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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, December 30, 2011
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Tech 2011: Biggest News Stories of the Year" ["Oct. 5: Steve Jobs Dies The timing was eerie. And, in a poignant twist of fate, it showed that Steve Jobs completed his life as he comported his life: as a consummate showman."] Wired 11:21 AM
  • "2011"s top stories: iPhone 5/iPhone 5 has been a hot topic of 2011, what with lost prototypes, leaked specifications and the iPhone 4S debacle" Macworld UK 7:54 AM
  • "Looking back at 2011: iPhone 4S and Galaxy Nexus cap off the year of the smartphone" BGR 11:02 AM
  • "Enterprise Mobility: Apple's 2011 Saw New iPhone, iPad, Mac OS X, Steve Jobs' Death" [Slideshow] eWeek 11:02 AM
  • "New Year Honours for Corbett, Bonham Carter and golf champions" ["Apple's Jonathan Ive, the designer behind the iPod and iPhone is made a Knight Commander (KBE). Now living in the US, the East London-born 44-year-old began working for the company in 1992. He said: 'I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making. 'To be recognised with this honour is absolutely thrilling and I am both humbled and sincerely grateful.'"] BBC 7:02 PM
  • "Jonathan Ive is knighted in New Year Honours list" The Register 8:43 PM
  • "Will That Be Sir Jonathan, or Sir Jony?" AllThingsD 9:50 PM
  • "Apple designer Jonathan Ive knighted" MSNBC 9:19 PM
  • "Apple's Jonathan Ive knighted in UK" The Verge 7:44 PM
  • "First Siri, Now Threat Detection: Inside SRI's Amazing R&D" Wired 11:24 AM
  • "Churches Bring Custom Apps to Their Flocks" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:36 AM
  • "Someone Is Selling An Apple 'Five Year Employee Award' On eBay, For $2K" TechCrunch 7:34 AM
  • "Passwords 'nightmare' solved storing logins with Passpack" Forbes 7:39 AM
  • "Apple Store to Open at Masonville Place Mall in London, Ontario?" iPhoneinCanada 7:46 AM
  • "Winds Blow, Doors Shatter, Life Goes On" ifoAppleStore 4:39 PM
  • "iPhone Crushes Android at AT&T Corporate Stores in December" The Mac Observer 8:52 PM
  • "Apple sends 'take down' notices to cracked iOS apps creator AppTrackr" 9 to 5 Mac 4:41 PM
  • "iPhone Siri software tells boy, 12, to 'shut up' in Tesco: A 12-year-old boy was subjected to an obscene tirade by a new iPhone when he tested out its new voice technology in a supermarket, according to Reports." Telegraph 7:41 AM
  • "iPhone 4S gets offensive with 12-year-old boy after pranksters tweak Siri" The Next Web 8:18 AM
  • "Apple's Siri gets sweary with British child" The Register 12:05 PM
  • "Apple's Siri curses out 12-year-old" CNET News 4:20 PM
  • "Kunming Fake Apple Store Changed its name for Second Time (Video)" M.I.C. Gadget 7:54 AM
  • "The surprising success of the Confession app" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 8:57 AM
  • "Simulating traditional painting with the iPad: Digital art doesn't have to look sterile and cold. Digital artist Kyle Lambert shows us how to create a painting that looks like it was made the old-fashioned way." [Slideshow] Macworld 8:19 AM
  • "Steve Jobs Talks About Future of the TV in 1998 (Video)" MacTrast 7:53 AM
  • "Picture This: Steve Jobs Gets Bronzed" [Slideshow] Network World 10:55 AM
  • "Apple Produced 'Ghostbusters' Ad, Apple Boogie Album in 80s" PC Magazine 10:53 AM
  • "Discovering The 1983 Apple Art Steve Jobs Forgot" iPhone Savior 4:16 PM
  • "Apple phone prototype from 1983 shows an all touchscreen interface" TiPb 8:17 AM
  • "Rare Photo Shows Steve Jobs's Rebellious Spirit As He Flips The Bird To IBM" Cult of Mac 8:07 AM
  • "Cat Plays Fruit Ninja On iPad [Video] Redmond Pie 7:04 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "Facebook Messenger embeds network into Windows" ZDNet UK 11:24 AM
  • "How Tetris became the world's favourite computer game" BBC 11:19 AM
  • "Report: Wii U will have its own 'app store'" TG Daily 11:09 AM
  • "First LTE Windows Phone will be on AT&T" TG Daily 11:09 AM
  • "Casio's New G-SHOCK Connects To Smartphones, Shows Incoming Calls, Emails, SMS" TechCrunch 11:06 AM
  • "Two New Tools Exploit Router Security Setup Problem" IDG News Service 10:55 AM
  • "Need Wi-Fi? Find a Vending Machine" PCWorld 10:55 AM
  • "Siri for Android? New App Fools Users in Android Market" Techland 12:32 PM
  • "'Official' Siri App Lands In The Android Market" Cult of Mac 12:32 PM
  • "Siri Knock-Offs Invade Android Market" PCWorld 10:54 AM
  • "Google: The New Vampire Squid" Forbes 11:31 AM
  • "Google, Facebook rivalry to heat up in 2012" Computerworld 10:31 AM
  • "Google Backs Israel Entrepreneurs as Local Financing Drops" Bloomberg 10:19 AM
  • "Hackers, IT units focusing on smartphone security" Reuters 10:09 AM
  • "Happy New Year from Skype! Free Wi-Fi in NYC for New Year's Eve" CNET News 10:02 AM
  • "Christy Wyatt on How Motorola Plans to Stand Out From the Android Pack" AllThingsD 9:49 AM
  • "Computer Sciences Narrows CEO Hunt" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:47 AM
  • "Verizon Drops Plan for New $2 Fee" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:03 PM
  • "Verizon retreats on 'convenience fee' for online bill payment: Public outcry causes backpedaling in 24 hours" The Register 5:23 PM
  • "Verizon Drops Plan for New $2 Fee" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:25 PM
  • "Verizon's on-contract Xyboard is now $50 cheaper" ZDNet 11:22 AM
  • "Verizon explains 4G outages: Parsing the IT failure transparency" ZDNet 11:22 AM
  • "Verizon Attributes 4G LTE Service Disruptions to 'Growing Pains'" PC Magazine 10:53 AM
  • "Verizon Outages, New $2 Fee Irk Customers" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:42 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "iPhone & iPad Live 186: Untethered" TiPb 9:44 PM
  • "Gene Steinberg wraps 2011 with commentator Kirk McElhearn, author Bob 'Dr. Mac' LeVitus, and The Loop's Jim Dalrymple this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 4:17 PM