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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Young adults buzzing about celebrity iPhone ads" ["Apple's new iPhone ads featuring Zooey Deschanel and Samuel L. Jackson coincide with an increase in consumer perception for the brand among 18-34 year olds in the US. The recent improvement in consumer perception has pushed iPhone ahead of Android and distanced itself even more from the rest of the mobile device sector."]  YouGov BrandIndex 8:14 AM
  • "The Zooey Deschanel effect: The iPhone's 'buzz' got a bump after Apple started using celebrities in its Siri ads"  Fortune 8:16 AM
  • "Apple iOS to maintain tablet dominance in 2012, says IHS" DigiTimes 8:27 AM
  • "Samsung and HTC hobbled by Apple spat fallout" V3 8:46 AM
  • "HTC phones banned in US after Apple patent win" Macworld UK 8:33 AM
  • "Nielsen: U.S. Consumers Avg App Downloads Up 28% To 41; 4 Of 5 Most Popular Belong To Google" TechCrunch 11:16 AM
  • "Nielsen: Android And iOS Users Account For 88% Of App Downloads In The Past 30 Days" Cult of Android 11:16 AM
  • "Ex-Microsoft exec: 'We shouldn't have taken on Apple with Zune'"  Macworld UK 8:33 AM
  • "Samsung top cell phone maker though Apple's no slouch: Samsung is outshining Nokia and Apple in mobile phone sales, but the iPhone maker saw its global market share more than double, says Gartner." CNET News 8:16 AM
  • "Disney's ESPN in Talks With Apple for Expanded TV Access" ["No deal is imminent with Apple, said Amy Phillips, a spokeswoman for Bristol, Connecticut-based ESPN. 'We're not having conversations with Apple about authenticating WatchESPN,' Phillips said."] Bloomberg 8:13 AM
  • "Tim Cook Meets With Speaker of the House John Boehner"  MacRumors 8:42 AM
  • "Apple's Tim Cook heads to US House of Representatives: Could be lobbying for a tax holiday that would mean Apple could bring back cash reserves to US." Macworld UK 11:10 AM
  • "Tim Cook meets John Boehner" Fortune 8:01 AM
  • "Tim Cook meets with Speaker of US House of Representatives, John Boehner" TUAW 8:42 AM
  • "Sprint's Hesse: We'll Make Money on the iPhone ... Eventually" AllThingsD 8:54 AM
  • "Sprint won't profit from carrying Apple's iPhone until 2015, has no regrets" AppleInsider 11:32 AM
  • "Apple's Siri set a new bar for voice control, says Nuance: Nuance, the voice interaction company says that there are now more than two billion 'voice interactions' from mobile phones every year." Telegraph 8:41 AM
  • "'Social Network' writer Aaron Sorkin to direct Steve Jobs film" CNN 10:37 AM
  • "Battle of the Steve Jobs Movies" Techland 8:46 AM
  • "Steve Jobs movie to be penned by Social Network scribe" Crave @ CNET 8:16 AM
  • "Steve Jobs biopic to be penned by Aaron Sorkin" Network World 10:59 AM
  • "iPhone Engineer and Gmail Designer Team Up on Electric Imp to Connect Devices" AllThingsD 3:03 PM
  • "Apple Retail God Stumbles: JC Penney Is Tanking After Big Miss And More Restructuring Plans" Business Insider 8:21 AM
  • "JC Penney: Definitely not Apple!" [Video Report] CNNMoney 9:37 AM
  • "Greenpeace protesters arrested at Apple HQ" TG Daily 12:04 PM
  • "New app plans to one-up Facebook on iPad using Flash: An upcoming iPad app for Facebook hopes to leapfrog the social giant's own efforts by giving users a way to play Flash-based social games." CNET News 4:27 PM
  • "Apple to help Czech cartoon character Krtek enter U.S. market, Bloomberg reports" Theflyonthewall 8:22 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Verizon to kill unlimited data plans for existing subscribers" CNET News 3:06 PM
  • "Verizon To Axe Unlimited Data Once Their New Data Share Plans Go Live" TechCrunch 2:48 PM
  • "Verizon to kill grandfathered unlimited data plans for customers upgrading to LTE devices" The Verge 2:42 PM
  • "More details emerge about Ikea's Uppleva HDTV" ZDNet 11:48 AM
  • "Android 5.0 Jelly Bean to arrive before December" ZDNet UK 11:50 AM
  • "Google Music upsetting users with device-deauthorization rule" CNET News 12:00 PM
  • "Google to centralize Android development and sales" ZDNet 11:47 AM
  • "Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Thinks You Might Be a Hologram" Wired 11:46 AM
  • "Gyration Air Mouse Mobile doesn't need a desk to work" V3 11:43 AM
  • "Your Next Smartphone Could Be Safe from Rain and Toilets" Techland 11:42 AM
  • "'Speakerless' Smartphone Transmits Sound Through Connective Tissue" Techland 11:41 AM
  • "3-D printing's radical new world: The next generation of 'Jetsons'-style machines could create guns, illegal keys, narcotics -- and even organs" AlterNet 11:30 AM
  • "Twitter fills with 'Diablo 3' error 37 rage" [Video Report] MSNBC 11:16 AM
  • "T-Mobile CEO Cutting More Jobs, Focusing on 'Customer Delight'" eWeek 10:48 AM
  • "Nvidia's Kepler: Changing the world one computer at a time" TG Daily 11:38 AM
  • "Nvidia Makes the GPU Virtual: Nvidia's new Kepler GPU integrates hardware virtualization, allowing more effective use of GPUs in cloud computing applications – including high performance games streamed from the cloud." PCWorld 11:20 AM
  • "Vodafone Said to Consider European Reorganization" Bloomberg 10:22 AM
  • "LG unveils new user interface for ICS devices: The company says that the new user interface will be known as the Optimus UI 3.0, and run on top of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)." CNET News 10:07 AM
  • "SAP has a new star: The company has been notoriously lagging in software-as-a-service. Enter one energetic and eccentric executive, Lars Dalgaard." Fortune 10:54 AM
  • "SAP Catches Data Visualization Wave: SAP Visual Intelligence, debuting Wednesday, taps into two hot trends in BI and analytics." InformationWeek 10:12 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "PowerPage Podcast Episode 158 - Here come the wearables" ZDNet 11:16 PM
  • "TUAW TV Live at 5 PM EDT" TUAW 2:53 PM
  • "More Movies, More Mac Tips and Lots of Rumors!" Your Mac Life 2:42 PM
  • "Jeff Carlson Discusses The iPad Pocket Guide" MacVoicesTV 11:30 AM
  • "The Portable Podcast, Episode 137: On this episode of The Portable Podcast, host Carter Dotson discusses the rise of Kickstarter with co-host Brett Nolan, and chats about the launch of Damn You Dragons with developer Mark Peterson." 148Apps 8:54 AM
  • "Reviewing Creative Suite 6: Macworld Podcast #301" Macworld 8:48 AM