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"Arrival of the Chromebook Pixel forces slight tagline change for Apple's Retina MacBook Pro" 9 to 5 Mac 10:47 AM
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"Apple's iPhone 5S could jump-start mobile payments" MacDailyNews 3/23
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"Apple Wants Happy Landings For Fallen Phones: A falling iPhone may no longer result in a cracked screen if one or more of Apple's ideas to protect the device bear fruit." Sky News 3/23
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"The cash register rings its last sale: Stores ditch cash registers, allow sales staff and shoppers to checkout on phones and tablets" ["J.C. Penney, a mid-price department-store chain, said the response by customers has been great since it started rolling out iPod Touch devices late last year in its 1,100 stores. The goal is to have one in the hands of every salesperson by May. The company said that about a quarter of purchases at its stores nationwide now come from an iPod Touch. ... Urban Outfitters had given iPod Touch devices to its sales staff two years ago and the move has been very well received by shoppers, said Calvin Hollinger, the company's chief information officer in his address to investors."] Associated Press 3/22
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"Apple Grabs Top Spot In J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Study ... Again" App Advice 3/22
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"Apple tops smartphone satisfaction survey for ninth consecutive time" T3 3/22
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"Customer Satisfaction With Smartphones Increases, Apple Ranks Highest For 9th Consecutive Time" MacPrices 3/22
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"Apple and HP top customer experience ratings for computer companies" Digital Trends 3/22
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"Apple & HP Rated Best For Customer Experience [Report] Cult of Mac 3/22
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"Apple adds 'Offers In-App Purchases' App Store warning to freemium apps: iOS store's tweak makes it clearer which apps offer IAP, which may be a boon for parents" The Guardian 3/22
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"Google To Compete With Apple and Samsung On Smart Watch" Forbes 3/22
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"NYT: Apple allegedly squeezing EU operators on iPhone contracts, regulators looking into it" The Verge 3/22
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"Apple under fire from governments in both hemispheres over alleged anti-competitive practices" 9 to 5 Mac 3/22
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"15 of the App Store's most bizarre offerings" [Slideshow] Macworld 3/22
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"Apple Agrees to Accept Syria Wargame if It Doesn't Include Syria" Forbes 3/22
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"Apple Yanks 'Sweatshop' Game From The App Store. Oh, The Irony" ReadWrite 3/22
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"Apple bans sweatshop iPad game" CNET News 3/22
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"Chinese Students Are Signing Up For Horrific Loans To Buy Apple Products" Cult of Mac 3/22
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"iPad Hacker Appeals With Cyber Law Expert as New Lawyer" Mashable 3/22
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"Steve Wozniak Talks About Early Apple in Newly Found 1984 Videos" The Mac Observer 3/22
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"iPad-Playing Penguins Try to Nip at Virtual Mouse" ABCNews 3/22
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"Watch Nokia's Stephen Elop Lob Someone Else's iPhone On The Floor, Promise To Replace It" TechCrunch 3/22
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"Elop throws an iPhone on Finnish TV, refuses to answer Lumia 928 questions" The Verge 3/22
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"Kid Fakes Kidnapping to Con an iPad" PadGadget 3/22
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"Senate embraces Internet taxes: Senators vote 75 to 24 to glue an endorsement of Internet sales taxes onto a Democratic budget bill, despite opponents predicting the idea is antibusiness and a 'bureaucratic nightmare.'" CNET News 3/22
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"ARM's new CEO: You'll get no 'glorious new strategy' from me" The Register 3/22
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"Twitter Archive Now Supports 12 More Languages" PC Magazine 3/22
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"Forget Passwords! EyeVerify Knows You by Your Eyes" PC Magazine 3/22
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"Temporary fixes released for Samsung Android lock-screen glitch" IDG News Service 3/22
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"Researchers uncover vSkimmer malware targeting point-of-sale systems: Malware is sold on cybercriminal forums, McAfee researchers say" IDG News Service 3/22
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"Tech hub working on 'Nigeria's next big idea'" CNN 3/22
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"China to create home-grown operating system: China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users." BBC 3/22
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"Female coder is sacked for tweeting picture of men who made 'sexist' dongle jokes at PyCon developer conference" The Independent 3/22
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"At AT&T Stores, No Welcome Mat for BlackBerry" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3/22
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"BlackBerry CEO Talks Testing Smartphone-Powered Notebooks and Tablets, Will Share More Info In May" TechCrunch 3/22
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"Blackberry boss Thorsten Heins takes bite out of 'outdated' Apple iPhone: Lack of innovation has left iPhone user interface outdated, he says" The Independent 3/22
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"BlackBerry's U.S. Debut Marks Biggest Test of Comeback" Bloomberg 3/22
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"Micron's Revenue Beats Estimates on Higher Chip Shipments" Bloomberg 3/22
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"Vietnamese high school kids can pass Google interview" The Register 3/22
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"Google Opens Universal Analytics Beta To All, Creates A Single Analytics Platform For Tracking Online And Offline Interactions" TechCrunch 3/22
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"Watch Google's Sergey Brin Talk About The Emasculating Smartphone And Google Glass" TechCrunch 3/22
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"Google Drive hit by three outages this week: One of the incidents affected more than 30 percent of user requests to connect to the cloud storage suite" IDG News Service 3/22
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"Google is also working on a smartwatch, following Apple, Samsung" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 3/22
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"Google's Schmidt nixes Android-Chrome merger talk" V3 3/22
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"Kansas City Hosts Hackathon To Develop Apps For Google Fiber" Forbes 3/22
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"LG developing own iWatch and Google Glass-like wearable gizmo" iDownload Blog 3/22
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"Adobe to Australia: Higher pricing is your 'personalised experience'" ZDNet 3/22
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"Talkcast tonight, 10 pm ET: Watching the detectives" TUAW 6:25 PM
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"iMore show 342: Mobile accomplishments" iMore 3/23
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"Gene Steinberg meets The Loop's Jim Dalrymple, Laptop magazine's Michael Prospero, and Kirk McElhearn, Macworld's 'iTunes Guy,' this week on the Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 3/22
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"Interview with Janice Stillman of The Old Farmer's Almanac" Your Mac Life 3/22
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