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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, December 25, 2013
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Christmas may break record for app downloads" CBS News 12:28 PM
  • "ARM set to cash in on Apple's deal with China Mobile" Techworld 12:40 PM
  • "The Story Behind Evasi0n7 Untethered Jailbreak [Part 2] Redmond Pie 8:07 AM
  • "The evad3rs post 2nd letter to the jailbreak community" iDownload Blog 8:16 AM
  • "Evad3rs Deny Taking Payment For iOS 7 Jailbreak, Denounce Cracked Version of Evasi0n" iClarified 2:45 PM
  • "Jailbreak team Evasi0n drops Chinese app store Taig after backlash" The Verge 2:39 PM
  • "Evasi0n iOS 7 jailbreak funding supplied by Chinese app piracy site" AppleInsider 2:39 PM
  • "800lbs Apple Store Door Falls on Customer Breaking His Pelvis in Maryland" American LiveWire 11:58 AM
  • "Tossed into the Thames a century ago, a destroyed typeface is brought back to life" The Verge 8:07 AM
  • "Apple, Microsoft and others now regret spending $4.5 billion on patents" BGR 12/24
  • "Briefly: Japanese Apple Stores likely to kick off 'lucky bag' sales on Jan. 2" AppleInsider 12/24
  • "Smartphone growth slowing in China as Apple expands iPhone presence" AppleInsider 12/24
  • "Analysts say Samsung Edges Apple for #1 Ranking" TG Daily 12/24
  • "Google edges Apple as most talked about company of 2013" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 12/24
  • "The best and worst of smartphones in 2013: Gearing up for the next big thing" VentureBeat 12/24
  • "I Can Make Your Parking Tickets Disappear" ["Eventually, I boned up on LA parking law and saved a lot of money, but I kept hearing friends complain about getting tricked into tickets. So I decided I should stop my complaining and try to do something to help LA's bewildered parkers. First, I looked around for a mobile phone app that would help. I expected such a thing would already exist, since people have been complaining about parking and traffic in LA since the beginning of curbs, but it didn't. So I decided to make my own."] City Watch LA 12/24
  • "Samsung Set to Attack the iPhone 5C Aggressively in China and India in 2014" Patently Apple 12/24
  • "Apple Dragged into New Lawsuit in China over App Store Game" Patently Apple 12/24
  • "A look back at some of Apple's old Christmas commercials" iDownload Blog 12/24
  • "Three Christmas videos: Samsung, Apple and Nokia/One creepy, one poignant, one bizarre." Fortune 12/24
  • "iPhone 5 Replaces Galaxy S3 as the Most Popular Smartphone In UAE" iClarified 12/24
  • "Missouri football players react to getting free iPad Minis for playing in the Cotton Bowl [Video] Network World 12/24
  • "Steve Wozniak trivia: 10 surprising facts about Woz/How well do you know Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak? Here, we bring you 10 fun facts about Apple's co-founder that may surprise you." Macworld UK 12/24
Non-Apple News
  • "BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis won't pursue bid for company" The Verge 5:21 PM
  • "Google strikes back at Apple and Microsoft's anti-Android patent consortium" BGR 3:58 PM
  • "The 2013 Year In Review In Review" TechCrunch 3:05 PM
  • "Co-founder officially drops bid for BlackBerry: Mike Lazaridis abandons his plans to buy the ailing smartphone maker via a joint bid with a fellow co-founder." CNET News 3:05 PM
  • "Snowden's Christmas message: Privacy counts" CNET News 12:36 PM
  • "Online Retailers Stole Christmas, Many Shoppers Say: Shipping Delays Left Many People With Little to Put Under Tree" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 11:47 AM
  • "Set Up and Get to Know Your New Tech Gifts" Lifehacker 8:12 AM
  • "Astronauts take Christmas Eve spacewalk, make critical repair: But now they're home for the holidays: home at the International Space Station, that is, after a high-stakes repair job clearing the way for reactivation of a critical coolant system." CNET News 12/24
  • "Online Sales Jumped 37% During Weekend: Sales Through Mobile Devices Rose 53%" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12/24
  • "Rounded Rectangles' 8 Best Design Innovations of 2013" Mac|Life 12/24
  • "This is what a $7.2 billion smartphone looks like" BGR 12/24
  • "Chromebooks charge into business market, capture 20% of commercial notebooks: According to NPD, tablets continued their push to replace the PC market. But so did Chromebooks, with great effect." PC World 12/24
  • "Porn firewalls and self-driving cars: How tech invaded culture in 2013" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 12/24
  • "2013: The year in numbers/How much is Evan Williams worth? What percentage of YouTube traffic is mobile? It's all right here" IDG News Service 12/24
Publications/Podcasts
  • "TUAW TV Live, 5 pm ET: Hanging out for the holidays" TUAW 9:12 AM