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Thursday Highlights: Apple changed the world of computing by offering "the computer for the rest of us", now perhaps the company will change the United States corporate tax code while they're at it; Ireland claims no special tax deals given to Apple, "refuses to be US 'whipping boy'" in the Senate's Apple tax hunt; meanwhile, Apple said to be doubling lobbying expenditure over issues including taxes; a warning issued to Mac users not to become complacent over viruses, malware; Mactuts+ explains ins and outs for setting up your Mac for iOS AirPrinting; Macworld UK's Mark Hattersley answers questions for those who've held out upgrading to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion; Macworld features cover the usefulness of "About This Mac", and how you can do "more with Messages"; Adelaide's City Messenger posts photos from inside city's first Apple Store; Michael Gartenberg, analyst with Gartner, joins Apple's marketing team; Mailbox was acquired by Dropbox, new app released for iPads, founder interviewed by Business Insider, and Wired, app reviews from Techland, The Next Web, iDownload Blog; and maker of thin, tough cases, LifeProof, has been acquired by OtterBox, patent suit also settled; AppGratis hopes Android platform is the ticket to survival following ban on Apple's App Store; iWatch now said to be unveiled in late 2014 according to one analyst, may use tech from iPod Nano; Pfeiffer Consulting releases "user experience benchmarks" for 7" tablets; and Apple applies for Airplay interactivity, orientation audio adjustment, among other patents in our Hardware/Software section; KFSN TV on the Yellow Jacket stun gun case for iPhone; and here's a tutorial on saving PDFs on your iDevice to iBooks; TechCrunch says Microsoft's "cheap shot at the iPad" backfires, pointing out "exactly why the Surface sucks"; remember what life was like before smartphones?
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"Apple says Samsung has 'abusively' asserted UMTS patents to get away with 'illicit' copying" Foss Patents 3:15 PM
"Apple Is Said to Consider Making Bid for Hulu Online TV Service" Bloomberg 4:37 AM
"Hulu Reportedly in Apple's Crosshairs for More Than $2B" Newsfactor 2:07 PM
"Apple Said In Early Talks to Acquire Hulu" PCWorld 8:58 AM
"The Future of Hulu and U.S. TV" ["Apple will buy Hulu if the price is right, but how much higher than $2 Billion they will go? I suspect Apple may actually be just meddling here, trying to make it more expensive for the eventual winner."] I, Cringely 3:34 PM
"Can Anyone But Apple Succeed In Tablets?" Forbes 12:28 PM
"Apple outsells original smartphone maker Nokia with iPhone, causes Nokia's stock to fall" New York Daily News 4:48 AM
"Apple Could Eclipse Exxon in Market Cap" AllThingsD 9:17 AM
"Can Apple Really Hit A $1 Trillion Market Cap?" Forbes 10:26 AM
"Apple on Pace to Be Most Valuable Company...Maybe Ever" CNBC 10:26 AM
"Apple's $76 billion problem: By the numbers" Yahoo! News 2:08 PM
"Apple Surpasses Lenovo Sales in China on Strength of IPhones" Bloomberg 4:37 AM
"Tablets, Desktops, Notebooks: Who's Eating Whom? Apple COO Tim Cook acknowledged this week that iPad sales may be eating into Mac sales. It's often been suspected that tablets might take a bite out of laptop sales, especially those at the lower end of the price scale. But could tablets also threaten desktops? Or are the two types of computers too different to see any real overlap?" TechNewsWorld 9:55 AM
"Apple's radical new Mac server strategy: Mac OS X Lion Server represents a shift toward supporting fleets of iPhones and iPads on business networks" InfoWorld 2:24 PM
"Adobe Retracts Claim Suggesting Lion May Lack Support for Flash Hardware Acceleration" MacRumors 4:46 AM
"Adobe says Flash CPU issue not present in Lion" CNET News 4:24 PM
"Adobe lists a shedload of bugs in Apple's Mac OS X Lion" The Inquirer 8:58 AM
"OS X Lion Raises Bar on Security, But Battery Firmware Vulnerability Surfaces" MacRumors 9:29 PM
"Apple OS X Lion Brings Host of Security Updates to Safari" ReadWriteWeb 10:27 AM
"Rumor: Apple Looking To Revamp User Interface In Next Generation iWork '12?" Apple Bitch 8:47 AM
"Could iWork '12 Be A Final Cut Pro X Style Reboot?" Cult of Mac 2:04 PM
"Apple ships Lion with new Windows-compatibility features" MacWindows 10:26 AM
"Freeverse axes Mac game support in Lion" The Loop 9:59 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Mac Lion's breath causes Celerra NAS storage to die" ["El Reg has been told there is a problem with Mac OS X Lion clients accessing the Celerra filer array. The NAS head goes offline and failover doesn't kick in. An EMC patch is available and fixes the problem."] The Register 11:59 AM
"Screensavers starting randomly after upgrade to OS X Lion" MacFixIt 3:14 PM
"Bugs & Fixes: Mac OS X Lion application compatibility" Macworld 2:57 PM
"[Updated] Conflict between Xcode 4.1 and iTunes" HardMac 10:26 AM
"Our latest Lion discussion covers installation and recovery procedures; lots of compatibility details; a MacBook Air upgrade problem; iSync; scrolling and other user interface problems; Mac OS X vs. iOS future; FileVault questions; Xcode issues; FileMaker; plus lots of hands-on experiences and notes." MacInTouch 2:41 PM
"Safari 5.1 (part of Lion and available for Snow Leopard) is another hot topic with a number of problems Reported, particularly with plug-ins and PDF handling." MacInTouch 2:41 PM
"OS X Lion: Diagnostic & Usage" Apple Support 1:37 PM
"About Safari 5.1 for Windows" Apple Support 2:24 PM
"Xsan 2.2: Ex30 ALUA settings may interfere with Xsan Admin on Snow Leopard computers" Apple Support 2:23 PM
"Lion brings iPad interface to Mac users of the future: Mac OS X Lion, Apple's just-released operating system for Mac computers, incorporates ideas and technologies borrowed from iOS (the software that runs the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch), and also advances areas such as security, sharing files and working in Mail." Seattle Times 2:36 PM
"Nine Things You Should Do After Installing OS X Lion" TechCrunch 4:44 AM
"Use Lion's FileVault 2 to encrypt your Mac's internal drive: Apple latest Mac operating system, OS X 10.7 Lion includes FileVault 2, the latest version of Apple's method of file encryption. In this how-to, we'll go through the steps on activating FileVault 2 for your Mac's internal startup drive." Macworld 1:48 PM
"6 Things You Don't Know OS X Lion Can Do" Apple Gazette 4:47 AM
"Text to EPUB File" ["Mac OS X Lion includes an Automator action, named Text to EPUB File, that is designed to make it very easy to convert selected text or text documents into EPUB books, ideal for transferring to iPads and iPhones. Additionally, the created EPUB books can include images, MPEG audio, or MPEG video files."] Mac OS X Automation 8:45 AM
"An Overview of Automator Improvements In Lion" MacStories 3:14 PM
"Enable Full Screen Support in All Apps Under Mac OS X Lion With Maximizer" OS X Daily 4:49 AM
"OS X Lion's 'Resume' feature lets you pick up where you left off" TUAW 10:27 AM
"Mac OS X: Automatically Resizing Columns" The Mac Observer 9:10 AM
"The Mac Hitchhiker's Ultimate Guide To OS X Lion" Mac 360 4:35 AM
"8 Alternatives To Lion's Mouse And Trackpad Blues" Mac 360 4:35 AM
"What's new in Lion: fonts and text" Macworld 10:26 AM
"How To install and use Mac OS X Lion's high-quality speech voices" MacFixIt 4:24 PM
"The 5-minute Lion configuration" Macworld 9:53 AM
"How To disable Resume on Mac OS X Lion" Apple Headlines 4:36 AM
"Verizon Was Expecting a Summer iPhone Refresh, Too" The Mac Observer 8:08 PM
"Swisscom iPhone until October 5? From a very reliable source we learned about the business strategies of Swisscom relation to the release of iPhone news has caused a 5 and particularly our interest: the Swiss proVider will have the iPhone to 5 October." Google Italian-to-English: iPhone Italia 2:33 PM
"Rumor: iPhone 5 launches September 5 in US, October 5 everywhere" 9 to 5 Mac 2:33 PM
"Corporates love iPhone, iPad more than Android kit" Register Hardware 4:41 AM
"Big Surprise! The iPad Trumps Android Tablets At The Office" TechCrunch 2:24 PM
"Heavy Apple iPad Adoption Drives Mobile Device Deployments in Enterprise, Financial Sector leads as iPads Represent 95% of Tablet Activations" MacPrices 11:23 AM
"Lodsys Takes On Gaming Heavyweights Including Rovio, EA, and Atari in Patent Dispute" MacRumors 4:46 AM
"Angry Birds maker Rovio sued over app patents" BBC 8:58 AM
"Lodsys Sues Angry Birds Maker for Patent Infringement" The Mac Observer 10:50 AM
"Facebook users in iPhone app revolt" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:45 AM
"Verizon CEO: We Expected iPhone 5 in Early Summer, Now Planning For Fall" MacRumors 2:57 PM
"IPhone Bolsters Verizon Results" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:58 AM
"Mozilla jumps with Google Toolbar demise" CNET News 12:33 PM
"20th Century Fox brings Blu-ray films to Android" ZDNet UK 12:08 PM
"Betaworks CEO: Google Doesn't Grasp Social Media" [Video Report] WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12:01 PM
"Red Hat improves management and virtualisation with Enterprise Linux 5.7" V3 12:00 PM
"HTC Unveils Smartphone for Chinese Twitter-like Service" IDG News Service 11:39 AM
"Android App Player for PlayBook Leaked, Runs Email and Some Apps" ReadWriteWeb [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12:35 PM
"Barcelona Becomes 'Mobile World Capital'" PC Magazine 11:36 AM
"Acer to swing back to profitability in 3Q11, says chairman" DigiTimes 10:34 AM
"Amazon's next billion-dollar business eyed: Amazon.com Inc's cloud computing unit may be its next billion-dollar business and analysts will be watching for clues on how fast this secretive unit is growing when the Internet retailer reports results next week." Reuters [Free Registration Required] 10:20 AM
"Google Docs bumps maximum file size to 10GB" CNET News 12:33 PM
"Google News Gets Plus-like Redesign" PC Magazine 11:36 AM
"Test of corporate Google+ accounts scaled back" CNET News 10:03 AM
"Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Steps Down, COO Lowell McAdam Steps Up" TechCrunch 11:51 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Apple's Great Fortune and Less-Great OS X Lion, and the Death of Google Labs on PCWorld Podcast #121" PCWorld 2:16 PM
"YML Interview with Steve Abernethy, CEO of SquareTrade" Your Mac Life 12:47 PM
"NoteFlight: Compose on Your Computer" ["I contacted the President of NoteFlight, Joseph Berkovitz, who talked to me about the site's origins, its educational value, and how gratifying it is to know hundreds of thousands of people use Noteflight."] Wired 12:14 PM
"This is my next Podcast 016 – 07.22.2011" ["00:04:20 - Mac OS X Lion review"] This is my next 9:20 AM
"Insanely Great Show: MacMini, MacBook Air, OS X Lion, Netflix Rage + More (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 9:04 AM
"Apple MacBook Air (13-inch, mid 2011)" This is my next 2:34 PM
"Apple Mac mini (Thunderbolt)" PC Magazine 9:19 AM
"Early Benchmarks: 2011 MacBook Air versus others running Cinebench, HandBrake, Motion, and Portal" Bare Feats 9:38 AM
"Tablet crash test: iPad 2 vs. Galaxy Tab vs. Xoom/It's the moment every tablet owner dreads: dropping the device. See whether the iPad 2, Galaxy Tab 10.1, and Motorola Xoom survive drop tests in this Video" InfoWorld 11:09 AM
"HP Touchpad vs Apple Ipad 2 Video review" The Inquirer 1:37 PM
"Glissando: A Neat New iPhone Music Player App" Kirkville 9:09 AM
"iPhone + iPad Gems: Hanging With Friends, Tiny Tower, Feed Me Oil + Paper Munchers" iLounge 2:36 PM
"Cars 2 World Grand Prix Read and Race – iPad Game Review" PadGadget 9:21 AM
"'Dream Track Nation' Review – Rolling Past the Finish Line (Review)" Touch Arcade 9:17 AM
"'Battle Slugs' Review – The Slug is a Tactical Beast (Review)" Touch Arcade 9:17 AM
"Wisp: Eira's Tale Review/A beautiful platformer with delicate touch controls, Wisp is a magical puzzle waiting to be solved" 148Apps 2:08 PM
How-To/Tutorial
"Move Image using Touch Function in iPhone: This is the very simple application. In this application we will see How To image move using touch. So let see how it will work." The iPhone Developer Resource 9:41 AM
Tips
"Apple TV 101: Create a genius playlist on Apple TV" TUAW 3:14 PM
"Ask Maggie: Switching from Android to iPhone" CNET News 8:58 AM
"The Macalope Daily: Hogwash" Macworld [Subscription Required for Full Article] 9:54 AM
"Security flaw found on Mac retail packaging" ["On the outside of the shipping box for the Mac mini server (and I presume this is the case for other Apple products), the serial number of the server was prominently displayed. This means that everyone in the shipping chain between Apple and my home had access to the serial number of my new computer."] ZDNet 9:18 AM
"Why Apple Can't Chase the Low End" Tech.pinions 10:28 AM
"Apple Doesn't Want To Sell Corolla's" Tech.pinions 9:08 AM
"Did Android Tablet's Gain on The iPad or Did The Market Grow?" Tech.pinions 9:07 AM
"Dear Twitter: Don't Change the 140 Character Limit" PC Magazine 11:35 AM
"Parenting dilemma: What's the right age to give kids a cellphone?" MSNBC 11:29 AM
"Before you get locked into Lync, consider open source options" InfoWorld 11:04 AM
"Hacker hunters: Join the cyber security job boom/With hackers running riot on the Internet, here's how you can get paid to stop them." Fortune 10:49 AM
"How Algorithms Are Reshaping Our World" Forbes 10:47 AM
"Google Labs' greatest non-hits" Network World 11:05 AM
"Google+ Hits 20 Million Users. Now What?" PCWorld 11:38 AM
"How To Respond To A Denial Of Service Attack: You can't prevent an overwhelming DDoS attack, but you can minimize its impact. Here's how." InformationWeek 10:07 AM
"Amazon's New 9' Tablet: First Legitimate iPad Challenger?" BYTE 10:07 AM
"Check Point Software Making A Hard Climb" Forbes 9:51 AM
"U.S. government approves first tablet for federal workers: RIM BlackBerry PlayBook" MacDailyNews 9:10 AM
"What is the future of the PC Industry?" Tech.pinions 9:05 AM
"How Microsoft plans to sell a 'couple hundred million' more Windows 7 PCs before Windows 8" ZDNet 12:05 PM
"Tulalips, Microsoft settle name issue: The Tulalip (too-LAY'-lihp) Tribes and Microsoft Corp. have amicably settled the issue over whether the software company was using the tribe's name for a prototype of a social media design project." Associated Press 11:44 AM
"Tulalip Tribes Object to 'Tulalip' Social Network from Microsoft" Techland 11:58 AM
"HP board gives Leo $10bn more funny money" The Register 11:56 AM
"HP's Bradley: Amazon's Kindle Was a Big Driver Behind Palm Acquisition" The Motley Fool 9:53 AM
"Hewlett-Packard board OKs new $10B buyback" Associated Press 9:53 AM
"IBM Said to Name Kevin Reardon as Head of M&A, Replacing Elias Mendoza" Bloomberg 9:55 AM
"CEO Hunt at AMD Drags On" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:34 AM
"AMD shares soar as results point to market gain: Analysts say Fusion appears to be gaining traction" MarketWatch 9:44 AM
"AMD readies Bulldozers to ship next month" The Register 11:57 AM
"Intel's emerging opportunities" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:46 AM
"Intel Dives Into Cloud, Finds Dollars" [Video Report] TheStreet 9:30 AM
"Cisco Leads The Way To Carrier Wi-Fi Adoption: Networking vendor is leading the charge to enable transparency between the wireless LAN and wireless WAN domains with Hotspot 2.0." InformationWeek 10:08 AM
"Intel, AMD Drive Semiconductor Growth, but Economy Threatens: IDC" eWeek 10:39 AM
"Apple Stock At $510 Looking Like A Lay-Up With iPhone Distribution Gusher" Forbes 1:37 PM
"Apple: Morgan Keegan Impressed With 12-Mo-Old iPhone" Barron's 12:53 PM
"Apple vs. Cisco: Is it really no contest?To investors, Apple is golden; Cisco looks bruised. But Mark Hulbert asks, which one is really the better bet? And one of the best months for Wall Street is also vacation time for big-money investors." [Audio Report] MarketWatch 2:15 PM
Industry News
"AMD, SanDisk lead strong session for tech stocks: Chip sector boosted on earnings results; Western Digital jumps" MarketWatch 4:29 PM
"U.S. stocks ride earnings to weekly gains: Nasdaq moves higher as tech shares draw buyers; AMD rallies" MarketWatch 4:29 PM
"Nasdaq Jumps, But Caterpillar Weighs on Dow" FOXBusiness 4:29 PM
"Treasuries Rise, Dollar Strengthens on U.S. Debt-Deal Optimism; AMD Gains" Bloomberg 4:30 PM
"Telecom Stocks: Verizon shares fall on smartphone concerns" MarketWatch 12:27 PM
"Stocks set for weak open: U.S. stocks were poised for a lower open Friday, with futures losing momentum after Caterpillar released disappointing earnings." CNNMoney 9:28 AM
"Asia Markets: Asia stocks rally as Greek aid deal pulls buyers" MarketWatch 9:37 AM
"Europe Markets: Banks help lift Europe after Greece bailout deal/Corporate updates boost shares of easyJet and SSAB; autos gain" MarketWatch 12:25 PM
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