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TheStreet's Rocco Pendola believes Tim Cook releasing a cheap iPhone, effectively spitting on everything Jobs built at Apple, would trigger his departure from the company. Agree, disagree?
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Thursday Highlights: John Paczkowski at AllThingsD throws a change-up pitch suggesting TV is not Apple's next battleground, but Web services which has, so far, been "a troubling deficiency that Apple just can't seem to overcome"; and at CES, Wired's Alexandra Chang says Apple is still casting a "long shadow over CES" as iGadgets are everywhere; and at TechRepublic, Mary Shacklett says Apple must balance between innovation and market reality; 1,500 execs rank Apple the most innovative company with Google next in line; Tim Cook spends time in China visiting his retail locations, discussing future with China Mobile, and a Chinese-to-English translated interview with Tim Cook from Sina Tech?more in our Apple/Macintosh section; will Apple release a cheap iPhone or not, AppleInsider cites stats which suggest such a phone would address 65% of the market, but Chris Maxcer says "Apple doesn't do cheap", and TheStreet's Rocco Pendola goes so far as to say this could be Tim Cook's last swing at bat as Apple CEO if he goes against everything Steve Jobs built in a premium brand; find more analysis down in our Op/Ed section; Apple settles dispute with photographer over Retina eyeball image; Dan Moren looks at 10 years of Safari and the lasting impact the browser has had on Apple's success; Mactuts+ shows you three ways to bring web sharing back in Mountain Lion; Macinstruct on how you can rebuild Spotlight index; Mac gamers head over to Inside Mac Games for their Lego Batman 2 review; ever wondered why some web sites don't work right in your browser?; Business Insider compiles info from several sources and presents three charts which demonstrate "Apple's complete domination over windows"; troubling survey of teens by Buzz Marketing Group says Apple's cool factor is gone, but Microsoft's Surface tab is pretty cool; Amazon introduces new service which gives you free MP3 tracks for every album you buy or have bought through Amazon; Jonny Evans says this could be the "real iTunes killer"; Apple applies for a number of patents, read about them down in our Hardware/Software section today; PCWorld offers a hands-on impression of Microsoft's Surface Pro, seems somewhat impressed, but says the proof has yet to be revealed in the pudding.
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"Apple #1, Google #2 - 50 Innovative Companies Ranked By 1,500 Execs" Forbes
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"Apple #1, Google #2 - 50 Innovative Companies Ranked By 1,500 Execs"?Forbes?8:07 AM
"Apple's Tim Cook meets with China Mobile chairman in Beijing"?Reuters?7:55 AM
"Apple's China Push" [Video Report]?CNBC?4:14 PM
"Apple's Cook, China Mobile Meet, Raising Possibility of iPhone Deal"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?11:16 AM
"Report: Apple in Talks to Bring iPhone to China Mobile"?PC Magazine?11:03 AM
"Apple's CEO Tim Cook Meets All Three Mobile Operators in China"?M.I.C. Gadget?3:29 PM
"Apple CEO Tim Cook confirms cellular version of iPad mini coming to China in late January"?The Next Web?8:17 AM
"Tim Cook Calls On China Mobile, Raises Hope For iPhone Deal"?Forbes?11:19 AM
"Apple's Cook Discusses Cooperation With China Mobile Chairman"?Bloomberg?8:52 AM
"Tim Cook gets interviewed by a Chinese media outlet, talks about world's biggest carrier, China Mobile, labor conditions, and retail"?9 to 5 Mac?8:50 AM
"Apple's Cook heads to China Mobile to talk 'cooperation': The Apple chief executive has been in China all week, and earlier met with the country's government regulators to discuss the technology industry."?CNET News?9:22 AM
"Schiller: Despite popularity of cheap smartphones, they won't be the future of Apple's products"?The Next Web?2:20 PM
"Apple Exec Dismisses Notion of a 'Cheaper' iPhone"?PC Magazine?3:25 PM
"Apple would address 65% of smartphone market with low-cost iPhone"?AppleInsider?9:15 AM
"Apple, photographer settle 'Retina' eyeball image lawsuit: The company and Swiss photographer Sabine Liewald settle a lawsuit involving the use of an eyeball image to promote the MacBook Pro."?CNET News?7:56 AM
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News
"Safari at 10: lasting impact on Apple's success"?Macworld?8:35 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"How To make the OS X Help Viewer less obtrusive: The OS X Help Viewer by default stays on top of other windows, which means it can sometimes be in the way."?MacFixIt?9:11 PM
"OS X Mountain Lion: New users not shown in Users & Groups preferences pane"?Apple Support?7:31 PM
"OS X: iTunes Artwork screen saver is blank or states 'Your iTunes Library does not contain any songs with artwork'"?Apple Support?7:31 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"3 Ways to Bring Back Web Sharing in OS X Mountain Lion"?Mactuts+?8:47 AM
"How to Rebuild Spotlight's Index"?Macinstruct?8:26 AM
"Searching For Email Messages In Mail Is A Royal Pain. Finding Email Is The Way To Go"?Mac 360?8:01 AM
"Hate The Mac's Dock? Need Less Clutter, More Efficiency? Build Your Own Custom Menu"?NoodleMac?8:01 AM
"Here's A New Way To Solve Problems: A Mac App That Combines Calculator And Paper"?BohemianBoomer?8:01 AM
"Avoid Copyright And Photo Theft Problems With The App That Resizes, Optimizes, And Adds A Watermark"?McSolo?8:02 AM
"How To Secure Your Mac With An Idea Whose Time Has Almost Arrived (but not quite yet)"?Mac 360?8:01 AM
"Got An RSS Reader On Your Mac? Do You Use Safari's Reader? Use Booky Instead? No."?Mac 360?8:01 AM
"Try The Mac Notes App That Dares To Think Different (reminders and alarms, meet notes)"?TeraTalks?8:01 AM
Op/Ed
"To Be Honest, It Would Be Great If iCloud Was More Like Dropbox"?AppleBitch?3:21 PM
"Why some websites don't work properly in your favorite browser"?Macworld?10:18 AM
Press Releases
"Skype updates Mac app with click to call in Safari and revamps user profile view"?The Next Web?12:19 PM
"iTunes Control App Synergy 5 Goes Big on Lion"?FairerPlatform?10:59 AM
"Ripeware, LLC today announced the availability of Lively Logic 1.1, an update to the Mac graphing application that adds support for trend lines, automatic axis scaling, and interactive panning and scaling of graph axes. This new version also brings full support for Macs with Retina displays."?Ripeware?7:59 AM
"Schedula?v2.6 is powerful scheduling software for FileMaker Pro? 11 and 12. It is both fast and easy-to-use. Intended primarily for businesses, the fee for Schedula Professional is just $149 and inlcudes multi-user. This version is compatible with FileMaker Go for the iPad."?Life $uccess Institute?7:58 AM
"Samsung looks to diversify chip business amid Apple trouble: The company says that it is inking deals to build mobile processors for Chinese companies to fill a void soon to be left by Apple."?CNET News?11:19 AM
"Apple Rumored To Be Testing Foxconn Subsidiary's Touch Panels For Next iPad mini"?App Advice?8:29 AM
"iMac Delays Due to Low Screen Yields at Supplier LG Display"?The Mac Observer?8:48 AM
"27-inch iMac Delayed by LG Display Yield Issues"?Tapscape?8:10 AM
"Apple Nips Thunderbolt Prices, Delivers MBA Firmware, Prepaid iPhone deal"?FairerPlatform?8:10 AM
"Sorry Scammers, But You Can't Bait And Switch iOS App Screenshots Anymore, Says Apple"?Cult of Mac?8:35 AM
"Apple Locks in iOS App Screenshots to Prevent Scams"?Mashable?8:47 AM
"IBM cements 20 years of patent dominance" ["Apple, which made its first appearance in IFI's top 50 in 2010, also made big gains. Apple earned 1,136 patents, an increase of 68% compared to its 2011 tally, and landed at 22 in the rankings, up from 39 a year earlier. Google's patent haul exceeded Apple's by just 15 patents."]?Network World?9:02 AM
"IBM Granted Most U.S. Patents for 20th Straight Year" ["Google Inc. took a spot in the top 50 for the first time, with 15 more patents than Apple (AAPL) Inc."]?Bloomberg?8:52 AM
"Apple Releases MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.6"?MacPrices?2:21 PM
Apple Patent Applications
"USPTO Reveals Apple's Big Continuation Patent Fest"?Patently Apple?8:43 AM
"Apple investigating location-based emergency app for iPhone"?AppleInsider?8:49 AM
"Patent reveals Apple's exploration of emergency services app for iOS devices"?O'Grady's PowerPage?11:09 AM
"Apple files patent for parallelizing multiple boot images with virtual machines"?AppleDailyReport?9:13 AM
"Apple files patent for computer hinge with hollow, partially annual clutch"?AppleDailyReport?8:52 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Bean's Quest For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99)"?Apple Sliced?8:10 AM
"Bearalot For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $1.99)"?Apple Sliced?8:10 AM
"Save The Birds For iPhone Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?8:10 AM
"Mac mini Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?7:57 AM
"PadGadget Daily App Deal ? 10 iPad Apps on Sale"?PadGadget?8:41 AM
Deal Brothers Daily Deal: Headed to CES and need a cheap flight?
"The 2012 Patent Rankings: IBM on Top (Again), Google and Apple Surging"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?8:40 AM
"IBM cements 20 years of patent dominance"?Computerworld?8:40 AM
"How IBM Crushed Everyone Else In Patents For The 20th Straight Year"?Business Insider?8:41 AM
"Big Blue Is Still the Big Dog of Patents"?AllThingsD?8:41 AM
"IBM removed the Urban Dictionary from Watson's memory after it got too sassy"?The Verge?3:16 PM
"IBM UK appoints new chief"?Computing?8:39 AM
"As expected, Microsoft buys R2 Studios for Xbox unit: At same time, Microsoft names R2 Studios chief Blake Krikorian Corporate Vice President of its Interactive Entertainment Business"?Computerworld?11:14 AM
"Microsoft: Yep, we bought R2 Studios/Redmond says it has purchased R2 Studios, a startup working on home-automation applications, and is folding the new company into its Xbox division."?CNET News?11:16 AM
"Microsoft names Blake Krikorian as CVP on the Xbox team"?Seattle Times?12:17 PM
"Schools to save ?10m with new Microsoft deal: CRN - Essential information for VARs, integrators and converged resellers. Claim your free subscription today."?CRN?8:45 AM
"Fellows leaves Microsoft for Australia Post"?Computerworld?8:44 AM
"Expect More Suffering For Microsoft And Intel In 2013"?BGR?2:42 PM
"Google retreats; drops key patent claim against Microsoft"?ZDNet?8:48 AM
"Microsoft, Intel PCs to Keep Losing Share, Canalys Says"?Bloomberg?12:21 PM
"Intel should dump x86 and make ARM chips, says executive"?ZDNet?8:42 AM
"Intel describes its 'Y' chips ambitions for tablets: Chip giant will start to make a big effort to drive it Y series chips into tablets."?CNET?8:48 AM
"Intel still struggling in smartphone market as ARM rivals move forward: Intel makes only incremental smartphone chip improvements, while NVidia and Qualcomm made power and performance improvements on ARM chips"?Computerworld UK?8:34 AM
"2013 Will Be A Foundational Year For Intel's Mobile Chip Transition"?Seeking Alpha?12:30 PM
"Intel CTO: We're watching the rebirth of the PC/The PC is transforming into an Internet device, and we are just years away from phones and PCs acting like colleagues, says Justin Rattner"?InfoWorld?8:35 AM
"CES: Intel still struggling to crack smartphone and tablet markets"?Contra Costa Times?9:21 AM
"Dell and Intel bet big on Mirantis OpenStack cloud: Tech heavyweights join WestSummit in pouring $10 million into the open source cloud startup"?InfoWorld?8:25 AM
"Dell, Intel and WestSummit back Mirantis' OpenStack effort with $10M"?GigaOM?8:06 AM
"CES 2013: Dell announces cheaper Latitude 10 Windows 8 tablet configuration"?ZDNet?8:35 AM
"Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) Introducing New Features in Latitude 10"?The Point Daily?8:25 AM
"AMD shows off a reference device with a quad-core, x86-based Temash chip"?Engadget?7:45 PM
"AMD dismisses low end tablets"?Fudzilla?8:33 AM
"AMD appoints Devinder Kumar as chief financial officer effective Jan. 2"?The China Post?8:33 AM
"Break up HP: it's the only way to save it: The time is right to split up Hewlett-Packard. The company can't survive in its current state"?InfoWorld?8:29 AM
"Steve Jobs (Of All People) Tried To Save Mark Hurd's Job At HP"?Business Insider?11:21 AM
"HP's Cloud: The Giant Ship Lost its Way"?Cloud Ave?8:28 AM
"HP Creating 200 Jobs in Alpharetta: The California-based technology company is transitioning its Customer Solution Center to the local campus off Westside Parkway."?Patch?8:29 AM
"Toni Sacconaghi Expects Dow Dog Hewlett-Packard To Nearly Double"?Seeking Alpha?10:25 AM
"Hewlett-Packard's New Releases Will Not Boost Price Multiples"?Seeking Alpha?12:31 PM
"Hack turns the Cisco phone on your desk into a remote bugging device: No fix yet for attack that allows eavesdropping on private conversations."?Ars Technica?8:34 AM
"Cisco phone exploit allows attackers to listen in on phone calls"?The Verge?12:49 PM
"Cisco appoints Jeff White as President, India and SAARC"?Information Week?8:34 AM
"Samsung looks to diversify chip business amid Apple trouble: The company says that it is inking deals to build mobile processors for Chinese companies to fill a void soon to be left by Apple."?CNET News?11:24 AM
"Lenovo chief: We're in the PC-plus, not post-PC era/The PC is still relevant, Lenovo's chief executive says, but customers want computers that have more than just the basic functionality."?CNET News?5:06 PM
"PC sales drop in fourth quarter of 2012 for the first time in five years: IDC also Reports that HP is still the world's top PC vendor."?Ars Technica?9:21 PM
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