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ChangeWave Survey Says 78-Percent of Businesses Planning to Buy Tablets in Q1 2011 Plan to Buy iPads / Best Buy Drops Dell Streak Price to 100-Dollar with Two-Year Contract / T-Mobile Drops Prices of Samsung Vibrant and Samsung Galaxy Tab / Munster Buys the Idea of a Verizon iPhone in 1Q CY2011 / CNET Takes a Look at Munster and His Take on Verizon iPhones / Reports Say Apple in Fifth in Cellphones in Japan / Report Says iAds to Debut in Europe Next Week / Apple Issues iTunes Update to Address Crashing and Syncing Issues / Apple Insider Says Some Users Having Problems with iTunes Update Downloaded Through Software Update Utility / Apple Updates iBooks App for iThings / NYT Says Over 100 Illustrated Books Added to iBookstore Along with iBooks Update / Apple Issues Snow Leopard Driver Updates for Some Canon, FujiXerox, and Lexmark Printers / Apple Updates 27-inch LED Cinema Display Firmware / Canadian Ministry Formally Approves iBookstore Canada Paving the Way for More Homegrown Content

Goldman Analyst Says Apple Would Work Without Cook or Jobs / Morgan Stanley Still Recommends Apple But Not as a Best Idea / Best Buy Sees Weakness in TVs and Strength in Smartphones and Tablets / Apple Ships Minor Software Update for Apple TV / BMO Capital Analyst Ups Apple Target to 355-Dollars a Share / NPD Expects as Many as 4.3-Million Macs Sold This Quarter / Imagination Technologies Buys Caustic Graphics / 3 Set to Offer Unlimited Mobile Data Plans in the UK / Toshiba Kind of Denies Apple LCD-Panel Plant Rumor / Japanese Publishers Bash Apple for Copyright Infringement in App Store / WSJ Says Epic Games Releasing Unreal Development Kit for iOS Tomorrow / Apple Announces Return of 12 Days of Christmas iTunes Promo for UK and Parts of Europe / Google Voice Updated with Some Support for iPad and iPod touch / Android Update to Make Barnes and Noble Nook Color into Full Anroid Tablet / Nokia Plans 4 to 5 Revamps of Symbian OS Over Next 15 Months / TRON: Legacy Shows Up as First iPad-Specific iAd

Hackers Steal Usernames and Passwords from Gawker Sites / Goldman Sachs Restarts Apple Coverage with 430-dollar Target / NYT Blog Says Ballmer to Show a Slew of Slates at CES / Goldman Sachs Sees Tough Year Ahead for Microsoft Due to Weaknesses in Tablets and Phones / Judge Dismisses Allen Patent Suite Against Apple and Others for Being Too Vague / Apple Reportedly Investing in Toshiba LCD Panel Factory for iPhones / Apple and Other Handset Makers Said to Be Bidding on Nortel Networks 4G IP / MacDaily News Posts a Host of Early 2011 Verizon iPhone Rumors / Enderle and Gold Say “No Way, No How” on Post-Christmas LTE Verizon iPhone / Microsoft Updates Office for Mac 2011 with Three Bug Fixes / Cydia Developer Plans Cydia for Mac to Compete with Mac App Store / Google Latitude App Hits iOS App Store / Apple Pulls SSD Option from Xserve Orders / Amazon Says It Has Sold “Millions” of Kindles in the Past 73 Days / Samsung Set to Offer One-Thousand-Dollar Galaxy Tab with Case and Bluetooth Headset and Nothing Else Extra / Reports Say Infinity Blade Takes in at Least 1.6 Million-Dollars in First Five Days

Best Buy Starts Online iPad Sales / Apple Hiring for Verizon iPad Systems Engineer / Radio Shack Reportedly Runs Out of iPhone 4s During Sales Promotion / Collapse of BlackBerry May Pressure Verizon on iPhone Deal / HTC Expects to Triple Handset Shipments  to 60 Million in 2011 / Verizon Totally Killing Kin Features by 31 January 2011 / Apple Adds Playlist Creation and Publication to Ping / Apple Uses iTun.es Addresses to Shorten Tweeted Links / Apple Disables Jailbreak-detecting API in iOS / Gorillaz Giving Away Album Crafted on iPad on Christmas Day

Best Buy Offers Free iPhone 3GS to Qualified Customers Friday 10 December Only / Analysts Up Apple Targets Based (In Part) on Verizon iPhone Expectations / Ben and Jerry’s Giving Away Free iPhone Cases in Singapore / Ad Firm Chitika Says iPad to Account for Over 2 Percent of US Web Traffic By End of 2011 / Apple Takes Four of Top 10 Gadgets of 2010 List from Time Magazine / Barnes and Noble Chairman Says 18k nook Color Devices Made Every Day / iTunes US Sees Arrival of 90-Second Song Previews / Costco Phasing Out Apple Inventory / Apple Updates Aperture Photography Software / Apple Games Guru Goes Back into Games of His Own / Infinity Blade from Epic Games Hits the App Store

Bernstein Analyst Keeps on Keeping on Calling for Apple to Pay Dividends / Stifel Nicolaus Analyst Ups Apple Target to 390-Dollars / Interpret Says iOS Poised to Dominate Handheld Gaming / Apple Drops Prices on Refurbished iPads / Apple Drops Appeal in OPTi Patent Infringement Loss / The Loop Says the Mac App Store Will Launch in January of 2011 / European Wireless Carriers Want Content Providers to Share Network Upgrade Costs / RIM Co-CEO Praises Choices Made for PlayBook Versus iPad / RIM Giving PlayBook App Developers a Free PlayBook / Rubin Tweets Google Activating 300k Android Phones Per Day / Nokia Exec Praises iPhone and Disses Reality Distortion Field / Apple Releases Software Update for MacBook Air / Microsoft Updates Office 2008 for Mac with Security and Stability Fixes / iOS App Promo Codes Go Global / Reports Say Apple is Emailing Some iTunes Customers Free Movie Rental Coupons / Fortune Says China Nabs iThing Smuggling Housewives / MarketWatch Dubs Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade / Data Robotics Would Like to Ask You About Data Storage and Podcasting at macosken.posterous.com

Piper Jaffray Analyst Gene Munster Asks and Answers 12 Questions About Apple / A T and T CFO Stresses Eventual End to Hardware Exclusivity Deals / Other A T and T Exec Says He Is Not Worried About Eventual Loss of iPhone Exclusivity / Sprint CEO Sure Would Like the iPhone for Sprint / Ticoneroga Analyst Says iPhone Still Super Hard to Get in China / Two Firms Downgrade RIM on Competition from iPhones and Androids / DigiTimes Says Foxconn to Ship iPad 2 in Next 100 Days / DisplaySearch Says If the iPad is a Computer Then Apple Wins Big / Samsung Aims for Big Share Gains in Phone in 2011 / IDC Says Apple Overtakes Nokia as Number One Smartphone Vendor in Australia / Apple Updates QuickTime 7 with Security Fixes / Google Gingerbread Talk Indicates Slowing Growth for Android Devices / Google Exec Andy Rubin Teases Android 3 Tablet OS / Rubin Defends Android ‘Craplets’ and Bags on WinPhone 7 and Praises iPhone / Rubin Disses iTunes as Music Buying Experience

Kaufman Brothers Analyst Says Verizon May Deal to Keep iPhone from T-Mobile and Sprint in the States / A T and T Ranks Last in Consumer Reports 2010 US Wireless Carrier Survey / Rumor Puts Mac App Store Opening at Next Monday / CNET Says iOS 4.3 with Subscription Support Could Hit on Thursday / Google Launches eBook Store / Electronista Argues for the Importance of the Google eBook Store / Google Confirms Samsung-Built Nexus S for US and UK in Next Two Weeks / Amazon to Demo Kindle for Web Today / Signs in Apple Retail Stores Reiterate White iPhone for Spring 2011 / Apple Reportedly Taps Architect Norman Foster to Design New Cupertino Campus

Apple Expands Number of Patents in Motorola Case to 24 / Caris and Company Analyst Sees More Apple Growth from iPad than from iPhone in 2011 / NetApplications Sees Huge Online Growth for iOS Throughout 2010  / Radio Shack Cuts iPhone Prices by 50 Bucks for This Week / Chinese Regulators Eye China Unicom Rules Around iPhone 4 / Apple to Bar beta and Demo Software from Mac App Store / Samsung Says Galaxy Tab Hits Sales of One Million Units / Bloomingdale’s Promoting Shopping with “Free” iPads

Canaccord Genuity Analyst Like Apple in Mobile Space for 2011 / Munster Says Apple Not Likely to Control Online Video the Way it Did/Does Online Music / Wintek Upping 10-inch Touch-Panel Production Ability / Apple Seeds Second beta of Snow Leopard 10.6.6 to Developers / Ping Hosts World Premier of Michael Jackson Single / Old Navy Stores Testing Apple Point of Sale System / Adobe Outs Flash Player 10.2 beta with Purported Resource Improvements / Dell CFO Says Tablet will Likely Cannibalize Business PCs at Some Point / RIM Buys The Astonishing Tribe to Work on BlackBerry and PlayBook UIs / CVS and iPads and the Art of No Commenting / Please take a sec to answer a question about unfriending at the Spark Minute website