"iPhone Caused 'Crisis of Design' at Samsung (Memo)" ["It's a memo that Samsung didn't want admitted into the trial, and until now had kept it out. But this morning when Samsung legal counsel John Quinn mentioned the 'crisis of design' moment in a question to Samsung strategist Justin Denison, all bets were off, and the memo was in."] AllThingsD 8:44 PM
"Surprise! Apple's Design Expert Testifies That Most Galaxy Devices Infringe Apple Patents, Trade Dress" TechCrunch 4:49 PM
"Is The iPhone's Design Inevitable? Apple-Samsung Patent Trial Continues (Live Blog)" Forbes 10:54 AM
"Apple's ginormous iPad prototype kept out of trial: The jumbo-sized early iPad prototype that made waves last month will not be allowed as evidence in the case between Apple and Samsung." CNET News 7:10 PM
"Live blog: Apple-Samsung patent trial, 8:30 a.m. Monday" Silicon Valley 11:07 AM
"Apple Lawyers Grill Samsung Strategy Head at Patent Trial" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2:46 PM
"Apple v Samsung: Rights and Wrongs/There's enough greatness and pettiness to go around in the cramped courtroom of Judge Lucy Koh of San Jose Federal Court where Apple and Samsung are suing each other for patent infringement." EE Times 11:32 AM
"Apple Execs: Samsung 'Ripped Off' iPhone/Samsung aims punches at Apple in patent infringement trial, but finds it hard to land a blow." InformationWeek 9:49 AM
"Apple's Argument: Samsung Could Have Made Its Phone Large, Thick, Bumpy, Sharp-Edged & Hexagonal" Techdirt 9:49 AM
"The Apple-Samsung case: Five juicy tidbits" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 2:46 PM
"Apple and Samsung take Australian legal battle to the 'hot tub'" Reuters 7:38 AM
"Apple, Inc. Wins a Round in Samsung Patent Trial" Insider Monkey 9:37 AM
"How Apple became the world's No. 1 computer manufacturer" Fortune 7:33 AM
"Apple Gorging on Mobile Industry Revenue" AllThingsD 7:35 AM
"Apple's Curious TV Plans" ["While Apple could still make an actual TV, I think this move with Hulu and Amazon essentially signals a strategic move by Apple and is probably at the heart of their future TV plans. The key here is that for Apple's current TV device to make money, it needs content. By biting the bullet and offering competing services to iTunes, the value proposition of an Apple TV device just went up."] Tech.pinions 10:33 AM
"Things Apple Won't Tell You: Why customers may want to think different about the consumer-tech giant." SmartMoney 11:33 AM
"Apple Inc is Killing Dell Inc and Hewlett-Packard" Insider Monkey 4:27 PM
"Cadence McShane's Kasturi to oversee Apple's Austin project" Austin Business Journal 10:54 AM
"Apple, Google bid on Kodak patents - report" Reuters 8:27 PM
"Apple responds to journalist's iCloud hack: After a reporter said account breaches occurred when an AppleCare technician fell prey to social engineering, the tech giant says, 'our own internal policies were not followed completely.'" CNET News 9:28 PM
"Apple Knows About a Massive Hack Exploit—And Has Done Nothing" Gizmodo 7:33 PM
"Apple Account Break-In Highlights Security Weakness" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:46 PM
"How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking" Wired 7:25 PM
"Apple investigating Mountain Lion battery drain concerns: Thousands of MacBook owners have been reporting lower battery life since upgrading to Mountain Lion" Macworld UK 8:50 AM
"Apple Account Break-In Highlights Security Weakness" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:18 PM
"Mac laptop owners report shortened battery life after Mountain Lion upgrade: Apple investigating, say users on company's support forum" CareerJournal 11:06 AM
"Hacker takes over tech writer's online existence: Attacker called, convinced Apple tech support to turn over control of writer's Apple account" SecurityNewsDaily 11:36 AM
"US journalist suffers hack attack via Apple iCloud" BBC 10:48 AM
"A Huge Error From Apple Led To A Wired Reporter Getting Hacked Hard" Business Insider 8:41 AM
"What You Can Do to Better Protect Your Apple Account" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:25 PM
"1Password Proves It Can Stand Up To Password Crackers" Cult of Mac 10:35 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Mountain Lion is Apple's new middle ground" Chicago Sun-Times 7:36 AM
"Mountain Lion review: Newest OS X software is most successful operating system in Apple history" Associated Press 9:37 AM
"Restore Web Sharing in Mountain Lion" Low End Mac 4:05 PM
"Apple enhances Wi-Fi Diagnostics in Mountain Lion" MacFixIt 2:18 PM
"Battery Status displays the battery levels of your Mac's connected hardware" Macworld 6:37 PM
"How to use Mail's VIP list in OS X Mountain Lion: To help you quickly access messages from important contacts, Mail now offers a VIP list option." CNET Reviews 2:20 PM
"MacMost Now 744: Dictation With Mountain Lion" MacMost 8:44 AM
"Cut Through the Noise with Notification Center in Mountain Lion" Mactuts+ 8:41 AM
"How to Batch Convert and Resize Images With Automator" The Mac Observer 3:52 PM
"How to save search URLs in Safari 6" Macworld 9:26 AM
"Q&A: Moving From PC to Mac" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 11:44 AM
"Mountain Lion 101: Notification Center in a hot corner" TUAW 4:26 PM
"Disable Notification Center & Remove the Menu Bar Icon in OS X Mountain Lion" OS X Daily 2:20 PM
"Open Notification Center with a Keyboard Shortcut in OS X Mountain Lion" OS X Daily 7:39 AM
"Notification Center keyboard shortcut" Mac OS X Hints 10:17 AM
"Quick searches in LaunchPad using abbreviations" Mac OS X Hints 10:17 AM
"Apple: We're Taking The YouTube App Off The iPhone" Business Insider 3:34 PM
"Apple To Drop Google's YouTube From New Version Of IOS" Bloomberg 4:54 PM
"Apple to Pull YouTube App From Devices" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:36 PM
"Apple to drop YouTube app from iOS6: report" MarketWatch 3:33 PM
"Apple, Samsung take 108% of handset profits: wait, what? The top two player continue to dominate as several companies posted losses in the second quarter." CNET News 10:10 AM
"Apple swallowed 77% of the mobile industry's profits in Q2" BGR 8:27 PM
"Talk of a Sept. 12 iPhone launch triggers trade-in flurry: eBay reports a 70% increase in used iPhone activity" Computerworld 7:42 AM
"How many iPhone '5's will be sold?" asymco 10:10 AM
"Apple Going to Court in China for Warranty Violation" Patently Apple 9:57 AM
"Apple Tops List Of China's Top 10 Foreign Brands" Forbes 7:37 AM
"Windows 8 Beats Out iOS and Android at Seton Hall" CIO 9:49 AM
"Flash from the past: 'Happy Mac' designer Susan Kare will testify in Apple vs. Samsung case" 9 to 5 Mac 7:57 AM
"Apple fancies The Fancy --but can it make it work?" Computerworld 11:46 AM
"Apple Reportedly Seeking to Buy Social Shopping Site 'The Fancy" The Mac Observer 8:01 AM
"Apple founder warns of 'horrendous' cloud computing risks" Telegraph 9:50 AM
"Wozniak Slams the Cloud as 'Horrendous'" PC Magazine 6:37 PM
"Apple man fearing dark days for cloud" The Independent 9:06 PM
"Wozniak: 'I really worry about everything going to the cloud'" ZDNet 7:35 AM
"iPhone 4S Olympics snaps put pro camera shots to shame" Crave @ CNET 7:39 AM
"NASA used more than a few MacBook Pros to get Curiosity to Mars [Images] 9 to 5 Mac 7:57 AM
"Macs Make a Cameo During Mars Curiosity Landing" The Mac Observer 8:39 AM
"The iPhone Is Literally Four Times as Powerful as the Curiosity Rover" Gizmodo 11:10 AM
"iPhone processor way outguns Mars Curiosity rover's: An A5 chip is four times more powerful than Curiosity's onboard computer, but it still hasn't conquered gravity." CNET News 6:36 PM
"France's biggest Apple reseller shuts up shop" Channel Register 9:44 AM
"Siri creator builds 'assistant' to talk customers through finances" Boston Herald 7:44 AM
Non-Apple News
"Robot Learns to Pick the Sweetest, Ripest Strawberries" Wired 2:38 PM
"New Nvidia Unix driver said to fix high-risk flaw: Nvidia Unix driver 304.32 addresses vulnerability that can grant local users root access" IDG News Service 11:02 AM
"Nokia Windows Phones Due Ahead Of iPhone 5: First Windows Phone 8 devices will be introduced before Apple's expected mid-Sept. iPhone 5 launch, tipsters say." InformationWeek 11:29 AM
"ARM brings GPU computing to mobile devices with updated Mali graphics" V3 2:29 PM
"Sharp's options narrowing to future as Hon Hai parts maker" Reuters 10:01 AM
"Handheld Android gaming console goes live for $106" TG Daily 2:18 PM
"Google cuts more services; business users take the brunt" ZDNet 2:49 PM
"Doubts surface about Google's Project Glass" TG Daily 2:17 PM
"In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold: Google's Petr Mitrichev is the all-time champion of competitive programming, a little-known sport where tech giants scout for talent." Technology Review 2:13 PM
"Samsung plans ARM-based CPU for servers, says report" EE Times 11:16 AM
"Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 shipping in August with quad-core processor" Techworld 2:16 PM
"Anand Chandrasekher ditches x86 for ARM" TG Daily 2:18 PM
"Qualcomm Nabs Former Intel Exec Anand Chandrasekher to Head Marketing" AllThingsD 9:44 AM
"AT&T Shared Mobile Data Plans Available August 23" The Mac Observer 10:47 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Hulu Plus is now on Apple TV. Now can we ditch cable?" The MT Show 8:39 AM
"Mac Geek Gab Podcast: MGG 411: Operator Can You Help Me With My Mac?" The Mac Observer 7:30 AM
"Macs stuck in 4th place on reliability, support ranking: Support franchise blames spot on Apple's increased U.S. market share" Computerworld 2:19 PM
"Apple to roll new Dock connector out across entire iOS product lineup this fall" iMore 12:25 PM
"iOS could get Bluetooth file sharing: In addition to nixing the YouTube app, the latest beta version of iOS 6 may enable Bluetooth data sharing through apps." CNET Reviews 8:26 PM
"Will Apple make the dock connector shift in September?" CNET News 2:18 PM
"Claimed SIM Tray for Next-Generation iPhone Points to Nano-SIM Standard" MacRumors 9:49 AM
"This Leaked iPhone 5 Part Shows Apple Will Use A Smaller, 'Nano' SIM Card" Business Insider 9:49 AM
"New iPhone 5 parts leak reveals components that help thin down Apple's next iPhone" BGR 9:50 AM
"Rumor: Photos Of The New Nano-SIM Card Tray For The iPhone 5" AppleBitch 10:10 AM
"iOS 6 beta 4 released to developers" 9 to 5 Mac 12:38 PM
"iOS 6 Beta 4 Available for Developers to Download" OS X Daily 2:18 PM
"Asian Speculation see's Demand for the new iPad Decreasing in Q3" Patently Apple 10:48 AM
"Apple Needs Sharp With Foxconn Stake as New IPhone Nears: Tech" Bloomberg News 7:34 AM
"Foxconn big daddy's latest fear: An expensive Sharp stake/Shares of beleaguered electronics firm Sharp continued to fall today as Foxconn parent Hon Hai said it was still taking the agreed stake in the firm, but it wanted a lower price." The Register 7:39 AM
"Static Motion Review: Static Motion is a game that has players frenetically tapping on-screen objects to survive and advance." 148Apps 3:33 PM
"Wizorb Review: Wizorb is a new genre-bending title that blends the classic breakout style game with an RPG, and is downright wonderful." 148Apps 12:39 PM
"VR Mission EXT Review: VR Mission EXT is a colorful, fun, semi-satirical homage to the classic sneaking mission." 148Apps 11:10 AM
"Monster Life Review: Manage a ranch, raise and train adorable monsters, then make them fight each other in a vibrant papercraft world." 148Apps 10:35 AM
"Alien Breed Review: This survival horror, top-down shooter may have been the best of its breed back in the day, but does it keep up with today's spawn?" 148Apps 9:07 AM
"Gears & Guts Review: A fun, exciting zombie game with a lack of polish in certain areas." 148Apps 8:04 AM
"NinRobo HD Review: Just because this 3D action game is weird doesn't mean it's any good." 148Apps 2:19 PM
How-To/Tutorial
"How to achieve Retina display-worthy photos for the new iPad" Macworld 7:58 AM
"Court shown evidence that Samsung copied Apple's iPhone icons; Plus: What's wrong with people who buy iPhone knockoffs?" MacDailyNews 9:12 PM
"Apple's New iPhone Unveiled -- It's Tall, Thin and Beautiful" Forbes 8:26 PM
"Analysis: Apple Squeezes 71% of Q2 Cell Phone Industry Profits" The Mac Observer 7:31 PM
"Did Samsung steal Apple's icons? Apple accuses Samsung of grand theft icon in the latest courtroom spat, NASA prepares for Curiosity rover's next move, and eBay tests same-day delivery." CNET News 7:10 PM
"Is Sprint Too Late to the iPhone Party?" The Motley Fool 6:37 PM
"Analysis: What to Expect in Apple's iPhone 5" The Mac Observer 3:38 PM
"73% of quarterly smartphone and tablet revenue belonged to Apple" iMore 8:03 AM
"Twitter And Apple: A Love Story" [Slideshow] Business Insider 7:54 AM
"iPhone 5 design icons concepts: What would happen if Nike, Audi, Paul Smith, Rolex or Barbour designed the new iPhone 5? We kick our imaginations into overdrive with these new designs of the iPhone 5." T3 7:53 AM
"Microsoft Investors Should be Concerned about Windows 8" The Motley Fool 9:55 AM
"Microsoft said to block ability to boot straight to desktop in Windows 8" ZDNet 2:47 PM
"Microsoft plans 'do not track' default setting on IE 10: Facing increasing pressure to get ahead of potentially more restrictive legislation, software developers and online advertisers have been struggling to reach consensus for an online privacy standard." Chicago Tribune 12:16 PM
"Implementation and apps the key to Surface RT tablets" ZDNet 2:48 PM
"Counting the Mobile Costs for Bing" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:04 PM
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