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This week’s panel are Stu Helm, Bart Busschots, Allister Jenks and Tim Chaten

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This week’s show notes, including links to the panel’s picks and all the stories we cover can be found after the break.

Show Notes

Security Sweep

• Adobe patch critical flaws in Acrobat and Reader – via Adobe

Apple News

• Stu: Apple acquires flash memory design company, Anobit for $500 million – via Ars Technica
• Allister: Scott Forstall profiled as Apple’s ‘CEO in Waiting’ – via MacRumors
• Tim: Steve Jobs action figure will not go on sale – via MacRumors

Mac News

• Allister GE say that Apple products help encourage recruitment – via TUAW
• Stu: Apple ends $100 printer rebate program for new Macs – via MacRumors

iOS EcoSystem News

• Tim: Chinese iPhone 4S launch halted because of crowd problems – via Ars Technica
• Allister: Canadian iPad buyers get very different type of tablet – via TUAW
• Bart: WTF: Apple’s greedy and evil license agreement? – via ZDNet
• Stu Behringer’s new mixers have iPad for control functions – via [TUAW](http://www.tuaw.com/2012/01/21/behringer-mixers-hold-ipad-inside/?utmsource=feedburner&utmmedium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: weblogsinc/tuaw (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)))

Apple Competitor Watch

• Stu: Why are Android smartphones bigger than the iPhone? – via Daring Fireball
• Tim: Samsung planning to ‘attack’ Apple fanboys with Super Bowl ad – via Mac Observer
• Bart: German court throws out one of Samsung’s patent claims against Apple – via Mac Observer

Picks & Tips

• Allister: Aperture + MotionX GPS
• Tim: iBooks Author for Mac
• Bart: Nikon D5100
• Stu: Path
• Panel recommendation: Don McAllister’s SCOTutor for Lion, SCOTutor for Mac and SCOTutor for iPad

Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:06:15 — 57.8MB)