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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, May 21, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "What Happens When Toddlers Zone Out With an iPad" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:47 PM
  • "Cities offer free rent, other incentives to bring in an Apple Store: Because the stores drive additional traffic for nearby retailers." Ars Technica 5:48 PM
  • "Apple discloses more details on green data center plan" ZDNet 3:48 PM
  • "Apple: Piper Sees iPhone 5 In Oct Despite QCOM Chip Shortage" Forbes 9:14 AM
  • "Tim Cook highest compensated CEO in 2011 with $378M package, but let's not call it 'pay'" The Next Web 4:35 PM
  • "Apple's Tim Cook, Oracle's Larry Ellison had highest CEO compensations in 2011, study finds" Silicon Valley 3:48 PM
  • "Apple partner Foxconn invests $210M in new plant: The production facility will be in east China's Jiangsu province, according to a report by China Daily." CNET News 8:28 AM
  • "Foxconn invests in Apple line" Xinhua 4:11 PM
  • "Has Windows Phone overtaken Apple in China? Maybe, but Microsoft won't confirm it." The Next Web 8:59 AM
  • "Apple: iPhone 3GS May Get New Life In Prepaid Markets" Forbes 8:29 AM
  • "Analyst: Apple to Offer iPhone 3GS as Pre-Paid Option" The Mac Observer 4:08 PM
  • "Steve Jobs, Sex And The City and the tale of the upside down Apple logo" The Next Web 8:06 AM
  • "Former Apple Employee Explains Origins of Upside-Down Logo" Wired 4:23 PM
  • "Apple looking for neighborly feedback on its UFO-like 'Campus 2': Apple plans to occupy the new campus by 2015, but no outsiders will be allowed." Ars Technica 10:03 AM
  • "Apple details new, futuristic campus plans to neighbors: Steve Jobs' spaceship-like facility will hold 13,000 employees and could open in 2015." CNET News 3:46 PM
  • "Apple seeks support for new spaceship-like campus" Reuters 4:46 PM
  • "SumofUs launches Apple, Foxconn watchdog site" CBS News 10:36 AM
  • "How to render 3D images on your iPad for free: AutoDesk's 123D Catch app for the iPad is an expansion of the company's strategy to get into mobile." CNET News 8:30 AM
  • "Three hundred of Steve Jobs' patents, four stories down: If you didn't already know about the Smithsonian's exhibit, you'd never find it" Fortune 8:14 AM
  • "Steve Jobs biopic to film in original home and garage" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:38 AM
  • "Steve Jobs doll selling phones in New York: A Steve Jobs doll has appeared in a mobile phone shop in New York." Macworld UK 8:58 AM
  • "How One Man Aims To Illustrate the Olympics Using Just His iPad" MacTrast 4:39 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "Houghton Mifflin Textbook Publisher Declares Bankruptcy" The Mac Observer 7:05 PM
  • "Leaked Wii U Controller Image Reveals Redesigned Thumbsticks" Techland 12:08 PM
  • "Noise can improve quantum computing, says ANU scientist" The Register 12:07 PM
  • "PS3 'pre-loading' service coming soon" TG Daily 12:04 PM
  • "Comcast Is Finally Rolling Out The X1, Its Set-top Box In The Cloud" TechCrunch 12:00 PM
  • "Meet S Voice, Samsung's Siri clone" TG Daily 12:04 PM
  • "Samsung Squashes Hack of Voice Assistant App" PCWorld 11:30 AM
  • "Life in the slow lane: Dial-up Internet still a reality for hundreds of thousands in Canada" The Canadian Press [Free Registration Required] 10:46 AM
  • "Motorola ICS update to skip older handsets" ZDNet UK 12:22 PM
  • "Motorola Mobility Says $12.5B Google Deal To Close Tuesday Or Wednesday. Layoffs Coming?" TechCrunch 12:00 PM
  • "As The End Of Google Docs Draws Near, Google Asks Stragglers To Transition To Google Drive" TechCrunch 12:01 PM
  • "Schmidt challenges grads to no-screen time" Reuters 11:55 AM
  • "SIM card to help parents protect children from bullying" BBC 10:15 AM
  • "SAP Swallows Sybase, CEO John Chen's Role Uncertain" InformationWeek 10:06 AM
  • "EMC's Gelsinger Talks Cloud Storage, Pricing Pressure" InformationWeek 10:06 AM
  • "Machines Make Cell Phone Calls To Each Other!" BYTE 10:05 AM
  • "Zuckerberg, from private to public to private again" MarketWatch 12:33 PM
  • "Meet Priscilla Chan, tech's newest first lady" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 9:45 AM
  • "Cable companies expand free Wi-Fi: Five of the nation's largest cable companies are partnering to allow their subscribers free access to each others' Wi-Fi hot spots in cities across the U.S." CNET News 10:02 AM
  • "Hand-Gesture Technologies Wave Bye to Desktop Mouse" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:34 AM
  • "Lenovo Reveals New Convertible Remote Control Invention" Patent Bolt 10:05 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Mac Geek Gab Podcast: MGG 398: Geeks Going Deep with Mail & Routers" The Mac Observer 4:08 PM
  • "iTunes account setup tips for households and children. Plus a tip for converting text to audio files and saving the audio to iTunes." The MT Show 8:07 AM