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Mac OS Ken

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This is daily Apple news. Monday through Friday, Ken Ray brings a short shot of tech happenings to your day. If it's Apple news, Apple-related news, or news related to Apple-related news, you'll hear about it here. News you'll like... this is Mac OS Ken.

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Mac OS Ken: 02.20.2013

February 20, 2013 09:41 - 17 minutes - 10.2 MB

Apple Says It Was Hacked in a Limited, Non-Damaging Way; Ships Updated Fix for Java Apple Releases Java for OS X 2013-001 1.0 to Address Vulnerability Exposed in Apple Hack Apple Releases Java 10.6 Update 12 for Snow Leopard Machines Cult of Mac Says Forums of iPhone Development Site Seem to Be Source of Apple Hack Intego Finds New OS X-Based Malware Called Pint-Sized Apple Issues iOS 6.1.2 Fixing Exchange Issue; Leaving Passcode and Lock Screen Vulnerabilities Unaddressed Cult of Mac: ...

Mac OS Ken: 02.19.2013

February 19, 2013 10:10 - 15 minutes - 8.95 MB

Flurry: China to Pass U.S. as Largest Market for iOS and Android Devices this Month Morgan Stanley Says a $330 iPhone mini in China Could Grab Apple an Extra $2.4-Billion Citigroup Analyst Thinks Lack of Innovation and More Tablet/PC Hybrids Will Hurt iPad in 2H2013 Apple Stops Mac Pro Sales in EU Ahead of New Safety Regulations U.S. and E.U. Members Look at Closing Tax Shelters Used by Apple and Other Multinational Corporations Forbes Brings Word of Yet Another iOS 6.1 Vulnerability Ap...

Mac OS Ken: 02.18.2013

February 18, 2013 10:08 - 20 minutes - 11.7 MB

Apple Insider: Mr. Munster Thinks It Is About Time for an Apple Media Event 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Seeks Engineering Manager for Apple TV Executive Tweets Indicate Sale of Apple Products Heading to Staples in the States Chitika: Web Use for Samsung Galaxy S III and iPhone 5 Nearly Equal for First Part of February 9 to 5 Mac: iOS 6.1 Allows Changes on Devices Set Up for “Don’t Allow Changes” MacNN: Rumor Has iOS 6.1.2 Hitting with Exchange and Passcode Fixes This Week Apple Appeals Ruling Ove...

Mac OS Ken: 02.15.2013

February 15, 2013 09:18 - 16 minutes - 9.6 MB

Report: Meteorite Explodes 30,000 Feet Above Urals in Russia; Causes Damage  Apple Acknowledges Exchange Issue in iOS 6.1, Offers Temporary Fix Ahead of Next Update iOS 6.1 Bug Found to Give Anyone Access to a Passcode-Protected iPhone Apple Acknowledges iOS 6.1 Passcode Vulnerability and Promises Fix in Future Update Apple Updates iMove for iOS to v1.4.1 with Minor Fixes Apple Sends Eleventh beta of OS X 10.8.3 to Developers Morgan Stanley Analyst Says Microsoft Could Be Leaving $2.5B ...

Mac OS Ken: 02.14.2013

February 14, 2013 08:29 - 21 minutes - 12.4 MB

Jefferies & Co. Analyst Peter Misek Re-Rolls Apple Television Talk Cult of Mac: Misek is the DigiTimes of Financial Analysts Apple Insider on Jefferies & Co. Apple Television Talk The Loop on Apple TV Event Next Month: Nope The Mac Observer Does a 204-Word Story on Jim Dalrymple One-Word Story Shares of German TV Maker Spike on Flimsy Apple Takeover Rumor Firecore Updates Jailbreak for Second-Gen Apple TV Original xBox Architect Says Apple Could Crush Game Consoles with Current Apple TV Bloom...

Mac OS Ken: 02.13.2013

February 13, 2013 10:34 - 18 minutes - 11 MB

Tim Cook Spends an Hour with Goldman Sachs Computerworld: Apple CEO Shoots Down Idea of Cheap New iPhone Munster: Apple CEO Comments Indicate Cheap New iPhone Hear the Full Goldman Sachs Conversation at investor.apple.com Citi Analysts Concerned Over Perceived Collapse of Full-Sized iPad Business Motley Fool Calls iWatch a Failure While Morgan Stanley Calls it a Cash Cow

Mac OS Ken: 02.12.2013

February 12, 2013 09:47 - 13 minutes - 8.01 MB

Topeka Capital Markets Analyst Expects a Low-Cost iPhone for Emerging Markets as Soon as June Pacific Crest Securities Analyst Says Low-Cost iPhone Idea Violates Core Principles of Apple Vodafone UK Elaborates on iOS 6.1 and iPhone 4S 3G Issues Apple Issues iOS 6.1.1 Specifically to Fix iPhone 4S Issues Apple, Adobe and Microsoft Called by Australian Parliament to Explain High Price for IT Down Under Tim Cook Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference This Morning ...

Mac OS Ken: 02.11.2013

February 11, 2013 09:02 - 24 minutes - 14.4 MB

Wall Street Sees Apple Response to Einhorn as Positive Raymond James Analyst Sees Massive Growth Potential for iPhone in India Canalys Says iPhone 5 Did Not Grow Market Share in China in 4QCY2012 (Fails to Mention Only Two-Weeks of Sales in 4QCY2012) MacNN: Some iPhone Users Experiencing Issues Since Updating to iOS 6.1 Electronista: Vodafone UK Suggests iPhone 4S Owners Skip iOS 6.1 AT+T LTE Network Not Ready for Wireless Emergency Alerts Home Depot Dropping Replacing 10,000 Manager and Corp...

Mac OS Ken: 02.08.2013

February 08, 2013 09:28 - 10 minutes - 6.05 MB

Apple Insider: Apple’s Disappointing Quarter Still Beats the Rest in the U.S. Apple Shareholder Sues to Get More Cash Out of the Company for Investors Apple Responds to Shareholder Concern with Press Release Apple Stock Pops on Response to Einhorn Issues Sprint Reports Sales of 2.2-Million iPhones in 4Q 2012 Apple Releases AirPort Utility 6.2 for OS X and AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.6.3 Apple Updates Aperture to v4.04 Adobe Issues Flash Player Patch to Comba...

Mac OS Ken: 02.07.2013

February 07, 2013 08:55 - 12 minutes - 7.51 MB

comScore: Apple and Samsung Grow Smartphone Share in 4Q CY2012 as OS Gains a Tiny Bit on Android Canaccord Genuity Analyst: Apple and Samsung Took 103-Percent of Cellphone Profits in 2012 Chitika Sees Slight Resurgence in iPad Web Traffic Since Christmas Canalys: Apple Tops in PCs in 4QCY2012 (If We Count Tablets as PCs) Apple Announces Download of 25-Billionth iTunes Tune Apple Spotlights Self-Published Authors in New “Breakout Books” Section of iBookstore Apple Seeds beta of iOS 6.1.1 to De...

Mac OS Ken: 02.06.2013

February 06, 2013 10:44 - 12 minutes - 7.44 MB

Barrons: Shaw Wu Says Apple Needs to Make a Phablet Fortune: Shaw Wu Says Apple Needs to More Aggressively Court the Mid-Range Phone Market Apple Starts Sales of 128GB iPad with Minor Wait Times Microsoft Announces 11 New Retail Locations So Far for 2013 Apple Re-Issues KB Document Against Jailbreaking Poking Under the Hood Reveals Hidden Radio Buttons in iPad Version of iOS 6.1 Apple Hiring for Apparent Russian Online Store Apple Hiring for 10 Positions in iOS Maps WSJ Says Apple PR ...

Mac OS Ken: 02.05.2013

February 05, 2013 08:33 - 17 minutes - 10.3 MB

Morgan Stanley Analyst Thinks Next iPhone Will Look Exactly Like iPhone 5 Barclays Analyst Thinks Apple Needs to Make iPhone Phablet to Protect Margins While Making Low-Cost iPhone for Emerging Markets StatCounter: iPhone Takes Global Mobile Internet Usage Lead in January for First Time Ever Last Week: Apple Updates iOS to v6.1 Last Week: iOS 6.1 Update Brings Security and Bug Fixes and Something New for Siri to Do Last Week: Apple Updates Xcode to v4.6 Last Week: Apple Updates Apple TV...

Mac OS Ken: 02.04.2013

February 04, 2013 09:19 - 14 minutes - 8.63 MB

Apple Announces 128GB 4th-Gen iPad with Retina Display Wired Wonders Why the 128GB iPad The Verge: 41GB of Microsoft Surface Pro Taken Up with Pre-Installed Software and Recovery Partition Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs Analysts Positive on 128GB iPad News Baird & Co. Analyst Will Power Drops Rating and Price Target on Apple Fortune: William Power is Ever Changing on Apple Shares IDC: Apple Increases Tablet Sales But Loses Market Share Worldwide in 4Q CY2012 iPad mini Wait Time Drops to...

Mac OS Ken: 01.29.2013

January 29, 2013 10:25 - 47 seconds - 490 KB

Ken gets the flu!

Mac OS Ken: 01.25.2013

January 25, 2013 10:17 - 15 minutes - 8.74 MB

All Things D: Apple Shares Down 11-Percent on Fourth-Most-Profitable Quarter Posted by Any Company Ever Financial Analysts Lower Apple Price-Targets; Still Bullish on the Cupertino-Company Tim Cook Holds Post-Earnings Town Hall Meeting with Apple Employees Apple Insider Notes Sharp Price-Drops for MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs at Big Authorized Resellers This Week AT&T Activates Over Eight-and-a-Half-Million iPhones in 4QCY2012 Strategy Analytics Puts Apple in Second in Smartphones and T...

Mac OS Ken: 01.24.2013

January 24, 2013 10:44 - 20 minutes - 11.8 MB

Apple Reports Record Quarterly Earnings; Record Sales for iPad and iPhones Analysts Voice Tepid Support After Apple Numbers Hear the Apple Earnings Call Online for Yourself at http://investor.apple.com

Mac OS Ken: 01.23.2013

January 23, 2013 10:30 - 14 minutes - 8.22 MB

Verizon Sold a Record 6.2 Million iPhones Last Quarter, Though Only Half Were iPhone 5 Apple-Tracking Financial Analysts Pleased with Verizon iPhone Sales Numbers Apple Webcasting 1Q FY2013 Earnings Call Today at 2pm PST/5pm EST Kantar Worldpanel ComTech: iPhone Takes 51.2% of US Smartphone Sales in Last Quarter of 2012 Survey: Majority of UK iPhone Owners Do Not Look Past Top 25 App Lists in App Store Munster Reasserts His Belief in a Full-On Apple Television in 2013 Report: Apple Laun...

Mac OS Ken: 01.22.2013

January 22, 2013 09:43 - 12 minutes - 7.03 MB

Report: Production of 9.7-inch iPad Displays Slows to a Crawl at Sharp; No Drop at LG or Samsung Report (Three Times Removed) Has Apple Working on a 4.8-inch Phablet to Be Released By June iPad-mini Shortages Persist While Full-Sized iPad Supply is Plentiful Barrons: Wells Fargo Analyst Sees Better Second-Half of 2013 in Store for Apple While UBS Analyst Looks to Apple’s “Next Big Thing” UBS Analyst Lowers Apple Target from $700 to $650 Based on New CIRP Survey Silicon Valley Execs - Inc...

Mac OS Ken: 01.18.2013

January 18, 2013 10:33 - 10 minutes - 6.24 MB

Intel Sees Quarterly Profit Fall 27% on Weak PC Demand Apple Gets Early Release Window for 20 Heart Publication Magazines on Newsstand Rolling Stone Hits the iOS App Store (for iPad Only) Rewind: Rolling Stone Publisher Says it Could Be Decades Before He Bring His Titles to iOS (a Year-and-a-Half Ago) Apple Gets Rights to Release the Last Three Episodes of “Downton Abbey” to Season Pass Holders Ahead of Broadcast MacNN: Apple TV Goes on Sale in South Africa Today Amazon Launches HTML Ve...

Mac OS Ken: 01.17.2013

January 17, 2013 09:22 - 12 minutes - 7.29 MB

Global Equities Analyst Sees iPhone Display Cuts as Sign Apple is Moving to IGZO Displays Analysts from Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Others Continue AAPL Defense Pacific Crest Analyst Cut AAPL to Sector Perform; Sees Market Saturation at High-End and Nothing Truly New on the Horizon KGI Securities Analyst Expects All-Retina Display MacBook Pros and Retina Display iPad mini in 2013 Apple Launches Installment Payment Options for Consumers in China Apple Launches Back-to-School Promoti...

Mac OS Ken: 01.16.2013

January 16, 2013 10:35 - 14 minutes - 8.63 MB

DisplaySearch Analyst Says Aggressive iPhone 5 Launch Likely Reason for Display Order Cuts Shaw Wu Thinks “iPhone 5 Demand Remains Robust” ChangeWave: 50% of Survey Respondents Plans to Buy an iPhone in the Next 90-Days; 71% of iOS Users “Very Satisfied” ChangeWave: Intent to Buy a Samsung Smartphone Rises to 21% Among Survey Respondents TechCrunch Makes a Mobius Strip of Analyst Notes Analyst Numbers Indicate iPad Outsold Surface RT in December-Quarter by at Least 20-to-1 Judge in Appl...

Mac OS Ken: 01.15.2013

January 15, 2013 09:33 - 13 minutes - 8.09 MB

Business Insider: WSJ Story Was One-Month Old; Crushed Apple Shares Anyway Barrons: Bulls Run Against WSJ Story Apple Launching WiFi + Cellular 4th-Gen iPad and WiFi + Cellular iPad mini in China on Friday 18 January Gartner Estimates Mac Sales Rose 5.4% in Holiday-Quarter 2012 Versus Holiday-Quarter 2011 TMO: The First Lightning-Compatible iThing Accessories Show Up at Apple Retail Apple Insider: Third-Party Resellers Running Out of Thunderbolt Displays Samsung Says Sales of Galaxy S S...

Mac OS Ken: 01.14.2013

January 14, 2013 10:26 - 12 minutes - 7.28 MB

Cook Tells China That China Will Be Top Apple Consumer at Some Point Translation Trouble: Reuters Removes Schiller Story Dismissing Cheaper iPhone Translation Take Two: Reuters Says What Schiller Is Said to Have Really Said Forbes: Removal of First Reuters Story Practically Proves Development of Low-Cost iPhone WSJ Says Apple Cuts iPhone 5 Display Orders Canaccord Genuity Analyst Estimates 48.2-Million iPhones Sold in December-Quarter Topeka Capital Analyst Expects Updated iPad and iPad...

Mac OS Ken: 01.11.2013

January 11, 2013 10:36 - 13 minutes - 7.66 MB

Build your own site with Squarespace yourself? Go to , click "enter an offer code" under pricing and use the offer code macosken1 TC Watch: Captain Cook Takes a Meeting With China Mobile Schiller Seems to Shut Down Cheap/Less-Expensive iPhone Talk Munster Cuts Apple Price Target to $875 on Margin Concerns Related to Cheaper iPhone that Schiller Indicates Apple is Not Targeting TUAW: Tim Cook Says iPad mini with Wifi plus Cellular Available in China By End of Month Apple Launches Chinese ...

Mac OS Ken: 01.10.2013

January 10, 2013 10:43 - 16 minutes - 9.41 MB

Build your own site with Squarespace yourself? Go to , click "enter an offer code" under pricing and use the offer code macosken1 Verizon Activates 9.8-Million Smartphones in 4QCY2012 with “Higher Mix of Apple Smartphones” T-Mobile USA CEO Says iPhone Sales to Start in 3-to-4 Months Bloomberg: Secret Source Says Apple Working on Cheaper iPhone for Developing Markets Munster: Low-Cost iPhone Could Add $6.5 Billion to Apple Revenue This Year (!?!) NPD DisplaySearch: Tablets to Out Ship Not...

Mac OS Ken: 01.09.2013

January 09, 2013 10:28 - 14 minutes - 8.17 MB

Build your own site with Squarespace yourself? Go to , click "enter an offer code" under pricing and use the offer code macosken1 WSJ: Apple May or May Not Intro Lower-Cost iPhone Later This Year Strategy Analytics: iPhone Tops 2013 Intent-to-Buy Survey in U.S. TMO: AT&T Sees Record Quarter for Smartphones; Record Sales of iPhones and Androids T-Mobile USA Has 1.9-Million iPhones On Its Network (Up from 1.7-Million 30-Days Ago) T-Mobile USA Strengthens Its Network Ahead of iPhone Launch ...

Mac OS Ken: 01.08.2013

January 08, 2013 10:30 - 16 minutes - 9.29 MB

Build your own site with Squarespace yourself? Go to , click "enter an offer code" under pricing and use the offer code macosken1 Apple Announces 40-Billion Downloads in App Store, 2-Billion Downloads in December and 500-Million Payment Methods On-File Neil Mawston: 2013 Will Be the Year of the Phablet Business Insider: Apple is Nowhere in Phablets (But May Be on the Way) Rewind: Topeka Capital Analyst Says Apple May Go Bigger and Smaller in Next Round of iPhones Analysts: What Apple Nee...

Mac OS Ken: 01.07.2013

January 07, 2013 06:55 - 16 minutes - 9.61 MB

NPD: MacBook Sales Down 6% in U.S. for Holidays 2012 Versus Holidays 2011 Fujitsu Limited to Miss Annual Sales Expectations on “Weak” Windows 8 Demand Forrester Sees Growth for Apple in the Enterprise in 2013; Stagnation for Windows-Based Machines RBC Analyst Sees Robust Growth for Apple in 2013; Muted Growth for Tech Sector The Telegraph: On Analysts and iPhone minis WSJ: Retailers Complain to States Attorneys General Over Walmart Ad-Practices Tied to Holidays and iPhone 5 TUAW: Cornin...

Mac OS Ken: 01.04.2013

January 04, 2013 09:30 - 13 minutes - 7.92 MB

Bernstein Research Analyst Says Apple Growth is Slowing (Though There’s Still Plenty in the Tank) Evercore Partners Analyst Expects December Quarter Sales of 50-Million iPhones and 24-Million iPads Chitika Insights Sees 7% Market Share Drop for iPad Over the Holidays (Kind of) Barnes and Noble Says the nook Took a Beating in Holiday Sales comScore: Apple and Samsung Grow Cellphone Share in US While Everyone Else Sees Shrinking Shares Wednesday: Rumor Has Apple Considering Buying Communit...

Mac OS Ken: 01.03.2013

January 03, 2013 09:41 - 16 minutes - 9.76 MB

Telsey Advisory Group Analyst Expects Something “We Haven’t Even Thought of Before” from Apple Munster: Apple Has a Future in Wearable Computers Last Week: Left Field Rumor Has Apple and Intel Making a Smartwatch Topeka Capital Markets Names Apple Share Top-Pick for 2013; Expects New and Different iPhones in May/June Period Apple 1Q Fy2013 Conference Call Set for 23 January Flurry Analytics Says Worldwide Mobile App Downloads Hit 1.76-Billion in Last Week of 2012; Over 50-Million iOS and...

Mac OS Ken: 12.31.2012

December 31, 2012 08:02 - 25 seconds - 319 KB

Happy New Year!

Mac OS Ken: 12.28.2012

December 28, 2012 08:59 - 11 minutes - 7.09 MB

Flurry Analytics: 17.4 Million New Portable Devices Activated Worldwide on Christmas Day Distimo: App Store Downloads Up 87% on Christmas Day; App Store Revenues Up 70% Buzzfeed: First Tweets from iPads Rule Tablets on Christmas Day RW Baird Analyst Says Holiday Sales of Surface RT Seemed Weak at Best Buy and Staples Fortune Runs Pictures of Packed Apple Store and Practically Empty Microsoft and Sony Stores from one Mall on Christmas Eve Microsoft Announces Six New Retail Locations to St...

Mac OS Ken: 12.26.2012

December 26, 2012 08:00 - 19 minutes - 11.8 MB

Today we talk with Taz Goldstein about his new book Hand Held Hollywood's Filmmaking with the iPad and iPhone

Mac OS Ken: 12.24.2012

December 24, 2012 10:44 - 12 minutes - 7.56 MB

Kantar Worldpanel ComTech: Sales of iPhone Top 50% Market Share in the States Heading Into the Holidays Distimo: The Real App Money is Still in iOS The Mac Observer: Change to App Store in China Blocks Government Censors Apple Sees Second Fine Over AppleCare in Italy; Irons Out AppleCare Issues with Italian Antitrust Authority Apple Seed 10.8.3 beta Two-Days After Previous 10.8.3 beta NASA Releases Free iBookstore Title - Hubble Space Telescope: Discoveries The Wall Street Journal Hits ...

Mac OS Ken: 12.21.2012

December 21, 2012 10:24 - 11 minutes - 6.76 MB

CrashPlan: Automatic, offsite, data backup. You're data's protected and accessible by you – anytime, anywhere. Find out more at  / Wells Fargo Analyst: Investors Fail to Appreciate the Role and Strength of Apple Customer Service Munster Sees Notable Siri Improvement from iOS 5 to iOS 6 Apple Puts “Most Favored Nation” Clause with Publishers on 5-Year Hiatus in EU as Part of EC Settlement The Verge: EC Set to Charge Samsung with Breach of Antitrust Rules Apple Appealing Judge Koh Ruling A...

Mac OS Ken: 12.20.2012

December 20, 2012 09:57 - 12 minutes - 7.5 MB

CrashPlan: Automatic, offsite, data backup. You're data's protected and accessible by you – anytime, anywhere. Find out more at  http://www.crashplan.com/ USPTO Preliminarily Invalidates Apple 915 Pinch-to-Zoom Patent Groups Including Apple, RIM, and Samsung Buy Kodak Patents for $525-Million Focus Taiwan: Secret Source Says Hon Hai Testing Apple Television, Not Likely to Ship in 2013 Piper Jaffray Names Apple Its Top Internet-Sector Pick for 2013; Reiterates Overweight Rating and $900 Target...

Mac OS Ken: 12.19.2012

December 19, 2012 10:19 - 13 minutes - 7.75 MB

CrashPlan: Automatic, offsite, data backup. You're data's protected and accessible by you – anytime, anywhere. Find out more at  / Raymond James Analyst Things iPad May Be Bigger in Big Business Than We Realize Penguin Settles in eBook Price-Fixing Case with US DoJ Settlement Leads EU to Drop Antitrust Probes Against Apple, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Macmillan Over Alleged eBook Price-Fixing Samsung Drops Injunction Applications Against Apple in European Courts; Contin...

Mac OS Ken: 12.18.2012

December 18, 2012 10:29 - 14 minutes - 8.46 MB

CrashPlan: Automatic, offsite, data backup. You're data's protected and accessible by you – anytime, anywhere. Find out more at  / Former Apple CEO John Sculley Thinks Apple is Taking iThings to Twice-a-Year Updates Asymco’s Dediu Could See the Sculley Scenario Canaccord Genuity Lowers Apple Target to $750; Maintains Buy Rating on Apple Shares Morgan Stanley Analyst Still Incredibly Positive on Apple Sterne Agee, ISI and Topeka Capital Analysts All Say Apple Investors Should Chill After ...

Mac OS Ken: 12.17.2012

December 17, 2012 10:45 - 16 minutes - 9.39 MB

CrashPlan: Automatic, offsite, data backup. You're data's protected and accessible by you – anytime, anywhere. Find out more at  / Lack of Lines for iPhone 5 Launch in China Freaks Peter Misek Out Citi Cuts Price Target and Rating on Apple Shares Due to Supply Chain Changes Misek Hears of Supply Chain Changes Too (Though That Does Not Worry Him) UBS Analyst Lowers Apple Target on Supply Chain Chatter, Concern over iPhone 5 in China Apple Says It Sold Over 2-Million iPhone 5s in First Thr...

Mac OS Ken: 12.14.2012

December 14, 2012 10:21 - 13 minutes - 7.93 MB

Munster: Interest in Buying iPhone 5 Sees Significant Rise Post-Launch Fortune: Survey Shows Interest in Buying Surface RT Sees Significant Decline Post-Launch NPD DisplaySearch: iPad mini Seems to Be Outselling iPad This Holiday Season Google Maps App is Back in iOS App Store Slate: The Google Maps App is a Win for Apple Apple Returns Duplicate Track Finder in Minor iTunes 11.0.1 Update Apple Adds New SMS Trojan to Malware Blacklist for OS X Apple Rolls Out More Detailed System Status...

Mac OS Ken: 12.13.2012

December 13, 2012 07:00 - 14 minutes - 8.17 MB

Shaw Wu Raises Sales Expectations for iPhone and Lowers Them for iPad NPD DisplaySearch: Apple Grabs 84% of Mobile PC Market in 2Q 2012 (If We Count iPads as PCs) Goldman Sachs Analyst Thinks Intel Building A-Series Processors for Apple Would Be a Ba Idea for Intel Apple Insider: Movies Lighting Up for Majority of Recently Opened iTunes Stores Business Insider Challenges Google Chairman’s Assertion that Android is “Pretty Clearly” Winning Over iOS Doctor Web Finds New Trojan Targeting OS X Us...

Mac OS Ken: 12.12.2012

December 12, 2012 09:39 - 14 minutes - 8.29 MB

Strategy Analytics: Apple Devices Now Account for 27% of LTE Devices Worldwide iPhone 5 Tops Time List of Best Gadgets of 2012; 15” MBP with Retina Display Lands at Sixth 9 to 5 Mac: Suddenly Every Store Has a $150 iPhone 5 (Kind of) FTC Displeased with States of Mobile Application Stores and Privacy Safeguards for Children Morgan Stanley Analyst: Apple Television Set Could Be a $13 Billion Opportunity for Apple (If They Actually Build a TV Set) Apple Opening Stores in China, Hong Kong, ...

Mac OS Ken: 12.11.2012

December 11, 2012 10:02 - 16 minutes - 9.45 MB

Most Agree That App Tiles on Apple TV Were Technical Glitch, Not Early Leak Speculative-Fiction Writer Peter Misek Drops Apple Price target to $800 Topeka Capital Analyst Sees Surge in Apple Supply Chain as Good News for Apple Credit Suisse Thinks TSMC Will Start Producing A-Series Processors for Apple by Mid-2013 Apple Insider: Some Pre-Ordered 27-Inch iMacs Shipping Earlier Than Originally Estimated China Unicom: Pre-Orders for iPhone 5 Hit 300,000 Fortune: Numbers Making Black Friday...

Mac OS Ken: 12.10.2012

December 10, 2012 10:12 - 14 minutes - 8.49 MB

In Apple TV: Potential for Appy Holidays 9 to 5 Mac: Bluetooth Keyboard Pairing Coming in Next Apple TV Software Update Bill Palmer at Beatweek Thinks Apple will Go Full-on Television Rather Than Stick with the Hobby Puck Maynard Um Thinks Apple will Go Full-on Television Rather Than Stick with the Hobby Puck iPhone 5 Listed as In-Stock for a Number of Apple Online Stores Friday: BestBuy Offers $25 Gift Card to People Who Buy an iPhone 5 (with a 2-Year Contract) Sunday: BestBuy Offers $...

Mac OS Ken: 12.07.2012

December 07, 2012 10:36 - 15 minutes - 9.28 MB

Apple CEO Calls TV “an Area of Intense Interest” for Apple The Pros and Cons of Made-in-America Macs Early Thursday: T-Mobile USA and Apple Enter Deal to Sell an Apple Something in 2013 Later Thursday: T-Mobile Getting iPhone in 2013; Dropping Subsidies for Smartphones in 2013 (Though It May Not Look That Way to iPhone Buyers) RBC Analyst Sees Apple/T-Mobile iPhone Tie-Up Adding 4-5 Million Additional iPhone Sales in First Year of Deal Shipping Times for iPad mini Drop to One-Week in the...

Mac OS Ken: 12.06.2012

December 06, 2012 10:42 - 10 minutes - 6.11 MB

China Mobile President Says Technology and Business Have Kept iPhone Off of His Carrier (So Far) Apple Translates "Start Developing iOS Apps Today" Into Chinese Canalys: 25 Developers Made Half of Mobile App Revenue in First 20 Days of November Mossberg Says “Find Duplicates” Feature Returning to iTunes 11 Soon iPodNN: iTunes, App Store and Mac App Store See Sporadic Access Issues Worldwide on Wednesday 9 to 5 Mac: Russian iTunes Store Accidentally Directs Users to Porn and Escort Sites ...

Mac OS Ken: 12.05.2012

December 05, 2012 10:23 - 14 minutes - 8.27 MB

Shaw Wu Ups iPhone Sales Estimates and Lowers Mac Sales Estimates for the Current Quarter Electronista: Apple Raises iPhone 5 Purchase Cap in the States from 2-Per-Customer to 10-Per-Customer Barclays Capital Analyst Makes Case (Again) for Low-Cost iPhone for Developing Markets NPD Says Black Friday Consumer Electronics Sales Off 5.6% (Though They Don’t Count iPads, Kindles, Surfaces, Smartphones or Video Games) Apple Updates iWork Titles for iOS and OS X Dockster Trojan Targets Macs Thr...

Mac OS Ken: 12.04.2012

December 04, 2012 10:31 - 15 minutes - 8.8 MB

China Unicom Sees 100,000 Pre-Orders for iPhone 5 on First Day of Availability Apple Launching iPhone 5 in 50 New Countries Before End of 2012 Wait Times for iPhone 5 Drop to 2-to-4 Business Days on Apple Site Canaccord Genuity Sees Sales on 47.5 Million iPhones in the December Quarter Yahoo!: iPhone 5 Second Most Searched Term in U.S. in 2012 Yahoo!: Amazon Kindle Most Searched for Gadget in UK in 2012; Third Overall Apple Launches iTunes Store in Russia, Turkey, India, South Africa an...

Mac OS Ken: 12.03.2012

December 03, 2012 09:39 - 15 minutes - 9.19 MB

Apple to Start Sales of New New iPad and iPad mini on 7 December; iPhone 5 on 14 December Mixed Reaction from Analysts to iPad/iPhone China Announcement comScore MobileLens: Apple Takes Second in Cellphone Sales in the States for First Time Ever iFixIt Busts Open a New 21.5-Inch iMac and Finds a 3-Out-of-10 Repairability Rating Shipping Time for 27-Inch iMac Jumps from 2-3 Weeks to 3-4 Weeks in First 24-Hours of Pre-Orders 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Allowing Third-Party Retailers to Sell $15 to $...

Mac OS Ken: 11.30.2012

November 30, 2012 10:33 - 13 minutes - 8.09 MB

Apple Releases iTunes 11 iTunes 11 Lets Users Redeem iTunes Gift Cards Through Computer Camera Apple Releases Version 5.1.1 of Apple TV Firmware Apple Updates Remote App for iOS to Version 3.0 Merrill Lynch Analyst Thinks T-Mobile USA Could Announce Deal to Sell iPhone Next Week WSJ: iPhone 5 Launch in China Appears Imminent Apple Starts Sales of Unlocked iPhone 5s in the States Apple Pays Harley-Davidson for Use of “Lightning” Trademark Apple Puts Shrunken Front Cover of The New York...