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Sunday Highlights:The Melbourne Age reports on Apple and Microsoft both refusing to appear before an Australian governmental inquiry into IT pricing; Forbes questions why Apple's iPad margins are half those for the iPhone; Patently Apple reports on a new audio-sharing network feature for iPhone; in OS X, positive reviews for Mountain Lion continue to pour in.
Saturday Highlights: Rumors of Apple's interest in buying Twitter abound, with coverage by Fortune, CNET and the Bangkok Post; Rob Enderle on why Apple can't sustain Tablet dominance; in Australia, a parliamentary inquiry is notable for the absence of Apple and Microsoft; Tap for Mobile reports on Zuckerberg not wanting a 'Facebook Phone'; the Macalope examines a bad joke; VentureBeat provides a comprehensive review of several iPad cases; the Wall Street Journal reports on the iCrime Wave, with Apple devices being increasingly targeted by thieves; Lifehacker presents the top ten secret features of OS X Mountain Lion; John Moltz and many other writers find the new Apple television commercials not very inspiring.
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News
"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
"Retina MacBook Pros get Power Nap"?MacNN?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
"New Trojan besieging Apple's MacOS"?V3?7/27
"A Bunch of Updates to Get Ready for Mountain Lion (Safari 6, iWork, Aperture, iTunes etc)"?Mac Amour?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
"Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition coming to iOS, OS X in September"?The Loop?7/27
"Growl 2 and HardwareGrowler 2 for Mountain Lion Now in Beta"?iClarified?7/27
"Launchbar, Mountain Lion and 1Password"?Macdrifter?7/27
"Chronos Announces Spotlife -- A calendar for your desktop"?Chronos?7/27
"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
"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
"Blizzard patches Diablo III Wizard 'God Mode' exploit"?TG Daily?7/27
"$48 mini Android PC is out in the wild"?TG Daily?7/27
"Nokia Confirms Close Of Last Finnish Handset Factory: 780 Job Cuts To Follow"?TechCrunch?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
"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
"TUAW Origin Stories: Model Release"?TUAW?7/27
"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
"New purported next-generation iPhone parts photos show fully assembled device"?9 to 5 Mac?2:19 PM
"Photos alleged show fully-assembled next-gen iPhone"?AppleInsider?3:09 PM
"Apple's iPhone 5 out... smuggled from factory, pics on internet: Report says shortage of chips could result in delay of launch"?Emirates 24/7?7:48 AM
"Samsung Struggles to Match Apple's Retina Display Quality"?Patently Apple?9:15 AM
"MacBook Pro with Retina display gets Power Nap via firmware update"?The Verge?7/28
"Apple files another patent for wearable computing device"?iDownload Blog?7/28
"Behold, Early iPhone and iPad Prototypes"?TechCrunch?7/27
"Early iPad prototypes surface in Apple v, Samsung"?Electronista?7/27
"iPhone and iPad prototypes reveal Apple design process"?Crave @ CNET?7/27
"iPhone and iPad prototypes show Apple's roads not taken"?TUAW?7/27
"Apple prototypes show iPhone 'inspired by Sony', and kickstand iPad"?Electricpig?7/27
"Apple wants to control everything in your home via NFC"?CNET News?7/27
"Apple's continued interest in heads-up displays may hint at showdown with Google Glass"?The Next Web?7/27
"One dead, four hurt at Apple supplier China plant"?MarketWatch?7/27
"Gas leak hits Apple supplier in Taiwan"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?7/27
"Gas Leak at Apple Supplier's Plant Kills 1"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?7/27
"Apple Hires AMD Chip Engineer, 100W USB Coming, SSDs for 2012 MacBook Air, and More"?Low End Mac?7/27
"iPad 68% of Tablet Market, Nexus 7 Gets Lots of Love, IKEA Catalog for iOS, and More"?Low End Mac?7/27
AppleCare/Helps
"MacBook Air SMC Updates 1.5 and 1.6"?TidBITS?7/27
Price Trackers/Deals
"Reflexions For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?10:40 AM
"Can You Match? For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?10:40 AM
"Squarescape For iPhone Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?10:40 AM
"Burn The Corn For iPhone Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99)"?Apple Sliced?7/28
"Germz For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?7/28
"Warmongers For iPhone Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?7/28
"There are no new item in The US Apple Store, four were restocked , 64 were unchanged, and two were Sold Out."?While Supplies Last?7/28
"Robot Bros For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99)"?Apple Sliced?7/27
"Around the World in 80 Days HD (Premium) For iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $4.99), The iPhone Version Is Also Free"?Apple Sliced?7/27
"Escape The Ape For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?7/27
"MacBook Air Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?7/27
"MacBook Pro Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?7/27
"Apple refurbs: MacBook Air from $759"?MacNN?7/27
"PadGadget Daily App Deal ? 26 iPad Apps on Sale"?PadGadget?7/27
Deal Brothers Daily Deal: Mac mini 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5:? $1189.00 Delivered
"Cassandra -Monday Review: It will soon be Friday"?eXtensions?9:28 PM
"Visualized: the iDevice influence on Apple's bottom line"?Engadget?9:19 PM
"Breaking Down the Apple-Twitter Investment Rumors"?Yahoo! News?6:46 PM
"Apple debuts three new Mac ads: 'Basically,' 'Labor Day,' and 'Mayday' (with Video)"?MacDailyNews?10:40 AM
"Apple's new adverts are far from genius"?Crave @ CNET?7:48 AM
"Applesauce: All Things Apple ? July 29, 2012"?redOrbit?7:47 AM
"What to Expect From Apple in the Second Half of 2012"?The Motley Fool?7/28
"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's Ridiculous Patent"?Forbes?7/27
"Have Smartphone Sales Hit the Saturation Point?"?ReadWriteWeb?7/27
"How Steve Jobs Almost Leaked The Original iPhone's Existence"?Business Insider?7/27
"Samsung says that Apple stole iPhone design from Sony"?Neowin?7/27
"Samsung: 'Apple's proto-iPhone Jony is a Sony phone phoney'"?Register Hardware?7/27
"Long Live The Mac: Why The Mac's Golden Age Is Coming To An End"?Mac 360?7/27
"Has Apple 'Overscrolled' Its Case Against Samsung, And What To Do About Tech Patents?"?Forbes?7/27
"Apple iPhone 5 Vs. Samsung Galaxy S III: What We Know" [Slideshow]?InformationWeek?7/27
"Ad for Apple's Siri gets poison oak wrong, report says"?CNET News?7/27
"Kodak Has Its Moment: Judge Denies Apple's Bid to Move Patent Suit to New Court"?AllThingsD?7/27
"Thanks to iOS 6, MetaWatch outs Strata smartwatch ? Mobile Technology News"?GigaOM?7/27
"Apple Provides Lessons for RIM's BlackBerry Comeback Bid"?Bloomberg?7/27
"IPad Remains Best Used As A Supplement To The Mac"?MacNews?7/27
"The Latest iPhone Leak: Fact Or Fiction?"?App Advice?7/27
"If This Is What The New iPhone Looks Like, Are People Going To Be 'Disappointed'?"?Business Insider?7/27
"Is the iPad Really That Expensive?"?PadGadget?7/27
"Apple Claims Google Warned Samsung About Copying iPad"?Tom's Hardware?7/27
"What Is Apple Up to This Time? Is Apple's AuthenTec deal motivated by patents or to bolster the security on its devices?"?WSJ Blogs?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
"Apple granted stay on 'Samsung didn't copy us' ads"?SlashGear?7/27
Non-Apple
"YouTube might be the best place to watch the Olympics (if it doesn't break)"?I, Cringely?7/28
"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
"How software can learn a lot from the way nature works"?ZDNet?7/27
"If OEMs aren't committed to Windows, where are they to go?"?ZDNet?7/27
"Widespread outages underline the need for IT backup plans"?V3?7/27
"Top 10 technologies powering the Olympic and Paralympic Games"?V3?7/27
"No slowdown in sight for cyber attacks"?USA Today?7/27
"The week in tech: 5 must-know things"?USA Today?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
"BT: Almost every Android device is infected with malware"?ZDNet?7/27
"Google Is Now America's Most Awesome ISP"?Wired?7/27
"Is Google Fiber Key to Cloud Happiness?"?Wired?7/27
"Five Cool Things About Google Fiber (and One Not So Cool Thing)"?Techland?7/27
"Why it's not easy being Mark Zuckerberg"?GigaOM [Free Registration Required]?7/27
"Sight: A Short Film About The Future ? [Video, Nsfw]?RazorianFly?7/27
Humor/Cartoons
"Bill & Melinda Gates: You can't take a photo with an iPad! [Video]?Yahoo! News?7/28
"How To Compose Texts Or iMessages On iPhone With Drawings, Handwriting And Sketches"?Redmond Pie?11:20 AM
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