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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, August 19, 2013
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple's iOS still more secure than Android despite spoof of App Store"  ZDNet 8:23 AM
  • "'Jekyll' test attack sneaks through Apple App Store, wreaks havoc on iOS: Like a Transformer robot, malicious Apple iOS app re-assembles itself into an aggressive attacker running inside the iOS 'sandbox'" Network World 8:32 AM
  • "Fooling the AppStore one code-chunk at a time: Jekyll on iOS suggests tests inadequate" The Register 8:12 AM
  • "Seemingly benign 'Jekyll' app passes Apple review, then becomes 'evil'" Ars Technica 8:40 PM
  • "Apple wins three times more customers from Samsung than Samsung does from Apple" 9 to 5 Mac 8:54 AM
  • "New survey says 3 times as many Samsung users switch to iPhone than the other way around" iMore 8:55 AM
  • "Apple snagged 20 percent of its iPhone buyers from Android: The iPhone maker also captured three times as many customers from Samsung as Samsung did from Apple, says a new report from CIRP." CNET News 8:54 AM
  • "Samsung Users More Likely to Switch to iPhone Than Other Smartphones" LAPTOP Magazine 12:19 PM
  • "Radical ideas for new Macs from before Steve Jobs returned to Apple: In the late '90s, when Apple lost its design sense, Macworld magazine and Frogdesign tried to help Apple think different"  InfoWorld 8:23 AM
  • "Latest Microsoft ad targets students while dissing iPads" BetaNews 6:44 PM
  • "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in furious war of words with Ashton Kutcher over Steve Jobs biopic: 'I suspect a lot of what was wrong with the film came from Ashton's own image of Jobs,' Wozniak said"  The Independent 10:18 AM
  • "After a mediocre opening, the Jobs movie will likely soon fade to black" TechHive 11:00 AM
  • "Poor Start For 'Jobs' As Biopic Fails To Excite On Opening Weekend" Digital Trends 8:33 AM
  • "Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs Movie Bombed At The Box Office This Weekend" Business Insider 8:44 AM
  • "'A lot of things wrong' as Jobs movie opens with disappointing revenues" 9 to 5 Mac 8:54 AM
  • "'The Jobs Movie' Takes In (Estimated) $6.7 Million Over Opening Weekend - Apple and Mobile-Related Reporting" RazorianFly 8:56 AM
  • "Fear the JOBZILLA! 150ft statue of Steve planned 'lest fanbois forget'" The Register 8:12 AM
  • "Apple Hires Nike FuelBand Guru Jay Blahnik" AllThingsD 6:29 PM
  • "Apple hires former Nike FuelBand consultant Jay Blahnik" TUAW 10:18 AM
  • "Synnex lands iPhone sales right for China market, says paper" DigiTimes 8:18 AM
  • "Apple asks iOS developers to specify age ranges for children's apps" MacNN 8:45 PM
  • "Who You Are And What You Do Influences iPhone and/or iPad Usage" MacPrices 8:09 AM
  • "Digitimes Research: Global smartphone shipments to reach 950 million in 2013" ["Samsung Electronics, Apple and LG Electronics will be the top-three vendors, with Lenovo, Sony Mobile Communications and Huawei taking the fourth to sixth positions."] DigiTimes 8:18 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Google Thinks it's Time to Add Sounds & Music to eBooks" Patent Bolt 6:27 PM
  • "Amazon shopping site goes down: Shoppers trying to access the online retail Web site or mobile app were out of luck." CNET News 3:19 PM
  • "Amazon.com back up after going down for U.S., Canadian users" Reuters 3:19 PM
  • "Amazon.com Suffers Web Outage" AllThingsD 3:16 PM
  • "New tool lets single server map entire internet" The Register 1:32 PM
  • "The movie that set a new record for number of tweets (and, no, it's not 'Sharknado')" Quartz 11:18 AM
  • "Google Chrome, Chrome OS getting advanced, supervised user profiles" GigaOM 11:17 AM
  • "Apple manufacturer Hon Hai cuts out the middle man, sells TVs in Taiwan" The Verge 8:24 AM
  • "Hon Hai, 7-Eleven Sell Large TVs in Taiwan" ["The contract electronics manufacturer hasn't made a secret of its plan to diversify beyond Apple Inc. products..."] WSJ Blogs 8:23 AM
  • "Samsung's cooking 3D NAND flash chips. WHAT did you say the specs were?" The Register 8:13 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Ted Landau's Adventures in Television Buying and Installation" MacVoices 12:46 PM
  • "Breaking the iOS and Android duopoly: Telefónica's Jacques Chicourel on the future of Firefox OS" The Next Web 12:17 PM
  • "Tips and tricks for burning Blu-Ray DVDs." The MT Show 8:09 AM