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Feb 08, 2012 - 11:28 AM EST — AAPL: 471.40 (+2.57, +0.55%) | NASDAQ: 2894.86 (-9.22, -0.32%)

Violet Blue: The Apple fanboy problem

Apple ‘fanboys’ have gained a negative reputation as a hostile entity…

Apple asked standards body to set rules for essential FRAND patents

Apple Inc. has asked a telecommunications standards body to set basic principles…

Apple to stream live Paul McCartney concert via Apple TV, iTunes on February 9th

Paul McCartney will host a free, live streaming concert through iTunes on February 9th at 7PM PT…

Apple firmware updates enable Lion Recovery on 2010 MacBook Air, iMac, MacBook Pro models

Apple has released firmware updates which enable Lion Recovery on…

Calpers presses Apple to change director election process

Apple will face fresh shareholder pressure at its annual meeting this month to change the way it elects directors…

Beleaguered Nokia axes 4,000 jobs; shifts production to Asia

Nokia has so far announced plans to shed around 14,000 job cuts…

Sprint posts net loss but revenue gain on Apple iPhone; best quarterly subscriber gain in six years

Sprint Nextel, the nation’s No. 3 cellphone carrier, on Wednesday reported a net loss income…

Valuing growth: Apple is growing faster than Facebook

Is $1 profit from Facebook really 10x more valuable than a dollar of profits from Apple?

Buffalo Wild Wings bar and grill expands Apple iPad pilot program

Apple’s revolutionary 9.7-in. iPad is being tested for customers to make food and drink orders from their tables…

Apple shares hit new all-time intraday, closing highs

Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares today gained $4.86 to set a new all-time closing high…

Launched by Apple, ‘App Economy’ has created 466,000 jobs in the U.S. alone since 2008

America’s App Economy – which had zero jobs just 5 years ago before the iPhone was introduced…

Analyst: Apple iTV may include its own YouTube-like video feature

Will Apple’s rumored iTV challenge Google’s YouTube with a built-in video sharing service of its own?

PC Magazine reviews Apple’s Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3: Editors’ Choice for high-end video editing

Apple’s precise, fluid, highly usable Final Cut Pro X is PC Magazine’s Editors’ Choice for high-end video editing…

How Apple iPhone saves business’ money and why Android can’t

Apple’s revolutionary iPhone offers companies unique advantages…

Microsoft to open retail store by Apple Store The Domain in Austin, Texas

The new Microsoft retail store will open in northern Austin’s Domain shopping center, where Apple…

Beleaguered RIM claims BlackBerry App World more profitable than Google’s Android Market

Beleaguered RIM announced on Tuesday that its BlackBerry App World is the second most profitable…

Apple’s iPhone 4S, via Siri, now accounts for a quarter of Wolfram Alpha queries

There was skepticism in 2009, when Wolfram Alpha arrived, with critics…

Analyst sees Apple ‘iTV’ taking 5% of HDTV market, earning $17B in revenue

If Apple were to offer high-definition television sets with an average selling price of…

Smart Audio sues Apple for with Delco Electronics patent

Texas-based Smart Audio Technologies has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple…

Apple ‘iTV’ currently in Rogers’, Bell’s Canadian labs amid ongoing ‘iTV’ partnership talks, says source

Canada’s largest telecommunications companies are squaring off in a fight about the future of television…

Saudi Prince Alwaleed: Judge Apple’s Cook in two years; next 5-6 quarters will be mainly under Steve Jobs’ influence

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said the time to judge Apple Inc. management will be in two years…

Analyst: iPad 3 with high-res, massive pixel count IGZO display to debut in April

There’s not a single commercial IGZO flat-panel display available right now…

Proview to seek $1.5 billion from Apple in Chinese iPad trademark lawsuit

Apple has been denied the rights to the trademark for the term ‘iPad’ in China…

Gartner: Apple Mac sales surged while Windows PC shipments plummeted in Q411 in UK , France

The Windows PC market in Western Europe has suffered four consecutive quarters of shipment decline…

Secret Apple project worked to port Mac OS X to iPad-style ARM processors

While iOS also uses the Darwin kernel, this project involved Mac OS X…

Qantas trial provides Apple iPad to every passenger with wireless access to inflight entertainment

Q Streaming trial commences in Australia…

Jim Cramer: The Best Super Bowl ad was for Apple – and they didn’t pay a cent

One ad struck me as the most honest, most riveting and most compelling of all…

Bernstein analyst sees $204 billion in Apple customer ‘lifetime value’ rising to $373 billion by end of 2014

Rather than being a transactional company with volatile revenues, Apple is a platform company…

Google loses bid to exclude incriminating email from Oracle patent infringement trial

Google Inc., fighting a patent lawsuit filed by Oracle Corp., lost its appeals court bid…

Apple shares hit new all-time intraday, closing highs

Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares today gained $4.29 to set a new all-time closing high…

Analyst sees Apple partnering with existing cable providers for some ‘iTV’ content

Apple could gain access to non-exclusive content and could buy access to exclusive content for it’s Apple television…

Halliburton dumps beleaguered RIM BlackBerry devices for Apple iPhones

Halliburton, one of the world’s largest energy service corporations, plans to…

Why didn’t Apple advertise during the Super Bowl?

Apple is not mentioned at all during the rather thrilling contest between…

Apple iPad invades Super Bowl parties

millions of folks in the U. S. headed to parties dedicated to the Super Bowl…

HTC: pursuing 4G over battery, device size was a mistake

In which HTC admits that making thick, short-lived devices for the sake of having 4G, was a mistake…

Apple’s ‘Macroscalar’ architecture: Will it take iOS to the next level?

The general consensus in the market today is that Apple’s upcoming A6 quad core processor…

Sneak Peek: Upcoming Photoshop performance gains (with video)

These videos offer a sneak peek of the next version of Photoshop’s performance gains…

‘Apple HDTV’ heads Best Buy survey: 42-inch model for $1,499

Best Buy is sending surveys to customers getting feedback…

Why Amazon’s tiny screen Kindle Fire can’t pierce Apple’s iPad sales

Since Amazon launched the Kindle Fire last October…

Samsung Super Bowl ad mocks Apple iPhone users

Samsung Mobile USA aired a 90-second TV commercial during the Super Bowl yesterday…

Amazon’s last chance to catch up to Apple

If you think Apple is a pretty big deal right now, you’ve seen nothing yet…

HTC, Android’s original standard bearer, falls from grace

There was a time when HTC and Android were practically synonymous…

Apple still working on Thunderbolt trademark

Information was swirling around the web at that point in time that Apple…

Apple’s iterative approach to FRAND abuse is not for the faint of heart, but there’s no better alternative

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking….

Google hires Apple senior director for ‘top secret project’

Google has pulled off a coup by hiring an Apple senior director…

Needham’s Wolf: The launch of the iPhone 4S sent Apple Retail Store sales ‘into the stratosphere’

Apple Stores are always busy places, but they tend to go crazy…

AT&T starts throttling unlimited data users after 2GB of monthly usage

In October, AT&T announced that they would start throttling data usage…

Why Apple’s A5 is so big–and iPhone 4 won’t get Siri

The problem with Android tablets isn’t a lack of maturity…

Apple releases Snow Leopard Security Update 2012-001 v1.1 to correct Rosetta Issues

Apple has released Security Update 2012-001 v1.1 to address…

Nasdaq vaults to 11-year high on jobs report, but…

The Nasdaq hit an 11-year high on Friday as optimism grew…

Apple’s iPhone business alone is now bigger than all of Microsoft

Apple’s iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft…

Business Insider’s Kovach: Everything Apple must change before I buy an iPhone 5

What’s annoying is a writer criticizing something he does not understand…

Motorola Mobility wants 2.25% of Apple’s sales for standards-essential wireless patents license

Apple’s January 30, 2012 brief opposing MMI’s motion to quash contains…

Canalys: Apple iPhone led the way as smartphones overtook PCs in 2011

Canalys today released its full, detailed Q4 2011 country-level smartphone shipment estimates…

Apple updates Apple TV with Genius recommendations for movies and TV shows

Apple has added its Genius recommendation system from iTunes to Apple TV…