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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, December 2, 2014
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Federal grand jury subpoenaed documents from L.A. Unified: L.A. school district officials turned over 20 boxes of documents Monday in response to a federal grand jury subpoena for documents related to its troubled iPad project, officials confirmed Tuesday afternoon."  Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 8:47 PM
  • "FBI seizes 20 boxes of documents on LAUSD iPad program: $1.3-billion project crashes and burns as new superintendent shelves it." Ars Technica 9:04 PM
  • "Apple's 'App Store' trademark appeal dismissed by Australian court" iMore 8:46 PM
  • "L.A. School District Officially Ends $1.3 Billion iPad Initiative in the Midst of an FBI Investigation" MacRumors 8:46 PM
  • "Chromebooks taking iPads to school in education market/Summary: A new IDC report claims that more laptops based on Google's Chrome OS were shipped to schools in the third quarter than Apple's tablets, thanks in no small part to the notebooks' low price."  ZDNet 5:50 PM
  • "Any OS Trying to Beat Android Has Long Road Ahead: By 2018, Android will control 80 percent of global smartphones shipments vs. 13 percent for iOS, IDC said." PC Magazine 4:18 PM
  • "Apple, Microsoft to Outpace Android Growth Through 2018" 24/7 Wall St. 8:07 AM
  • "Worldwide smartphone growth forecast to slow as prices drop and markets mature, says IDC" DigiTimes 8:25 AM
  • "Russian police offer $37,000 for gadgets to hack iPhones" RT 8:47 PM
  • "GTAT Creditors Want to Question Apple Senior Vice President, Apple Not Interested" The Mac Observer 8:43 PM
  • "Pebble: The brilliant stealth wearable Apple's Watch doesn't see coming/Meet the man who accidentally created the smartwatch hype" The Register 8:14 AM
  • "Tim Cook visits Georgetown, DC, store as Apple issues push notification in World AIDS Day promo" 9to5Mac 8:08 AM
  • "Apple Continues War on Notification Center Widgets, Asks 'Drafts' to Remove Note Creation Feature" MacRumors 4:22 PM
  • "Apple threatens removal of another Notification Center widget from App Store, this time Drafts" iDownload Blog 5:48 PM
  • "Apple Opening New Retail Store in Toledo, Ohio Saturday, December 6" MacRumors 8:48 AM
  • "Toledo, Ohio, Apple Store opens Saturday – along with revamped store in Portland, Oregon" 9to5Mac 8:08 AM
  • "Department of Justice compelling smartphone makers to bypass encryption" iDownload Blog 11:46 AM
  • "SwiftKey Reveals Role In Professor Stephen Hawking's Communication System" SwiftKey 9:18 AM
  • "Microsoft picks up iOS and Android productivity app developer Acompli" V3 11:57 AM
  • "Russian lawmaker thinks the iPhone is stealing state secrets" TUAW 1:22 PM
  • "7-year-old boy cleverly thwarts Apple's iPhone security measures" TUAW 11:57 AM
  • "Apple Co-founder Woz, Kari Byron Team Up for Reality TV Show" The Mac Observer 8:29 AM
  • "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to star in new reality show 'The Woz'" iDownload Blog 8:49 PM
  • "Nearly 1-in-5 US Homes Owns Roku, Apple TV, etc" FairerPlatform 2:25 PM
  • "RadioShack's Bottom Line Suffering From iPhone 6 Shortages" MacTrast 11:52 AM
  • "Man says he was mistakenly handcuffed inside Apple store" WSB-TV Atlanta 8:15 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Once Celebrated in Russia, the Programmer Pavel Durov Chooses Exile" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:07 PM
  • "It's 2014. Why is my battery stuck in the '90s?" CNET 1:17 PM
  • "Sprint pledges to halve your AT&T or Verizon bill, with a few catches" Gigaom 11:52 AM
  • "Sprint will also waive the typical $36 per line activation fee for switchers taking advantage of the promotion. Current Sprint customers and T-Mobile customers are notably not eligible to take advantage of the aggressive pricing promotion." 9to5Mac 11:48 AM
  • "FBI warns of 'destructive' malware following Sony hack" ZDNet 8:41 AM
  • "Cybercriminals turn talents to stock market manipulation" ZDNet 8:41 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Let's Talk Jailbreak 84: That came out of nowhere" iDownload Blog 8:48 PM
  • "Ted Landau Talks Customer Support Frustration, Software Sophistication and Apple Pay" MacVoices 2:26 PM
  • "Podcast: Who won Black Friday?" Macworld 11:47 AM
  • "Let's Talk iOS 058: The Firefox experiment" iDownload Blog 8:39 AM