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Apple plunges to No. 79 on Forbes innovative companies ranking | Review: Jobs the movie applies its own reality distortion field

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Researchers outwit Apple, plant malware in the App Store
A team of researchers from Georgia Tech has demonstrated how hackers can slip a malicious app past Apple's reviewers so that it's published to the App Store and ready for unsuspecting victims to download. Read More


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Apple plunges to No. 79 on Forbes innovative companies ranking
Apple's innovation problems were highlighted today when Forbes published its 2013 list of the world's most innovative companies and ranked Apple at No. 79. Read More

Review: Jobs the movie applies its own reality distortion field
Jobs, the feature-length movie starring Ashton Kutcher as the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, will entertain Apple fans as much as it frustrates them with its dramatic reinterpretation of events. Read More

Ken Gagne: Steve Wozniak on Apple's founding
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak made a surprise appearance at an Apple II convention, where classic machines were being hacked like it was still 1977. Read More

Activist investor Carl Icahn means trouble with a capital 'T' for Apple
At best, his presence will be a distraction for CEO Tim Cook, not exactly what the doctor ordered for Apple Read More

U.S. consumers pick MacBook as their preferred next laptop
American consumers named Apple as the most likely brand of their next notebook purchase, but a resurgent Dell easily captured future honors for desktop PCs, according to a survey published today Read More

Apple, Samsung nearly neck-and-neck in smartphone customer retention
Apple and Samsung were almost equally able to keep customers in their respective smartphone folds over the last 12 months, an analyst said Monday. Read More

Larry Ellison joins the 'Apple is doomed' generation
"Et tu, Brute?" Oracle CEO and close friend of Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, joins the "Apple is doomed" generation this morning when he tells 'CBS This Morning' that he thinks Apple is lost without its founder. Read More


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Who goes to an Apple II convention in 2013?
KansasFest is an annual convention for fans of the 36-year-old Apple II computer. Who are these people, anyway? We turned on a video camera and let them speak for themselves. Read More

NFC could debut in next iPhone, even as Google pulls back
Mobile payments based on NFC chips inside smartphones have faced slow growth in the U.S., but some analysts predict that the upcoming iPhone 5S expected in September will include NFC technology after years of restraint by Apple. Read More

How low will Apple go on the iPhone 5C?
Apple's new iPhone 5C will sell at an unsubsidized price between $330 and $400, analysts said, even as some questioned whether the change in the company's lower-priced strategy would pay off. Read More

Apple iPad market share plummets in China as domestic vendors grow
The market share of Apple's iPad fell dramatically in China during the second quarter as a result of competition from Android tablets made by little-known "white box" vendors. Read More

Jonny Evans: Apple stock: No more Mr. Personality
Steve Jobs had the capacity to steer innovation to where the puck was going alongside rock star charisma and Broadway-standard showmanship, but he's gone. Anger at his passing became anger at the company, but Apple's about to change its story -- and its identity. Read More

Jonny Evans: Jobs: Ashton Kutcher hits back at Woz
Controversy. This is what we have today as Ashton Kutcher accuses Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, of being paid by another film studio as Woz's motivation to criticize the movie, Jobs. Read More

Jonny Evans: Apple's about to strike iPhone gold in China
Apple is hoping for the iPod nano effect when it ships new iPhones in a few weeks time.. So what is the iPod nano effect what might happen, and why does it matter? And why should Samsung be afraid? Read More

Richi Jennings: 'Confirmed': iPhone 5S will be vulgar, gaudy, tacky, nasty, tawdry, ugly, emetic
Anyone for Champagne? Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will release a gold-colored iPhone 5S. This rumor is said to be 'confirmed' by multiple sources. And, yes, there are pictures of case components. It's clearly totally believable; so that's all right then. But did anyone stop to wonder why Jony Ive would permit such a tawdry bauble? Read More


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