"Will the Apple Watch Eclipse the Classic Swiss Watch? The Apple Watch Edition is poised to disrupt the long reign of luxury mechanical timepieces. But will the status symbol of the future really be a $17,000 smartwatch?" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:08 PM
"TIME 100 Titans: Tim Cook/It could not have been easy for Tim Cook to step into the immense shadow cast by the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs. But with grace and courage and an unabashed willingness to be his own man, Tim has pushed Apple to unimaginable profitability—and greater social responsibility." Time 8:19 AM
"Apple cooperation with antitrust monitor down 'sharply' - report" Reuters 1:04 PM
"L.A. school district ditches iPad curriculum, seeks refund from Apple" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 8:18 AM
"Pearson, not Apple, to blame for failed L.A. schools technology program" AppleInsider 3:26 PM
"Apple's Mobile Tech Dominance: Marketing Hype Or Just Good Products?" Forbes 7:49 AM
"Here is why the Apple Watch succeeds" Computerworld 7:47 AM
"The Apple Watch is already wiping the floor with the entire smartwatch market" Business Insider 8:30 AM
"Why Apple Is Placing Such a Big Emphasis on Going Green" TheStreet 8:27 AM
"SunPower's China Joint Venture Partners with Apple to Provide Solar Power to the Environmentally-Preserved ABA Region: Innovative, Dual-Use Renewable Energy Projects Protect the Land While Providing Up to 80 Million Kilowatt-hours of Energy per Year" PRNewswire 9:27 AM
"SunPower, Apple to build solar projects in China" Reuters 9:29 AM
"Apple Goes To China To Build Solar Projects With SunPower" Forbes 10:52 AM
"Apple's Clean Energy Footprint Grows on China Deal With SunPower" 24/7 Wall St. 9:29 AM
"Apple officially names Steve Dowling as Vice President of Communications" 9to5Mac 7:08 PM
"Apple officially appoints Steve Dowling to VP of Communications" AppleInsider 9:02 PM
"After fifteen years, Ars says goodbye to John Siracusa's OS X reviews: With OS X 10.10, the legend hangs up his OS reviewing hat." Ars Technica 10:34 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Application discussion is extensive today, prompted mostly by Apple's new Photos app and a range of related issues, from features to undeletable apps (Photos) and disabled ones (iPhotos) to Finder-confusing tricks ('hard links') to larger architectural and business issues involving changes to the Mac platform. Other topics include Apple Remote Desktop issues, a new Microsoft Office 2016 beta release, and media compression and formatting issues for DVD delivery." MacInTouch 4:11 PM
"Yosemite discussion digs into the details of 'Core Storage' and the compatibility issues it raises with Mac OS X 10.6 and older systems, plus more on iPhoto vs. Photos; 10.10.3 update issues, etc." MacInTouch 4:12 PM
"OS X 10.10.3 triggering kernel panics when previewing JPEG files" AppleInsider 10:59 AM
"Fix an incorrect default keyboard layout at the OS X login prompt" MacIssues 3:27 PM
"Apple memo: no Apple Watches to buy in-store throughout May/Exclusive: Read the memo in which Angela Ahrendts has confirmed there will be no Apple Watches to buy in-store during the month of May, seen by The Telegraph" Telegraph 8:05 AM
"Apple quietly updates Watch website, removes April 24th availability date" 9to5Mac 8:09 AM
"Apple Watch Orders Will Remain Exclusively Online Through May, Deliveries Begin April 24" MacRumors 8:13 AM
"Apple Watch won't be available to buy in stores until June" The Verge 8:04 AM
"Apple Watch orders will be online only until June" ZDNet 8:24 AM
"Apple Watch is coming... but when? [Update: not any time soon] BetaNews 8:35 AM
"Apple Watch won't hit store shelves for six or more weeks" MarketWatch 9:29 AM
"No Apple Watches For In-Store Purchase Through May" The Mac Observer 4:02 PM
"U.S. Pizza, IPhones Count Most in China" Bloomberg 8:26 AM
"Lunch With Apple CEO Tim Cook Will Cost You Big Money" PC Magazine 9:28 AM
"Tim Cook Charity Lunch Price HitsĀ $165,000" 24/7 Wall St. 7:45 AM
"Apple Is Buying Up 36,000 Acres Of Forest To Preserve It: The partnership with The Conservation Fund will supply much of the company's virgin paper fiber." BuzzFeed 10:18 AM
"Apple Partners With The Conservation Fund to Protect Working Forests, Ensure Paper Supplies" MacRumors 8:59 AM
"Apple partners with The Conservation Fund to protect 36,000 acres of forest for sustainable product packaging" 9to5Mac 9:08 AM
"Why Apple just bought 36,000 acres of private forestland" Business Insider 10:18 AM
"Ex-iOS chief Scott Forstall became Snapchat advisor in Jan. 2014, Sony leak reveals" 9to5Mac 7:01 PM
"Snapchat paid ousted Apple exec Scott Forstall 0.11% to be advisor, according to leaked email" AppleInsider 7:44 PM
"The Pope's old iPad just sold for $30,500" Cult of Mac 8:43 AM
"Watch: Principal refuses to give student's iPhone 6 back to her parent, offers a flip phone as compensation" BGR 3:00 PM
Non-Apple News
"You Can Now Find Your Lost Phone by Googling It: It only works for Android users" Time 9:53 AM
"Netflix CEO on the TV industry: It had a great 50-year run, but it's over now" Business Insider 8:49 AM
"Man tears tendon after playing Candy Crush for weeks" BBC 7:43 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"TMO Daily Observations 2015-04-16: Apple Stores as Showrooms and Changing Retail Strategies" The Mac Observer 12:52 PM
"Next-Generation iPhones Could Adopt 7000 Series Aluminum Used in Apple Watch Sport" MacRumors 9:44 AM
"Apple is worried Samsung won't make enough chips for the iPhone because the Galaxy S6 is suddenly doing better than expected" Business Insider 8:30 AM
"Apple Watch's hardened aluminum in iPhone 6s could lay Bendgate to rest" Cult of Mac 11:33 AM
"Apple reportedly gives TSMC more chip business for next iPhone" ZDNet 8:24 AM
"TSMC Is Hungry for a Piece of Apple: Taiwanese chip maker, which looks cheap and offers a 3% yield, could be a winner from Apple's next iPhone." Barron's [Paid Membership Required] 8:26 AM
"Apple to equip next iPhone with Force Touch technology" DigiTimes 8:26 AM
"Apple Watch preorders could top 2.3 million, Taptic Engine causing production delays" AppAdvice 8:35 AM
"Alleged 12.9-inch iPad Pro case surfaces" iDownload Blog 8:34 AM
"Purported 12-inch 'iPad Pro' cases show stereo speakers, iPhone rumored to use same 7000 Series aluminum as Apple Watch Sport" 9to5Mac 9:58 AM
"'iPad Pro' Cases Increasing in Quality Ahead of Rumored Fall Launch" MacRumors 10:52 AM
"Apple Watch Sport band is indeed adjustable via unique three-piece solution" iDownload Blog 8:35 AM
"iFixit: Apple's 12in MacBook is near impossible to repair" The Inquirer 8:14 AM
"Apple's Guided Tour videos teach customers how to use a totally new product" TechRepublic 8:09 AM
Apple Patent Applications
"Apple exploring light field image editing software, patent application shows" AppleInsider 8:13 AM
"Apple files patent involving a light-field camera application" Apple Daily Report 8:14 AM
"Apple has spent years working on a type of product that Steve Jobs famously hated" Business Insider 8:28 AM
"Apple Focuses on Multiple Sensors for an Active Stylus Invention" Patently Apple 8:34 AM
"Apple invents Gesture Control Pad for Future Apple TV Remote" Patently Apple 8:34 AM
"Apple patent is for simplified audio instructions on an iPhone, iPad" Apple Daily Report 8:14 AM
"You may soon be able to use your voice to wake up your iOS devices" Apple Daily Report 8:36 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Today's Top iPhone /iPad /Mac App Freebies And Price Drops" Apple Sliced 10:25 AM
"Voice SMS For iPhone Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99)" Apple Sliced 10:25 AM
"Proun+ For iPhone/iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $3.99)" Apple Sliced 10:25 AM
"Yahoo, Microsoft Amend Search Agreement: Yahoo to have more flexibility with the search results in new agreement" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:50 AM
"Yahoo renews its search partnership with Microsoft's Bing" Neowin 9:39 AM
"Yahoo and Microsoft revise 6-year-old search deal with two major changes" VentureBeat 11:09 AM
"Ad Tech And Mobile In Focus In Microsoft And Yahoo's Renewed Search Alliance" TechCrunch 10:01 AM
"Inside Microsoft and Yahoo's search deal make-over" ZDNet 12:16 PM
"Microsoft loses exclusivity in shaken up Yahoo search deal: Yahoo now only needs to use Bing results for a majority of searches." Ars Technica 6:23 PM
"Microsoft, Yahoo restructure search pact; no PC/mobile exclusivity" Seeking Alpha 9:01 AM
"The impossible has happened: Bing has become relevant" BGR 9:32 PM
"Bing's Search Share Cracks 20 Percent" PC Magazine 11:32 AM
"Bing U.S. Desktop search share rises above 20% in March" SuperSite for Windows 7:29 AM
"Microsoft will bundle its apps on Cyanogen's Android OS" The Verge 7:38 AM
"Microsoft apps will be bundled on Cyanogen Android devices" Engadget 8:51 AM
"Microsoft Envisions Surface Cover As A Holographic Interaction Device" Microsoft News 7:49 AM
"Cyanogen announces a strategic partnership with Microsoft, au revoir Google services" Neowin 8:49 AM
"Azure Premium Storage becomes generally available for high-performance data needs" GeekWire 12:35 PM
"Google extends Chrome support for Windows XP until the end of 2015" VentureBeat 12:35 PM
"Microsoft pushes back next SharePoint Server release to Q2 2016" ZDNet 3:20 PM
"What's Meg Whitman fussing over: The fate of HP ... or the font on a DISRUPTIVE new logo? Thrills! Spills! Rectangles!" The Register 7:40 AM
"Upcoming HP Business Has a New Logo" eWeek 12:24 PM
"IBM's X-Force Exchange to make decades worth of cyber-threat data public" ZDNet 7:37 AM
"IBM job growth in Columbia falls short of initial promises" Missourian 7:48 AM
"IBM's 700TB security threat database enters the cloud. Look to the heavens, hackers" The Register 7:52 AM
"IBM shares threat intelligence data in the cloud" V3 1:09 PM
"IBM opens up its threat data as part of new security intelligence sharing platform" IDG News Service 3:28 PM
"The inside story of the multibillion-dollar quest to make faster, cheaper gadgets: Intel, Globalfoundries and other chipmakers have built massive facilities to manufacture more powerful computer chips. It's all part of a race to prove they can keep pace with Moore's Law." CNET 7:42 AM
"Why Intel Will Recover In FY 2015" Seeking Alpha 7:42 AM
"Intel: It Could Have Been Worse" Seeking Alpha 8:59 AM
"AMD revenue falls as PC sales continue to decline" Reuters 4:22 PM
"AMD loss bigger than expected as PC sales remain weak" Reuters 9:34 PM
"AMD abandons the microserver market, takes $75 million hit" Ars Technica 8:11 PM
"AMD withdraws from high-density server business: The company is ditching a business it formed by acquiring SeaMicro three years ago" Computerworld New Zealand 5:22 PM
"Why Advanced Micro (AMD) Stock Might be a Great Pick" Zacks 7:41 AM
"AMD Maintains Historical Trend of Favoring Short Trade off Earnings-Driven After-Hours Movement" Nasdaq 7:41 AM
"ARM wants to make Bluetooth kinder on batteries, more IoT-friendly: The chip designer has acquired two companies to beef up its offerings" IDG News Service 7:25 AM
"ARM buys two low-power IoT firms to launch Cordio for wearables" ZDNet 7:27 AM
"ARM buys two low-power IoT firms to launch Cordio for wearables" ZDNet 7:38 AM
"Samsung is mass producing 'industry's first' NVMe PCIe solid state drives: Boasts an M.2 form factor for use in PCs and workstations" The Inquirer 7:26 AM
"Moore's Law is dead, long live Moore's Law" ExtremeTech 12:23 PM
"Five paths for Moore's Law: Even after the prediction dies, there may be ways to make devices smaller, faster and power efficient, analysts say" Computerworld New Zealand 4:46 PM
"Asia Markets: Hong Kong gains as China considers easing cross-border trading rules/Hong Kong stocks extended gains on Thursday, while Shanghai shares rebounded strongly from earlier losses and jumped to a new seven-year high." MarketWatch 8:00 AM
"Europe Markets: European stocks slip from record high as investors eye Greece/European stocks on Thursday pulled back from a record high as investors kept an eye on Greece's debt situation and sifted through corporate financial updates." MarketWatch 8:00 AM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 2:26 PM
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares down at the close of trading" Associated Press 5:23 PM
"Midday Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares down at 1 p.m." Associated Press 1:03 PM
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