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MacSurfer's Archive: Saturday, August 20, 2016
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple reportedly among companies that held potential acquisition talks with Lyft" 9to5Mac 12:53 PM
  • "Apple Accepting Donations for Louisiana Flood Relief" MacRumors 8/19
  • "Louisiana flood relief effort gets a boost from Apple" Cult of Mac 8/19
  • "Apple Makes it Easy to Support Louisiana Flood Relief" PC Magazine 8/19
  • "AT&T, Apple, Google to work on 'robocall' crackdown" Reuters 8/19
  • "Apple, AT&T, Google and others working with FCC to combat robocall phone spam" 9to5Mac 8/19
  • "Apple to Join 'Robocall Strike Force' to Crack Down on Automated Phone Calls" MacRumors 8/19
  • "AT&T, Apple, Google Form 'Strike Force' To Vanquish Annoying Robocalls" HotHardware 8/19
  • "Battery problems are holding back Apple's big plans for the Apple Watch" Business Insider 8/19
  • "It looks like Watch battery life is still a problem Apple can't easily fix" BGR 8/19
  • "Apple's retail boss thinks Apple stores should be a social 'gathering place'" Business Insider 8/19
  • "Apple Opening Three Next-Generation Stores Over Next Week" MacRumors 8/19
  • "Apple Stores in Annapolis, Kansas City and Glasgow getting next-gen makeover" iDownload Blog 8/19
  • "Apple prepares imminent reopenings of stores in Kansas City & Glasgow" AppleInsider 8/19
  • "Australia denies banks interim approval to jointly negotiate with Apple on payment apps" Reuters 8/19
  • "Australian banks denied interim approval to negotiate over Apple Pay" AppleInsider 8/19
  • "Australian banks denied interim decision over Apple Pay dispute, ruling expected in October" 9to5Mac 8/19
  • "Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success" ["The company, which is based in San Francisco, has in recent months held talks or made approaches to sell itself to companies including General Motors, Apple, Google, Amazon, Uber and Didi Chuxing, according to a dozen people who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were private."] New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8/19
  • "Apple spurns Lyft's overtures for acquisition" Cult of Mac 8/19
  • "Beyond prescriptions: How Walgreens keeps its app on the screens of millions of loyal users (VB Live)" VentureBeat 8/19
  • "Steve Jobs to Be Inducted Into International Photography Hall of Fame" MacRumors 8/19
  • "Steve Jobs enters the International Photography Hall of fame alongside Annie Leibowitz and Ken Burns" TechCrunch 8/19
  • "Tekserve Puts Up Collection of Macs for Auction" Digital Trends 8/19
  • "Verizon thinks now is a good time to buy an iPhone 6 Plus" BGR 8/19
  • "Apple releases trailer for its exclusive documentary about Birdman and Cash Money Records" BGR 8/19
  • "Apple-1 'celebration' auction bids hit $270K" AppleInsider 8/19
  • "Today in Apple history: Apple frenemy Google goes public" Cult of Mac 8/19
Non-Apple News
  • "Galaxy Note 7 Appears To Fail Scratch Test Miserably, Corning Responds" Redmond Pie 3:57 PM
  • "Samsung's Milk Music service will end on September 22nd: The company will stock its devices with existing music services instead." Engadget 6:49 AM
  • "Exclusive: Facebook Live is getting a cool new feature Monday" The Next Web 8/19
  • "Troll Targets Say Twitter's New Filters Don't Go Far Enough" Wired 8/19
  • "Watch Out for Malware in Those Wikileaks Email Dumps" PC Magazine 8/19
  • "Pandora Nears Deals For On-Demand Streaming" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8/19
  • "Samsung Galaxy Note 7 glass screen more easily damaged than any iPhone" AppleInsider 8/19
  • "Samsung Note 7 teardown reveals waterproof components" Engadget 8/19
  • "MIT startup claims a breakthrough for 'holy grail' of batteries, doubles energy density" Electrek 8/19
  • "Other Nations Are Light Years Ahead Of The U.S. In Fiber-Optic Broadband Adoption [Infographic] Forbes 8/19
Publications/Podcasts
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2016-08-22: Interview with Airplane Mode's Dave Wiskus" The Mac Observer 2:43 PM
  • "Learn How to Run Virtual Operating Systems on your Mac with Take Control of Parallels Desktop 12" Kirkville 6:43 AM
  • "Joe Kissell Takes Control of Parallels Desktop 12" MacVoices 8/19
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2016-08-19: FCC's Anti-robocall Plans, Moving from Evernote to OneNote" The Mac Observer 8/19
  • "Final Cut Pro Radio Episode 21" FCPRadio 8/19
  • "Meet the first Apple CareKit app for mental health treatment" Computerworld 8/19
  • "CNET UK podcast 494: Samsung limits Note 7 preorders, killing the headphone port and a rump-shaped airship" CNET 8/19
  • "AppleInsider podcast talks iPad upgrade cycle, watchOS 3 simplicity, 'iPhone 7' rumors" AppleInsider 8/19