"Apple Sued for Poaching A123 Employees: Battery maker alleges Apple's efforts to poach employees threaten its own business" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:01 AM
"Apple accused of poaching electric-battery maker's engineers: Lawsuit claims iPhone maker hired away critical employees to staff a new battery division." CNET 6:56 AM
"Apple sued for poaching engineers with deep expertise in electric car systems" The Guardian 8:57 AM
"Apple is being sued for allegedly poaching auto engineers to build a battery division" The Next Web 7:17 AM
"Apple Sued for Poaching Employees From Battery Maker: Cupertino snagged five former workers, as well as third-party employees with experience in A123"s battery business." PC Magazine 9:38 AM
"Apple accused of stealing employees from battery maker" CNNMoney 1:43 PM
"Revealed: The experts Apple hired to build an electric car" 9to5Mac 9:48 AM
"Batteries suit offers clues to Apple's car ambitions" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 3:41 PM
"Opinion: Five reasons why Apple Car is happening, and five big issues to consider" 9to5Mac 4:14 PM
"Apple's plan for world domination is a waiting game" ["Apple has shown a remarkable knack in letting others create buzz in a market—say phones or tablets —only to swoop in and catch a sizable chunk of revenue in that market."] USA Today 7:24 AM
"Changes pushed as Apple eyes 10 to 20 years worth of data center tax breaks: Apple Inc. could receive 10 to 20 years worth of state data center tax breaks for its planned Mesa command center and there is a new proposal put forward at the Arizona Legislature adjusting the rules to qualify for those benefits." Phoenix Business Journal 7:17 AM
"Gauging Apple Watch's huge opportunity in the luxury-wristwatch market" Business Insider 3:52 PM
"Apple Watch 'Edition' Will Cost At Least $5,000, Probably A Lot More" ["Koenig says in a follow-up tweet to his predicted gold content 'If anyone thinks Apple is charging less than $5k for the Edition, they are smoking crack. Based on the gold content alone, $5k easy'. It is quite important that Apple gets the pricing right on the Watch Edition though, because reducing it later would be a really bad move from a perception point-of-view. I suspect that Apple will want to come in under $10,000 but at significantly more than $5,000. So my estimate is $8,000."] Forbes 7:06 AM
"Intuit & Apple Have Changed The Rules For TurboTax Users" ["Taxpayers who use TurboTax for Mac software – either out of the box or downloaded from Intuit INTU +1.49% – must first connect with Intuit and share data before being allowed to print their return. This is true even if the return is to be print only and not e-filed."] Forbes 3:42 PM
"Adobe Photoshop celebrates 25 years of image editing history" AppleInsider 7:02 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Yosemite discussion includes disk formatting problems (unwanted Core Storage changes and various workarounds); memory compression, performance issues and experiences; tips on scanner support; Finder, icon and Spotlight issues; Mavericks vs. Yosemite; Apple phoning home; backup targets and more." MacInTouch 3:17 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Spring Cleaning, or How I Fell in Love with 1Password Vaults" MacStories 1:10 PM
"Microsoft OneNote for beginners: Everything you need to know" PCWorld 6:55 AM
"Red Giant's Magic Bullet Suite 12 review" IT.Enquirer 8:18 AM
"Apple's Newest Store Boasts 50-Foot Glass Walls and a Free-Floating Second Floor" Wired 9:37 AM
"Secret Apple Watch boutique is under construction at Paris' fanciest store" Cult of Mac 1:43 PM
"The Patent Wars May be Cooling, But They're Far From Over" Wired 7:01 AM
"Apple Watch lands on its first US magazine cover" The Verge 7:11 AM
"Apple Watch To Make U.S Cover Of SELF Magazine, Next Month" RazorianFly 7:30 AM
"Apple Watch Is Ready for Its Close-Up" PC Magazine 11:22 AM
"iOS Vulnerability Means Copycat Apple Apps Could Spy On iPhone Owners, Claims FireEye" Forbes 1:44 PM
"Apple boss Tim Cook wants you to read this book" Computerworld 9:41 AM
"iBank: RBS, NatWest first UK banks to allow Apple Touch ID logins" The Register 6:56 AM
"RBS and NatWest tap Apple's Touch ID for mobile banking login" ZDNet 7:10 AM
"Samsung takes on Apple Pay by snapping up LoopPay: Samsung expects LoopPay to work with 90pc of retailers' existing payment terminals, unlike its main rival Apple Pay" Telegraph 7:11 AM
"Samsung challenges Apple Pay with LoopPay purchase" V3 7:10 AM
"Motorola president says Apple charges outrageous prices/Technically Incorrect: In a response to a hardly veiled criticism of its phones by Apple's head of design Jony Ive, Motorola President Rick Osterloh suggests Apple's a bit of a gouger." CNET 6:55 AM
"Apple prices 'outrageous': Motorola boss" CNBC 7:27 AM
"Best Buy bundles free Office 365 subscription with PCs, Macs, iPads and tablets" TechnologyTell 8:57 AM
"New David Hockney pieces on show at new Salts Mill exhibition: Salts Mill Two new exhibitions opened at Salts Mill yesterday which showcase new David Hockey pieces the venue has purchased and the history of the building" ["'I realised how fast I can capture it with the iPad, a lot faster than watercolour for example. Simply faster. You can choose a new colour or a new brush more rapidly. You don't have to wait for anything to dry.'"] Telegraph & Argus 8:29 AM
"Watch this magician do all his magic tricks on an iPad" Business Insider 8:49 AM
"Former Apple CEO: Creating A Billion Dollar Business" Forbes 1:43 PM
Non-Apple News
"SIM card makers hacked by NSA and GCHQ leaving cell networks wide open" Ars Technica 8:33 PM
"Pandora: A Victim of Its Own Success/A Pending Ruling on Artist Rates Could Make Things Worse" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:33 PM
"Yahoo Unveils Tools for Improving Mobile Apps" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:27 PM
"Yahoo CEO Mayer Unveils Mobile-Application Development Tools" Bloomberg 4:27 PM
"Google.org Making Tech for Good a Reality" Forbes 4:14 PM
"Startup Takes Aim at Computer-Security Holes: Synack deploys freelance hackers to uncover software flaws; find a bug, claim a bounty" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:14 PM
Publications/Podcasts
"The Next Step for Christopher Breen" MacVoices 1:10 PM
"TMO Daily Observations 2015-02-19: More Apple Car Evidence, Apple Hires some Bloggers" The Mac Observer 1:10 PM
"Apple recruits superstar DJ to drop some Beats in CNET UK podcast 422: Zane Lowe is headed for Cupertino, the Samsung Galaxy S6 is set to power up without wires and a $10 chip could give you Terminator vision." CNET 11:23 AM
"ACM 294: The Apple Car Story Goes Super Nova and Tim Cook Pushes for Privacy" The Mac Observer 6:51 AM
"Apple launches repair program for longstanding 2011 MacBook Pro GPU problems: Some 2012 and 2013 Retina MacBook Pros are also covered." Ars Technica 7:43 PM
"Apple launches Repair Extension Program for 2011-2013 MacBook Pros with video problems" 9to5Mac 7:41 PM
"Apple announces repair program for MacBook Pro laptops exhibiting video issues" AppleInsider 7:42 PM
"Apple will fix your older MacBook Pro's video problems for free" Engadget 8:32 PM
"Apple Watch Edition Estimated to Contain 29.16g of Gold Worth About $850" iClarified 7:10 AM
"Results: 80% expect the 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition to cost under $4500, but will it?" 9to5Mac 1:44 PM
"Apple might allow you to customize the Apple Watch's digital crown" Cult of Mac 7:30 AM
"Apple eyeing electric car production by 2020, report says" AppleInsider 7:42 PM
"Apple's Automotive Team Includes Former Tesla, Ford and GM Employees" MacRumors 11:30 AM
"ETA Gets Previewed for Apple Watch" RazorianFly 8:30 AM
"Apple Watch Vs. iWatch [Trends Chart] RazorianFly 8:49 AM
Apple Patent Applications
"Apple Invents a New CarPlay/HomeKit Related iDevice System" Patently Apple 7:36 AM
"Your iOS device may one day know when you get out of your car (and respond appropriately)" Apple Daily Report 8:48 AM
AppleCare/Helps
"Fix your trackpad button suddenly being light to the touch" MacIssues 11:28 AM
"iOS Help: How to fix a frozen iOS upgrade on iPhone and iPad" iMore 8:30 AM
"MacBook Pro discussion continues on a major problem with defective graphics hardware in MacBook Pro and iMac systems, which renders the computers unusable. Readers offer a few hacks for keeping the systems running a little longer but there is widespread frustration with Apple refusal to make good on most of the defects." MacInTouch 3:17 PM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Frozen Synapse For iPad And Frozen Synapse For iPhone Are Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $9.99/$2.99)" Apple Sliced 8:44 AM
"Help Volty For iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $1.99)" Apple Sliced 8:44 AM
"Gunship X For iPhone/iPad Is Free Today (Was $0.99)" Apple Sliced 8:44 AM
"Hands On: Live Weather Forecast (iOS)" MacNN 11:30 AM
"Weather Underground launches a new storm tracker app" iDownload Blog 7:17 AM
"IFTTT Launches New 'Do' iPhone Apps for Personalized iOS Shortcuts" MacStories 8:23 AM
"Alto's Adventure Review: A Beautiful Descent" MacStories 7:16 AM
"How Alto's Adventure became your next favorite iPhone game" Cult of Mac 8:31 AM
"Review: Alto's Adventure, an endless snowboarding odyssey unlike any other" iDownload Blog 11:29 AM
"'Swap Heroes 2' Review - Meet the New 'Swap', Same as the old 'Swap'" Touch Arcade 11:29 AM
"Dengen Chronicles Review: This free-to-play card game seems a little to basic for its own good." 148Apps 8:30 AM
"Jolly Jam Review: Jolly Jam is a Match-3 style game but with a different approach than most." 148Apps 1:41 PM
"Puny Stupid Humans Review: An amusing theme saves this otherwise generic strategy game." 148Apps 11:29 AM
"World Zombination Review: World Zombination is a fun twist on the base building/tower defense format, and it really does feel original." 148Apps 1:43 PM
"Dreamslide Plus Review: Slip and slide in Dreamslide Plus, a line drawing game with potential." 148Apps 9:10 AM
"Clear for Action Review: Clear for Action captures the profits of pirating, but not the excitement." 148Apps 11:27 AM
How-To/Tutorial
"How to take great winter photographs with your iPhone" iMore 1:41 PM
Tips
"Reordering Photos in iOS 8 Photo Albums Tips" iLounge 3:41 PM
"Forget the Apple Watch: Dole makes a wearable banana: To celebrate eight years as a Tokyo Marathon sponsor, Dole's Japan division has outfitted a banana with sensors and LEDs to create the world's first edible wearable." CNET 1:42 PM
"Microsoft joins with Mozilla in bid for fast Web apps: In Windows 10, Microsoft's browsers: both IE and Spartan: will get the asm.js technology Firefox uses to speed up Web-based games. That makes browsers a stronger competitor to Windows." CNET 7:38 AM
"The Windows 8 scrap heap: 10 features that didn't make it to Windows 10" ZDNet 7:41 AM
"Windows 8 vs. Windows 10: The biggest features Microsoft axed for its new OS" BGR 2:51 PM
"Microsoft leaves the Rooms. How will Windows Phone OS users make to do lists?" The Register 7:38 AM
"Microsoft to double price of XP's post-retirement support" InfoWorld 7:42 AM
"Dell expands Bitcoin support for online purchases to Canada and the U.K." VentureBeat 11:34 AM
"Dell now accepts bitcoin in Canada and the UK" Engadget 11:35 AM
"HP Joins Dell, Juniper in Offering Open Network Switches" eWeek 3:46 PM
"HP flicks white box switch: NOT a Facebook wannabe? Stuff our open kit in your cloud/Cisco waits with baseball bat. Can HP hold its own?" The Register 7:57 AM
"H-P Plans to Resell 'White-Box' Networking Hardware: Move comes as commodity-style hardware is displacing brand-name equipment in data centers" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:08 AM
"HP Targets Cisco and Facebook With New Line of Open-Source Networking Gear" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:30 AM
"HP targets Web data centers with white-box switches" Seeking Alpha 1:01 PM
"HP Split: Naming the big dogs for new-look giant/HP Inc EMEA run by Herbert Koeck, HPE by Peter Ryan" The Register 7:29 AM
"Hewlett-Packard Company Has Upside Despite FX Pressure: Citi Research" Bidness Etc 7:29 AM
"Hewlett-Packard In Charts: Long-Term Performance Looks Patchy" Seeking Alpha 6:39 AM
"Oracle steps up its big-data push with new products: New tools aim to make it easier for enterprises to wrest value from their information stores" IDG News Service 1:30 PM
"Oracle updates big data portfolio, aims to be 'visual face of Hadoop'" ZDNet 11:34 AM
"Reporter's Notebook: Yahoo, IBM, IEEE and me" I, Cringely 3:47 PM
"Lenovo taken to task over 'malicious' adware" BBC 6:43 AM
"Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections: Superfish may make it trivial for attackers to spoof any HTTPS website." Ars Technica 6:44 AM
"New Lenovo PCs shipped with factory-installed adware" Engadget 7:02 AM
"Lenovo accused of pushing Superfish self-signed MITM proxy" ZDNet 7:05 AM
"Lenovo pre-installs adware on its systems, which could also steal your private data" Neowin 7:08 AM
"Lenovo PCs Shipping With Adware That Poses Serious Security Threat" TechCrunch 7:10 AM
"Lenovo installs adware on its computers that could let hackers steal private data" The Verge 7:14 AM
"Lenovo Says It Has Stopped Pre-Installing Controversial Software on PCs" Re/code 4:16 PM
"My Take on Lenovo, OEMS and Junkware on new computers" SuperSite for Windows 4:16 PM
"In Pictures: 9 futuristic display technologies/Fast-moving tech is redefining the electronic display as screens get bigger, better, and bendier" Computerworld New Zealand 3:35 PM
"Asia Markets: Japan stocks hit 15-year intraday high/Japanese stocks rose to a 15-year high intraday Thursday, as investors took a renewed interest in companies that have shifted their focus back to growth and efficiency." MarketWatch 7:52 AM
"Nikkei's 15-Year Flashback Shows Big Winners, Steve Jobs Fallout" Bloomberg 8:29 PM
"Europe Markets: European stocks seesaw as Greek debt drama persists; energy shares fall/European stocks swung between gains and losses Thursday following the latest twist in Greece's debt drama, as Germany rejected the country's request for a loan extension." MarketWatch 7:53 AM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 1:02 PM
"Midday Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares up at 1 p.m." Associated Press 1:02 PM
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 6:36 PM
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