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Sponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off Domain Transfers or New Domains with Hover at http://hover.com/macosken / Barclays Analyst Calls iCloud Most Important Apple Service Since iTunes Store / Sterne Agee Analyst Says Apple Store Revenue - Not Technology - Keeps iPhone Off of China Mobile / IDC and Forrester Analysts Say Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet Pose No Threat to iPad / Amazon to Launch Kindle Fire at 16,000 Retail Locations on 15 November / Australian Judge Orders Apple to Reveal Details of iPhone Deals with Carriers Down Under / Apple Insider Says Resellers Keep Selling Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia Despite Injunction Barring Such Sales / Apple Updates Apple Store iOS App with EasyPay and Personal Pickup Options / Consumer Reports Can Recommend iPhone 4S (Though It Likes Some Android Phones Better) / Apple Reportedly Says No Plans for Siri on Older Devices / 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Giving Some End Users Access to Battery-Fix iOS Update for Testing / Apple Adds Titles from The Criterion Collection to iTunes Movies

Sponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off Domain Transfers or New Domains with Hover at http://hover.com/macosken / Security Guy Charlie Miller Uncovers Serious iOS Exploit via “Stealth App” / Apple Boots Charlie Miller from iOS Developer Program / Detusche Bank Analyst Sees No Slowdown Yet of iPhone 4S Demand / Fortune: iPhone 4S Pre-Orders See Unprecedented Demand in Hong Kong and South Korea / CNET Says Apple Holding “Union Awareness” Course for Retail Management Today / VirnetX Files Complaint Against Apple with USITC to Go Along with Lawsuit / Motorola Mobility Wins Preliminary (and Temporarily Meaningless) Injunction Against Apple in Germany / Barnes and Noble Announces Nook Tablet / Canaccord Genuity Analyst Expects Continuing Dominance for iPad / Developer Finds Hidden Panorama Feature in iOS 5 Camera App

comScore Survey: Apple Only Top-Five Phone Maker to Grow U.S. Share in 3Q CY2011 / Canaccord Genuity Analyst: Apple Makes Over Half of World’s Cellphone Profits Selling Less Than a Twentieth of World’s Phones / Taiwan Clears iPhone 4S for Sale / U.S. Cellular Passed on Carrying iPhone / UK-Firm Finds Android Phones Most Prone to Breakage Among Smartphones / Report: EC Investigating Samsung for Possible Violation of EU Competition Laws / Apple Sued Over Alleged VPN-Patent Violation / Apple Issues Second iOS 5.0.1 Battery-Fix beta / Apple Seeds Safari beta with PDF Fix to Developers / Walgreens Piloting Program for In-Store, iPad-Equipped “Health Guides” / Apple VP of Global Security Resigns / CNET: Security Expert Doubts Apple Security VP was Forced Out / Apple Issues New Boatloads of Stock to Many Top Execs / Sanford Bernstein Analyst Thinks Apple Will Make an “Apple TV 3” Rather Than a Full-On Apple Television / HP Offering webOS Developers Discounted TouchPads / “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview” Headed to Landmark Theatres

Some iPhone 4S Users Report Siri Outages / Ars Technica: Siri Uses Relatively Little Data to Do What It Does / Sprint Says It’s Working on Finding and Fixing 3G-Speed Issues for iPhone 4S / IDC: Estimated Samsung Shipments Make It the Number One Smartphone Vendor in 3Q CY2011 (Maybe) / Canalys Keeps Counting Tablets as Computers, Leading to Decent Growth for Computers in 3Q CY2011 / Engadget Says Leaked Document Show Next Barnes and Noble nook a Powerful Competitor to Amazon Kindle Fire / Barclays Analyst: Apple Not Concerned Over Amazon Kindle Fire / DigiTimes Sources Say Apple to Overhaul Entire Line Next Year; Release Two iPads / CBS CEO May Have Let Some Apple TV Plans Out of the Bag / Apple Click-to-Mortar Pick-Up Option Expands Over All of California / CNET Says Glass Cube at NYC Apple Store Should Re-Open Today

Apple Admits to iOS 5 Problem Draining Batteries on Some Devices / beta to Fix iOS 5 Battery Issues Crashes Some Developer Devices / iOS 5.0.1 beta Fixes Unlikely Smart Cover Security Issue / Apple Issues iTunes 10.5.1 beta 2 to Developers as Work on iTunes Match Continues / Apple to Mac App Store Developers: Everybody in the Sandbox / South Korea Lifts Ban on iOS Games Ahead of iPhone 4S Release There / Czech Division of Telefonica Opts to Drop iPhones / Jony Ive and Other Apple Designers to Be Deposed by Samsung This Month / Apple Loses Case Over Competing Tablet Design in Spain / Jobs Bio Sells 379-Thousand Copies in the US in First Week of Release / Google Launches (Then Yanks) Flawed iOS App for GMail / Business Insider: Google Didn’t Really Care About the GMail iOS App / Fortune: Apple May Have Okayed Faulty GMail iOS App to Make Google Look Bad

Apple Launching iPhone 4S in 15 More International Regions on 11 November / US-Regional Wireless Carrier C-Spire to Start iPhone 4 and 4S Sales on 11 November / Sterne Agee Analyst Sees Strong Sales of iPhone 4S for Verizon and Sprint / RW Baird Analyst Sees iPhone 4S Demand Outpacing Supply in the States / NetApplications: iOS Grows October Market Share to Over 61-Percent / NetApplications: Safari Dominates Mobile Web Browsing; Grows a Bit on the Desktop / Samsung Wants to See iPhone 4S Firmware Code and Apple Deals with  Australian Carriers / DevilRobber: New Multi-Pronged Malware Hits the Scene / Apple Misses “End of October” iTunes Match Release Date / Apple Retail Chief (Finally) Leaves for JC Penney with No Successor Named / GarageBand for iOS Now Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch

UBS: China Telecom Likely to Get CDMA-iPhone in First Half of 2012 / Analysts Say Weak HTC Forecast Likely Thanks to Strong iPhone 4S / Rumor: Apple Testing 15-Inch MacBook Air-Type Laptop / Rumor: Apple Considers Dumping Mac Pro Line / Apple Insider: First Machines Claiming to Run Mac OS X 10.8 Show Up in Website Data Logs / Piper Jaffray Analyst Sees Preference for iPads Over Android Tablets in IT for EDUs / South Wales Primary School Sees Anecdotal Results Deploying iPads and iPods / Brazilian Foxconn iPad Plant Could be Slowed by Expensive and Unskilled Workforce / Foxconn Parent Company Breaks Ground on Robotics R&D Facility / Apple Expands In-Store Pick-Up Option to NYC; Says Wider US Expansion of Program ‘Coming Soon’ / Rumor: Apple Store App to Enable Self-Checkout for Some Products at Apple Stores / Barnes & Noble Invites Press to Event Likely for Nook Color 2 Introduction / Acer Chairman Happy HP is Staying in PCs / Pete Townshend Likens iTunes to a “Digital Vampire”

The Guardian: Apple Engineers Reaching Out to Some iPhone 4S Users with Battery Issues / The Guardian: iPhone 4S Battery Drain May Be Caused By Bug in Location Services / iOS Developer Ports Fully Functional Siri App to iPhone 4 as Proof-of-Concept / Report: Apple Owns Third Mapping Software Company C3 / RIM Running “Buy Tow PlayBooks, Get One Free” Promo for the Enterprise / All Things D Hears Hints of a Windows 8 Tablet from Nokia (Though I’m Not Sure I Do) / Best Buy Promo Has Chain Selling HP TouchPads with Select Computers / The Guardian Says HP to Shutter webOS Division Soon / HP PSG Head Calls Talk of HP Killing webOS “Unfounded Rumor” / Taiwan Premier Pledges to Help Local Phone-Makers If Apple Sues Over “Slide-to-Unlock” / NYT Runs Mona Simpson’s “A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs” / Apple Sues German Cafe Over Logo

Apple Full-Time Staff Up from 49,400 in FY2010 to 60,400 in FY2011 / Apple Grows R-and-D Spending from 1.8-Billion Dollars in FY2010 to 2.4-Billion Dollars in FY2011 / Apple Nearly Doubling CapEx to Eight-Billion-Dollars in FY2012 / Sprint CEO Says iPhone Deal is for Four Years; Valued at 15.5-Billion Dollars / Sprint CEO Praises Efficiency iPhone Data Use / Forrester Reverses Years-Long Stance; Suggests Enterprise IT Support the Mac for Those Who Want It / Apple Issues Aperture Update; Printer Driver Updates for HP and Epson Machines / NYT: Bilton Says Siri the Key to Steve Jobs Cracking the Connected TV Experience / Samsung Granted Appeal Hearing in Australian Galaxy Tab 10.1 Injunction / HP Decides to Stay in the PC Business / HP Plans to Get Back Into Tablets with Windows 8; Leaves Fate of webOS in the Air / Motorola Mobility Only Ships 100-Thousand Xooms in 3Q

CNN/Money: Sprint Sees Most Customers Added in 3Q in Five Years (And That’s Pre-iPhone) / Sprint Says iPhone Attracting More New Customers Than It Expected / Gazelle Sees Record-High BlackBerry Trade-Ins After RIM Service Outage and iPhone 4S Launch / Nokia Shows Off Its First WP7 Phones / iPhone Replaces Nokia Phones as Most Desired 3G Phone in China / Morgan Stanley Says Less-Expensive iPhone Would be Huge in China (Where iPhone is Already Huge) / Italian Court Hearing Samsung Case Against Apple Adjourns Until Mid-December / Sophos Spots New Backdoor Trojan Targeting Mac OS X Machines / Apple Issues EFI Updates for a Number of Macs as Well as a Thunderbolt Update and a QuickTime Update for Windows / Apple Issues Bug-Fix Update for iPhoto ’11 / MacBook Unibody Producer Catcher Technology to Be Back to Production Next Week / Apple Warns Developers of iTunes Match Reset Ahead of Anticipated Public Launch / 9 to 5 Mac Says Apple Piloting New Option to Buy Online, Pick Up in Store / Some Jobs Bio iBook Buyers Encouraged to Delete and Re-Download to Fix Formatting Issue / PBS to Air New Steve Jobs Documentary 2 November at 10pm Eastern / Hotel Wifi Provider Says iPad to Blame for Crappy Hotel Wifi / iPads and an “Angry Bird” Doll Headed to International Space Station