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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple's Macs Make More Profit Than The Top 5 PC Makers Combined [Report]"  Cult of Mac 9:15 AM
  • "App Annie: Google Play app revenue grew 90% in Q1 2013, but Apple's App Store still saw 2.6 times more sales" The Next Web 8:16 AM
  • "Apple And Google's App Stores Now Neck And Neck – Except On The Metric That Matters Most To Developers: Revenue"  TechCrunch 10:32 AM
  • "Google Play now at 90% of iOS app store downloads; iOS still holds a 2.6X revenue lead" VentureBeat 9:54 AM
  • "Apple choice of 58% enterprises, Android choice of 97% malware" iDownload Blog 8:46 AM
  • "Google's Eric Schmidt: 'We still want Apple to use our maps'/Google Chairman reveals that the company would 'really like' to be back on iOS devices as the main mapping app" Macworld UK 8:22 AM
  • "Facebook Gives iOS a Homey Touch: Chat Heads and Stickers aren't just for Android phones anymore. Those features of Facebook's new Home family of networking apps are now available for iPhones and iPads, thanks to an iOS update released by the social network. However, those are just about the only Home features to make it to Apple, which may be signaling that it knows it has to keep its signature smartphone relevant in an increasingly competitive marketplace." MacNewsWorld 8:53 AM
  • "Apple 'in talks' over Facebook Home for iPhone: Facebook is in talks with Apple to create a version of its Facebook Home Android software for the iPhone, an executive of the social network has claimed." Telegraph 8:19 AM
  • "Apple taking the wraps off its first Berlin retail store" AppleInsider 8:25 AM
  • "Facebook Is Said to Hire Apple Maps Executive in Mobile Push" Bloomberg 10:49 AM
  • "Former head of iOS 6 Maps, and more Apple talent, reportedly now working for Facebook" iMore 8:45 AM
  • "Facebook Hires Fired Apple Maps Executive" Mashable 8:32 AM
  • "Fired Apple Maps engineer hired by Facebook" VentureBeat 10:45 AM
  • "Apple Faces $65 iPad Rivals in China" CNBC 8:25 AM
  • "Chinese iOS pirate Kuaiyong launches web app store: Bad news for Apple developers targeting PRC" The Register 8:09 AM
  • "Move over Siri, Sherpa's in town: This digital assistant app, popular in Spain, is rolling out in the U.S. today." CNET News 8:37 AM
  • "Move over, Mythbusters: Was Archimedes an ancient Steve Jobs?" The Register 8:09 AM
  • "'iSteve' is the 80-minute Steve Jobs comedy we've waited for" Memeburn 8:32 AM
  • "Funny or Die's Steve Jobs Biopic 'iSteve' Debuts Online" Mashable 8:32 AM
  • "Funny or Die's 'iSteve' movie hits the Web" Digital Trends 8:31 AM
  • "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on cloud services, the source of ideas and life after Steve Jobs: Wozniak says his life has become 'extremely busy' since the death of fellow Apple co-founder Steve Jobs" Macworld UK 8:56 AM
  • "Watch 10,000 iPhones Fall Like Dominoes" Mashable 10:31 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Google Extends Chrome Download Warnings To Include Files That Could Allow Malicious Extensions Installs" TechCrunch 3:55 PM
  • "Sumo Logic bets on cloud for Big Data crunching" Reuters 12:22 PM
  • "World's first connected fork could help you eat healthier, slower, and less" VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 12:01 PM
  • "Malwarebytes cripples thousands of computers with faulty software security update" V3 11:58 AM
  • "Aereo CEO on CBS & Fox cable threats: Can you really disenfranchise 54M antenna users?" VentureBeat 11:54 AM
  • "KALQ is a new keyboard for touchscreens" TG Daily 11:51 AM
  • "Novell's new Filr software offers secure alternative to Dropbox" Techworld 11:50 AM
  • "Titan supercomputer gets new 40-petabyte storage system: Data is processed and distributed at one terabyte per second" Techworld 11:38 AM
  • "Evernote CEO: We want to build hardware" PCWorld 11:34 AM
  • "AVG releases free 'TuneUp' application for Android devices" IDG News Service 11:38 AM
  • "Amazon's Android Appstore to become available in 200 more countries" IDG News Service 11:34 AM
  • "Mobile a top priority for Yahoo in 2013, Mayer says" IDG News Service 11:17 AM
  • "Thousands petition Verizon to nix wireless contracts" CNN 10:44 AM
  • "Move over, Apple: Toshiba Kirabook gives Windows its first Retina rival" PCWorld 10:30 AM
  • "KALQ is a new keyboard for touchscreens" TG Daily 10:30 AM
  • "Samsung Ends Anonymous Web Reviews Amid Taiwan Probe" Bloomberg 9:02 AM
  • "Google Drive, Gmail hit by service disruptions" CNET News 8:37 AM
  • "Google is granted yet another Glass Related Design Patent" Patent Bolt 4:17 PM
  • "Microsoft Reveals their Indoor Mobile Device Location System" Patent Bolt 3:00 PM
  • "Microsoft may have Two Google Glass-Like Projects in the Wings" Patent Bolt 11:58 AM
  • "Was Microsoft Just Granted 3 Design Patents for Kinect 2?" Patent Bolt 7:54 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "NAB – FingerWorks Puts A Telestrator On Your iPad For Sports, Business and More" MacVoices 12:48 PM
  • "Tonight, a Very Special Your Mac Life show!" Your Mac Life 11:53 AM
  • "MacBreak Weekly 346: OS X Grumpy Cat" iMore 8:56 AM