"Sources at major labels say Apple Music hit over 10M subscribers in first month" 9to5Mac 7:44 AM
"Can Apple Music keep its 10 million users? Major labels claim 10 million Apple Music users – but how many will pay for the service after the trial?" Computerworld 8:59 AM
"The Divergent Paths of Apple Inc's Macs and iPads: Mac sales have risen and iPad sales have declined for six consecutive quarters." The Motley Fool 9:10 AM
"Apple and BMW may team up to make electric car" BetaNews 11:59 AM
"Nike's Fuelband misstep: Nike and Apple settle a class action lawsuit over the Nike+ Fuelband For $2.4 million." CNBC Videos 9:09 AM
"Windows 10 or OS X? A Mac User Falls For the PC Again: With a simpler interface and new features, Microsoft's Windows is more like Apple's OS X than ever before" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:54 PM
"OS X El Capitan Beta 5 Brings Bug Fixes" FairerPlatform 7:15 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Yosemite discussion continues on Apple Mail and troubleshooting email service and configuration issues, along with keyboard substitution issues." MacInTouch 4:53 PM
"Office 2016 discussion includes tricks for doing deleted keyboard shortcuts, smaller alternatives to the bloated Word 2016, Microsoft feedback and requirements for a Microsoft account." MacInTouch 4:53 PM
"Critical vulnerability in Apple App Store, iTunes revealed" ZDNet 7:29 AM
"Apple 'fake factory' raided in China" BBC 7:45 AM
"Now is the best time to trade in your old iPhone: A new iPhone can be expensive. If you want to offset the cost by selling your old one, now might be the best time to do it." CNNMoney 7:31 AM
"Apple Pay Now Supports HSBC and First Direct in the UK" MacRumors 7:31 AM
"Apple Watch ads: 15 seconds, short and sweet" Fortune 7:37 AM
"Apple Targets Fitness, Travel, Music Apps in New Apple Watch Ads" The Mac Observer 9:40 AM
"Aaron Sorkin's 'Steve Jobs' selected as Centerpiece of New York Film Festival" AppleInsider 9:01 AM
"Amazon Prime Music arrives in the UK to take on Apple Music and Spotify" The Inquirer 7:40 AM
"T-Mobile will give you a free upgrade to the next iPhone if you buy an iPhone 6" The Verge 10:05 AM
"T-Mobile adds free Apple Music cellular streaming, offers free next-gen iPhone upgrades to iPhone 6 buyers" 9to5Mac 10:05 AM
"T-Mobile Adds Apple Music to Music Freedom Perk" PC Magazine 8:59 PM
"Hawking, Musk and Wozniak call for ban on offensive AI weapons" ZDNet 7:29 AM
"AI weapons are a threat to humanity, warn Hawking, Musk and Wozniak" V3 7:36 AM
"Corning sales miss Street on weak demand for LCD glass" Reuters 9:27 AM
"Ask the wrong question and Google Now will tell you off" CNNMoney 9:05 AM
"Car and pedestrian collision? There'll soon be an app for that: The new system will alert drivers and pedestrians of potential collisions." IDG News Service 7:42 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"TMO Daily Observations 2015-07-28: Google+ gets Smaller, Apple gets Bigger" The Mac Observer 1:51 PM
"Let's Talk iOS 092: Mice and goats" iDownload Blog 8:14 AM
"Variations on a Theme of iOS Devices (Bangkok Post, Life)" eXtensions 7:57 PM
"Your Fitness Tracker May be Wrong, but that Doesn't Make it Bad" The Mac Observer 5:52 PM
"Can Apple Music beat Spotify? Report suggests it's off to a surprisingly strong start" BGR 5:08 PM
"No One Really Needs an Apple Watch Today" The Mac Observer 3:22 PM
"Apple Music licensing, explained: Why most Beats 1 shows won't be podcasts" iMore 2:57 PM
"10,000,000 Apple Music Subscribers? Not So Fast..." Kirkville 11:59 AM
"Comparing Apples to lemons: Windows Phone beats Apple Watch" Macworld 9:36 AM
"I Heart This Overlooked Feature Of The Apple Watch" Techonomy 9:27 AM
"Apple Watches are coming to Best Buy, and this is a good thing" iMore 9:27 AM
"Opinion: A Mac's longevity is its biggest unsung selling point" 9to5Mac 8:57 AM
"Why I dropped everything to create Apple Watch apps" Cult of Mac 8:28 AM
"Why I am Keeping an Eye on the New iPod" Tech.pinions [Subscription Required for Full Article] 8:07 AM
"Everything Should Wirelessly Charge Your iPhone: Samsung supports wireless charging, but Apple has long avoided the technology. That needs to stop." PC Magazine 8:07 AM
"C you never! Apple scraps plans for 4-inch iPhone 6c" Cult of Mac 8:06 AM
"What the Apple Remote says about Apple" Macworld 7:40 AM
"Microsoft preps Windows 10 launch" Seeking Alpha 6:22 AM
"10 Windows 10 migration issues you need to consider" CIO 6:47 AM
"Windows 10 might already be downloading on your Windows 7 and 8 PCs" The Verge 6:38 AM
"New Windows 10 patch available; fixes issues created by previous update" Neowin 6:29 AM
"Microsoft goes over the Windows 10 experience in new video" Neowin 6:30 AM
"Which Lenovo PCs will get free Windows 10 upgrade tomorrow?" ZDNet 6:29 AM
"Microsoft Just Unveiled This Totally Unexpected New Product" Time 12:04 PM
"Microsoft is developing an Android launcher called 'Arrow', now in private beta" Neowin 7:12 AM
"Microsoft has quietly released its own Android launcher" The Verge 6:38 AM
"Is the Microsoft Surface Finally a Success? Sales of the tablet/laptop hybrid have steadily climbed." The Motley Fool 2:43 PM
"Dell, Lenovo Lay Out Windows 10 PC Plans" eWeek 11:21 AM
"Intel, Micron Claim Chip Breakthrough: Companies say new memory chips are 1,000 times faster than current versions" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12:15 PM
"Intel, Micron claim a new class of memory between flash and DRAM: 3D XPoint is 1,000 times faster than flash and 10 times more dense than DRAM, they say" IDG News Service 12:15 PM
"3D Xpoint memory: Faster-than-flash storage unveiled" BBC 12:04 PM
"Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash memory" The Verge 12:05 PM
"Intel And Micron Jointly Drop Disruptive, Game-Changing 3D XPoint (Cross Point) Memory, 1000x Faster Than NAND" HotHardware 2:14 PM
"Intel tests definition of insanity with (leaked) typoslab Skylake CPUs: Ultrabooks, tablets, all-in-one PCs ... these are still selling, right? Right?" The Register 6:46 AM
"Why HP's New Dress Code Policy Is Ridiculous" Forbes 6:44 AM
"IBM Expands Africa Push With $60M Investment" eWeek 11:21 AM
"IBM wants to cool data centers with their own waste heat" ExtremeTech 6:48 AM
"Robbins kicks off new Cisco era with double exec swoop: Chuck Robbins hooks in new chief technology officer and chief digital officer on first day as Cisco CEO" CRN UK 6:45 AM
"Hawking, Musk, Wozniak and 1,000 other AI experts warn about autonomous weapons" The Inquirer 6:28 AM
"China Pushes to Rewrite Rules of Global Internet: Officials aim to control online discourse and reduce U.S. influence" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:03 PM
"Stocks Post First Gain In 6 Days; Twitter, Gilead Leap On Earnings" Investor's Business Daily 4:47 PM
"Dow up nearly 200 as Street ends 5 days of losses" USA Today 4:47 PM
"Wall Street Rebounds After Five-Day Losing Streak as Energy Rallies" FOXBusiness 4:46 PM
"How the Dow Jones industrial average fared on Tuesday" Associated Press 4:46 PM
"Global Stocks Rebound After Selloff: Investors look to Fed statement Wednesday for clues on timing of interest-rate increase" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:46 PM
"China's market may be partying like it's 1929" MarketWatch 6:56 AM
"European stocks stabilize as China fears persist/European stocks rallied Tuesday, bouncing back somewhat from the prior day's China-led global selloff, though traders remained unsettled." MarketWatch 6:55 AM
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