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"Apple Korea Sues Samsung Electronics In Seoul Over Smartphone: Apple Inc. on Friday widened a legal battle against Samsung Electronics Co. by filing suit against the major electronics maker in its home market of South Korea, where it is so dominant that it has long been able to sell products for higher prices and profit margins." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:28 AM
"Apple files patent suit against Samsung in South Korea" Reuters 9:23 AM
"Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung" Bloomberg 8:22 AM
"Report: Apple takes aim at Samsung in South Korea" CNET News 9:00 AM
"The iPhone, Tim Cook and 900 million Chinese wireless users" Fortune 7:39 AM
"Tim Cook's Secret Visits Signals iPhone May Have 2 Partners in China" Business Insider 8:22 AM
"Apple's iPhone Deal with China Mobile Has Huge Profit Potential" DailyFinance 9:24 AM
"iPhone and iPad cleaning up in every category of UK mobile data use" GigaOM 9:23 AM
"ITC Postpones Ruling in Kodak, Apple Patent Case" The Mac Observer 12:45 PM
"Apple, RIM: Kodak Ruling Delayed Till June 30" Barron's 10:11 AM
"MobileMe: Frequently asked questions about the MobileMe transition and iCloud" Apple 12:57 PM
"Apple confirms iWeb hosting, iDisk to end in 2012: The company will discontinue some of its MobileMe services when it transitions to iCloud" Macworld 12:56 PM
"Apple's Final Cut Is Dead. Long Live Final Cut." New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:30 AM
"Apple releases Final Cut Pro X to storm of negative reviews" Network World 8:23 AM
"Apple Paves Mac OS X Lion Rollout with 10.6.8 Update" PCWorld 9:23 AM
"Mac OS X 10.6.8 hails from Mesozoic era: Update teething troubles unearthed" Register Hardware 11:38 AM
"Security Update 2011-004 (Leopard/Leopard Server)" TidBITS 10:09 AM
"Apple Releases Security Update 2011-004 for Leopard" The Mac Observer 8:24 AM
"Apple's WWDC 2011 developer sessions now available online: Free for those who couldn't make it to San Francisco or didn't sign up before they sold out" Fortune 11:07 AM
"No Free iPod for Back-to-School Students This Year: Apple and Microsoft unveil their usual back-to-school sales for tech gadgets, perhaps a little differently than in prior years. Ian Sherr of Dow Jones Newswires talks about deals including laptops and tablets. Andrea Coombes reports." [Video Report] MarketWatch 1:38 PM
"WordPress warns server admins of Trojans" CSO 11:20 AM
"Online brawls may be fractious hackers' downfall" Reuters 11:28 AM
"LG Electronics Returns to Laptops" PCWorld 11:18 AM
"Virtual lovemaking may be reality in hotel room of 2030" MSNBC 11:12 AM
"Google says trustbuster concerns are 'unclear'" CNET News 12:25 PM
"Google confirms probe into business practices" MarketWatch 12:20 PM
"Google confirms FTC probe, goes on defensive" CNNMoney 12:18 PM
"Google now facing multiple government investigations: At least three state attorneys general are now probing top search engine" MSNBC 11:12 AM
"Enterprise IT unhappy with Firefox 4's quick demise" Computerworld 11:08 AM
"InfoWorld news quiz: June 24, 2011" InfoWorld 11:07 AM
"Non-iPad tablet vendors likely to launch new Wintel-based models to compete with Apple in 2012" DigiTimes 10:56 AM
"Humble beginnings for French game maker: CNN's Jim Bittermann reports on five French brothers who turned a farm supply store into a computer gaming giant." [Video Report] CNN 10:44 AM
"Android phones are tempting targets for hackers" Boston Globe [Free Registration Required] 10:31 AM
"Micron Shares Plunge on Chip Price Decline" Bloomberg 10:29 AM
"Mozilla: Enterprise has never been a focus of ours" ZDNet UK 12:09 PM
"Mozilla eyes hassle-free PDFs on the Web" CNET News 10:14 AM
"Apple notebook upstream supply chain to run in full gear starting July: Makers in the upstream supply chain for Apple notebook products will run in full gear starting July preparing needed parts and components for the vendor's new MacBook Air models, according to sources in the supply chain. Apple is expected to take deliveries of over eight million MacBook Airs in the third quarter, nearly doubling from the previous quarter, the sources estimated." DigiTimes 7:33 AM
"13" MacBook Pro Prices & Deals" MacPrices 7:30 AM
"15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:30 AM
"17" MacBook Pro Prices & Current Bundles" MacPrices 7:30 AM
"Apple MacBook Pro Buyer's Guide -17 Inch Models -Up to $400 Off Current Models... Other Extras -Prices, Reviews And Information" MacReviewZone 8:23 AM
"Apple MacBook Pro Buyer's Guide -13 Inch Models -Prices From $815... Other Extras -Best Prices, Reviews & Information" MacReviewZone 7:31 AM
"Apple MacBook Air Buyer's Guide -Prices Start From $759... Other Extras -Models, Prices And Information" MacReviewZone 2:48 PM
"Altec's Octiv 650 iPhone/iPod speaker delivers" CNET News 10:19 AM
"Cars 2 Video game races onto the Mac" Macworld 3:20 PM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"Gagosian Gallery App: Art for the Sake of it" Amitiae 9:40 PM
"Questionnaire Review: Enabling users to collate statistical data simply and easily." 148Apps 12:55 PM
"Hello.App for iPad Review: In the vast array of Facebook apps out there, Hello.App does some things pretty well. But does it justify a $1.99 purchase?" 148Apps 2:53 PM
"Strange but useful iPhone apps" USA Today 8:22 AM
"Alice in New York Review/Alice in New York for the iPad is one of the best looking and finest crafted examples of an interactive book to date. Although the word has been used to death, this time it's apt: It's magical." 148Apps 3:15 PM
"'Continuity 2: The Continuation' Review – My Game Got Flipped, Turned Upside Down" Touch Arcade 10:42 AM
"'1-bit Ninja' Review – This Platformer is All About Perspective" Touch Arcade 10:42 AM
How-To/Tutorial
"Time Converter Application in iPhone: This is the Time Converter application. Using this application we can can convert time like, Hour to Minute, Hour to Second. So let see how it will worked." The iPhone Developer Resource 10:44 AM
"Google Voice: the ultimate iPhone how-to" ZDNet 9:23 AM
"Could Blizzard Entertainment Bring World Of Warcraft To iOS Devices?" App Advice 10:13 AM
"An Artistic Look At the Future Of The iPhone5" Apple Gazette 10:13 AM
"Apple sues Samsung again for copying the iPhone's design, this time in South Korea" Engadget 10:13 AM
"Apple: Are TVs really its next big thing?" ZDNet 10:44 AM
"Rumor: Analyst Believes iCloud Will Clear The Way For An Apple Television Set" AppleBitch 10:08 AM
"Patently False: Depending on whom you believe, Apple's Patent 7,966,578 could be the patent that will end all smartphone competition in the U.S. or just another overreaching patent that the USPTO will revoke in short order. The truth is probably somewhere in between." MacNewsWorld 9:22 AM
"A Consequence of Losing the PC Wars" ["Apple makes more money from the sale of one Mac than HP does from selling seven PCs."] Matt Richman 9:18 AM
"As RIM, Nokia whither, Android set to slump" iPhoneTouch.Blorge 12:12 PM
"Ten collaboration tools to help teams click" [Slideshow] ZDNet UK 12:09 PM
"Alas, poor RIM and BlackBerry, we knew them well" ZDNet 12:07 PM
"Archos G9 Android tablets - Serious competition for the iPad" ZDNet 12:06 PM
"CE Week 2011: 10 game-changing gadgets of the year" ZDNet 12:03 PM
"Why Nokia's N9 Smartphone Is Set Up for Failure" Ars Technica 11:48 AM
"How effective are Facebook likes?" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 11:44 AM
"Why Tablets Represent the Future of Computing" Techland 11:41 AM
"Do Domain Names Even Matter Any More?" Techland 11:40 AM
"Study makes brain-like computing a step closer to reality" TG Daily 11:36 AM
"End of the Internet as We Know It: A new Internet protocol will vastly increase the number of addresses from which devices can connect." Technology Review 11:35 AM
"Gartner: New security demands arising for virtualization, cloud computing" Network World 11:08 AM
"When wireless makes tech fans into irrational Luddites" InfoWorld 11:07 AM
"10 hot Android tablet apps for business" [Slideshow] PCWorld 11:07 AM
"Your Company's Next Secret Weapon: Cloud APIs" InformationWeek 11:05 AM
"Four things Google needs to do to beat Facebook on the social web" Fortune 11:03 AM
"In this economy, is a Google antitrust probe 'un-American?'" ZDNet 12:06 PM
"FTC's Google antitrust case: Investigation rumor roundup" Computerworld Blogs 10:47 AM
"Videoconferencing: What's The Right Use?" InformationWeek 10:19 AM
"Slow Finnish phone sales may explain Nokia's woes" Reuters 10:18 AM
"How AVG keeps your computer safe" CNET News 10:12 AM
Humor/Cartoons
"Comic: What If Tech Companies Were Talk Show Hosts?" Minyanville 2:50 PM
"Are you planking, or just bored?" The Joy of Tech [cartoon] 8:48 AM
"Oracle Records First-Ever $10 Billion Quarter: Software vendor adds 800 sales-related jobs to pursue larger share of customers' software budgets; hardware sales still a sore point." InformationWeek 4:22 PM
"Does Oracle Deserve This Haircut?" The Motley Fool 10:00 AM
"Could HP Push webOS as a Premium Alternative to Android?" AllThingsD 10:02 AM
"Can HP's webOS and TouchPad slow down the iPad?" Computerworld 10:47 AM
"Microsoft exploits uproar over Firefox 4's retirement to beat IE drum: Company exec pleads IE's case to enterprise in open letter to IBMer" Computerworld 10:47 AM
"Stocks end another week lower on Europe worries" Associated Press 4:24 PM
"Stocks Slide Amid New Euro Zone Jitters" CNBC 12:12 PM
"Stocks Stumble on Tech Weakness, Europe Debt Concerns" TheStreet 4:24 PM
"Dow slides for seventh week out of eight" CNNMoney 4:24 PM
"Stocks hit the pause button: Stocks were headed for a flat open as investors digested reports on U.S. gross domestic product and durable goods orders." CNNMoney 9:39 AM
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