Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Ex-Apple Designer Testifies at Samsung Patent Trial - San Francisco Chronicle


Brisbane Times

Ex-Apple Designer Testifies at Samsung Patent Trial
San Francisco Chronicle
(Corrects to remove reference to iPhone graphics from Kare's experience in second paragraph.) Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Former Apple Inc. graphics designer Susan Kare, who invented the smiling computer icon for the original Macintosh, was called to testify ...
Typo in expert report lead to spat between Samsung, AppleITworld.com
Apple Accuses Samsung of Copying Even Application IconseWeek
Apple-Samsung hot tub has heated startZDNet
Apple Insider -Firstpost
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Hacker succeeds, forces Apple and Amazon to change security policies - CNET


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Hacker succeeds, forces Apple and Amazon to change security policies
CNET
by Aloysius Low | 8 August 2012 11:53am SGT The big news this week was the hijacking of Wired reporter Mat Honan's iCloud account. Honan was hacked via a security flaw in Apple and Amazon's security policies, which allowed the hacker to pretend to be ...
After Epic Hack, Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password ResetsWired News
Apple iCloud Hack Raises Concerns Over Cloud SecurityeWeek
Hacking nightmare a cautionary taleSan Francisco Chronicle
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Starbucks and Square to Team Up - New York Times


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Starbucks and Square to Team Up
New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO â€" Cash moved one small step nearer to its deathbed with the announcement on Wednesday that Square, the mobile payments start-up, would form a partnership with the Starbucks Coffee Company. This fall, Square will begin processing all ...
Starbucks Invests in SquareWall Street Journal
Starbucks to accept Square mobile paymentsBusinessweek
Starbucks to use Square for payments, will invest $25 millionReuters
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Apple-Samsung hot tub has heated start - ZDNet


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Apple-Samsung hot tub has heated start
ZDNet
Summary: Samsung has used the opening of expert witness examination in the Australian Federal Court to question whether Apple asked a witness to change his view. By Josh Taylor | August 8, 2012 -- 03:02 GMT (20:02 PDT) Samsung's Australian counsel ...
Apple Accuses Samsung of Copying Even Application IconseWeek
Internal Samsung report comparing Galaxy S with iPhone admitted into evidenceApple Insider
Court hearing shows Apple, Samsung tiesSan Francisco Chronicle
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Possible reference to 9-pin dock connector found in iOS 6 beta - CNET


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Possible reference to 9-pin dock connector found in iOS 6 beta
CNET
One of the more interesting rumors circulating the forthcoming Apple iPhone release is whether Apple will continue using its standard 30-pin dock connector on its mobile devices. by Joe Aimonetti The latest evidence that Apple is ready to abandon its ...
Apple: YouTube app will not be included in iOS 6, Google working on standalone ...The Verge
Apple?s Decision to Drop YouTube From iOS Is a Big Deal for Music, AppsWired News
Silly Media: YouTube on Apple iOS 6 Ain't DeadThe VAR Guy
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon pricing and configurations revealed - SlashGear


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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon pricing and configurations revealed
SlashGear
This week the thinnest ultrabook on the block has been re-revealed with its full specifications, pricing, and release date ready to roll. This next-generation computer will be available from Lenovo's online store starting on August 21st, and users will ...
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 CarbonCNET
Back to School With Two Thin Laptopsâ€"One Pricey, One NotWall Street Journal
ThinkPad X1 Carbon -- Able MacBook Air competitor (review)ZDNet
PCWorld -USA TODAY
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After Epic Hack, Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets - Wired News


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After Epic Hack, Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets
Wired News
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles and Mat Honan Apple is considering changes to its AppleID password reset policies. But what those changes would be, if there are any, aren't yet clear. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Apple on Tuesday ordered its support staff to ...
Amazon addresses security exploit after journalist hackCNET
In Today's Performance, the Role of Microsoft Will Be Played by AppleBusinessweek
Amazon fixes security flaw hackers used against Wired's Mat HonanArs Technica
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Former Apple designer says Samsung phones looked similar - Reuters


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Former Apple designer says Samsung phones looked similar
Reuters
* Original Mac icon designer says Samsung phones confused her * Overall impression of 11 phones and the iPhone was similar By Edwin Chan SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug 7 (Reuters) - The focus of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics courtroom battle shifted to the ...
More Galaxy Tabs returned due to malfunction than mistaken identityApple Insider
IPhone vs. Galaxy: Original Apple icon designer Susan Kare confused themVentureBeat
Ex-Apple Designer: Samsung Devices Look 'Confusingly Simliar'Fox Business
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In Today's Performance, the Role of Microsoft Will Be Played By Apple - Businessweek


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In Today's Performance, the Role of Microsoft Will Be Played By Apple
Businessweek
By Ashlee Vance on August 07, 2012 If you use the Internet, then you may have heard that Mat Honan, a technology reporter at Wired, had his digital personality manhandled by some hackers. They infiltrated his Twitter, Gmail, Amazon.com, ...
Amazon Boosts Security After Journalist HackPC Magazine
Amazon fixes security flaw that led to hack of Wired journalistLos Angeles Times
Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist's Devastating HackWired News
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Upsides in Apple Booting Its YouTube App - Wall Street Journal (blog)


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Upsides in Apple Booting Its YouTube App
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Amir Efrati Apple Inc.'s announcement that its app for Google's YouTube service won't be preinstalled on future iPhones and iPads caused a stir in Silicon Valley, as the two tech giants ended yet another longstanding partnership.
With iOS 6, Apple kicks out YouTube appChristian Science Monitor
Apple?s Decision to Drop YouTube From iOS Is a Big Deal for Music, AppsWired News
YouTube dropped from iPhone-iPad operating systemAFP
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Microsoft bulking up on staff for next-gen Surface devices - CNET


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Microsoft bulking up on staff for next-gen Surface devices
CNET
Microsoft is already moving on to the next generation of Surface products, as its jobs postings make pretty clear. by Brooke Crothers Microsoft is bulking up design teams for next-gen Surface devices, despite the pleas of PC partners like Acer.
Surface Tablet to Come With Stripped Down Office Suite, Report SaysWired News
Sorry, PC Makers: Microsoft is Building "Next Generation" SurfacePCWorld (blog)
OEMs might complain about Microsoft, but ultimately they'll do as they're toldZDNet (blog)
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Apple?s Decision to Drop YouTube From iOS Is a Big Deal for Music, Apps - Wired News


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Apple?s Decision to Drop YouTube From iOS Is a Big Deal for Music, Apps
Wired News
By Evolver.fm By Eliot Van Buskirk, Evolver.fm When the very first iPhone shipped, literally changing the world as we knew it, it carried a little Trojan horse inside of it called YouTube. The app for Google's video-sharing site comes standard with ...
Apple to ditch YouTube app for iPhone, iPad as it distances itself from GoogleWashington Post
Apple to Drop Google's YouTube From New Version of IOSBusinessweek
Apple to ditch iPhone YouTube appThe Associated Press
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4 Things Apple Will Eliminate With iPhone 5 and iOS 6 - PCWorld


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4 Things Apple Will Eliminate With iPhone 5 and iOS 6
PCWorld
By Daniel Ionescu, PCWorld Aug 7, 2012 10:25 AM The next-generation iPhone is set to bring some radical changes for users, and it will also mark a very public break-up between Apple and Google. Much-loved Google products on iOS will now disappear or be ...
Why Dropping YouTube in iOS 6 is GoodPC Magazine
Apple yanks Google's YouTube app from iOS 6Computerworld
Apple heads toward Google-free iPhone as YouTube app is droppedThe Guardian
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Mac designer: Samsung phone fooled me - CNET


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Mac designer: Samsung phone fooled me
CNET
Apple's expert design witness, and former Mac icon designer says that she mistook one of Samsung's devices for Apple's. by Josh Lowensohn SAN JOSE, Calif. -- One of Apple's early designers apparently picked up a Samsung device believing it had been ...
Apple's Expert Witness cost them $75k “so far”SlashGear
Iconographer Behind Original Mac Interface Says Samsung's Phones Confuse Even HerForbes
Former Apple Designer Kare Testifies at Samsung Patent TrialBloomberg
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Apple, Amazon's Weak Security Allows Huge Hack of Gizmodo Reporter - DailyTech


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Apple, Amazon's Weak Security Allows Huge Hack of Gizmodo Reporter
DailyTech
According to Kaspersky Labs, Apple, Inc. (AAPL) is ten years behind Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) in security. Mat Honan, a former Wired editor and senior Gizmodo reporter found that out the hard way when a hacker took over the official Gizmodo Twitter feed ...
Why Did Hackers Torch One Man's Digital Life? Lulz, Of CourseForbes
What You Can Do to Better Protect Your Apple AccountNew York Times (blog)
The Cloud Security Lesson Apple Should Have Learned From GmailPC Magazine
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Samsung working on Android 4.1 update for Galaxy S III - CNET


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Samsung working on Android 4.1 update for Galaxy S III
CNET
by Scott Webster Samsung is on the verge of releasing an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for its Galaxy S III smartphone, according to a recent SamMobile report. The mobile blog claims that internal testing of the new firmware is complete and that a ...
Samsung's Galaxy Note II might launch with Android 4.0 ICSFudzilla
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet to hit the UK soonZDNet
Samsung's Stylus Madness is Simply MadnessPCWorld
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Is it 2008 again? Apple rickrolls developers in iOS 6 changelog - CNET


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Is it 2008 again? Apple rickrolls developers in iOS 6 changelog
CNET
The company included a link to a YouTube video in a mention of embedded URLs that directed people to a Rickroll clip. by Don Reisinger Oh, Apple, your humor is just too much to bear. The iPhone maker yesterday released its iOS 6 Beta 4 changelog, ...
iOS 6 Drops YouTube; Galaxy Note 10.1 Coming Soon; AT&T Shared Data PlansPC Magazine
Opinions Mixed on Apple's Deletion of YouTube from iOS 6PCWorld (blog)
Apple 'iPhone 5' rumors continue to flyWashington Post
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Apple 'iPhone 5' rumors continue to fly - Washington Post


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Apple 'iPhone 5' rumors continue to fly
Washington Post
As we ease into August, the rumors about Apple's next iPhone continue to circulate â€" especially as folks debate whether they should wait for Apple or pull the trigger on an Android smartphone. Lots of the chatter right now is more about what may not be ...
iOS 6 Drops YouTube; Galaxy Note 10.1 Coming Soon; AT&T Shared Data PlansPC Magazine
Apple Removes YouTube App From iOS 6InformationWeek (blog)
Public Mixed on Apple's Deletion of YouTube from iOSPCWorld (blog)
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Apple: Google's YouTube won't be included in iOS 6 - Washington Post


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Apple: Google's YouTube won't be included in iOS 6
Washington Post
Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. said Google Inc.'s YouTube won't be included in the next version of the software used in the iPhone and iPad, the latest evidence of escalating competition between the two companies. Apple has featured YouTube as a core ...
Apple to Pull YouTube App From DevicesWall Street Journal
ALL THINGS D: Apple's Disappearing YouTube AppMarketWatch
Linkpost | 8.7.2012Houston Chronicle (blog)
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Facebook moves into gambling with bingo app - Telegraph.co.uk


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Facebook moves into gambling with bingo app
Telegraph.co.uk
The social network has allowed gaming apps which are centred around gambling before, but the launch of Bingo Friendzy is the first one which allows people to stake real cash. Players have to be aged 18 and over in order to win cash prizes.
Facebook launches virtual bingo game offering real cash prizesThe Guardian
Facebook's first real-cash gambling app launchedBBC News
Bingo! Facebook Gambles On Games Using Real Money, Not Credits, To Engage UsersTechCrunch
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YouTube app vanishes from Apple's next version of iOS - BBC News


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YouTube app vanishes from Apple's next version of iOS
BBC News
The app for video sharing YouTube is currently missing from the next version of Apple's iOS6 operating system. Apple said the app had been removed because its licence to produce the program had expired. The Apple-made version of the YouTube app has ...
Apple drops YouTube as iPhone 5 hints a Google-free phoneComputerworld (blog)
Apple bins Youtube app in IOS 6Inquirer
Apple: YouTube app will not be included in iOS 6, Google working on standalone ...The Verge
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Apple bins Youtube app in IOS 6 - Inquirer


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Apple bins Youtube app in IOS 6
Inquirer
By Carly Page On Monday, Apple released the latest beta of IOS 6, version 4, which revealed that the pre-installed Youtube app that's found on Idevices will be absent in the next release of IOS. An Apple spokesperson confirmed the news to The INQUIRER, ...
Apple dumps YouTube app in further split from GoogleTelegraph.co.uk
Apple to drop YouTube app from iOS6 - reportMarketWatch
Apple: YouTube app will not be included in iOS 6, Google working on standalone ...The Verge
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Apple dumps YouTube app in further split from Google - Telegraph.co.uk


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Apple dumps YouTube app in further split from Google
Telegraph.co.uk
Earlier this year at WWDC, Apple's annual developers' conference, it was announced that the technology giant would be dropping Google Maps from the new version of its hugely popular iOS mobile operating system â€" and would be creating its own maps app ...
Apple to drop YouTube app from iOS6 - reportMarketWatch
Apple: YouTube app will not be included in iOS 6, Google working on standalone ...The Verge
Apple drops YouTube as pre-loaded app in iOS 6 systemUSA TODAY
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Apple v. Samsung trial blows out to mid-2013 - ZDNet


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Apple v. Samsung trial blows out to mid-2013
ZDNet
Summary: The Australian patent dispute between Apple and Samsung has been dragged out to May 2013, and risks being dragged out further. By Josh Taylor | August 7, 2012 -- 07:04 GMT (00:04 PDT) The Federal Court of Australia has laid out a hearing for ...
Designer says Samsung designs "substantially the same" as Apple'sApple Insider
Apple, Zimmer, Scripps, Media Televisi: Intellectual PropertyBusinessweek
Malfunction, not iPad, played greater role in Galaxy returnsCNET
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