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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, July 6, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Hotel replacing guest phones with iPhones: Vancouver hotel hopes guests will appreciate making calls with no roaming fees on hotel-proVided iPhones instead of those things called landlines." CNET News 9:19 PM
  • "Marco Arment: The Hero of Apple's Appageddon/You'd think the company would thank the man who warned them of the problem" Fortune 11:36 AM
  • "One on One: Ken Segall, the Man Who Put the 'i' in iMac" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:46 AM
  • "Ting MVNO hopes to offer iPhone: Company warns of roadblocks to selling Apple's iconic smartphone" FierceWireless 11:28 AM
  • "Apple Announces Live Online Q&A Seminars For 'iPad In Business" AppleBitch 7:48 AM
  • "Apple popularity boosts Objective-C language ahead of C++: Objective-C language, used for building iPad and iPhone apps, takies third place in dev language charts" InfoWorld 8:32 AM
  • "Apple popularity boosts Objective-C language past C++" Macworld UK 8:04 AM
  • "Objective-C Overtakes C++ in Programming Language Popularity" eWeek 11:18 AM
  • "Apple's Steve Jobs inspired by France Telecom's pre-Internet device: Apparently he bought the 1982 networked device and took it apart to see how it worked" Macworld UK 8:27 AM
  • "Renovation happening at 'wrong' Steve Jobs house: The builders are at Jobs' Palo Alto home, but what of the Woodside Jackling house"  Macworld UK 8:44 AM
  • "Apple's Language Lapse Irks Hong Kong iTunes Users" TechNewsWorld 12:10 PM
  • "Why the iPhone matters: 8 questions for Horace Dediu" Network World 1:58 PM
  • "NatWest seeks volunteers to bonk with their iPhones: Hurry, only 1,000 NFC payment cases up for grabs" The Register 8:46 AM
  • "Apple Store Now Offering Vintage Flag iPhone Cases" AppleBitch 9:12 AM
  • "Outrage as app teaches 12-year-old girls to pole dance" DNA 8:13 AM
  • "Oldsmar City Council votes to go paperless with iPads" Tampa Bay Times 8:28 AM
  • "Chinese iPad Game Depicts Slaughter of Stereotypical Japanese" Wired 1:36 PM
  • "Rifle wielding men rob van carrying Apple gear in France - report" AppleInsider 10:33 AM
  • "Men armed with assault rifles robs truck loaded with Apple products" UberGizmo 1:57 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "Amazon to launch at least three new Kindle Fire models this fall, Report says" AppleInsider 9:05 PM
  • "UN Standards Body to Host Patent Litigation Round Table" The Mac Observer 6:41 PM
  • "Bill Gates: Steve Jobs' work was 'phenomenal' but Apple may need Surface-like device" Macworld UK 8:00 AM
  • "Amazon Said To Plan Smartphone To Vie With Apple IPhone" Bloomberg 11:03 AM
  • "Amazon rumoured to be working with iPhone maker Foxconn on own smartphone" Pocket-lint 8:29 AM
  • "Amazon may be building a smartphone to take on the iPhone" Tech2 7:56 AM
  • "Amazon joins Apple, Google in maps war - report" Macworld UK 8:01 AM
  • "Archos 97 Carbon Android tablet unveiled as Nexus 7 rival" T3 8:43 AM
  • "Archos 97 Carbon squares up to Nexus 7 and iPad" The Gadget Show 8:14 AM
  • "Samsung Galaxy Note II rumored to get even bigger with 5.5' display" AppleInsider 10:41 AM
  • "Samsung estimates record $5.9 billion profit for Q2 2012" BGR 8:42 AM
  • "New AT&T system will allow users to block stolen devices from use" AppleInsider 12:08 PM
  • "AT&T Unveiling New Blocking Service for Stolen Phones Next Week" MacRumors 12:09 PM
  • "AT&T brings Toggle to iOS – outlines plan to serve the mobile enterprise" 451 Research 4:16 PM
  • "Best Buy turning 60 of its locations into Apple Store copycats" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 3:12 PM
  • "Best Buy Reveals a Slimmer Apple-like Store and More Staff Cuts" Forbes 10:41 AM
  • "Facebook to Track App Usage to Target Ads" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2:01 PM
  • "Time Warner Cable expands broadband data caps" TG Daily 1:20 PM
  • "Now your car can report you for cellphone driving" TG Daily 1:17 PM
  • "Best Buy laying off 600 from Geek Squad" Dow Jones Newswires [Free Registration Required] 12:00 PM
  • "MIT researchers chart a new approach for mobile Internet protocols: Mosh replaces aging SSH with a mobile-friendly app and protocol" Network World 11:59 AM
  • "From Tech to Toilet Paper, Berliner Tries to Live Completely Open Source for One Year" IDG News Service 11:57 AM
  • "The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub/After five years, the open source community is revisiting compromises in GPLv3 -- and using a new medium for the discussion" InfoWorld 11:41 AM
  • "Exclusive: Yahoo and Facebook Strike Patent Peace Deal, Significantly Expanding Ad and Content Partnership" AllThingsD 1:31 PM
  • "Hulu CEO declines to be considered for Yahoo post" MarketWatch 2:06 PM
  • "Inside Yahoo, word is that Levinsohn's the one" CNET News 1:44 PM
  • "BlackBerry 10 Is 'Fantastic,' RIM to Emerge 'Stronger,' Says Executive" eWeek 11:19 AM
  • "Chip executives' conference relocates to Bratislava" EE Times 11:17 AM
  • "Flexible displays to be developed by Taiwan panel manufacturers" DigiTimes 11:15 AM
  • "Amazon prepping a smartphone and four tablets" Computerworld 11:11 AM
  • "Robot eye moves like the real thing" TG Daily 1:17 PM
  • "New robotic legs accurately mimic human walking" CBS News 11:06 AM
  • "Bumpy road as hi-tech in cars amazes, perplexes" CBS News 11:06 AM
  • "Seagate Fourth-Quarter Sales, Gross Margin Miss Forecasts" Bloomberg 11:02 AM
  • "LibreOffice for Android Is in the Works" PCWorld 11:58 AM
  • "Google launches Android indoor maps application: Submit your floor plans now, says Google" Computerworld UK 1:15 PM
  • "Google lashes out at Microsoft's Android botnet allegations" V3 1:28 PM
  • "Google disputes Android botnet spam claim" BBC 11:01 AM
  • "Twitter to unveil major 'search and discovery' update today" CNET News 9:09 AM
  • "Samsung eyes success in other galaxies" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:33 AM
  • "HTC profit lags forecasts, faces challenges in third quarter" Reuters 9:13 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Gene Steinberg meets Bob 'Dr. Mac' LeVitus, Ted Landau, and Macworld Lab Director Jim Galbraith this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 3:59 PM
  • "Facebook, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple: The Joke's On You/Consider these alternative viewpoints on the IT world's top news stories, straight from InformationWeek's Valley View Web show." InformationWeek 10:42 AM