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Brad Stone, New York Times
So moving our music into the cloud and piping it to any device, on demand, should be easy, right?
Brad Stone and Miguel Helft, New York Times
While the discord between Apple and Google is in part philosophical and involves enormous financial stakes, the battle also has deeply personal overtones and echoes the ego-fueled fisticuffs that have long characterized technology industry feuds.
At the heart of their dispute is a sense of betrayal: Mr. Jobs believes that Google violated the alliance between the companies by producing cellphones that physically, technologically and spiritually resembled the iPhone. In short, he feels that his former friends at Google picked his pocket.
Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal
Nearly 10,000 iPhone users were accessing the Microsoft employee email system last year, say two people who heard the estimates from senior Microsoft executives. That figure equals about 10% of the company's global work force.
Paul Suarez, PC World
According to a recently-posted FAQ, Apple will replace your iPad if it "requires service due to the battery's diminished ability to hold an electrical charge," for $99 and a $6.95 shipping fee.
Paul Farhi, Washington Post
On Friday, the first day that buyers could pre-order the device (it arrives in stores next month), Apple racked up an estimated 91,000 sales in just the first six hours of availability, putting temporarily to rest the Internet's persistent "iPad fail" meme. Analysts predict the first-year sales could reach 5 million.
Karen Gullo and Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg
Apple Inc. chief executive officer Steve Jobs won approval to tear down a mansion south of San Francisco after a state court judge overruled objections by preservationists, a city official in Woodside, California, said.
Superior Court Judge Marie Weiner in Redwood City, California, said in a March 8 ruling the mansion had been vacant since 2000 and “nothing had been done to stop the abandonment of this house,” which has led to animal infestation, vandalism, rot, mold and decay.
Susan Decker, Bloomberg
Nokia Oyj, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, asked a U.S. judge to throw out Apple Inc.’s claims that it is trying to monopolize the wireless technology market and seize access to iPhone technology.
Apple’s antitrust and breach of contract allegations are implausible and are “designed to divert attention away from free-riding off of Nokia’s intellectual property,” the Finnish company said yesterday in papers filed in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware.
Eric A. Taub, New York Times
The Solar Surge, from NovoTek, uses the sun to charge an external supplemental battery enclosed in a case that surrounds the iPhone. According to the company, this is the first solar charging solution approved by Apple, and it works with the iPhone 3G and 3GS and the iPod Touch.
AppleInsider
Apple said Friday that Chief Operating Office Tim Cook was awarded nearly 22 million in stock- and cash-based compensation for his performance running the company during Steve Jobs' absence last year.
Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac
AppleInsider
Apple revealed a minor tweak to the iPad hardware when preorders began Friday morning, with a button previously designated for audio muting changed to a "screen rotation lock."
Dan Moren, Macworld
Apple didn't just put the iPad up for pre-order this morning, it also added some new information on a handful of iPad features, such as 3G plans, iBooks, and more.
Heather Kelly, Macworld
There are 2,897 photography apps available in the App Store. Glyn Evans sorts through every new release—each faux-film-filter, cropping, and tilt-shift tool—so you don't have to.
Nicole Martinelli, Cult of Mac
Chris Clark, Release Candidate One
It’s important to remember that despite Apple’s insistence that iPad apps have lush graphics evoking physical objects, there’s no license to be stupid about interaction. Good design is good whether your toolbar is leather-bound or a flat gray. Sexy graphics and animation are icing on the cake.
Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)
What did I actually get? Oh, the top-of-the-line model: The iPad 3G with 64 gigs of storage, due to ship a few weeks after the WiFi-only iPad.
Neven Mrgan’s Tumbl
Until books are completely re-imagined as objects (and I’m not holding my breath) people will expect them to look like facing pages, double-sided, picked from a shelf. Five hundred years of tradition mandates this. We start there, and we go more elaborate (as books add video, interactivity, etc.) and less so (as no-longer-necessary conventions get dropped.)
AppleInsider
The legal battle over mobile technology patents between handset makers Apple and Nokia will likely drag out for years, with both companies looking for a court hearing to be held in 2012.
Brian X. Chen, Wired News
Apple’s recent purge of sex-tinged iPhone apps, combined with its lesser-known ban of “cookie-cutter” apps, signifies the company’s new focus on quality, rather than quantity, in its App Store.
Ronald Grover, Tom Lowry and Cliff Edwards, Bloomberg
AppleInsider
Apple is set to take preorders for its highly anticipated iPad multimedia device Friday, and the company's Web site will begin accepting advance orders from customers at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, 5:30 a.m. Pacific.
Giles Turnbull, Cult of Mac
Nick Bilton, New York Times
A step-by-step guide to making a smart choice between the Wi-Fi-only and 3G versions of the tablet from Apple.
Serenity Caldwell, Macworld
Safari 4.0.5, which is available for Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Windows users, offers several performance and stability improvements: performance improvements to Top Sites; stability improvements for third party plug-ins; stability improvements for Websites with online forms and Scalable Vector Graphics; and a fix for an issue that prevented Safari from changing settings on some Linksys routers.
Chris Holt, Macworld
I never thought I’d say this, but if you’re going to play this game, your money might be better spent on the Xbox 360 or PS3 version. A myriad of technical issues, glitches, and a complete disregard for the Mac platform makes this hard to recommend over other titles.
Chris McVeigh, Macworld
All of these utilities can help you create fun new icons that you can add to your favorite desktop files and folders, or use for social networking or other decorative purposes.
Manton Reece
Here's my summary of the show, what it took for me to be there and what I got out of it for Riverfold. This is supposed to be in the spirit of Rogue Amoeba's excellent series on Macworld, but more from a super-tiny company perspective, and just where my experience differs.
MacNN
Significant may be multiple references to multitasking, such as a code comment discussing a "multitasking dialog box." While multitasking is already possible in a limited sense on iPhones and iPods, several reports have suggested that Apple intends to extend the option to third-party apps.
MG Siegler, TechCrunch
This year, the timeline appears a bit off.
Marco Arment
The interface paradigm of mimicking real-world objects shouldn’t be applied universally.
Julian Lee and Asher Moses, Sydney Morning Herald
Apple has been dealt a severe blow having been told that it no longer has a monopoly on the letter "i" as a prefix for all its products. A trademarks tribunal has knocked back Apple's bid to stop a small company from trademarking the name DOPi for use on its laptop bags and cases for Apple products.
Gregor Schauer, The Business Insider
One of the more curious things about the patent infringement lawsuit that Apple filed against HTC is why it didn't file one against Palm first. There had already been a lot of speculation about Apple suing Palm, but virtually no one saw them taking on HTC first. Interestingly, an unintended consequence of this lawsuit is that it potentially increases the value of Palm's patent portfolio, and strengthens the case for them to be acquired.
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Anybody buying an iPad to also use as a display for the Mac mini?
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The last time I was in Victoria Theater was for a production of "Little Shop of Horrors."
I see my chances of winning an iPad from Leo decreasing day by day. :-)
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