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MacSurfer's Archive: Saturday, August 13, 2016
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Siri Has Quite A Few Pokemon Go Jokes To Tell" Redmond Pie 8:15 AM
  • "Apple really is printing money with Pokemon Go" Apple Must 8/12
  • "Pokémon Go: 6 million downloads, 5 million players and 1 million paying users since UK launch" YouGov UK 8/12
  • "Apps, Gwyneth Paltrow and $10m: what's up with Apple's new TV show? The reaction to Planet of the Apps, in which app developers compete for investment under the guidance of Paltrow and Will.i.am, has been lukewarm"  The Guardian 8/12
  • "Apple's iPads open up new worlds for Oakland youth" USA Today 8/12
  • "Sales of iOS smartphones up in US and EU, down in China in 2Q16, says Kantar" DigiTimes 8/12
  • "Apple Music Takes 3 Records To The Top Of Billboard Charts" Benzinga 8/12
  • "Apple celebrates Independence Day by highlighting apps from Indian developers" Business Today 8/12
  • "A death in the family inspired an iPhone case that monitors your blood pressure" Tech in Asia 8/12
  • "Early Apple employee Mike Markkula is selling his California ranch for $45 million" Tech Insider 8/12
  • "Today in Apple history: Apple's war with IBM commences" Cult of Mac 8/12
Non-Apple News
  • "Google's Fuchsia operating system runs on virtually anything" Engadget 7:42 PM
  • "The Russian cyberattack on the Democratic Party is getting ugly" Business Insider 6:52 PM
  • "Samsung Teases Gear S3 Smartwatch With IFA Invitation" HotHardware 3:49 PM
  • "Niantic Catches Pokemon Go Cheaters With Its Ban Ball" PC Magazine 9:10 PM
  • "Cheating Pokemon GO With Bots And Spoofs May Just Get You The Permaban Hammer" HotHardware 3:49 PM
  • "Pokémon Go is a small business's dream" VentureBeat 7:58 AM
  • "Forty U.S. Companies Sign on to EU Data Protection Agreement: Successor to Safe Harbor pact lets companies transfer data on European citizens to servers in U.S" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8/12
  • "Samsung press invite hints at IFA debut for Gear S3 smartwatch: No confirmation, but tons of rumors and precedent for a reveal at the German trade show." Engadget 8/12
  • "Toshiba Begins to Sample eMLC-Based ZD6300 7.68 TB SSDs to Customers" AnandTech 8/12
  • "MIT's DuoSkin turns temporary tattoos into on-skin interfaces" TechCrunch 8/12
  • "CVS Pay Aims to Rival Apple, Google" PC Magazine 8/12
  • "Hackers Can Now Steal Data by Listening to the Sound of a Computer's Hard Drive" Gizmodo 8/12
  • "Can't afford the latest smartphone? You can lease one, but it won't be cheap" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 8/12
  • "Taiwan's Foxconn Completes Acquisition of Sharp: The iPhone assembler will begin restructuring efforts to turn around Japanese company" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8/12
  • "How Facebook's attack on ad blockers screws publishers" VentureBeat 8/12
  • "Has Facebook outsmarted Adblock Plus in cat-and-mouse ad blocking game?" ZDNet 8/12
  • "8 smartphone injuries that can seriously affect your future" Greenbot 8/12
Publications/Podcasts
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2016-08-12: Microsoft's Leaked Encryption Key, Explaining Internet Speed Tests" The Mac Observer 8/12
  • "Vergecast 216: Apple rumors, wireless headphones, and No Man's Sky" The Verge 8/12
  • "AppleInsider podcast talks 'iPhone 7,' Apple Watch, potential Health device" AppleInsider 8/12