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"Apple-Samsung Patent Battle Shifts to Trial" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:54 PM
"Samsung objects to 'gratuitous images' of Steve Jobs on five of Apple's opening slides" Foss Patents 2:40 PM
"Judge in Apple-Samsung case says patent drawings can 'speak for themselves'" GigaOM 8:44 PM
"Apple, Microsoft refuse to appear before IT pricing inquiry" Melbourne Age 7:03 AM
"Santa Fe Public Schools to spend $2.4 million on Macs, iPads" Santa Fe New Mexican 7:06 AM
"Analysis: Apple sounds warning bell for smartphone industry" Reuters 7:44 AM
"For Apple, 'everybody's looking to unseat the king'" CTVNews 7:46 AM
"Apple's 'Miss' Creates Intriguing Opportunity" Seeking Alpha 7:49 AM
"Why Are Apple's iPad Margins Half The iPhone Ones?" Forbes 8:08 AM
"Apple gets around LOCOG restrictions to welcome the 2012 London Olympics: The London Apple Stores are giving away iPhone and iPad shaped lapel badges featuring the union flag." Macworld UK 7:45 AM
"Tech titans Apple, Samsung in US court" Nine MSN 2:31 PM
"Tech titans faceoff in court over iPhone, iPad" Associated Press 11:19 AM
"Apple stands ready to execute a FRAND license agreement with Google's Motorola Mobility" Foss Patents 9:18 AM
"Apple and Google set to bid for Kodak's patents" All Headline News 8:17 AM
"Apple Invents a New Audio-Sharing Network Feature for iPhone" Patently Apple 8:11 AM
"Huge Spain Store Opens To Warm Crowd" ifoAppleStore 2:56 PM
"Apple: Three Intriguing Numbers" Monday Note 5:54 PM
"Is Apple taking a financial interest in Twitter? The New York Times Reports that Apple has had talks with Twitter to take a major stake in the company." CNET News 7/28
"WSJ: Apple Considered An Investment In Twitter Last Year, But There Are No Talks Happening Now" Business Insider 7/28
"Apple may invest 'hundreds of millions' in Twitter: A partnership between the two companies would help Apple tap social media." Ars Technica 7/28
"Apple-Twitter Deal In The Works? Reports Say Apple May Invest In Social Network" The Huffington Post 7/28
"Taiwan University Sues Apple over Siri on iDevices" Patently Apple 7/28
"More haggling over details in the last moments before Apple v. Samsung: Most documents will have to be unsealed in the case; partner companies shudder." Ars Technica 7/28
"Apple, Samsung take patent fight to crucial California trial" Reuters 7/28
"Apple changes the game: with AirPlay mirroring" FOXNews 7/28
"I Tried To Stop A Guy From Stealing My Date's iPad And I Ended Up With A Broken Jaw" Business Insider 7/28
"Here Are Apple's 'Dreadful' New Ads For The Mac" Business Insider 7/28
"Opinion: Why Apple can't sustain tablet dominance" Digital Trends 7/28
"Digital divide: A parliamentary committee wants to force computer giant Apple to appear before it after members became frustrated with the company's refusal to co-operate." Brisbane Times 7/28
"Chitika: OS X Mountain Lion sees quick adoption in first 48 hours" Digital Trends 7/28
"Mountain Lion Roars, Captures 3.2% Share in First 48 Hours" Chitika 7/27
"Apple's Mountain Lion Off to a Roaring Start" AllThingsD 7/27
"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 7/27
"Cat power: Apple's Mountain Lion is quickly marking its territory" VentureBeat 7/27
"Mountain Lion Penetrates 3.2% of Mac Market in 48 Hour" The Mac Observer 7/27
"Mac OS X Mountain Lion Already on 3.2 Percent of Macs" PC Magazine 7/27
"MDM moves beyond mobile devices into Macs: MobileIron now supports OS X Mountain Lion, a sign of growing adoption of non-Windows devices" Computerworld 7/27
"A Bunch of Updates to Get Ready for Mountain Lion (Safari 6, iWork, Aperture, iTunes etc)" Mac Amour 7/27
"RIP Sparrow: Restricted Open Source Code Kills The Client" The Next Web 7/27
"Hurrah! Wonderful .Mail Email Concept Is Coming To Your Mac" Cult of Mac 7/27
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Safari 6: Can't connect to server/No setting for default font" Betalogue 5:55 PM
"Mac 101: Safari 6 in OS X Mountain Lion" Apple Support 2:28 PM
"Apple updates high quality OS X speech with Voice Update 2.0" AppleInsider 7/28
"Apple Up-to-Date Program woes continue" CNET Reviews 7/27
"Q&A: MacFixIt Answers/We answer questions about 64-bit management and questions surrounding the OS X Mountain Lion release." CNET Reviews 7/27
"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 7/27
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Server, simplified: A power user's guide to OS X Server/Mountain Lion Server trades power for user-friendliness." Ars Technica 6:50 PM
"Server, simplified: A power user's guide to OS X Server/Mountain Lion Server trades power for user-friendliness." Ars Technica 5:56 PM
"In like a lion ...: Apple's Newest Operating System, Os X 10.8 (Aka Mountain Lion) Makes It Easy To Switch Among iPhone, iPad And Your Computer" Associated Press 7:05 AM
"The best Twitter clients for Mac" Stemmings 8:10 AM
"How To Do A Clean Install Of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 On Your Mac" Redmond Pie 7/28
"Top 10 Secret Features of OS X Mountain Lion" Lifehacker 7/28
"Apple Mountain Lion And iOS: Living In Sync/Now that Mountain Lion offers iMessage and iOS-like notifications, is keeping everything in sync really all it's cracked up to be?" InformationWeek 7/28
"ConceptDraw Office v2 Updated for Mac OS X Mountain Lion" PRWeb 7/27
"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 7/27
"Red Giant and CrumplePop Launch Vintage Camera Looks for FCP X" prMac 7/27
"New Tattoo Font Can Be As Individual As You Are" prMac 7/27
"Fighting the iCrime Wave: Device theft has exploded. New solutions are on the way. Is the industry doing enough about 'Apple picking'?" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7/28
"Apple Wants Amazon Executive To Testify In Appstore Case" redOrbit 7/28
"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 7/27
"Apple disappoints at first Black Hat briefing" The Register 7/27
"Apple's Black Hat presentation on iOS security disappoints, rehashes old white paper" 9 to 5 Mac 7/27
"How all your iPhone apps could be hacked at once" CNNMoney 7/27
"Apple U.S. margins for iPad about half of iPhone: filing" Reuters 7/27
"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 7/27
"IDC: Samsung and Apple ship almost half of all smartphones, but Korean manufacturer maintains lead" Engadget 7/27
"Samsung Completely Destroyed Apple In Smartphone Shipments Last Quarter" Business Insider 7/27
"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 7/27
"Apple's new Barcelona retail store opens tomorrow [Gallery] 9 to 5 Mac 7/27
"Apple Wants Amazon Executive's Testimony in App Store Name Dispute" The Mac Observer 7/27
"Apple's iOS 6 mapping won't put an end to Waze's days, says its president" ZDNet 7/27
"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 7/27
"Google adds 3D maps and virtual 'tour guide' to iOS" AFP Relax News 7/27
"Samsung Galaxy S3 search foul-up was a mistake, not Apple" Crave @ CNET 7/27
"Olympics Test Network As IPhone-Toting Visitors Clog U.K." Bloomberg 7/27
"Best Buy drops price of the iPhone 4 to $49.99 with plan" 9 to 5 Mac 7/27
"Financial Times: Our Digital Subscribers Now Outnumber Print, And Digital Is Half Of The FT's Revenue" TechCrunch 7/27
Non-Apple News
"RSA offers simple tips for serious cyber-security ahead of 2012 Olympics" ZDNet 7/27
"French System Lets You Write With Your Eyes" PC Magazine 7/27
"Google Doodle Celebrates Tonight's Olympic Games Opening Ceremony" Wired 7/27
"Google Handwrite Pits Mobile Search Against Your Withered Penmanship" Techland 7/27
"ISPs Poised to Battle Google's 'Fiberhoods'" PC Magazine 7/27
"Twitter's Opulent New Offices: Exclusive Micro-Tour and Photos" Wired 7/27
"Twitter Hit With 'Is This You?' Photo Malware" PC Magazine 7/27
"CEO Turnaround Has Kept Yahoo! in the Headlines and Perception High" Forbes 7/27
"Chip industry undergoing structural shift, says UMC CEO" DigiTimes 7/27
"RIM Marketing Head's Secret Weapon: Current BlackBerry Fans" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/27
"Ouya game console adds OnLive, outs controller" CNET News 7/27
"NJ Airport Unveils Virtual Customer Service Rep" Associated Press 7/27
"Ahead Of Olympics, Samsung Supports Team Great Britain With Union Jack Galaxy S III" TechCrunch 7/27
"Smartphones power record Samsung profit of $5.9 billion during Apple lull" Reuters 7/27
Publications/Podcasts
"2 Reel Guys Goes Back Into Production" Larry's Blog 9:21 PM
"eXtensions Podcast #2012 7 -The Bangkok-based eXtensions podcast based on the week's Cassandra columns and whatever else I throw in." eXtensions 8:10 AM
"The MacJury Enter Their First Impressions of Mountain Lion Into Evidence" MacVoicesTV 7/27
"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 7/27
"Architosh talks to Francois Levy about Small-Firm BIM" Architosh 7/27
"The Opinion Cast: The Future of Smart Watches" Tech.pinions 7/27
"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 7/27
"MacOS KenDensed: MacOS KenDensed: Apple Q3 Earnings & Plugging App Store Holes" The Mac Observer 7/28
"Genius ads: These new ads seemed to have provoked a response not seen since Apple made the menu bar in OS X translucent and initiated Ragnarok." John Moltz's Very Nice Web Site 7/28
"New Apple ads make Mac owners look inept, foolish" Digital Trends 7/28
"New Apple 'Genius' Ads: Hit, Miss, or Insulting?" PC Magazine 7/28
"Apple's new Mac ads face criticism" Stemmings 7/28
"Apple may buy stake in Twitter in Facebook leverage play, as Tim Cook takes hold" Beatweek Magazine 7/28
"Rumor: Apple Not Really Considering Hooking Up With Twitter" AppleBitch 7/28
"Rumor: Apple to Invest Hundreds of Millions in Twitter" Tapscape 7/28
"Zuckerberg says no Facebook phone, wants deeper iPhone and Android integration" Tap For Mobile 7/28
"Soulja Boy Takes On The iPad With His Ridiculous Tablet" TechCrunch 7/27
"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 7/27
"Apple Acquires AuthenTec: A Fingerprint as a Key?" Forbes 7/27
"Apple Pays $356 Million For AuthenTec In Possible Prelude To Mobile Payments" Forbes 7/27
"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 7/27
"Apple's AuthenTec Deal: A Shot At Samsung?" TheStreet 7/27
"Apple scoops up secure fingerprint sensor maker AuthenTec for $356M" GigaOM 7/27
"Who's suing Apple this week? Mobile patent lawsuits round-up/In courts this week: Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft & Motorola" Macworld UK 7/27
"Should Apple Worry About Samsung's Widening Lead?" MacNewsWorld 7/27
"YouTube might be the best place to watch the Olympics (if it doesn't break)" I, Cringely 7/28
"Particle Debris: Microsoft Has a Death Wish" The Mac Observer 7/27
"Google+ and 'ghost town' are a contradiction" BetaNews 7/27
"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 7/27
"No: it isn't you, it's Twitter malware" TG Daily 7/27
"The best prepaid smartphones: In many ways a cheaper, financially safer alternative to standard pay-by-the-month phones" Techlicious 7/27
"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 7/27
"The easy, low-cost, secure plan for enabling BYOD: A rise in vendor and consultant fearmongering endangers user productivity and IT budgets alike" InfoWorld 7/27
"What Will the Internet Look Like in 5 Years?" Forbes 7/27
"HP manufacturing gaffe proVides rare, unsanctioned look at Chinese assembly line" The Verge 7:27 AM
"HP ships laptop containing footage from the assembly line" Crave @ CNET 7:52 AM
"Microsoft admits that Surface might upset Windows 8 partners" Mobot.net 7:54 AM
"Microsoft awards hackers for helping develop its security" TAgence France Presse 11:25 AM
"Microsoft pays big to strengthen software defense" Phys.org 7:55 AM
"Microsoft Office lifestyle: making consumers more like enterprisers/Steve Ballmer lives in Office '13, Windows 8. He wants you to be his neighbor." Ars Technica 9:10 PM
"Microsoft's Hidden Value Is In Gaining Shares In Markets It Has Yet Little Or No Presence" Forbes 7:55 AM
"Microsoft founder to recover bell from HMS Hood: Paul G Allen, the co-founded of Microsoft, will offer use of his yacht to recover the bell of the battle cruiser HMS Hood, which was sunk in 1941, it was announced today." Telegraph 7:55 AM
"Report: Leaked Xbox 720 devkit photos authenticated by developers" Examiner 9:09 PM
"Intel Launches 'Me The Musical' On Facebook" Tech News Today 8:05 AM
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