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[image] Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview with Over 100 New Features  —  Apple® today released a developer preview of OS X® Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of the world's most advanced operating system, which brings popular apps and features from iPad® to the Mac® …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:   Video Walkthrough of AirPlay and Other Features in OS X Mountain Lion
Ben Parr / Ben Parr's Entrepreneurial Musings:   One OS to Rule Them All  —  Most people think that Apple …
Ryan Faas / Cult of Mac:   iCloud In Mountain Lion Could Be A Big Headache For IT
Rich Jaroslovsky / Bloomberg:   Apple Speeds Mac ‘Mountain Lion’ Operating System to Challenge Windows 8
Parth Dhebar / Techie Buzz:   Apple Releases First Developer Preview of OS X Mountain Lion
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:   iMessage comes to the desktop in Apple's OS X Mountain Lion, and you can get it now
Dan Frommer / SplatF:   Apple's OS X Mountain Lion: The Important Stuff
John Cox / PC World:   IT Takes Wait-and-hope Approach to Apple Mac Mountain Lion
Edward C. Baig / USA Today:   Apple unveils new Mac OS X Mountain Lion
Edward Mendelson / PC Magazine:   Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:   Apple OS X Mountain Lion unveiled: Consumer dream, developer nightmare
Tim Carmody / Wired:   Apple Announces OS X Mountain Lion for Mac Desktops
Brian X. Chen / Bits:   Apple Aims to Tie the Mac More Tightly to iPad and iPhone
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:   Did your Mac make the Mountain Lion obsolescence list?
Darrell Etherington / BetaKit:   Messaging Startups React To Apple's iMessage Announcement
Lars Paronen / MediaFile:   Tech wrap: Apple teases “Mountain Lion”
Janet I. Tu / Seattle Times:   Apple's Mountain Lion to vie with Microsoft's Windows 8
Kevin Purcell / Gotta Be Mobile:   Mountain Lion Taking Us Closer to iOS on the Mac
Chris Nuttall / FT Tech Hub:   Apple's Mountain Lion - the mouse that roared?
Federico Viticci / MacStories:   Mountain Lion: Mac App Store-only, New Software Update System
New York Times:   Daily Report: Apple Previews New Mac Operating System
Jason Snell / Macworld:   Mountain Lion: Hands on with Notification Center
Owen Williams / Neowin.net:   Apple kills ‘software update’ in Mountain Lion, fights inconsistency
Kris Holt / Daily Dot:   Twitter now flies in Macs
A.T. Faust III / App Advice:   Apple Unveils OS X Mountain Lion, Further Blurs The Desktop/iOS Line
Shane Richmond / Telegraph:   Apple announces Mountain Lion operating system
Shaylin Clark / WebProNews:   Apple Announces OS X Mountain Lion, Coming This Summer
Thorin Klosowski / Lifehacker:   OS X Mountain Lion Brings Notification Center, AirPlay Mirroring, and More to Your Mac
Todd Wasserman / Mashable!:   Apple Mountain Lion Embraces Flickr and Vimeo Sharing
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:   Apple's OS X Mountain Lion brings more to the desktop from the iPhone, iPad
Apple Bitch:   Apple Announces OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Jonny Evans / Computerworld:   Apple unleashes iOS-loving OS X Mountain Lion preview for Macs
Eliot Van Buskirk / Evolver.fm:   The iPhone Permeates Apple's New Operating System
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:   OS X Mountain Lion detailed as dev build goes live and we go hands-on
Softpedia News:   Download the OS X Mountain Lion Messages App Today
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0 Blog:   Apple unveils OS X 10.8 ‘Mountain Lion’ to developers
Carly Page / SoMobile:   Apple's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion brings iOS to your Mac
Megan Lavey-Heaton / TUAW:   Messages is a good idea, but is not ready for prime time
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Danny Sullivan / @dannysullivan:   So was Apple's non-event launch of Mountain Lion the new way forward without Jobs to do the big reveal? http://www.techmeme.com/...
Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken:   Fascinating how Apple and Microsoft look at the same challenges & come up w/upgrades as different as Mtn. Lion & Windows 8.
@lessien:   MWC is in about a week. And the week after that there may be a little news. The timing of this ML announcement is vicious.
Chris Ziegler / @zpower:   apple's trend of BRILLIANTLY messing with its competitors continues. timing of 10.8 announce couldn't be more sinister.
Michael Gartenberg / @gartenberg:   This is the first time i can recall in more than a decade that Apple has shared a pre-release OS with press & analysts for public discussion
Jason Snell / Macworld:
[image] Hands on with Apple's new OS X: Mountain Lion  —  Summer 2012 release continues to bring iOS features “back to the Mac”  —  Apple updates its iOS mobile operating system once a year.  But why should the iPhone and iPad have all the fun?  On Thursday Apple announced that it will release …
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Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:   Mountain Lion may drop support for older Macs, integrated graphics not to blame
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek:   Apple's Mac OS X ‘Mountain Lion,’ Windows 8 Poised for Fight
Steve / Atlassian Blogs:   Between a rock and a hard place - our decision to abandon the Mac App Store
Chris Rawson / TUAW:   Mountain Lion drops support for several older Mac models (Updated)
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:   Video: OS X Mountain Lion's wireless AirPlay Mirroring in action
Topher Kessler / CNET:   What Gatekeeper in OS X 10.8 means for Mac security
Cameron Scott / Computerworld:   Apple's Mountain Lion share menu lacks Facebook option
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:   Apple Seeds Safari 5.2 for OS X Lion to Developers [Mac Blog]
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:   OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion first impressions: This is a cougar I'd take home
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing:   Gatekeeper: Cancel or Allow?
Computerworld:   Mountain Lion: Hands on with Gatekeeper
Btarunr / techPowerUp!:   OS X “Mountain Lion” Drops Support for Several Older Mac Models
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:   Apple launches OS war against Microsoft
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:   Apple's Mountain Lion Makes the Mac More Like the iPad
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:   Mountain Lion: Most Skippable OS X Upgrade Ever?
Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:   OS X Mountain Lion: The Future of the Mac
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:   Apple Is Going To Anger A Lot Of Big Media Companies With AirPlay On The Mac
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:   Older Macs voted off the Mountain Lion island
Christina Bonnington / Wired:   OS X Mountain Lion: 5 Most Exciting New Features
MacNN:   Apple posts OS X Mountain Lion preview, Messages beta
Jason Snell / ITworld.com:   Mountain Lion: Messages replaces iChat, gets public beta
Chris Martin / Inquirer:   Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:   ∞ Additional Mountain Lion coverage
Steven Frank / Panic Blog:
[image] About Gatekeeper  —  Today's Mountain Lion announcement introduces an important new security feature, called Gatekeeper, in addition to the “sandboxing” feature that premiered in Lion.  I'd like to talk a little bit about it, and why it's important to all Mac users.  —  Malware is out of control.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
[image] The slow rise of the SoMoClo OS  —  Even at first glance, one can see that Apple's new desktop operating system, OSX Mountain Lion is unifying the user experience across its different devices and platforms.  Common applications and modes of interaction such a reminders, notes …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
[image] Google Drive in the wild?  Screenshot and possible logo  —  Google appears to be getting closer to the launch of its online storage service: A GeekWire reader says Google Drive has been enabled in his Google Account — as shown in the screenshot above, which has been redacted for the sake of his privacy.
Caterina Fake / Caterina.net:
[image] Pinwheel!  In Private Beta  —  I'm happy we're about to start inviting people into the thing we've been working on!!  It's called Pinwheel, and it's a way to find and leave notes all around the world.  —  We're opening it up in private beta on the web and mobile web.  An iOS version is coming next.
Rhoda Alexander / iSuppli®:
[image] Apple's Toughest Competition in the Fourth-Quarter Tablet Market Was...Apple  —  Although soaring sales of Amazon's Kindle Fire and other low-priced tablets trimmed Apple Inc.'s media tablet market share in the fourth-quarter, it was Apple's own newly introduced iPhone 4S that proved …
Andrew Tarantola / Gizmodo:
[image] Netflix Is Bringing DVD-Only Rentals Back  —  Since the whole Qwikster debacle, Netflix has tried to distance itself from DVD rentals in favor of its streaming service.  But red envelopes will soon be popping through mail slots again now that Netflix has reintroduced DVD rentals.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
[image] Take a Look at Some of Apple's Evidence in Proview iPad Dispute  —  You've seen the text of the Chinese court decision that sided with Apple in its dispute with Proview Technology over rights to the iPad trademark in China.  Now, here's some of the supporting documentation.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
[image] Apple and the New York Times not meshing  —  The Wall Street Journal's Jessica Vascellaro scores the access coup of the week, maybe month.  An exclusive interview with Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook yields insight on how the company is migrating iPhone functionality to boxes.
Horace Dediu / asymco:
[image] Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than all the Macs sold it in 28 years  —  Tim Cook on the 55 million iPads sold to date: … via Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook at Goldman Sachs - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech.  —  That gave me an idea.  Here is a plot of each major computing product Apple sold throughout …
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple wins German injunction against most of Motorola's slide-to-unlock implementations  —  I just returned from the Munich I Regional Court, where Presiding Judge Dr. Peter Guntz publicly announced a decision in Apple's favor: most of Motorola Mobility's products were found to infringe …
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Electronista:   Motorola found violating Apple slide-to-unlock patent
BBC:   Patents: Apple wins over Motorola in ‘slide-to-unlock’ ruling
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:   Apple wins right to ban Motorola smartphones using ‘slide-to-unlock’ feature
J.R. Bookwalter / iPhone:   Thursday Recap: Apple Thinking Different Again, Patent Victory Against Motorola
Jason Mick / DailyTech:   German Judge Bans Androids for Swipe-Unlocking, Clueless of Prior Art
Aaron Orquia / Pocketables:   Apple is awarded victory in German slide-to-unlock lawsuit against Motorola
Jeff Saginor / Digital Trends:   Apple's ‘slide-to-unlock’ victory over Motorola
Matt Macari / The Verge:   Apple uses slide-to-unlock patent to get ban on Motorola smartphones in Germany
IntoMobile:   German court rules against Motorola in Apple swipe to unlock lawsuit
Brandon Russell / TechnoBuffalo:   German Court Rules Motorola Infringes on Apple's Slide-to-Unlock
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:   Slide for injunction: Apple wins against Motorola over “slide-to-unlock” in Germany
Cody / iDownloadBlog.com:   Apple wins injunction against Motorola in Germany over ‘slide to unlock’ patent
Charles Arthur / Guardian:   Apple's ‘slide to unlock’ patent win could halt Android sales in Germany
Dan Graziano / BGR:   Motorola devices could be banned following loss in German patent spat with Apple
Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:   Apple wins “slide to unlock” patent clash against Motorola
Kevin Krause / Android Phone Fans:   Apple wins injunction hearing on Motorola slide-to-unlock in Germany
Zack Whittaker / London Calling Blog:   Apple wins injunction against Motorola slide-to-unlock phones
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:   Apple Wins German Injunction Against Motorola Over “Swipe to Unlock” Patents [iOS Blog]
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:   Apple Secures Win Against Motorola Over ‘Slide-to-Unlock’ Patent
Thanks:@fosspatents
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
[image] Google Patent Reveals Future Unlock Features for Android Devices  —  Back in October 2011 we reported that Apple's “Slide to Unlock” patent stirred up a hornet's nest in Taiwan and we now see that Apple has filed another patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung over this feature.
Cotton Delo / AdAge:
[image] Twitter Opens Up Self-Serve Ad Platform to 10,000 Small Businesses  —  American Express Cardmembers and Merchants Are Eligible to Register for Platform Starting Tonight  —  Twitter is rolling out the self-serve ad platform it's been testing to 10,000 small and midsize businesses next month through …
David Cohen / All Facebook:
[image] Orange Rolling Out Facebook To All Phones In Africa  —  Mobile phone users in Africa may be saying, “Orange you glad we can get on Facebook now?”  —  France Telecom's Orange service provider announced that the social network will soon available on any phone within its footprint across the continent …
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
[image] Glassmap is like Find My Friends but better  —  There are all sorts of new apps popping up to help users figure out where their friends and friends of friends are hanging out: There's Foursquare, which is the granddaddy of the Social-Local-Mobile movement.  There's Sonar, which aims to connect users at events and venues.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
[image] Microsoft launches msnNOW, tracking trends using data from Facebook, Twitter, Bing  —  Microsoft's MSN is launching a new site called msnNOW, serving up the latest buzzworthy stories using technology that analyzes Twitter, Facebook, Bing and BreakingNews.com to identify trending topics by the minute.
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
[image] Groupon Is Testing A New $30 Per Year VIP Service  —  Groupon is offering a new “VIP” service that costs $30 a year.  —  A reader forwarded us the email below, and we've confirmed that it's real with Groupon.  —  What do you get for $30 a year?  Early access to deals, and ability to buy old deals …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
[image] Music Industry Mulls Suing Google Over “Pirate” Search Results  —  It's no secret that the entertainment industries believe search engines are not delivering enough when it comes to protecting copyright works.  —  Two months ago the RIAA and IFPI accused Google of massively profiting …
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
[image] Feds Propose Ban on In-Car Dialing, Texting, Surfing  —  The Department of Transportation has proposed guidelines that would block all in-vehicle communications by a driver, including texting, dialing, Internet browsing, and even entering a GPS address by hand.
More: Bloomberg and SlashGear
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
[image] More Free Web TV Disappears: Some March Madness Games Will Go Behind Paywall  —  If you've gotten used to the idea that you can watch March Madness on the Web, for free, without breaking the law, you may be in for a surprise next month.  —  Some of the college basketball tourney's games …
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
[image] Swype hits Android 4.0 with Dragon Go! integration  —  Nuance added support for Ice Cream Sandwich, or Android 4.0, in the latest beta of its Swype software keyboard on Thursday.  The new version has a limited audience base since so few handsets and tablets currently run Google's …
Ben Popper / VentureBeat:
[image] Memory grand master Ed Cooke gets $1M to teach his tricks at new startup, Memrise  —  There is nothing extraordinary about Ed Cooke's brain.  Sure he can memorize a 1000 digit number in less than an hour, but so can you, he believes.  —  “It's not like I was born with special cognitive abilities.
Eric Pryne / Seattle Times:
[image] Amazon to buy Denny Triangle property; plans 3 big office towers  —  In one of Seattle's biggest real-estate deals in years, Amazon.com has agreed to buy three blocks from Clise Properties and plans to build a 1 million-square-foot office tower on each.  —  In one of Seattle's biggest real-estate deals …
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
[image] Nevada Approves Rules for Self-Driving Cars  —  In a statement, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles said that its Legislative Commission today approved regulations allowing for the operation of self-driving vehicles on the state's roadways.  Nevada's rules are the next step in a process began last June …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
[image] Demand Media Beats Expectations Slightly in Q4 Report; Buying Back More Stock; CEO: “Turbulent Year”  —  Demand Media, which has suffered from stock weakness and worries about its traffic and costs, beat Wall Street expectations in its fourth quarter earnings report, which was released after the market closed today.

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