"Sen. to DoJ: Get Off Apple's Case or Risk Creating a Monopoly/New York Senator Charles Schumer has spoken up in regard to the U.S. Department of Justice's case against Apple and book publishers over an alleged conspiracy to fix e-book prices. Pursing the case, Schumer said, will prove to be counterproductive. In his view, prosecuting Apple and its partner publishers will serve more to create a monopoly than eliminate one." MacNewsWorld 8:33 AM
"Why Apple Stands Apart From the Competition" Tech.pinions 10:09 AM
"Four Super-Charged Apple Catalysts Going into Year End...psst It is Not Just the Mini iPad" Forbes 8:10 AM
"Apple's Winning Retail Strategy" [Video Report] Bloomberg 9:52 AM
"Ni Hao, Siri! Apple Woos Asia, In Two Charts" NPR 1:10 PM
"Apple's latest iPad makes low-key debut in China" Reuters 8:13 AM
"Apple's new iPad launches in China with short queues and no chaos" The Next Web 8:13 AM
"New iPad goes on sale in China after suit settled" Associated Press 8:16 AM
"Apple, Samsung Patent Fight Draws Blood: Apple and Samsung were each handed victories and defeats in court this week ahead of a patent trial scheduled to begin July 30." InformationWeek 9:44 AM
"Judge Koh rejects Samsung's additional claim construction proposals ten days before trial" Foss Patents 5:05 PM
"Judge denies two more Samsung proposals ahead of jury trial" AppleInsider 9:29 PM
"Thermonuclear Threat Defused in Apple-Samsung Case" AllThingsD 8:13 AM
"Munich court to decide on Apple's overscroll bounce patent in Motorola case on August 9" Foss Patents 8:20 AM
"FY 12 Third Quarter Results Conference Call" ["Where: Via conference call. The dial-in number for press is (877) 616-0062 (toll-free) or (719) 219-0039. Please enter confirmation code 691025. When: Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 2:00 p.m. PDT/5:00 p.m. EDT"] Apple 8:34 AM
"Is a Better iOS Gmail App Coming? Google Buys Sparrow" Wired 4:11 PM
"Uh Oh: Google Is Buying Sparrow" Techland 12:54 PM
"Google acquires Sparrow, the star third-party iOS and Mac email client, will integrate into Gmail" 9 to 5 Google 11:23 AM
"Google snatches up Sparrow team to work on Gmail" CNET News 11:47 AM
"Sparrow's Awesome Email Clients Are Now Property of Google" Gizmodo 11:27 AM
"Google Buys Sparrow Email App: A Trojan Horse for Google+?" ReadWriteWeb 11:27 AM
"Google acquires hot iOS & Mac e-mail client Sparrow" VentureBeat 11:27 AM
"Sparrow flies into Google's roost as email app gets acquired" GigaOM 2:09 PM
"Microsoft backtracks on Macs and Office 365: Now says that Office for Mac will be offered 'at no additional cost' to subscribers of Office 365 pay-as-you-go plans" Computerworld 10:50 AM
"OS X v10.8 Mountain Lion to launch July 25th?" AppleTell 8:24 AM
"Apple's new patent hints at Collaborative Media Production with Final Cut Pro" fcp.co 11:46 AM
"Apple Granted Patent for Final Cut Pro Collaborative Editing" Patently Apple 12:20 PM
"Try Firefox OS, Mozilla's iOS Competitor, Now On Your Mac" Cult of Mac 10:05 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Q&A: MacFixIt Answers/We answer questions about upgrading to Mountain Lion and setting up backups on an internal hard drive." CNET Reviews 9:21 PM
"Bugs & Fixes: Two iTunes Match problems" Macworld 3:51 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"How To prepare your Mac for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Apple's next major operating system upgrade is just around the corner, making the upcoming days a perfect time to prepare." CNET Reviews 8:25 PM
"Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion GM: using iCloud as the smart, automated way to store documents" AppleInsider 8:23 AM
"Fireworks CS6 mobile design focus forms linchpin of new strategy" Macworld 8:35 AM
"Personal Capital web-based financial management tool" Macworld 8:33 AM
"Got A New Mac? Here's How To Get Mountain Lion For Free" Cult of Mac 3:12 PM
"Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Apple's iCloud, And The Future Of Document Storage" Mac 360 12:53 PM
"'Sacrifice another goat! iCloud is Apple's biggest failure before Google/Open ... and Shut For a company that prides itself on craftsmanship and a beautiful user experience, Apple's cloud services continue to be more than a blemish on the company's reputation. They are a serious black hole." The Register 11:46 AM
"Apple's new patent: Final Cut Pro X is a platform" alex4d 11:46 AM
"How The Mac App Store Changed How I Take Digital Photos" PixoBebo 8:08 AM
"Microsoft's First Quarterly Loss Ever, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Coming July 25?, and More" Low End Mac 2:12 PM
Press Releases
"Bring OS X Lion's Mission Control Window Preview Feature to Windows" Lifehacker 4:12 PM
"Firefox 15 Beta For Windows, OS X, Linux Now Available For Download" Redmond Pie 3:49 PM
"Mireth Technology updates Shredit X for Mountain Lion - Version 6.0.3 released" Mireth Technology 12:53 PM
"SyncMate 4 Beta press release: iCloud, Yahoo!, BlackBerry, Google Drive support is added!" Eltima Software 10:08 AM
"ChronoSync and ChronoAgent Updated For Mountain Lion" Econ Technologies 10:00 AM
"VLC 2.0.3 improves Mountain Lion, Windows 8 support" BetaNews 9:02 AM
"Jumsoft's Template Set for MS Word Available on the Mac App Store" prMac 8:48 AM
"Coherent Graphics updates Proview PDF Editor for the Mac to Version 1.5" prMac 8:15 AM
"H&R Block offers Mac, iPad tax lodgement -at a price" iTWire 8:05 AM
"iOS remains more lucrative than Android, study finds: Advertisers are willing to pay more for ads on the iPad than on the iPhone, but both mobile devices top Android" IDG News Service 8:39 AM
"A Plea to Fix Firefox: Mozilla must fix the ever-crashing Firefox browser before it's too late." PC Magazine 4:11 PM
"In First, Software Emulates Lifespan of Entire Organism" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3:09 PM
"SMS gets synchronized in the cloud" TG Daily 1:36 PM
"Analyst: Game consoles will be de-throned by connected TVs" TG Daily 1:36 PM
"No News Is Good News? Dropbox Says No Intrusions Found, Investigation Continues" TechCrunch 1:29 PM
"Like what you see on TV? Buy it now.: New technology allows TV viewers to buy what they see on the screen -- without getting up from the couch." Fortune 11:08 AM
"Eidos Life President Ian Livingstone On The Future of Games, The Resale Issue, and Zombies" Forbes 11:06 AM
"Nexus 7 sees 'incredible demand', sells out at major retailers" ZDNet 2:21 PM
"Google Raises the Maps Bar" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3:08 PM
"Google shakes up Android Jelly Bean to fend off malware meanies: Android Jelly Bean 4.1 promises to be more secure than previous versions of the Google's mobile OS." The Register 1:45 PM
"HTC confirms Android 4.1 update for One X, One S, One XL" CNET News 10:05 AM
"Groupiter makes workflow as simple as Dropbox" CNET News 10:05 AM
"Comcast reportedly prepping a 305 Mbps Internet service" CNET News 10:04 AM
"Marissa Mayer to Yahoo troops: 'Keep moving'" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:21 AM
"Electronic Arts Eyes India's Casual Gamers" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:44 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"John Martellaro Ponders Purrs & Patent Portfolios: John Martellaro, Senior Editor, Analysis & Reviews for The Mac Observer will chat with Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl LIVE on Saturday night, July 21 at 10 PM EDT on GCN Radio" The Mac Observer 7:45 PM
"Gene Steinberg meets Laptop magazine's Avram Piltch, The Mac Observer's John Martellaro, and Macworld's Dan Frakes this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 6:48 PM
"The Future of Apple: A panel session at Fortune Brainstorm Tech" asymco 10:04 AM
"AT&T Shared Data Plans, Day Z, EPEAT Repeat, iMac updates? + more! (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 9:59 AM
"TUAW and MacTech interview: Southern Stars" TUAW 8:26 AM
"Apple iTV to be US-only at launch?" Stuff Magazine 3:50 PM
"Another AMD engineer goes to Apple: Apple has an affinity for AMD chip engineers. The latest hire has lots of experience with graphics chips, an area that Apple is focusing on now with its A series processors." CNET News 8:03 AM
"Apple's iOS 6 does not have a virtual limit on apps: A claim that Apple's next major iOS release cannot handle more than 500 installed apps without crashing is under question." CNET News 4:12 PM
"iOS 6 limits the number of your apps, but fix is on the way" CNET News 8:04 AM
"iOS 6 may have the answer to how many apps are enough" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:23 AM
"Apple iOS6: You Can Have Too Many Apps" Forbes 2:34 PM
"Apple to close in-app purchase hack in iOS 6, offers interim fix: Apple has laid out a new support document that tells developers how to protect their apps from a hack that made in-app purchases free. The company also said it will be patched in iOS 6." CNET News 4:25 PM
"Apple Says In-App Purchasing Exploit Will Be Fixed In iOS 6, iOS Developers Given Temporary Fix" Cult of Mac 6:48 PM
"TV brands hope to profit off smart TV alliances" ["The sources said the alliances are also forming as Apple is preparing to release a smart TV. Due to Apple's influence in the market, the sources fear it will further dominate the smart TV market, which is estimated to reach a 40% penetration rate by 2014."] DigiTimes 10:53 AM
"Foxconn is reportedly aiming to acquire board seat at Sharp" DigiTimes 8:22 AM
"Apple Seeks to Trademark their Classic Startup Chime for Macs" Patently Apple 9:19 AM
"iOS 6: How many betas will there be?" iMore 8:35 AM
"AT&T's new Mobile Share plan: Who wins and who loses" CNET News 4:26 PM
"Opinion: It's a trap! Beware carriers' new unlimited talk and text plans" ["Analysts who have studied the plans agree: If you aren't already on an unlimited talk and texting plan, shared data plans will actually cost you more money — often, a lot more money. Being for-profit businesses, carriers of course love pulling down more dough, but even more than that, they like the idea of getting you used to paying for unlimited talk and text. That's because talk and text deliver insane profit margins. It is a cash cow for carriers, and the cow's milk is running dry."] Digital Trends 8:29 AM
"Got Butterfingers? Get A Nexus 7 Instead Of An iPad [Video] Cult of Mac 8:24 AM
Non-Apple
"First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail clients, please: CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mail software vendors." CNET News 7:02 PM
"Data sharing plans may change our buying habits for tablets" ZDNet 2:21 PM
"The High Tech of Rural America: 9 Unusual Gadgets and Contraptions" Wired 2:05 PM
"The week in tech: 5 must-know things" USA Today 1:54 PM
"Acer Iconia Tab A700: Great Screen, Competitive Price – But Is It Enough?" Techland 1:53 PM
"Motorola May Be a Mistake for Google: Analyst" CNBC 3:02 PM
"The Nexus 7 is only missing one thing" ZDNet 2:21 PM
"10 Great Google Chrome Apps and Extensions" Techland 1:51 PM
"Top 10 high-flying women in technology" V3 1:54 PM
"The Ten Most Influential Women in Technology" Time 1:50 PM
"Has Nokia bottomed out? El Reg drills into the detail" The Register 1:46 PM
"Curious About Firefox OS? Run It on Your Desktop" PCWorld 11:39 AM
"How to Solve All Your Major Email Hassles" PCWorld 11:38 AM
"Samsung Focus 2 Review: Budget-Price, LTE-Enabled" HotHardware 11:27 AM
"Smartphones of Summer: The 12 Hottest Handhelds/The 12 best high-end smartphones available this summer season, from handset makers Samsung, Motorola, Apple, HTC, Nokia and more." [Slideshow] CIO 11:39 AM
"The 20 best tech wins of 2012 (so far)" [Slideshow] PCWorld 11:13 AM
"Who's embracing BYOD? Probably not who you think" InfoWorld 11:13 AM
"The Death of SEO: The Rise of Social, PR, and Real Content" Forbes 11:06 AM
"Yahoo Heroine Mayer Boards Ship Lost In Space: As dramatic narrative, it doesn't get much better than this. Here's why we must root for Yahoo's heroic young CEO to save the day." InformationWeek 11:11 AM
"Marissa Mayer Is Not The Exception - She Is The Norm" Forbes 11:06 AM
"Dell Software Head Swainson Aims For $5 Billion in Software Sales" AllThingsD 9:44 AM
"Dell Outlines Big Software Ambitions: Dell software chief John Swainson explains how Quest Software acquisition is key to Dell's big plans for security, systems management, and business intelligence software." InformationWeek 10:11 AM
"4 Ways Dell Is Becoming An Open Source Company" Seeking Alpha 9:51 AM
"Linux comes to ultrabooks: Dell to preload OS on XPS 13" CNET News 10:05 AM
"Compal lands 70% of Dell notebook orders for 2013" DigiTimes 10:50 AM
"Death of The PC Not The Death of H-P, Dell" TheStreet 9:51 AM
"Hewlett Packard and the Mirror of Erised" The Motley Fool 2:59 PM
"Analysts positive on Microsoft despite first quarterly loss" Reuters 9:58 AM
"Microsoft A Victim Of Its Own Success: For all its cash and market advantages, Microsoft is a company in decline." InformationWeek 11:11 AM
"Microsoft's Market Share Drops From 93 Percent to 4 Percent" PC Magazine 11:36 AM
"Microsoft's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Decade" TechCrunch 1:29 PM
"Microsoft needs to prove it can be mobile" MarketWatch 2:53 PM
"Windows Phone 8 and Office 2013: When will we see them?" CNET News 10:04 AM
"Third time is the charm? Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 Reportedly launches in November" BGR 5:06 PM
"Microsoft Can Do a Lot with the Next Office" The Motley Fool 9:57 AM
"Microsoft sizes up its cloud: Microsoft says it has 4 trillion objects in its cloud, handles 270,000 requests per second" Network World 11:43 AM
"Microsoft: Azure now holds FOUR TREELLION objects" The Register 1:47 PM
"Microsoft open-sources Entity Framework: Code release of .Net application development tool is being handled by Microsoft Open Technologies" InfoWorld 11:13 AM
"Microsoft fixes 'big boobs' coding gaffe" BBC 10:31 AM
"IBM plans to axe staff in UK, Ireland despite hefty profits: Big Blue bottom line means 'workforce remix'" The Register 1:45 PM
"Lenovo CEO Yang doles out US$3m bonus to staff: Production line workers, receptionists, call centre workers and others score CEO cash" The Register 1:47 PM
"Lenovo chief gives his $3m bonus to lower-paid workers" ZDNet 2:23 PM
"NoSQL Rebels Aim Missile At Larry Ellison's Yacht" Wired Magazine 2:03 PM
"CentOS penguins maul Oracle's Linux migration pitch: Having tried, and failed, to kill Red Hat Linux with Unbreakable Linux, Oracle is now sneaking up on CentOS." The Register 1:46 PM
"Will Intel Figure Out the Device Market?" TheStreet 9:55 AM
"AMD Shares Crushed On Weak Q3 Outlook; Analysts Fret About Inventory, Intel" Forbes 2:57 PM
"Barack Obama Takes on Cybersecurity: After years of courageously studying the matter, Congress has come up with a cybersecurity bill that's inoffensive enough that it may pass. If it does, don't expect it to make much of a difference. It's not like Washington really cares." InformationWeek 10:12 AM
"Obama warns US on cyber-threats: Cyber-attacks pose the 'most serious economic and national security' challenge America faces, said Barack Obama." BBC 10:31 AM
"EU gets tough with US tech groups" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:04 AM
"PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf extolls language's modest start: PHP 5.5 may be out as early as the end of this year, PHP's principal maintainer states" Techworld 1:32 PM
"North America set to allow IPv4 address transfers to Asia: Letting users transfer their unused addresses outside the region could help to ease an IPv4 crunch in Asia" IDG News Service 11:42 AM
"IDC cuts growth rates in chip sales, how do others compare?" ZDNet 2:23 PM
"Even China can't halt PC sales decline: The powerhouse of the global PC market, the Asia Pacific region, has finally succumbed to economic volatility in other regions with Q2 shipments set to decline, according to analysts." The Register 1:47 PM
"Weak PC sales blamed on economic woes and mobile devices" BBC 10:31 AM
"PC Makers Fighting a Losing Battle" The Motley Fool 9:50 AM
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