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CNET: Two of Big Four Record Labels on Board for Apple’s Cloud Music Service / Report: Apple Leases Significant Data Center Capacity in Silicon Valley / Gartner Analyst Says Tablets Cannibalizing Additional PCs, Not Primary PCs / 9 to 5 Mac: Tipster Says Overnights and All-Hands Planned for Australian Apple Retail Locations This Weekend / 9 to 5 Mac: Tipster Outlines Alleged Changes Headed to Apple Retail / 19 May Marks Tenth Anniversary of Apple Retail Stores / Apple Adds More Easily Accessible “Returns” Link to Online Store / DigiTimes Says Refreshed MacBook Air to Hit in June or July / Report: Apple Taps LG Exec to Serve as GM for Apple Korea / TMO: Apple Not Exhibiting at BookExpo America

FBR Capital Markets Says iPhone 5 Production to Begin in 3Q CY2011 / Reuters: Orange Says Apple Proposes More micro than micro-SIM / iPad and iPhone 4 Displays Win Awards / “PlayStation Phone” Lands on Verizon as “Xperia Play” on 26 May / Apple Gets a Booth at Publishing Convention “BookExpo America” / Apple Issues Digital Camera Raw Update 3.7 / Apple Issues ProKit 7.0 / Apple “Invited” to FCC and FTC Forum on Benefits and Risks of Location-Based Services / HP Passes on Thunderbolt for Now / Jobs Tells Nike CEO to Cut the Crap (in a Good Way) / Survey Says: Businesses Want Tablets (Though Not Exactly Sure Why)

Credit Suisse Addresses Five Investor Concerns Over Apple / BMO Capital Analyst: iPad 2 Demand “Very Strong,” Next iPhone Not 4G / Electronista: Apple Job Posting Hints at iPhone for Sprint / MobileMe Mail Hits Monday Snag / Apple, Google, and Facebook Called to Second Senate Hearing on Privacy and Mobiles / Fortune Article “Inside Apple” in Top 20 for Paid Kindle Titles / Conde Nast Flips Switch on iPad Subscriptions for Allure, Glamour, Golf Digest, and Vanity Faire / Apple Extends Free Repair Service for Quake Affected Apple Kit in Japan Through End of June / Lodsys Explains Why It’s Taking Action Against Developers and Not Against Apple / Seagate Officially Announces GoFlex Protable, Wireless Drive for iThings / Barnes and Noble Says nook Color Owners Download Over One-Million Apps in Less Than a Month / Rumors of Something Big This Weekend for Apple Retail’s 10th Birthday

Jeffries And Company Analyst: iPhone 5 to be iPhone 4S with No LTE/4G Support / Goldman Sachs Analyst Reworks Tablet Expectations for Next Two Years / Apple Seeds Build of Snow Leopard Update to Developers / Apple Releases Lion Preview 3 and Xcode 4.1 Preview 5 to Developers / Findings in Latest Lion Build Add Credence to Apple/Nuance Deal / Apple Patents Text-to-Speech/Speech-to-Text Conversion System / Company Targets Developers for Use of iOS In-App Purchase for Upgrades / MacNN: Resellers Expanding Apple Footprint Across Asia / FCC Filing May Reveal Seagate’s “Perfect Companion” for iPad / Guinness Gamer Edition Give Four Top Spots to Apple Products

Barclays Analyst: Google and Amazon Cloud-Music Services May Shield the Way for Apple “iCloud” / The Hollywood Reporter: Why Google Did What it Did with “Music Beta” / Silicon Alley Insider: Scammers Offering Bogus Music Beta by Google Invites / Nielsen: Wanna Grow Music Sales? All You Need is Beatles / US ITC: Latest Nokia Complaint Against Apple to Wrap Up Just Before the End of the Mayan Calendar / US ITC Sides Against Apple in Patent Infringement Case Against Kodak / Microsoft, HTC, Nokia, and Sony Ericsson Appeal to EU to Block Apple Trademark of Term “App Store” / OWC Says 3rd-Parties Cannot Upgrade Primary Hard Drive in 2011 iMacs / Electronista: Apple Retail Moves Reported for Bellevue, WA, U of Deleware, and Bordeaux, France / Amazon CEO Plays Coy on Tablet Possibility / Netflix Adds Captions Option to Movies in iOS Apps / Ericsson Survey: 35-Percent of Android and iPhone Owners Check an App Before Getting Out of Bed

Canaccord Genuity Analyst: iPhone 4 Top-Selling Smartphone at AT&T and Verizon in April / Canaccord Genuity Analyst: iPhone 3GS Outsells Many Newer Androids on AT&T / CNET: Music Insiders Says Apple’s Cloud Music Service will be Better than Amazon’s and Google’s (Assuming it Actually Launches a Cloud Music Service) / Forbes: 50-Percent of iOS Magazine Subscribers Allow Apple to Share Info with Publishers / Developers Kill iFlow Reader, Blame Apple’s In-App Purchase Rules / Linex Sues Apple, HP and Others for Allegedly Violating Its Wireless Patents / Apple Issues Performance and Bug-Fix Update for 2nd-Gen Apple TV / Apple Issues Minor Update for iPhoto / Ballmer Pledges Continued Support for Skype Beyond Microsoft Operating Systems / Coldwell Banker Becomes 100th iAd Customer / Report: Apple Kills iAds for Kids’ Apps

DoJ Advocates for Consumer Tracking and Data Retention by Cell Carriers / Apple Exec Answers iOS Privacy Questions on Capital Hill / Apple Sued (Again) Over Alleged Misuse of iPhone UDID / Apple Top Smartphone Maker in Japan While Android Tops Smartphone Operating Systems / iSuppli: iPhone Sales Grow While Smartphone Sales Shrink Quarter-Over-Quarter / NPD Analyst Says iPad is Not Seriously Hurting Consumer PC Sales / Microsoft Relaunches “I’m a PC” Marketing Campaign / Google: 400k Android Activations a Day / Google: Android-Unifying Ice Cream Sandwich OS Due in 4Q CY2011 / Google: Google TV to Get Android 3.1 and Access to Android Market Soon / Google Launches Music Beta by Google - Music Locker in the Cloud / Official: Microsoft to Buy Skype for 8.5 Billion Dollars / Microsoft Gets Video Streamer Qik in Skype Buy

Goldman Sachs Analyst: Stop Worrying and Buy Apple Shares / CNN Money Invites you to “Meet Apple’s All-Stars” / Shares of Nuance Communications Pop on Speculation of Buyout by Apple (Which Most People Do Not Expect) / TechCrunch Expects Nuance Deal to Involve Apple-Owned Siri, the NC Data Center, and iOS 5 / WSJ: Sources Say Microsoft Close to Buying Skype / Verizon Sees Huge Q1 2011 Bump Likely Tied in Part to Arrival of iPhone / Japanese Wireless Carrier SoftBank Sees Big Quarter Thanks to iPhone and iPad / Conde Nast Starts Subscription to “The New Yorker” via iPad App / Apple Reportedly Settles with Injured Consumers at Sanlitun Store in China / Ohio Apple Store Scene of Another Smash-and-Grab / IDC Health Insights: Big-Pharma Buys iPads for Sales Reps / BrandZ Study Says Apple Most Valuable Brand in the World / YouTube Gets More Big-Time Hollywood Rentals / Historic Estate Up for Grabs in Silicon Valley / The Sun: The Queen Would Like an iPad Please

Apple Breaks Fortune 500 Top 50; Arrives at 35 / Current Issue of Fortune Takes Readers “Inside Apple” / Apple Breaks Barron's 500 Top 10; Arrives at 4 / Baseball, Apple, and the W.C: A Popularity Contest / Violence Greets ipad 2 Launch at Apple Sanlitun Store in China / Vulnerability Found in Skype 5 for Mac (Fix Already Available) / Report: Condé Nast to Add In-App iPad Subscription Option to Eight Magazines This Month / Apple Exec to Appear Before Senate Committee on Mobiles and Privacy Tomorrow / Guitar Center Starts Weekly Classes on GarageBand / Amazon Cloud Player Now iOS-Friendly via Mobile Safari / Secret Sources Say Apple Ditching Intel Inside Mac Laptops for ARMs in Two to Three Years

Nielsen: iPad Owns 82-Percent of Tablets in U.S. - Steals Usage from a Range of Devices / Morgan Stanley Analyst Leaves Meeting with Apple Execs Super Stoked / 9 to 5 Mac: Secret Sources Say OTA Updates and Syncing Coming to iOS 5 / The Apple Blog: 4 Hurdles to Clear for OTA Updates and Syncing in iOS 5 / Forbes: OTA Syncing and Updates Could (FInally) Turn iPad into Personal Computer / The Daily Telegraph Out of the UK Joins the iTunes Subscriptions Parade / Apple Goes Deeper on Consumer Opinion with “Apple Consumer Pulse” / Intego: MACDefender-Type Malware Proliferates / Microsoft Launches Bing iOS SDK