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August 14, 2012, 2:00 AM

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Reuters:

Apple has licensed design patents to Microsoft: executive — (Reuters) - Apple Inc licensed its prized design patents to Microsoft Corp but with an “anti-cloning agreement” to prevent copying of its iPhone and iPad, an Apple executive said on Monday. — The testimony from Apple patent …

More: Electronista, Computerworld, MacRumors, Pulse2 Technology …, 9to5Mac, Mobile Marketing Watch, VentureBeat, MobileSyrup.com, Redmond Pie, Neowin, TechnoBuffalo, App Advice, everythingiCafe, TechCrunch and Edible Apple. Tweets: @mpanzarino

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple “rubber-banding,” “pinch-to-zoom” patents challenged by Samsung witnesses — Samsung on Monday mounted its defense in the ongoing Apple v. Samsung patent trial, with the pair of “fact witnesses” giving testimony regarding alleged prior art to Apple's “rubber-banding” and “pinch-to-zoom” patents.

More: Engadget, The Verge and CNET

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Judge Refuses to Toss Most of Apple's Suit Against Samsung — With Apple having finished its primary case, the court took time on Monday to hear Samsung's arguments that the Cupertino-based company failed to meet its legal burden and that the case should be dropped.

More: CNET, Digits, PhoneArena, Engadget, The Verge, Forbes, IntoMobile and FierceWireless

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Samsung in Apple patent talks: Rock vs. hard place

More: The Verge, AllThingsD, eWeek, ZDNet, GeekWire, TUAW, 9to5Mac, BGR, SlashGear and Tech Trader Daily. Tweets: @inafried

Rene Ritchie / iMore:

iPhone 5 pre-orders planned for September 12, second release wave for first week of October — A couple of weeks ago iMore reported that Apple would be holding their iPhone 5 event on September 12, 2012. We've since learned that iPhone 5 pre-orders are currently planned to begin that same day …

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

AT&T planning for iPhone launch in late September, clearing schedules through October — According to a trusted AT&T (T) source, the carrier is currently planning to launch Apple's (AAPL) next-generation iPhone during the third or fourth week of September, with an all-hands-on-deck policy …

More: eWeek, Examiner, Los Angeles Times, PC Magazine, AppleTell, BetaNews, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, Know Your Cell, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Pocketnow, App Advice, Forbes, AppleInsider and everythingiCafe

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Google to Buy Frommer's Travel Brand — Google Inc. is acquiring the Frommer's travel brand from publicly traded publishing house John Wiley & Sons Inc. for an undisclosed price in order to bolster its offerings of local reviews around the world. — The deal is expected to close shortly.

Rafat Ali / Skift:

Google's third big foray in travel: Buying Frommer's for $23 milion

More: Media Decoder. See also Mediagazer

Dennis Schaal / Skift:

Google uses Frommer's and Zagat to solve its Yelp and TripAdvisor problem

More: The Verge

Lukasz Lindell / Day4:

How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community — Have you heard the phrase “That's true because I saw it on TV” at some point? It was often the truth in the old days when people only had the TV or newspaper to relate to. What you saw or read was the truth, although it obviously wasn't always so.

More: Gizmodo, Pulse2 Technology …, Forbes, The Register, The Verge, GigaOM, AppleInsider and TUAW

Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:

Collaborating to deliver Windows RT PCs … Windows 8 and Windows RT each reached the RTM milestone, and we are hard at work in collaboration with ecosystem partners, including PC manufacturers, Silicon partners, and other component suppliers, to complete high quality Windows RT and Windows 8 PCs that we think you'll love.

More: VentureBeat, eWeek, CNET, The Register, PC World, GigaOM, Ars Technica, GeekWire, PC Magazine, Mashable!, Wired, Pocketables, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Its Windows!, HotHardware.com News, Liliputing, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget, Neowin and The Next Web. Thanks:@rajupp

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Lenovo, Dell, and Samsung Windows RT tablets and laptops confirmed

More: Gizmodo and LAPTOP Magazine

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Retail Stores Seeing Significant Layoffs of Recent Hires? — Over the past couple of weeks, we've been receiving reports that Apple has been laying off a number of recently-hired staff members at its retail stores. Most of the reports have been coming from Apple retail employees …

More: The Next Web, BGR, Macgasm, IntoMobile, MacNN, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com and Neowin

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Think App.net is just a Twitter clone? Then you're missing the point — Much of the coverage of App.net — the ambitious project from entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell that just raised $500,000 through a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding campaign — has focused on the idea that Caldwell is building a “paid version of Twitter.”

More: Orian Marx and Daily Dot. Tweets: @counternotions, @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan, @allnick and @hunterwalk

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

A Fee-Based Twitter Is No More Ideologically Pure Than An Ad-Supported Twitter

More: 9.blog, digitaltrends.com, Technology Review and Marketing Land. Tweets: @rsarver

Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:

Groupon stock dives 20 percent after poor earnings report — Groupon's stock took a sharp turn today, falling 20 percent in after hours trading. The daily deals company missed Wall Street estimates in its second quarter earnings. — The stock hit a low of $5.95 a share …

More: AdExchanger, VatorNews, TechCrunch, MarketWatch, AllThingsD, Pulse2 Technology …, PandoDaily, CNBC.com. and Tech Trader Daily

Eric Savitz / Forbes:

Groupon Posts Mixed Q2: Revs Miss, EPS Beats; Shrs Fall

More: Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, MarketBeat, Groupon, Inc., TechCrunch and Screenwerk

Tweets: @danprimack, @dcurtis, @dcurtis, @emilychangtv, @hblodget and @scottmaustin

Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:

RIM Says BlackBerry 10 Will Soon Be Ready For Licensing — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) said it will soon be ready to license the company's new BlackBerry 10 operating system to other manufacturers, even as it races to release its own devices with the software by early next year.

More: BGR, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup.com, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, The Tech Block, IntoMobile, CNET, 9to5Google, Pulse2 Technology … and Neowin

Anil Dash / Wired:

With the Surface Tablet, Fist-Swinging Microsoft Jumps Back Into the Ring — Illustration: Sébastien Thibault — Microsoft's June unveiling of the remarkable Surface tablet came almost exactly a year after a much more important milestone. In May 2011, the nine years of legal sanctions …

More: Daring Fireball. Tweets: @qthrul, @spencerchen and @pkedrosky

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

48 percent in Apple survey picked Android over the iPhone to stay with their carrier (update) — We're seeing some new internal documents during today's Apple v. Samsung testimony, and this time it's a survey Apple put together on why consumers considering an iPhone went with Android instead.

More: CNET and BGR

Matthew Dierker / Facebook Newsroom:

New Life Event for Timeline, “Expecting a Baby” — Now, you can choose to add ‘Expecting a Baby’ as a Life Event on timeline. — Life Events are easy and expressive ways to mark significant moments in your life such as getting married, buying a house or traveling to new places.

More: CNET, Daily Dot, The Next Web, Mashable! and PC Magazine. Tweets: @joshconstine

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Windows Next: Just call it ‘Blue’? — Summary: Windows 9 might not be Microsoft's next version of Windows. Instead, ‘Blue’ could be the interim release that shows up first. — It's been a couple weeks of Microsoft naming madness. To top it all off at the end of last week …

More: gHacks Technology News, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, Redmond Pie and The Next Web

Klint Finley / TechCrunch:

Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet — It's long been said that “I agree to the terms of service” is the biggest lie on the internet. And even if you do read them, many TOS are so ridden with legalese that you practically need to be a lawyer to understand them.

More: gHacks Technology News. Tweets: @theryanford, @jeremylittau and @cdixon

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