Ken Carr's Daily Read

USITC Says Apple Not Violating S3 Graphics Patents / Canalys: Apple Will Be No. 1 PC-Maker by Mid-2012 (If We Count iPads as PCs) / ChangeWave: Amazon Kindle Fire Takes a Sudden and Secure Second-Place in Expected Tablet Sales / Survey: People Who Read Magazines on Tablets Want More Magazines to Read / Ultrabook Makers Turing to Alternatives as MacBook Air Eats All of the Aluminum Unibodies / Sprint Starts iPhone Ads Playing-Up Unlimited Data Offering / All Things D Says Regulatory Testing Seems to be Complete for iPhone 4S in Mainland China / German Site Says Unannounced iOS 5.0.2 Update Delayed for More Testing / Musnter: App Dollars Tiny for Android Compared to iOS / Web-Trackers Say Apple Second Most Popular Retail Site in UK in October / Apple Teases “Black Friday” Sale

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Apple Extends Window for Buying AppleCare+ iPhone Coverage to 30-Days After Phone Purchase / Metrico Wireless: AT&T Tops for iPhone 4S Data, Verizon Best for Calls / AT&T Raises Price of iPhone 3GS with 2-Year Contract from Free to 99-Cents / DigiTimes Sources Say Mid-Range Tablet Makers Likely to Leave the Field / 9 to 5 Mac Sources Say Apple to Officially Announce Grand Central Station Store Tomorrow / Apple Insider: Apple Seeks 2.7-Billion-Dollar Bail in German Case with Motorola Mobility / All Things D: Judge Questions Bail Amount in Apple/Motorola Mobility Case in Germany / Report Says Replacement First-Gen nanos Are Also First-Gen nanos / Apple Issues Maintenance Update for Xcode / Apple Now Accepting Yaun for App Store in China / Apple VP Greg Joswiak Shares Four Top Lessons from 20 Years at Apple / Rumor: George Clooney and Noah Wyle Both Vie to Play Steve Jobs in Bio-Pic

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Needham and Co. Analyst: Mac Now at 5.2-Percent Market Share Worldwide / Mac OS X-Malware “DevilRobber” Morphs; Now Disguised as Pirated PixelMator / DigiTimes Clarifies Report That Seemed to Indicate Drop in iPad 2 Demand / iPhone 4S Still Hard to Get Through U.S. Carriers / Citigroup Analyst Says Amazon Plans a Smartphone of Its Own for 2012 / IHS iSuppli: First Look Puts Kindle Fire Cost-to-Build at 203-Dollars / Apple Amends Suit Against Amazon Over Use of “Appstore” in Kindle Fire Marketing / Samsung Denies Apple Request for Customer Confusion Information / Nielsen: iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone Top Holiday Wish Lists for US Kids 6-to-12-Years-Old / Shopping Site Finds iPad 2 and iPhone 4S Topping Holiday Wish Lists in the UK / Apple Issues Minor Update for Final Cut Pro X / Apple Issues Minor Update for Second-Gen Apple TV / Apple Pulls Its Texas Hold ‘em App from the App Store / Motorola Mobility Shareholders Approve Acquisition by Google / Porn-Producer Vivid Entertainment Threatens HTC America Over Alleged Trademark Infringement / Microsoft Opens Store in Same Mall as First Apple Store; In-Store DJ Spins with a Mac

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Iger Gets a Tiny Amount of Money for Iger for Joining Apple Board of Directors / Jobs Bio: New Chairman of Apple Board Thinks Apple Needs to Check Its Hubris / AT&T Says Churn Unchanged Since Loss of iPhone Exclusivity / German Site Says New iOS 5 Update to Really Fix Battery Issues This Time Due By End of Next Week / GMail App for iOS Returns to App Store (Bug Free!) / Juniper Global Threat Center Says Android Malware Up 472-Percent Since July / Samsung Makes a Second Run at Germany with a Slightly Redesigned and Slightly Renamed 10-Inch Galaxy Tab / Chinese Environmentalist Says Apple Working on Cleaning Up Pollution in the Supply Chain / Business Insider Runs Down Features of Google Music / Another Look at Google Music from TechCrunch / T-Mobile Partners with Google Music for Customer Billing / Legendary Photographer Annie Liebovitz Names iPhone “the Snapshot Camera of Today” / Stanford iOS 5 App Development Course Available through iTunes U

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Apple Adds Disney CEO Bob Iger to Board; Promotes Art Levinson to Chairman / All Things D: Levinson and Iger Good Moves for Apple Board / Bernstein Research Analyst Sees Apple Spending Money on Supplier Operations / Australian Court to Hear Samsung Case Against Sale of iPhone 4S in March of 2012 / Wireless Legend Says Jobs Wanted to Replace Wireless Carriers / WSJ: NTT DoCoMo CEO Says Apple Carrier Restrictions Keep iPhone Off of His Network / International Strategy and Investment Group Analyst Thinks Apple Under Cook Will Start Paying a Dividend / Goldman Thinks Surprise Rise for Retail Sales in October Thanks Largely to the iPhone / Apple Sends Next Lion Update beta to Developers / Apple Informs Developers of iTunes Connect Holiday Shutdown From December 22 through 29 / CNET: Changes in Apple TV Listing on Amazon Might Point to Imminent Refresh of the Device / Apple Insider: Korea Times Pulls Story About Screens for Bigger iPhones and Smaller iPads / Former Apple Retail Chief Gets Former Apple Retail CFO to Come to JC Penney

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Apple Releases iTunes 10.5.1; Flips Switch on iTunes Match / Fortune: iTunes Match Over-Subscribed in Early Hours / UBS Analyst Sees Big Holiday Quarter for iPhone in the States / NPD: iPhones Are Top Two Smartphones in US in 3Q CY2011 / Reports Have iPhone 4S Landing in India on 25 November / Piper Jaffray Sees Another Record Quarter for Macs in NPD Numbers / Morgan Stanley: MacBook Air Made Up 28-Percent of Mac Sales in October / Macs See Significant European Growth in 3Q CY2011 / Goldman Sachs Sees Potential Weakening of iPad Demand / Appcelerator/IDC Survey Shows Significant Application Developer Interest in Amazon Kindle Fire / Apple and AT&T Hit with New Patent Infringement Suit / Samsung Not Seeking Injunction Against iPhone 4S in South Korea / Korea Times Secret Source Says Apple Plans to Intro Bigger Screened iPhone and Smaller Screened iPad / Apple Opening Eighth Store in Germany This Thursday / Apple Forces iPopMyBaby.com to Shut Down Over Five-Years After Forcing a Name Change

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Apple Looking Into Reports of Battery Issues Post-iOS 5.0.1 Update / iOS 4/iPhone 3G/iBrick Case Tossed Out / Apple Starts Sales of Unlocked, Contract-Free, GSM-Only iPhone 4S / Sprint Starts Locking SIM on iPhone 4S / Claro Puerto Rico Offers 16GB iPhone 4S for 99-Dollars with 2-Year Contract / UAE Carriers Disable iMessage Due to Regulatory Investigation of Service / UAE Site 7 Days Says iMessage Running Again in UAE / Saturday: Apple Nukes iTunes Match Libraries to Prepare for Launch / Later Saturday: Apple Issues New iTunes beta Meant to Improve iTunes Match Stability and Performance / Apple Says Some iCloud Users See Two-and-a-Half Hour Outage on Friday / Apple Offers Replacements for Some First-Gen iPod nanos Due to Overheating and Safety Issues / Australian Court: Apple Does Not Have to Reveal iPhone 4S/Wireless Carrier Contract Details to Samsung / Phil Schiller Gets Slightly Modified Title Change at Apple / Google Invites Media to Suspected Music Store Event / Apple Launches Holiday Gift Guide in Online Store / IBM Coremetrics: Consumers Buy More and Spend More When Shopping Via iPad

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