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MacSurfer's Archive: Saturday, July 13, 2013
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Rumor: Apple Buys Taiwan Fab to Build Its Own Chips" Tom's Hardware 12:35 PM
  • "Apple to Start Making Its Own Chips, Says Report" Softpedia 8:16 AM
  • "Apple Also Looks At Globalfoundries To Ensure Chip Capacity Flow" CDR Info 7:37 AM
  • "Russia Makes A Beeline Away From Apple As Another Carrier Refuses iPhone" AppAdvice 7:14 AM
  • "Google's Schmidt says relationship with Apple has improved" Reuters 7/12
  • "Google's Schmidt: Our relationship with Apple has improved/The company's executive chairman says that Apple and Google have conducted 'lots and lots' of meetings." CNET News 7/12
  • "Apple and Google having 'lots and lots' of meetings, getting along better, says Eric Schmidt" 9 to 5 Mac 7/12
  • "Schmidt: Google, Apple Relationship Improving" PC Magazine 7/12
  • "Google's Schmidt insists relationship with Apple is improving" ITProPortal 7/12
  • "Google and Apple's couples therapy is working - Schmidt" The Register 7/12
  • "Thermonuclear War No More? Google, Apple Relations Improving" Mac|Life 7/12
  • "Apple investigating claims of illegal tin mining" iDownload Blog 7/12
  • "Apple Forms Task Force to Learn if It's Using Illegal Tin for Devices" Mac|Life 7/12
  • "Rare Mineral Pushes Tech to Find New Touchscreen Materials" The Mac Observer 7/12
  • "Cars getting smarter, but slowly: It was fitting that IBM and Sprint picked July 10 to announce a new platform to integrate drivers' mobile devices with vehicle systems. It happened to be the fifth anniversary of Apple's iPhone App store. Until July 10, 2008, smartphones weren't nearly as smart because the number of apps that could run on handheld devices could be measured only in the hundreds. Today there are more than 900,000 apps for iOS devices and about as many for Android." San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 7/12
  • "iPad Helps Publishers – Magazine Ad Sales up 24.5% Compared to 4.9% Decline with Standard Print Sales" PadGadget 7/12
  • "Ebay studies 'app culture,' finds iPhone users highly dependent" MacNN 7/12
  • "Apple Store Being Built Above 15th-Century Spanish Ruins" Mashable 7/12
  • "Apple builds flagship store on top of plague hospital" The Register 7/12
  • "Has Verizon Fallen Short of Its Promise to Apple?" The Motley Fool 7/12
  • "Sprint guarantees iPhone 6 will never lose unlimited data plan" Stabley Times 7/12
  • "Sprint introduces new unlimited plans with lifetime guarantee" iDownload Blog 7/12
  • "Sprint guarantees unlimited talk, text and data 'for life'" PCWorld 7/12
  • "Best Buy launching two-day iPad trade-in promotion starting today, $200 gift card for your old iPad!" iMore 7/12
  • "Best Buy offering $200 gift cards for older generation iPads" TUAW 7/12
  • "$500,000 jet flight booked via iPhone app" Telegraph 7/12
  • "Off the Grid: Cars and iPhones Are Tools, Not Life Solutions for These Modern Homesteaders" Wired 7/12
  • "Metta World Peace: I just amnestied my iPhone 3/Since being amnestied by the Los Angeles Lakers, the former Ron Artest's Twitter feed has taken on a quality that few absurdists could match." CNET News 7/12
Non-Apple News
  • "Nations Buying as Hackers Sell Computer Flaws" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:07 PM
  • "British Teen Racks Up A $6,000 Phone Bill While In NYC" Macgasm 4:19 PM
  • "New HP Patent Reveals a Surprising Smartphone Twist" Patently Apple 9:22 AM
  • "AT&T to acquire Leap Wireless in $1.2 billion deal: The carrier has reached an agreement to buy the prepaid wireless provider, which operates the Cricket brand, for $15 a share in cash." CNET News 7/12
  • "AT&T to buy Leap Wireless for $1.1B; Cricket brand will survive" VentureBeat 7/12
  • "AT&T to Acquire Leap Wireless for $1.19 Billion in Cash" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7/12
  • "AT&T to Acquire Leap Wireless, Cricket Brand" PC Magazine 7/12
Publications/Podcasts
  • "The TouchArcade Show - 112 - I'd Like A Pepperoni Pizza Please" Touch Arcade 7/12
  • "App Store Insiders: David Frampton, Creator of Chopper and The Blockheads/The creator of Chopper and The Blockheads talks about his life on the cutting edge, as one of the first developers to not only be on the App Store, but to later experiment with TV gaming." 148Apps 7/12
  • "App Store Insiders: John Casasanta of Tap Tap Tap/John Casasanta of tap tap tap, maker of Camera+ tells us what he really thinks." 148Apps 7/12
  • "App Store Insiders: Keith Shepherd, CEO and Founder of Imangi" 148Apps 7/12
  • "Podcast: iOS Betas, Unplugging is for quitters, eBooks, 2013 Hackintosh" Insanely Great Mac 7/12