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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, April 27, 2016
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "The Latest: Apple Says Dead Man Was 'Young And Talented'" Associated Press 9:47 PM
  • "Apple Employee Found Dead in Campus Conference Room" eWeek 9:48 PM
  • "Apple: Body Found At HQ" ["It's increasingly looking like there were 2 people involved since the fatality was reportedly a Hispanic male ... and we know the person with the head wound was a woman."] TMZ 4:05 PM
  • "Apple campus death: Employee dead in company conference room in 'isolated incident'" ["Emergency dispatch audio archived online reported that the male was bleeding from the head, and 'possibly has a gun,' and was being escorted by security personnel. A few minutes later, dispatchers reported that 'a body is in one of the conference rooms with a gun.' It is unclear whether those reports are describing the same instance, but both coincide with the timing of the emergency call."] San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 4:06 PM
  • "Death reported in Apple conference room"  KTVU 12:08 PM
  • "Here's what we know so far about the body found at Apple headquarters" Re/code 4:04 PM
  • "Police investigating death in conference room at Apple's Cupertino Campus" 9to5Mac 12:09 PM
  • "Police are investigating a death at Apple's headquarters this morning" BGR 12:08 PM
  • "Person found dead in conference room on Apple's Cupertino campus" iMore 12:24 PM
  • "Ground-level video takes us for a walk through Apple's Campus 2" 9to5Mac 6:28 PM
  • "Apple says FBI gave it first vulnerability tip on April 14" Reuters 7:43 AM
  • "FBI tips Apple about security flaw in iOS and Mac software ... but it had already been fixed with iOS 9" 9to5Mac 7:10 AM
  • "FBI Won't Share iPhone Hack With Apple, Report Says: The FBI paid approximately $1 million for a hack into an encrypted iPhone, and now plans to keep the details to itself, according to The Wall Street Journal. The government also dropped case against Apple in Brooklyn: and that has law enforcement fuming." InformationWeek 12:14 PM
  • "Apple Music notches 13 million paid subscribers: That number is double the 6.5 million from last October as Apple's music business may finally be on the rise." CNET 11:47 AM
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook among those pushing for computer science funding in schools" Apple World Today 7:13 AM
  • "How Much Would You Pay for Lunch With Tim Cook? This year's auction ends on Thursday, May 5, and the current bid sits at $125,000." PC Magazine 7:33 AM
  • "Samsung Strikes As Apple Falls" Forbes 8:17 AM
  • "Nintendo teases more iPhone games coming later this year, including Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem" 9to5Mac 7:10 AM
  • "Nintendo announces new iPhone and Android games, NX console launches in March" BGR 7:11 AM
  • "'Vote Different' Campaign Video Ad Salutes Steve Jobs, Targets The Crazy Ones, Misfits, and Rebels" Forbes 7:44 AM
  • "John McAfee Invokes 'Crazy Ones' and Steve Jobs for Libertarian President Commercial" The Mac Observer 4:14 PM
  • "Tech interns at these companies make more money than interns at Amazon, Apple and even Google" BGR 11:14 AM
  • "Apple Pay in Australia expands to support ANZ following initial American Express launch" 9to5Mac 6:03 PM
  • "ANZ becomes first bank in Australia with Apple Pay" ZDNet 7:59 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "Samsung Biologics plans IPO this year, seen worth as much as $2.6 billion" Reuters 9:43 PM
  • "Samsung's Profit Beats Forecast Thanks to Early Phone Debut" Bloomberg 9:40 PM
  • "Samsung Profit Rises on Strong Early Shipments of Galaxy S7: World's largest smartphone maker logs $4.6 billion profit, reversing 40% dip in previous quarter" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:02 PM
  • "Facebook triples quarterly profits" BBC 4:09 PM
  • "Zuckerberg seeks to tighten grip as Facebook results surge" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 4:09 PM
  • "Facebook Revenue Soars on Ad Growth" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:09 PM
  • "There's still no stopping Facebook: The company's latest earnings blew away Wall Street estimates." Engadget 4:04 PM
  • "Worldwide smartphone growth stalls in the first quarter" ZDNet 2:59 PM
  • "HTC reportedly building two Android N devices for Google" ZDNet 2:58 PM
  • "Most breaches are still caused by PEBKAC and ID10T errors like falling for phishing: Open. Clickety click. Pwned. Humans are still the weak security link, falling for phishing even more often than before, which leads to breaches." Computerworld 12:10 PM
  • "Ad-block software is approaching 200 million users — here's how publishers are reacting" Business Insider 7:58 AM
  • "High-end smartphone sales decelerating, affecting IC orders" DigiTimes 7:49 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "The Dalrymple Report With Special Guest John Gruber" The Loop 11:43 AM
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2016-04-27: Apple's Conference Community" The Mac Observer 11:10 AM
  • "The Committed Podcast on Apple, Document Collaboration, Dropbox, and Quitting iPhone Apps" Kirkville 7:15 AM