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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, April 9, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Windows-on-iPad service goes legit as Microsoft licensing demands are met" Ars Technica 4:49 PM
  • "When Apple called Kentucky: One of the most innovative gadgets in a generation — the Apple iPhone — would not have hit the market in 2007 were it not for a 60-year-old glass factory in this Central Kentucky town of 8,300 people." Louisville Courier-Journal 8:44 AM
  • "[Infographic] How the App Stores 'Really' Stack Up" ReadWriteWeb 10:04 AM
  • "Reporter visits Foxconn factory in China, while Apple's competitors stay quiet" The Verge 8:35 AM
  • "Foxconn doors swung open to visitor, but few surprises await" CNET News 10:44 AM
  • "iOS in China dominated by Guangdong, other big urban areas" Electronista 8:19 AM
  • "China Leads World in iOS & Android Activations, App Usage" The Mac Observer 10:53 AM
  • "AT&T finally to unlock iPhones for travelers: with a catch: AT&T's long-standing policy against unlocking iPhones ended yesterday, allowing users to take advantage of cheaper service when traveling abroad" PCWorld 11:14 AM
  • "Amazon's Digital Sales Grow 29% in Q1 2012 While iTunes Sales are Flat from Q4, According to Estimates from eDataSource" PRWeb 9:37 AM
  • "IPhone Subsidies by Carriers May End, Piecyk Says" [Video Report] Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 11:57 AM
  • "If an iPhone wannabe lands on Easter, does it make a splash? With the world's mobile phone market at stake, what were Nokia and Microsoft thinking?" Fortune 8:16 AM
  • "iThieves hit JFK flights: Apple-crazed crooks have been swiping high-tech equipment from the checked luggage of unsuspecting passengers flying from JFK to Moscow, The Post has learned." New York Post 11:13 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Improbable PC Pioneer: Commodore's Jack Tramiel, 1928-2012" Techland 8:07 PM
  • "Clicking on a Fortune: Facebook to Acquire Photo-Sharing Start-Up Instagram for $1 Billion" AllThingsD 12:35 PM
  • "RIM Moves Against Pirated Android Apps On PlayBook: RIM wants to block PlayBook owners from 'sideloading' Android applications, in a move designed to protect developers." InformationWeek 12:38 PM
  • "Samsung preps flexible mobile displays for 2012 launch" TG Daily 11:58 AM
  • "Our future cyberdefenders set to face off: National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition challenges security-savvy college students" Network World 11:27 AM
  • "Toshiba to Sell Video Servers That Use Streaming Hardware Instead of CPU, Memory" IDG News Service 11:25 AM
  • "Web Attacks Use Smart Redirection to Evade URL Security Scanners" IDG News Service 11:24 AM
  • "Google Augmented Reality Glasses Could Debut at I/O Event" eWeek 10:41 AM
  • "Google Doodle celebrates Eadweard J. Muybridge, Father of the Zoopraxiscope: Eadweard Muybridge is the subject of today's Google Doodle. In the process of photographing galloping horses, Muybridge invented the Zoopraxiscope, the forerunner to the motion picture projector." Christian Science Monitor 10:35 AM
  • "Game time for Mass.: 'Largest show ever' hits as cos. ramp up hiring" Boston Herald 10:33 AM
  • "Nokia counting on its Collection apps to help sell Windows Phones" ZDNet 12:15 PM
  • "Nokia Lumia 900: Wisdom Of Easter Launch Questioned" InformationWeek 10:20 AM
  • "AOL shares soar after Microsoft patent deal" MarketWatch 9:57 AM
  • "Sony is said planning to cut 6% of jobs" MarketWatch 9:56 AM
  • "Sony to cut global workforce by 10,000" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:43 AM
  • "Social 'second screen' TV is all about the apps" CNNMoney 9:47 AM
  • "Oh no: German courts and clueless politicians want to attract even more patent lawsuits" Foss Patents 8:57 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "On Bartending: Memoirs of an Apple Genius" Vardy.me 6:10 PM
  • "Mac Geek Gab Podcast: MGG 391: Repersonalizing a Mac, Notification Center, Backups & More" The Mac Observer 4:30 PM
  • "We love our iOS gadgets but when is it inappropriate to use them? What is correct gadget etiquette?" The MT Show 8:01 AM