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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "More feds ditch BlackBerrys: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is planning to start the process of ditching Research in Motion's signature BlackBerry wireless phone largely in favor of the iPhone, the agency's top tech official told Politico." Politico 8:28 PM
  • "Sprint To Purchase 24 Million iPhones" App Advice 8:48 AM
  • "Sprint expected to stay with iPhone, trade off subsidized prices for lucrative contracts" O'Grady's PowerPage 9:23 AM
  • "Sprint reveals it spent $15.5 billion to fuel its iPhone hunger" Engadget 5:28 PM
  • "eBay's iPad trade-ins up tenfold from same time last year" CNET News 9:47 PM
  • "Apple In Catbird Seat With China Mobile iPhone Deal" Forbes 10:35 AM
  • "Apple Maintains Top Mobile PC Share Position for Q411 and Full Year – NPD DisplaySearch" MacPrices 11:48 AM
  • "iPad Jobs Grew 125% in 2011" PadGadget 8:48 AM
  • "RSA teams to bolster security for Apple, Google, RIM devices: Goal is SecurID and evolving anti-fraud risk detection for iOS, Android, BlackBerry smartphones" Network World 10:56 AM
  • "Mozilla has a plan to outduel iPhone and Android" CNNMoney 8:06 AM
  • "Apple debuts new TV ad 'iCloud Harmony' (with Video)" MacDailyNews 7:51 AM
  • "Best Buy to simplify return policy: 30 days, all products (including iPad)" TUAW 5:28 PM
  • "Mercedes Benz working Apple's Siri into its cars" Appolicious 9:08 AM
  • "Mercedes-Benz Integrates iPhone 4S and Siri into New Models" PC Magazine 10:51 AM
  • "Mercedes Assimilates Siri with Digital DriveStyle App" The Mac Observer 7:33 PM
  • "President Obama In The Oval Office Getting Briefed On An iPad 2 [Image] Cult of Mac 8:12 AM
  • "Video: iPads for Orangutans -- Program would let apes Skype other zoos" Postmedia News 9:50 PM
  • "Phishing scam promising free iPhones and Walmart giftcards popping up on Tumblr blogs" The Next Web 7:52 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Thumbdrive-sized computer now available for preorder" CNET News 11:51 AM
  • "Networking at 10,000 Feet: Airlines Are Making the Skies 'Social'" Techland 11:20 AM
  • "Wearable electronics can add a sparkle to your outfit" New York Times 11:07 AM
  • "Cell-site on a chip could revolutionise 4G: Chipmaker Freescale have announced they've achieved the near impossible feat of putting an entire cell-site onto a single piece of silicon." Stuff: New Zealand 11:05 AM
  • "Top Rambus attack dog Harold Hughes to retire" The Register 11:17 AM
  • "Mozilla Dropped Android From Boot-to-Gecko Project" IDG News Service 10:52 AM
  • "Malware authors expand use of domain generation algorithms to evade detection" IDG News Service 10:39 AM
  • "Suse builds on Linux kernel 3.0 in major SLES upgrade: SLES 11 Service Pack 2 delivers file-system enhancements, broader virtualization support, snapshot features, and more" InfoWorld 10:39 AM
  • "HTC, Polycom Bring RealPresence Video Conferencing to Smartphones, Tablets: MWC" eWeek 10:29 AM
  • "Samsung Brightside coming to Verizon March 1 with dim specs" CNET News 11:51 AM
  • "Verizon to sell Galaxy Tab 7.7 on Thursday for $500 over LTE: Data plan required, starting at $30 a month, with purchase of Android 2.3-based Samsung Galaxy tablet" Computerworld 10:24 AM
  • "Mega-powerful camera phone, super-fast gadgets dazzle at mobile show" CNN 10:22 AM
  • "Eye-controlled computer games for disabled children" BBC 10:15 AM
  • "RIM Touts PlayBook Apps, Actively Courting Bigger Players" PC Magazine 10:49 AM
  • "Chrome Now Able to Open E-Mail Links in Gmail" PCWorld 10:51 AM
  • "Android team to be independent of Motorola" TG Daily 11:16 AM
  • "Forget About Android 4.0! Google Exec Hints Android 5.0 Will Launch In Fall Of 2012" TechCrunch 11:13 AM
  • "Google Hints at 'Android Jelly Bean': In Google's booth at Mobile World Congress, there's a bowl of jelly beans. Make of that what you will." PC Magazine 10:48 AM
  • "Google puts $1M on the line for Chrome exploit rewards: Pulls out as Pwn2Own sponsor, but will pay up to $60K for each proven exploit" Computerworld 10:25 AM
  • "Public Wi-Fi On Your Cell Phone Will Soon Stop Being Such A Pain To Use" Business Insider 9:54 AM
  • "Panasonic introduces waterproof smartphones" USA Today 11:22 AM
  • "Panasonic Names Tsuga President After Predicting Record Loss" Bloomberg 10:18 AM
  • "Yahoo, Facebook in a shoving match" CNNMoney 9:34 AM
  • "A glimpse into the remote-controlled house of the future" MSNBC 10:45 AM
  • "Your Jetsons home is almost here" CNNMoney 9:34 AM
  • "Japan's biggest mobile carrier announces Siri competitor, 'Shabette Concier'" ZDNet 11:48 AM
  • "Quad-core smartphones could have price, battery issues" IDG News Service 8:42 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "The Portable Podcast, Episode 126" 148Apps 1:49 PM