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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, August 17, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple Store chief admits he 'messed up.' Bloggers smell blood."  Fortune 8:41 AM
  • "Apple calls cuts in retail store staffing levels 'a mistake'" Bloomberg News [Free Registration Required] 8:46 AM
  • "Are Apple stores overstaffed?"  asymco 9:21 AM
  • "Apple axes loyal store staff in Essex, Milton Keynes/Apple is cutting down on UK retail staff at its stores in Milton Keynes and Essex: blueshirted fanbois on short-term contracts will get the heave-ho, sources in the Mac channel claim." Channel Register 7:40 AM
  • "Apple's iPeople get world's largest iPhone arts exhibition" Computerworld 7:17 AM
  • "AT&T Won't Charge for FaceTime Over Cellular, Will Require New Mobile Share Plan" MacRumors 3:45 PM
  • "AT&T announces FaceTime over cellular on iOS 6 will ONLY be available on Mobile Share plans" 9 to 5 Mac 4:42 PM
  • "AT&T won't charge for FaceTime over cellular — but there's a catch" GigaOM 5:11 PM
  • "Rumors of Apple-Google alliance to buy Kodak patents show smartphone giants' auction fatigue" Foss Patents 9:07 AM
  • "Chinese App Store users complain that Apple doesn't speak their language" The Next Web 7:34 AM
  • "Most Loyal Apple Fans Now Aged 35+, DVD and Blu-ray Movie Rentals Top Streaming, and More" Low End Mac 2:45 PM
  • "Mars Curiosity rover team prefers Macs to PCs" CNET News 7:46 AM
  • "Surfing ROBO-shark hunter stalks great whites along US coast: iOS app will warn fanbois of attacks, fandroids not so lucky" The Register 7:39 AM
  • "iPads becoming more popular among Pharmaceutical sales reps" Edible Apple 2:01 PM
  • "Vectronic's Apple World: The Ultimate Mac Museum" FairerPlatform 7:16 AM
  • "How Steve Jobs' Stolen iPad Wound Up With Kenny the Clown" PC Magazine 2:05 PM
  • "Perfect: Steve Jobs' Stolen iPad Ended Up With Kenny The Clown" TechCrunch 2:03 PM
  • "Steve Jobs' stolen iPad ends up in street clown's routine" The Verge 8:55 AM
  • "Kenny The Clown Busted Using Steve Jobs's Stolen iPad To Entertain Kids" Cult of Mac 7:59 AM
  • "Hey, Kiddies, Here's a Funny Picture of an iPad Mini Prototype, Ba-Ha!" AllThingsD 1:58 PM
  • "Clown gets busted using Steve Jobs' stolen Ipad" The Inquirer 7:49 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "OnLive rumored to close service, entire staff reportedly laid off" The Verge 2:27 PM
  • "State Department cancels $16.5M Kindle contract" Computerworld 2:05 PM
  • "Google Invents 3D Video Conferencing for Notebooks & Beyond" Patent Bolt 1:44 PM
  • "Kodak: Maybe We Won't Sell Our Digital Imaging Patents" AllThingsD 7:53 AM
  • "Unsold Patents Hint at a Kodak Comeback Strategy: The fallen powerhouse is keeping patents covering some promising technologies." Technology Review 7:52 AM
  • "New Twitter Guidelines and APIs Squeeze Third Party Apps" The Mac Observer 8:48 AM
  • "Twitter Makes Some Unwelcome Changes" AppleBitch 7:15 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Gene Steinberg meets Susie Ochs from Mac|Life, John Martellaro from The Mac Observer, and Bob 'Dr. Mac' LeVitus this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl 9:32 PM
  • "Dan Berube and Michael Horton on the Amsterdam SuperMeet and Video Production Passion" MacVoices TV 11:20 AM