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Monday morning news

The Samsung vs Apple patent trial came to a close, and the final decision is about how do we get: Samsung were found to infringe on many of Apple's patents, including all Apple software patents, patents, as well as commercial as Apple's iPhone and iPhone 3 g. Even worse (for Samsung) is as the jury found that none of the devices Apple has infringed on Samsung's patents and now Samsung has Apple just over 1 billion dollars. Nilay Patel from The Verge breaks the decision and tells us what it really means to the smartphone ecosystem as a whole.

TUAW has a nice summary of patents, what they mean, and how did the jury. Two things stand out: how many Samsung devices there are actually, and of those, how many devices were actually involved in experimentation.

Apple and Samsung have released press statements after the verdict was handed down. Apple's statement is simple: Samsung copied them, and they got what was coming. Samsung, however, takes a different approach, saying that "today's verdict should not be seen as a victory for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer."

Apparently not satisfied by simply copying Apple products, Samsung has decided to copy their retail stores, too: and right in our back yard! Samsung new retail store in Sydney looks suspiciously similar to our favorite fruit stand, right down to the blue shirts.

The iPad smaller which is on everyone's lips will reportedly called mini iPad, according to the Japanese blog Macotakara. The same blog also believes that the new iPod nano will be offering free Wi-Fi in order to support iTunes in the Cloud.

Different sources have pointed out that most likely the next iPad will debut at an event in September * but not the event announcing the next iPhone, which has not been officially announced by Apple, but it should happen on 12 September. Instead, the iPad will have its own announcement event, now that is said to happen in October.

Apple Vice President of Internet Software and services spoke regarding the Apple TV. If you're looking for a spare TV anytime soon, don't wait for Apple to release one: according to Eddy Cue, "an Apple TV appears extremely unlikely in the short term".

Mountain Lion battery life has been hit and Miss, but the 10.8.1 update was supposed that all difficulties. He did it? The Mac Observer suspect, putting together a nice battery life comparison on Lion, mountain lion, and the recently released update 10.8.1.

By the way, the second update of mountain lion was seeded to developers at the end of last week, and is the first to include integration with Facebook. AppleInsider has a look at this Facebook integration, which consists mainly of a Facebook option in the share menu all the operating system.

After the verdict was handed down, Tim Cook Apple addressed employees, echoing the same sentiments as the original press release. Is a cross-section of company culture that is Apple; be proud of the work I do and value things such as originality and innovation.

MacStories reviews 2 things with Cloud sync. 2 things for Mac and iOS is a version that isn't a huge change for general things GTD methodology, but there are a few nice changes through both applications, little touches here and there.

Evernote has teamed up with Moleskine to create physical notebook with a digital flavour: their Smart Notebook has just announced the couples notes analog digital world. And if you want to know more about Evernote, you should read excellent article James ' (and associated with Jared rebuttal).


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Tuesday morning news

You've heard a lot about the next iPhone, but what's the deal with all iPhones sixth generation rumors so far? Fortunately for you, Ars Technica has put together the pieces to make some sort of bizarre reverse-Humpty Dumpty so can understand just exactly what we know so far about the next iPhone.

Unfortunately, their list is, like Humpty Dumpty, bound to be missing a few pieces here and there due to new information being released all the time. The loss of newer parts shows an assembly mainly intact front display, complete with circuits that hints of NFC implementation is very important.

We also heard about 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display for awhile now, and now that the test is not only benchmarks, with the analyst Richard Sim now saying that the Retina display panel by 13 inches is now being produced by three separate companies.

Speaking of Retina display, Marco Arment has a brief review of the MacBook Pro Retina from the point of view of the owner of a Mac Pro. As for expandability, the two machines could not be any further apart but Marco still says that it is the best computer has ever used.

Shared photo streams are coming as part of iOS 6, that is, as far as we know, still scheduled to be released in a couple of months. Imore explains exactly How Shared workflow picture, including how you'll be able to share your own and add comments to photos.

Apple plans to expand their retail operations in Sweden, with the first Apple store with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, scheduled to open in September. There are also plans for a second store, located in Malmö, set to open in October.

Samsung internal Memo to employees expressed disappointment about the verdict. From what I've read from both companies, both companies did not want to go to Court, preferring to settle or negotiate at least but that begs the question of how bad those out-of-court discussions went in order for both companies end up in court.

Mat Honan putting together its digital life back after his MacBook Air was remotely cancelled, even managing to recover deleted photos of his daughter. Now, companies are beefing up security; Dropbox recently launched two-factor authentication and that Macworld has a guide on how you can do that job.

Launchpad as a feature of Mac OS X Lion, being one of the earliest features included as part of the campaign "Back to Mac" Apple. Is not just a place for launching applications, however, because as it turns out, you can create folders, just like you can on iOS.

Readomator combines the best aspects of Instapaper with podcast: instead of having to actually read articles (ugh, how utilitarian), Readomator transforms your Instapaper queue in podcast episodes you can listen. Looks interesting.


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