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Weekend Highlights: PC World reports on the complicated relationship of Apple and the Enterprise; Tapscape recalls Steve Ballmer's 10 worst Apple Gaffs; Nobel-Prize winning economist Paul Krugman, admittedly not a tech maven, sees Apple in a worse position than Microsoft considering Ballmer's pending retirement; Carl Icahn wants to press Tim Cook over more aggressive stock buybacks over dinner; VentureBeat shows off some HD video of the reported iPhone 5C; Meanwhile, Redmond Pie shows off images of Gold/Champagne colored alleged iPhone 5S shells; MacNewsWorld exploring the iPhone rumor mill preceding the September 10th announcements, asks if Apple will be able to find the pricing sweet-spot that allows it to maintain "luxury aura, but still make inroads in new markets"; a collective "huh?!" was heard on Thursday after Carl Icahn tweet stating he's having a dinner with Tim Cook and will push for an increase in stock buyback; Judge Lucy Koh denies Samsung's request to delay appeal in rubberbanding patent retrial with Apple; Apple said to have purchased Embark, a public transit app maker in effort to beef up Apple Maps offerings; following reports of Levi Strauss executive jumping ship to Apple ifoAppleStore investigates, finds "details are murky"; iWork for iCloud beta opens up to all folks with an Apple ID; Macworld says the online version is almost as good as the Mac and iOS versions; will Apple bring more TV content to Apple TV by direct negotiations with content providers? Stay tuned!; when it comes to smartphone loyalty, Apple wins out over Android; a feature article in Wired Magazine looks at a University of Michigan lab project which uses wax to cool computer chips; Hon Hai/Foxconn, long an Apple ally, sells augmented reality patents to Google; will iPhone 5S and 5C hit the retail shelves in Japan and China on September 28th?
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1:07 PM
"Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Backed Popular Tile Product Campaign"?AppAdvice?6:48 AM
"Joshua Hill's Developer Resource OpenJailbreak Launches For All"?AppAdvice?6:48 AM
"Apple TV rumours won't go away: Apple has no incentive to try to crack the TV market ? far more likely is a wearable Apple fitness device"?The Guardian?8/23
"Apple negotiating directly with TV content providers for television product, report says"?Macworld UK?8/23
"iPhone Leads Android in Smartphone Loyalty"?AllThingsD?8/23
"iPad and Samsung Galaxy gain market share as Kindle Fire sputters, says Jumptap"?DigiTimes?8/23
"iPad and Samsung Galaxy Gain Market Share as Kindle Fire Sputters"?MacPrices?8/23
"Is Apple Finally Adding Ratings Into Ranking Factors?"?The Fiksu Blog?8/23
"Apple changing app store ranking: adding ratings, now updating every 3 hours"?VentureBeat?8/23
"China Mobile's 4G Network Good News for Apple, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson - China Mobile"?24/7 Wall St.?8/23
"Your Future iPhone May Be Stuffed With Wax" ["It's a Core i7 microprocessor ? the same chip that runs many of today's desktop and laptop PCs ? and the wax is stuffed into a metal mesh surrounding this tiny sliver of silicon. When someone cranks the chip well beyond its recommended speeds, the wax absorbs the extra heat coming off the silicon, and at 54 degrees Celsius, it starts to melt."]?Wired Magazine?8/23
"Let the smartphone wars continue; 85% of iPhone owners are likely to upgrade to a new model"?AppleDailyReport?8/23
"Central FL's Lynn University ditches textbooks for iPads for freshmen"?MacNN?8/23
"Apple Posts Summer Theater Mac Pro Commercial to YouTube"?The Mac Observer?8/23
"Apple narrows date for next Mac Pro ? Says Coming Fall in new Trailer"?Architosh?8/23
"Magic Beard: Man Uses iPhone App And Ton Of Facial Hair To Create Amusing Viral Video"?Digital Trends?8/23
"Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs...and Sheryl Sandberg? The star of the movie Jobs lights up Twitter and YouTube with an inspiring speech that evokes not only Apple's late CEO but also Sheryl Sandberg and her Lean In lessons."?Fortune?8/23
Non-Apple News
"AWS Server Issues Take Down Instagram, Vine, Airbnb And IFTTT"?TechCrunch?6:38 PM
"Amazon Web Services experienced minor outage on Sunday"?GigaOM?7:39 PM
"Double trouble: Both Vine, Instagram suffer outages/What are the odds? Both services experience downtime Sunday afternoon."?CNET News?5:05 PM
"Google blocks Chromecast app that let you stream your own videos"?The Verge?4:20 PM
"LG Prepares for the Next Wave of Mobile TV Smartphones"?Patent Bolt?10:09 AM
"Yahoo buys image recognition firm IQ Engines to reorganize Flickr"?Engadget?8/24
"Guardian teams up with New York Times over Snowden documents"?Reuters?8/24
"Regulators beware, Uber has a very powerful friend: Google"?The Next Web?8/23
"NSA Paid Tech Companies Millions For Prism: Leaked documents show taxpayer cost of involving Google, Microsoft and other tech companies in Prism digital dragnet."?InformationWeek?8/23
"Sleep Texting Is The Latest Digital Epidemic You Don't Need To Be Worried About"?Digital Trends?8/23
"Apple supplier Foxconn sells augmented reality patents to Google, probably for Google Glass"?VentureBeat?8/23
"Google Car + Uber = Killer App"?Forbes?8/23
"Google Buys Patents From Apple Ally Hon Hai"?WSJ Blogs?8/23
Publications/Podcasts
"New digital version of best selling film editing book: Timeline Digital"?prMac?6:52 AM
"The core of Apple's problem is Tim Cook, Scoble says"?VentureBeat?8/23
"Podcast: Gold iPhone, Fingerprint scanners, mobile gaming, Zombies & in-app purchases"?Insanely Great Mac?8/23
"Multiple iPhone 5C Units Snapped At Pegatron Factory"?TechnoBuffalo?8/24
"Picture of iPhone 5Cs leaked by Pegatron employee"?9 to 5 Mac?8/24
"Champagne / Gold iPhone 5S Shell Leaked Again In New Set Of High Quality Photos"?Redmond Pie?8/24
"iPhone 5S 5C Release Date: China launch on November 28th?"?BGR?8/23
"iPhone 5S, 5C release date set in China, rumor claims: Following news about Japan's release date for the iPhone 5S, a new rumor from China tries to peg that country's date for the iPhone 5S and 5C."?CNET News?8/23
"New report claims iPhone 5S, 5C will launch in China on November 28"?iDownload Blog?8/23
"Apple Inc. iPhone 5S, 5C Release Date For China Out"?ValueWalk?8/23
"Alleged retail packaging leak confirms iPhone 5S name and 128GB model"?TechnologyTell?8/23
"Reward Summit for iOS helps you choose what credit card to use to maximize points and rewards"?iMore?8/24
"Dystopian Text-Based Puzzler 'Blackbar' Arrives in App Store"?MacRumors?8/24
"New iOS Game: Blackbar Creates Its Own Category"?Kirkville?8/24
"No more nagging: 5 apps for sharing tasks at home"?GigaOM?8/24
"Cassandra: Not all Photo Apps Suit -Studio Design"?eXtensions?8/24
"Pocket Is The Better Way To Manage News On Your Mac, iPhone, and iPad For Free"?BohemianBoomer?8/23
"'League of Evil 3' Review - Same Old, Same Quality"?Touch Arcade?8/23
"The Drowning ? Call The Lifeguard, This Game Is Sinking"?Apple'n'Apps?8/23
"SolForge Review: Control armies of zombies, mystical creatures, cybernetic troops, and more in this free-to-play trading card game."?148Apps?8/23
"Zombies Ate My Friends Review: This sidescrolling RPG puts players right in the rotting heart of a zombie apocalypse."?148Apps?8/23
How-To/Tutorial
"How-to: Setup and use Dropbox to manage and share photos,?files"?9 to 5 Mac?8/24
"How to get great graphic designs using stock images"?Macworld?8/23
"How to save storage space by removing photos from your iPhone"?iDownload Blog?8/23
Tips
"How will a cheaper iPhone 5C affect pricing for older iPhones? In this edition of Ask Maggie, CNET's Marguerite Reardon offers some advice about buying an older iPhone in light of a new, less-expensive iPhone 5C potentially hitting the market."?CNET News?8/23
"New iPad Pro in larger form envisioned"?Phones Review?10:06 AM
"The People Have Spoken, The Favorite New iPhone Colors Are Still Black And White"?Forbes?9:03 AM
"Steve Ballmer Quotes: Top 10 Apple Gaffs"?Tapscape?6:38 AM
"Apple's Gold iPhone Joins The New Smartphone Battlefield of Color And Customization"?Forbes?8/24
"The Macalope Weekly: Farewell"?Macworld?8/24
"Apple trolls, you reap what you sow"?iMore?8/23
"iPhone 5C: What we expect about the announcement, specs, and release date of Apple's rumored cheaper iPhone/Apple's cheaper iPhone 5C doesn't officially exist, but plenty of gossip suggests that it does. CNET details what we know, what we think we know, and what we don't know."?CNET Reviews?8/23
"How We Came to Understand Apple's Unreleased iPhone 5C"?The Mac Observer?8/23
"A Quick Fix for Apple TV's Netflix Woes"?TidBITS?8/23
"Apple, Samsung do not have to publicly disclose profits, court rules"?AppleInsider?8/23
"Why Steve Jobs worked as a manager but not in a movie"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?8/23
"Exclusive T3 render of the Apple iPad Pro"?T3?8/23
"What Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Living In The Post PC Era"?Forbes?8/23
"The state of Apple's TV quest"?The Loop?8/23
"When Apple's Iron Fisted Control Backfires Users Suffer"?The Mac Observer?8/23
"Plants vs. Zombies 2 Pro-Tips: Free-to-Play or Free Forever?"?148Apps?8/23
"Do we really need yet another photo sharing app? No, we do not"?TUAW?8/23
"Should Apple Change its Stance on Touchscreen MacBooks"?Apple Gazette?8/23
"How the Apple Maps fiasco paved the way for Jony Ive's iOS 7"?BGR?8/23
"Samsung Apple rubber band patent retrial denied"?BGR?8/23
"The Fear And Desperation Of Apple's Competition"?Mac 360?8/23
"Dozens of iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C Photos Revealed"?PhoneBuff?8/23
"Is this the budget iPhone 5c?"?T3?8/23
"Champagne iPhone 5S: The New Gold?"?Tapscape?8/23
Non-Apple
"Microsoft: Google's corrupting your kids at school/Oh, those terrible people at Google. In the latest 'Scroogled' ad, Redmond says Google is peddling vitamin supplements to kids. And that's not all."?CNET News?5:06 PM
"How 'Minecraft' Is Shaping The Future Of Touch Interfaces"?Digital Trends?9:35 AM
"5 Reasons Why You Should Get a Tracking App on Your Mobile Device"?Social Barrel?7:03 AM
"VMware Killed the Past. Can It Claim the Future?"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?8/24
"Medium needs to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up"?GigaOM?8/24
"Why you plug gadgets into the wall like a Neanderthal: Wireless charging? We have the technology; what we don't have is industry vision: or unity."?Computerworld?8/24
"iFixit teardown of Moto X finds it plenty repairable"?Engadget?8/23
"Running with Google Glass: This app lets you race against a ghost version of yourself"?GeekWire?8/23
"This Insane Samsung Ad Is Insane for a Reason That Samsung Wants Hidden"?Valleywag?8/23
"My Lady Brains Can't Comprehend This Terribly Sexist Samsung SSD Commercial"?Digital Trends?8/23
"Five Reasons Ballmer Had To Go"?Forbes?8/23
"Microsoft, With CEO Ballmer Headed For Exit, May Need Outsider To Drive Innovation Fix"?Forbes?8/23
"Microsoft's Big Risk As Ballmer Departs: Windows Phone"?InformationWeek?8/23
"Best of Ballmer: The products and moments that marked the tenure of Microsoft's CEO"?The Next Web?8/23
"Ballmer: Microsoft doesn't want to be IBM (or Apple)"?CNET News?8/23
"What Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did for Xbox ? and what his retirement means for its future"?VentureBeat?8/23
"Steve Ballmer's leaving. Now what?"?CNNMoney?8/23
"Ballmer is Retiring. A Look Back and a Look Ahead for Microsoft"?Tech.pinions?8/23
Humor/Cartoons
"56 Steve Ballmer Photoshops in Honor of His Retirement"?Gizmodo?8/23
"Crowdfunding roundup: eleMount car & camera mount, TILT Stealth Cooling Station, Piper home automation,?more"?9 to 5 Mac?6:14 PM
"Simple Generative Music App Poly Gains Universal Support For iPhone And iPod touch"?AppAdvice?5:09 PM
"Photoful Updated With Empty Trash Workaround, Screenshot Support And Other Features"?AppAdvice?11:32 AM
"What Do You Want To Be? - An Educational Mobile Application"?prMac?7:03 AM
"HelloLab 1.0 - A different kind of Photo Camera for iOS"?prMac?8/24
"InWeby - The First and The Only Full-featured Website Builder for iPad"?prMac?8/24
"See through government censorship in Blackbar"?iMore?8/24
"Right Wrong Word Game now available on iPad"?prMac?8/24
"Wheel Introduces A Quick New Way To Apply Photo Effects On iOS"?AddictiveTips?8/24
"New Job Listing Suggests League Of Legends For iOS Could Be Incoming"?AppAdvice?8/24
"Oceanhorn - Debut Trailer is here!"?Oceanhorn?8/23
"Coming August 24: Gene Steinberg meets John Martellaro, from The Mac Observer, and Avram Piltch, from Laptop magazine, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?8/23
"iOS Hackers And Devs Gather For JailbreakCon 2013"?Cult of Mac?8/23
"Rdio For iOS Gets Station Tuning, New Collection Options"?MacStories?8/23
"Rdio For iOS Gets Station Tuning, Improved Search, And Redesigned Collection"?Cult of Mac?8/23
"'Candy Crush Saga' Update Adds a New Episode and More Levels"?Touch Arcade?8/23
"Tempo Smart Calendar Adds A New Company Card To Better Connect You With Companies"?148Apps?8/23
"Music Libraries Become Personalized Radio Stations with New iPhone App SongSpeaker"?PRNewswire?8/23
"The Next Candy Crush Saga? Colorful Match-Three Game Jelly Splash Launches On iOS"?AppAdvice?8/23
"Cloud Spin lets you take to the skies in a fantasy adventure"?iDownload Blog?8/23
"Jimdo for iOS Enables Website Creation, Editing On the Go"?Mac|Life?8/23
"BlackBerry leaks BBM manuals for iOS, Android, hints at launch"?Electronista?8/23
"Pandora's iOS and Android apps get sleep timer, might protect against data-limit night terrors"?Engadget?8/23
"Pandora To Drop 40-Hour-Per-Month Limit On Mobile Ahead Of iTunes Radio Launch"?AppAdvice?8/23
"iPad Animation App Loop Captures The Fun Of Making Doodled Flipbooks"?TechCrunch?8/23
"Modus III Is A Portable Workstation That Wants To Turn Your iPad Into A Desktop"?TechCrunch?8/23
"ControlCraft 3 - Sequel to Popular Action Strategy Game Now on iOS"?prMac?8/23
"Baby's Day Out 1.0 for iOS - Fertility, Ovulation and Period Tracker"?prMac?8/23
"Call Voice Changer-IntCall 2.0 Disguises Voice for Fun Phone Pranks"?prMac?8/23
"Dazzling Wasabi Storybook App Delivers Common Core Aligned Edutainment"?prMac?8/23
"Duck Duck Moose Launches Moose Math"?prMac?8/23
"'Podium', the best iPhone case / dash mount ever."?MadMacMods?8/23
"Steve Ballmer's Microsoft years: What the critics are saying"?Fortune?7:16 AM
"Windows 8 stains Ballmer's legacy: Over-optimistic predictions of Windows 8's success led to CEO's downfall"?Computerworld?10:03 AM
"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer forced out after US$900M Surface RT debacle"?Computerworld?7:53 PM
"Next CEO's Biggest Job: Fixing Microsoft's Culture/At Software Giant, Taking the Safe, Profitable Route Often Wins Out Over Innovation"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?7:45 PM
"Starting Monday: the jury trial that wouldn't have to be held if not for Google's patent schizophrenia"?Foss Patents?6:14 PM
"Microsoft, Motorola set for second round of trial over patents"?Reuters?7:03 AM
"Terry Myerson: what you need to know about the new head of Windows/IN DEPTH A colourful history"?TechRadar UK?7:38 AM
"Screenshot shows Windows 8.1 at build 9600; no leak yet"?Neowin?7:17 AM
"Intel Core i7-4771 Quad-Core CPU Available for Pre-Order"?Tom's Hardware?7:14 AM
"Intel Still Has The Potential To Become A Leader Once Again"?Seeking Alpha?11:21 AM
"Intel setting up shop in NY, LA ahead of television push"?Electronista?7:14 AM
"Eric Schmidt calls Oracle CEO's claims about Google 'simply untrue'"?The Verge?6:13 PM
"Lenovo, Taking Page From Apple, Chases Samsung in China"?Bloomberg?7:50 PM
"CEO Exit Sets Microsoft on New Path: Steve Ballmer to Leave Within a Year; Stock Jumps 7%"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?8/24
"3 people who can lead Microsoft after Steve Ballmer"?TG Daily?8/24
"Only an outsider CEO can help Microsoft: Unless Microsoft finds its next CEO outside its current and former ranks, it won't change, say analysts"?Computerworld New Zealand?8/24
"Ballmer's Exit Marks the End of an Era at Microsoft"?eWeek?8/24
"A New Direction For Microsoft As CEO Steve Ballmer Retires Within 12 Months"?Seeking Alpha?8/24
"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months; board searches for successor"?Asian Age?8/24
"Microsoft releases to manufacturing Windows 8.1: Sources"?ZDNet?8/24
"Windows 8.1 Release To Manufacturing (RTM) Finalized, Will Be Available On October 17th"?Redmond Pie?8/24
"Windows 8.1 is ready for its October 17th release"?The Verge?8/24
"Bing intros robust product results for snappier impulse shopping"?Engadget?8/24
"Microsoft Shares Jump As Ballmer Announces He Will Step Down Within 12 Months"?RazorianFly?8/24
"Intel setting up shop in NY, LA ahead of television push"?Electronista?8/24
"AMD Rocks Gamescom 2013: Partners with Publishers to Showcase Latest PC Gaming Evolved Titles"?HotHardware?8/24
"Cisco patches serious vulnerabilities in Unified Communications Manager"?Global Data Point?8/24
"HP CEO Whitman: Acquisitions Are in Company's Future"?eWeek?8/24
"Lenovo's PC 'Start menu' may just be another form of bloatware"?BGR?8/24
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