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MacSurfer's Archive: Saturday, August 11, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "GameStop's master turnaround plan revolves around selling used Apple products" 9 to 5 Mac 9:29 PM
  • "Tablets nearly as big as laptops, desktops for Web purchases: Meteoric growth in buying via tablets seen in coming months" Computerworld 8/10
  • "Apple Has Sold $50 Billion Worth of iPhones in U.S." Mashable 8/10
  • "Chinese Boy Who Sold Kidney for Apple Products Suing for Compensation of US$360,000" M.I.C. Gadget 8/10
  • "Trial begins in the case of a kidney sold for an iPad" The Verge 8/10
  • "'Kidney for an Ipad' case goes on trial in China" The Inquirer 8/10
  • "'Kidney for iPad' case goes to trial" TG Daily 8/10
  • "Trial Over Selling Kidney for an iPad Starts in China" The Mac Observer 8/10
  • "OK, hands up: Who hasn't sold an iPad to a big biz? UK channel pumps thousands of Apple slabs into enterprises" Channel Register 8/10
  • "Apple deemed this rare original Macintosh commercial 'too self-congratulatory' to air" 9 to 5 Mac 8/10
  • "This Apple Commercial Was Too Self-Congratulatory To Run" TechCrunch 8/10
  • "Samsung's Chromebox: A dead ringer for Apple's Mac Mini" Fortune 8/10
  • "Apple Matches iPhone Discounts Ahead of New Model" PCWorld 8/10
  • "iPhone records 1,000 foot free-fall, survives" CNET News 8/10
Non-Apple News
  • "Samsung Invents a Slim Tablet with a Slide-Out Keyboard" Patent Bolt 8/10
  • "Exovolt stackable battery creates unlimited capacity: Billed as the first of its kind, Exovolt lets you build a tower of power for gadgets on the go." CNET News 8/10
  • "Olé, Olé: Google's Soccer Doodle" TheStreet 8/10
  • "Google adds Now-style quick answers to mobile web results" ZDNet 8/10
  • "New Technology Means You'll Never Run Another Yellow Light" Wired 8/10
  • "Soft robot inches along like a worm" TG Daily 8/10
  • "How to Detect Apps Leaking Your Data: A service called Mobilescope acts as a watchdog, alerting users when apps copy and transmit sensitive information." Technology Review 8/10
  • "Geek girls unite with games, comics, Buffy" Reuters 8/10
  • "Kinect 2 image leaked, shows increased detail and depth data" The Verge 8/10
  • "New algorithm said to scrub nets for threats" EE Times 8/10
  • "Samsung details next-gen Exynos processor for smartphones and tablets" IDG News Service 8/10
  • "Call it Zucker Burg: Facebook campus gets its own Main Street/New Facebook campus in Menlo Park is out in the boondocks, so the company is building its own Main Street to cater to employees and attract bright Silicon Valley minds." Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 8/10
  • "Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer attempting to recruit Twitter executive, report says" CBS News 8/10
  • "Spam sticking to Pinterest: Website shuts accounts in move to curb problem" Boston Herald 8/10
  • "Blizzard Battle.net Security Breached, Passwords Accessed" InformationWeek 8/10
  • "SAP's Chen Challenges Oracle, IBM With Database Advances" Bloomberg 8/10
  • "Rackspace CEO Bets the Farm on 'Open Cloud'" TheStreet 8/10
  • "Meet Gauss, the Latest Weapon in the Unfolding U.S.-Israeli Cyberwar" AllThingsD 8/10
  • "Gauss: Researchers release detection tools" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 8/10
  • "How Smartphones Keep Parents Organized" Mashable 8/10
  • "In Touch With His Inner Steve Jobs? Zynga CEO Mark Pincus cops to being hard-driving but insists he's a nice guy." Slate 8/10
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Gene Steinberg meets author Ted Landau, Laptop magazine's Mike Prospero, and 'iTunes Guy' Kirk McElhearn this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 12:24 PM
  • "The Apple Revolution: Steve Jobs, the Counter Culture, and How the Crazy Ones Took Over the World by Luke Dormehl – review/A genial account of the rise of Apple fails to probe the company's cultural significance" The Guardian 7:15 AM
  • "Searching for Magic in India and Silicon Valley: An Interview with Daniel Kottke, Apple Employee #12" Boing Boing 8/10
  • "Bruce Sharpe of Singular Software Shows Off PluralEyes" MacVoicesTV 8/10