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NYT: Apple Suspends Sales of iPhone at Its Physical Stores in Mainland China / iPhone Gets Fourth and Potentially Disruptive Carrier in France / Bloomberg Sources Say Next iPad Due in March; Will Sport High-Def Display, Quad-Core Processor, and 4G/LTE Support / Morgan Stanley Analyst Sees, Thinner, Quad-Core 3G/4G/LTE iPhone Later This Year / Apple Loses Preliminary Ruling in ITC Case Against Motorola / Apple Makes Supplier Responsibility Report More Transparent; Joins Fair Labor Association / iPodNN: Email Reportedly from Tim Cook Talks FLA Membership and Apple Working for Supply Chain Workers / Apple Supplier Responsibility Report Confirms Aluminum Dust as Cause of Foxconn and Pegatron Explosions in 2011 / Apple Expands Recycling Program in UK, France, and Germany to Include iPhones and iPads / Apple Supplier to Take 6-Million Dollar Hit to Making USB and Power Cords More Eco-Friendly

Sponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken10 at http://vmware.com/mac / MacNN: Thousand Cue-Up for iPhone 4S in China / Sanlitun Beijing Store Fails to Open on iPhone 4S Day; Gets Pelted by Eggs / Piper Jaffray Analyst Says the Next iPhone is Going to Be Bigger Than Big in Terms of Sales / Verizon Says All of Its New Smartphones in 2012 Will Be 4G/LTE Devices / Macworld: Big Phone-Makers at CES Talk Trimming the Number of Models on the Market / UBS Sees Huge Holiday-Quarter for Apple Based on Huge Holiday Quarters for Apple Suppliers / Target Confirms Plans for Apple Mini-Stores at 25 Locations as Part of Bigger Store-in-Store Push / ForeSee Survey: Apple.com Tops in Satisfaction for Shopping Via Mobile Devices / Report: Apple Leasing Space for 1,300 Workers in Sunnyvale / Samsung Exec Belittles Steve Jobs Statements About “Cracking” TV / Lenovo CEO: Apple Has Tablets Locked Up Near Term

Sponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken10 at http://vmware.com/mac / Apple Sends Invitations for NYC Education Event on 19 January / Gartner: PC Sales Fall 1.4-Percent Worldwide in 4Q CY2011; Down Nearly 6-Percent in the States / IDC: PC Sales Fall 0.17-Percent Worldwide in 4Q CY2011; Down 6.7-Percent in the States / MacRumors: Apple Issues Fifth beat of Mac OS X 10.7.3 Update / Piper Jaffray Analyst Up iPhone Sales Expectations to 30-Million Units for Holiday Quarter / T-Mobile USA Says It’s Still Interested in Having an iPhone / Imagination Technologies Announces Series6 of PowerVR GPUs / Apple Confirms Purchase of Israeli Flash-Firm Anobit / Spanish Tablet-Maker Accuses Apple of Extortion / Reuters Source Says Over 250 Apple Employees Attending CES / PaidContent.org: Apple Head of iOS Marketing Seen Prowling the Floor at CES / Sony Entertainment Network Plans iOS App for Its Music Unlimited Service This Quarter

Sponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken10 at http://vmware.com/mac / iLounge Editor-in-Chief Says He’s Seen (What Appears to Be) iPad 3 / 9 to 5 Mac: References in iOS 5.1 beta 3 Seem to Indicate Siri for iPad at Some Point / Report: SAP Second, Korea Telecom First in Corporate iPad Deployment / Amazon Launches Kindle Store Optimized for iPad / Corning Plans Improved Gorilla Glass for Second-Half of 2012 / Verizon and News Corp Do Deal to Put The Daily on Verizon Android Devices / New Class-Action Suit Take Issue with AT&T/iPhone Exclusivity, Closed App Store Model, and Disco / Eastman Kodak Files Suit Against Apple and HTC for Alleged Patent Violation Related to Digital Imaging / Apple Tops Ipsos Reid Survey of “Leading Edge” Brands with Canadians / Report: iOS Acceleration Made Objective-C the Fastest Growing Programming Language in 2011

Sponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken10 at http://vmware.com/mac / Apple Sets Annual Shareholder Meeting for 23 February / Tim Cook Paid 900-Thousand Times More Than His Predecessor as Apple CEO / Deutsche Bank Analyst Says Various Legal Offensives By Apple Against Android Could Yield Bales of Cash / NPD: iPhone Steals Significant Share from Android in October/November 2011 U.S. Sales / ChangeWave Sees Continued Strength for “Intent to Buy” and Satisfaction for iPhone / Analysts From Goldman and Needham Up Expectations Ahead of 1Q FY2012 Apple Earnings Report / WSJ: Regulatory Approval for Apple Device Could Mean Second Carrier Soon for iPhone in China / 9 to 5 Mac: References Found to Quad-Core Processing in Second iOS 5.1 beta / iPodNN: Third iOS 5.1 beta Brings Back the “Enable 3G” Toggle / PC World: Apple Inspiration All Over CES / Samsung Makes Interesting TV Announcements at CES / Nuance Launches Dragon TV Platform for OEMs at CES / Acer Blatantly Copies iCloud Promo Material in Introducing AcerCloud / High-End Audio Component Maker Klipsch Gets Stoked About AirPlay / GigaOm: Thunderbolt Makes Noise at CES

Sponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken10 at http://vmware.com/mac / Forrester Research: Global Enterprise Spending on Apple to Rise 50-Percent This Year / Bernstein Analyst: Apple Makes More Money Reselling NAND Flash Than NAND Flash-Makers Make Making It / China Unicom Offering Free iPhone 4S with Two-Year or Three-Year Contract / Nine Chinese Authors Sue Apple for Unauthorized Apps Featuring Their Writings / DigiTimes Says Two iPads This Year (And Business Insider Misrepresents Gruber) / Gruber Agrees with DigiTimes on iPad 3 in March; Disagrees on iPad 4 This Fall / Rumor: Apple Eyes Target for New Store-In-a-Store Partnership / Rovio Sees 6.5-Million Downloads of Angry Birds on Christmas Day 2011 / Disney Mobile Sees 6-Million Downloads of “Where’s My Water” for Android and iOS During Holiday Week 2011 / Motorola Warns of 4Q CY2011 Miss on Expectations / WWDCAlerts: Two Developers Set Up Alerts for WWDC Ticket Availability at http://wwdcalerts.com / PaidContent: Apple Legal Probably Can’t Stop the InIcons Steve Jobs Action Figure

Verizon CFO: We Sold 4.2-Million iPhones Last Quarter / UBS Analyst Sees Around 35-Million iPhone Sold in 1Q FY2012 Based on Verizon Number / Shaw Wu Sees Next iPhone as Biggest Apple Story of 2012 / Barclays Analyst Says Investors Should Not Worry Over Conservative 2Q FY2012 Guidance from Apple (Assuming Apple Issues Conservative 2Q FY2012 Guidance) / Judge Denies Samsung Request for Preliminary Injunction Against Sales of iPhone 4S in Italy / Apple and Elan Microelectronics Settle Patent Suits / Report: Apple Plucks Adobe Exec to Head iAds / The Guardian Out of the UK Says Apple Not Believed to Be Bidding for Premier League TV Rights (Citing No Sources) / Reality TV Powerhouse Ditches Apple’s Final Cut for Avid / Nielsen Soundscan: US Album Sales Up for the First Time Since 2004 / Seagate Says HDD Demand will Outpace Supply for 2012 / Apple Reportedly Eyeing Store for Halifax, Nova Scotia / Infinity Blade Titles Earn 30-Million Dollars in Revenue in a Little Over One Year / Apple Moves to Block Creepy Steve Jobs Action Figure / Toy-Maker Doubts Apple Has Legal Case Against Jobs Action Figure

Apple Q1 FY2012 Earnings Call Set for 24 January / Apple Launching iPhone 4S in China and 21 Other Countries on 13 January / ABI Research Sees Huge Gulf in App Consumption Between iPads and Android-Based Tablets / NPD/DisplaySearch: Tablets to Share Equal Footing with Notebooks by 2017 / The Daily Mail Says Apple Expected to Bid on Premier League TV Rights (Though It Doesn’t Say WHy It Thinks So) / USA Today: Apple Television Talk to Rule CES Without an Apple Presence at the Show / Secret Source Says Jony Ive has “Slick 50-Inch TV” in His Design Shop / Roku Plans “Streaming Stick” for Second Half of 2012 / Motions Still in Motion in Apple v. Psystar / Canadian Man Says He Crossed U.S. Border with Scan of Passport on His iPad / Customs Says Guy Crossing Border with iPad Passport-Scan Also had His Birth Certificate (He Says He Did Not) / Rupert Murdoch Tweets Disappointment with Isaacson Biography of Jobs / Thurrott: Sources Say Windows and Nokia to Pay AT&T Retail Workers a Big Bounty on Each Nokia Windows Phone Sold

TechCrunch: Apple NYC Event to Involve Publishers and iBookStore and No New Hardware / Clayton Morris: NYC Event to Focus on iTunesU and Apple in Education / iPodNN: January Event Rumors Seem to Center on Textbooks, eBooks, and iBooks / Business Insider Finds Support for Education at Apple Event in Isaacson Bio of Jobs / Ticonderoga Securities and Piper Jaffray Bullish on Apple Into 2012 / Morgan Keegan Analyst Lowers Apple 12-Month Price Target Slightly; Still Bullish on Apple Into 2012 / Barclays Analyst Thinks Addition of Disney CEO to Apple Board Could Lead to Apple-Shareholder Dividends / MacRumors: Mac Pros May (or May Not) Be in for a Refresh / Apple Continues “Mystery Bag” Sales on New Year’s Day in Japan / Apple Hosting Far-East Sales for Chinese Lunar New Year This Friday / Flurry Analytics: Worldwide Mobile App Downloads Cross One-Billion in One Week for Last Week of 2011 / RIM Cuts Price of All BlackBerry PlayBooks to 300-Dollars / DigiTimes Reruns “Two New iPads Plus iPad 2” Story Dropping the Macworld/iWorld Bit / Adam Lashinsky’s Book “Inside Apple” Set for 25 January Release

All Things D: Apple Rumored to Hold Small but Significant Media Event in NYC at End of January / TMO: Secret Source Says iPhone Made Up 66-Percent of Sales at Corporate-Owned AT and T Stores in December / Apple to Appeal 1.2-Million-Dollar Italian Fine Related to AppleCare / Stories Citing Argentinian-Ban on iPhone Sales Deemed False / Siri Imitators Show Up on Android Market / Google Pulls “Siri for Android” from Android Market While Other Blatant Imitators Remain / Rumor has Apple Opening New London, Ontario Store This Fall / Largest Apple Authorized Reseller in France Sues Apple for Alleged Unfair Competition / Door at Lehigh Valley Apple Store Shatter Nine Times in 2011 / Jonathan Ive Receives Knighthood / Cirque du Mac at Macworld/iWorld Set for Friday 27 January / Apple Rejects Steve Jobs-Themed “Tribute Calendar” App / Toy Companies Plan February Release for Creepy Steve Jobs Action Figure