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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, December 9, 2011
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple Opens New Store in New York: A couple hundred eager shoppers from around the country were waiting Friday outside Apple Inc.'s newest retail store in New York when the store opened at 10 a.m. inside Grand Central Terminal" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:58 AM
  • "Apple's Grand Central store packed for opening day" The Loop 9:56 AM
  • "Apple's massive Grand Central retail store draws big crowds ahead of 10am grand opening" 9 to 5 Mac 10:03 AM
  • "4,000 Snag Apple Grand Central Store T-Shirts" iPhone Savior 7:55 PM
  • "Apple's Hottest New Product Can Be Thrown in the Wash: Fans Collect Company's T-Shirts, Kept in Limited Supply; 'Star Trek' Model" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:58 AM
  • "The Star of the New Apple Store? The T-Shirt!" [Video Report] WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:58 AM
  • "Apple Fans Covet iShirt" [Slideshow] WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:59 AM
  • "Apple set to open Grand Central store in NY" MarketWatch 9:57 AM
  • "Apple Store workers bring in $278 per hour apiece" CNET News 8:52 AM
  • "The covert birth of Apple's next Santa Monica store" CNN 8:16 AM
  • "San Francisco man plans to sue Apple over iPhone prototype search" Yahoo! News 9:27 PM
  • "Android, BlackBerry phone owners favour Apple tablet: OS brand loyalty, they've heard of it" Register Hardware 8:35 AM
  • "Apple Capitalizes On Doctors' iPad Romance: Apple's medical manager has been promoting the tablets in a variety of venues, including iTunes' healthcare room." InformationWeek 10:54 AM
  • "Apple Pulls 'TV Shows' Menu from Apple TV in Canada" iPhoneinCanada 10:02 AM
  • "Apple lists bests games of 2011" TG Daily 8:37 AM
  • "Snapseed Takes Apple's Pick as 'iPad App of the Year" Best App Site 8:40 AM
  • "Apple picks its top iPhone and iPad apps of 2011" ZDNet 11:25 AM
  • "Microsoft Opens iOS Window for Xbox Live Fans" MacNewsWorld 8:25 AM
  • "Computer History Museum unveils online Steve Jobs exhibit with extremely rare Video of Jobs circa 1980" Edible Apple 10:52 AM
  • "Small retailer enables self checkout with iPhone app" ZDNet 3:22 PM
  • "Say it Ain't So! AT&T Begins Throttling Data Heavy iPhone Users" PadGadget 9:00 AM
  • "Syria bans iPhone use to prevent Video evidence of government sanctioned violence" Edible Apple 10:52 AM
  • "Samsung's new Galaxy SII advert lampoons iTunes in the Cloud" 9 to 5 Mac 11:15 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "webOS hacked together for HTC's EVO 3D, a proof of concept for the time being" The Verge 4:04 PM
  • "Simple rubber band adds macro lens to any smartphone" CNET News 3:01 PM
  • "BBC teases new Doctor Who video game" TG Daily 2:04 PM
  • "Andreessen Says He Has No Plans For 'An Operating Role' At Yahoo" TechCrunch 1:59 PM
  • "Reading is alive and increasingly electronic" Reuters 11:52 AM
  • "ViaSat's speedy satellite to go live by year end: Carlsbad company will begin offering high speed Internet service from ViaSat-1" San Diego Union-Tribune 11:49 AM
  • "Anonymous attack on HBGary Federal didn't ruin us, says CEO" Network World 11:41 AM
  • "Spotify gets makeover, Pandora-like radio stations" MSNBC 11:31 AM
  • "Scientists 'fly' into storms from their computers" OurAmazingPlanet 11:31 AM
  • "Two zero-day vulnerabilities found in Flash Player: Researchers release exploit for two zero-day remote code execution vulnerabilities in Flash Player" IDG News Service 10:57 AM
  • "Coming next year: 802.11ac for faster Wi-Fi/The emerging standard will reach gigabit speeds and help conserve batteries, says chipmaker Broadcom" IDG News Service 10:56 AM
  • "Talking Fab.com with Jeff Jordan" Fortune 10:49 AM
  • "Qualcomm announces two Snapdragon S4 chips" EE Times 10:38 AM
  • "Tablet PCs to diversify in display resolutions and sizes in 2012" DigiTimes 10:36 AM
  • "Texas Instruments struggles with prolonged bottom: After pointing to 'signs of a bottom,' chip giant cuts outlook" MarketWatch 2:43 PM
  • "AT&T Says Blocking T-Mobile Purchase Will Lead to Higher Prices" Bloomberg 10:15 AM
  • "AT&T LTE surfaces in San Francisco" CNET 9:57 AM
  • "Panasonic to Venture Abroad in Smartphones, Plans Europe Launch in March" IDG News Service 11:39 AM
  • "Toshiba Excite Android tablet coming in January" CNET News 9:57 AM
  • "Cognitive Computing: When Computers Become Brains" Forbes 9:52 AM
  • "Google Debuts Currents News Reader: Google debuted Google Currents to compete with Flipboard, Livestand and AOL's Editions, Kara Swisher reports on digits." [Video Report] MarketWatch 2:45 PM
  • "Google deploys IPv6 for internal network: Google engineer tells Usenix conference the IPv6 project is already bearing fruit even though only halfway finished" IDG News Service 10:57 AM
  • "Google chairman calls Carrier IQ a 'keylogger'" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 9:50 AM
  • "Google releases opt-in 'Find My Face' facial recognition tool" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 2:18 PM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Digital Rights Cloud Cloud-Based Streaming: Cloud-based systems allow a single purchase to stream on a variety of devices. But it looks like Apple and the Keystone system will duke it out with everyone else and Ultraviolet. Larry Greenemeier Reports." Scientific American 9:06 PM
  • "Gene Steinberg meets columnist Kirk McElhearn, Laptop Magazine's Avram Piltch, and Kim Bradford from GottaBeMobile this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 7:09 PM
  • "Gear Guide: For Macs/Know someone who (a) owns a Mac and (b) is hankering for some new gear to go with it? We've got some suggestions." Macworld 10:08 AM
  • "Baldwins Behaving Badly, Siri Wish List, Apple's Newest Store + More (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 9:15 AM
  • "Apple, Publishing Houses Face Antitrust Probe: Lynn Neary speaks with Sarah Weinman, the news editor for Publishers Marketplace, about the antitrust probe of Apple and six publishing houses over the prices of e-books. It is being investigated by the Department of Justice and the European Commission." NPR 8:53 AM