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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, March 18, 2013
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "iPhone Still Ranks Far Above Samsung Galaxy Line In Mobile Ads, Says Velti" TechCrunch 3:59 PM
  • "BlackBerry CEO Says iPhone Is Passé" AllThingsD 8:17 AM
  • "BlackBerry CEO Heins thinks Apple's UI is dated" ZDNet 1:09 PM
  • "BlackBerry chief: Tablet margins too thin to tackle Apple head on" ZDNet 1:09 PM
  • "Apple's new 'Why iPhone' page seeks to reassure buyers" Hexus 8:15 AM
  • "Feeling the heat? Apple responds to Galaxy S4 launch with new 'Why iPhone' webpage" Digital Trends 8:37 AM
  • "Apple creates Why iPhone site after Samsung Galaxy S4 launch" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 1:02 PM
  • "Where Siri Has Trouble Hearing, a Crowd of Humans Could Help: A program called Scribe harnesses humans on the Internet to generate speech captions in under five seconds." ["Though voice recognition programs like Apple's Siri and Nuance's Dragon are quite good at hearing familiar voices and clearly dictated words, the technology still can't reliably caption events that present new speakers, accents, phrases, and background noises."] Technology Review 8:49 AM
  • "Hackers connect Siri to human brain and Mac 512K: Apple Voice control technology gets plugged into mind control software; and old Mac Computer from 1984" Macworld UK 8:25 AM
  • "Pushing Editorial Into World of Apps" ["For the five apps released so far by 29th Street, Apple's Newsstand service is the sole conduit to readers' iPhones and iPads. That means the technology giant takes a cut of each sale, along with a per-subscriber fee paid to 29th Street that is negotiated with each publisher."] WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 11:11 AM
  • "Former retail boss John Browett on his time at Apple: 'I just didn't fit'/Browett, now CEO of Monsoon Accessorize, said that his brief stint at Apple will make him better at his job in the future" Macworld UK 8:55 AM
  • "Apple loses 'Ifone' appeal case in Mexico" TUAW 8:43 AM
  • "New hotel near Apple's HQ sports Apple TVs in rooms: A new hotel just around the corner from the company's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters is using Apple TV set-top boxes in guest rooms." CNET News 3:05 PM
  • "Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer sentenced to 41 months for exploiting AT&T iPad security flaw" The Verge 11:11 AM
  • "AT&T 'hacker' and Internet troll sentenced to over three years" CNET News 1:02 PM
  • "High Priest of App Design, at Home in Philly" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:28 AM
  • "A 28-Year-Old You've Never Heard Of Is The World's Most Influential App Designer" Business Insider 8:28 AM
  • "RadioShack slashes prices on Galaxy S3, iPhone 5 and 4S" CNET News 8:59 PM
  • "Young penguins find gaming on an iPad easy and lots of fun too" iMore 9:15 AM
  • "Release of Steve Jobs biopic reportedly delayed for more marketing" Ars Technica 9:49 AM
  • "Funny or Die Releasing 'Very Silly' Steve Jobs Movie Starring Justin Long on April 15" MacRumors 2:29 PM
  • "Comedic Steve Jobs film to debut online next month: Adding to the pair of theatrical movies about the late Apple co-founder, Funny or Die has its own Jobs biopic coming soon." CNET News 3:57 PM
  • "Kutcher-Led 'Jobs' Biopic Delayed, Makes Way for Funny or Die Video" PC Magazine 4:59 PM
  • "Funny or Die's full-length Steve Jobs movie written and shot in 8 days, to be released April 15" VentureBeat 6:13 PM
  • "'Funny or Die' to release 'iSteve,' a satirical Steve Jobs biopic starring Justin Long" The Verge 4:59 PM
  • "Better building with iPad.: 'iPad allows innovation to get out of the office and into the field where it belongs.'" Apple 9:14 PM
  • "Snapchat Won't Protect You From Jerks" Forbes 4:54 PM
  • "Who Is The Average iPhone Jailbreaker? [Infographic] Cult of Mac 3:29 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "AT&T Launches Larger Shared Data Plans Starting at 30GB" The Mac Observer 7:36 PM
  • "Google Street View adds Kilimanjaro, Everest, & more to let you explore digital peaks" VentureBeat 1:02 PM
  • "Blackberry Explores Alternative Smartphone Form Factor" Patent Bolt 8:56 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "The Story Of My App: Recently, I created an app called Petting Zoo. It is an interactive app for iPhones and iPads, and creating it was a difficult but interesting process." The New Yorker 9:39 PM
  • "Podcast: OS X Update, Pebble Watch, RSS, iTunes profits, CoD, Galaxy S" Insanely Great Mac 9:15 AM