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July 27, 2012, 5:55 PM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Apple Buys Samsung's Android Security Partner AuthenTec For $356M — Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, it looks like Apple may have opened yet another front on the M&A side: it is buying mobile security company AuthenTec …

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Why Apple wanted AuthenTec: Thwart Samsung, Android in BYOD — Summary: If Apple didn't buy AuthenTec, a cash strapped mobile security player, it's likely another rival would have. Apple's courtship of the enterprise via the bring your own device continues. — Larry Dignan — Follow @ldignan

Wall Street Journal:

Apple, Google Line Up to Bid for Kodak's Patents — Battle lines are forming in Eastman Kodak Co.'s patent sale ahead of Monday's initial bid deadline. — At least two groups are expected to bid on Kodak's trove of 1,100 patents, with a bevy of technology and patent heavyweights picking sides …

More: The Next Web, CNET, MacRumors, 9to5Google, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified. Tweets: @dkberman

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple loses bid to transfer Kodak suit out of bankruptcy court, patent sell-off to proceed

More: AllThingsD, Fox Business, PC Magazine and Reuters

Matt Warman / Telegraph:

Google: we failed to delete all Streetview data — ‘Human error’ prevented Google from deleting all the data it collected from Streetview snooping, the search giant has admitted. — Despite repeated assurances in public and to the Information Commissioner, Google has admitted …

More: VentureBeat, Marketing Land, BGR, Engadget, AllThingsD, The Verge, Neowin and Mashable!

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

UK Information Commissioner Slams Google For Failure To Provide Street View Data

More: Reuters, ico.gov.uk, Ars Technica, DailyFinance.com, The Next Web, Out-Law News, The Register, Computer Business Review and Inquirer

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Apple's Mountain Lion Off to a Roaring Start — Thanks to its easy download and low price, Apple's Mountain Lion appears on pace to be one of the most quickly adopted operating systems in history. — After just its first 48 hours on the market, Apple's new Mountain Lion already accounts …

More: MacRumors, The Next Web, CNET, GigaOM, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Pocketables, Electronista, App Advice and InvestorPlaceGadgets …

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Working on Advanced Display for Future Video Glasses — Apple has been toying with a heads-up display or video glasses since 2006 and they've already been granted a patent for their invention. Then earlier this month Apple's video glasses project won a surprising second patent …

More: NYT Bits, Betabeat, The Next Web, AppleInsider, ZDNet, CNET, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, PhoneArena and Mobile Entertainment

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Far from Silicon Valley, tech industry finds an oracle — (Reuters) - Anand Shimpi is one of the most influential tech industry figures you've never heard of. — From his start as a teenager building PCs for students and faculty at a college in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina …

Tweets: @peterlauria3, @lianabaker, @anandshimpi and @trixxy

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Apple U.S. margins for iPad roughly half of iPhone: court filing — (Reuters) - Apple Inc earned gross margins of 49 to 58 percent for U.S. iPhone sales between April 2010 and the end of March 2012, while gross margins on the iPad were much lower during much of that period, according to a court filing.

More: Wired, iClarified, PhoneArena, CNET, everythingiCafe and iDownloadBlog.com

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Google+ traffic soars: 66 percent increase in nine months — Traffic analytics site ComScore has revealed a large increase in visits to Google+. According to ComScore, the number of unique visitors to the social network has increased by 66 percent over the last nine months …

More: Marketing Land, Electronista and Google Plus. Tweets: @frankqperson

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

OAuth 2.0 leader resigns, says standard is ‘bad’ — The standard grew too far away from its roots as a simple Web authentication technology, author Eran Hammer-Lahav says, and now is insecure and overly broad. — OAuth 2.0 author Eran Hammer-Lahav has declared the authentication standard a failure.

More: hueniverse and digitaltrends.com. Tweets: @stshank

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

OUYA secures OnLive partnership, teases controller design as it passes $5.5M on Kickstarter — OUYA, the wildly successful Kickstarter project that recently passed $5.5M in funding, has just announced a partnership with cloud gaming service OnLive, which delivers popular gaming titles on-demand over the Internet.

More: The Next Web, CNET, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, OnLive Blog, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Gamasutra, Kotaku, Inquirer and Engadget

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Samsung, Apple Even At Odds Over Where they Will Sit at Trial — How deep do the disputes go between Apple and Samsung? — Well, the latest motion from Samsung concerns where each party will sit during the trial and how each will refer to the other. — Samsung takes issue with being called the …

More: AllThingsD, Bloomberg, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, PadGadget, Softpedia News, TUAW, Pulse2 Technology … and App Advice

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Documents show Samsung fixated on a ‘Beat Apple’ strategy, but did it cross the line?

More: AllThingsD. See also Mediagazer

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

Senate amendment would allow Facebook users to share Netflix videos — A proposed amendment to a Senate cybersecurity bill would allow Facebook users to opt-in to automatically share which videos they have watched on Netflix. — The Senate could vote on the amendment, filed by Sen. Patrick Leahy …

More: CNET, The Next Web and ReadWriteWeb. Thanks:@brendansasso

Mark Gillett / The Big Blog:

What Does Skype's Architecture Do? — In the last few days we have seen reports in the media we believe are inaccurate and could mislead the Skype community about our approach to user security and privacy. I want to clear this up. — At Skype, we continue to be humbled and grateful …

More: Techdirt, PC Magazine, Forbes, NYT Bits, eWeek, ITProPortal, Telegraph, ZDNet, BBC, Betabeat, ValueWalk, Stream, Softpedia News, Inquirer and SlashGear

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Skype talks back to critics on security and privacy

More: ITProPortal. Thanks:@edbott

John Ribeiro / Computerworld:

Samsung's Q2 smartphone shipments nearly twice those of Apple, say research firms — The smartphone market grew 32 percent year-over-year in the quarter to reach 146 million units, said Strategy Analytics — Samsung shipped nearly twice the number of smartphones as Apple during the second quarter …

Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Samsung posts record $5.9 billion profit on smartphones

More: VentureBeat, Associated Press, Macgasm, Android News, Rumours …, The Verge and Wall Street Journal

BuzzFeed:

The Original iPhone 4 Design Prototype From 2006 — More ancient Apple prototypes revealed by court filings this week : What looks like the first, Sony-inspired design prototype of the iPhone 4/4S, along with an iPhone that looks like a giant iPod mini that never saw the light of day.

More: Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, Gotta Be Mobile, Gizmodo, The Verge, everythingiCafe and Pocket-lint

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

The iPad that never was: kickstands, curves, and ‘highly confidential’ Apple prototypes revealed

More: ABCNEWS, Apple Gazette, iDownloadBlog.com, BuzzFeed, PC World, VentureBeat, iPhone, PadGadget, TUAW, Mashable!, iLounge, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, Electricpig.co.uk and DVICE

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