"Apple Is Said to Plan Improved Cloud Services by Unifying Teams" ["The current structure contributes to software bugs and slow product development, the people said. Bringing the teams together at a single, dedicated campus is designed to improve growth of the services business and fight competition from Google and Amazon, the people added. They did not want to be identified talking about private Apple plans. Apple declined to comment."] Bloomberg 7:44 AM
"Apple to unify its separate cloud services teams to improve Siri, Maps, iTunes, iCloud & more" iDownload Blog 8:56 AM
"Apple's Services Teams to Start Working Together to Improve Siri, Maps, iCloud, and iTunes" MacRumors 8:57 AM
"Apple reportedly taking steps to improve its cloud services" The Verge 12:02 PM
"How Apple plans to make iCloud, Siri, and iTunes better: Apple wants to move its cloud services teams under one roof as a bet on the future of the company." Macworld 1:08 PM
"Comment: Samsung buying Viv is bad news for the future of Siri, but all is not lost" ["Many of Siri's original developers, it turned out, had also grown frustrated at Apple's apparent lack of ambition for the intelligent assistant. They wanted to proceed at a much faster pace, and finally parted company with Apple to develop a next-generation assistant, Viv. The demonstration they gave back in May seriously impressed me, and I said then than Viv was what Siri should always have become ..."] 9to5Mac 8:02 AM
"Google to Apple: It's your move now on VR, smart speaker/Google's Daydream View headset and Home speaker are two products that Apple doesn't have an answer for." CNET 9:20 AM
"How Apple could use Netflix to fight Amazon" Business Insider 11:41 AM
"Supply chain suggests Apple to see better-than-expected holiday season, analyst says" AppleInsider 8:01 AM
"How to Edit Siri's Activation Keyboard Shortcuts on macOS" LAPTOP Magazine 3:49 PM
"How to use Photoshop Elements to combine images like a pro: Learn how to use Photoshop Elements to combine photos to create a cool effect." Macworld 8:04 AM
"Travelers: Keep your data secure by using a virtual private network" Macworld 8:03 AM
"Move Around an iMac by Touch: Q. Do the trackpad shortcuts on a MacBook work the same way on an iMac if you buy an external trackpad to use instead of the included mouse?" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 11:45 AM
"Here's the Latest Glimpse at Apple's Spaceship Campus" Fortune 8:50 PM
"Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Device Shipments to Decline for Second Year in a Row" Gartner 10:05 AM
"Gartner predicting iPhone sales decline through 2016, expecting growth in 2017" 9to5Mac 10:05 AM
"Court Agrees with Apple to Delay the Parthenon Unified Memory Architecture Infringement Case until 2017" Patently Apple 11:55 AM
"MacBook Airs and Microsoft Surface haven't stopped the PC slide: The device market is set to decline for the second year running as PC struggles to redefine itself." ZDNet 10:10 AM
"Apple starts showing ads in App Store search results: Part of the company's plan to shake up the app ecosystem" The Verge 8:56 AM
"Search ads show up on Apple's App Store" Engadget 9:26 AM
"The FCC wants ISPs to get permission before sharing your data" Engadget 7:01 PM
"FTC to patent trolls: Stop wasting our time/The US Federal Trade Commission proposes reform to cut down on the frequency of patent-infringement lawsuits." CNET 6:26 PM
"Digitimes Research: Google Pixel shipments expected to reach 3-4 million in 2016" DigiTimes 9:21 AM
"Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple's Siri" TechCrunch 7:48 AM
"With Viv, Samsung challenges Apple...and Google" Computerworld 7:47 AM
"Samsung Still Chasing Its Apple Dreams, Buys Viv AI" The Mac Observer 7:47 AM
"Tech billionaires convinced we live in the Matrix are secretly funding scientists to help break us out of it: Many of the world's richest and most powerful people, including Elon Musk and Bank of America, think that we live in a simulation of the real world" The Independent 7:46 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 169, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino" Daring Fireball 6:34 PM
"TMO Daily Observations 2016-10-06: Samsung Buys Viv AI Platform" The Mac Observer 1:01 PM
"Rebound 106: Chamfered Nausea" Six Colors 11:54 AM
"Happy Hour Podcast 088 | iPhone 7 Plus dual camera impressions, Google's new Pixel, and MacBook anticipation" 9to5Mac 8:56 AM
"The best brands are 'built on product not advertising', says Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: Wozniak dismissed brands such as Google for prioritising ad dollars over product, as he admitted Apple might have reached a plateau." Marketing Week 9:27 AM
"Steve Wozniak says he's stopped backing crowdfunding projects because 'you never get to see their accounting'" Tech Insider 8:11 AM
"The Roku interview: Here's how the streaming-box builder is working through its app issues" TechHive 8:03 AM
"Don't think, just do...join Apple's Orchard" CNET 8:50 PM
"The Mac is the Apple ][ of our times, which is to say, it's dead" Mac Kung Fu 6:34 PM
"Hewlett-Packard Seeks to Exploit Apple's Inattention to Technical Professionals" The Mac Observer 6:26 PM
"Apple Is Going After Fitbit" Above Avalon 3:49 PM
"Google Executive Worried About 'Draconian Future' of Apple: Android mobile operating system explained as effort to head off Apple monopoly" NBC Bay Area 2:21 PM
"Apple's Judicial System: Apple has a judicial system — that is, they have a system where they make judgments and enforce penalties. It's not a criminal judicial system, and so the state and federal laws that govern that system don't apply." inessential 2:20 PM
"I can't wait for Apple to cut the cables" Apple Must 1:01 PM
"Feature Request: Apple Watch Activity rest days, tolerance levels, and an honor system" 9to5Mac 12:04 PM
"Steve Wozniak: Moore's law won't allow machines to become as smart as humans" Business Insider 11:41 AM
"Apple actually has an internal project codenamed 'Pie'" Business Insider 11:41 AM
"Apple's Spaceship campus will hold even more employees than previously thought" Cult of Mac 9:28 AM
"7 iPhone jokes at Google's Pixel event that showed it is obsessed with beating Apple" Telegraph 9:27 AM
"Third time's the charm: Welcome, iPhone-killing Google phone" Macworld 9:26 AM
"We Miss Steve Jobs: Reflections on Steve Jobs' impact, 5 years after his passing" Medium 8:37 AM
"If Steve Jobs walked into Apple Computer now, which products would he nix?" The Loop 8:36 AM
"Apple: 'Battle For The Home Hasn't Started" Mac360 8:30 AM
"Myth Busted: Good Android Smartphones Are Cheaper Than Apple's iPhone 7" Mac360 8:12 AM
"Why Apple Trashed the Headphone Jack, and Whether It Was a Good Idea" The Real Mac Genius 8:10 AM
"Apple's war on buttons: What's next on the chopping block? With Apple, less is more—the company is known for slashing buttons and ports from their products left and right. We have some guesses on what could be the next to go." Macworld 8:04 AM
"Apple Pay in the browser will be bigger than Apple Pay on your phone" Disruptive Views 7:45 AM
Non-Apple
"Facebook's Sneaky Plan to Rule Over America's Internet Is Scary as Hell" Gizmodo 1:07 PM
"Google's Potential Strategic Blunder with Pixel" Tech.pinions [Insider Content] 11:54 AM
"Google's Pixel XL priced like Apple's iPhone 7 Plus, but it lacks numerous key features" AppleInsider 9:35 AM
"Apple Music gains support for SoundCloud-like unofficial remixes thanks to Dubset partnership" 9to5Mac 8:50 PM
"Google Maps for iOS updated w/ more detailed location descriptions, iOS 10 support, more" 9to5Mac 6:58 PM
"Mauritius Radio Live (Online Radio) 1.0 for iOS - Release Info" prMac 6:28 PM
"Prisma for iOS now lets you tweak videos up to 15 seconds long" VentureBeat 2:45 PM
"'The Elder Scrolls: Legends' Soft Launches for iPad in Canada" Touch Arcade 2:26 PM
"Staples, Aeroflot & easyJet add support for Apple Pay on the Web" AppleInsider 12:30 PM
"Staples Now Accepts Apple Pay on Mobile Web" Business Wire 11:48 AM
"Vitamix Partners with Perfect Company to Deliver the Ultimate At-Home Blending Experience" ["Staying on track with health and fitness goals is simplified, as the Perfect Blend App offers meal planning tools, portions individual servings to the user's desired number of calories, and even sends calorie and other nutritional data to popular fitness apps via Apple Health or Google Fit."] PRNewswire 11:47 AM
"CAZE introduces new ultra slim chrome case for Jet Black iPhone 7/7 Plus" MacPrices 11:18 AM
"Duolingo adds AI-powered chatbots to help you learn languages" Mashable 10:10 AM
"8 great iOS gadgets for smart kitchens" Apple Must 7:57 AM
"Microsoft Surface battery life: New updates again hit Surface Pro 4, Book power issues" ZDNet 6:30 AM
"Windows 10 Build 14393 and 14931 Now Available as ISO Downloads" SuperSite for Windows 6:36 AM
"Microsoft Fixes Borked Windows 10 Update" Thurrott 1:58 PM
"Microsoft throws $5m Azure cloud credit at the Alan Turing Institute" The Inquirer 1:58 PM
"Microsoft celebrates a year of Azure in India with some new subscription options" WinBeta 1:56 PM
"Microsoft not long term service Cannonlake or Coffeelake" Fudzilla 7:06 AM
"How much additional performance does Intel's Kaby Lake refresh deliver?" ExtremeTech 11:57 AM
"Intel looks beyond x86 with ARM tech in new FPGA chip: Decision to embrace ARM chips for the FPGA may show a thawing of a previously chilly relationship" Tech Central 6:38 AM
"Intel Kaby Lake CPU Now Supported By All Asus LGA1151 Motherboards" MobiPicker 7:06 AM
"AMD driver update adds Frame Pacing for multi-GPUs" Kit Guru 6:37 AM
"AMD Talks Up Frame Pacing Support Provided For Multiple Radeon Graphics Cards" Digital Trends 2:20 PM
"AMD outs HP desktop systems powered by 7th-gen Pro APU chips: Bristol Ridge-powered PCs take aim at biz market" The Inquirer 6:30 AM
"Dell EMC Updates Archiving with InfoArchive as a Service" eWeek 6:03 AM
"IBM And AT&T Will Extend FlexWare Software Partnership For Virtual Networks" iTech Post 6:42 AM
"RBS taps up IBM's Watson for AI-powered chatbot Luvo" IBS Intelligence 6:42 AM
"IBM, Microsoft, Oracle beware: Russia wants open source, sees you as security risk" ZDNet 1:58 PM
"Benioff Says Salesforce Betting Big on the Success of Einstein A" eWeek 5:57 AM
"Lenovo in talks to buy Fujitsu's PC business: Report" ZDNet 5:58 AM
"Fujitsu considers selling its PC business to Lenovo: Lenovo snapped up most of the PC business of another Japanese company, NEC, in July" IDG News Service 5:55 AM
"Fujitsu Considers Selling PC Business to Lenovo: Fujitsu has been trying to strip out noncore businesses" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:08 AM
"Facebook is talking to the White House about giving you 'free' Internet. Here's why that may be controversial." Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 7:56 PM
"Cloud IT vendors rake in $7.7 billion in Q2" SiliconANGLE 6:37 AM
"Torvalds finds a bug in stable Linux Kernel 4.8 and goes apeshit" The Inquirer 6:35 AM
"Father of Java James Gosling slams cloud vendor lock-in" The Inquirer 10:12 AM
"How Apple could bring overseas cash home to help fix America's crumbling infrastructure: S&P argues for companies to invest 15% of overseas cash in infrastructure bonds" MarketWatch 3:48 PM
"Apple Stock Up, Canaccord Bullish on iPhone 7 Demand" TheStreet 11:44 AM
"Apple: An Analysis Of Quantitative Trading Patterns" Seeking Alpha 11:41 AM
Industry News
"U.S. stocks flat ahead of jobs report; ECB dismisses taper rumors: Twitter plunges as potential bidders back off" MarketWatch 8:52 PM
"Stocks Barely Budge as Wall Street Waits for Friday's Jobs Report" TheStreet 8:52 PM
"Stock Indexes End Narrowly Mixed, But Bad Day For AmEx, Tesla, Twitter" Investor's Business Daily 8:52 PM
"Dow closes slightly lower as jobs report looms; oil climbs back above $50" USA Today 8:52 PM
"Stocks Swing Between Gains and Losses" Reuters 8:51 PM
"U.S. Stocks Flat Ahead of Jobs Report: Treasurys fall for fifth session in a row, while oil cracks $50 a barrel" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:51 PM
"European stocks in the red as airline shares slump" MarketWatch 7:17 AM
"Asian stocks driven higher by dollar, U.S. data" MarketWatch 7:17 AM
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