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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Study: Rivals take bite out of Apple's rule of tablets/Android devices will grow from 41.5% to 48% share of market" San Jose Mercury News 8:07 AM
  • "Google Android OS tablet sales will overtake iPads in 2013, says IDC" ComputerWeekly 8:33 AM
  • "Apple iPad to fall behind Android tablet rivals, IDC says" Digital Spy 8:55 AM
  • "IDC: Android Army of Tablets to Surge Past Apple's iPad This Year" DailyTech 8:42 AM
  • "Look who's taking it to the iPad: Japanese—yes, Japanese—electronics manufacturers have gotten the memo about what customers really want. And they're finally fighting back." Fortune 7:42 AM
  • "Samsung outguns Apple in marketing, report says: Samsung spent $401 million to promote its products in the U.S. last year, compared with $333 million spent by Apple." CNET News 8:16 AM
  • "Samsung spent $68M more than Apple on 2012 phone ads, increased budget fivefold" AppleInsider 8:03 AM
  • "Apple cracks India's smartphone market: Tech giant finally catching up to other smartphone makers in region" CNN 7:56 AM
  • "Apple Jumps To Second In Revenue In India's Smartphone Market Says IDC, Thanks To Shifts In Distribution Model" TechCrunch 8:23 AM
  • "Apple's iPad is heart of Idaho elementary 'iSchool' pilot program" AppleInsider 10:15 AM
  • "Apple iPhone 5 explodes during phone call in Thailand" CNET Asia 8:01 AM
  • "Forget the iWatch. With Pebble, wearable computing is already here" Fortune 8:45 AM
  • "iPhone 5 4G support comes to Norway as Lumia 920 signals Nokia resurgence" ZDNet 9:50 AM
  • "Apple iPhones, iPads greet Pope Francis" MacDailyNews 3:41 PM
  • "The tale of when Shaq asked Steve Jobs personally for an iPhone ahead of launch [Video] 9 to 5 Mac 2:34 PM
  • "Steve Jobs' life story to become official Japanese manga series: The late Apple co-founder is the star of a new comic based on Walter Isaacson's official biography" Macworld UK 8:08 AM
  • "Is Google Now coming to the iPhone? A leaked video suggests Siri may soon face some stiff competition" The Week 8:57 AM
  • "Google Now for iOS? Promo video appears online but is quickly pulled" Digital Trends 8:23 AM
  • "Google Now For iOS Video Hits YouTube--Briefly" Fast Company 8:53 AM
  • "Eight year old buys £980 worth of virtual donuts on an iPad" The Inquirer 10:29 AM
  • "Russian Hackers Mod a Dilapidated Opel to Drive by iPad" Wired 8:53 AM
  • "World's Most Bizarre iPhone Accessories, From Creepy Cases to the iPotty" Wired 8:03 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "More U.S. teens are using smartphones to get to Internet, Pew finds" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 1:25 PM
  • "Brilliant toilet paper ad shows true limits of technology" CNET News 12:09 PM
  • "New Netflix Facebook app lets users share viewing history" CNNMoney 11:58 AM
  • "Autonomy founder Mike Lynch calls for fresh approach to UK innovation" V3 11:37 AM
  • "Levitating PC mouse may be the most awesome rodent ever" TG Daily 11:27 AM
  • "Mozilla Provides An Early Peek At Its Updated Firefox OS Simulator" TechCrunch 11:26 AM
  • "VMware Confirms Its Amazon Web Services Competitor, Hybrid Cloud Services, To Be Led By Bill Fathers From Savvis" TechCrunch 10:32 AM
  • "SAP Opens Singapore-Based Co-Innovation Lab" TechCrunch 10:31 AM
  • "Turing Award goes to MIT crypto experts Goldwasser and Micali: $250k 'Nobel Prize in Computing' honors MIT professors' work in provable security" Network World 10:15 AM
  • "Devs tease early screenshots of Ubuntu Touch Core Apps" The Register 10:39 AM
  • "Ubuntu Linux gets a new official flavor: Ubuntu Gnome Remix is now an officially supported part of the Linux distribution's family" PCWorld 10:05 AM
  • "Computer graphics pioneer awarded Kyoto Prize" EE Times 9:51 AM
  • "HTC One release pushed to April, risks conflict with Galaxy S4 launch" IDG News Service 9:46 AM
  • "Google CEO Larry Page's memo about Android leadership changes" BetaNews 2:59 PM
  • "Andy Rubin's Next Moonshot Could Happen At Google's Project X" TechCrunch 1:48 PM
  • "Andy Rubin Steps Down as Google's Head of Android" Mashable 12:27 PM
  • "Andy Rubin steps away from Android, starts new chapter at Google" TG Daily 1:32 PM
  • "Google Android Chief Andy Rubin Steps Aside" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1:19 PM
  • "Google shakeup: Chrome head Sundar Pichai takes over Android from Andy Rubin" CNET News 12:08 PM
  • "Google to double campus neighboring Microsoft's Redmond HQ" ZDNet 11:44 AM
  • "Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning" Wired Magazine 11:40 AM
  • "Sundar Pichai Takes Over For Andy Rubin As Head Of Android At Google, Signals The Unification of Android, Chrome And Apps" TechCrunch 12:01 PM
  • "New Samsung Trademarks Reveal 'Galaxy S4 Zoom' & More" Patent Bolt 8:49 AM
  • "Samsung Builds Up Galaxy S IV Announcement With Cheesy Flash Mob" Mashable 8:23 AM
  • "Apple Who? Samsung Cranks Its Hype Machine To 11 For The Galaxy S4" Digital Trends 7:56 AM
  • "Microsoft Granted Design Patents for Physical Surface Tablet & Windows 8 Phone User Interface" Patent Bolt 7:25 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "The MacJury Discusses Microsoft and Adobe Software Licensing Models" MacVoices 1:48 PM
  • "MacBreak Weekly 341: Drop it Like it's Hot" iMore 8:43 AM