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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, August 14, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple's Share of Media Tablet Market Hits More than One-Year High in Q2: Two years after creating the market, Apple Inc. remains the king of all media tablets, with its global market share rising to nearly 70 percent in the second quarter, putting the company on pace to reclaim much of the dominance it surrendered in 2011."  iSuppli 5:46 PM
  • "Apple dominates tablet market in Q2 with 70 percent share" CNET News 9:33 AM
  • "Study names Apple as the most valued company worldwide" Macworld UK 7:46 AM
  • "Gartner: Global Mobile Sales Down 2%, Smartphones Surge 43%, Apple Stalls As Fans Hold Out For New iPhone" TechCrunch 7:49 AM
  • "Mobile market shrinks; Gartner blames economy, iPhone 5" CNET News 7:33 AM
  • "Gartner: Apple and Samsung exploded in Q2 while BlackBerry sales slid 37%" BGR 7:43 AM
  • "Android extends lead over Apple iPhone: Android has extended its lead in the smartphone market, according to new research, as Apple's share stalled ahead of the launch of the iPhone 5." Telegraph 7:53 AM
  • "Android spanks Apple iOS in sales as fanbois hold out for iPhone 5" The Register 8:24 AM
  • "New Stats show iPad surging again as Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet fall" paidContent 9:55 AM
  • "Nielsen: Teens choose YouTube over iTunes, radio, CDs" Electronista 4:16 PM
  • "Samsung Widens Handset Lead" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:34 AM
  • "Apple market share slumps as buyers await iPhone 5" V3 8:24 AM
  • "Apple grows iPad share as court case rages: Apple shipped 17 million iPads in the second quarter, increasing its share of the new category to 70 percent, according to figures from IHS iSuppli. Apple was followed distantly by Samsung, its key supplier and arch-competitor in an on-going patent suit in federal court here." EE Times 11:15 AM
  • "The iPad Remains The King Of The Tablet Market" App Advice 10:47 AM
  • "Apple's tough iPhone security causes problems for law enforcement - report" Macworld UK 7:46 AM
  • "Apple Stores Are Matching Sprint's iPhone 4S Sale By Giving You $100 Gift Card With Purchase" Business Insider 5:44 PM
  • "Sprint sweetens the deal for iPhone 4S: Just a week after slashing the smartphone's price, the carrier is upping the ante with a $100 gift card on all smartphones purchased over the Internet." CNET News 5:52 PM
  • "Heads Roll in Cupertino" ["This bombshell comes from the MacRumors blog, reportedly based on independent sources in several key markets. In the U.K., for example, new hires and trainees are getting the ax en masse while some recent promotions were rolled back. Stateside, part-timers supposedly got their schedules drastically reduced as more responsibility moved over to full-time employees."] The Motley Fool 7:45 PM
  • "Apple on a spree of laying off recently hired retail staff?" Macworld UK 8:55 AM
  • "Your iPhone could be driving your car within 10 years" Macworld UK 7:47 AM
  • "Ask Ziggy scores $5m to rival Siri on iOS and expand its service to 'nearly all' Android and Microsoft products" The Next Web 7:41 AM
  • "Ask Ziggy, Siri For Windows Phone, Closes $5 Million Funding Round To Expand To iOS, Android" TechCrunch 8:26 AM
  • "From Altair to iPad: 35 years of personal computer market share" Ars Technica 9:32 AM
  • "Twitter Acquires Intellectual Property From IOS App Testing Firm Clutch.io" IDG News Service 7:32 AM
  • "Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home burglarized, Alameda resident is in custody." Palo Alto Daily News 9:58 AM
  • "N. Calif. home of late Steve Jobs burglarized: N. Calif. home of late Steve Jobs burglarized, $60,000 of computers and personal items taken" Associated Press 8:13 AM
  • "Steve Jobs's Palo Alto Home Burglarized" PC Magazine 10:46 AM
  • "Steve Jobs' Home Burglarized, Suspect Arrested After $60,000 in Property Stolen" MacRumors 9:12 AM
  • "Steve Jobs' House Raided, Thief Steals $60,000 Worth of Valuables" The Next Web 9:15 AM
  • "Apple Stores seeing massive layoffs: report" TG Daily 11:55 AM
  • "iPad point of sale kiosk spied at Panera Bread" TUAW 4:05 PM
  • "IPhone arts festival coming to L.A. may be biggest of its kind" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:47 AM
  • "Kodak Gives Apple and Google a Second Chance to Make a Better Offer" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 9:53 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Heat-sensing collar texts you when your dog is too hot" CNET News 2:22 PM
  • "Singapore uni develops cloud-based multiscreen TV tech" ZDNet 11:46 AM
  • "Ubuntu 12.04.1: LTS maintenance release" ZDNet 11:45 AM
  • "Martian Computing Is Light on RAM, Heavy on Radiation Shielding" Wired Magazine 11:42 AM
  • "Iconia Tab may be getting Jelly Bean" TG Daily 11:32 AM
  • "Android 4.0 rolling out to Droid 4: Verizon's slider is the latest Motorola model to see Ice Cream Sandwich." CNET 2:22 PM
  • "Verizon Launches New LTE Broadband Service for Rural U.S." IDG News Service 10:53 AM
  • "Don't like Word? Try the updated open source Calligra Suite release" Techworld 11:29 AM
  • "Facebook slammed for deceptive app verification scheme" Techworld 10:55 AM
  • "Facebook Lets Users Announce Pregnancies in Timeline" PCWorld 10:53 AM
  • "GaN is good for wireless charging" EE Times 10:29 AM
  • "Unable to Crack Computer Virus, Security Firm Seeks Help" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:56 AM
  • "RIM Again Floats Idea of Licensing BlackBerry OS" PCWorld 10:53 AM
  • "Google Improves Patent Search With Prior Art Finder, Adds Millions Of European Patents" TechCrunch 11:25 AM
  • "Google+ Rolls Out Vanity URLs to Verified Users" PC Magazine 10:52 AM
  • "Google+ users can now view photo albums as slide shows" CNET News 9:54 AM
  • "The $99 box that wants to crush the Xbox" Fortune 9:50 AM
  • "Flash is for everyone, says storage startup Skyera" GigaOM 9:31 AM
  • "Kodak's patent auction extended" ZDNet 9:13 AM
  • "Kodak extends timeline for patent bid results announcement" CNET News 8:34 AM
  • "Citadel Trojan targets airport employees with VPN attack" Help Net Security 8:02 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "The Portable Podcast, Episode 150" 148Apps 2:06 PM
  • "Bryan Chaffin Discusses Samsung's Crimes & Punishment, Patents, Microsoft and More" MacNotables 11:21 AM