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CIRP Survey Highlights Importance of Walmart as iPad-Seller

CIRP Survey: PC to Mac Conversion-Rate Greater at Apple Retail Partners Than at Apple Retail

Australia to Quiz Apple, Microsoft and Others on Higher Prices for Digital Goods Down Under

Mobile Marketer Fisku Says iOS App Downloads Drop 30-Percent from February to March (Though with a Few Good Reasons)

Reports Have iTunes Match Expanding to Five More Countries This Week

Apple Urges Developers to Get Friendly with Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper

Yahoo Point Person on Women’s Initiatives Reportedly Heads to Apple’s iAd Division

Microsoft Gets 18-Percent of New Barnes and Noble Nook Subsidiary

RIM Australia Says It’s Behind the Sydney and Melbourne “Wake Up” Happenings

Court-Directed Settlement Talks Between Apple and Samsung Set for May 21-22

Reuters: Anonymous Sources Say Apple Talking Streaming Movie Deal with EPIX

Macworld UK Sees Booming Sales for (Jailbreakable) 2nd-Gen Apple TV on eBay

Electronista: A Look at NYT Article “How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes”

CNET: Apple Rebuts NYT Story

Read NYT’s “How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes” at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

The Next Web: Cancelled WWDC Tickets May Have Been Overzealous Attempt to Stop Scalpers

People Behind Jailbreakcon Announce WWDC Alternative Called “Indie Developer Lab”

Find Info on Indie Developer Lab - June 11-14 - at http://indiedevlab.com

Apple Kills Chomp App for Android and Removes Android Filter from Chomp.com

Irish PM Visits Apple Europe Headquarters in Cork

CEO of Ferrari Meets with CEO of Apple and Execs from Google

SlashGear: Samsung Says It was Not Behind the “Wake Up” Stunt in Australia

“Choose Your Own Adventure” Books Land in the iBookstore

NPD Says iPad Replacing iPod as Apple Gateway Drug

Market Trackers Track Apple and Samsung Battle for Smartphone Supremacy

Samsung Tongues Apple with Fake Protests in Australia

Softbank Says iPhone 4S Largely Responsible for 65-Percent Increase in Profits in FY2011

Apple Among 14 Companies Sued for Alleged Patent Violation by Potter Voice Technologies

Former Apple Retail Exec Poaches Former Apple Underling to Work at JCP

Apple Offers Up to 150 WWDC Scholarships

Check Out Apple’s WWDC Scholarship Page at https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/scholarships/

Craigslist Poster: I’ll Change My Name to Yours for Your Ticket to WWDC

Apple Opening Off-Campus Cafeteria for Employees Only

Sir Jonathan Ive Wins Favorite British Innovator 2012 Title in IPO of UK Contest

Business Insider Figures iPhone Alone More Profitable Than ExxonMobil

Business Insider: Apple Profit Now Bigger Than Google Revenue

Fortune: Indie-Analysts Take Top Eight Spots for Apple 2Q FY2012 Estimates

Fortune: A Raft on Analysts up Apple Targets

Apple Earnings Report Leads Shares to Close Back Above $600 on Wednesday

Sprint Sells 1.5 Million iPhones in Most Recent Quarter, 660,000 to New Customers

Sprint CEO Says Carrier Will Keep Unlimited Data for Next iPhone Even If It’s a 4G/LTE Device

HTC Sees Profits Drop Over 70-Percent, Says iPhone 4S Largely to Blame

Apple Sets WWDC Dates for June 11-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco

WWDC Sells Out in Two Early Morning Hours

The Mysterious Misfire of WWDCAlerts.com

Developers from Big Nerd Ranch and Panic See WWDC Tickets Cancelled for Unknown Reasons

Nominations Open for Apple Design Awards at https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/awards/

Kaspersky Founder and CEO Says Apple is Years Behind Microsoft in Terms of Security

Microsoft Puts Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 Back Up for Download

Apple Reports Best Second Fiscal Quarter in Its History

Apple’s 2Q FY2012 Earnings Call is Available as a Podcast on iTunes

AT&T: 4.3 Million of 5.5 Million Smartphones Sold Last Quarter Were iPhones

T-Mobile Offers $200 Bounty for iPhones to New 4G Smartphone Customers

Judge Says Samsung Violated Court Orders in U.S. Case Against Apple

Apple Loses Preliminary Ruling Against Motorola Mobility in USITC Case

Chinese Government Official Says Proview Owns the iPad Trademark, Not Apple

Forrester: Tablets to Displace Traditional PCs as Primary Computing Device by 2016

Macmillan USA Subsidiary Tor Books Announces Plans to Drop DRM from Its eBooks in Early July

KGI Analyst Says Apple Will Use In-Cell Touch Panels to Slim Down Next iPhone

GigaOm Says In-Cell Touch Panels Would Let Apple Increase Battery Size for Next iPhone Rather Than Reduce Phone Size

China Times Hears Talk (Again) of a Budget iPhone

KGI Analyst Spins Strange Yarn Around Macs in 2012

Intego Spots New Flashback Variant in the Wild

Microsoft Yanks Office for Mac 2011 Update After Bug Trouble with Outlook

All Things D: Apple Breaks Ground on New Oregon Data Center

Denver Broncos Ditch Weekly Printed Palybooks for iPads

Apple Holds 2Q FY2012 Earnings Call today at 2PM EDT/5PM PDT

Listen Live to the Apple Earnings Call at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq212 

Dr. Web and Symantec Peg Current Flashback Infection at 650,000 Macs

Six U.S. Regional Carriers Start iPhone 4/4S Sales and Service

Sterne Agee Analyst Ups iPhone Sales Estimates and Lowers Mac Expectations for Apple’s 2Q FY2012

IHS iSuppli: Apple to Consume One-Quarter of 2012’s NAND Flash Production

Apple Launches Pages for iPhone and iPad in Business

Check out the iPhone in Business Page at http://apple.com/iphone/business

Check out the iPad in Business Page at http://apple.com/ipad/business

EU Competition Commissioner Says Apple Has Made Settlement Offer in eBook Price Fixing Case

Proview Attorney Says Settlement Talks Underway with Apple Over Ownership of Term “iPad” in China

Flatworld Interactives Sues Apple Over Alleged Patent Infringement Regarding Touchscreen Gestures

Apple Adding 500 Positions at European Headquarters

Bloomberg/Businessweek Wins D&AD “Yellow Pencil” for Steve Jobs Commemorative Issue

Verizon: 3.2 Million of the 6.3 Million Smartphones Sold Last Quarter Were iPhones

Canaccord Genuity Analyst Ups Apple Target to $740

Citigroup and Piper Jaffray Analysts See Support for Fall Release for Next iPhone

Apple Says 4G iPad Should Be Called 4G in Australia Even If It Can’t Run on 4G Networks in Australia

Samsung Accuses Apple of Violating Eight of Its Patents in New Countersuit Filing

Judge Green Lights Anti-Poaching Antitrust Case Against Apple and Other Tech Giants

Kaspersky Labs Says Flashback Infections Down to 30,000 Macs

Apple Supplier Responsibility Report for March Shows Increased Compliance with Overtime Regulations

Microsoft and Best Buy Team Up for “Behind the Tiles” Windows Phone Parties

Valve CEO Says No One From His Company Met with Tim Cook Nor Anyone Else from Apple This Week

Goldman Sachs Reiterates “Buy” Rating on Apple Shares; Ups Apple Target to $750

Barclays Capital Analyst Suggests Apple Investors Stay in the Shares

Apple Lawyer Says Company Wants to Defend Against DoJ Collusion Charges in Court

Symantec: Flashback Infection Down to 140,000 Macs (Though They’d Expected a Drop to 99,000 by Now)

Greenpeace Stages “Clean Our Cloud” Demonstration at Apple European HQ in Ireland

Apple Issues Minor Update for Configurator Utility

Apple Seeds Third Builds of Mountain Lion and Xcode 4.4 to Developers

Apple Reportedly Giving Snow Leopard to MobileMe Users to Start Them Moving Toward Lion and iCloud

Encyclopedia Britannica Launches Universal iOS App

Korean News Site Says Next iPhone Case Will Be Liquid Metal (Liquidmetal?) and Will Launch at WWDC

Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt Wonders Why We Believe in an Apple Television

Fast Company Profiles Steve Jobs’ “Wilderness Years”

Read the Fast Company Piece at http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/165/steve-jobs-legacy-tapes

Time Puts Apple CEO Tim Cook on 2012 List of 100 Most Influential People in the World

Apple and Samsung to Meet for Court Directed Settlement Talks

Security Expert: Java Updates Won’t Keep Macs Safe from SabPub Variants

Apple Hires United-Continental CFO as New VP of Sales

Shaw Wu Thinks a 7.85-Inch iPad would Decimate the Competition (Though He Doesn’t Know That We’ll See One Soon)

New Siri-Focused iPhone 4S Ads Running with Samuel L. Jackson and Zoey Deschanel

Apple Awarded Patent for Look and Feel of iTunes Store

Apple Opening Second Store in Rome This Saturday at 10AM Local Time

Greenpeace Slams Apple and Others for Powering Data Centers with Dirty Energy

All Things D Questions Accuracy of Greenpeace Report 

NYC Apple Stores to Host Filmmaker Talks in Conjunction with Tribeca Film Festival

Check Out the Apple Store Tribeca Film Festival Events Schedule at http://www.apple.com/retail/tribeca/

Jony Ive on Short List of UK IPO British Visionary Innovators