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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, March 5, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple's App Store Downloads Top 25 Billion" ["The 25 billionth app downloaded, Where's My Water? Free, was downloaded by Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. As the winner of the App Store Countdown to 25 Billion Apps, Chunli Fu will receive a $10,000 iTunes® Gift Card."] Apple 8:03 AM
  • "Apple's App Store Downloads Top 25 Billion" Business Wire 10:08 AM
  • "Apple's Chinese Presence Leads to 25 Billion Apps" TheStreet 1:33 PM
  • "Apple Ahead Of Google With 25B App Downloads: Twenty-five billion applications have been downloaded from the App Store, putting it well ahead of Google's Android Market. But Google is growing at a faster rate." InformationWeek 10:46 AM
  • "Tech Titans Aid Undocumented Students" ["The group includes Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the Palm Pilot, and the family foundations of Andrew Grove, co-founder of Intel Corp., and Mark Leslie, founder of the former Veritas Software Corp. Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, has for years supported undocumented students through her organizations that help low-income high-school students."] WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:51 PM
  • "Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China Downloads the 25 billionth App from the App Store" eXtensions 8:24 AM
  • "China Mobile reaches 15 million iPhone users, despite not selling the Apple device" The Next Web 7:53 AM
  • "Apple Fixes iPhone 4S To Support China Mobile, Despite No Partnership With Carrier" Cult of Mac 8:04 AM
  • "Apple Fixes iPhone 4S Signal Issues in China" Mashable 8:44 AM
  • "China Mobile isn't an iPhone partner, but it still has 15 million iPhone users" iDownload Blog 12:54 PM
  • "29% of mobile web users intend to buy Apple iPad 3" ZDNet 7:48 AM
  • "C Spire drops iPhone 4S price to $150, asks you for two years of commitment" Engadget 7:54 AM
  • "Apple iPhone 4 Drops Down To £22.67 Per Month" ITProPortal 7:55 AM
  • "'iPad 3' event prompting trade-ins of older iPads" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 8:53 AM
  • "Apple's new retail store in Amsterdam is magnificent [Photos + Video] Edible Apple 10:40 AM
  • "An Apple-branded NASCAR rig? Not likely. But that isn't stopping the famously blue-collar racing league from going after major technology sponsorships." Fortune 11:54 AM
  • "New Square device replaces cash register" ["Today, the company co-founded by Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey unwrapped Square Register, a free Apple iPad app designed to modernize point-of-sale devices for small merchants."] USA Today 8:02 AM
  • "Ka-Ching! Square's New App Turns the iPad into a Cash Register" Techland 8:13 AM
  • "Square iPad app aims to replace cash registers" The Verge 8:02 AM
  • "Square, Now Processing $4 Billion in Payments a Year, Launches Square Register" AllThingsD 8:53 AM
  • "J.C. Penney Hires Another Former Apple Whiz To Help Store Revamp" ["First, the retailer brought in Apple's former retail chief, Ron Johnson, to become CEO. Now it has hired Laurie Beja Miller to lead part of the revamp."] Forbes 10:42 AM
  • "How To Become An App Millionaire: Fire Maple Games owner Joe Kauffman says his secret is great entertainment. But his success story also includes Corona SDK, a programming tool that fuels iOS, Android, and soon OS X apps from one code base." InformationWeek 10:10 AM
  • "Shock: RIM PlayBook outsells Apple iPad/Canadian gadget emporium Future Shop sold more BlackBerry PlayBooks than iPads last week, indicating the end of Apple's dominance or at least lending some succour to RIM's investors." Register Hardware 8:11 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "A Samsung Flexible Display Patent Emerges, Products due in 2013" Patent Bolt 12:53 PM
  • "Researchers demo 512Gbps over single fibre channel" ZDNet UK 11:43 AM
  • "Fujitsu releases Xeon-based Primergy servers" ZDNet UK 11:43 AM
  • "Start-ups Dropbox and Box reach for the cloud" USA Today 11:32 AM
  • "Chrome Shines Bright In Controversial Security Fight: Major browsers have all made solid strides in security in the past few years, but Chrome's sandbox makes Google's browser a harder target, researchers say at RSA." Dark Reading 11:58 AM
  • "Marsh & McLennan CFO to join Google" MarketWatch 11:49 AM
  • "Google aims to speed fibre rollout with bendy strip" CNET News 11:43 AM
  • "Asus reveals Android 5.0 Jelly Bean name" V3 11:34 AM
  • "Jelly Bean confirmed as Android names get sweeter: Asus has confirmed that the next major version of Google's smartphone OS will indeed be called 'Jelly Bean'." Register Hardware 11:29 AM
  • "Rumors of a Steam Box set-top box" TG Daily 11:26 AM
  • "Exploring the World, Note by Note: Pinwheel, a new site created by Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake, lets users post virtual notes anywhere." Technology Review 11:24 AM
  • "Seattle gaming studio gambles on Sony's PlayStation Vita" Seattle Times 11:17 AM
  • "User Hacks GitHub to Showcase Vulnerability After Rails Developers Dismiss His Report" IDG News Service 11:11 AM
  • "Foursquare Co-Founder Checking Out of Company" PC Magazine 11:09 AM
  • "Asustek to launch Cedar Trail-based netbook in March" DigiTimes 10:29 AM
  • "Non-Apple tablet PC vendors sandwiched by Apple and Google" DigiTimes 10:29 AM
  • "AT&T's data caps infuriating users, enriching developers" Bloomberg News 10:28 AM
  • "Video game industry looks for new plan to reach players" Reuters 9:57 AM
  • "Yahoo loses search guru to Google" V3 11:34 AM
  • "Yahoo Labs chief, strategist jumps to Google, report says" CNET News 10:05 AM
  • "Yahoo to Lay Off Thousands in Massive Restructuring: Report" FOXBusiness 10:44 AM
  • "Yahoo's New CEO Preps Major Restructuring, Including Significant Layoffs" AllThingsD 9:37 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Mac Geek Gab Podcast: MGG 384: Photos, Lion Tips, Speaker Management & More!" The Mac Observer 4:57 PM
  • "Mac Geek Gab Podcast: MGG 384: Photos, Lion Tips, Speaker Management & More!" The Mac Observer 4:35 PM
  • "We look forward to the iPad 3 event and what new goodies Apple will let us get our hands on." The MT Show 8:07 AM