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January 24, 2014, 9:35 AM

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Jason Snell / Macworld:

Interview with Schiller, Federighi and Tribble on the future of the Mac on its 30th birthday — Apple executives on the Mac at 30: ‘The Mac keeps going forever.’ — Thirty years ago, Apple introduced the Macintosh, and we all learned why 1984 wasn't going to be like 1984.

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Tweets: @jyarow, @papadimitriou, @mattrosoff, @rosa and @fraserspeirs

Thanks:@jsnell

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple takes over its homepage to celebrate 30 years of Mac, with accompanying video, timeline and poll — In addition to interviews with the press, Apple is celebrating 30 years of Mac with a full-bleed graphic on its homepage, which links to a minisite that plots how the Mac evolved over the years.

iFixit:

Macintosh 128K Teardown — Join us as we live the time-traveler's dream—the deep, lucid, Orwellian vision of hope, fear, and nostalgia that is 1984. Just in time for its 30th anniversary, we laid hands on an '84 original: the Macintosh 128K. And, you guessed it—we're tearing it down like it's the Berlin Wall.

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac and Cult of Mac

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Microsoft beats earnings, ships 7.4 million Xboxes, doubles Surface revenue — Microsoft posts record revenue of $24.5B, beats earnings expectations in holiday quarter — Microsoft just announced revenue of $24.5 billion for the December quarter, up 14 percent from the same quarter a year ago …

More: Ars Technica, LiveSide.net, New York Times, TechCrunch, USA Today and BetaNews

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Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Second Quarter

Hanni Fakhoury / Wired:

The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs — Before Edward Snowden showed up, 2013 was shaping up as the year of reckoning for the much criticized federal anti-hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA"). The suicide of Aaron Swartz in January 2013 brought the CFAA …

More: Boing Boing. Tweets: @eff, @mat and @joey_flatt

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Sources say new Apple TV box likely coming soon, App/Game Store possible — We've learned that Apple is making progress on its development of a successor to the current Apple TV and that the device is well into testing. We are led to believe that the new device, which is said to be a set-top box rather …

More: ZDNet, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, VG247, Digital Spy and CNET

Phil Dzikiy / iLounge:

Apple TV may get game support with Bluetooth controllers and direct game downloads by March

More: Softpedia News, PadGadget and MacRumors. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Hilariously Debunks Princeton Study Saying It Will Lose 80% Of Users — Last week Princeton researchers released a widely covered study saying Facebook would lose 80% of its users by 2015-2017. But now Facebook's data scientists have turned the study's silly “correlation equals causation” …

Wall Street Journal:

4½", 5" screen iPhones expected in second half of year, smaller one further along in development, to feature metal casing, plastic casing scrapped — Apple iPhones to Come Out With Bigger Screens — Facing competition from rivals offering smartphones with bigger screens …

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics — There is a new ubiquitous media brand on Twitter. — No, I'm not talking about Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media or BuzzFeed or The Verge, or any other investor-backed startup. — I'm talking about @HistoryInPics …

More: BuzzFeed and Gizmodo. Tweets: @mckelvie and @stevesilberman. See also Mediagazer

Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:

Samsung Misses Estimates as IPhones Win Sales, Won Gains — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) posted fourth-quarter earnings that missed analyst estimates as new Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhones won high-end smartphone customers and gains in the South Korean won curbed the value of sales.

More: Reuters, BGR, BGR, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, AndroidHeadlines.com, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, SlashGear and Associated Press

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Google: We do not charge licensing fees for Android's Google Mobile Services — Earlier today a report from The Guardian claimed that Google was charging manufacturers a per device fee to have access to Google Mobile Services (GMS). Android has long been split into two distinct pieces …

More: Gotta Be Mobile and SlashGear. Thanks:@jordankahn

Guardian:

Google charges Android device vendors for apps like Gmail and Maps, Play Store access

More: BGR India, PhoneArena, Phandroid, AndroidHeadlines.com, Gotta Be Mobile and Ars Technica

Tweets: @benbajarin and @johnrentoul

Mark Ames / PandoDaily:

The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley's most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers' wages — In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming, Apple's Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google's Eric Schmidt to artificially push …

Tweets: @jyarow, @year2, @jchutchins, @mgbits, @rhtgreen, @ryanlawler, @dannysullivan, @paulszoldra, @benspants, @markamesexiled, @zedshaw and @rbranson

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple Updates iWork Across Platforms, Brings Password-Protected Sharing To The Web And Mobile — Apple released a number of updates to iWork today, across all platforms, including OS X, iOS and iCloud on the web. Improvements include the addition of customizable alignment guides …

More: 9to5Mac, Macworld, SlashGear, Macworld, BGR India, TUAW, GeekWire, Gigaom, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Engadget, 9to5Mac, App Advice, iLounge, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews and Macworld

Jessica Roy / TIME:

Revenge-Porn King Hunter Moore Indicted by U.S. Attorney — Moore and an alleged accomplice Charles “Gary” Evens are indicted on 15 counts, including conspiracy, seven counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information and seven counts of aggravated identity theft

More: Wired, The Switch, Ars Technica, BBC, PandoDaily, CNET, The Verge, Wired.co.uk, Betabeat, ABC News and Gigaom

Horace Dediu / asymco.com:

What if it's Apple, and not Google, that's invulnerable? — Invulnerable — On a recent podcast I noted that Google was perceived as invulnerable. In contrast, Apple is seen as temporarily enjoying a stay of execution. [1] This is not necessarily a bad thing for Apple.

Tweets: @angeljimenez, @michelletripp, @alexjamesfitz and @gsiemens

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