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Tim Cook’s Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks

businessweek.com

In his most wide-ranging interview since succeeding Steve Jobs, Tim Cook talks about how the company now works, the view that he’s “robotic,” and the return of Apple manufacturing to the U.S.

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Tim Cook’s Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks

Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email

lifehack.org

So, you were look­ing for a great alter­na­tive to Apple’s Mail.app on OS X and iOS and stum­bled upon Spar­row. It was fast, han­dled mail in a com­fort­able and famil­iar Gmail fash­ion, and was full fea­tured. It was all good until you heard th…

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Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email

Why Apple will grow faster with Tim Cook

Tim Cook’s Attention to Culture Will Grow Apple Even More
Paul Spiegelman, inc.com

THE CULTURE GAP

How Tim Cook treats employees may leave him a legacy bigger than Steve Jobs’.

Much has been writ­ten about the bril­liance of Steve Jobs and the icon­ic com­pa­ny that he built. Many say that it was Steve Job’s laser focus on t…

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iPads swarm healthcare

Is Your Doctor’s iPad Good For Your Health?
By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com

Surgeons, doctors, nurses, residents, and other medical professionals all regularly use iPads on the job. The practice has inspired a cottage industry, health care innovation, and privacy concerns.

Slow­ly but sure­ly, iPads are chang­ing the fa…

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Intelligence agencies use iPhones and iPads–in top secret mode

How America’s Spies Use iPhones And iPads
By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com

Deep inside the NSA guidelines for iOS, warnings about “juice-jacking,” “hot mikes,” and requirements to cover iPad cameras with tape.

Years ago, when spooks and gov­ern­ment employ­ees need­ed a secure smart­phone, they turned to Research in…

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Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers

Christina Bonnington, wired.com

It’s been a few months since Passbook was announced, and talk has died down to almost nothing. Is anyone even using the service? It turns out, yes, and we’re using it a lot.

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Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers

Why the iPad can replace your cable subscription

Who Needs Cable? 3 iPad Apps That Glue Me To My TV
John Paul Titlow, readwrite.com

The Internet may be changing TV, but it is nowhere close to completely disrupting it.Why’s that? In a word, content.Web videos can rack up millions of views (and millions of dollars), but the Web isn’t yet giving us content as compelling as Downto…

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Google cloud music match is free

Google’s cloud-based music-matching service has arrived… and it’s free
Cyrus Farivar, arstechnica.com

This is what Ars editor Cyrus Farivar sent to Google Play this morning.Cyrus FarivarGoogle has announced its own music-matching locker service, but unlike Amazon’s Cloud Player and Apple’s iTunes Match, this new service is free. Google Play, in th…

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Lapka turns your iPhone into a biolab

Lapka for iPhone: five sensors to measure the world, inspired by NASA and Yves Saint Laurent
By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com

A small Russian hardware startup brings ‘luxury tools’ to your phone

Lapka’s tagline may be the “Per­son­al Envi­ron­ment Monitor,” but its name is root­ed in the Russ­ian word for paw. “We want to be the rab­bit’s foot that you bring wit…

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