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"Reports Persist of Budget Cuts, Emphasis on Revenue" ifoAppleStore 9:30 PM
"Will Apple go after Google following court win over Samsung?" SiliconRepublic 7:30 AM
"Inside the Apple-Samsung Jury Room" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 10:01 AM
"Apple jurors grappled with complex patent issues" Associated Press 7:25 AM
"Apple-Samsung jury foreman recalls 'aha! moment': The leader of the jury that decided the fate in the high-profile, high-tech court case goes on TV to discuss the group's process." CNET News 6:24 PM
"Billion-dollar court win could help to settle an old score for Apple" V3 7:36 AM
"Why the Apple v. Samsung Ruling May Not Hold Up" Gizmodo 5:09 PM
"Samsung Case Puts Apple Closer to Google Fight" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:15 PM
"Friend and foe; Samsung, Apple won't want to damage parts deal" Reuters [Free Registration Required] 7:38 AM
"Apple-Samsung Component Supplier Partnership For iPhone, iPad Will Remain Intact: Experts" International Business Times 8:03 AM
"Apple Seeks Order Blocking Sale of Samsung Products" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:10 PM
"1 Threat Apple Cannot Eliminate in Court" Forbes 7:59 AM
"Apple Technology Forbidden Fruit for Asia Smartphones" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:44 AM
"Feds strike deal with Apple to sell some publications as e-books" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 7:46 AM
"Apple Prepares to Open First Swedish Retail Stores" MacRumors 1:56 PM
"Craig Federighi, Apple's Vice President of Mac Software Engineering & Dan Riccio, Apple's Vice President of Hardware Engineering Join Apple's Executive Team as Senior Vice Presidents" Apple 7:12 PM
"New Java 7 exploit said to be super dangerous for Macs" 9 to 5 Mac 5:06 PM
"Macs at risk from 'super dangerous' Java zero-day: Expert confirms Metasploit attack code works on OS X" Computerworld 5:07 PM
"New Java vulnerability affects Macs, could lead to more malware" AppleInsider 9:31 PM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, Compressor 4: Blu-ray folder (BDMV) on disc may appear as a QuickTime file" Apple Support 6:31 PM
"I, too, have had 10.8.1 give an error message saying it could not complete the install using Software Update." MacInTouch 8:18 AM
"I'm one of those affected by battery life in Mountain Lion. I have a Mid-2009 Macbook Pro, and ever since the ML update, my system goes through a charge like crazy." MacInTouch 8:20 AM
"One of my main peeves about Mountain Lion was scrolling -- opposite of what it is in Snow Leopard." MacInTouch 8:19 AM
"I am having a problem creating zip files from folders with 10.8.1 through the 'Archive' right-click thang." MacInTouch 8:20 AM
"Be aware that Carbonite severely throttles bandwidth if your backup exceeds 200GB." MacInTouch 8:21 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"OS X Mountain Lion: the 10 best features" TechRadar UK 7:56 AM
"System Preferences in OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion: Print & Scan" eXtensions 10:59 AM
"How to Tether Cameras, Make Star Trails on a Mac, Learn RAW Workflows, and More" PCWorld 7:59 AM
"Gesture App Flutter Flickers With Potential" MacNewsWorld 8:05 AM
"Yet Another Free Way To Record, Mix, And Edit Audio On Your Mac" McSolo 7:08 AM
"5 Simple Ways To Magnify The Mac's Screen To Capture Pixel Colors" TeraTalks 7:08 AM
"Website Creation Tools On Your Mac: Adobe Muse vs. Sandvox Or RapidWeaver (it ain't a fair fight)" Mac 360 7:08 AM
Op/Ed
"Should I give up on Mac and go back to Windows? (Survey)" TreeHugger 1:55 PM
"There's A Better Way To Drag And Drop Files From Mac To Mac Than Apple's AirDrop" Bohemian Boomer 7:08 AM
"Free: The Adobe Photo Management App And System That Costs $5.99. A Month. Forever." Mac 360 7:07 AM
Press Releases
"Tapbots temporarily pulls Tweetbot alpha: Cites Twitter's new cap on users of third-party client apps" Macworld 8:59 PM
"Tapbots pulls dev build of Mac Tweetbot client" Insanely Great Mac 3:27 PM
"Crow Coming To The Mac App Store And Mac Game Store August 30th, 2012" prMac 9:55 AM
"GIMP 2.8.2 fixes bugs in preparation for official Mac app" Heise 7:58 AM
"Apple Store Customer Arrested for Shoplifting Says He Was Trying to Use EasyPay Self-Checkout" MacRumors 5:43 PM
"Siri And Rivals Prep Next Trick: Mind Reading" InformationWeek 12:08 PM
"Harvest time nears for Apple: Debut of new devices sparks rampant rumors about features" Boston Herald 11:18 AM
"Data center hub arises in central Oregon city: Computerworld - Apple and Facebook this month each filed plans to expand data center operations in Prineville, Ore., a small community that's on its way to becoming one of the top data center locations in the U.S." Computerworld 7:46 AM
"Can't sleep? It may be your iPad's fault, study suggests" Orlando Business News 7:48 AM
"Ashton Kutcher looking very much the part of Steve Jobs" Edible Apple 8:05 AM
"After Apple verdict, judge may reconsider U.S. ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" Reuters 11:30 AM
"Samsung asks judge to lift ban on Galaxy Tab 10.1: The company says that since its tablet hasn't infringed an Apple patent, the preliminary ban should be removed." CNET News 10:41 AM
"Samsung wants Galaxy Tab ban lifted in the US after Apple patent verdict" IDG News Service 11:28 AM
"Samsung issues internal memo over Apple loss, promises victory" CNET News 10:41 AM
"Samsung Wanted to Negotiate with Apple Instead of Suing, Internal Memo Reveals" Softpedia 7:35 AM
"Samsung's internal memo blasts Apple for 'outright abuse of patent law'" NDTV Gadgets 2:03 PM
"After Verdict, Samsung Asks Court to Lift Galaxy Tab Injunction" The Mac Observer 7:17 AM
"Samsung Galaxy Player 5.8 dwarfs the iPod Touch, runs ICS" Crave @ CNET 7:43 AM
"Samsung Galaxy Player 5.8 ramps iPod rivalry to 5.8-inches" SlashGear 7:31 AM
"Samsung Seeks Lifting Of Ban On U.S. Sales Of Galaxy Tab" Bloomberg 7:28 AM
"Google Says Most Claims In Samsung Case Not About Android" Bloomberg 11:11 AM
"Apple vs Samsung verdict: Google responds" Crave @ CNET 7:40 AM
"Google reacts to Apple's US patent victory over Samsung" BBC 7:58 AM
"Google Releases Statement On Apple (AAPL) Vs Samsung" Wall Street Pit 7:35 AM
"Google: Apple v Samsung Verdict Not a Problem for Us" The Mac Observer 10:54 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"So Does the Apple/Samsung Verdict Hurt Innovation?" The Tech Night Owl 8:47 AM
"Alleged 5th gen iPod touch casings surface, points towards a new design" UberGizmo 7:47 AM
"Apple May Be Redesigning The iPod Nano To Let You Stream Music From iTunes" Business Insider 2:00 PM
"iPad Mini Name, Separate Apple Event 'Confirmed': Reports/Apple will call its smaller tablet the iPad Mini and hold a separate event to introduce the device, says reports, 'confirming' the news as much as is possible without word from Apple." eWeek 11:36 AM
"Apple's 7-inch tablet will be named iPad mini, says report" CNET News 8:02 AM
"7-inch iPad To Be Called 'iPad mini,' WiFi Coming To iPod nano" The Mac Observer 9:54 AM
"iPad mini release date: When is the new iPad coming out? Rumours suggest October" Pocket-lint 7:39 AM
"Report suggests iPad mini will debut this October" Tech2 7:28 AM
"Did an Apple Exec Say Not to Expect a Television Anytime Soon?" Techland 1:52 PM
"Processor Whispers: About prices and placeholders/With slimmed-down Xeons and even Pentiums, Intel wants to make economically priced entry-level workstations and servers possible. Quantum computing is gradually gaining pace and Samsung is putting its shoulder to the wheel to remain as Apple's processor manufacturer." Heise 7:36 AM
AppleCare/Helps
"iPhone's SMS security flaw doesn't exist in other OSes" Tech2 8:02 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
"Jake the Reaper For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)" Apple Sliced 10:54 AM
"N.O.V.A. 3 -Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance For iPhone and iPad Is $0.99 Right Now (Previously $6.99)" Apple Sliced 10:54 AM
"Got Cow? For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $0.99)" Apple Sliced 10:54 AM
"Get a $500 Mac software bundle for $50: Offering everything from project management to data recovery to HTML 5 content generation, this bundle offers tremendous bang for the buck." CNET Reviews 4:08 PM
"Apple/Samsung Jurors Admit They Finished Quickly By Ignoring Prior Art & Other Key Factors" Techdirt 2:09 PM
"Apple v. Samsung: What's wrong with this verdict? The jury has spoken and Apple has won. Consumers? Not so much. Reinventing the wheel isn't going to help anyone, says Cringely" InfoWorld 2:04 PM
"Why the iPad Mini is getting its own October launch event: 4 theories" The Week 2:03 PM
"Now That It's Leaked, I Don't Want The iPhone 5" Business Insider 1:57 PM
"Now that Apple has won, who can make it lose?" MoneyWatch 1:51 PM
"And Here's Samsung's 'Internal Memo' On Apple's Huge Patent Win" Business Insider 1:51 PM
"Read Samsung's Sad 'We Got Our Asses Kicked by Apple' Memo" Gizmodo 1:51 PM
"Samsung's Chutzpah Over The Apple Patent Ruling" Forbes 1:49 PM
"Why Apple's Win over Samsung Is Ultimately Good News for Consumers" Techland 1:48 PM
"Apple's patent victory over Samsung is good for Android" InfoWorld 12:11 PM
"After Apple v. Samsung, the smartphone market will never be the same" Houston Chronicle 12:07 PM
"Apple v. Samsung: What the analysts are saying" Fortune 12:03 PM
"Disable Java In Your Browser To Avoid A Nasty New Malware-Spreading Attack" Forbes 12:01 PM
"Apple win sends waves through techs" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 12:00 PM
"Steve Jobs Vindicated By Verdict Protecting Apple Design" Bloomberg 11:12 AM
"What Now, Samsung? What Now, Apple?" BYTE 10:56 AM
"Daily Report: After Apple-Samsung Verdict, Concern About Innovation" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:51 AM
"Five winners from Apple's billion-dollar win" MarketWatch 10:36 AM
"Forget Apple v Samsung, coming soon it's Apple v Google" Computerworld 10:13 AM
"Apple's Win Ushers in an Era of Nastiness in Tech" TheStreet 9:59 AM
"Apple Verdict Could Boost Microsoft, RIM Smartphones" InformationWeek 10:55 AM
"Microsoft keeps customers in the dark over Windows 8 prices: Delay in pricing new OS due to desktop vs. tablet conundrum, analysts argue" Computerworld 11:28 AM
"Windows 8 and the touchy future of PCs: Touch on the desktop? That's the only way Metro makes sense. With Windows 8, Microsoft is making its biggest hardware demand ever" InfoWorld 12:10 PM
"Google identifies commentators in Oracle case: Google has named the people it had a financial connection with who blogged or commented on its legal case against tech giant Oracle." BBC 11:09 AM
"Intel: Dividend Dynamo or Blowup?" The Motley Fool 10:28 AM
"AMD: Surviving Contact with the Plan" The Motley Fool 10:21 AM
"The FCC Scores a Hat Trick of Errors on Internet Regulation" Forbes 12:01 PM
"Open Source: Key To Big Data Riches? Big data makes a company smart, open source makes it rich, Gartner report contends." InformationWeek 10:56 AM
"The next major patent skirmish is already here: So-called LTE networks promise to dramatically speed up the mobile Internet. Too bad patent squabbles may muck things up." Fortune 12:03 PM
"VMware Lets a Thousand Clouds Contend" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12:10 PM
"Dropbox Two-Factor Authentication Has Kinks, Users Say" InformationWeek 12:08 PM
"Maginatics Debuts Storage Platform At VMworld" InformationWeek 12:08 PM
"Lunch with RIM CEO Thorsten Heins: Time for a bite, and little else" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 12:06 PM
"BlackBerry 10 Will End the 'In-Out' App Paradigm: RIM CEO" eWeek 11:35 AM
"Broadcom packs network virtualization in switch" EE Times 11:33 AM
"HTC considering to launch new tablet PC in cooperation with Pegatron, say sources" DigiTimes 11:33 AM
"Postini competitors go after Google's customers" IDG News Service 11:28 AM
"AMD Introduces Industry's Most Powerful Server Graphics Processors: New AMD FirePro(TM) S9000 and S7000 Are Designed to Be Versatile and Scalable to Meet Multiple Data Center Deployment Requirements" Marketwire 10:22 AM
"AMD-Based Virtualization Solutions Deliver Leading Scalability While Slashing Total Cost of Ownership" Marketwire 10:22 AM
"Snapfish by HP Brings Facebook Posts to Life With SocialPics" Marketwire 10:16 AM
"IBM to Acquire Kenexa To Bolster Social Business Initiatives" PRNewswire 10:20 AM
"Oracle GoldenGate 11g Release 2 Now Available: New Version of Real-Time Data Integration Solution Enhances Performance, Manageability, Efficiency and Reliability" Marketwire 10:38 AM
"German consumer group sets Facebook privacy ultimatum" Reuters 10:52 AM
"Samsung legal defeat unlikely to hit profit much" MarketWatch 10:09 AM
"Store More With Virtualization: Even small IT shops can now afford thin provisioning, performance acceleration, replication, and other features to boost utilization and improve disaster recovery." InformationWeek 10:56 AM
"4 Reasons IT Leaders Hate Giving Performance Reviews" InformationWeek 10:56 AM
"HotHardware's Two and A Half Geeks 8/1/12: Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and More" HotHardware 10:13 AM
"Nokia jumps on hopes it can cash in on Samsung setback" Reuters 10:52 AM
"Apple court victory rallies hard-hit Nokia shares" MarketWatch 10:09 AM
"Cypress lifts Ramtron bid to $2.88-share, or $99M" MarketWatch 10:08 AM
"ASML says Samsung invests in its latest chip technology" Reuters 10:52 AM
"Samsung joins ASML customer co-investment program" MarketWatch 10:08 AM
"Best Buy, founder reach accord on due diligence" MarketWatch 10:09 AM
"Best Buy, Founder Reach Accord on Due Diligence" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 10:02 AM
"AOL announces final plans for $1.1 billion shareholder payoff" CNET News 10:41 AM
"AOL sets special payout, accelerated buyback" MarketWatch 10:08 AM
"AOL Announces Special Dividend, $600 Million Stock Buyback" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 10:02 AM
"AOL to pay $500 million in one-time dividend" CNNMoney 9:58 AM
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