The Subtle Secret to Tablet Triumph/Challengers to the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) iPad keep on coming, like waves of infantry in the trenches of World War I.
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"Apple Interested in Bidding for English Premier League Streaming Rights?"?MacRumors?9:43 PM
"What would make Apple's NYC event interesting: Bloomberg/What if Apple turned the iPad into an easy-to-use front end for real-time financial data?"?Fortune?8:25 AM
"Apple Event Could Spotlight Jobs's iTextbook Vision"?AllThingsD?6:34 PM
"Rumor: Apple iBooks Event in New York This Month"?Wired?8:22 AM
"Apple To Reveal Big Cloud News In NYC? App Store chief Eddy Cue said to host January event, at which the company may unveil new digital media services."?InformationWeek?10:45 AM
"Report: Apple To Hold Event In NYC. Publishing, Advertising In The Mix?"?mocoNews?8:33 AM
"Apple January event to focus on publishing, iBooks, Report says"?CNET News?8:26 AM
"Apple Reportedly Holding Media Event in New York Later This Month"?Techland?8:31 AM
"Some 6.5 Million People Found Angry Birds in Their Stockings"?AllThingsD?1:11 PM
"Happy App Year: Downloads Pass 1 Billion/Week, U.S. Way Ahead Of The Rest"?mocoNews?8:32 AM
"Apps downloads hit record high in last week of December"?BBC?8:24 AM
"Apple iOS and Google Android Enjoy An Appy New Year"?Forbes?9:42 PM
"iOS, Android App Downloads Top 1.2 Billion in One Week"?The Mac Observer?9:10 AM
"iPad sales slip as Kindle Fire sales surge"?VentureBeat?3:02 PM
"Kindle Fire burned up some holiday iPad sales"?CNET News?3:54 PM
"Atari applying legal strong arm to developers"?GamesIndustry [Subscription Required for Full Article]?10:19 AM
"Developer Sells iPhone App On eBay, Starting Price: $1"?TechCrunch?1:05 PM
"With no passport on hand, Canadian flashes iPad scan to get into U.S."?The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required]?2:51 PM
"Canada-US border crossed by man using iPad as ID"?BBC?6:35 PM
"Arise, Sir Jony of Apple"?TheStreet?6:11 PM
"Apple iPhone and iPad design guru Jony Ive receives knighthood"?V3?8:21 AM
"Recreate your favorite Apple events with this Steve Jobs action figure"?Digital Trends?8:18 AM
"Apple to Celebrate Year of the Dragon with January 6th Shopping Event"?MacTrast?8:46 AM
"Apple Retail Outlets in the Other Bangkok"?eXtensions?8:57 AM
"Siri Tells London Boy To 'Shut The (Bleep) Up"? iPhone Savior?10:53 AM
"'Blue Busters': Apple's 'Ghostbusters' Spoof From 1984"?AdWeek?8:19 AM
Non-Apple News
"USA Today Becomes Latest Publisher To Embrace Kindle Fire With Custom App"?mocoNews?1:18 PM
"Asus customers grumble over Transformer Prime lock"?ZDNet UK?1:00 PM
"Samsung Upgrades Galaxy Ace With More Memory, Faster Processor"?IDG News Service?11:38 AM
"Rambus Shares Soar After Lifting 4Q Sales Forecast"?FOXBusiness?10:40 AM
"Fortune's guide to the future: Supercomputers that fit in the palm of your hand. Meat that grows in labs. Foldable cars. Solar power -- from space. Welcome to the year 2022. It's not your grandfather's future. Let Fortune be your guide."?Fortune?10:39 AM
"Wendi Deng spoof account throws doubt on Twitter's verification system"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?10:34 AM
"Google tops $650 for first time since Jan. 2008"?MarketWatch?1:25 PM
"Google Plus user base growing by population of Glasgow every day: Paul Allen, the founder of Ancestry.com, says Google's social network will hit 400 million users next year."?Techworld?12:44 PM
"MAME Runs In Google Chrome, Plays All Your Favorite Arcade Games"?PCWorld?11:39 AM
"Chrome, Firefox Engineers Defend Google, Mozilla Search Deal"?eWeek?10:25 AM
"Google's Ad Company (Which Isn't Google) Explains What's Up With Those Chrome Ads"?AllThingsD?9:45 AM
"RIM Co-CEOs May Soon Be Stripped Of Their Chairmen Roles"?TechCrunch?12:37 PM
"RIM Slashes PlayBook Price, Kicking Off 2012 Tablet Battle"?eWeek?10:25 AM
"Android Siri Competitor Iris Takes Step Towards Legitimacy With ChaCha"?ReadWriteWeb?11:12 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"The Portable Podcast, Episode 118"?148Apps?3:35 PM
"The Subtle Secret to Tablet Triumph/Challengers to the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) iPad keep on coming, like waves of infantry in the trenches of World War I."?The Motley Fool?6:37 PM
"Romney Is an iPhone: A Gadget Lover's Guide to GOP Candidates"?Gizmodo?6:12 PM
"Does TouchPad Failure Spell Doom for iPad Competitors?"?NewsFactor?1:42 PM
"Apple's iMessage Is Saving You Money And You Don't Even Realize It"?Business Insider?1:41 PM
"Is Apple losing its 'cool factor'?"?The Week?1:18 PM
"Open Letter To Tim Cook From A Now Former Apple Genius"?App Advice?1:18 PM
"Nintendo Courting iOS Developers"?PadGadget?11:07 AM
"Steve Jobs action figure is advertised; will Apple respond?"?Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required]?3:36 PM
"The Steve Jobs Action Figure Walks Into the Uncanny Valley but Will Anyone Buy Him?"?Forbes?10:45 AM
"Siri Android Clones Are Laughable At Best"?TechCrunch?9:46 AM
"The Macalope Daily: Stockholm syndrome by proxy"?Macworld [Insider Content]?9:46 AM
"Hospitals Continue to Join iPad Frenzy"?PadGadget?9:09 AM
"Samsung even steals iPhone ad actress for its Galaxy Tab commercial"?Edible Apple?9:03 AM
"On moderating expectations for Apple's 2012"?TUAW?9:07 AM
"My Predictions For 2012: The Mac Laptop"?MacNews?9:02 AM
"Apple's theft policies in question after it gives a thief a free 'replacement' iPhone"?The Next Web?8:49 AM
"Kindle Fire Makes Apple Sweat E-Books: Apple's next big announcement will come this month in New York, according to a recent Report that claims the focus will be on media. The news has fueled speculation that Apple's ready to make some big moves in the publishing world. Has the hot-selling Kindle Fire motivated Apple to give e-books an even closer look?"?MacNewsWorld?8:27 PM
"Book Some Time For Apple Media Event In January"?AppleBitch?11:58 AM
"Can Apple Make iBooks Match for Books?"?Kirkville?8:46 AM
"$299 iPad 2 Would Upend Tablet Market but it's Unlikely"?PCWorld?11:59 AM
"$299 iPad 2 seen shaking up tablet market, Amazon's Kindle Fire"?AppleInsider?8:49 AM
"Apple Ignores iPhone 4S Audio Problem, Faces Backlash"?ZDNet?8:35 AM
"Apple's next two years: Will there be an iPad high-low strategy?"?ZDNet?8:35 AM
"Apple pushing publishing at its next event? It should be."?GigaOM?9:37 AM
"Apple vs. Amazon: Plot thickens with Reports of iBooks event"?GeekWire?8:48 AM
Non-Apple
"The Siren Call of PC Laptop Prices"?Low End Mac?3:58 PM
"Is liquid cooling right for your datacenter?"?ZDNet?12:58 PM
"The Swift Rise And Sad Fall Of The Asus Transformer Prime Android Tablet"?TechCrunch?12:36 PM
"6 things every IT person should know"?InfoWorld?10:42 AM
"10 programming languages that could shake up IT"?InfoWorld?10:42 AM
"Mass Playbook price cut underscores RIM trouble"?TG Daily?12:46 PM
"A new chair(wo)man for RIM? About time"?The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required]?10:40 AM
"Straighten up your Timeline, or Facebook will do it for you"?Detroit Free Press?10:22 AM
"Cloud computing: why all of the vehemence?"?ZDNet?12:58 PM
"Cloud Computing Buyers Demand More, Survey Finds"?InformationWeek?10:03 AM
"Semiconductors Hit By Floods, Economy, But Growth Expected"?PC Magazine?11:29 AM
"Up Close With the Next Generation of Tablet Users"?AllThingsD?9:45 AM
"Why is Chrome beating IE? Watch the TV commercials"?ZDNet?12:57 PM
"Google Chrome Finishes 2011 With 19% Browser Share"?eWeek?10:25 AM
"4 big moves Google should make in 2012"?Mashable?10:11 AM
"2012: The Year of Security"?ZDNet?12:58 PM
"5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012: Its biggest-ever technical upgrade and policymaking milestones could lead to monumental changes in the Internet this year"?Network World?10:42 AM
"Mobile 2012: More coming than just the 'iPad 3'/Two massive industry shakeups, a reworked Android ecosystem, and more are on the horizon"?InfoWorld?10:42 AM
"Technology Predictions of 2012" [Video Report]?MarketWatch?9:46 AM
"2012: Nine business tech predictions"?ZDNet?12:59 PM
"5 Business Tech Trends You Need to Watch"?TheStreet?9:35 AM
"Is Google Paying Bloggers to Write Garbage Content?"?OSNews?10:53 AM
"The Northern Spy: A Measure Of Health?"?MacNews?8:59 AM
"RIM's latest irrational Playbook moment"?Tech.Blorge?8:58 AM
Humor/Cartoons
"Microsoft Research delves into economics: Kinect, cloud, Windows Phone among other big research focus areas for Microsoft"?Network World?11:43 AM
"Microsoft relief as XP to Windows 7 migration accelerates: Windows 7 to capture 50 percent of market before Windows 8 launch later this year"?Computerworld?12:44 PM
"Users are finally getting rid of Windows XP"?TG Daily?12:46 PM
"Windows Phone: Is Relief in Sight? The latest numbers show Microsoft's mobile market share continues to sink, but a leaked Windows Phone roadmap raises some reason for hope."?InfoWorld?11:38 AM
"Windows Phone roadmap leak reveals Apollo update for Q4 2012"?V3?12:52 PM
"Microsoft's cloud roadmap for 2012: What's on tap"?ZDNet?12:58 PM
"Time runs out on Microsoft smart watches"?MSNBC?11:03 AM
"HP-Cisco Networking Rivalry To Intensify: As cloud computing, consumerization, and mobility boost demands on enterprise networks, HP and Cisco will escalate their battle to supply the IT infrastructure."?InformationWeek?1:50 PM
"Glimpse of HP laptop to come: the Spectre"?CNET?1:48 PM
"CES 2012 preview: Ultrabook from HP coming to CES?"?Washington Post [Free Registration Required]?12:54 PM
"Rometty takes over at IBM"?ZDNet UK?1:00 PM
"Ginni Rometty: Stick to Your Deal"?Forbes?1:43 PM
"IBM Eats Its Own Social Dog Food: Big Blue's social business VP details how IBM Connections fuels the company's 500,000 users with social capabilities and a social media mindset."?InformationWeek?10:41 AM
"IBM Lands $2.6B Spanish Bank Outsourcing Deal: IBM research centers also will feed social media and cloud computing innovations to bank's IT staff."?InformationWeek?10:03 AM
"Oracle VM whips rowdy virtual machines into submission: Just in time for the holidays and giving techies an excuse to stay out of the kitchen and be helpful, Oracle unwrapped updates to its Oracle VM implementation of the Xen hypervisor for x86 servers and the alternative VirtualBox hypervisor for x86-based PCs and servers."?The Register?12:48 PM
"Intel: Barclays Cuts to Hold, Sees 'Pause' in Shares"?Barron's?1:44 PM
"Web Watch: Intel Pushes Its Ultrabook Concept"?Minyanville?9:56 AM
"Intel to announce 40 new server processors in 1H12"?DigiTimes?10:23 AM
"Intel's Ultrabook Push Coming to CES"?WSJ Blogs?9:38 AM
"Intel tells data centre managers to turn up the heat: IT managers can save money and reduce their carbon footprint by increasing the temperature in the data centre"?Techworld?12:44 PM
"After stormy year, Cisco rebound in forecast"?MarketWatch?1:28 PM
"Cisco ceasing sales of Umi Video hardware"?CNET News?9:56 PM
"Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012"?Network World?11:42 AM
"Can Ultrabooks push up laptop prices?"?ZDNet UK?12:59 PM
"Cars and Ultrabooks: a CES Preview/What to expect at the annual Consumer Electronics Show starting this weekend."?Technology Review?12:42 PM
"CES 2012 Preview: Tablets and Ereaders"?PC Magazine?11:28 AM
"For PCs, Hope in Slim Profile"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9:38 AM
"Up-and-coming tech jobs -- and how to land one: Ready for your new job as an augmented reality specialist, a VP of virtualization or a customer sleuth? Here's what you need to know."?Computerworld?10:12 AM
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