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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, February 12, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Weekly Wrap: iPad 3, Mission Control tips, and more" Macworld 2/11
  • "Using apps to help treat autism" Macworld 2/11
  • "US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration drops BlackBerry for iPhone" The Verge 2/11
  • "U.S. Air Force planning to purchase up to 18,000 iPads" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 2/10
  • "Google guns for Apple TV: Google is working on an in-home entertainment gadget able to stream content from the internet - or, at least, it's testing such a device in employees' homes." Register Hardware 2/10
  • "Apple vs. Google: The Stakes Are Rising/Google Inc. is developing a home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company's own brand, according to people briefed on the company's plans." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2/10
  • "63% of iPhones were activated outside the U.S. last quarter: And that percentage is likely to increase sharply now that China has the iPhone 4S" Fortune 2/10
  • "Sprint's iPhone Sales Connect With New Customers" WSJ Blogs 2/10
  • "Apple supplier Foxconn hacked" TG Daily 2/10
  • "USA Today's internal app Stats show Amazon's Kindle Fire trouncing other Android tablets"  GeekWire 2/10
  • "Apple Posts a Pair of New iPhone 4S Commercials: 'Road Trip' and 'Rock God'" Mac|Life 2/10
  • "Apple founder Steve Jobs 'took drugs and abandoned his family" Telegraph 2/10
  • "Steve Jobs file reveals frank assessments" CBS News 2/10
  • "Steve Jobs did serve in the first Bush Administration" 9 to 5 Mac 2/10
  • "BlackBerry out at U.S. climate agency, iPhone in" Reuters 2/10
  • "Apple's new Siri ad: Remind me to do WHAT again? Would that the iPhone's intelligent assistant were as smart as the latest TV ad suggests" Fortune 2/10
  • "Watch: Apple Wants To Convince You That Siri's Not A Silly Gimmick" Business Insider 2/10
  • "Ngmoco Suffers Staff Lay-Offs As Development Of iOS Title Is Cancelled" RazorianFly 2/10
  • "Like the Apple Store Nearby, but This One Has Windows" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2/10
  • "Quick Cuts: Video Showcases Almost Every Apple Product in 30 Seconds" Techland 2/10
  • "South African President, Jacob Zuma, Prepares Nation Address On iPad – [Photo] RazorianFly 2/10
Non-Apple News
  • "The Hidden Tax on Every Smartphone and Tablet You Buy" Yahoo! News 2/10
  • "Amazon readying 9-inch Kindle Fire for 2012, analyst predicts" CNET News 2/10
  • "IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop" [Video Report] The Register 2/10
  • "Logitech Touch Mouse M600 has no buttons" TG Daily 2/10
  • "Hackers target lonely hearts with Valentine's spam and phishing scams" PCWorld 2/10
  • "Murtazin: The Samsung Galaxy S II Will See Ice Cream Sandwich On March 1" TechCrunch 2/10
  • "With HD voice wireless firms dial up call quality" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 2/10
  • "VMware Issues vCloud Integration Manager" eWeek 2/10
  • "NXP swings to loss in Q4, optimistic on Q1" EE Times 2/10
  • "Micron President Adams Says Computer Memory Prices Probably Bottomed Out" Bloomberg 2/10
  • "Alibaba's Ma faces big Yahoo test" Reuters 2/10
  • "275 PSP games will be downloadable on Vita" TG Daily 2/10
  • "Hirai outlines vision for leaner Sony" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 2/10
  • "Sony Incoming CEO Hirai Vows to Take Painful Decisions to Cut Fixed Costs" Bloomberg 2/10
  • "Cars That Can Tweet Are Hitting the Road: WSJ's Joe White has details of new technologies being piled into vehicles, everything from 17-inch dashboard screens to abilities to check Facebook and purchase movie tickets." [Video Report] MarketWatch 2/10
  • "Alcatel to Rearrange Work Force, Including Bringing Back Outsourced Jobs" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2/10
  • "Google Paid Out Over $700K For Security Flaw Detections" eWeek 2/10
  • "Google Is Testing Wireless Entertainment Device, Filing Shows" Bloomberg 2/10
Publications/Podcasts
  • "The Talk Show #78: Wow, is that a Pen? John Gruber and Dan Benjamin talk about the rumors of iPad 3, Windows 8 on ARM, LTE hardware, and Google Drive, about the Super Bowl ad Apple didn't run, the Samsung stylus, and Path doing the wrong thing the wrong way." 5by5 2/10
  • "Engadget Podcast 280 - 02.10.2012" ["00:34:21 - Apple announcing iPad 3 first week of March? Anonymous sources think so"] Engadget 2/10
  • "Gene Steinberg meets commentator Kirk McElhearn, the NDP Group's Stephen Baker, and Laptop magazine's Avram Piltch this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 2/10
  • "iPad 3 rumors, iTunes Match royalties, universal apps, plus more! (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 2/10
  • "Macworld interview: Danny Dyer/Film actor, iPad fan, and concerned father of tech-savvy daughters" Macworld UK 2/10