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"Judge is tired of Apple-Samsung blame game, orders lawyers to meet in person this Sunday" Foss Patents 2:10 PM
"Frustrated judge orders Apple, Samsung counsel to meet today: Judge Koh says she is 'disappointed' in final jury instructions discussions and order attorneys to meet face to face." CNET News 5:44 PM
"The Latest in Apple v. Samsung: Samsung Witness List, 2 New Lawyers, Demonstratives, Transcripts, Jury Instruction Fights" Groklaw 7:15 PM
"Samsung Chips Away At Apple Experts" SFBay 7:02 AM
"Apple Speeds Through Final Witnesses in Patent Case" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:02 AM
"Hong Kong's second Apple Store landing in Hysan Place, opening later this year?" 9 to 5 Mac 3:28 PM
"Apple's Brand worth up to $183B but as little as $33B?" 9 to 5 Mac 6:29 PM
"Imagining and achieving innovation are worlds apart" The Irish Times 9:12 PM
"A Look Back at the Second Week of the Apple-Samsung Trial" AllThingsD 8/11
"Steve Jobs offered Samsung Apple's crown jewels for $250M" Fortune 8/11
"Apple warned Samsung of possible patent infringement in 2010 presentation" AppleInsider 8/11
"Slides: Inside Apple, Samsung patent talks" EE Times 8/11
"Apple details 2010 presentation to Samsung on Android patent infringement, licensing offer" Engadget 8/11
"Apple Thinks Its Smartphone Patents Are Worth 3X As Much As Microsoft's" Business Insider 8/11
"Steve Jobs confronted Samsung over Galaxy, Apple executive testifies" Bloomberg News 8/11
"Apple and Samsung Forced to Submit Financial Records" Social Barrel 8/11
"Samsung tries to mislead jury while questioning Apple patent experts" The Verge 8/11
"Expert: Samsung phones look similar" The Citizen 8/11
"Apple Advised Samsung To Pay $30, $40 Licensing Per Smartphone, Tablet" Social Barrel 8/11
"Apple proposed $30-40 Samsung license fee per device" Electronista 8/11
"Taiwan Official Urges Support for HTC over Apple & Samsung" Patently Apple 8/11
"Apple biggest fans are older consumers: May explain reasoning behind heavily-criticized 'Genius' TV ads, says brand measurement firm" Computerworld 8/11
"Apple Fans Are Getting Old, iDevice Delight Fading In The Younger Crowd: YouGov Survey" The Huffington Post 8/11
"Apple now happy to put the bite on rivals" The National 8/11
"Apple's cloud rains on its own parade: The iCloud hacking disaster that befell prominent tech journalist Mat Honan was all too easy to predict, but will it scare off users of the remote-storage system?" The Guardian 8/11
"Apple Releases First Beta Of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 To Developers" Cult of Mac 8/11
"Apple Mountain Lion file points to Mac Pro update" Register Hardware 8/10
"More evidence of a 13" Retina MacBook Pro surfaces as benchmarks" Ars Technica 8/10
"13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Once Again Shows Up in Benchmarks" MacRumors 8/10
"Outlook.com team hints at IMAP support, admits Mac client support 'isn't great'" The Verge 8/10
"OS X Pad HD Turns Your iPad into a Mac Tablet" Lifehacker 8/10
"Apple seeds first beta of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 (build 12B13) to developers" 9 to 5 Mac 8/10
"OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 Beta Released for Dev Testing, May Include Wi-Fi Fix?" OS X Daily 8/10
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Google working on Gmail issues for Apple users" CNET News 8/10
"Google Aware of Gmail Problems on Apple Devices, Working on Fix" AllThingsD 8/10
"Q&A: MacFixIt Answers/We answer questions about systems not booting after files were manually deleted files to clear up space, FTP in Mountain Lion, and more." CNET Reviews 8/10
"Bugs & Fixes: Two Mountain Lion bugs that crash apps" Macworld 8/10
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"How To Tweak The iOS Simulator To Simulate Apps For New iPhone's 640×1136 Display" Redmond Pie 6:25 PM
"System Preferences in OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion: Dictation & Speech" eXtensions 9:41 AM
"System Preferences in OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion: Desktop & Screen Saver" eXtensions 8/11
"How to Change Your View of OS X System Preferences" The Mac Observer 8/11
"Safari 6 review: Apple's latest web browser update introduces a few new features" Macworld UK 8/10
"Skype for Mac 5.8 review: Skype's text, voice and video services fine-tuned with latest update" Macworld UK 8/10
"Adobe Creative Cloud review: Should you spend your physical cash on Adobe's virtual creative hub?" Macworld UK 8/10
"Clean up your Mac desktop in a jiffy with Desktop Tidy" The Next Web 8/10
"Block apps from accessing the Internet with Radio Silence" Macworld 8/10
"Hard Disk Failure on the Office iMac: Part 4 -Repaired, Returned and Renewed" eXtensions 8/10
"Ask Andru: How do I stop iPhoto from opening when I plug in my iPhone?" GeekWire 8/10
"System Preferences in OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion: Date & Time" eXtensions 8/10
"Ask the iTunes Guy: Converting music files" Macworld 8/10
"Turn Off Notification Center in OS X Mountain Lion Temporarily" OS X Daily 8/10
"Getting Intimate With Your System Preferences: Personal Settings" Mactuts+ 8/10
"MacMost Now 746: Securing Your iCloud Account" MacMost 8/10
"Trick OS X Mountain Lion's Dictation into Learning New Words by Adding Fake Contacts" Lifehacker 8/10
"Two Easy Ways To Access Notification Center [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac 8/10
"How to Configure Apple Mail to Avoid Duplicate Drafts with Gmail" The Mac Observer 8/10
"Mountain Lion: Getting Rid of the 'Documents in the Cloud' Dialog" The Mac Observer 8/10
"Trick OS X Mountain Lion's Dictation into Learning New Words by Adding Fake Contacts" Lifehacker 8/10
"Mac 101: Use Spotlight for quick review of Calendar events" TUAW 8/10
"Access older versions of documents stored on iCloud via Time Machine" Mac OS X Hints 8/10
"Remotely connect to a Mac via SSH using iCloud's network" Mac OS X Hints 8/10
"Auto-delete a DMG file when ejecting a disk image" Mac OS X Hints 8/10
"A New, Simpler, Clever Way To Launch Apps On Your Mac With A Pop Out Tab" TeraTalks 8/10
"How To Mirror Your Mac's Screen To A TV When Your Mac Doesn't Support AirPlay Mirroring" Mac 360 8/10
"A Blast From The Past: Déjà Vu, The Preference Pane App Which Backs Up Files And Clones Your Mac" McSolo 8/10
"Got Tasks And Projects? How The New Mac Things App Can Reshape Your Work" Mac 360 8/10
"The Free Mac Twitter App That Does What Twitter's Official App Does Not" BohemianBoomer 8/10
"4 Easy Ways To Use Your Mac As A Web Development Platform For Fun And Profit" NoodleMac 8/10
Op/Ed
"Cassandra Monday Review: Mac Tech Comments" eXtensions 9:28 PM
"Particle Debris: Apple's Email App is in the Coffin Corner" The Mac Observer 8/10
"What is cloud computing? Amazon, Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox explained" CBS News 8/10
"Odgaard: 'I will continue working on TextMate as long as I am a Mac user'/Developer rebuts criticism from all sides on open sourcing the OS X text editor." Ars Technica 8/10
"How to Use Substitition in Mountain Lion, Wozniak Sees Dark Side of the Cloud, and More" Low End Mac 8/10
"The 10 features removed from Mountain Lion that we miss the most: Apple's ruthless simplification left Mountain Lion skinnier than we'd like." Ars Technica 8/10
"Samsung Invents a Slim Tablet with a Slide-Out Keyboard" Patent Bolt 8/10
"Exovolt stackable battery creates unlimited capacity: Billed as the first of its kind, Exovolt lets you build a tower of power for gadgets on the go." CNET News 8/10
"Google adds Now-style quick answers to mobile web results" ZDNet 8/10
"New Technology Means You'll Never Run Another Yellow Light" Wired 8/10
"Soft robot inches along like a worm" TG Daily 8/10
"How to Detect Apps Leaking Your Data: A service called Mobilescope acts as a watchdog, alerting users when apps copy and transmit sensitive information." Technology Review 8/10
"Geek girls unite with games, comics, Buffy" Reuters 8/10
"Kinect 2 image leaked, shows increased detail and depth data" The Verge 8/10
"New algorithm said to scrub nets for threats" EE Times 8/10
"Samsung details next-gen Exynos processor for smartphones and tablets" IDG News Service 8/10
"Call it Zucker Burg: Facebook campus gets its own Main Street/New Facebook campus in Menlo Park is out in the boondocks, so the company is building its own Main Street to cater to employees and attract bright Silicon Valley minds." Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 8/10
"Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer attempting to recruit Twitter executive, report says" CBS News 8/10
"Spam sticking to Pinterest: Website shuts accounts in move to curb problem" Boston Herald 8/10
"Blizzard Warns Gamers of Battle.net Security Hack" The Mac Observer 8/10
"In Touch With His Inner Steve Jobs? Zynga CEO Mark Pincus cops to being hard-driving but insists he's a nice guy." Slate 8/10
Publications/Podcasts
"Mac Geek Gab Podcast: MGG 412: Pouncing on PDF Printing Problems" The Mac Observer 9:51 PM
"Gene Steinberg meets author Ted Landau, Laptop magazine's Mike Prospero, and 'iTunes Guy' Kirk McElhearn this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 8/11
"The Apple Revolution: Steve Jobs, the Counter Culture, and How the Crazy Ones Took Over the World by Luke Dormehl – review/A genial account of the rise of Apple fails to probe the company's cultural significance" The Guardian 8/11
"Future MacBook Air to wirelessly charge iPhones and iPads" Australian Macworld 7:08 AM
"An industrial designer's take on the purported iPhone 5: Recent photos and Video that allegedly depict the iPhone 5: or parts of it anyway: left some people underwhelmed. But designer Don Lehman takes a closer look, and he thinks the depicted gadget looks pretty boss." CNET News 8/11
"13-Inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display Makes Another Appearance On Benchmark Site" Redmond Pie 8/11
"Apple bridges Retina MacBook Pro supply-demand gap" Australian Macworld 8/11
"iPhone 5 Battery Smaller Than Expected? Images said to show the Apple iPhone 5's battery prompt concerns about the upcoming smartphone's staying power." InformationWeek 8/11
"iPhone 5 mini connector images leak" Digital Spy 8/11
"Alleged Photos of Apple's New Dock Connector" MacRumors 8/10
"Next Generation iPhone Battery Only Marginally Higher Capacity" MacRumors 8/10
"If this leaked battery component is real, the next iPhone will likely be thinner and capable of LTE" The Next Web 8/10
"Rumor: iPhone 5 Has A Bigger Battery" Apple Bitch 8/10
"Rounds: Franklin Frog Teaches Biology Basics to the Preschool Set — iPad App Review" PadGadget 8/10
"Find Your Mix of Logic and Luck in Megacity HD – iPad App Review" PadGadget 8/10
"Mus + Lang L1 Review/Music and Language: two classic disciplines collide to educate and inform in a pleasurable process." 148Apps 8/10
"Organ Trail: Director's Cut Review/Organ Trail: Director's Cut might just look like an Apple 2 classic with a 'fresh' coat of Zombie Paint, but it does more than simply re-skin a classic gaming gem." 148Apps 8/10
"MazzyBoyHD Review: Navigate the stickman through a variety of complex 3D labyrinths, but be warned that the controls may disrupt the gameplay." 148Apps 8/10
"Gasketball Review: Gasketball is like basketball, but with portals and buzzsaws. Also, it's playable over the internet, which is difficult to do with a real basketball." 148Apps 8/10
"Happy Street Review: Hip and happy? What more could you want?" 148Apps 8/10
How-To/Tutorial
"How To: Sync OS X 10.8 Notes with your Android device" Android Central 3:00 PM
"How To Release an iOS App on Apple's Appstore" ChrisWrites.com 1:34 PM
"Pelican Guide - Moving From WordPress and Initial Setup" Macdrifter 2:30 PM
"A Beginner's Guide to Podcasting on The Mac" Mactuts+ 8/11
Tips
"Got an old iPod? Seven ways to offload your used electronics for cash: No more wire hangers buyers from craigslist or eBay, ever!" Ars Technica 6:53 PM
"Multiple Apple IDs and iOS devices in a Family" iLounge 8/10
"Stream Airplay Audio From An iOS Device To Android Using HIFI" AddictiveTips 8/10
"Wi-Fi Plus Cellular: Is iOS 6 Feature Consumer Friendly?" BYTE 8/10
"Apple in the courtroom: 25 years of defending the crown jewels/After adapting concepts from Xerox PARC to create the Lisa and Macintosh computers, Apple has spent decades trying to protect its user interface software and hardware designs via litigation." CNET News 8/10
"Apple's fanboys have all grown up: A YouGov study shows that Apple's fanboys have aged. The 35-plus sector is a bigger supporter of the brand than the 18- to 34-year-old. Now do you see why Apple did the boy Genius ads?" CNET News 8/10
"A Closer Look at Apple's Next-Generation 'Unibody' iPhone Design" MacRumors 8/10
"iPhone 5: bigger screen and 4G LTE on tap amid continuing Android controversy" Beatweek 8/10
"Why You Shouldn't Bite on the $50 Apple iPhone 4S Discount" TheStreet 8/10
"Is the iPad Hurting Children's Brain Development?" PadGadget 8/10
"Samsung-RIM Deal Could Kill Apple (or Samsung)" CIO 8/10
"Apple's Mobile Commerce Future: AuthenTec Just The Start/Look at Apple's proposed buy of fingerprint sensor expert Authentec alongside iOS 6 plans, App Store growth, and Android legal battles, and you'll see a long term competitive strategy." InformationWeek 8/10
"Google's New Voice-Powered Search For iOS Makes Siri Look Like She's Going Nowhere" Forbes 8/10
"Will Apple Adopt Touché Technology?" MacNews 8/10
"Samsung's Attorney Caught Without License to Practice v. Apple" The Mac Observer 8/10
"Apple lifts curtain on iPod touch sales figures for the first time" Ars Technica 8/10
"As The Trial Rages On, Court Filing Sheds New Light On Apple And Samsung Device Sales" TechCrunch 8/10
"Copying Apple or as Samsung Calls it Benchmarking Your Peers" Tech.pinions 8/10
"iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Aug. 10" Network World 8/10
"Why a Two-Tone Unibody iPhone Makes Perfect Sense" Gizmodo 8/10
"Why The Next iPhone Has A Two-Toned Metal Backplate" Cult of Mac 8/10
"[Poll] Has Apple Gone Too Far?" ReadWriteWeb 8/10
"For Apple-branded TV, the price must be right" TG Daily 8/10
"Why would Apple make a 7-inch iPad? The kids" ZDNet 8/10
"Apple Sold 24 Times More Tablets Than Samsung" InformationWeek 8/10
"Apple sold more smartphones in two quarters than Samsung sold in two years in the U.S." BGR 8/10
"The Fallout of Apple vs. Samsung: All The Apple Secrets You Already Knew" PixoBebo 8/10
"Apple's New iMac And MacPro: The Clues To The Future Are In The Past (what's new, what's missing)" Mac 360 8/10
"Revealed: The secrets of the next iMac" Electricpig 8/10
"Samsung is moments away from a true iPad alternative" SlashGear 8/11
"Cloudy with a chance of data loss" I, Cringely 8/11
"To fight Apple-flight, Microsoft must hang tough on Surface: I don't see anything on the Windows 8 horizon aside from Surface that would rival Apple. So Microsoft needs to stick to its guns and execute on Surface." CNET News 8/11
"An alternate view of the patent landscape [Ted Talk Video] 9 to 5 Mac 8/11
"Malaria is no excuse for patent trolling, Mr. Myhrvold" GigaOM 8/11
"Google Nexus 7 is (almost) the only device I need" ["I've also found that -- unlike the iPad -- it's just small enough to slip into the pocket of a pair of baggy pants and always have at arm's length."] CNET News 8/10
"The Back Page: Microsoft Trainwreck Edging Towards 'Modern UI' to Replace 'Metro" The Mac Observer 8/10
"New Site Grades Those Pesky 'Terms of Service' Agreements You Never Read" Time 8/10
"Motorola's mystery phone is a big letdown" CNET 8/10
"Seagate – Investigating the SSD Threat" The Motley Fool 8/10
"Samsung, Amazon may be testing limits of phones, tablets" MarketWatch 8/10
"The week in tech: 5 must-know things" USA Today 8/10
"Blizzard hacked: What you should do" VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 8/10
"Blizzard Hack: A Security Guide For Battle.net Users" PCWorld 8/10
"Is Your Computer Infected With Gauss Malware?" PC Magazine 8/10
"Mind the gaps: 3 missing pieces in cloud computing" InfoWorld 8/10
"Meet the free alternatives to Photoshop, Acrobat and AutoCAD" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 8/10
"BYOD Improves Productivity, but Security Still a Concern: Trend Micro" eWeek 8/10
"No medals at Olympics for 3-D TV, Ultra HDTV" EE Times 8/10
"Best Google Nexus 7 Apps: 16 Free Downloads for Your Android Tablet" PCWorld 8/10
"It's Nice to See Google Focused On Search Again" Techland 8/10
"Back-To-School: How To Become A Google Intern" TechCrunch 8/10
"The 6 companies Google has bought in 2012 (so far): Google has been bolstering its technology by buying out other companies; here are six the search giant has bought this year" Network World 8/10
"10 tips & tricks for Google Calendar and Gmail" CIO 8/10
"Gaming industry suffers tough July as hardware, software slumps" CNET News 8/10
"It's a Bull Market for Tech Patents" [Video Report] CNBC 8/10
"Yahoo! May Become 'Google Junior'" TheStreet 8/10
"Tiltpod Mobile adds an iPhone tripod to your keychain: This clever-looking $15 gizmo lets you set up your iPhone for rock-steady, hands-free photography." CNET Reviews 8/10
"The TiltPod, The Handiest iPhone Keychain Tripod Yet" Cult of Mac 8/10
"HP Envy Spectre XT (nb-13-2006tu) Ultrabook/HP Envy Spectre XT review: a good looking Ultrabook that would kill if it had a better screen and a quieter cooling fan" PCWorld Australia 7:22 AM
"IBM claims spintronics memory breakthrough: In a paper to be published in the scientific journal Nature this week, IBM researchers claim to have had a huge breakthrough in spintronics, a technology that could significantly boost capacity and lower power use over today's memory and storage devices." Computerworld New Zealand 3:27 PM
"IBM sets sights on RIM: There are rumours that IBM might be interested in acquiring the Canadian manufacturer's enterprise division" ITP Technology 7:34 AM
"IBM hints at RIM enterprise business bid" Equities.com 7:33 AM
"IBM Introduced Its First Personal Computer" digtriad.com 7:52 PM
"High-Tech companies like Intel logs into advertising services too" The Economic Times 7:53 PM
"Surface 2 already in development" Electronista 6:53 PM
"eBay seller claims to be auctioning a Microsoft Xbox Durango development kit" The Verge 7:47 PM
"Microsoft keeps pushing for a third German injunction against Google's Motorola Mobility" Foss Patents 9:42 AM
"Electronic Arts Sees New Windows As Central Mobile Game Platform" Bloomberg 7:37 AM
"Crackle brings its movie-streaming party to Windows Phone" Engadget 7:52 AM
"Microsoft reveals Metro replacement name" CRN 7:54 PM
"Microsoft may have renamed Metro but won't let you switch it off, Surface 2 in the pipeline" Smart Company Magazine (Australia) 7:54 PM
"Google v Oracle: judge's order creates ethical dilemma for tech bloggers/Court tells companies to reveal names of journalists and bloggers they might have a financial relationship with" The Guardian 7:55 PM
"PC price cuts expected in Europe amid shipments slump: Declining PC shipments in Western Europe during the second quarter of 2012 could result in significant price cuts later this year" New Zealand Reseller News 7:48 PM
"Potential Apple Stock Split Could Be Among Largest Ever" WSJ Blogs 8/10
"Everything you need to know about trading Apple right now" MarketWatch 8/10
"Even if Apple Hits $1 Trillion by 2016, Oracle and Adobe More Undervalued" The Motley Fool 8/10
Industry News
"Yahoo shares fall; RIM rises on speculation: Latest chatter has IBM interested in parts of BlackBerry maker" MarketWatch 8/10
"U.S. stocks stretch weekly gains to five: Yahoo's Mayer sends a strange signal" MarketWatch 8/10
"S&P 500 Caps Longest Rally Since 2010 On Stimulus Bets" Bloomberg 8/10
"Wall Street Pressured by China Trade Data" FOXBusiness 8/10
"Stocks Higher for Week, S&P Logs 6-Day Rally" CNBC 8/10
"Wall St slips on China data, S&P still up for week" Reuters 8/10
"Chinese economic downturn weighs on markets despite hopes of more stimulus" Associated Press [Free Registration Required] 8/10
"Stocks Rise on Speculation of Fed Support" TheStreet 8/10
"Stocks: U.S. stocks finished a week of gains with a Friday of little change, following disappointing economic data from China and the U.S. heightened fears about a global slowdown." CNNMoney 8/10
"U.S. Stocks Rally at Close" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8/10
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