Sponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off Domain Transfers or New Domains with Hover at http://hover.com/macosken / Report: Hong Kong Apple Store Sells Out of iPhone 4S by Lunchtime / Apple Releases iOS v5.0.1 as OTA Update / iOS Update Patches Vulnerability Recently Revealed by Charlie Miller / iOS Update Fixes iPad 2 Smart Cover Security Flaw / Apple Issues MacBook Pro SMC Firmware Update, Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update, and Airport and Time Capsule Update / Apple Updates iAd Producer to v2.0 / Publicis Exec Pretty Much Likes iAds / Logitech Getting Out of the Google TV Business (for the Foreseeable Future) / Sony CEO Says He’s Finally Ready to Compete Against Steve Jobs / Jobs Biographer Hems and Haws on Apple and Televisions / Apple Rises to Fourth in Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics / Report: Apple Matching Gifts Program Earns Combined 2.6-Million Dollars for Charities in Less Than Two Months / WSJ Says Ron Johnson Trying to Hire Former Apple Retail CFO to Work at JC Penney / Want Ron Johnson’s Old Job? Send Your Apple Retail Application to info@macosken.com

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Sponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off Domain Transfers or New Domains with Hover at http://hover.com/macosken / RBC/ChangeWave Survey Shows Kindle Fire “Intent to Buy” Numbers That Could Ding iPad Sales / Apple Shares Fall Wednesday After Far East Report of Possible iPhone and iPad Slowdown / Research Firm Says Verizon Loses More iPhone Share Than AT&T to Sprint Post-iPhone 4S / Wired: Reports Say Second iOS 5.0.1 beta Completely Solves Battery Drain Issue / “Intent to Buy” Numbers from Morgan Stanley Survey Bode Well for the Mac in China / Apple Publishes Support Doc on MagSafe Power Adapter Settlement / Adobe Dropping Development of Flash Player for Mobile Browsers / RIM Commits to Continuing Support for Adobe Flash Player for PlayBook / Google Dropping Support for GMail App for BlackBerry / Walmart Updates iPhone App and Introduces Separate App for iPad / Upcoming Starbucks Holiday App to Feature Fun with Augmented Reality

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Sponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off Domain Transfers or New Domains with Hover at http://hover.com/macosken / Barclays Analyst Calls iCloud Most Important Apple Service Since iTunes Store / Sterne Agee Analyst Says Apple Store Revenue – Not Technology – Keeps iPhone Off of China Mobile / IDC and Forrester Analysts Say Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet Pose No Threat to iPad / Amazon to Launch Kindle Fire at 16,000 Retail Locations on 15 November / Australian Judge Orders Apple to Reveal Details of iPhone Deals with Carriers Down Under / Apple Insider Says Resellers Keep Selling Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia Despite Injunction Barring Such Sales / Apple Updates Apple Store iOS App with EasyPay and Personal Pickup Options / Consumer Reports Can Recommend iPhone 4S (Though It Likes Some Android Phones Better) / Apple Reportedly Says No Plans for Siri on Older Devices / 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Giving Some End Users Access to Battery-Fix iOS Update for Testing / Apple Adds Titles from The Criterion Collection to iTunes Movies

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Sponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off Domain Transfers or New Domains with Hover at http://hover.com/macosken / Security Guy Charlie Miller Uncovers Serious iOS Exploit via “Stealth App” / Apple Boots Charlie Miller from iOS Developer Program / Detusche Bank Analyst Sees No Slowdown Yet of iPhone 4S Demand / Fortune: iPhone 4S Pre-Orders See Unprecedented Demand in Hong Kong and South Korea / CNET Says Apple Holding “Union Awareness” Course for Retail Management Today / VirnetX Files Complaint Against Apple with USITC to Go Along with Lawsuit / Motorola Mobility Wins Preliminary (and Temporarily Meaningless) Injunction Against Apple in Germany / Barnes and Noble Announces Nook Tablet / Canaccord Genuity Analyst Expects Continuing Dominance for iPad / Developer Finds Hidden Panorama Feature in iOS 5 Camera App

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comScore Survey: Apple Only Top-Five Phone Maker to Grow U.S. Share in 3Q CY2011 / Canaccord Genuity Analyst: Apple Makes Over Half of World’s Cellphone Profits Selling Less Than a Twentieth of World’s Phones / Taiwan Clears iPhone 4S for Sale / U.S. Cellular Passed on Carrying iPhone / UK-Firm Finds Android Phones Most Prone to Breakage Among Smartphones / Report: EC Investigating Samsung for Possible Violation of EU Competition Laws / Apple Sued Over Alleged VPN-Patent Violation / Apple Issues Second iOS 5.0.1 Battery-Fix beta / Apple Seeds Safari beta with PDF Fix to Developers / Walgreens Piloting Program for In-Store, iPad-Equipped “Health Guides” / Apple VP of Global Security Resigns / CNET: Security Expert Doubts Apple Security VP was Forced Out / Apple Issues New Boatloads of Stock to Many Top Execs / Sanford Bernstein Analyst Thinks Apple Will Make an “Apple TV 3” Rather Than a Full-On Apple Television / HP Offering webOS Developers Discounted TouchPads / “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview” Headed to Landmark Theatres

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Some iPhone 4S Users Report Siri Outages / Ars Technica: Siri Uses Relatively Little Data to Do What It Does / Sprint Says It’s Working on Finding and Fixing 3G-Speed Issues for iPhone 4S / IDC: Estimated Samsung Shipments Make It the Number One Smartphone Vendor in 3Q CY2011 (Maybe) / Canalys Keeps Counting Tablets as Computers, Leading to Decent Growth for Computers in 3Q CY2011 / Engadget Says Leaked Document Show Next Barnes and Noble nook a Powerful Competitor to Amazon Kindle Fire / Barclays Analyst: Apple Not Concerned Over Amazon Kindle Fire / DigiTimes Sources Say Apple to Overhaul Entire Line Next Year; Release Two iPads / CBS CEO May Have Let Some Apple TV Plans Out of the Bag / Apple Click-to-Mortar Pick-Up Option Expands Over All of California / CNET Says Glass Cube at NYC Apple Store Should Re-Open Today

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Apple Admits to iOS 5 Problem Draining Batteries on Some Devices / beta to Fix iOS 5 Battery Issues Crashes Some Developer Devices / iOS 5.0.1 beta Fixes Unlikely Smart Cover Security Issue / Apple Issues iTunes 10.5.1 beta 2 to Developers as Work on iTunes Match Continues / Apple to Mac App Store Developers: Everybody in the Sandbox / South Korea Lifts Ban on iOS Games Ahead of iPhone 4S Release There / Czech Division of Telefonica Opts to Drop iPhones / Jony Ive and Other Apple Designers to Be Deposed by Samsung This Month / Apple Loses Case Over Competing Tablet Design in Spain / Jobs Bio Sells 379-Thousand Copies in the US in First Week of Release / Google Launches (Then Yanks) Flawed iOS App for GMail / Business Insider: Google Didn’t Really Care About the GMail iOS App / Fortune: Apple May Have Okayed Faulty GMail iOS App to Make Google Look Bad

by Ken Ray
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