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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, April 29, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Who's the King of Smartphone Sales?" PCWorld 3:33 PM
  • "Last week in Asia: Apple soars in China, Samsung tops global mobile sales and more" The Next Web 7:53 AM
  • "Apple Takes Bigger Bite into Israel: Apple's new development center in Haifa is looking for hi-tech engineers and joins Intel and Microsoft by expanding in Israel." Arutz Sheva: Israel 8:14 AM
  • "So who's behind Apple attacks in Australia? Samsung denies that it's behind flashmobs picketing outside Apple Stores in Australia with signs saying 'wake up.' But if it isn't Samsung, who could it be? Google?" CNET News 4/28
  • "Mob Tells iPhone Fans To 'Wake Up': Samsung's displeasure with Apple can be found in courtrooms around the world, in the mockery of iPhone users in its advertising and this week it spilled into the streets." PCWorld 4/28
  • "Will Adelaide's Apple store be totally iBoring?" Adelaide Now 4/28
  • "Australia Planning Agency Criticizes Storefront Design" ifoAppleStore 4/28
  • "Apple's iPhone Silences Doubters: Tech Weekly" TheStreet 4/28
  • "Apple Flirting with Epix for Streaming Video From 3 Major Studios [Video] Mashable 4/28
  • "Apple promises to build 100 percent green data center" UberGizmo 4/28
  • "Gaming Apps No Longer Number One with iPhone and iPad Owners" PadGadget 4/28
  • "Samsung denies staging 'Wake Up' anti-Apple flashmob" SlashGear 4/28
  • "Study: Apple customer service complaints low, call automation could use work" AppleInsider 4/27
  • "Apple Ireland political visit applauds Euro expansion" SlashGear 4/27
  • "Irish PM visits Apple's European headquarters" AppleInsider 4/27
  • "Workers protest at Foxconn plant in China: Workers at a Chinese factory owned by Foxconn, Apple Inc's main manufacturer, threatened to jump off the roof of a building in a protest over wages just a month after the two firms announced a landmark agreement on improving working conditions." Reuters 4/27
  • "iPhone app dowloads plummeted in March while marketing costs held steady" VentureBeat 4/27
  • "Crackdown On Download Bots Meant Installs For Top iOS Apps Took A Dive In March" TechCrunch 4/27
  • "Apple to open a staff-only eatery to keep secrets safe" BBC 4/27
  • "Study: iOS dominates Android four to one in the enterprise/Mobile management vendor Good finds Apple is crushing Android on tablet front, holding slim lead in smartphones" InfoWorld 4/27
  • "Kindle Fire killing other Android tabs, iPad dominates" FairerPlatform 4/27
  • "A look behind Apple's App Store curtain" CNNMoney 4/27
  • "Could Apple be affected by Brazilian Foxconn strike? Next week's strikes are unlikely to have an impact on Apple product supplies" Macworld UK 4/27
  • "Apple iOS Leads Enterprise Adoption With Strong Growth Driven By iPhone 4S and iPad 2 in Q1 2012 – Good Technology" MacPrices 4/27
  • "Samsung overtakes Apple as world's largest smartphone vendor: Shifts 31 per cent of total market share" The Inquirer 4/27
  • "Did Samsung sell more smartphones than Apple?" Fortune 4/27
  • "Samsung Passes Nokia To Become World's No. 1 Phone Maker" AllThingsD 4/27
  • "The King is dead -- Samsung snatches crown from Nokia and Apple" BetaNews 4/27
  • "Apple, Samsung: IHS, Strategy Analytics Can't Agree Who's No. 1" Barron's 4/27
  • "Apple kills Chomp for Android app — Apple News, Tips and Reviews" GigaOM 4/27
  • "Apple lets kids play with iPads rather than iMacs" TUAW 4/27
  • "Indie 'Jobs' movie finds its Wozniak: 'Book of Mormon' star Josh Gad in talks to play Apple co-founder" Variety 4/27
  • "Steve Jobs' death clears way for Broadway star to play Woz: Sticking with their casting policy of picking actors-who-look-quite-a-lot-like-the-character, the makers of the Steve Jobs biopic are in talks with tubby TV funnyman Josh Gad for the part of Steve Wozniak." The Register 4/27
  • "Monster to release iPhone speaker docks this year" CNET Asia 4/27
Non-Apple News
  • "Researchers Create Glare-Free Self-Cleaning Glass [Video] Mashable 4/28
  • "Sony releases Android Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for Tablet S" V3 4/27
  • "Panasonic touts monster 8k by 4k 'flickerless' plasma: 145in big enough for ya?" Register Hardware 4/27
  • "Huawei: Touch-free smartphones and infinite cloud storage are on the way" IDG News Service 4/27
  • "Dropbox Boosts Free Storage Limit to 5GB to Match Google Drive" PCWorld 4/27
  • "Google goes to Washington: The FTC looks prepared to go to trial over antitrust complaints. Meanwhile, Google is expanding its Washington presence in a big way." Fortune 4/27
  • "Google explains Ice Cream Sandwich delays" TG Daily 4/27
  • "Google Drive Problem Is a Public Cloud Problem, Says Privacy Expert" CSO 4/27
  • "Acer to reenter world top-3 PC vendor rankings, says chairman" DigiTimes 4/27
  • "Former Sun chief about Google: 'immune to copyright laws, good citizenship, they don't share'" Foss Patents 4/27
  • "F-Secure cuts growth outlook, shares drop" Reuters 4/27
  • "RIM's Future Hangs on Developer Support for 'new BlackBerry'" Network World 4/27
  • "RIMM Up 4% on Chatter of 'BB10' Time Frame, Fairfax Remarks" Barron's 4/27
  • "Sharp to eke out profit on washing machines and printers" Reuters 4/27
  • "Samsung Galaxy series rockets company to record £2.75bn profit" V3 4/27
  • "Galaxy phones power Samsung to record $5.2 billion profit" Reuters 4/27
  • "Google Patent Reveals a QWERTY Styled Smartphone Design" Patent Bolt 4/27
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Talkcast tonight: Profits, taxes and WWDC at 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT" TUAW 7:01 PM
  • "Gene Steinberg meets tech writer Geoffrey Morrison, AppleInsider's Daniel Eran Dilger, and The NPD Group's Ross Rubin this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 4/27
  • "Interview with Anne Geddes about 'My First Five Years" Your Mac Life 4/27
  • "Ken Segall Recalls His Stories As Steve Jobs' Ad Man On This Week's CultCast" Cult of Mac 4/27
  • "Interview with Ken Segall, author of 'Insanely Simple" Your Mac Life 4/27