'2013 is going to be ugly' for Microsoft as it shifts to Windows 8, Forrester predicts
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Tuesday Highlights: Apple's special event to be broadcast live on your Macs, iDevices, and via Apple TV at 10AM PT/12PM CT/1PM ET; and a number of sites are live-blogging the event, listed in our General Interest section; on tap we expect to see a new iPad mini, 13" MacBook Pro, iTunes 11, and more; 9-to-5 Mac says they've received specs for the new Mac mini, and Retina Display 13" MacBook Pro, and claims Apple has iPad mini Smart Covers ready to go; we'll post event-info in content appropriate sections throughout MacSurfer during the day; meanwhile, iPad mini primed to take on Google, Amazon, but at what price?; clearly seen as a test for Apple to prove innovation is still within its halls; beware an iCloud phishing scam making the rounds; transcripts and Messages how to over at Macworld; GeekTool can enhance your Mac desktop according to Mactuts+; iAd, "Apple's lonely flop", a painful niche product; BlackBerry loses out to Apple in the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency as iPhones take over; a sign of things to come says Jonny Evans; Mashable's Pete Pachal believes iPad mini is Apple's most interesting launch in years; admit it, you're curious about Windows 8...no? Well for those who are, The Verge reviews the new OS, Paul Thurrott answer's "why Windows 8?"; and the Houston Chronicle's Dwight Silverman navigates Windows 8's brave new Start Screen; Apple granted a number of patents today, including iPad 2 design, Apple TV, and others, find them in our Hardware/Software section.
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News
"Apple Drops Java in latest OS X Security Release"?Intego?3:35 PM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Make use of the Mac App Store debug menu"?CNET Reviews?12:42 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"iTunes 11 review: Apple's latest iTunes offers a new visual style and expanded iCloud features"?Macworld UK?12:29 PM
"Messages: Working with transcripts"?Macworld?9:09 AM
"5 Ways to Make Your Mac's Desktop Better with GeekTool"?Mactuts+?9:16 AM
"Nitro Is A Simple OS X To-Do List App That Syncs To Dropbox & Ubuntu One"?AddictiveTips?9:20 AM
"Insert A Page (Or More!) In A PDF File With Preview In Mountain Lion [OS X Tips]?Cult of Mac?9:13 AM
"Mountain Lion Tip: Useful Spelling and Grammar Tool"?Amsys?7:51 AM
"Free: How To Keep Your Mac Awake While Viewing A Movie Using Face Recognition"?Mac 360?7:52 AM
"Mapsgate Got You Down? Bring Google's Maps To Your Mac Without The Browser Using A Free App"?NoodleMac?7:53 AM
"Need An Egg Timer For Your Mac? Try An Egg Shape DockTimer That Works In The Dock"?Mac 360?7:52 AM
"All You Want And Need In A Minimalist Music Player On A Mac"?TeraTalks?7:52 AM
"The Easy, Affordable, Fun Way To Create Stop Motion Animation On A Mac"?BohemianBoomer?7:52 AM
"Bring Out Your Inner Geek To Clean, Optimize, And Maintain A Mac With A Tinker Tool"?McSolo?7:52 AM
Op/Ed
"Do You Really Want To Store All Your Files, Documents, Songs, Contacts, Calendar In The Cloud"?Mac 360?7:52 AM
Press Releases
"One click to Docs, Sheets, and Slides: Google Drive is a place where you can create, share, collaborate and keep all your stuff. Of course, there are times you want to start a new document right away?say, to take notes in class or prepare a last-minute presentation for your boss."?Google Chrome Blog?12:58 PM
"BVS Solitaire Collection Deals A Winning Hand At MGS"?Inside Mac Games?9:41 AM
"Mac Apps: Cocktail, Dropbox, Shockwave updates"?FairerPlatform?11:17 AM
"Cocktail 6.2 (Mountain Lion Edition) has been released."?Maintain?8:49 AM
"Jumsoft Expands Its Image Range with Upgraded Elements for iWork"?prMac?9:56 AM
"CineFlare Nostalgia Released for Final Cut Pro X"?prMac?9:09 AM
"Stellar makes it Easy to repair Apple Quick Time Player .MOV File"?prMac?7:56 AM
"Dolly Drive Offers 100 GBs Free To Try Its Mac-centric Backup & Storage"?prMac?7:56 AM
"SCSC Releases a new introductory video on Scannerz for Mac OS X"?prMac?7:56 AM
Apple Event
"Apple by the numbers: 35B apps downloaded, 200M iOS 6 devices"?CNET News?12:42 PM
"Apple: There Are Now 200 Million Devices Running iOS 6"?Mashable?12:42 PM
"The Numbers From Apple's October 23 Event"?MacStories?12:38 PM
"Sprint Announces Plans to offer iPad mini and Fourth Generation iPad"?Business Wire?3:47 PM
"Sprint Finally Gets the iPad, Along With the iPad Mini"?Mashable?4:01 PM
Apple Event Live Blogs
"Apple Streaming iPad Event on Web, iOS, Apple TV"?AllThingsD?8:52 AM
"Apple to stream special event online via Safari for Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and via Apple TV starting at 10am PDT"?MacDailyNews?8:52 AM
"Apple to Stream Live Video of 'iPad Mini' Media Event to Apple TV"?MacRumors?7:50 AM
"Apple adds 'Apple Events' channel to the Apple TV so viewers can watch iPad mini event live"?TUAW?8:10 AM
"Apple to stream today's event to Apple TV"?CNET News?8:44 AM
"Apple to stream today's 'iPad mini' event live to Apple TV"?MacDailyNews?9:11 AM
"Live From Apple's San Jose iPad Mini Event At 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern"?TechCrunch?12:24 PM
"Live: Apple iPad Mini Event"?AllThingsD?11:33 AM
"Live blog of Apple's 'iPad Mini' event"?MarketWatch?11:32 AM
"Live: Apple's 'iPad mini' unveiling event"?Electronista?10:14 AM
"Live From Apple's iPad Mini Event"?Mashable?9:19 AM
"Live coverage: Apple's new product event"?USA Today?8:55 AM
"Liveblog: An iPad Mini? Apple's About to Tell Us"?Wired?8:46 AM
"MacDailyNews presents live coverage of Apple's October 23rd special event"?MacDailyNews?8:23 AM
"Live blog: Apple's iPad event"?GigaOM?8:06 AM
"Live from Apple's iPad mini announcement!"?The Verge?8:05 AM
"Apple's 'We've got a little more to show you' Event Live Blog on October 23rd, 2012"?The Mac Observer?8:04 AM
"CNET's Apple event live blog (Tuesday, October 23)"?CNET?8:04 AM
"Live Coverage: Apple's 'iPad Mini' Event"?Techland?8:04 AM
"iPad Mini Live Blog"?Gizmodo?8:03 AM
"Apple's iPad mini liveblog!"?Engadget?8:03 AM
"Live iPad mini launch event coverage"?gdgt?8:03 AM
"Apple Event: More to show"?Macworld?8:03 AM
"Apple Special Event Live Blog"?Mac|Life?10/22
"Apple's October 23 event liveblog: 'a little more to show you'"?Ars Technica?10/22
Apple News
"Among many hits, Apple's lonely flop: The company's iAd advertising platform was launched with great fanfare two years ago. But it's remained a painfully niche product."?Fortune?8:13 AM
"Developers Use a Workaround to Make iPhone Apps Do More: App makers sometimes bend the rules by using a tool geared toward corporate IT departments?and Apple knows it's happening."?Technology Review?2:45 PM
"Federal agency to switch to iPhone, drop BlackBerry"?Reuters?8:30 AM
"U.S. government agency drops BlackBerry in favor of iPhone"?IDG News Service?9:06 AM
"An Apple Win Deals Another Blow to RIM's Blackberry"?Forbes?9:48 AM
"61% of iOS devices running iOS 6"?TG Daily?11:32 AM
"Apple to expand iBookstore to 18 new countries"?CNET News?8:46 AM
"Apple iPhone 5 May Hit AT&T, Verizon Earnings"?TheStreet?7:59 AM
"EE woos iPhone 4S customers to 4G with ?99 upgrade"?ZDNet?8:55 AM
"Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android ? in PHP"?VentureBeat?10:35 AM
"One teenager faces the ultimate challenge: A week without her iPhone"?Washington Post?11:22 AM
"The Most Common Places to Damage Your iPhone (Infographic)"?MacTrast?9:09 AM
Non-Apple News
"New Google Wallet version may support multiple OSes"?TechHive?3:48 PM
"For many, 'senior' phone plans don't ring true"?MarketWatch?2:24 PM
"Panasonic: Going green key to staying in the black"?ZDNet?2:08 PM
"Linus Torvalds promises 'no fingers' to Nvidia - just don't ask him about Nokia"?ZDNet?2:07 PM
"Symantec chief executive refocusing firm for business push"?V3?1:58 PM
"Google renames Google Drive apps, releases them to Chrome Web Store"?CNET News?2:37 PM
"ARM-powered Chromebook sells out on Google Play"?TG Daily?1:50 PM
"Nokia's Low-Priced Phone Targets Emerging Markets"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?2:39 PM
"EE announces pricing for UK's first 4G network"?TG Daily?1:48 PM
"Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From TheVille And Bingo Teams In Its Austin Office"?TechCrunch?1:41 PM
"Twitter tests 'star' and 'like' buttons in place of 'favorite'"?NBC News?11:35 AM
"RadioShack reports a wider-than-expected loss, said may pull out of Target stores"?Dallas Morning News [Paid Membership Required]?10:55 AM
"Vivo Tab RT tablet priced higher than Microsoft, Dell: Entry price of the Asus Vivo Tab RT is $100 more than the $499 Microsoft Surface tablet"?IDG News Service?10:45 AM
"Amazon outage started small, snowballed into 12-hour event: Third outage in two years is mostly resolved but brought down Reddit, Imgur, other popular sites"?Network World?11:49 AM
"Scientists making fishy robots for naval research"?Associated Press [Free Registration Required]?10:36 AM
"Arm boosted by Apple's success"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?10:59 AM
"Samsung Galaxy Note II Will Hit AT&T Stores November 9 For $299, Pre-Orders Begin October 25"?TechCrunch?1:41 PM
"Yahoo's Mayer says mobile will be top priority"?Silicon Valley?10:48 AM
"Yahoo's new CEO Mayer takes on the mobile challenge"?Reuters?9:57 AM
"Lexmark's adjusted quarterly profit tops consensus"?MarketWatch?9:48 AM
"Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update"?VentureBeat?9:04 AM
"Microsoft's Surface Tablet to use Next-Gen Touch Technologies"?Patent Bolt?8:46 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"TNW's Daily Dose: Apple's iPad Mini, Zynga layoffs and more"?The Next Web?3:57 PM
"[Video] Apple's iPad Mini & More"?ReadWrite?3:40 PM
"The Portable Podcast, Episode 160"?148Apps?12:59 PM
Deal Brothers Daily Deal: Mac mini 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5:? $1189.00 Delivered
"'2013 is going to be ugly' for Microsoft as it shifts to Windows 8, Forrester predicts"?Computerworld?10:47 AM
"Broad Windows 8 deployment in enterprises could take years: Learning curve, satisfaction with Windows 7 cited by experts"?Network World?11:47 AM
"Corporate Migration to Windows 8: A Long, Slow Slog"?E-Commerce Times?10:56 AM
"Windows 8: The Most Confused OS Launch Ever"?Dr. Dobb's?11:15 AM
"Some Intel-Based Tablets Flunk Windows 8 Upgrade: Many Windows 7 tablet buyers who assumed they could later upgrade to Windows 8 may be disappointed."?InformationWeek?10:08 AM
"Windows 7 to Windows 8: The system's biggest improvements"?PCWorld?11:45 AM
"Windows 8: An awful lot of change for a single release"?The Register?1:51 PM
"Windows 8's Start Screen: Navigating a brave new world"?Houston Chronicle?11:14 AM
"Office 365 University Pricing Revealed: College and university students can access Microsoft's cloud apps for bargain basement price."?InformationWeek?2:42 PM
"Microsoft's Surface: Hiding in Plain Sight"?AllThingsD?9:47 AM
"Microsoft Ups Xbox Ties to Web, Mobile Devices"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9:41 AM
"Microsoft rebrands entertainment as Xbox"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?10:58 AM
"Microsoft's SmartGlass brings Xbox 360, tablets and phones together"?NBC News?11:37 AM
"Microsoft announces details of Xbox SmartGlass app"?VentureBeat [Free Registration Required]?2:02 PM
"Microsoft SmartGlass connects your Xbox to your mobile device"?CNET News?10:03 AM
"Microsoft expands $99 Xbox 360 deal; Xbox rebirth coming"?PCWorld?11:45 AM
"Xbox 360 discount program extends to all models"?CNET News?10:03 AM
"Dell pre-orders available for five new Windows 8 PCs"?PCWorld?11:44 AM
"Dell XPS 10 matches price of Microsoft Surface tablet: Dell's XPS 10 tablet will be priced at $499 and will ship in the coming weeks"?IDG News Service?10:45 AM
"IBM Accelerates Big Data Analysis: IBM offers prebuilt sentiment analysis on Hadoop, stream processing for telcos, marketing analysis, and predictive analytics delivered via the cloud."?InformationWeek?10:09 AM
"Elusive startup pits IBM Power servers against x86, ARM"?EE Times?11:55 AM
"Gartner: 2013 Tech Spending To Hit $3.7 Trillion/CIOs need to spend on finding and building a pool of big data skills, Gartner execs say."?InformationWeek?10:10 AM
"A Bandwidth Breakthrough: A dash of algebra on wireless networks promises to boost bandwidth tenfold, without new infrastructure."?Technology Review?1:45 PM
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