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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "IPad may be incremental to wireless carriers: Tablets help margins, but WiFi-only models remain most popular" MarketWatch 8:08 AM
  • "IDC: Apple's iPad Rules Tablet Sales Today But Android Makers Will Overtake It By 2016" TechCrunch 8:20 AM
  • "Apple falls to 54.7 percent tablet marketshare in Q4 2011 following Kindle Fire launch, says IDC" The Verge 8:17 AM
  • "iPad Is Still the King of Tablets, But Kindle Fire and Others Are Catching Up [STUDY] Mashable 10:33 AM
  • "iPad and Kindle Fire both strong in recent quarter, says IDC" CNET News 8:01 AM
  • "Apple's iPad Ready for March 16 Debut, IDC Raises 2012 Tablet Forecast" Forbes 2:20 PM
  • "Telstra set to offer new iPad - from 12.01am March 16!" iTWire 9:50 PM
  • "New iPad Hungry For More Spectrum" Forbes 10:21 AM
  • "An App to Turn Sign Language to Text: Could portable computing transform the ways the deaf communicate?" Technology Review 7:58 AM
  • "McGraw Hill: iPad 3 Will Boost E-Textbook Adoption" DailyTech 8:35 AM
  • "In China, once-thriving Apple scalpers are struggling: Smugglers and unofficial resellers of iPhones prospered when supplies were tight, but now, with the smartphone in abundance, they find fewer takers and lower profits." Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 8:16 AM
  • "Apple Makes Shaq And Celebrities Everywhere Grovel Like Common People" Fast Company 8:22 AM
  • "Apple is reportedly beating scalpers in China, thanks to increased supply to the country" The Next Web 8:16 AM
  • "Hong Kong Apple store repels fanbois, scalpers" The Register 11:28 PM
  • "AT&T on iPad tethering: We're working on it" Network World 8:26 AM
  • "The essential guide to iPad queuing, expert advice: We catch up with a seasoned Apple Store queue regular and get the top tips on getting the most out of the experience" Macworld UK 7:47 AM
  • "Android clobbers Siri in Japanese... and English: Apple's attempts to get its natural-language assistant to speak Japanese haven't gone down well locally, getting itself trounced by the Android-based Syabette Concier." The Register 8:26 AM
  • "Cameron denies personal Trident missile firing iPad app: Prime Minister David Cameron has denied that he will be getting a personalised iPad app for firing Trident missiles styled after his beloved Angry Birds game." The Register 8:00 AM
  • "Tesco won't honour £50 new iPad sales, and here's why" Crave @ CNET 7:56 AM
  • "Is There an 4G LTE iPhone Coming Soon?" [Video Report] MarketWatch 2:17 PM
  • "Turn your iPhone into a walkie-talkie: Voxer CEO Tom Katis hopes to build a freemium business off of his app that brings walkie-talkie functions to smartphones." [Video Report] CNN 10:55 AM
  • "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is an Apple Fan, Apparently" Minyanville 3:43 PM
  • "J.C. Penney takes a page from Apple's playbook" MSNBC 8:16 AM
  • "Steve Jobs Stuffed Toy Launches as Limited-Time Collector Item [Pics] Mashable 10:36 AM
  • "This Steve Jobs-Inspired iCEO Doll Is 'Insanely Great'" Cult of Mac 8:21 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "HP Pulled The Plug On Palm Two Years Early, Says Former Exec" Business Insider 2:40 PM
  • "Google+ Hangouts even more collaborative with Google Docs" ZDNet 2:26 PM
  • "Former Google exec lambasts life under Larry Page" V3 2:18 PM
  • "Former Googler Rips Company for 'Corporate-Mandated Focus' on Google+" Techland 2:05 PM
  • "American pies are cooling on the windowsill ahead of Pi Day" The Register 2:02 PM
  • "Privacy-friendly search engine DuckDuckGo offers alternative to Google" PCWorld 1:59 PM
  • "Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge: New models help bring multimedia to enterprise campus" Network World 12:30 PM
  • "Ubuntu 12.04: A 'Coming of Age' on Servers Too, Shuttleworth Says" PCWorld 12:27 PM
  • "Comcast Streaming NCAA Tournament Video for Free" PC Magazine 11:54 AM
  • "Mozilla delays Firefox 11 rollout to avoid Patch Tuesday problems: The new browser will be available later today, but automatic updates will wait until the effect of Microsoft's Windows fixes are understood" PCWorld 1:58 PM
  • "After Delay, Firefox 11 Arrives With Add-on Sync, Dev Tools" PC Magazine 11:54 AM
  • "HTC lists smartphones that will get Android 4.0: The Sensation and Sensation XE will be the first HTC phones to get the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade." IDG News Service 12:28 PM
  • "VMware's Spring 3.1 Release Train Rolls Deep With Java Developers" eWeek 11:11 AM
  • "We need good code, says Diffie at Black Hat Europe" IDG News Service 10:57 AM
  • "Swimming robots break world distance record in Pacific" BBC 10:30 AM
  • "Verizon Wireless: 4G LTE or bust in 2012/Verizon Wireless CTO says goal is to hit 400 markets this year, focus on LTE smartphones" Network World 12:31 PM
  • "Rexchip foundry capacity influential on DRAM pricing, say Taiwan makers" DigiTimes 10:02 AM
  • "Sharp Replaces President After Predicting Record Loss" Bloomberg 10:32 AM
  • "New Sharp Boss Will Need a Cutting Edge" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:51 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "TUAW TV Live at 5 PM EDT: 4G iPads, fun apps, Apple trivia" TUAW 3:58 PM
  • "The New iPad, FOYML, and the Death of Books" Your Mac Life 1:23 PM
  • "Engadget HD Podcast 290 - 03.14.2012" Engadget 8:49 AM