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- TheStreet's Moritz: Four dubious 'reasons' to sell your Apple stock and bank your gains (61)
- Apple close to replacing Google with Microsoft's Bing as iPhone's default search? (61)
- Pink Floyd wins court battle to stop EMI from selling individual songs online (59)
- PC Magazine' Segan: Apple's iPad could kill the Mac (59)
- Ezy Tablet PC unveils clunky iPad wannabe (53)
Opinion Archive
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February 2010
Microsoft’s Windows is far less secure than Apple’s Mac OS X -
January 2010
Why I’ll be buying an Apple iPad - along with millions of others -
October 2009
Is Psystar’s real mission to publicize that running Apple’s Mac OS X on generic PCs is possible?
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iLounge
- Barnes & Noble announces eReader app for iPad
- iPhone OS 4.0 to offer multitasking support?
- City of Edmonton to award $50K in iPhone Apps Contest
- iPhone sees small U.S. market share gain from Oct. to Jan.
- New gestures found in latest iPhone 3.2 Beta SDK
iPodNN
- MacNN - FrogPad's CEO!
- MacNN - Jacob Appelbaum and RAM attacks
- MacNN - penryn and iPhone at Abilene
- iPhone biz model and o2 Eire
Yahoo! Finance AAPL
- [video] Digits: E-Readers With Walt Mossberg [8.4 min] (at MarketWatch)
- [$$] Barnes & Noble Plans iPad App (at The Wall Street Journal Online)
- The 10 Hottest Stocks Right Now (at Motley Fool)
- [$$] Pink Floyd Wins Suit Over Downloads (at The Wall Street Journal Online)
- HP and Friends Will Kill the iPad (at Motley Fool)
iTunes Top 10 Songs
- 1. Break Your Heart (feat. Ludacris) - Taio Cruz
- 2. Rude Boy - Rihanna
- 3. Hey, Soul Sister - Train
- 4. Nothin' On You (feat. Bruno Mars) - B.o.B
- 5. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
- 6. Imma Be - Black Eyed Peas
- 7. Carry Out (feat. Justin Timberlake) - Timbaland
- 8. Blah Blah Blah (feat. 3OH!3) - Ke$ha
- 9. Baby (feat. Ludacris) - Justin Bieber
- 10. In My Head - Jason Derülo
iTunes Top 10 Albums
- 1. Plastic Beach (Deluxe Version) - Gorillaz
- 2. Battle of the Sexes (Deluxe Edition) - Ludacris
- 3. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
- 4. Valleys of Neptune - Jimi Hendrix
- 5. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
- 6. Get Off On the Pain (Deluxe Edition) - Gary Allan
- 7. Passion: Awakening (Deluxe Edition) - Passion
- 8. Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
- 9. Almost Alice (Music Inspired By the Motion Picture) - Various Artists
- 10. Battle of the Sexes - Ludacris
Apple Support
- Mac OS X v10.6: Active Directory binding lost on network transition (.local domain)
- iPhone and iPod touch: Disabling digital camera notification in Windows XP
- iLife: Troubleshooting Basics
- MainStage 2.1: Release notes
- iPod Hi-Fi: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- iPhone: Locating the serial number, IMEI, and ICCID number
- iPhone: Improve backup and restore times by reducing iPhone Camera Roll
- iPhone or iPod is not recognized properly by computer when USB drivers are not installed properly or are out of date
- Mac OS X Server: Cannot join Windows 7 to a Mac OS X PDC Domain
- Mac OS X Server v10.5: SMTP Relay is enabled for local subnet by default
iPod Hacks
Always - Free ground shipping with orders over $50 at the Apple Store.
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PC Magazine’ Segan: Apple’s iPad could kill the Mac
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 01:53 PM ESTThe launch of Apple's iPad will pave the way for a slew of rival products this year... [Full Story]
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 10:00 AM ESTGoogle Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp... [Full Story]
Xerox PARC pioneer turned Microsoft researcher Charles Thacker wins Turing Award
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Apple’s iPad + Hollywood
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 03:53 PM ESTThe International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) is considering making a complaint to Apple... [Full Story]
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Apple shares hit new all-time intraday, closing highs
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Goldman Sachs chops 2010 unit sales estimate for Google’s rebadged HTC ‘Nexus One’ from 3.5m to 1m
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Gameinformer: Valve’s Steam coming to Mac in May; Portal 2 confirmed for Mac OS X
Monday, March 08, 2010 - 02:02 PM ESTPortal 2, the sequel to Valve's wildly popular and critically acclaimed game Portal, will be released in fall of 2010 for Appel Mac... [Full Story]
iKey: Apple looks to reinvent the key
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