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USDoJ Investigating Apple, Publishers, and eBooks / Evercore Analyst Says Kindle Fire will “Vaporize” non-iPad Tablets / AT&T Expects Record Quarter for Smartphone Sales; Talks Up iPhone 4S / UBS Analyst Stoked for iPhone Sales After AT&T Statement / Shaw Wu Raises iPhone and Mac Sales Expectations for the Quarter; Lowers iPad / Wu Blames Amazon Kindle Fire and MacBook Air for Reduction in iPad Expectations / Intego: DevilRobber Trojan-Variant Now Infecting Macs Via Pirated Copies of Writer’s Cafe, EvoCam, and Twitteriffic / Apple Launches 12 Days of Christmas App for UK, Canada, and Parts of Europe / Wedge Partner Analyst Thinks Apple May Build TV into iMacs on the Way to an Apple TV Set / 9 to 5 Mac: Apple TV in Canada (and Maybe Australia) Now Selling TV Episodes / Google Chairman Says Google TV will Dictate TV Landscape by Next Summer / Flipboard Launches for iPhone and iPod touch; Buckles Under the Strain / Microsoft Releases My Xbox Live App for iThings / Media Gets Sneak Peek at Grand Central Terminal Apple Store

Ticonderoga Analyst: November 2011 Likely Best November Ever for Apple / IHS: iPad to Hold onto 65-Percent Tablet Share Through Year’s End / Canaccord Genuity Analyst: iPad to Hold on to 53-Percent Tablet Share Through Year’s End / Sterne Agee Analyst: RIM Being Battered by Amazon Kindle Fire in Tablets and by iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS in Low-End BlackBerries / Canaccord Genuity Analyst: Older iPhones Being Pushed Down Sales Lists on US Carriers / The European Commission Launches Antitrust Investigation into Apple and Five Publishers Over eBooks / Apple Lands at Top of PCWorld Reliability Satisfaction Survey for Laptops, Desktops, Smartphones, and Tablets / Apple Loses Cases for iPad Trademark in China; May Be on the Hook for 1.5-Billion-Dollars / Apple Updates iBooks with a Few New Features / Apple Issues Minor Update for Cards App for iOS / Apple Insider: CNBC Hears That Apple Retails EasyPay Self-Checkout Program is Going Well / Global BBC iPlayer Hitting iPhone and iPod touch This Week (Still Missing U.S.)  /Google and Telstra Launch Melbourne Retail Presence in “Androidland” / Amazon Says Jobs Bio is Top Selling Book of 2011

Apple, HTC, Samsung, Motorola, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Carrier IQ Named in New Lawsuit / Senator Franken Asks Carrier IQ Questions of Sprint, AT&T, HTC, and Samsung / JP Morgan Analysts Meet with Apple Execs, Walk Away Excited / Sprint Shooting for Second-Half 2012 Launch for LTE-Phones; Pleased with iPhone / JP Morgan: Verizon Likely Biggest Winner from iPhone 4S Among US Carriers / GigaOm: US Cellular Holding Out for a 4G-LTE iPhone / Smarthouse: Secret Sources Say Apple Plans Three Televisions by the End of 2012 / Fortune: Rumor Has Apple Considering New Data Center in Oregon / New Lion beta May or May Not Point to New Mac Pro / Electronista: Garnet Digital Targets Anyone who Has Anything to Do with Smartphones in Trollish Patent Infringement Suit / USITC Pushes HTC Apple-Patent Infringement Ruling Back to 14 December / Apple Grand Central Store Operations Seem Timed for Commuters / Early Bird Pricing to Macworld|iWorld Ends Monday, December 12 / Get more info on Macworld/iWorld at http://MacworldiWorld.com / Computer History Museum Launches Online Steve Jobs Exhibit

Congressman Markey Asks FTC to Investigate Carrier IQ / German Data Protection Authority Quizzes Apple Over Use of Carrier IQ / Carrier IQ, HTC, and Samsung Sued for Alleged Federal Wiretap Statute Violation / Report: Leaked T-Mobile Memo Shows Carrier Putting Carrier IQ on BlackBerry Phone Against RIM’s Direction / CNET: Carriers - Not Carrier IQ - Biggest Cause of Carrier IQ Privacy Issues / Brazil and Russia to Start Official iPhone 4S Sales on 16 December / comScore: Apple Fourth-Largest Cellphone Maker in the U.S. / Apple Seeds Second Build of 10.7.3 to Developers / Apple Insider: Thailand Flooding Likely Cause of Massive Delay for BtO 2TB iMac / Hearst Magazine President Pleased With Progress on Digital Subscriptions / Report: Apple VP of Government Sales Is No Longer with the Company / US Federal Judge Denies Apple Request for Preliminary Injunction Barring Galaxy Tab 10.1 Sales / Electronista: Apple ACTUALLY Seeks as Much as 16.2-Billion-Dollar Bail in German Case with Motorola Mobility

Apparent Rootkit - Carrier IQ - Installed on Most Android, BlackBerry and Nokia Phones / iPhone Dev Team Member chpwn Finds Reference to Carrier IQ in iOS 5 / Apple Says It Stopped Supporting Carrier IQ with iOS 5 on Most Products / RIM Says It Has Nothing to Do With Carrier IQ / Nokia Says Carrier IQ Not on Its Phones (No Way, No How) / HTC: Blame the Carriers for Carrier IQ / Verizon Wireless Says It Does Not Use Carrier IQ / Sprint Says It Uses Carrier IQ But Does Not (and Cannot) Snoop / AT&T and T-Mobile Say They Use Carrier IQ for Quality Not Snooping / Senator Franken Seeks Answers from Carrier IQ on Software and Consumer Info Collected / Business Insider: Carrier IQ Offers “Weak” Statement on Service / Ticonderoga Securities Analyst Sees Upside for Apple in Big Sales for Wintek; iPhone 4S Into China Soon / Vodacom South Africa to Get iPhone 4S on 16 December / ChangeWave: 96-Percent of iPhone 4S Owners Satisfied with Their Phone / CIRP: 45-Percent of iPhone 4S Buyers Paid a Penalty/Premium to Get Their New Phones / GigaOm: Mophie and Best Buy Recall Some Battery Packs for iOS Device / Australian Sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Blocked for at Least One More Week / BBC Expands Global iPlayer for iPad App to Canada; Keeps Dissing U.S. / Official: Grand Central Terminal Apple Store to Open 9 December / New York State Looking into Terms of Apple’s Grand Central Terminal Lease

Amazon Kindle Fire Unseats 16GB iPad as Best Buy’s Top Selling Tablet / Corning Cuts Estimates Due in Part to Weakness in Tablets / UBS Analyst Thinks Corning Cut Due to Non-iPad Tablets / J.P. Morgan Analyst Lowers Current-Quarter iPad Sales Expectations Slightly; Raises iPhone Target / comScore: Android Steals Share from RIM and iOS in Canada in the Summer / iPhone 4S Sales Trump Android Phone Sales in UK in October / Apple and Google Decline Participation in CTIA-Sponsored Ratings Plan for Mobile Games / The Telegraph Mixes Blog-Posts, “Respected Sources,” and Probably Gin to Predict March 2012 Launch for iPhone 5 / CNET: Reports of a Second “Exploding” iPhone / Munster Spins a Detailed Tale of the Apple Television / TMO: Apple Retail Promoting (RED) Products to Mark Today’s World AIDS Day / Disney CEO and Apple Board Member Bob Iger Buys One-Million Dollars Worth of Apple Stock / HP CEO Says Apple Could Overtake HP in PCs Next Yea (If We Count Tablets as PCs) / HP CEO Says webOS Decision to Be Handed Down in Next Two Weeks / Infinity Blade II Hits the App Store / Yahoo Says “iPhone” Most Searched Term on Yahoo in 2011

Nielsen: Android Top Smartphone OS in US, Apple Top Smartphone Maker / Wired: Developers Find References to New iPad 2, iPad 3, and iPhone 5 in iOS 5.1 beta / Barclays Analyst Sees an iPad 2, an iPad 2S, and an iPad 3 as Possibilities for 2012 / The Daily: Secret Sources Say Microsoft Working on Office for iPad / Forrester Research Says Microsoft May Arrive Too Late to the Tablet Game / Apple Releases Minor Safari Update / Australian Court Reverses Injunction Against Sale of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1; Issues “Stay of Orders” Pending Apple Appeal / Apple Seeks to Have Sales of Slightly Redesigned Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N Barred in Germany / Florida Court Denies Motorola Move to Add Products to Ongoing Patent Infringement Suit Against Apple / Apple and Graphics Properties Holdings Play Suit/Countersuit / Apple Approves iTether App for App Store / Apple Pulls iTether App from App Store

Munster “Comfortable” with iPad Projections Based on “Black Friday” Sales / Deutsche Bank Analyst Sees “Black Friday” Sell-Outs of iPhone 4S / Amazon Says It’s Sold a Lot of Kindles and Kindle Fires This Holiday Season Without Saying How Many (As Usual) / Best Buy Cancels a Number of BlackBerry PlayBook Orders; Pulls PlayBook from Site / Report Has RIM Offering PlayBooks to Employees at Ridiculously Low Prices / Best Buy Says It Will Have More PlayBooks Soon; Doesn’t Say Why It Pulled PlayBook from Site and Cancelled Orders / Piper Jaffray Survey: Cash, Clothes, and Apple Gear Top U.S. Teen Holiday Lists / Apple Offers Free Shipping for Online Orders in US Through December 22 / Google Launches Catalogs App for iPad (Just in Time for the Holidays) / Apple Issues iOS 5.1 beta to Developers / Code Monkeys Find Coded Reference to Third-Gen Apple TV in iOS 5.1 beta / iPhone 4 Begins Smoking and Glowing on Regional Express Plane in Australia / TBR and ISIG Analysts Expect 15-Inch MacBook Air Soon / Seagate Says HDD Shortages to Continue for Several Quarters Due to Thai Flooding / Rolling Stone Publisher Bringing Titles to iPad / Original Document Establishing Apple Computer Up for Auction at Sotheby’s Next Month

NPD VP Sees Bad Sales This Holiday Season Thanks to Economy and Changes in Technology / IBM and comScore Say “Black Friday” Buying Online Up About 25-Percent / IBM: iOS Devices Account for 10-Percent of Online Retail Sales on “Black Friday” / 9 to 5 Mac Source Says Apple Smashes “Black Friday” Forecasts and Records / Best Buy Runs Holiday TV Spot Centered Around Apple Gear / Apple Runs Something Rare: A TV Commercial for an iPod / GfK: iPhone Users Most Likely to Stay with Their Smartphone Platform / HTC Lowers Guidance Due to Competition and Economic Concerns / HTC Reconsidering S3 Graphics Purchase After S3 Loss Against Apple / Foxconn Appears to Be Producing iPhones in Brazil for Brazil / Jefferies and Company Analyst Says Work Under Way on Next iPad, iPhone, and Maybe the Apple TV / WSJ Says Sharp Ramping LCD Panel Production for Next iPad / Macotakara Hears Talk of iPad 4 and Unspecified iOS Device with 4-Inch LCD / Apple Posts “Arriving Soon” Sign Outside Grand Central Terminal Store / First Subscription Game App Pulled from App Store on Day of Release / USPTO Presentation Commemorates Inventions and Trademarks of Steve Jobs

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