Saturday Posts from Senior Correspondent Arnold Woodworth

The 11 Best Apps For Getting The Most Out Of Your Mac

http://www.businessinsider.com/best-apps-for-your-mac-2013-11




Apple Wins Another Patent Fight Against Samsung in Germany, but Samsung Still Profits

Samsung has made billions more in profits from copying Apple.  That makes the loss of SEP royalties and the $930 million damage awards just a cost of doing business.

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple-wins-another-patent-fight-against-samsung-in-germany-but-samsung-stil




Facebook's 10 Most Misunderstood Privacy Facts

http://www.informationweek.com/10-most-misunderstood-facebook-privacy-facts/d/d-id/898873




Five virtual currencies other than bitcoin

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/five-virtual-currencies-other-than-bitcoin-2013-11-18




let me be perfectly clear - DO NOT RISK MUCH MONEY ON BITCOINS!! BITCOINS HAVE BIG UPSIDE POTENTIAL, BUT ALSO COULD BE A ZERO.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/cody/2013/11/20/some-bitcoin-trading-and-investing-strategies-as-prices-swing/




Google settled another privacy lawsuit today, promising to pay $17 million for circumventing users' privacy wishes.

The case centered around Apple's Safari browser, which had certain default privacy settings concerning tracking and cookies. Google, according to this lawsuit, went around those settings and used cookies to track user activity, even where users had specified that they did not want to be followed.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/19/google_settles_safari_tracking_cookie_case_for_17_million/

http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/18/google-privacy-settlement/