"Apple Officials Said to Consider Stake in Twitter: Apple, which has stumbled in its efforts to get into social media, has talked with Twitter in recent months about making a strategic investment in it, according to people briefed on the matter." New York Times [Free Registration Required] 9:29 PM
"Is Apple taking a financial interest in Twitter?" CNET News 10:42 PM
"Apple to buy fingerprint sensor maker AuthenTec for $356 million" Reuters 7:38 AM
"Why Apple is paying millions for a fingerprint sensor maker: Mobile payments are headed to the smartphone industry, heightening security concerns" Reuters 12:45 PM
"Apple bulks up mobile security with $356M AuthenTec buy" CNET News 7:45 AM
"Apple Buys Samsung's Android Security Partner AuthenTec For $356M" TechCrunch 8:16 AM
"Apple's Authentec Buy Hints At Secure iPad: $356 million acquisition of biometrics specialist suggests Apple might be getting serious about the enterprise client market." InformationWeek 11:52 AM
"Apple to Spend $356 Million on Security Company AuthenTec" IDG News Service 10:26 AM
"Apple Buys Mobile Security Company AuthenTec For $356 Million" Business Insider 8:06 AM
"Apple Acquires Fingerprint Security Company AuthenTec for $356 Million" AllThingsD 8:50 AM
"Apple Agrees to Buy AuthenTec for About $350M" [Video Report] Bloomberg 10:31 AM
"Apple to Buy Fingerprint-Product Maker" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:06 AM
"Apple buys a company that makes fingerprint readers" Fortune 8:01 AM
"Lawyers Circle Apple-AuthenTec Buyout for Shareholder Suit" The Mac Observer 6:38 PM
"Apple Paid $60 Million: But Still Might Not Own iPad In China" Forbes 8:48 AM
"Who Cheated Whom? Apple v. Samsung Patent Showdown Explained" Wired 7:51 AM
"Samsung accuses Apple of 'ambush litigation' in 3G patent trial: Apple says it has raised new issues because it doesn't know exactly how its chipsets, made by other vendors, function" IDG News Service 7:45 AM
"Apple, Samsung Take Smartphone War to U.S. Jury" [Video Report] Bloomberg 10:31 AM
"Apple, Samsung take patent fight to crucial California trial" Reuters 6:42 PM
"Samsung files 'me too' motion for adverse inference jury instruction against Apple" Foss Patents 8:18 AM
"Why Samsung beating Apple could be good news for iPhone 5" Computerworld 8:36 AM
"Apple and Microsoft to team up for Kodak's patents? The fierce competitors could once again pool their resources to snatch up a collection of high-value patents from Kodak." CNET News 8:11 PM
"Apple Loses Bid to Move Kodak Fight Out of Bankruptcy Court" PC Magazine 12:45 PM
"Judge turns down Apple's request in Kodak patent case" Macworld UK 7:35 AM
"Mountain Lion Roars, Captures 3.2% Share in First 48 Hours" Chitika 2:56 PM
"Apple's Mountain Lion Off to a Roaring Start" AllThingsD 12:44 PM
"Mountain Lion now on 3.2 percent of Macs, firm says: According to Chitika, more than 2 million Mac users are now running Apple's newest version of OS X, which came out earlier this week." CNET News 2:58 PM
"Cat power: Apple's Mountain Lion is quickly marking its territory" VentureBeat 2:35 PM
"Mountain Lion Penetrates 3.2% of Mac Market in 48 Hour" The Mac Observer 3:21 PM
"Mac OS X Mountain Lion Already on 3.2 Percent of Macs" PC Magazine 6:41 PM
"MDM moves beyond mobile devices into Macs: MobileIron now supports OS X Mountain Lion, a sign of growing adoption of non-Windows devices" Computerworld 8:00 AM
"A Bunch of Updates to Get Ready for Mountain Lion (Safari 6, iWork, Aperture, iTunes etc)" Mac Amour 8:16 AM
"RIP Sparrow: Restricted Open Source Code Kills The Client" The Next Web 2:29 PM
"Hurrah! Wonderful .Mail Email Concept Is Coming To Your Mac" Cult of Mac 8:06 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Apple Up-to-Date Program woes continue" CNET Reviews 2:35 PM
"Q&A: MacFixIt Answers/We answer questions about 64-bit management and questions surrounding the OS X Mountain Lion release." CNET Reviews 1:24 PM
"Lotus Notes and OS X Mountain Lion" ["Lotus Notes 8.5.3 has some challenges running on Mountain Lion, which we have documented in IBM technote 159984. IBM has been working with Apple for several months in an effort to address these issues, but unfortunately there was no simple path to resolution prior to Apple's release."] Ed Brill 8:24 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Does OS X Mountain Lion do graphics faster?" Bare Feats 1:12 PM
"How to Talk to Your Mac: Using Dictation Effectively" Lifehacker 8:09 AM
"MacMost Now 740: Mountain Lion iCloud Documents" MacMost 10:22 AM
"Mountain Lion 101: Finder encryption with FileVault 2" TUAW 8:19 AM
"What's New in Mountain Lion's Safari 6" TidBITS 10:27 AM
"Safari 6: New Ways to Share & Email Links" The Mac Observer 7:37 AM
"Mountain Lion: Apple's Chess Gets Game Center Online Multiplayer" Apple'n'Apps 6:41 PM
"ConceptDraw Office v2 Updated for Mac OS X Mountain Lion" PRWeb 8:22 AM
"Paragon Software Group Introduces Industry's First NTFS for Mac OS X 10 with Full Support for Apple's New Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion" Paragon Software 7:33 AM
"Red Giant and CrumplePop Launch Vintage Camera Looks for FCP X" prMac 7:29 AM
"New Tattoo Font Can Be As Individual As You Are" prMac 7:29 AM
"Turns Out Apple Conducts Market Research After All/Apple co-founder Steve Jobs notoriously shunned market research. He once quipped: 'It isn't the consumer's job to know what they want.' That was Apple's job." WSJ Blogs 8:11 AM
"Apple disappoints at first Black Hat briefing" The Register 7:44 AM
"Apple's Black Hat presentation on iOS security disappoints, rehashes old white paper" 9 to 5 Mac 8:08 AM
"How all your iPhone apps could be hacked at once" CNNMoney 7:50 AM
"Apple U.S. margins for iPad about half of iPhone: filing" Reuters 8:52 AM
"Apple makes 58% profit from sales of iPhone: iPad sees profit margin of 32%, demonstrates importance of iPhone to Apple's bottom line" Macworld UK 7:36 AM
"IDC: Samsung and Apple ship almost half of all smartphones, but Korean manufacturer maintains lead" Engadget 8:02 AM
"Samsung Completely Destroyed Apple In Smartphone Shipments Last Quarter" Business Insider 8:05 AM
"The Mother of All Design Tablets: I've asked before whether Apple could woo designers over to its iPad--a question that rests partly on whether anyone can figure out how to make a great iPad stylus." Technology Review 7:50 AM
"Apple's new Barcelona retail store opens tomorrow [Gallery] 9 to 5 Mac 1:10 PM
"Apple Wants Amazon Executive's Testimony in App Store Name Dispute" The Mac Observer 12:25 PM
"Apple's iOS 6 mapping won't put an end to Waze's days, says its president" ZDNet 2:27 PM
"Yet another example of iPads being used for self-service" Mobile Industry Review 8:41 AM
"Obama outspends Romney on Apple products; Democrat-leaning states have higher iPhone usage; Apple employees donate $15 to Obama for every $1 to Romney" MacDailyNews 6:37 PM
"Google adds 3D maps and virtual 'tour guide' to iOS" AFP Relax News 7:54 AM
"Samsung Galaxy S3 search foul-up was a mistake, not Apple" Crave @ CNET 7:51 AM
"Olympics Test Network As IPhone-Toting Visitors Clog U.K." Bloomberg 10:36 AM
"Best Buy drops price of the iPhone 4 to $49.99 with plan" 9 to 5 Mac 8:50 AM
"Financial Times: Our Digital Subscribers Now Outnumber Print, And Digital Is Half Of The FT's Revenue" TechCrunch 8:04 AM
Non-Apple News
"RSA offers simple tips for serious cyber-security ahead of 2012 Olympics" ZDNet 2:27 PM
"The MacJury Enter Their First Impressions of Mountain Lion Into Evidence" MacVoicesTV 2:22 PM
"Gene Steinberg meets Stephen Baker, of the NPD Group, Daniel Eran Dilger, of Roughly Drafted Magazine and AppleInsider, and Nelson Hudes, representing NetTALK.com, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 2:21 PM
"Architosh talks to Francois Levy about Small-Firm BIM" Architosh 2:21 PM
"The Opinion Cast: The Future of Smart Watches" Tech.pinions 9:41 AM
"Engadget Podcast 303 - 07.27.2012" ["01:47 - Apple OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 review; 06:51 - Mountain Lion hits the Mac App Store, is one $20 credit card deduction away; 25:50 - Apple announces Q3 2012 earnings: $35 billion revenue, $8.8 billion in net profits"] Engadget 8:51 AM
"Soulja Boy Takes On The iPad With His Ridiculous Tablet" TechCrunch 8:33 PM
"iPhone 5 rumor roundup: CNET tracks all the iPhone 5 rumors: from the likely to the crazy: that we've heard so far in 2011 and 2012." CNET Reviews 8:11 PM
"Apple Acquires AuthenTec: A Fingerprint as a Key?" Forbes 2:34 PM
"Apple Pays $356 Million For AuthenTec In Possible Prelude To Mobile Payments" Forbes 2:34 PM
"Why Apple wanted AuthenTec: Thwart Samsung, Android in BYOD: If Apple didn't buy AuthenTec, a cash strapped mobile security player, it's likely another rival would have. Apple's courtship of the enterprise via the bring your own device continues." ZDNet 2:27 PM
"Apple's AuthenTec Deal: A Shot At Samsung?" TheStreet 9:42 AM
"Apple scoops up secure fingerprint sensor maker AuthenTec for $356M" GigaOM 8:21 AM
"Who's suing Apple this week? Mobile patent lawsuits round-up/In courts this week: Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft & Motorola" Macworld UK 8:41 AM
"Should Apple Worry About Samsung's Widening Lead?" MacNewsWorld 8:16 AM
"Apple granted stay on 'Samsung didn't copy us' ads" SlashGear 7:42 AM
Non-Apple
"Particle Debris: Microsoft Has a Death Wish" The Mac Observer 3:42 PM
"Google+ and 'ghost town' are a contradiction" BetaNews 3:06 PM
"5 Black Hat Security Lessons For CIOs: Beyond the bearded coders and men in black suits was a trove of security best practices for enterprise IT." InformationWeek 3:03 PM
"The best prepaid smartphones: In many ways a cheaper, financially safer alternative to standard pay-by-the-month phones" Techlicious 12:06 PM
"The data center you dream of is in the cloud: New high-performance public cloud offerings deliver what IT can't afford to implement in-house" InfoWorld 11:54 AM
"The easy, low-cost, secure plan for enabling BYOD: A rise in vendor and consultant fearmongering endangers user productivity and IT budgets alike" InfoWorld 11:53 AM
"What Will the Internet Look Like in 5 Years?" Forbes 11:23 AM
"German Court Issues Ban on Motorola Products Using Microsoft's Patented File Storage Format" AllThingsD 2:56 PM
"Motorola Android devices banned in Germany in Microsoft FAT spat" ZDNet 2:26 PM
"Skype denies police surveillance policy change: Microsoft's online message, phone and video chat service Skype has denied making changes to its system 'in order to provide law officers greater access' to its members' conversations." BBC 10:26 AM
"Skype Denies Making It Easier For Police To Snoop On Calls" Forbes 2:57 PM
"Skype Denies Snooping Claims" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2:56 PM
"Forget the conspiracy theories: Skype's supernodes belong in the cloud" ZDNet 2:24 PM
"Windows 8 fear and uncertainty kicks in" CNET News 10:13 AM
"Is Windows 8 Really a 'Catastrophe' for Content Creators?" Techland 1:48 PM
"Microsoft sets lowest price for paid apps at $1.49 for Windows 8 Store" ZDNet 2:25 PM
"Microsoft SEC Filing: Surface Tablets Will Compete With OEM Partners" CRN 10:41 AM
"Microsoft acknowledges Surface may trigger OEM hostility: Fling with tablets may affect computer makers' commitment to Windows, firm says in SEC filing" Computerworld 10:47 AM
"Microsoft: Okay, Maybe We Are Alienating PC Makers With Surface" AllThingsD 10:07 AM
"Microsoft: Why yes, our Surface tablet could tick off OEMs" CNET News 10:12 AM
"Microsoft's cheapest Surface tablet won't cost $1K after all" CNET News 10:11 AM
"Microsoft Investigates Azure Outage In Europe: Azure compute service disappears for 2.5 hours in West Europe region; cloud experts downplay possible Olympics connection." InformationWeek 10:18 AM
"Xbox Live update partially detailed: Among the enhancements to the next Xbox 360 firmware update will be the addition of an Internet Explorer browser." TG Daily 1:38 PM
"Can open source save HP? Bold new cloud offering built on open source -- with a subtle restructuring -- may plant the seeds for the future rescue of HP" InfoWorld 11:54 AM
"Oracle cans IBM attack ad after ticking off from watchdog" The Register 1:42 PM
"Larry Ellison as punching bag is a fun but dubious strategy" San Jose Mercury News 10:48 AM
"AMD's Server Market To Rebound After A Dismal Q2" Forbes 2:50 PM
"Senate Could Vote on Cyber-Security Legislation" [Video Report] Bloomberg 10:02 AM
"What Congress' cybersecurity bills mean for you: One piece of legislation, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, is expected to be brought up for debate on the Senate floor in a matter of days" SecurityNewsDaily 12:06 PM
"Europe's supply of IPv4 addresses nearing depletion: RIPE NCC to run out of IPv4 addresses any day, putting pressure on network operators to deploy IPv6" Network World 12:29 PM
"Wireless giving boost to semiconductor industry: report" ZDNet 2:22 PM
"Fighting Hackers without Sinking to Their Level: At this year's Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, attention turns from defense to offense." Technology Review 1:34 PM
"Hackers in the limelight: Scenes from Black Hat 2012/The annual security fest featured thrills and chills as the pros did their best to make everyone feel afraid" [Slideshow] InfoWorld 11:54 AM
"Mass Router Infection Possible: Black Hat" InformationWeek 11:51 AM
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