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Friday Highlights: Citing inside information, 9 to 5 Mac reports of new details on Jony Ive's redesign of iOS 7 which will be "black, white, and flat all over", additional coverage in our Hardware/Software section; in what sounds like bad news for Apple, Judge in e-book antitrust case believes the US Department of Justice has sufficient evidence to show Apple guilty of price-fixing; fellow defendant, Penguin, decides to settle with DoJ; more OS X spyware has been found by researchers; WWDC keynote to land on 10 June; Macworld advises upgrade to 11.0.3 citing app improvements; Macworld UK reviews Acorn 4, powerful, "affordable image editor"; restore your Mac from Time Machine; PopClip is a little app for OS X which presents an iOS-like clipboard aide; Techland lists what could be "the most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts"; should we be upset that Apple is thinking about ditching the folder structure of OS X?; iPhone 5 loses lead in camera tests to Samsung's Galaxy S4; Apple releases new ad for iPhone 5, Jay Yarow says the ad is "great"; reports in our General Interest section; Memorial Day weekend sale at Best Buy offers $50 off iPhone (begins Sunday); the first Apple computer made still works, on sale for $400,000; iPhone 5 repair costs rising; Mashable shows steps to take in order to sync your Facebook contacts to your iPhone; TUAW's Ross Rubin looks at all the companies that attempted to compete with the iPod in what he calls a "trail of tears"; AllThingsD's D11 conference is next week, Tim Cook to be interviewed, and here's a list of four questions Horace Dediu hopes will be asked; John Mello on the news surrounding the mysterious iWatch, now slated for a 2014 release; Ted Landau says the joy of Apple TV is not just having one, but many in the house.
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"HP fiddles while Apple innovates/The paradox of Hewlett-Packard only gets more pronounced with each high-profile product announcement: its TouchPad tablet is the latest head-scratcher. Meanwhile, Apple continues to spit out one stunning product after another." CNET News 7:16 PM
"Apple Told to Pay $8 Million in Patent Trial Over IPod Playlists" Bloomberg 4:38 AM
"Apple loses out in East Texas, jury awards non-practicing entity $8 million" Foss Patents 4:48 AM
"Apple and Samsung now bickering over schedule for potential preliminary injunction: early September or mid October?" Foss Patents 4:47 AM
"Apple Exclude's Claims from W3C Royalty-Free License - W3C calls for Prior Art for US 7,743,336 and US 20070101146" All About Patents 4:48 AM
"Apple's latest patent foe: the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)" Foss Patents 4:47 AM
"Borders shelves store feature in iOS e-reader app: The first of the big name e-book reading apps has removed links to its external e-bookstore in order to conform with Apple's recently-implemented App Store policy." CNET News 4:40 AM
"Apple Loses, Amazon to Maintain Usage of 'App Store' Term" The Christian Post 4:37 AM
"Apple girding gadgets against hackers: Apple on Friday said it was working to patch a vulnerability that hackers could use to break into the company's popular iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch gadgets." Yahoo! News 5:00 AM
"Apple makes 50 percent of all handset industry profits, says analyst" DigitalTrends 7/8
"Apple to GetJar: Drop App Store/In Apple Inc.'s latest effort to control its U.S. trademark for the term 'App Store,' a law firm representing the company sent a cease-and-desist letter to wireless-application store operator GetJar." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7/8
"Did Apple's iPod Create U.S. Jobs?" ["A new study by The Journal of International Commerce and Economics sheds some light on this. It looks at the boost in jobs and profits to different countries resulting from the creation of Apple's almighty iPod."] Time 7/8
"Apple still paranoid about its apps: Despite 15 billion App Store downloads, Apple remains anxious about the threat of other app sellers." [Audio Report] MarketWatch 7/8
"Mobile app distribution evolves in the wake of Apple's incentivized install ban" GigaOM 7/8
"iCloud's Dark Security Lining: Apple's upcoming iCloud service could bring its users to a new level of cross-device data syncing. However, the service has raised concerns about security. Syncing that much data through a central Apple hub could provide a juicy target for hackers." MacNewsWorld 7/8
"It's Huge: Apple's Possible Partnership With China Mobile" Seeking Alpha 7/8
"Taiwan market: iPad takes up 50% of June tablet PC shipments" DigiTimes 7/8
"Apple 'in danger of extinction'" ["Despite the fact Earth, too, is a 'closed system', Apple isn't biology or history, Mr Hochman. It is an artificial human construct of two geniuses, assisted by a wealth of other geniuses in the company ranks over the years. Apple has consistently defined its own roadway, along with the vehicles that run along it (if we're on car analogies)."] New Zealand Herald 7/8
"Apple slices iPhone and iPad ad rates 'by 70%': Jobs bows to Google effect" The Register 7/8
"What Would Apple Look Like at $500 per Share?" Seeking Alpha 7/8
"Moles say Mac OS X Lion to bound in next week" Register Hardware 7/8
"Apple chatter: Lion, MacBook Air ship July 14"ads" Computerworld 7/8
"Exit Quicken, pursued by a Lion: Having let the Mac version languish, Intuit prepares for the death of its flagship product" Fortune 7/8
"Snow Leopard gets Canon Printer Driver Update" The Mac Observer 7/8
"Apple releases Canon Printers Drivers 2.6 update for Mac OS X 10.6 users" O'Grady's PowerPage 7/8
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Lion discussions continue today with more about virtualization; fax options; Rosetta and classic software abandonment; Finder and user interface problems; 64-bit vs. 32-bit operations; audio technology; Apple strategies and more." MacInTouch 5:06 PM
"Aperture 3: Remove From Album menu item not available for individual images in a stack" Apple Support 4:33 AM
"Bugs & Fixes: Mac OS X 10.6.8 bug work-arounds" Macworld 7/8
"A Free Snow Leopard Virtual Machine on Mac OS Lion As Rosetta Workaround" MacPrices 7/8
"Lion discussion continues today with more about faxing; Rosetta; user interface issues; virtualization; application and hardware compatibility; telephony systems; migration and obsolescence." ["People have been griping about Lion's reversal of the mapping between touchpad scrolling and the window contents.There is a fundamental choice UI designers have to make when handling scrolling: are your actions moving the window's contents, or your view of the window's contents?"] MacInTouch 7/8
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"OS X Lion Kills Rosetta PowerPC Support, Here's What To Do About It" Cult of Mac 7:17 PM
"Quicken won't run on Lion, but here's 10 Mac finance apps that will" TUAW 1:26 PM
"Create A Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Flash Drive" SubRosaSoft 4:31 AM
"Free Address Book and Calendar Server" Mac OS X Hints 7/8
"Launch bookmarks and history items from the Help menu" Mac OS X Hints 7/8
Op/Ed
"Is It Time for Apple to Shut Safari Down? When you're caught in a 5% market share trap, what are your options? Keep surviving or abandon the business?" Conceivably Tech 7:20 PM
"Apple Needs Public Betas for Mac OS X" TidBITS 7/8
"Amazon orders 1.2 million tablets, more than all companies but Apple" TechSpot 4:38 AM
"Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cables banned by HDMI Org" TUAW 7/8
"MobileMe webmail balks at political bulk mailings | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog" TUAW 7/8
"2nd University Sees Bookstore, Apple Store Opportunity" ifoAppleStore 7/8
"Tablet of Choice for Android Users: The iPad" AllThingsD 7/8
"Facebook Sucking Talent From Google, Apple, Microsoft" WSJ Blogs 7/8
"Media Tablet Sales Lag Optimistic First Quarter Targets, But Forecast Remains Strong, According to IDC" ["Apple's iPad and the recently introduced iPad 2 continue to dominate the media tablet market, as other vendors have had a more difficult time finding market acceptance for their products. But even Apple's shipments for the quarter were well below expectations. Some supply-chain hiccups on screens as well as the pre-release announcement of the iPad 2 several weeks before its actual availability combined to have a noticeable impact on the company's shipments for the quarter."] Business Wire 7/8
"IDC: iPad still leads tablet market, which lags overall" The Loop 7/8
"The iPad goes to war: iPads and other 'consumer' tablets are becoming standard tools in the battlefield: and may migrate to other high-stress work" InfoWorld 7/8
"Secret agents raid Apple store webcam 'artist'" BBC 7/8
"New Apple Print Ad Touts iPhone's Business Savvy" MacRumors 7/8
"Dev's iPhone cable melts after iOS 5 upgrade: An iDevice software developer has claimed his iPhone 4's USB cable 'caught fire' after he installed iOS 5 on the device." Register Hardware 7/8
"iPhone 4 Prototype Caught Running On China Mobile Network?" M.I.C. Gadget 7/8
"Phil's farmville: Falcone pressing rural gambit to save LightSquared" New York Post 7/8
"Anonymous eyes political role, but won't go legit" IDG News Service 7/8
"Nine DIY projects for the crafty geek" ITworld 7/8
"Google Is Adding New Inbox Sorting Styles to Gmail" Techland 7/8
"Google Pushing Social Effort" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7/8
"Schmidt preaches 'deep integration' desire with Facebook, Twitter" The Register 7/8
"Oh, just never mind! Eric Schmidt said yesterday that Google is no longer in active discussions with Twitter about restoring posts to its live search product." New York Post 7/8
"Motorola cuts Xoom prices in US and Taiwan" DigiTimes 7/8
"NAND flash prices to stabilize in 3Q11, says Phison chairman" DigiTimes 7/8
"The online security generation gap" [Video Report] CNN 7/8
"Teenage dream devices: Smartphone makers see youth market as key proving ground" Boston Globe [Free Registration Required] 7/8
Publications/Podcasts
"iPhone Live 160 – World War Patents" TiPb 7:56 PM
"This is my next Podcast 014 – 07.09.2011" This is my next 7:19 PM
"How this app developer flexed its muscles to get featured by Apple and the App Store" ["In this edition of Meet the Makers, we check in with John Moore, CEO of iMuscle developer 3D 4 Medical. Moore describes his company's initial and enormously successful foray into consumer-driven apps, the primary differences between the iPhone and iPad versions, and why he spends so much time improving existing titles already available."] Appolicious 1:27 PM
"Gene Steinberg meets author/commentator Kirk McElhearn and Laptop magazine's Avram Piltch this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 1:15 PM
"eXtensions Podcast: Cassandra on AMITIAE – Version 5" Amitiae 5:02 AM
"Mac Geek Gab Premium Podcast: MGG 340: Geeks Blasting Off for July" The Mac Observer 7/8
"Interview with Brian Lemelman, President and CEO of Third RailMobility" Your Mac Life 7/8
"Video: Why Girl Talk Will Never Give An iPad Concert/Girl Talk, the DJ known for his musical mashups of popular songs, gives entire concerts using only a laptop computer. Given that, we thought he'd be really into gadgets. But he's not." Business Insider 7/8
"John Carmack: 'Unquestionable' That Mobile Will Surpass Current Consoles" ["'That's one of the things that we do discuss internally a lot and it's amazing to think that when we started Rage, iOS didn't exist. There was no iPhone. All of that has happened just in the space of one project development timeline. And that's a little scary when you think about it, because major landscape change could be happening underneath our feet as we work on these large scale projects,' noted Carmack. 'And we're going to be doing everything we can to constrain our projects more to not take so long.'"] Industry Gamers 7/8
"Interview: Growl's project lead on coming to the Mac App Store" TUAW 7/8
"Apple Rethinks Landscape Connector Port and New Dock for iPad" Patently Apple 12:00 PM
"Is Apple prepping an iPod Touch 3G? An iPod Touch 3G could be on the way, according to a Dutch site." Christian Science Monitor 4:36 AM
"Beer pitcher inspires Apple's future iPhone: One day, if Apple follows through on work embodied in a recent patent application, you'll be able to 'pour' data from your iPhone into an iPad lying on a table below it." The Register 4:38 AM
"Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cables face recall over licensing issues" AppleInsider 7/8
"Apple could test limited iTunes HD+ 1080p movie service" AppleInsider 7/8
"360 Web Browser For iPhone, iPad Syncs Firefox Tabs And Bookmarks, Plays Flash Videos" Redmond Pie 5:07 PM
"Bringing Past, Present and Future Into Focus" ["WhatWasThere, a project that includes a Web site and a free iPhone app, allows people to post historical photographs, along with their location and date, and then browse what other people have posted on city maps."] New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:50 AM
"Pro:Alarm Is Like A Beautiful Swiss Army Knife For Clocks On Your iPhone" App Advice 7:17 PM
"'Ant Raid' for iPad Review – When Insects Attack" Touch Arcade 7/8
"Call of Mini: Zombies Review/This twin-stick shooter puts various weapons in the player's hands and lots of zombies in their sights." 148Apps 7/8
"Cavorite Review: While it may look like an action-platformer at first glance, Cavorite has more to do with block-pushing (and floating) puzzles than shooting. Thankfully it's a lot of fun so that's okay." 148Apps 7/8
"Presidents vs. Aliens Review: Presidents vs. Aliens is an edutainment game that is a combination of a puzzle game and presidential factions." 148Apps 7/8
"Deathsmiles – Welcome To Bullet Hell" Apple'n'Apps 7/8
How-To/Tutorial
"ImageView display after pressing Button in iPhone: In this application we will see how to image display after pressing button. So let see how it will worked." The iPhone Developer Resource 7/8
"Ask Maggie: Apps for tracking smartphone data use" CNET News 7/8
"'Can You Afford It?'" ["Recently, while reading the April 2011 issue of 'O' magazine, on my iPad, I came across a few other very inspiring solutions that could work for the many items that could find new useful homes or be otherwise recycled."] MacNews Blog 7/8
"Two 'totally distinct' iPhones in September insist sources" SlashGear 7/8
"Opinion: iPhone 5 rumour roundup/We've been guessing this year, trying to piece together what the next iPhone will look like" PCWorld 7/8
"Is Apple Planning an HD Version of the iPad 2?" The VAR Guy 7/8
"Apple 'iPad HD' rumored for fall release" DigitalTrends 7/8
"Rumor: Will We See An iPad 2 HD This Year?" AppleBitch 7/8
"Are You Sick And Tired Of All These iDevice Rumors? Me, Too..." App Advice 7/8
"Apple Blocks Emails for Objectionable Content" Valleywag 7/8
"The Ides Of July Should Bring Us New Apple Products" CrunchGear 7/8
Non-Apple
"More Tablet Thoughts...: So I bought an HP TouchPad. I can't really afford it, but I couldn't resist - WebOS just seems so cool, and I wanted to really get a feel for how it worked in real life." Russell Beattie 7:19 PM
"Tactile Pixels Will Make It Easy To Read Braille On Touchscreens" Gizmodo 7:18 PM
"Why Twitter Should Buy webdoc If Apple Won't" MikeCane's xBlog 12:01 PM
"The six ways you can appeal new copyright 'mitigation measures'" Ars Technica 7/8
"The server architecture debate rages on" GigaOM 7/8
"HP Chief: Big Companies 'Wary' on Tech Spending" Bloomberg 12:07 PM
"Exclusive: Pre 3 not coming to Sprint" This is my next 4:47 AM
"Sprint backing away from Pre3, webOS in blow to HP" Electronista 4:47 AM
"Tech's New Troika: Microsoft's purchase of Skype, if approved by regulators, will solidify its relationship with Facebook, too. A new threat to Google?" Barron's 5:49 AM
"Ballmer: Bing Is About Verbs, Not Just Nouns" Business Insider 4:49 AM
"Eric Schmidt On Gauging Google+'s Success" TechCrunch 5:49 AM
"Why Google And Android Must Deal With The Mobile Protection Racket" mocoNews 4:46 AM
"Can Google+ Really Lead to Greater Online Identity? Google Thinks So" PCWorld 12:07 PM
"Dell's Windows tablet codenamed Peju, packs Core i5" Electronista 4:49 AM
"Google+ suffers its first major bug: Multiple email notifications" The Next Web 5:07 PM
"The Therapist Will See You Now, via the Web" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5:03 PM
"Atlantis Shuttles Samsung Smartphones Into Space: One of the many items aboard the Atlantis, which blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, is the Samsung Nexus S smartphone. Why send a smartphone into space?" InformationWeek 5:03 PM
"Up to 25% of Accidents Are Associated With Gadgets" Mashable 1:20 PM
"Coalition forms to fight Internet piracy" Boston Herald 12:04 PM
"Google to Stabilize Video for Google Talk on Android" Mashable 4:55 AM
"Netflix launches a new $7.99 DVD-by-mail plan" GigaOM 4:41 AM
"Google +1 Sees Surge in Placement on Web's Largest Sites, but Facebook Still Dominant Social Plug-In" Bright Edge 4:54 AM
"Picking the Lock of Google's Search" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5:03 PM
"Elgan: How Google+ ends social networking fatigue/Google+ isn't just another social network. It's the one place to consolidate all of your social activity." Computerworld 12:04 PM
"Why Competing with Google+ is Impossible" SlashGear 4:59 AM
"Consumer Discretionary ETFs, Apple Send Bullish Signals" The Motley Fool 1:27 PM
"More Good News For Apple, Finally Some For RIM/Shares of iPad and iPhone maker Apple are fractionally higher today, dodging a Nasdaq decline, after Canaccord Genuity reiterated its 'buy' rating on the stock while boosting its price target to $500 from $485. The research firm also raised its 2011 EPS estimate on Apple to $24.62 from $24.31 and its 2012 estimate to $29.30 from $26.97." Indie Research 7/8
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