"President Trump touts Apple's US investments during State of the Union" 9to5Mac 9:20 PM
"U.S. Probes Apple Over Updates That Slow Older iPhones: The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating whether Apple Inc. violated securities laws concerning its disclosures about a software update that slowed older iPhone models, according to people familiar with the matter." Bloomberg 1:20 PM
"The DOJ Is Investigating Apple for Slowing Down iPhones" Fortune 2:39 PM
"U.S. is investigating Apple over slowed-down iPhones, sources say" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 2:39 PM
"Apple Faces Two Federal Probes Over iPhone Battery Issue: Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating potential securities violations" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:05 PM
"U.S. agencies investigate Apple over slowing iPhones: Bloomberg" Reuters 2:37 PM
"Apple probed by U.S. government over iPhone slowdown" CNNMoney 4:05 PM
"US investigating Apple's use of software to slow older iPhones" CNET 2:40 PM
"US government investigates Apple over iPhone battery slowdowns" Telegraph 2:31 PM
"Apple under investigation by DOJ, SEC for disclosures of its iPhone slow-down update" Ars Technica 2:59 PM
"Amid angst over iPhone X, Wall Street braces for weak forecast from Apple" ["Combined with concerns about the impact of an imbroglio in which Apple acknowledged slowing down phones with worn-out batteries, the weak iPhone X performance has again raised the question of whether the company can keep up its rapid revenue growth without a new hit product."] Reuters 7:00 AM
"Apple is set to report a giant profit. But iPhone X demand worries investors" CNNMoney 2:31 PM
"Apple to Cut iPhone X Production in the Face of Weak Demand: Company will offer its first report on iPhone X sales when it reports earnings Thursday" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:18 AM
"iPhone X boosts Apple OS share in key markets: The latest smartphone OS data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reveals that in the three months ending December 2017 iOS made an overall share gain of 0.7 percentage points to 24.8% across the big five European markets, despite market share falling by 2.4 percentage points in the UK." Kantar Worldpanel 7:21 AM
"Apple iPhone X demand spurs worry, but may be misplaced ahead of Q1 results: The uncertainty around iPhone X demand is sparking a lot of consternation on Wall Street. Rest in peace super cycle." ZDNet 7:48 AM
"Apple iPhone X strategy stumbles but higher prices likely kept sales afloat" USA Today 2:40 PM
"Apple's iPhone X drives gains in key markets" Computerworld 8:47 AM
"Apple Expected to Report Highest Revenue in Single Quarter in Company's History" MacRumors 12:06 PM
"Google Bets a Billion Dollars More Brains Can Help Take On Apple" ["The deal will help Google design more of its own consumer hardware and could set it up to wade deeper into special-purpose chips — like Apple."] Bloomberg 7:19 AM
"Apple will finally replace the fax machine in health care" CNBC 9:15 AM
"Why Apple sells just 2.5% of India's smartphones" CNBC 7:20 AM
"When you play this song backwards, you can hear Satan. Play it forwards, and it hijacks Siri, Alexa: Speech recognition systems seduced by masked messages" The Register 7:02 AM
"Censorship suggested as air quality data intermittently disappearing from Apple's Weather app in China" 9to5Mac 7:30 AM
"Steve Wozniak says he doesn't trust Elon Musk or Tesla anymore: Apple co-founder says Tesla is overhyped, under-delivers" MarketWatch 7:20 AM
"Steven Soderbergh's Unsane was filmed entirely on iPhones — and it looks terrifyingly fantastic" iMore 2:31 PM
Non-Apple News
"Biker Protestor 'Throttles' Traffic Around FCC Headquarters" Gizmodo 3:25 PM
"Amazon just revealed its $4 billion 'Spheres' packed with a mini tropical forest — here's what it looks like inside" Business Insider 10:04 AM
"Amazon is creating a health care company with the help of Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase" Recode 9:21 AM
"Bitcoin mania is hurting PC gamers by pushing up GPU prices" The Verge 7:24 AM
"More proof the revolution in self-driving vehicles is happening far away from roads" ZDNet 7:17 AM
"Google completes its $1.1 billion HTC deal: As announced, the team behind the Pixel phone is joining Google." Engadget 7:17 AM
"Facebook 'no place' for young children" BBC 7:08 AM
"Child experts: Just say 'no' to Facebook's kids app" Associated Press 7:08 AM
"Turn Off Messenger Kids, Health Experts Plead to Facebook" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:08 AM
"Facebook Is Putting More 'Local News' in Your Feed. That's a Lot Harder Than It Sounds." Slate 7:05 AM
"The Zuck promises to give you more local news – and so save the world: Techno Jesus posts latest Facebook teaching" The Register 7:02 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"017: iOS 12 rumors, DOJ Apple probe, Outcast for Apple Watch Daily" 9to5Mac 5:50 PM
"iOS 12"s New Direction, iPhone X Sales Estimates -TMO Daily Observations 2018-01-30" The Mac Observer 1:14 PM
"AppStories, Episode 40 – How Apps Fit Into Our TV and Movie Watching" MacStories 10:04 AM
"New Apple products with custom chips, Facebook's new local focus - Video" CNET 9:21 AM
"Let's Talk iOS 224: The HomePod smuggler" iDownload Blog 7:27 AM
"Scoop: Apple delays iOS features to focus on reliability, performance" ["Software head Craig Federighi announced the revised plan to employees at a meeting earlier this month, shortly before he and some top lieutenants headed to a company offsite."] Axios 7:04 AM
"Apple Pushes Back Some Key iPhone Software Features" Bloomberg 10:59 AM
"Apple Has Delayed Some Planned iOS Features Until Next Year to Focus on Performance and Quality" MacRumors 8:35 AM
"Apple will reportedly hold key iOS features until 2019 to focus on bug fixes and speed" VentureBeat 8:34 AM
"Apple adding its own co-processors to three Macs in 2018, Bloomberg reports" Bloomberg 9:07 PM
"Kuo: Apple's culty iPhone SE is not getting any big changes" Digital Trends 2:29 PM
"Apple is reportedly launching 3 new Macs with custom chips this year" The Next Web 7:27 AM
"Apple supplier Murata says iPhone X output target cuts overstated in report" Reuters 7:19 AM
"iOS 11.3 will allow parents to approve family purchases using Face ID" 9to5Mac 7:47 AM
"Here's how HomePod will handle future software updates" 9to5Mac 2:31 PM
"Apple granted a design patent for a new Mac monitor" Apple World Today 8:19 AM
"Apple patent is for a Video headset that changes perspective as you move" Apple World Today 8:19 AM
AppleCare/Helps
"iPhone or iPad Capitalizing Random Words? Try This Workaround" OS X Daily 2:30 PM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Virgin Mobile to offer cheap, 'pre-loved' iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus handsets" BetaNews 7:27 AM
"Understanding HomePod/Apple's new HomePod is yang to the AirPods yin: The best and easiest way to enjoy Apple Music and AirPlay, and control HomeKit from your living room." iMore 9:21 PM
"Microsoft disables 'buggy' Intel patch" BBC 6:27 AM
"Microsoft releases emergency patch to disable Intel's bork-ridden Spectre fix: It's Crap Inception" The Inquirer 6:32 AM
"Microsoft update disables Spectre patch" Seeking Alpha 6:22 AM
"Microsoft launches Azure Event Grid out of beta" VentureBeat 10:47 AM
"What is Microsoft's 'Polaris' project?" ZDNet 1:00 PM
"Microsoft's Latest Teams Update Bridges App Experiences" eWeek 3:32 PM
"Microsoft Announces January Updates for Office 365" Thurrott 3:33 PM
"Microsoft Tests New Windows Camera Update to Enable Future Innovation" Thurrott 6:12 PM
"Intel warned Chinese firms about Meltdown and Spectre flaws 'before notifying US gov': Chipmaker says firm didn't have time to 'tell everyone it planned'" The Inquirer 6:32 AM
"Intel Chips Without Meltdown, Spectre Flaws Arriving This Year" eWeek 5:54 PM
"Intel Core i3-8310U Dual-Core, Quad-Thread Mobile CPU Leaks With 3.4GHz Turbo Clock" HotHardware 6:04 PM
"Dell could be set to sell itself to VMware" ITProPortal 6:40 AM
"Dell Could Rein in Its Debt Through a Reverse Merger With VMware: Dell owns nearly 82% of VMware, whose stock is up more than 40% in the past 52 weeks." TheStreet 6:41 AM
"Could VMware acquire Dell? Rumours of Dell's future continue to swirl, with the latest claiming that VMware could buy Dell in a reverse acquisition as a way of making Dell public again" CRN UK 6:42 AM
"Dell could go public in VMWare reverse merger, claim sources" bit-tech 6:42 AM
"Dell may sell itself to VMware to go public without an IPO" IT PRO (UK) 6:42 AM
"Dell's Problem: Bigger Not Always Better/Tech giant has beefed up just as rival HP is enjoying benefits of slimming down" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:42 AM
"Dell-VMware Reverse Merger: Good News For Dell Shareholders" Seeking Alpha 6:42 AM
"Dell might sell itself to a company it already owns" Business Recorder 6:42 AM
"HP settles faulty Pavilion laptop class-action by throwing $6.5m at it: Mo' money, less problems it would seem for the notorious HP" The Inquirer 9:10 AM
"Cisco: This VPN bug has a 10 out of 10 severity rating, so patch it now" ZDNet 7:17 AM
"Cisco adds analytics services to its intent-based networking efforts" ZDNet 6:31 AM
"Cisco drops a mega-vulnerability alert for VPN devices: By using 'crafted XML,' attacker could take over routers, security gateways." Ars Technica 11:48 AM
"This is what a quantum computer sounds like" Quartz 6:51 AM
"Reminder — Oracle 18c is autonomous only if Oracle runs it for you" Diginomica 6:53 AM
"MacBooks and Ultrabooks will save the PC market, but smartphones still rule: But traditional notebooks are increasingly toast, says Gartner" The Inquirer 6:31 AM
"How Once-Ailing PC Brand Acer Became The Top Seller Of Chromebooks" Forbes 6:45 AM
"Dow Industrials Have Their Worst Day Since May: Blue-chip index, off as much as 411 points Tuesday, posts consecutive down days for first time in 2018" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:54 PM
"Asia-Pacific markets slide after Wall Street stumbles" MarketWatch 7:06 AM
"European stocks track Wall Street lower, as bond selloff prompts caution" MarketWatch 7:07 AM
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