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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, February 7, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Gartner Says Western European PC Shipments Fell 16 Percent in Fourth Quarter of 2011" ["Four of the top five vendors performed poorly. Only Apple achieved growth, which consolidated its hold on the No. 4 position. 'PC vendors face a long, uphill struggle to regain the interest of consumers."]  Gartner 5:08 PM
  • "Apple is the only PC brand making progress in Europe (and that's without iPad)" 9 to 5 Mac 5:09 PM
  • "iPhone Number One Mobile Handset in Q4 2011, but Android Attracts More First-Time Smartphone Buyers – NPD Group" MacPrices 8:20 AM
  • "NPD: Apple sold most smartphones in Q4, but Samsung wins 2011" GigaOM 8:51 AM
  • "IDC: The iPhone is once again the world's No. 1 smartphone" Fortune 8:37 AM
  • "Want your beer and wings faster? Order on the iPad, please: iPads are being tested at customer tables by the Buffalo Wild Wings chain" Computerworld 7:51 AM
  • "Apple: 50% of Mobile Revenue, 80% of Profit, Says Morgan Keegan" Barron's 9:43 AM
  • "Apple Fights App Makers Who Try to Game the System" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:22 AM
  • "Apple Says it Will Boot Developers Who Manipulate App Store Rankings [Video] Mashable 5:09 PM
  • "Apple to Developers: Don't Game App Store Rankings" The Mac Observer 8:25 AM
  • "Apple pulls cloned games from App Store" VentureBeat 11:53 AM
  • "Apple's Siri Makes a Quarter of Wolfram Alpha's Searches" The Mac Observer 9:35 AM
  • "Apple's iPhone hot but Android handsets on fire" AFP Relax News 8:45 AM
  • "Rogers, BCE vying for a bite of Apple's iTV" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 7:51 AM
  • "Report: Apple Talking to Canadian Carriers About iTV" The Mac Observer 6:15 PM
  • "What's on Apple's iTV? Jefferies' Peter Misek takes a deep dive into the problem of acquiring quality content" Fortune 10:56 AM
  • "Apple iTV Already Exists, Say Sources" Minyanville 9:49 AM
  • "Apple TV Reportedly being tested in Canada" Crave @ CNET 7:51 AM
  • "Best Buy Knows Nothing About The 'Apple HDTV'" Cult of Mac 7:48 AM
  • "App Stores Create 500,000 U.S. Jobs: Almost half a million Americans can thank the rise of the 'app economy' for their jobs, according to TechNet study." InformationWeek 4:55 PM
  • "Apps create 466,000 jobs in the U.S. since 2008" The Loop 1:52 PM
  • "Kayak, Halliburton dropping Blackberry" Tech.Blorge 9:59 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "New RIM chief plans to take on rivals with PlayBook OS 2.0 and BlackBerry 10" V3 11:18 AM
  • "Adobe puts Firefox Flash plugin in the sandbox" ZDNet 11:24 AM
  • "Sony patent points to Wii U-like controller" TG Daily 11:09 AM
  • "Flying cars roll a little closer to take off" MSNBC 10:45 AM
  • "Droid 4 smartphone hitting shelves Feb. 10 for $200: Motorola Android smartphone has got LTE connectivity, FIPS 140-2 encryption and an 8MP camera" Network World 10:55 AM
  • "Verizon brings back double-data promo for 4G phones" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 10:43 AM
  • "One on One: Paul Maritz, VMWare Chief Executive" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:38 AM
  • "Sculpteo Takes 3D Printing to the Cloud" Forbes 10:33 AM
  • "Red Hat launches storage appliance for Amazon's cloud" IDG News Service 10:13 AM
  • "Amazon Web Services lowers price of storage in its cloud: Amazon says that economies of scale are allowing it to cut some monthly charges by 12 percent" IDG News Service 10:12 AM
  • "Curt Schilling's 38 Studios releases 1st video game" Associated Press 10:05 AM
  • "Wolfram Alpha Learns Image, Data Tricks: Wolfram Alpha adds paid subscription service that provides new image and data analysis capabilities." InformationWeek 9:59 AM
  • "Symantec code theft: Hackers 'attempted extortion'" BBC 10:03 AM
  • "Google to Strip Chrome of SSL Revocation Checking" Webmonkey 11:21 AM
  • "Google's whack-a-mole Marketplace cleans house again" The Register 11:13 AM
  • "Google limits Android support for CDMA phones: Android power users may face hobbled handsets" The Register 11:14 AM
  • "RootSmart Android Malware May Be Able To Sneak By Google's New Bouncer" TechCrunch 11:07 AM
  • "Google goggles with Terminator HUD 'coming soon': 8GB of flash, front-facing cam, voice recog and head-tilting nav" The Register 11:14 AM
  • "Google woos developers to Google+ platform" CNET News 9:55 AM
  • "Yahoo Mail suffers disruption, outage" CNET News 9:55 AM
  • "RIM: App World Is Now At 60,000 Apps; 13 Percent Of Publishers Earn $100k+" paidContent 8:24 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "What the Dickens? Accidental Empires Rebooted" I, Cringely 8:15 PM
  • "Radio: Episode 42: It's Not a Plugin If It's Built-In" SchwarzTech 6:57 PM
  • "April Bowlby Interview" ["A fan of Apple products, April also has an iPhone and Mac laptop. She mentions that she has yet to pick up an iPad saying, 'What happens to my Apple laptop once I get an iPad? I don't know what happens to it,' she says with a laugh. 'It goes somewhere and I don't want it to go away.'"] MacDirectory 1:51 PM
  • "CNET Labscast 16: OnLive Desktop, laptop backbacks, and the Sony Headman visor" CNET 11:36 AM
  • "Is This USB Vibrator The New iPod? [Interview] Cult of Mac 8:38 AM