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Tuesday Highlights: Chris Foresman of Ars Technica claims inside info on Apple's education announcement which suggests Apple will "digitally destroy" text book publishing, offering set of tools like "GarageBand for e-books", but Philip Elmer-DeWitt believes this to be "seriously over-hyped", and Techland's Matt Peckham says "don't bet on it" noting that the Ars article actually "contradicts the (melodramatic) headline" from Apple's invite—plenty more opinion on the matter in our Op/Ed section; from Fortune's "Inside Apple" book comes this titillating tidbit: Scott Forstall is "CEO-in-waiting" at Apple presenting "one of the great internal dramas of Cook's tenure"; Apple pushes on against Samsung filing new design lawsuit in Germany against 10 of Samsung's smartphones; here's how to contact Microsoft for support of their Mac products; Alec at Foliovision reviews Witopia 2012 VPN for OS X; Steve Jobs action figure production stopped following "immense pressure" from Apple, the Jobs family; Woz says he loves his iPhone, but wishes it could do all the things his Android phones do, finds Siri lacking as compared to Google's voice recognition; Cool Springs Galleria in Nashville, TN slated to fill vacating Abercrombie & Fitch store with an Apple Store; iPad 3 panels expected to exceed iPad 2 panels (shipments) in 2Q of 2012; Apple granted patents for Smart Garments for exercisers, among others in our Hardware/Software section; Tim Bajarin explains why he believes Microsoft and Google are afraid of Siri; David Morgenstern throws his opinion in the ring as to the "great iPhone mute switch crisis" debate between Gruber and Ihnatko.
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"Apple Macs Land on More Corporate Desks: Inside General Electric, Employees Can Now Choose Apple Over Windows PCs. One Hitch—Most Don't Know They Can" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:29 PM
"Apple To Announce Tools, Platform To 'Digitally Destroy' Textbook Publishing" Ars Technica 7:55 AM
"Apple's education event is getting seriously over-hyped: The goal is to sell more iPads to schools, not to destroy the textbook industry" Fortune 8:05 AM
"Apple's Textbook Push Spotlights Executive/As Apple Inc. prepares to unveil a new digital-textbook service on Thursday, the spotlight is falling on its vice president who is leading core aspects of the new service: Roger Rosner." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:24 PM
"Apple to Give a Lesson About Textbooks" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:12 AM
"Apple may be about to transform textbooks" [Audio Report] MarketWatch 7:11 PM
"Scott Forstall is Apple's 'CEO-in-waiting' says new book: The senior VP's chief weakness, writes Fortune's Adam Lashinsky, is his naked ambition" Fortune 8:05 AM
"Watch out, Tim Cook: Apple VP Scott Forstall is eyeing your job" CNET News 7:55 AM
"Apple Files German Design Suit Against 10 Samsung Smartphones" Bloomberg 8:25 AM
"Apple seeks ban on Samsung phones in Germany" CNET News 10:26 AM
"Apple files new lawsuit, seeks new ban against Samsung in Germany" ZDNet 10:31 AM
"Motorola Thwarts Apple Patent Attack With ITC Ruling" MacNewsWorld 8:39 AM
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"How to hide, unhide purchased apps in the Mac App Store" MacFixIt 7:28 PM
"Increase DVD Ripping Speed by Removing 'Riplock'" The Mac Observer 3:30 PM
"Enable local Time Machine snapshots on a desktop Mac" Macworld 7:54 AM
"Creative audio workarounds in iMovie for iOS" Macworld 8:39 AM
"Use Your Mac To Create A Digital Wallet With Super Secret Personal Data" Mac 360 8:17 AM
"The Easy Way To Save Money And Edit PDF Files The Non-Adobe Way" Mac 360 8:17 AM
"Printing Multiple Emails at Once in OS X Mail" The Mac Observer 1:04 PM
"Convert Clipboard contents to plain text" Mac OS X Hints 9:40 AM
"Search iTunes Radio list by making a new playlist" Mac OS X Hints 9:40 AM
"Get iTunes track notifications in your Dock" Mac OS X Tips 1:42 PM
Op/Ed
"Rough Edges: Making The Mac The Same As The iPhone" AppleBitch 1:05 PM
"Lion discussion includes file management changes; Mission Control on multiple monitors; Versions and Auto-save issues; compatibility; etc." MacInTouch 8:57 AM
"Tennessee Wins 2012 Apple Store Lottery Slot" ifoAppleStore 8:12 AM
"Apple offers cash for old kit: Apple has begun paying punters for any of its old products they own but no longer want." Register Hardware 8:04 AM
"Scratch Shield: Nissan Introduces World's First Self-Healing iPhone Case" TechCrunch 7:56 AM
"Nissan applies scratch resistant auto paint to self-healing iPhone case" Insanely Great Mac 10:01 AM
"The Real 'Apple' iPhone Ready to Bite (Video)" M.I.C. Gadget 7:54 AM
"ShopKeep Raises $2.2 Million for Web-based iPad Cash Register" WSJ Blogs 9:44 AM
"Rockers One Like Son Record Full Album Using Only iPhones" TechCrunch 9:44 AM
Non-Apple News
"802.11ac to become mainstream WLAN standard in 2013-2014, says Broadcom vice president" DigiTimes 9:22 PM
"Jerry Yang Has Left the Building; Resigns From Yahoo, Alibaba Boards" mocoNews 4:32 PM
"Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigns" CNNMoney 4:32 PM
"Yahoo: Jerry Yang Resigns; A Sign That A Deal Is Near?" Forbes 4:31 PM
"Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang leaving company: Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigns from company's board after 17 years" Associated Press 4:31 PM
"Yang Resigns From Yahoo" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:31 PM
"Yahoo! Announces Resignation of Jerry Yang" Business Wire 3:59 PM
"Google to protest SOPA on its homepage tomorrow" VentureBeat 1:51 PM
"Ice Cream Sandwich update failing on some Transformer Primes" CNET News 11:52 AM
"Nano Coating Could Make All Gadgets Waterproof" Wired 11:33 AM
"Why I want to bring down the internet – for a day: Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder, hopes sites from Google to Twitter will join his protest against a legal crackdown" The Independent 10:40 AM
"Android Ice Cream Sandwich gets free NFC stack" EE Times 11:05 AM
"Google expected to post strong earnings: Wall Street expects strong top-line gains as search, mobile gains" MarketWatch 11:44 AM
"Google's 'open sesame' login ditches passwords" ZDNet Australia 11:39 AM
"Google's QR code log in experiment concluded" ZDNet 11:38 AM
"Google launches campaign to teach the basics of Internet safety" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10:54 AM
"Facebook Koobface worm 'hacker gang named'" BBC 10:13 AM
"Check Point Software net up on new products" MarketWatch 9:48 AM
"CEO of the Year: Cloud, Fire lifted Amazon's Bezos" MarketWatch 9:47 AM
"Electronic Arts' Riccitiello aims high: Videogame publisher moves to get ahead of shifting industry" MarketWatch 9:47 AM
"Samsung to fold Bada smartphone platform into Tizen" V3 11:29 AM
"Another OS Bites the Dust: Samsung to Fold Bada Into Smartphone Linux Project" AllThingsD 9:47 AM
"Max Payne 3 Rescheduled for May Release" PC Magazine 10:51 AM
"Take-Two sees year loss on 'Max Payne 3' delay" MarketWatch 9:48 AM
"Tech warriors unplug for yoga respite" San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 10:59 AM
"Data Meets Devices at Gadget Show" WSJ Blogs 9:40 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Rumor Has It, Ep. 16: Whew! iPad 3 is coming! (podcast)" CNET TV 4:43 PM
"Mac Geek Gab Podcast: MGG 375: Tips on Dock, Resume, AppleCare, Gmail, Ripping, & More" The Mac Observer 4:01 PM
"iPad Live 88: The last iPad Live ever!" iMore 9:04 AM
"Steve Wozniak at the Maryland Apple Corps 2003 part 1" [From reader email, this video shows "Woz talking about the beginnings of Apple with Steve Jobs"] Razz TV 8:29 AM
"Apple Wins Patents for Advanced Trackpads, iPhone Headset & More" Patently Apple 3:29 PM
"Steve Jobs Credited with an Apple TV Patent for Episodic TV" Patently Apple 10:39 AM
"Apple Wins Smart Garment & iPhone Circuit Board Patents" Patently Apple 8:17 AM
"Apple Plans For Exercisers To Wear A 'Smart Garment" MacNews 8:48 AM
"Apple Patent Involves App Management On Mobile Devices" MacNews 8:49 AM
AppleCare/Helps
"When new apps and old iOS devices don't mix" Macworld 1:47 PM
"Apple TV - more about audio output options, DACs (digital-analog converters), room acoustics, and differences between first- and second-generation AppleTV models" MacInTouch 8:57 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
"PadGadget Daily App Deal – 11 iPad Apps on Sale" PadGadget 8:38 AM
"13" MacBook Pro Prices & Deals" MacPrices 8:49 AM
"15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 8:49 AM
"What's in a Brand Anyway?" ["Apple, which jumped from No. 17 in 2010 to No. 8 last year, might be the best example of a brand commanding loyalty and a margin premium in recent years."] The Motley Fool 3:36 PM
"Power Mac G5: The Economical Alternative to a Mac Pro" Low End Mac 1:32 PM
"Hidden Dimensions: Apple, The Perils of Power and Human Emotion" The Mac Observer 1:06 PM
"The PC Landscape is About to Change – Here's Why" Tech.pinions 10:54 AM
"My Thoughts Regarding the 'iPad 3'" iSource 3:38 PM
"English-Speaking Countries Usually Get The Best Prices On Earth On New Apple Products" Cult of Mac 10:49 AM
"Role reversal: Apple's the corporate standard for mobile/Neither Apple nor IT was looking for the iPhone to be the standard business smartphone, yet that's exactly what it's become" InfoWorld 10:45 AM
"The iPad3: A Shiny New Object for Hackers?" Forbes 10:36 AM
"Opinion: How Apple has changed enterprise computing, forever" Computerworld 10:28 AM
"The Macalope Daily: Whiplash" Macworld [Insider Content] 9:41 AM
"Steve Jobs' Failure To See Light In OLED Could Cost Apple" Forbes 9:38 AM
"Apple's Scott Forstall Will Be Tech Giant's Next CEO [Report] Cult of Mac 9:15 AM
"Scott Forstall's 10-year wait for the prize" Mac.Blorge 8:58 AM
"Adam Lashinsky's look 'Inside Apple' profiles iOS head Scott Forstall as Apple's 'CEO-in-waiting'" 9 to 5 Mac 8:38 AM
"Another Part of the Apple Integrated TV Equation" The Tech Night Owl 8:22 AM
"Was it Steve Jobs' literally dying wish to upend another lazy industry -science and academic publishing? We'll know more this Thursday" Les Posen's Presentation Magic 8:21 AM
"PC sales continue to swirl the bowl" Tech.Blorge 8:21 AM
"Here's The Man Leading Apple's Textbook Push" Business Insider 7:30 PM
"Do We Need A 'GarageBand For Books?'" TechCrunch 3:38 PM
"Apple Education Announcement Is 'GarageBand For E-Books'" Wired 9:42 AM
"Apple 'education' announcement: GarageBand for textbooks?" ZDNet 8:48 AM
"Apple Poised to 'Digitally Destroy' Textbooks? Don't Bet On It" Techland 8:46 AM
"Report: Apple's Education News Could Be A Textbook Example Of Its Growth" mocoNews 8:38 AM
"Apple Set to Reinvent E-books with Simple New Publishing Tools" PadGadget 8:37 AM
"Android could benefit from Apple's leap in eBooks for education" Android Community 8:14 AM
"Apple to Introduce 'GarageBand for Ebooks' [Rumor] Mashable 8:13 AM
"How to cope with HTML5's dueling standards bodies" Computerworld 10:21 AM
"After Zappos Hack, Some Online Security Tips" ABCNews 10:13 AM
"Smartphone Keyboards Vs. Your Productivity: What's keeping you from being more productive with your smartphone? Users gripe about keyboards and password requirements, survey says." InformationWeek 10:10 AM
"10 Security Trends To Watch In 2012: From cyber espionage to Android malware, expect to see a greater variety and quantity of attacks than ever before." InformationWeek 10:09 AM
"What the Geeks Are Giving You in 2012" TheStreet 9:36 AM
"The trouble with CES: too much electronics, not enough consumer" ZDNet 11:37 AM
"At CES, a Preview of Tomorrow's Wearable Computers" Technology Review 11:20 AM
"Reporters' notebook: Why we go to CES" EE Times 10:25 AM
"Smule's Ge Wang plays Magic Guitar for us at CES" TUAW 8:39 PM
"WhatsApp Messenger Updated: Now Available Again." eXtensions 7:11 PM
"Shush 2.0/By now I am somewhat famous for my slowness in adopting the iOS platforms for my major apps: MarsEdit and Black Ink. The truth is I have been working on these releases for years, but it's also true that work has been intermittent as I refocus on Mac versions of my apps and on other commitments in my life." Red Sweater Software 4:04 PM
"InCase announces Thermo Snap Case for iPhone 4/4S" AppleTell 1:35 PM
"Nando's finally launches iOS and Android app for UK chicken lovers" The Next Web 10:49 AM
"Clackety DAS Keyboard, Now available in Mac" Wired 9:43 AM
"'Push Panic!' Re-Released, Goes Free for a Short Time" Touch Arcade 9:41 AM
"Oxygen Forensic Suite 2012 Adds Social Networking Analysis for iOS/Android Devices" PRWeb 9:24 AM
"Case-Mate Barely There Brushed Aluminum Case Reviewed by iPhone Speaker Reviews" PRWeb 9:24 AM
"Ocoee Middle School Replaces Slates, Electronic Whiteboards, with Doceri on the iPad from SP Controls" PRWeb 9:24 AM
"Neverblue Releases Upgraded Mobile Stats iOS 5 App" PRWeb 9:24 AM
"Leading Publisher of Books for the Construction Industry Partners With Canvas to Offer Forms as Mobile Apps" PRWeb 9:23 AM
"TurboTax Goes Mobile: Prepare, File Taxes From Smart Phones and Tablets" Business Wire 9:23 AM
"NewSoft Announces New Versions of Presto! BizCard for iPhone and Android" Business Wire 9:23 AM
"NextBook: Free Release of NextScript 2.0, Development Tool That Makes Creation of iOS Applications via Markup Language Possible" Business Wire 9:22 AM
"NES Controller Gets Hacked To Play iCade Games On iPad" Cult of Mac 9:15 AM
"This Is the First Mouse I Have Craved In Decades" Gizmodo 9:04 AM
"AVPlayer for iPhone and iPad: Video player performs well, despite some awkward transfer process" Macworld 8:47 AM
"XtremeMac has new mobile charging solutions for the masses" Coolest Gadgets 8:25 AM
"BerryMover transfers your BlackBerry contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, text messages and other data over to your iPhone..." BerryMover 8:18 AM
"OWC gives Mac Pro users the first PCI Express SSD option" 9 to 5 Mac 8:12 AM
"Ralf Chille In Part with PLAYwRRM Releases RubberBalls v1.0 for iOS" prMac 8:37 AM
"PhatWare Releases WritePad 6.0 for iPad" prMac 8:37 AM
"lunaform {software} releases USCode 1.0 for iOS - Reference Guide" prMac 8:37 AM
"Easy Spending keeps track of where your money goes" prMac 8:37 AM
"Choose a coloring page with your kids and let their imagination run" prMac 8:37 AM
"Learn More About Yourself Than You Ever Thought Possible With an iOS App" prMac 6:39 AM
"Night Smasher for iPad a Fun and Entertaining Game - Free Download" prMac 6:39 AM
"New iOS App Chinese Flash Combines Vocab Study, Tone Practice" prMac 6:39 AM
"Toccata Technologies Launches New iPhone App BigFatBooth" prMac 6:39 AM
"Apple Approves first Free Bluetooth Smart (BLE) App for CES 2012" prMac 6:39 AM
"Metaversal Studios Announces Next Game: Updraft Jack" prMac 6:39 AM
"Renkara Media Group Introduces KanjiPictoGraphix for iPhone and iPad" prMac 6:39 AM
"Let your iPhone read your mind - Amazing Mind-Reading Magic Tricks" prMac 6:39 AM
"How Michael Dell is reinventing Dell Inc.: Reinvention of a geek emphasizes innovation, high-margin markets" MarketWatch 9:47 AM
"Microsoft Earnings Preview: Windows 8 In Focus" Seeking Alpha 10:01 AM
"Microsoft Earnings Can Set Stock On Path To $32" Forbes 9:59 AM
"MSFT earnings likely to mark a top" [Video Report] TheStreet 10:01 AM
"Windows 8 will adopt new resilient file system, but only on server" CNET News 11:52 AM
"Windows 8 To Offer A Next-Generation File System" CRN 10:20 AM
"Windows 8 to get new 'resilient' file system" V3 11:29 AM
"Microsoft engineers file system for the Windows 8 era: Microsoft's new file system, ReFS, can host filenames as long as 32,000 characters" IDG News Service 4:40 PM
"Microsoft raises 'state of the art' son of NTFS" The Register 11:25 AM
"Microsoft details new licensing plans for its cloud management suite" ZDNet 11:37 AM
"Microsoft Takes on VMware With Almost-Canceled Cloud Program" Bloomberg 11:49 AM
"Microsoft's System Center 2012 gets first release" ZDNet UK 11:38 AM
"Microsoft SkyDrive 'Confuses Naked With Nude', Art Account Frozen" paidContent 10:01 AM
"Surface 2.0 -- giant, interactive table -- now being shipped" Seattle Times 11:04 AM
"Intel, Microsoft to report as PCs struggle" MarketWatch 1:27 PM
"HP Networking Boss: Watch Out Cisco, We're Coming On Strong" CRN 10:20 AM
"IBM growth may be weighed by global rut: Big Blue expected to post gain in earnings with small revenue lift" MarketWatch 11:43 AM
"IBM Showcases Beta for IBM Docs , Next Gen of Collaborative Suite of Office Business Tools" eWeek 10:27 AM
"Lotusphere: Business use of microblogging tools set to rocket" V3 11:29 AM
"Oracle, IBM, Microsoft Lead Business Analytics Market: IDC" eWeek 10:27 AM
"SAP Leads, Oracle Lags In Enterprise Apps: Strong results at SAP, Epicor and Infor present a sharp contrast to Oracle's lagging quarterly sales." InformationWeek 10:10 AM
"Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed: A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct?" InfoWorld 10:38 AM
"Oracle Riding Exalytics, TimesTen To $37 Stock Price" Forbes 11:50 AM
"Researcher: Oracle has 'thrown in the towel' on database patching/Oracle says the patch slowdown is happening because most bugs have already been fixed" Computerworld 4:39 PM
"Oracle says each day's worth of Android activations generates $10 million in annual revenues for Google -- and strengthens Google+" Foss Patents 3:38 PM
"Intel: J.P. Morgan Downgrades; Sees Margins Peaking" Forbes 10:33 AM
"Could Intel be dealt out of the Windows 8 tablet fun?" ZDNet 11:37 AM
"Can Intel Finally Penetrate The Mobile Market?" Seeking Alpha 11:47 AM
"AMD to launch ultrabook platform with lower cost" DigiTimes 10:25 AM
"AMD readies answer to Intel's Ultrabook" Register Hardware 11:26 AM
"AMD's Ultrathin Set to Undercut Intel Ultrabooks by $200" PCWorld 10:53 AM
"AMD Gets Ultra-Competitive in Skinny Laptop Market" AllThingsD 1:30 PM
"Cisco, EMC, SAP Back Cloud Portability Standards Initiative" eWeek 10:27 AM
"NEC claims terabit-plus record with 10,000 km hop: NEC has demonstrated a single fibre link – with no repeaters – running at 1.5 terabits per second over 10,000 km. The company says this is the first time that a single laser source has sent a terabit channel over such a distance." The Register 4:04 PM
"Arab delegation courts Silicon Valley" Silicon Valley 10:22 AM
"Women pick the family's mobile tech - and pay for it too: American women are increasingly selecting their families' mobile tech, and paying the bills too, according to the latest figures from US wireless trade body CTIA." The Register 11:23 AM
"IT Salaries See Slight Rise in 2012: Report" eWeek 10:28 AM
"Apple Beats Or Misses? I Don't Care" Seeking Alpha 9:41 PM
"Apple supplier gold mine: There is more than one way to skin a cat. To make money from Apple Inc., it is not necessary to buy Apple stock." MarketWatch 9:35 AM
"Apple: Piper Trims Mac, Raises iPhone Estimate" Barron's 10:01 AM
"Dell, Apple, And The Customer Service-Stock Price Connection" Seeking Alpha 8:48 AM
Industry News
"Apple at record high; RIM up on sale talk: Applied gains after RBC upgrades chip-equipment maker" MarketWatch 3:56 PM
"U.S. stocks close higher; banks limit gains: Spanish debt sale, China GDP and Empire State index support bulls" MarketWatch 3:56 PM
"U.S. Stocks Advance After Data Bolster Optimism in Global Growth" Bloomberg 3:56 PM
"Economic Data Give Wall Street a Boost" FOXBusiness 10:35 AM
"Stocks End Higher on Global Data" TheStreet 3:57 PM
"Stocks end higher on strong economic data" CNNMoney 3:57 PM
"Stocks Post Broad Gains; Financials Fall" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 11:30 AM
"Stocks to get boost from China report" CNNMoney 9:35 AM
"U.K. stocks up, but Essar Energy sinks: India-focused energy firm falls 26.3% after tax ruling" MarketWatch 11:44 AM
"Asian Stocks Jump on China Policy Outlook, French Borrowing Cost" Bloomberg 11:32 AM
"Asia Markets: China stocks rebound on GDP data, lead Asia" MarketWatch 9:41 AM
"European Stocks Rise on China Growth Outlook; Rio Tinto Climbs" Bloomberg 11:32 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks rally after Chinese, German data" MarketWatch 9:41 AM
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