cheesy Steve Jobs-style keynotes/Technically Incorrect: Because techies are patently absurd, Little Caesar's pizza chain offers them a poke in their techiness and a pie in their faces." CNET 2:11 PM
"GiGalaxy releases PopGem HD 2.0 for iOS/Android - Fun Block Puzzle Game" prMac 2/7
"SwiftKey iOS Update Adds Emoji, Flow Typing for iPad" PC Magazine 2/6
"Coming February 7: Gene Steinberg meets Kirk McElhearn, Macworld's 'iTunes Guy,' and columnist Rob Pegoraro, of USA Today & Yahoo Tech, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 2/6
"One year on, Satya Nadella has made Microsoft 'a different company'" Agence France Presse 7:38 AM
"6 Microsoft Acquisitions: What Do They Mean? Microsoft bought big data, email, and machine learning businesses on its holiday shopping spree. What will they bring to its future?" InformationWeek 12:19 PM
"Key attributes of Windows 10: personalisation, collaboration and convergence" TechRadar UK 7:11 AM
"Microsoft: Only a 'subset of phones' will get the Windows 10 mobile preview at launch" Neowin 5:52 PM
"Cortana May Become Microsoft's New and Hopefully Less Annoying Clippy" Gizmodo 2:41 PM
"Microsoft's latest Surface commercial is destined for the big screen" Neowin 2:58 PM
"'Wei Yan Sofia' phone is rumored to dual boot both Android 5.0 and Windows 10" Neowin 9:05 AM
"Google shares its plan to nab 80% of Microsoft's Office business" Business Insider 7:39 AM
"Intel: Apple Has No Choice But to Keep Using Our Chips" Softpedia 7:37 AM
"Dell adds the Intel Core i5 to its XPS 13 options for British buyers" Windows Central 7:37 AM
"Oh IBM, what are we going to do with you?" Gigaom 1:55 PM
"IBM regenerates African tech and Johannesburg's inner-city: More than 70 years after it opened ts first research lab at a university with the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory adjacent to New York's Columbia University campus, IBM is now changing the future of African cities, says Monty Munford" Telegraph 7:38 AM
"Five years later, how is the Oracle-Sun marriage working out? Larry Ellison promised to grow Sun products. Let's look at how well he kept those promises." ITworld 7:39 AM
"AMD-only processor motherboard compatible with NVIDIA SLI?" Tom's Hardware 7:37 AM
"Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape/Google Maps launched 10 years ago developed by a team of 50, now it has revolutionised the world of digital maps with more than one billion users" The Guardian 7:37 AM
"Google's master cloud plan: Buy more infrastructure, charge less for it" TechRepublic 10:24 AM
"Google Study Shows Users Fail to Understand Security Warnings" eWeek 11:56 AM
"Sorry, But Google Glass Isn't Anywhere Close to Dead" Wired 8:22 PM
"Could the HoloLens be Microsoft's iMoment?" Gigaom 2/7
"Screenshots of Microsoft's 'Work Assistant' for Windows Phone leak" Neowin 2/7
"Microsoft's Windows 10 Office 'Work Assistant' for Windows Phone concept images leaked" WinBeta 2/7
"Windows 10: DirectX 12 is flexing its muscle in the Star Swarm Demo" Neowin 2/7
"Microsoft is still working on a fix for Lumia 535 touchscreen issue" Neowin 2/7
"Windows 10: Project Spartan makes an appearance in build 10009" Neowin 2/7
"Microsoft releases apps on iOS and Android high in quality and quantity: A growing number of Microsoft apps are making their way to iOS and Android" WinBeta 2/7
"IBM Expands Its Roster Of Watson Smarts To Developers" Social Barrel 2/7
"The Qualcomm reign on smartphones and tablets is almost over; all hail MediaTek" Neowin 2/7
"Facebook Buys 56-Acre Silicon Valley Industrial Park" PC Magazine 2/7
"Market Snapshot: U.S. Stocks Slip Friday, But Still Score Solid Weekly Gains" MarketWatch 2/6
"US stocks rise slightly on healthy jobs data, adding to strong gains posted this week" Associated Press 2/6
"Stocks open slightly higher following strong US jobs report: U.S. stocks are inching higher in early trading after a stronger-than-expected January jobs report." Associated Press 2/6
"U.S. Stocks End Lower: Major Indexes Still Post Weekly Gains" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2/6
"Stocks: 5 things to know before the open/The Dow has surged about 4% this week after four consecutive days of gains." CNNMoney 2/6
"Asia Markets: Japanese stocks bounce back ahead of U.S. job report/Japanese stocks clawed back some ground Friday, as investors looked ahead to a key U.S. jobs report due later in the day." MarketWatch 2/6
"Europe Markets: European stocks log 5-day winning run with boost from U.S. jobs data/Europe's benchmark stock index extended gains into a fifth straight day on Friday, after erasing losses in volatile afternoon action on the back of stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs numbers." MarketWatch 2/6
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at the close of trading" Associated Press 2/6
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 2/6
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