Q brings over 25 new features ­installed, tested and managed ­as a free platform update to all Igloo customers.

Igloo users can now post blogs, wiki articles, documents and status updates right from their email. Igloo has also developed a brand-new calendar that integrates with your intranet and your desktop calendar applications. Q also adds a smart search that finds relevant content and displays it instantly and inline. Igloo has also introduced the ability to find and @mention users from any content entry field.

Igloo is trying to make work a better place. A recent IDC report states “… Igloo had the best overall solution capability rating from respondents.” IDC placed Igloo in the Major Players category for enterprise social software. You can download a complimentary copy of the report from Igloo .

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“Samsung Electronics recently asked Apple for a significant price raise in (the mobile processor known as) application processor,” the person was quoted as saying in the report. “Apple first disapproved it, but finding no replacement supplier, it accepted the (increase.)”

Samsung gets caught stealing Apple’s designs, so they raise the price of the chips by 20 percent.

The sad part is most people don’t expect much from RIM with these new devices. I can’t imagine the reception will be positive and I think this is the company’s last stand.

Mr. Ballmer declined to give exact figures for sales of Microsoft’s 1 1/2-pound tablet computer, introduced Oct. 26 to compete with Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) highly successful iPad.

Apple sold 3 million iPads in three days.

HTC and Apple® have reached a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement. The license extends to current and future patents held by both parties. The terms of the settlement are confidential.

Ella-raye Dickens for DesignModo:

When people ask me to describe the importance of web design – I often compare it to the front cover of a book. As with a book – you often judge the content inside on the front cover – whether you consciously intend to or not.

Rob Pegoraro has both devices and is deciding which one he’ll return.

Sounds cool.

I know people hate them, but they make millions of dollars and sell out concerts everywhere.

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I don’t own a V guitar, but the King series looks nice.

Trash Apple and then start buying the stock when it falls. Come on.

An interesting distinction.

“When you take down almost everything, it becomes a disease.”

That’s the category I would fall into. I think mine comes from doing so many live updates over the years though. When you are trying to quote people all the time, the need to get everything is important.

Hell Yeah!

The Poynter Institute is a non-profit school for journalism located in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Horace Dediu:

If stores did not show any effect of poor management, then why was Browett fired? I suspect it had mostly to do with a mis-match of understanding of the job the stores are hired to do by consumers and by Apple itself. The company treats the stores as a sales channel but also as a communications channel with its customers.

A complete and total mismatch.

I setup Pocket on my Mac and iPhone¹ and I really like what I see so far. It’s interesting that even though the company has a Mac app available, I actually like using the Web site more. I think it’s probably because most of the things I save are from Reeder or Web browser, so I’m already there. Switching to the app just seems like an extra step for me. But that’s the way I work, everyone is different.

Macworld’s Jim Galbraith puts the new Mac mini through some tests.

This is like a comedy.

That’s a meltdown.

Great article from Darren Burgos on how to get everything setup.

Christine Erickson for Mashable:

Here’s reason number 560,893,242 why you should never film yourself doing any sort of criminal act. Four Walmart employees in Pikeville, Ky. recorded themselves purposefully throwing and damaging new iPads (or the iPad3) while in what appears to be the stockroom.

Stupid shitheads.

CNBC:

J.C. Penney, which is in the early stages of a multiyear turnaround, reported a 26 percent decline in third-quarter sales at stores open at least a year, a steeper drop than the 17.9 percent that Wall Street analysts were expecting.

Ron Johnson, Apple’s former head of retail, took the reins of the struggling department store chain last year.

This never would have happened under Steve Jobs’ watch. Wait, what?

Sharon Gaudin for Computerworld:

Asked if they’d rather receive a PC or a tablet as a holiday gift, 59% of respondents in a PriceGrabber survey opted for the tablet, the price comparison shopping site said.

The majority asked for iPads, either the full-sized one or the new mini.

For the third year in a row, we asked our survey participants to name the companies they thought were the world’s most innovative. This year, Apple didn’t just top the rankings (as it did the past two years); it increased its lead substan- tially. The company — which in Au- gust 2012 became the most valuable in history, measured by market capi- talization — was named by almost 80 percent of respondents as one of the three most innovative companies in the world, up from 70 percent last year.

You can download the PDF report.

9 to 5 Mac has a letter sent from Apple CEO Tim Cook to employees about the donation.

The downgrade to Baa3 from Baa2 follows a one-notch cut by Moody’s in October, which also said its outlook on the firm remained negative. Another cut would lower its rating to junk, forcing some funds to offload its debt and curtailing the company’s ability to raise money in credit markets.

It’s really sad. They were once such a powerful company with great products.

People, do not buy an iPad from some guy at a gas station for $200.