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Apple Sets 4Q Earnings Call for Tuesday 18 October / JP Morgan Analyst Freaks Over Perceived Reduction in iPad 2 Production While Other Analysts Keep Cooler Heads / Fortune: JP Morgan Analyst May Have Forgotten About the New Foxconn iPad Facility in Brazil / Nielsen: Android Widens Lead in US Smartphones While iPhone Holds a Strong Second Place / San Francisco Apple Retail Location Set to Reopen After Renovations on October 5th / Seattle Apple Retail Location Set to Reopen After Renovations on October 7th / Ars Technica: New Mac Trojan Disguises Itself as PDF / Apple Adds New Trojan to Malware Definitions for Snow Leopard and Lion / Another Trojan Posing as Adobe Flash Installer Spotted in the Wild / Apple and Samsung Square Off in Australian Court / Apple and Samsung Also Square Off in Dutch Court / USPTO Denies Apple Application to Trademark the Term “Multi-Touch” / Amazon Signs Fox Video Deal Ahead of Expected Tablet / All Things D Sources Say Three Major Magazine Publishers On Board for New Amazon Tablet / TechCrunch Says New Amazon Tablet to Be Called “Kindle Fire”

Barclays Capital Analyst Ups Apple Target to 555-Dollars on Apple’s Power as “Disruptive Force in Hardware” / Fortune: Jefferies Analyst Advises Clients on Oct 4 Event (About Which Apple Has Not Yet Advised Anyone Officially) / All Things D Sources Say Oct 4 Event to Be Held on Apple Campus / Amazon Invites Press to Event in NYC This Wednesday, 28 September / The Next Web: Twitter Events May Indicate Release of iOS 5 by Oct. 10 / Apple Insider: Apple Employee Vacation Blackout Dates May Indicate iOS 5 Release on Oct 10 and New iPhone Release on Oct 14 / Apple Joins Consumer Protection Group DDP / S3 Sues Apple for Alleged Patent Infringement / Samsung Files Four New Suits Against Apple in the Netherlands / Verizon Files Amicus Brief Asking US Court to Not Ban Certain Samsung Products / All Things D: Samsung App Display Uses Icons for Mobile Safari and iOS App Store

Apple Sends (Yet Another) 10.7.2 beta to Developers / Canadian Carrier Telus Offering iPhone 4 for 99-dollars Until October 3rd / AT&T CEO Downplays Negatives Associated with Other Carriers and the Anticipated New iPhone / UBS Survey Shows Notable Retention Rates for iPhone / Credit Suisse Analyst Says More People with Higher Incomes Will Spend More Money on Apple Gear / Gartner Sees iPad Dominance of Tablet Space Through at Least 2015 / Wedbush Analyst Expects Monster Holiday Quarter for Apple (Followed by WHat Sounds Like Craziness) / VIA Technologies Sues Apple for Alleged Patent Infringement Related to Microprocessors / Disney Interactive Shifts Focus from Consoles to iOS Games / First Episode of Ken Burs Doc “Prohibition” Debuts Through PBS iOS Apps Beginning Today / Apotheker Out and Whitman in as HP CEO

All Things D: Sources Say 4 October for Apple iPhone Event / The Loop: What All Things D Said / Al Gore Either Says “New iPhone’s Coming Out Next Month” or “New iPhones Coming Out Next Month” / Wedge Partners Analyst Sees One New iPhone (4S) Only / Bloomberg: Multiple Analysts Show Apple Lots of Love / Sprint CEO Does Nothing to Slow Talk of a Sprint iPhone / Streetspace Sues Apple, Google, and Others for Alleged Patent Violation / Apple Says FaceTime and iOS Meet US Medical Privacy Regulations / Apple Gives Over 9-Thousand Donated iPads to Teach for America / The AP Starts Tracking Top Free and Paid iOS Apps for iPhone and iPad / Bloomberg: HP Board Considers Ousting CEO / WSJ: HP Board Fails to Settle on CEO Replacement (via CNET)

Sell Your Gadgets to Buy New Gizmos with Mac OS Ken Sponsor http://Gazelle.com / T-Mobile USA Exec Reportedly Says Carrier Not Getting iPhone 5 This Year / T-Mobile USA Puts All Smartphones on Sale (with New 2-Year Contract) Ahead of Next iPhone / Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X and Offers 30-Day Free Trial / Apple Outs Thunderbolt Software Update for Snow Leopard and ProApps QuickTime Codecs Update / Apple Now Selling Thunderbolt Enabled “Little Big Disk” from LaCie / Apple Opening Stores This Weekend in China, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, Italy, France, and the USA / Apple Insider: NYC Glass Cube Renovation May Be Finished Earlier Than Expected / MacRumors Says White iPod touch on the Way

“Defence in Depth” Outlines Serious Password Vulnerability in OS X Lion / JP Morgan Analyst: Seriously - Don’t Look for a New Model of iPad Before End of 2011 / JP Morgan Analyst Expects Two New iPhone Models Before End of 2011 / Apple Tops ACSI for Eighth Year in a Row / Apple Thunderbolt Support Document Seems to Hint iMac Update Before End of 2011 / Apple Issues Thunderbolt Display Firmware Update 1.0 / USITC Agrees to Review HTC Patent Loss to Apple / At Least 23 Companies Including Apple Targeted by Apparent Patent Troll Lawsuit / Apple Retail and Online Store Sees Big International Openings This Week / Australia Gets New Apple Retail Location in New South Wales This Saturday / Electronista: Windows Store Exclusivity for Window 8 Metro-Optimized Apps Could Run Afoul of Antitrust Laws / Michael Dell Downplays Post-PC Talk While Predicting Post-PC Offerings from Dell

Apple Issues (Another) beta Build of Lion 10.7.2 to Developers / 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Reseting iCloud This Thursday in Anticipation of iOS 5 GM / Engadget: Pic Purports to Show White iPhone 4s Listed in AT&T Inventory System / Ticonderoga Securities Analyst Sees Harder Times Coming for Research In Motion with / Expected Launch of New iPhone / German Court Nixes the Samsung “Kubrick Defense” / Samsung Countersues Apple in Australia for Allegedly Violating Seven Wireless Patents / Anonymous Samsung Exec Says Company Will Sue to Stop Apple Selling Next iPhone in SKorea / Google Buys 12-Hundred Patents from IBM to Arm Makers of Android Devices / Apple and Microsoft Among Four Companies Targeted by Tallgrass Prairie Management in Patent Suit / Apple Offers Settlement to Queens Stores Selling Counterfeit Goods / Microsoft Abandons Flash and Other Plug-Ins for Windows 8 Metro UI for Mobiles / Boeing Picks Android for 787 Dreamliner In-Flight Entertainment Systems / Negative Sentiment Expressed Over Proposed Apple Store in Peking University Library

NYT Says Unnamed Apple Employee Puts New and Different iPhone Announcement “Just Weeks Away” / BGR: Case-Mate Case Makes Case for Shape of New iPhone / 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Set to Discontinue Bumper for iPhone 4 / Sprint CFO Says Old Yeller is Ready for the iPhone Without Saying It’s Getting the iPhone / Sprint Nixes Premium Yearly Phone Upgrades Ahead of Expected iPhone / RIM Misses Phone Targets and Ships Only 200-Thousand PlayBooks in Most Recent Quarter / RIM Plans Video Service and OS Update for BlackBerry PlayBook / NPD Says Apple On Track to Sell 4.5 Million Macs This Quarter / Steve Wonder Thanks Steve Jobs and Apple for Work to Make Tech Accessible to People with Disabilities

Orange CEO Says iPhone 5 to See Release on October 15 (And There’s Reason to NOT Believe Him) / IDC: iPad Gains Share in Tablets in 1H CY2011 Despite Increased Competition / Report: Brazilian Foxconn Factory Already Building iPads / 9 to 5 Mac Says a Sprint Specific iPad Should Hit Before the Holidays / UK Ad Authority: Apple Can Keep Calling iPhone 4 “World’s Thinnest Smartphone” EVen Though Samsung Galaxy S II is Mostly Thinner / Apple Files Countersuit Against Samsung in UK / Bloomberg: Apple Changes iPhone Warranty Policy in SKorea / Apple Issues EFI Firmware Updates for Most Recent Mac minis and MacBook Pros / iChat for Lion Code Indicates Possible Support for iMessage at Some Point / Apple Activates @iBookstore Account on Twitter / New Apple Store Slated to Open in Glasgow, Scotland This Weekend / New Apple Store Also Slated for Bologna, Italy This Weekend / Reading Rainbow Host Levar Burton Launching RRKids for iPad

Morgan Stanley Analyst Calls for Share Buyback or Dividend Payments from Apple / RBC Analyst Ups iPad Sales Estimates for This Quarter and iPhone Sales Estimates for Next Quarter / comScore: Android Passes iPhone in Western Europe Smartphones / Apple Insider: Reason to Think iOS 5 May Hit on 10 October (Or Maybe Not) / Apple Insider: Trusted Source Says MBP Could See Speed-Bump Refresh Before the Holidays / Samsung Files Suit Against Apple in France for Alleged Patent Violation in iPhone and iPad / Samsung Appeals Permanent Ban of Galaxy Tab 10.1 Sales in Germany / Apple Opening Stores This Weekend in El Paso, Texas and Hamburg, Germany / Microsoft Issues Updates for Office for Mac 2008 and 2011 / TV Studios Add Closed Captions to Some Shows on iTunes / Best Buy Misses Numbers Thanks to Weak Sales on Things Like TVs and Physical Media