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August 24, 2012, 7:55 PM

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Howard Mintz / Mercury News:

Apple wins $1 billion victory over Samsung — In a verdict that would have warmed the heart of late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, a federal jury on Friday handed Apple a resounding legal victory in its bitter patent war with Samsung, ordering the South Korean tech giant to pay more than $1 billion in damages for …

More: The Next Web, Los Angeles Times, Wired, BGR, The Next Web, PC World, BBC, Marketing Land, GigaOM, 9to5Mac and AllThingsD

Tweets: @ahess247, @ahess247 and @dannysullivan

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Apple Awarded $1.051 Billion In Damages As Jury Finds Samsung Infringed On Design And Software Patents — The jury in the landmark Apple-Samsung trial ruled mostly in favor of Apple, including awarding Apple $1,051,855,000 in damages. Samsung, on the other hand, was granted a total of $0 in damages.

More: The Verge, The Verge, GigaOM, CNET, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Reuters, Cult of Mac, plus.google.com, Mashable! and MacRumors. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@alexia

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

After meeting with Apple execs, analyst expects no television solution any time soon — The company's prospects for a near-term TV breakthrough appear to be bleak — FORTUNE — It's hard to know what to make of the signals coming out of the meetings with individual analysts Apple's (AAPL) executive staff has been holding lately.

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Evernote Announces Evernote Business With Company-Wide Sharing And Phone Support — Evernote CEO Phil Libin just announced a new product aimed at small- and medium-sized companies (or small- and medium-sized teams within large enterprises) — appropriately, it's called Evernote Business.

More: PC Magazine, PC World, VatorNews, CNET, CITEworld, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Techland, LAPTOP Magazine, Digital Media Wire, blogs.ft.com, Evernote Blogcast, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Verge and Techie Buzz

Tweets: @harrymccracken, @harrymccracken and @rafe

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Evernote Declares A ‘Cease-Fire’ In Its War With Paper, Partners With Moleskine For Smart Notebooks

More: Evernote Blogcast, PC World, MacRumors, ReadWriteWeb, The Verge, Market Wire, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo and App Advice

Elinor Mills / CNET:

Court affirms $675,000 penalty in music-downloading case — Joel Tenenbaum, penalized $675,000 for illegally downloading 31 songs online, looks on as court upholds the size of the damages fee. The fee had been lowered once; then reinstated. — A federal court in Massachusetts today upheld …

More: Boston Globe, Computerworld, Techdirt, Gizmodo, The Register, BGR, ExtremeTech, Mobile Magazine, TechSpot, The Verge, BBC and VentureBeat

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Wall Street Journal offers free Wi-Fi in NYC and San Francisco — Newspapers have been trying all sorts of gimmicks, from paywall promos to “open houses,” to get readers to discover their websites. The latest by the Wall Street Journal is clever: thousands of free Wi-Fi hotspots throughout New York City and San Francisco.

More: PC World, Engadget, Electronista, The Verge, Betabeat and Mashable!. See also Mediagazer

Donna Tam / CNET:

iPhone trails at No.7 in China's smartphone market, report says — The Chinese hold Apple's products in high regard, but the iPhone is too costly and isn't hooked into China Mobile's network, analysis firm IHS says. — Despite Apple's popularity in China, the iPhone is only No. 7 …

More: Inside Mobile Apps, TechnoBuffalo, AllThingsD and iDownloadBlog.com

Lee Chyen Yee / Reuters:

Apple share of China smartphone mkt almost halved in Q2 - IDC

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Jun Yang / Bloomberg:

Apple, Samsung Must Stop Some Korea Sales In Patent Fight — Apple Inc. (AAPL), the maker of the iPhone, and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) infringed each other's patents for mobile devices and must stop selling some products in South Korea and pay damages, a Seoul court said.

More: ZDNet, Examiner, CNET, TUAW, Associated Press, TechSpot, Techie Buzz, Light Reading, Android News, Rumours …, BetaNews, Marketing Land, Reuters and iPhone

Wall Street Journal:

South Korea Court Says Samsung, Apple Infringed Each Other's Patents

More: ZDNet, CNET, CNN, DailyTech, Mashable!, Know Your Cell, PC World, TechCrunch, BGR, MacRumors, Inquirer, TechEye, Associated Press and FOSS Patents

Jim Tanous / The Mac Observer:

MacBook Pro Mountain Lion Battery Life: 10.7 vs 10.8 vs 10.8.1 — TMO TALK (139) — Shortly after the launch of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, users of portable Macs began to report significant reductions in their battery life on Cupertino's latest cat. Reports varied, but independent testing showed …

More: VentureBeat, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Inquirer, AppleTell and Softpedia News

Andrew Gill / WBEZ:

Empire State Building shooting leads to social media payday for one Instagrammer — As the world tries to figure out the motives of the Empire State Building shooter, one random Instagram photo provides a window into the dirty underbelly of photo licensing for wire services.

More: Mashable! and BuzzFeed. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Guggenheim Architect To Design Facebook HQ's New 3,400-Employee Tree-Topped Engineering Building — Share price be damned, Facebook is expanding. It's just announced that Guggenheim Museum architect Frank Gehry will design a 3,400 employee engineering office connected to its Menlo Park Headquarters by an underground tunnel.

More: Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, Digits, VentureBeat, The Technology Chronicles, AllFacebook, Business Insider, Facebook and CNET

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Facebook acquires Threadsy, the company behind social graph analysis tool Swaylo — Today, Threadsy, the company behind social analysis tool Swaylo, has announced that it has been acquired by Facebook. — Here's what the company had to say on its blog:

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and swaylo blog

Scott Merrill / TechCrunch:

Twitter Joining the Linux Foundation — The overwhelming majority of web-based services today rely on Linux. More and more of these companies are joining the Linux Foundation, the “nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux.” The Linux Foundation provides a neutral ground …

More: Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Business Insider, eWeek, Macgasm, WebProNews and internetnews.com

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Microsoft and RIM battle for third place, but is four a crowd? — There is a business principle that you may be familiar with. The leader in the market, for one reason or another, is always the most successful. The second person can be quite successful, the third one has to struggle …

More: eWeek

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

The Rest of MOG Finds a Home: Radio Chain Townsquare Buys Ad Network — In July, headphone-maker Beats bought MOG's music streaming service. But it didn't buy all of MOG — the company still operated a Web ad network focused on music blogs. — Now that has been sold, too.

More: Digital Media Wire, GigaOM, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget and Media Decoder. See also Mediagazer

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Watch this: Samsung's design team tells the story behind the Galaxy S III — Samsung has released a video called “Galaxy S III Design Story” which explains the development history of their latest, well-received flagship phone. The company's design team doesn't have as high a profile as that of Apple …

More: CNET, Engadget, 9to5Google and Softpedia News

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Another Piece In Twitter's Money Puzzle: Teaming Up With HootSuite To Cross-Sell Ads — When Twitter published its latest thinking on how its API would evolve, and what it wanted to leave behind, it noted one of the areas it wanted to emphasize more was enterprise.

More: The Next Web, PandoDaily, AllTwitter, Lifehacker, The Verge and HootSuite Help Desk

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Google URL Takedown Requests Up 100% In a Month, Up 1137% On 2011 — While many sites comply with DMCA-style takedown requests in order to maintain their ‘safe harbor’ status, sites such as The Pirate Bay routinely refuse to take anything down. — For a long time there was little …

More: Lucas Gonze's blog

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

PC growth slowing, and Windows 8 won't fix that soon, says IDC — Can Windows 8 save the traditional PC and spur growth again? Maybe — but it doesn't look like that's going to happen this year, a market-research firm suggests. [Read more]

More: Computerworld, LAPTOP Magazine, Forbes, TechSpot, Wired, DigiTimes and SlashGear

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Dell, HP and the folly of the consumer PC business

More: ReadWriteWeb and NYT Bits

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