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MacSurfer's Archive: Thursday, August 9, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Google Will Pay $22.5 Million to Settle FTC Charges it Misrepresented Privacy Assurances to Users of Apple's Safari Internet Browser"  Federal Trade Commission 10:58 AM
  • "Google to pay $22.5 million to settle privacy charges" Reuters 10:50 AM
  • "Google to Pay $22.5 Million Settlement in Safari Privacy Circumvention Case" MacRumors 12:06 PM
  • "Google hit with record $22.5-million fine for Safari tracking" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 12:18 PM
  • "The FTC has teeth: Google agrees to pay $22.5M fine over Safari violations" VentureBeat 12:06 PM
  • "F.T.C. Fines Google $22.5 Million for Safari Privacy Violations" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:40 PM
  • "Google Settles With FTC, Agrees To Pay $22.5M Penalty For Bypassing Safari Privacy Settings" TechCrunch 2:46 PM
  • "Google pays record $22.5 million for Safari cookies" BetaNews 2:37 PM
  • "Apple Retail Stores Begin Price Matching iPhone Discounts from Carriers and Major Retailers"  MacRumors 12:25 PM
  • "Apple Retail Stores matching carrier price drop on iPhone 4S" The Next Web 2:50 PM
  • "Apple Retail Stores Offering to Match Discounts on iPhones" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:46 PM
  • "Apple retail stores reportedly price-matching iPhones" CNET News 4:36 PM
  • "Nearly 80% Of Americans Would Shun iPad Mini In Favor Of iPhone 5" Cult of Mac 8:07 AM
  • "iPhone 5 tops iPad Mini as more desirable product, survey says: In a contest between unannounced products, the next iteration of the iPhone proves to be the surer bet, according to CouponCodes4u." CNET News 10:02 AM
  • "iPad Mini Is Pointless, Survey Says: Apple is widely expected to debut a smaller version of the iPad alongside the iPhone 5 next month. A new survey points to consumer disinterest--but the logic doesn't work for me." InformationWeek 2:43 PM
  • "Apple owns US smartphone market while Samsung dominates worldwide" Ars Technica 11:24 AM
  • "Chinese Mobile Companies Form Speech Industry Alliance to Compete with Apple's SIRI" M.I.C. Gadget 8:08 AM
  • "Sprint CEO Dan Hesse talks about Sprint's $15 billion iPhone investment" Network World 10:41 AM
  • "Apple Back-to-School Deal Offers $100 Gift Card" PC Magazine 9:52 AM
  • "iPads Notebooks Hit Classrooms: A successful pilot program using computers in the classroom last year at the Paul Revere and Lincoln Schools has blossomed into a program at Revere High School (RHS) that will put an iPad in the hands of every incoming freshman this coming school year." Revere Massachusetts Newspaper 10:49 AM
  • "Jurors in Apple vs. Samsung Get a Raise, but Still Woefully Underpaid" AllThingsD 7:15 AM
  • "New Google Voice Search comes to iOS: Is Jelly Bean handing over its best weapon?" Electricpig 8:19 AM
  • "Amazon Confirms Cloud Player, Its Would-Be iTunes Killer, Now Works On Sonos, More Devices Coming Later This Year" TechCrunch 8:56 AM
  • "The Queen's Stunt Double Drop-Tests an iPhone From 1,000 Feet [Video] Mashable 2:36 PM
  • "Digia to acquire Qt business from Nokia, port it to Android and iOS" Ars Technica 8:14 AM
  • "iPhone-controlled art doubles as climbing wall" CNET News 8:30 PM
  • "Unopened first-gen iPhone appears on eBay for $10,000" iDownload Blog 8:13 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Security next frontier for cloud pioneer" MarketWatch 2:49 PM
  • "Adobe warns of critical holes in Reader, Acrobat" ZDNet 2:33 PM
  • "Micron shows off bits: Sneak peak at new SSDs, flash cards" The Register 2:21 PM
  • "MIT develops multicore programming language" EE Times 1:00 PM
  • "Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank Customers, Carries Mysterious Payload" Wired 2:30 PM
  • "Gauss is new virus on the digital block" TG Daily 2:18 PM
  • "Wearable technology market to exceed $6B by 2016: Google's Smart Glasses and the rumored Apple Smart Watch will be a part of the new wave of wireless wearable devices" Computerworld 10:44 AM
  • "Pinterest now open to all as social network continues to bloom" Silicon Valley 1:01 PM
  • "Google Nexus D is a curved concept with a kickstand" CNET News 3:01 PM
  • "Voices raised in Google-Apple mobile $ fight" New York Post 12:22 PM
  • "Latest Google Doodle mini-game lets you waste the day in a canoe" NBC News 12:19 PM
  • "T-Mobile loses customers, but ekes out $207M Q2 profit" CNET News 10:01 AM
  • "The 32GB 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook Is Now Available From Canadian Carriers For $550" TechCrunch 2:06 PM
  • "Samsung LED 9000, a 75-inch TV, premieres at Santa Monica store" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 12:13 PM
  • "Samsung denies interest in RIM, BlackBerry10" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 9:48 AM
  • "Four High-level Facebook Officials Resign in the Past Week" IDG News Service 12:30 PM
  • "Facebook's design manager leaves for the Designer Fund" CNET News 10:01 AM
  • "RIM Looks to 3D Interface & High End Touch to Shake Things Up" Patent Bolt 11:13 AM
  • "Google Shows Off Its Latest 'Baby Steps' Toward Becoming the Star Trek Computer" ReadWriteWeb 8:10 AM
  • "Select 2013 Ultrabooks to Incorporate Intel's Wireless Charging" Patently Apple 7:20 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Live @ 10 PM ET - YouTube App, iCloud hack, Apple v Samsung, + more!" Insanely Great Mac 8:11 PM
  • "iPhone 5 Wants and iPhone 5 Needs" The MacJury 12:55 PM
  • "TUAW and MacTech Interview: blueHula Studios" TUAW 7:57 AM