Did Apple's Board Do the Right Thing on Jobs' Health?

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Published Jan. 21, 2009 at 3:05 a.m.
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Regulators want to know if the Apple board properly disclosed Steve Jobs' illness ...

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Google's Android Engineering Director leaves for... Coupons, Inc.

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Published Jan. 20, 2009 at 7:56 p.m.
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While we're primed and ready for Android to take over the mobile marketplace, it looks like Steve Horowitz, Google's engineering director for the upstart OS, has other thoughts -- he's bailing out for Coupons, Inc. Yep, it's a coupons site. We have no idea why Horowitz thinks a company working on a "digital coupons and promotions platform" is more exciting that leading Android's development, but he's certainly jumped ship before -- he started his career in Apple's Macintosh group before a stint

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Apple Counters Secondhand Sales With Discount Refurbished in China [Refurb]

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Published Jan. 20, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
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Apple's set up an online refurbished discount store in China, lowering prices by up to 22% in order to combat secondhand non-Apple-approved sales going on in the country already ... The refurbs, based on the Reuters writeup, don't seem all that great. A $44 iPod shuffle and a $2047 iMac seems like normal price to us. [Reuters] ...

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The top 10 things we hate about the BlackBerry

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Published Jan. 20, 2009 at 7:17 p.m.

We gave you our iPhone list, and while this probably has many more minor annoyances than actual feature omissions, we still thought it would be fun to put a list of our gripes together. Some of these might be device-specific, but you’ll get a general feel for the direction we’re going and why these things [ ... ] ...

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Organization offers iPhone development courses online

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Published Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:31 p.m.
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Accelerated Internet Strategies is offering five iPhone development courses as webinars ...

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Apple aims low in China, counters pirates with used products

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Published Jan. 20, 2009 at 4:54 p.m.

If you’re the type who doesn’t mind picking up slightly-less-than-new products from eBay or Craigslist, Apple has the online store for you! Except it’s only in China. In a country where many Apple products are sold on the black market, Apple has decided to take on pirates and scammers by launching a used product section [ ... ] ...

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Apple’s quarterly earnings: What to look for

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Published Jan. 20, 2009 at 4:21 p.m.
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Apple’s fiscal first quarter results are due out Wednesday, so here are a few things to look for in the resulting onslaught of numbers ...

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Bouncetrap review and interview with Playscreen

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Published Jan. 20, 2009 at 4:15 p.m.
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Right before Macworld I had a chance to try out Bouncetrap from Playscreen, and talk to the team behind it. Bouncetrap [App Store link] costs $.99US, and fans of simple, fast games will probably love it. I'll go into the mechanics of Bouncetrap first, then get into what the Playscreen team had to say ... The graphics are retro in way, calling to mind the sprite-based animation found on the GameBoy Color. But the animation, effects and (most importantly) mechanics are tightly integrated to

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The Next Gadget Gods [Predictions]

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Published Jan. 20, 2009 at 2:15 p.m.
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This past year, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs began to focus on priorities other than tech. Who will fill their winged sandals and become the new Gadget Gods? ...

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Solid numbers predicted for Apple ahead of earnings call

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Published Jan. 20, 2009 at 2:12 p.m.

Apple will disclose its earnings for Q1 FY2009 tomorrow and as is always the case, analysts are in full swing with revised predictions. If Apple’s announcement can live up to the bulk of these new estimates however, shareholders are in for some good news come Wednesday. According to a report issued today by Piper Jaffray [ ... ] ...

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