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MacSurfer's Archive: Saturday, March 3, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple's App Store hits 25B downloads right when we predicted, at a current rate of 48.6M a day" The Next Web 8:03 AM
  • "25 Billion Downloads: Apple's App Store Hits Giant Milestone" Cult of Mac 8:07 AM
  • "Apple's App Store Hits 25 Billion Downloads: How Many Per iPhone?" PC Magazine 7:50 PM
  • "Apple: 25 Billion Apps Have Been Downloaded From The App Store" MacStories 8:07 AM
  • "iOS App Store serves 25 billion downloads" The Verge 8:03 AM
  • "Apple serves up 25 billion iOS apps to users" iPodNN 8:03 AM
  • "Apple May Face Difficulties On Making A 4G LTE iPhone For China's 4G Network" M.I.C. Gadget 6:16 PM
  • "Apple may have second Ottawa retail store" MacNN 6:17 PM
  • "It's game on for iPads in NYC taxis" ZDNet 6:17 PM
  • "Weekly Wrap: iPad 3? Apple TV? These and more fill us with glee!" Macworld 12:07 PM
  • "Week in Apple: pre-iPad event edition" Ars Technica 12:12 PM
  • "Apple's 'Something You Really Have To See': Tech Weekly" TheStreet 10:42 AM
  • "Google 'Assistant' Reportedly Will Surpass Siri" PCWorld 7:48 PM
  • "Google's Plan To Compete With Apple's Multi-Platform Siri? Google 'Assistant'" TechCrunch 8:07 AM
  • "U.S. Air Force buying up to 18,000 iPads" iMore 10:36 AM
  • "Air Force Gives $9 Million Award for as Many as 18,000 IPads" Bloomberg 3/2
  • "U.S. Air Force to spend $9M on iPads for flight manual reboot" CNET News 3/2
  • "Apple again tops Fortune's list of most admired companies" CNET News 3/2
  • "City beginning to go paperless: If you attend a Vancouver City Council or a City manager meeting, you are likely to see iPads at the desk in lieu of stacks of papers" City of Vancouver: Washington, USA 3/2
  • "Switching to iPads saves Vancouver $336 per device per year on data, decreases printing by 40 percent" The Verge 3/2
  • "Switching to iPads saves Vancouver City Council 50K pages a year" AppleInsider 3/2
  • "Virgin prepares to leave: the Champs Elysees" ["This is simply one of the best commercial brands of Paris. Apple would be in the running, but other signs, without declaring themselves, dream of settling there."] Google French-to-English: Le Figaro 3/2
  • "Apple could move into Champs-élysées Virgin Megastore" MacNN 3/2
  • "Apple: We never said Siri would actually work in the UK/Ad watchdog says punter's expectations too high" The Register 3/2
  • "Apple complaint quashed over 'misleading' Siri advert" ZDNet 3/2
  • "Nearly one-third of mobile users expected to buy iPad 3: Report" ZDNet 3/2
  • "For Robot Maker, the Future Is Getting Closer" ["Now Mr. Angle's company is trying to do Rosey one better — with Ava, a 5-foot-4 assistant with an iPad or an Android tablet for a brain and Xbox motion sensors to help her get around. But no apron, so far."] New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3/2
  • "Smartphone text autocorrect locks down school" Tech.Blorge 3/2
  • "When will tablets outsell traditional PCs?" asymco 3/2
  • "Apple speeding toward 25 billion app downloads: Guesses vary but milestone could be met as soon as tonight" Network World 3/2
  • "Snubbed by Apple, China's Renren becomes the first social network app for Windows 8" The Next Web 3/2
  • "Charges pare back Apple supplier Laird: More than £130m of exceptional charges have widened the full-year pre-tax loss at Laird, in spite of strong demand for tablets and smartphones driving up revenues at the British electrical components provider." Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 3/2
  • "AT&T Throttles Unlimited Plan Users at 3 GB" TidBITS 3/2
  • "Customers Howl Over AT&T Data-Use Curbs" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3/2
  • "AT&T: Use Of Tablets On The Rise Among Small Businesses" MacNews 3/2
  • "Soluto Saucily Sunders Apple's Seriousness With Salacious Squib" TechCrunch 3/2
Non-Apple News
  • "CBS's '60 Minutes' Casts Its Eye on Stuxnet Worm" AllThingsD 9:34 PM
  • "Panasonic powers back to mobile with Elugas" [Slideshow] CNET News 3/2
  • "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 'Precise Pangolin' gets beta release" ZDNet UK 3/2
  • "Ubuntu 12.04 hits beta, brings smooth Unity for marching masses: But bugs still need a-snaffling for biz penguins" The Register 3/2
  • "'Pied piper' robot could lead fish away from harm" TG Daily 3/2
  • "Zynga launches own gaming platform" TG Daily 3/2
  • "Raspberry Pi's $25 PC will be back on sale in a month" Techworld 3/2
  • "NSA Creates Super Secure, Android-Based Smartphone" PC Magazine 3/2
  • "Archos Unveils a $130 Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet for Kids" PC Magazine 3/2
  • "Google patent application reveals broadband dreams" CNET News 3/2
  • "Google TV hasn't even hit a million users" TG Daily 3/2
  • "Disabled Google Apps Account Deletion Mechanism Affecting Admins, Users" IDG News Service 3/2
  • "Google responds to reader questions about privacy changes" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 3/2
  • "Nokia To Issue Lumia 800 Battery Fix: Patch also addresses problems with backlighting, diagnostics, and camera." InformationWeek 3/2
  • "Brogrammers Bring Frat-House Ethos to Engineers' Geeky Coding World" Bloomberg 3/2
  • "New potato-spotting AI built with off-the-shelf tech" BBC 3/2
  • "Magnificent Men Of Mobile World Congress: Booth babe pictures are so 2011. So we give you the men of Mobile World Congress, in all their geeked-out glory." InformationWeek 3/2
  • "Mobile-Phone Leaders Boost Battered Barcelona" Bloomberg 3/2
  • "AT&T Adds Speed Caps for Heavy Data Users" Bloomberg 3/2
  • "Retailers Join Payment Chase/Two Words: Digital Wallet—Wal-Mart and Target Join Project Aiming to Make Plastic Obsolete" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3/2
  • "Google Introduces New Camera Motion & Timing Gesturing for Android" Patently Apple 3/2
Publications/Podcasts
  • "ATPM 18.03 / March 2012: Volume 18, Number 3" ATPM 3/2
  • "Gene Steinberg meets Neil Ticktin of MacTech magazine, Greg Bell of 'Radio Classics,' and Macworld's Dan Frakes this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 3/2
  • "iPad 3, Apple TV, Mastered for iTunes and high quality music (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 3/2