"Conundrum for Justices: Does a Design Patent Cover a Whole Smartphone?" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:32 PM
"Justices raise doubts about $399M judgment against Samsung" Seattle Times 12:45 PM
"Supreme Court hears Samsung v. Apple oral arguments: Case addresses design patent damage awards" The Verge 12:47 PM
"Apple-Samsung iPhone patent feud leaves U.S. top court struggling" Reuters 2:41 PM
"Supreme Court wrestles with size of damages for Apple design patents: Justices appear to question why an award should be based on the total profits on infringing Samsung devices" PCWorld 2:41 PM
"Clash Between Apple & Samsung In The Supreme Court Could Significantly Impact The Tech Sector" Forbes 5:48 PM
"What spoons have to do with the Samsung-Apple patent lawsuit" PBS NewsHour 5:48 PM
"US Supreme Court shows flexibility in first day of Apple v. Samsung case" AppleInsider 4:12 PM
"Supreme Court may reel in Apple v. Samsung damage award" Ars Technica 9:24 PM
"Apple, Samsung to Argue Patent Case Before Supreme Court: High court to decide if a company can be required to pay all profits on products that infringe a patented design" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:44 AM
"Supreme Court will hear Samsung, Apple damages dispute on Tuesday: Large sections of the tech industry are backing Samsung" IDG News Service 8:14 AM
"Apple and Samsung's patent war heads to the Supreme Court tomorrow: What you need to know" BGR 8:13 AM
"Apple Shares Hit New High for 2016 as Samsung Considers Scrapping Note 7 [Update: Note 7 Officially Discontinued]" MacRumors 8:35 AM
"Irish finance minister stands firm on Apple tax deal in budget speech: Michael Noonan pledge that Ireland's 12.5% corporate tax rate 'will not be change' goes down well in Cork, home to Apple's HQ" The Guardian 2:41 PM
"Apple Mac shipments take a beating in the third quarter as PC shipments decline: Mac shipments declined by 13 percent during the third quarter of 2016, IDC says." PCWorld 5:23 PM
"Apple Mac shipments slide 13% in Q3 amid PC market slowdown" AppleInsider 5:23 PM
"Latest IDC and Gartner data shows Mac sales continue to slow ahead of expected refresh" 9to5Mac 5:24 PM
"More proof the iPhone 8 is getting the huge design overhaul we all want" BGR 1:04 PM
"Apple Seeds Fourth macOS Sierra 10.12.1 Beta to Developers and Public Beta Testers" MacRumors 1:04 PM
"Storagegate? 32GB iPhone 7 / Plus Reportedly Has Slower Storage Than Other Variants" Redmond Pie 8:41 AM
"Apple patents method for embedding light sensors directly onto device displays" AppleInsider 8:04 AM
"Apple patents 'super resolution' multi-sensor cameras with cube prisms" AppleInsider 8:05 AM
"iOS 10 adoption already topping 54%!" iMore 7:56 AM
"Apple: iOS 10 running on 54 per cent of iPhones and iPads/Official figures reveal that uptake is slower than iOS 9" The Inquirer 8:35 AM
"PC Shipments Drop 3.9% as Declines Slow Before Holiday Shopping" Bloomberg 4:15 PM
"Microsoft Windows 10 Event Slated for Oct. 26 in NYC" eWeek 8:22 AM
"Windows patches start getting cumulative for 7, 8, 2008, and 2012: Cumulative fixes and monthly rollups come to the legacy operating systems." Ars Technica 8:10 AM
"Windows 10 Preview Build Improves Reliability on RAM-Flush PCs" eWeek 8:22 AM
"Microsoft, MIT and others launch free education leadership courses" Neowin 8:37 AM
"Microsoft announces GA of Dynamics 365 with AI features" TechCrunch 9:22 AM
"Microsoft Vs. Facebook: The Enterprise SaaS War" Seeking Alpha 7:54 AM
"Microsoft Envision to return next year, registrations now open" Neowin 8:39 AM
"Microsoft announces limited preview of Office 365 adoption content pack for Power BI" Neowin 8:39 AM
"Microsoft's Cortana Intelligence Aimed at Transforming Businesses" eWeek 5:22 PM
"War Games: Microsoft Vs. Sony" Seeking Alpha 4:00 PM
"Intel sampling 14nm Stratix 10 FPGA with ARM cores and HBM2" Hexus 10:08 AM
"Intel shrinks ARM-based FPGA to 14nm: Intel proves it means business with ARM" The Inquirer 4:45 PM
"Dell-EMC races to add and extend flashy bits into its boxen: Hi-cap drives, inline compression, cloud tiering to chop flash storage costs" The Register 9:53 AM
"HPE, IBM, ARM, Samsung and pals in plot to weave 'memory fabric': Everyone but Intel and Cisco working together to build storage-class memory" The Register 9:55 AM
"450mm focus shifts to 300mm, 200mm capacity" EE Times Asia 7:51 AM
"Transistor with a 1nm gate size is the world's smallest: The gate may be small, but the surrounding hardware is still substantial." Ars Technica 7:52 AM
"Citrix Enhances Automation, Flexibility in SD-WAN Offering" eWeek 10:53 AM
"Samsung mass producing 14nm Exynos 7 Dual 7270 mobile application processor" Neowin 12:40 PM
"Apple Will Be A Huge Winner From The Samsung Galaxy Recall" Seeking Alpha 10:08 AM
"$120 Tuesday For Apple As Samsung Gives Up On The Note 7" Seeking Alpha 9:52 AM
"Apple: Is The Street Still Too Negative?" Seeking Alpha 9:49 AM
Industry News
"Weak Start to Earnings Season, Crude Slump Pull Wall Street Into Selloff: Wall Street sells off as a disappointing quarterly performance from Alcoa heralds a poor start to the third-quarter earnings season and crude oil retreats from highs." TheStreet 3:54 PM
"Traders worried about Democratic-induced market rout" FOXBusiness 3:54 PM
"Market Snapshot: U.S. Stocks Slump Most In Nearly A Month On Alcoa's Results, Firm Dollar" Nasdaq 3:55 PM
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