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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, December 2, 2011
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple executives say iPhone 3GS, Kindle Fire will expand interest in iOS devices" AppleInsider 7:50 PM
  • "Apple Questioned by German Data Regulator About Carrier IQ" Bloomberg 7:58 AM
  • "Apple says it mostly stopped using controversial phone tracker Carrier IQ – mostly" Appolicious 8:17 AM
  • "AT&T, Sprint Defend Use of Carrier IQ User Tracking Software" Bloomberg 7:58 AM
  • "Carrier IQ: We're Not Wiretapping You" Mashable 1:01 PM
  • "CarrierIQ clicktracking scandal pulls Samsung and HTC into class action suit" VentureBeat 12:44 PM
  • "UK mobile operators: We don't use Carrier IQ" ZDNet UK 9:21 AM
  • "comScore: iPhone 4S has Apple gaining share despite Android" Electronista 12:59 PM
  • "iPhone widens Blackberry lead: Research in Motion Ltd.'s Blackberry has lost more smartphone market share in the last three months, while Apple Inc.'s iPhone has widened its lead over Blackberry." Washington Business Journal 1:00 PM
  • "Apple iPhone 4S Drawing Strong Satisfaction Ratings: Survey" eWeek 7:50 AM
  • "iPhone 4S users love Siri - but hate their battery life" TG Daily 7:46 AM
  • "New Owners Survey Shows iPhone 4S More Popular than its Apple Predecessor"MacPrices 12/2"  12:21 PM
  • "Samsung's Galaxy S2 outsells iPhone 4S in Apple handset's first month in shops" Daily Mail (UK) 7:46 AM
  • "Sprint Hopes to Resolve iPhone 4S Growing Pains Soon" Mashable 8:17 AM
  • "Developer Interest in iPad Grows While iPhone Declines" PadGadget 7:50 PM
  • "Apple boots Match.com app after it runs afoul of subscription policy" Appolicious 1:41 PM
  • "Match.com iPhone App Pulled for Skirting In-App Purchasing Policy" Wired 4:14 PM
  • "No more iPads for New York City teachers? The schools' ActiveSync networks are now off limits to new Apple and Android tablets" Fortune 7:36 PM
  • "December 16th iPhone 4S Launches to Include Russia and Brazil" MacRumors 9:56 AM
  • "Mobile Apps Approaching Major Milestone of 1 Million Apps in Marketplace: Mobilewalla" PRNewswire 8:33 AM
  • "Siri Hack Allows You to Control Your Home Via Voice" PC Magazine 12:07 PM
  • "Apple's Siri Is Not Anti-Abortion" FOXNews 1:41 PM
  • "Apple's Siri irks abortion rights advocates" Reuters 11:00 AM
  • "Apple iPhone search Siri helps users find prostitutes and Viagra but not an abortion" Telegraph 7:45 AM
  • "iPhone tops Yahoo's year in search" USA Today 7:50 AM
  • "'iPhone' the top Yahoo search of 2011" UPI 12:35 PM
  • "Festive Shipping Deadlines For Apple Store" AppleBitch 8:24 AM
  • "Syrian authorities ban the use of iPhones" The Next Web 8:23 AM
  • "Report: Syria bans iPhone to cover up crackdown on anti-Assad protests" Haaretz 9:40 AM
  • "'Ugly Meter' App Raises Ire with Cyberbullying Opponents" LAPTOP Magazine 8:09 AM
  • "10 Awesome iPhone Apps You Can't Get Any More" [Slideshow] Techland 8:22 AM
  • "Mophie, Rocketfish Battery Packs Recalled Over Fire Hazard" The Mac Observer 9:04 AM
  • "Magnificent 18-Foot Great White Shark Caught In The Wild On An iPhone 4S [Video] Cult of Mac 9:18 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Mozilla pushes Firefox fuddy-duddies toward the future" CNET News 2:05 PM
  • "Science Museum throws Robotville parade" [Slideshow] ZDNet UK 2:04 PM
  • "Femtocells, NFC and Bluetooth among emerging mobile security risks" V3 1:51 PM
  • "Most say technology has improved our lives" USA Today 1:50 PM
  • "Droid 4 QWERTY slider revealed, Droid Xyboard LTE tablets coming this month to Verizon" The Verge 1:55 PM
  • "Quantum computing comes closer as diamonds get spooky: Boffins 'entangle' synthi-gems at room temperature" The Register 1:45 PM
  • "Swiss team demonstrates long-lasting quantum network" TG Daily 1:40 PM
  • "HTML5 to create new challenges for security pros in 2012: Sophos/The web language enables new capabilities, but introduces new risks" Techworld 1:38 PM
  • "Cornell Prof: Carrier IQ affair 'my worst nightmare'/Engineering professor calls smartphone software 'appalling invasion of privacy'" Network World 11:53 AM
  • "Box Takes On Microsoft, Google for Cloud Dominance: Box CEO Aaron Levie talks about battling Microsoft, creating an app ecosystem for business, and more." PC Magazine 11:45 AM
  • "Wikileaks names 160 mass spyware vendors" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:31 AM
  • "Samsung makes sensor-in-pixel display" EE Times 10:27 AM
  • "Yahoo Messenger flaw enables spamming through other people's status messages" IDG News Service 10:20 AM
  • "'What's your handle?' to replace 'What's your number?'" Computerworld 10:20 AM
  • "Cable Companies To Resell Verizon Wireless Service" Associated Press 9:52 AM
  • "WD dries out flood-trashed fab, pumps out first disks: Deadly Thai disaster cost biz at least $50m to clean up" Channel Register 1:46 PM
  • "Western Digital partly resumes Thai output" Reuters 9:58 AM
  • "Google to Close on Admeld Purchase" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1:53 PM
  • "Google+ Hangouts Enable Free Phone Calls" eWeek 10:29 AM
  • "Google Search Tweaked to Punt Parked Domains" eWeek 10:29 AM
  • "Google mulls Amazon Prime-like service" TG Daily 1:40 PM
  • "Google Targets Amazon's 'Prime' With 1-Day Delivery" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:34 AM
  • "RIM writes off value of PlayBook tablet inventory, says it sold 14.1M BlackBerrys in quarter" Associated Press [Free Registration Required] 9:42 AM
  • "RIM to miss forecasts due to poor PlayBook sales" CNNMoney 9:27 AM
  • "Android app tells you if Carrier IQ is on your phone--kinda" CNET News 8:19 AM
  • "A New Coating Promises the End of Smudges: Materials-coating advance could lead to eyeglasses that shed fingerprints." Technology Review 8:06 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "How Avid came to Apple.: This is the monthly excerpt from John Buck's book, Timeline. The ebook is sold at Amazon and Apple iBooks" Tumblr 10:51 PM
  • "Gene Steinberg meets The Loop's Jim Dalrymple, Macworld's Lex Friedman, and AppleInsider's Daniel Eran Dilger this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 7:31 PM
  • "The TouchArcade Show - 28 - ...It's Time to Play the GAME!!!" Touch Arcade 4:15 PM
  • "Infinity Blade II, Smartphone Tracking, Bathroom TVs + More (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 12:20 PM