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Google Agrees to Buy Motorola Mobility for 12.5-Billion-Dollars / Google Chief Legal Officer: Motorola Mobility Suits Against Apple will Continue / Google CEO: Stoked About Motorola Mobility’s Handset Business But Will Keep Android Open / CNET: Google Buy of Motorola Mobility Could Cause Tension with Other Android Partners / The Loop: Google Plus Motorola Mobility Could Equal Good Time for HP to License webOS / Motorola Mobility Acquisition Could Be Shot-in-the-Arm for Google TV / CNET: Google Buy of Motorola Mobility Likely to Face Regulatory Scrutiny / GigaOm: Sources Say Microsoft Was Courting Motorola Mobility Too / Engadget: Secret Source Says Telefonica Drawing Down iPhone 4 Inventory Through 12 September / Electronista: Rumored Verizon Promotion Could Indicate October Launch for Next iPhone / BGR Says Apple Carrier Partners Testing Some iOS Device with 4G Connectivity / eBay Auction of Alleged 3G-MacBook Prototype Gets Yanked / DigiTimes: Secret Supply-Chain Sources Say iPad 3 Nixed for Second Half of 2012 / Computerworld Netherlands: German Court May Not Have Gotten Full Picture in Galaxy Tab 10.1 Injunction Case / Barnes and Noble Says Official Jobs Biography Due Out on 21 November / Work Appears to Be Underway on Apple Grand Central Terminal Store / Most Flagrant Fake “Apple Store” in Kunming Changes Name to “Smart Store”

Rumor: Japanese Site Says Apple Holding iPod Event on September 7 / Dalrymple: Sources Say No Appel Event on September 7 / TipB: Next iPhone Could Go on Sale in U.S. on October 7 / Report: TSMC Starts Trial Production Run of A6 Processors for Apple / Apple and Samsung to Argue EU Injunction Against Galaxy Tab 10.1 Next Week / Apple Ships Lion 10.7.2 and iCloud beta Updates to Developers / Google Asks USPTO to Re-Examine Two of Four Lodsys Patents / 4G BlackBerry PlayBook Not Headed to Sprint After All / eBay Auction Seems to Offer Prototype MacBook 3G

ABI Research Sees Growth and Cause for Concern in Rise of Android Tablets / CNET: Motorola Addresses Apple Filing Against Xoom in Germany / Court in Netherlands to Rule on Injunction Barring Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 by 15 September / FOSS Patents: Galaxy Tab 10.1 Still for Sale in Germany / Rumor Has Apple Launching Low Cost “iCloud Phone” Along with iPhone 5 / Verizon Follows AT&T Lead in Blocking “Free” Smartphone Tethering / Lion USB Drives Arrive at Apple Retail Stores / WSJ: Intel’s Ultrabook Initiative Inspired/Driven Largely by Apple / Microsoft Drops Linux as PC Rival in Latest Filing with SEC / Authorities Find 22 More Unauthorized Apple Stores in Kunming, China / Hothead Games Bringing The Hitchhikers’ Guide to The Galaxy to iOS This Fall

Sterne Agee Analyst Sees 2x to 3x Growth for Macs and iPhones in Next Few Years / Atari, EA, QuickOffice, and Square-Enix Ask Court to Let Apple Intervene in Lodsys Cases / Apple and Five Major Publishers Sued Over “Agency Pricing” for eBooks / Electronista: Watchers Say Amazon’s Old “Wholesale” eBook Model May Have Been Anticompetitive / Amazon Sidesteps App Store Sales Rules with Cloudreader / Try Out The Amazon Cloudreader at http://amazon.com/cloudreader / Walmart Makes Streaming Video Service Vudu Play Nice with iPad Via Web App / Motorola Mobility CEO Acknowledges Initial Weaknesses Around Xoom / Report: Apple Files Complaint Over Design of Motorola Xoom with German Court / Moto Mobility CEO Open to Windows 8 Platform (Especially If It Got a Sweet Deal Like Nokia’s) / Two Charged with Misdemeanor Theft in “Found in a Bar” iPhone 4 / Apple Releases Migration Assistant Update for Mac OS X Leopard / Speculation Mounts Wednesday Night That HTC Might Have Reached a Settlement with Apple / HTC Announcement About Investment in Beats Audio / HP Makes 100-Dollar Price Drop on TouchPad Permanent / Report: Neighbors Bothered by Greenwich, CT Apple Store’s Plan for Security Gate

Gartner Sees Strong and Steady Growth for Mac at Least Through 2015 / German Court Bars Import of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Most of EU / Samsung Seeks to Downplay EU Ban for Galaxy Tab 10.1 / Computerworld: Analysts See No Way to Downplay EU Ban for Galaxy Tab 10.1 / Forrester Sees Small Window of Opportunity for Android Tablets in Europe (Before Galaxy Tab 10.1 Ban) / GigaOm: Apple Opening Five New Retail Locations This Weekend / NPD Group: Lack of Understanding of “Cloud Computing” Will Likely Not Slow Adoption of Such Services / USITC Agrees to Investigate New Patent Infringement Complaints by Apple Against HTC / Apple Expands “Reuse and Recycle” Program / Apple Clears Inventory in Some Stores in England As Riots and Looting Reach Fourth Night / Nokia Dropping Symbian-Based Phone in US and Canada When Windows Phones Start Rolling / Walmart Closing MP3 Download Store at End of Month / CNN Sources Say The Tribune Co Considering Tablet of Its Own for Newspaper Subscribers / Apple “Simplifying” Fifth Ave Glass Cube in NYC / Apple Overtakes Exxon Mobil (for a Short Time) to Become Most Valuable Publicly Traded Company in the World

Deutsche Bank Analyst Stoked About Apple and Computers for Second-Half CY2011 / Apple Outs Education-Only iMac for 999-Dollars / Apple Releases Lion Recovery Disk Assistant / RadioShack Discounts iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 Through August 20 / Apple Presses to Intervene in Cases Between Lodsys and iOS Developers / Apple Sued by Apparent Patent Troll for Making Macs Start-Up too Quickly / Florian Mueller Thinks OSS May be a Pawn Played Against Apple by LG / Apple Issues Minor Updates for Logic Pro and Logic Express / Conde Nast and The New Yorker Launch “Goings On” App for iPhone / Beijing Reportedly “Cracking Down” on Unauthorized Apple Stores / CNET: Apple Nowhere Near iTunes Replay for Movies with Six Biggest Studios / Orange UK and Apple Tie-Up for Movie-a-Week Giveaway / DigiTimes Posts Pointless Story on “Expected” Growth of Android Tablets / Windows Phone GM Ditches Microsoft for Startup / 10-Year-Old Hacker Demos Zero-Day Exploit for Some Farm-Style iOS and Android Games at Vegas Hacker Conference / Stanford Offering Free Intro to AI Class This Fall

Needham and Co Analyst Ups Apple Target to 540-Dollars / Apple Insider: Apple Ships Updated betas of iOS 5, Apple TV Software, Xcode 4.2, and iTunes to Developers / Conflicting Reports on Apple Nixing iOS 5 betas on Non-Developer Devices / Revived Rogers Data Plan Could Signal September for Next iPhone / Mobile Ad Firm Finds Blue/Grey Division Between iOS/Android Phones / UK Regulator Ofcom Sees Adults Preferring iPhones While Teens Prefer BlackBerries / FBI Launches Child ID App for iPhone / RightNow Seeks to Have Lodsys Patents Invalidated / Acer Founder Sort of Calls Tablets and Ultrabooks “Fads” / Ultrabook Manufacturers Forced to Use Alternate Materials as MacBook Air Eats All the Magnesium-Aluminum / Epic Games President: Future Mobiles Could Eliminate Need for Future Consoles

RBC Analyst: Apple Won’t Make a Low-Cost iPhone Unless They Can Make It Awesome / 3 Sweden iPhone 3GS Sale Seen as Sign of New iPhone Coming Soon / IDC: Yep. Apple is Top Smartphone Maker in the World / Apps Updated for iOS 5 Start Showing Up in App Store / Some iMac Users See System Freezes While Viewing Video in Lion / Cult of Mac: Source Says Apple is Discontinuing Magic Mouse / Cult of Mac: Source Says “Whoops! Apple is NOT Discontinuing Magic Mouse” / Reports: Apple Turns on “Find my Mac” Feature in iCloud.com/10.7.2 Developer beta / Apple Appears to Take Legal Action Against Stores Imitating Apple Retail / USITC Judge in Kodak/Apple/RIM Case Steps Down / Vonage Releases iOS VoIP App with Calls Billed Through iTunes / HPalm Drops Price of TouchPad by 100-Dollars for This Weekend Only / Apple Sued Over Unauthorized Use of Photograph

Jefferies and Company Sees Apple Beginning the Merge of Mac OS and iOS Next Year / Jefferies Analyst Sees Apple Video Subscription Service Coming Soon / AppAdvice: Apple Plans “iTunes Replay” Service for Re-Downloading and Streaming More TV Shows and Movies / DigiTimes Says Pegatron Gets Orders for 10-Million Units of iPhone 5 / Ticonderoga Securities Analyst Sees China Telecom Getting iPhone 5 and “Simplified” iPhone 4 as Soon as October / Fujitsu CTO Sees Tablet Sales Beating PC/Laptop Sales in ABout 5-Years / Time Inc Taking All 21 of Its Periodical Titles to Tablets (BlackBerry PlayBook Apparently Not Included) / Google Counsel Complains Publicly Over Patent Disputes in Mobile Space / Microsoft Counsel Says Google Turned Down Invitation to Bid on Nortel Patents with Apple and Microsoft and Crew / South Korea Fines Apple and Google 28-Hundred-Dollars Over Smartphone Location Logging / Apple Rolls Out Printer Driver Updates for Brother, HP, and Samsung Machines on Snow Leopard and Lion / Apple Issues Quicktime Security Update for Leopard and Windows / Facebook Buys Push Pop Press for Undisclosed Sum / Instagram Tops 7-Million Users and 150-Million Photos Shared in Nine Months / EA and Digital Chocolate Founder Sees End Coming Soon for Apple’s Mobile Dominance (Unless Apple Does What He Says)

Creative Strategies Exec: Jobs Spends Medical Leave Managing, Not Micromanaging / RBC Capital Analyst: September (not October) Likely for Fifth-Gen iPhone Launch / Electronista Finds Support for September versus October iPhone Launch in Target and Radio Shack Sales / Electronista: Target Discounts iPhone 4 Prices in Some Regions of the Country / Sources for The Guardian Say Locked Boxes Packed with Fifth-Gen iPhones in the Hands of Wireless Carriers / Shaw Wu Hears Talk of a Slightly Bigger Screen for the Fifth-Gen iPhone / Canalys: iOS Topples Symbian to Become Second Largest Smartphone OS Worldwide / iSuppli: Nobody Builds Tablets Better than Apple / Ship Times for iPad 2 Drop to “Within 24 Hours” in U.S. and Canada / Jeweler Fashions 8.14-Million Dollar iPad 2 / USITC Agrees to Investigate Apple Complaint Against Samsung / Samsung Says It Will Have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 Available in Australia Soon / University of Southern Mississippi Outfits Select Students with Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 / WSJ Sources Say Apple Takes Hunt for Retail Chief Replacement International