Steve Jobs and Japan: Apple founder and CEO extraordinaire Steve Jobs had a close relationship to Japan. Hayashi Nobuyuki, an IT journalist who has written about Steve Jobs and Apple for many years, traces the course of Jobs's links with Japan, dating from
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"Steve Jobs and Japan: Apple founder and CEO extraordinaire Steve Jobs had a close relationship to Japan. Hayashi Nobuyuki, an IT journalist who has written about Steve Jobs and Apple for many years, traces the course of Jobs's links with Japan, dating from his first interest in Zen as a young man."" Nippon
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"Apple Mojo Shows No Signs of Slowing"?CNBC?7:04 PM
"Apple's 2012 Will Be Awesome, It Has No Other Choice"?Forbes?8:43 PM
"2011 in review: Apple's financial performance"?Macworld?8:43 PM
"Apple and the year ahead"?Macworld?11:11 AM
"Apple's Terrific And Tumultuous 2011"?TechCrunch?9:42 PM
"Samsung still dominates mobile phone market, but Apple is gaining"?CNET News?8:16 AM
"Federal Circuit ordered Apple to correct appeal against denial of preliminary injunction against Samsung"?Foss Patents?4:40 PM
"Apple to appeal Italian warranty fine: Apple will appeal against the fine imposed by the Italian regulator for failing to respect the legal warranty requirements, and (astonishingly) we know this because Apple told us."?The Register?7:38 AM
"France Reseller Files Complaint: Unfair Competition"?ifoAppleStore?7:52 AM
"French reseller sues Apple, claiming unfair competition"?MacNN?7:52 AM
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"Tech 2011: Biggest News Stories of the Year" ["Oct. 5: Steve Jobs Dies The timing was eerie. And, in a poignant twist of fate, it showed that Steve Jobs completed his life as he comported his life: as a consummate showman."]?Wired?11:21 AM
"2011"s top stories: iPhone 5/iPhone 5 has been a hot topic of 2011, what with lost prototypes, leaked specifications and the iPhone 4S debacle"?Macworld UK?7:54 AM
"Looking back at 2011: iPhone 4S and Galaxy Nexus cap off the year of the smartphone"?BGR?11:02 AM
"Enterprise Mobility: Apple's 2011 Saw New iPhone, iPad, Mac OS X, Steve Jobs' Death" [Slideshow]?eWeek?11:02 AM
"New Year Honours for Corbett, Bonham Carter and golf champions" ["Apple's Jonathan Ive, the designer behind the iPod and iPhone is made a Knight Commander (KBE). Now living in the US, the East London-born 44-year-old began working for the company in 1992. He said: 'I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making. 'To be recognised with this honour is absolutely thrilling and I am both humbled and sincerely grateful.'"]?BBC?7:02 PM
"Jonathan Ive is knighted in New Year Honours list"?The Register?8:43 PM
"Will That Be Sir Jonathan, or Sir Jony?"?AllThingsD?9:50 PM
"Apple designer Jonathan Ive knighted"?MSNBC?9:19 PM
"Apple's Jonathan Ive knighted in UK"?The Verge?7:44 PM
"First Siri, Now Threat Detection: Inside SRI's Amazing R&D"?Wired?11:24 AM
"Churches Bring Custom Apps to Their Flocks"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?7:36 AM
"Someone Is Selling An Apple 'Five Year Employee Award' On eBay, For $2K"?TechCrunch?7:34 AM
"Passwords 'nightmare' solved storing logins with Passpack"?Forbes?7:39 AM
"Apple Store to Open at Masonville Place Mall in London, Ontario?"?iPhoneinCanada?7:46 AM
"Winds Blow, Doors Shatter, Life Goes On"?ifoAppleStore?4:39 PM
"iPhone Crushes Android at AT&T Corporate Stores in December"?The Mac Observer?8:52 PM
"Apple sends 'take down' notices to cracked iOS apps creator AppTrackr"?9 to 5 Mac?4:41 PM
"iPhone Siri software tells boy, 12, to 'shut up' in Tesco: A 12-year-old boy was subjected to an obscene tirade by a new iPhone when he tested out its new voice technology in a supermarket, according to Reports."?Telegraph?7:41 AM
"iPhone 4S gets offensive with 12-year-old boy after pranksters tweak Siri"?The Next Web?8:18 AM
"Apple's Siri gets sweary with British child"?The Register?12:05 PM
"Apple's Siri curses out 12-year-old"?CNET News?4:20 PM
"Kunming Fake Apple Store Changed its name for Second Time (Video)"?M.I.C. Gadget?7:54 AM
"The surprising success of the Confession app"?The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required]?8:57 AM
"Simulating traditional painting with the iPad: Digital art doesn't have to look sterile and cold. Digital artist Kyle Lambert shows us how to create a painting that looks like it was made the old-fashioned way." [Slideshow]?Macworld?8:19 AM
"Steve Jobs Talks About Future of the TV in 1998 (Video)"?MacTrast?7:53 AM
"Picture This: Steve Jobs Gets Bronzed" [Slideshow]?Network World?10:55 AM
"Apple Produced 'Ghostbusters' Ad, Apple Boogie Album in 80s"?PC Magazine?10:53 AM
"Discovering The 1983 Apple Art Steve Jobs Forgot"?iPhone Savior?4:16 PM
"Apple phone prototype from 1983 shows an all touchscreen interface"?TiPb?8:17 AM
"Rare Photo Shows Steve Jobs's Rebellious Spirit As He Flips The Bird To IBM"?Cult of Mac?8:07 AM
"Cat Plays Fruit Ninja On iPad [Video]?Redmond Pie?7:04 PM
Non-Apple News
"Facebook Messenger embeds network into Windows"?ZDNet UK?11:24 AM
"How Tetris became the world's favourite computer game"?BBC?11:19 AM
"Report: Wii U will have its own 'app store'"?TG Daily?11:09 AM
"First LTE Windows Phone will be on AT&T"?TG Daily?11:09 AM
"Casio's New G-SHOCK Connects To Smartphones, Shows Incoming Calls, Emails, SMS"?TechCrunch?11:06 AM
"Two New Tools Exploit Router Security Setup Problem"?IDG News Service?10:55 AM
"Need Wi-Fi? Find a Vending Machine"?PCWorld?10:55 AM
"Siri for Android? New App Fools Users in Android Market"?Techland?12:32 PM
"'Official' Siri App Lands In The Android Market"?Cult of Mac?12:32 PM
"Siri Knock-Offs Invade Android Market"?PCWorld?10:54 AM
"Google: The New Vampire Squid"?Forbes?11:31 AM
"Google, Facebook rivalry to heat up in 2012"?Computerworld?10:31 AM
"Google Backs Israel Entrepreneurs as Local Financing Drops"?Bloomberg?10:19 AM
"Hackers, IT units focusing on smartphone security"?Reuters?10:09 AM
"Happy New Year from Skype! Free Wi-Fi in NYC for New Year's Eve"?CNET News?10:02 AM
"Christy Wyatt on How Motorola Plans to Stand Out From the Android Pack"?AllThingsD?9:49 AM
"Computer Sciences Narrows CEO Hunt"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9:47 AM
"Verizon Drops Plan for New $2 Fee"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?7:03 PM
"Verizon retreats on 'convenience fee' for online bill payment: Public outcry causes backpedaling in 24 hours"?The Register?5:23 PM
"Verizon Drops Plan for New $2 Fee"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?4:25 PM
"Verizon's on-contract Xyboard is now $50 cheaper"?ZDNet?11:22 AM
"Verizon explains 4G outages: Parsing the IT failure transparency"?ZDNet?11:22 AM
"Verizon Attributes 4G LTE Service Disruptions to 'Growing Pains'"?PC Magazine?10:53 AM
"Verizon Outages, New $2 Fee Irk Customers"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9:42 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"iPhone & iPad Live 186: Untethered"?TiPb?9:44 PM
"Gene Steinberg wraps 2011 with commentator Kirk McElhearn, author Bob 'Dr. Mac' LeVitus, and The Loop's Jim Dalrymple this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?4:17 PM
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"Apple, Amazon Lead '5 Most Admired' Tech Companies"?Forbes?8:43 PM
"iOS developers still battling Lodsys"?TUAW?5:34 PM
"Steve Jobs Was The Modern-Day John Galt"?Forbes?5:22 PM
"Apple's 100 -Tester Rule for iOS Apps Not Enough"?PadGadget?4:39 PM
"Lions and Tigers and Kittens Playing on Tablets? Oh, My!"?AllThingsD?4:26 PM
"Apple accused of giving resellers short shrift again, this time in France"?Ars Technica?4:20 PM
"iPhone 4S Contributes To Growth In App Downloads"?HotHardware?4:20 PM
"Holiday Gifting Drives Apple iOS 12x Higher; Android Leads in More Countries"?MacPrices?4:18 PM
"Rumor: Thinner, Low-Power Retina Display For iPad 3"?AppleBitch?12:04 PM
"Samsung now takes to copying Apple's iPad commercials"?Edible Apple?11:33 AM
"iPad online shopping (mis)adventures"?AppleTell?11:27 AM
"Will 2012 bring a challege to the iPad? While Apple's iPad dominated the tablet market in 2011, there are signs the competition is heating up for 2012." [Audio Report]?MarketWatch?11:20 AM
"iPad 3 Rumor Roundup: New Display Tech, Lots of Contradictions"?Wired?4:25 PM
"Rumors of new iPads heat up as 2012 arrives"?CNN?10:39 AM
"My Predictions For 2012: The Apple TV And ITV"?MacNews?9:03 AM
"Looking Forward to 2012: Credible iPad Threats"?Techland?8:18 AM
"Top 5 Apple Rumors From 2011"?TheStreet?7:42 AM
"Study Claims Android Is For Apps, iOS For Games"?MobileMag?7:42 AM
Non-Apple
"The curious case of slowing US growth for Android"?asymco?4:40 PM
"Another 'Honor' For Hewlett-Packard"?WSJ Blogs?11:30 AM
"Symbian grows mobile dominance in 2011"?ZDNet UK?11:23 AM
"Motorola DROID XYBOARD 8.2, 10.1 hands-on review"?ZDNet?11:22 AM
"2011 Year in Review - Android's year"?ZDNet?11:22 AM
"Google's SOPA press stunt: Can we truly hold them liable?"?ZDNet?11:21 AM
"Anonymous 101 Part Deux: Morals Triumph Over Lulz"?Wired?11:20 AM
"Do You Speak Robot?"?Wired?11:19 AM
"4 Reasons Verizon's $2 'Convenience' Fee Is Harsh, Unfriendly and Wrongheaded"?Techland?11:12 AM
"TVs are top CE energy user"?TG Daily?11:09 AM
"Amazon Democratizes Supercomputing: Got a big question? Willing to spend $1,279 an hour?"?Technology Review?11:07 AM
"When Will LG's 84-Inch 4K TV Go Mainstream? Maybe Never"?PCWorld?10:55 AM
"The best game of the year" [Video Report]?MSNBC?10:50 AM
"10 Ways to Clean Up Your PC and Digital Life Before the New Year"?PC Magazine?10:53 AM
"How to Prevent a New Year's Eve Tech Hangover: From embarrassing photos to lost phones to inebriated texting, learn how to prevent tech-related regrets in the first hours of 2012."?Techland?11:12 AM
"Big data, analytics get even bigger, hotter in 2012"?IDG News Service?10:45 AM
"How a Montreal company won the race to build the world's cheapest tablet"?The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required]?10:41 AM
"Toshiba Thrive 7 a Solid, Smaller Android Tablet: Toshiba's Thrive 7' is a solid, middle-of-the-road Android tablet, but its higher price-points could drive some consumers to look elsewhere."?eWeek?10:37 AM
"Tech 2011: Biggest News Stories of the Year"?Wired?11:19 AM
"2011: Biggest tech stories of the year"?Washington Post [Free Registration Required]?9:50 AM
"RIM's Share of the U.S. Smartphone Market Slips Again"?AllThingsD?9:48 AM
"Windows 8 tablets: Microsoft's 'think different' moment has arrived"?Tech.Blorge?8:58 AM
"If HTML5 Kills the Blog Format, I Won't Shed a Tear"?ReadWriteWeb?8:19 AM
"Microsoft Launches Native Lync Client For iPad"?RazorianFly?5:24 PM
"Rock out with your friends with Rockmate for iPad"?TiPb?4:38 PM
"60Beat, a Proper Game Controller for iOS"?Wired?11:24 AM
"SwitcherLyrics adds music lyrics to the Fast App Switcher [Jailbreak]?TiPb?11:20 AM
"The iPod Nano Pill Speaker: Good for What Ails You"?Gizmodo?11:11 AM
"Cirque du Mac 9 Scheduled for Friday, January 27 at Macworld | iWorld"?The Mac Observer?10:38 AM
"'iPhoned Erie:' Shot and edited on the iPhone"?FairerPlatform?8:40 AM
"Tipard Released Mac iPhone SMS Transfer: A Powerful SMS Manager"?PRNewswire-Asia?8:15 AM
"iTattoo Cases Make Excellent Use Of Your iPhone, iPad or Mac Apple Logo"?prMac?8:40 AM
"TheDataManager releases Raghavan's Indian Flavors 1.0 for iPad"?prMac?8:07 AM
"Dirty Hip Hop mini for iPod and iPhone released by Digifilm"?prMac?8:07 AM
"Mindshapes Releases Tap-A-Tune App For iPad, iPhone and iPod touch"?prMac?8:07 AM
"Letters App - Version 1.0 - educational ABC iPad game"?prMac?8:07 AM
"PhatWare Releases WritePad for iPhone, Offering Multilingual Handwriting"?prMac?8:06 AM
"The Ultimate Stain Removal Tips App is Out"?prMac?8:06 AM
"Move your files from your computer to iOS freely with SyncMeApp"?prMac?8:06 AM
"MEJJI Puzzle Arrives on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad"?prMac?8:06 AM
"intelli-Diet App - Don't count calories, eat them"?prMac?8:06 AM
"Plush Ninja 1.0 Free for iOS - Slice Plush, Toy, Zombie Bears to Pieces"?prMac?8:06 AM
"Soldier's Tactical NAV iOS App Provides Help to Veterans in Need"?prMac?8:04 AM
"intelli-Diet App - Don't count calories, eat them"?prMac?8:03 AM
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