"A Very Appy Christmas" ["Distimo AppIQ data shows us that the 2012 daily download figures in the Apple App Store for iPad and iPhone increased by 87% on Christmas Day compared to the December 2012 average, and moreover, the revenues showed an slightly lower increase of 70%. Given that the iPad downloads and revenues rose by 140% and 83% respectively, the iPad seems to have been a very popular gift."] Distimo 2:40 PM
"Apple App Store downloads jumped 87% on Christmas Day 2012, revenues increased 70%" The Next Web 2:40 PM
"App Store on Christmas Day 2012 saw downloads increase 87 percent, revenue rose 70 percent" 9 to 5 Mac 2:40 PM
"Apple CEO Cook Gets $4.17 Million Compensation, No Stock" Bloomberg 8:00 AM
"Apple CEO Tim Cook's compensation totaled less than $4.2 million in 2012" The Next Web 7:27 AM
"Apple CEO gets modest 2012 pay after big 2011" Associated Press 9:58 AM
"Apple CEO Tim Cook Receives Just $4.17M In Compensation In 2012, Versus $378M In 2011" TechCrunch 7:35 AM
"Get ready for more stupid Apple CEO salary stories: Did Tim Cook really make $378 million in 2011? Did his pay really drop 99% in 2012?" Fortune 11:23 AM
"Apple's SEC filing reveals Feb. 27 annual shareholder meeting, Cook's 2012 compensation, and Human Rights committee proposal" 9 to 5 Mac 10:36 AM
"Apple Falls to Four-Year Low in Online Customer Satisfaction Survey" AllThingsD 7:44 AM
"Apple wants 8 board members re-elected, doesn't want a special 'human rights committee'" The Next Web 7:44 AM
"Chinese writers win infringement case against Apple" ["The Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court has found Apple liable of copyright infringement involving eight Chinese writers, awarding them 412,000 yuan (US$68,000) in losses."] ZDNet 8:12 AM
"Chinese Court Hits Apple in Copyright Dispute" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:45 AM
"Apple fined over $165,000 for copyright violation in China" Business Standard 8:14 AM
"Apple fined for copyright violation" Xinhua 8:29 AM
"Apple ordered to pay Chinese writers in copyright dispute: After eight authors' books were sold on the tech giant's App Store without permission, a Chinese judge rules that Apple must pay up." CNET News 4:26 PM
"Analyst: Apple could pay for Brazil iPhone brand" Associated Press 3:40 PM
"From lame to Lion—the 12-year evolution of OS X: Everyone into the time machine for a tour of Apple's 'big cat' releases." Ars Technica 10:18 PM
"Forthcoming book references unannounced 'Apple Aperture X'" AppleInsider 12:44 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"How To manage your account picture in OS X: Apple proVides several approaches to customizing the picture that represents your account in OS X." MacFixIt 7:04 PM
"Pressure on Apple is improving labor practices, says Times: Media coverage and rising awareness of rough working conditions in China's electronics factories have begun to turn things around, says a New York Times report. But there's still a long way to go." CNET News 7:52 AM
"Apple's leadership spurs industry-wide changes for Chinese labor: Other OEMs in China are taking note of improvements at Foxconn facilities." Ars Technica 2:41 PM
"Working conditions begin to improve at Apple partner's factories" BGR News 9:52 PM
"Apple in 2012: Controversy and competition" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 2:35 PM
"2012: The year Android truly challenged iOS/Android 'Jelly Bean,' Samsung's Notes, and Google's Nexuses finally delivered compelling capabilities as Apple stalled" InfoWorld 10:07 AM
"2012 in review: The year in iOS" Macworld 7:45 AM
"Look back at 2012: The year in tablets" TechHive 7:45 AM
"This Christmas, Buyers Were Stocking Up on Tablets" AllThingsD 3:40 PM
"First Tweets From Newly Purchased Tablets Reveal iPad At Top Of The 2012 Holiday Gift Charts [Image] Redmond Pie 9:49 AM
"Apple Still Said To Account For 87% Of North American Tablet Traffic As Kindle Fire, Nexus 7 Gain" BGR 11:48 AM
"For every 100 web pageviews on an iPad, Kindle gets 5, Galaxy gets 3, and Surface gets 0.22" VentureBeat 11:14 AM
"That Freckled Girl in a T-Shirt and Jeans Is Your Typical Mac User" AllThingsD 10:08 AM
"Meet Ms.Mac 2012: 'The average female Mac user is pretty hot, if awkwardly dressed'" Morningstar 10:27 AM
"Things Seem To Be Looking Up For Workers At Apple Manufacting Partner Foxconn" App Advice 7:25 AM
"New report profiles better working conditions in Foxconn's Apple factories [Video] 9 to 5 Mac 12:10 PM
"All-singing devices are eating up MP3 player sales" paidContent 7:49 AM
"Apple's iPhone 5 lands in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean without a splash" Fortune 7:57 AM
"Android apps put pressure on Apple" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7:55 AM
"Chinese Apple's User Shows Us How to Crook the Aluminum iPhone 5" M.I.C. Gadget 7:47 AM
"The Woz Uses Cycloramic And An iPhone 5 To Street View His Kitchen" TechCrunch 10:01 AM
"NYC Crime Rate Up For First Time In 20 Years Thanks To iPhone Thefts" Cult of Mac 9:49 AM
"Steve Jobs' Designer Yacht 'Venus' Free To Sail The Seas Once More" RazorianFly 7:27 AM
Non-Apple News
"Ho ho ho! How a 5-year-old got a porn-filled Nintendo for Xmas: A father buys his 5-year-old son a refurbished Nintendo 3DS for Christmas. Sadly, it wasn't refurbished well enough." CNET News 7:12 PM
"New WordPress vuln emerges: W3 Total Cache has faulty defaults" The Register 4:21 PM
"Last Gasp for Netbooks as Asustek & Acer Pull Plug" The Mac Observer 4:21 PM
"Rockstar teases GTA V screenshots" TG Daily 1:32 PM
"LG's tricked-out entertainment systems of CES 2013: LG has officially debuted its 2013 lineup of home theater equipment which the company will be showcasing at CES 2013 in Las Vegas next month." TG Daily 1:31 PM
"Botched Software Update To Networking Gear Caused One Of GitHub's All-Time Worst Outages" TechCrunch 1:29 PM
"Free Google Voice calls to continue in 2013" TG Daily 1:32 PM
"Google to extend free 'Call phones from Gmail' through 2013" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:42 AM
"Touchscreen offers new opportunity for PC brands: An interview with Acer president" DigiTimes 10:54 AM
"EA removes gun shop links from Medal of Honor site" BBC 10:24 AM
"Samsung Reportedly Targeting 510M Phone Sales In 2013, Including 390M Smartphones" TechCrunch 1:26 PM
"Samsung Aims to Sell Half a Billion Handsets in 2013" PC Magazine 11:51 AM
"Samsung's Galaxy Note to get Android 4.1 Premium Suite" CNET News 10:09 AM
"Internet on the TV? Meh, say consumers" CNET News 10:09 AM
"Fujitsu to Miss Shipment Goal for PCs as Demand in Europe Slumps" Bloomberg 9:56 AM
"Fujitsu expects to miss PC sales goal on sluggish Europe demand" Reuters 9:56 AM
"Amazon Outage Scrooges Netflix, Heroku: Amazon Web Services suffers a second holiday services disruption and the fourth outage of 2012." InformationWeek 11:24 AM
"Amazon's Snafu Rattles Customers" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:36 AM
"Americans Read More E-Books — But Maybe Not on E-Readers" AllThingsD 9:59 AM
"This Is How Lytro Takes 'Living Pictures'" Mashable 9:50 AM
"Google 2012: The Machines Are Getting Smarter" ReadWrite 7:45 AM
"Lytro Who? Toshiba Developing Refocusing Camera for Phones" Mashable 11:48 AM
"Toshiba plans 20-megapixel image chip for digital cameras for 2013" Macworld UK 7:27 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Live @ 10 PM ET! End of Year Review - Apple products plus Holiday wrap up" Insanely Great Mac 3:39 PM
"Just Mobile HeadStand headphone stand review" AppleTell 7:47 AM
"Garry's Mod 13 review: The original sandbox game is back, with a new engine and enhanced integration with Steam. Pose your hands ready to clap for Garry's Mod." Macworld UK 7:44 AM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"Best iPhone and iPad Games of 2012: Puzzle and Word" Touch Arcade 3:40 PM
"Review: Drafts for iPhone and iPad" Macworld 2:43 PM
"Got a new iOS device for the holidays? Try AppHero to find apps" 9 to 5 Mac 12:53 PM
"Five Great Music-Related Apps for Your iPad– New iPad Owner Starter Kit" PadGadget 12:44 PM
"Frequency Tunes Out the Noise When Tuning In to Videos" MacNewsWorld 9:49 AM
"Review: SetMyCamMx aids depth of field calculations and serves as a great teaching tool" Macworld 9:49 AM
"Why I am Leaving the iPhone" ["With Android's 'Butter' introduced at this year's Google I/O, the feel is nearly as good as iOS. That says a lot, because as far reaching as the first Android phone, I could feel a major difference. When I mean 'feel', it is the responsiveness that the phone has when you touch it, primarily the swipes, and the responsiveness to those swipes. As for Windows Phone, it has always felt good and responsive to touches and swipes."] Forbes 12:09 PM
"Why You Should Pay For Apps: Grab a bunch of paid apps, not free apps, for your new phone or tablet. It's better for everyone, especially the little guy." PC Magazine 10:37 AM
"Galaxy S4 Concept Features An Edge-to-Edge 1080p Display, Laser Keyboard, Android 5.0 & More [Video] Redmond Pie 7:42 PM
"How To Fix Incorrect Song Matches In Google Music" BGR 4:22 PM
"Prevent Facebook from automatically importing photos" CNET 2:30 PM
"Your tech gift: Keep it or return it?Which tech gifts are worth owning – and which aren't?" MarketWatch 2:21 PM
"Are tablets now disposable computing devices?" ZDNet 1:43 PM
"SugarSync 2.0; one of the sweetest multi-platform cloud solutions available" ZDNet 1:43 PM
"From Internet Uprisings to John McAfee: The Year in Privacy and Security" Wired 1:41 PM
"More than half of U.S. homes don't have or use landline" GigaOM 1:34 PM
"Looks Like PBS Made A 'Silicon Valley' TV Show That Could Really Be Worth Watching" TechCrunch 1:26 PM
"You could save hundreds on your net bill (just don't expect your telco to tell you about it)" Sydney Morning Herald 12:17 PM
"Nice touch, but don't expect much storage: A new range of personal computers with touch-sensitive screens has arrived in time for the Boxing Day sales." Fairfax NZ News 12:15 PM
"2012''s most innovative tech gear" [Slideshow] PCWorld 11:52 AM
"Five reasons 2012 was a great year for Linux" PCWorld 11:52 AM
"Why You Should Pay for Apps" PC Magazine 11:51 AM
"Dell Latitude E6430S Laptop Review" HotHardware 11:25 AM
"Computerworld's top stories of 2012: From Android and iOS to storage and great places to work in IT, here are Computerworld's most popular stories from 2012, in order." [Slideshow] Computerworld 10:49 AM
"Email Overload: Disease Or Symptom?" InformationWeek 10:16 AM
"The future of mobile: CNET's Bridget Carey talks to Roger Cheng about what our smartphones could look like in 2013." [Video Report] CNET News 10:10 AM
"Amazon most satisfying website to shop: survey" Reuters 10:13 AM
"HP – wealth destruction: A great corporate train wreck driven largely by management decisions" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:17 AM
"HP confirms: Feds investigating the Autonomy acquisition/In its new annual Report, Hewlett-Packard says the Department of Justice has opened an inquiry into the $11 billion 2011 deal, now allegedly marred by accounting impropriety." CNET News 7:25 PM
"Hewlett-Packard Says Justice Department Probing Autonomy" Bloomberg 10:03 PM
"Autonomy founder fires back at HP after news of DOJ inquiry: After HP announced an investigation into its purchase of the software company, Autonomy founder says, 'We can confirm that we have as yet had no contact from any regulatory authority.'" CNET News 9:58 PM
"Autonomy founder responds to HP filing and DOJ investigation" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 10:03 PM
"Are The New Windows Flops? TheStreet.com's Technologist, Gary Krakow, thinks all three new Windows operating systems - Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 - might not be a perfect fit with the software buying public." [Video Report] TheStreet 9:57 AM
"Windows 8's uptake falls behind Vista's pace: New OS can't keep up with Vista, Microsoft's 2007 OS flop" Computerworld 10:49 AM
"Windows 8's uptake falls behind Vista's pace" PCWorld 11:52 AM
"Microsoft's Windows 8 Uptake Looks to Have Stalled" Forbes 2:26 PM
"Microsoft: Over 75,000 Windows Phone Apps Were Published In 2012, Average User Downloaded 54" TechCrunch 1:27 PM
"Microsoft Windows Phone store adds 75,000 apps this year" CNET News 10:09 AM
"Microsoft: Google Isn't 'Truly Serious' About Enterprise Office Apps" Business Insider 2:26 PM
"Microsoft to Google: You're not 'serious' about business apps/As Google ramps up competition with enterprise applications and cloud services, Microsoft claims it's not at all worried." CNET News 7:43 PM
"As sales heat up, IBM looks at keeping computers cool" Poughkeepsie Journal 1:34 PM
"Analyst Indicted on Insider-Trading Charges Tied to IBM" Bloomberg 9:53 AM
"Report: Apple, Intel Working on Smartwatch for 2013" PC Magazine 11:51 AM
"Dell's End-to-End Play is a Long Way from Personal Computers" Forbes 4:23 PM
"Netflix now has the right to share your viewing habits: The Senate quietly passed a reform weakening the Video Privacy Protection Act" Salon 12:12 PM
"CES 2013: Plenty of Innovation In Store" E-Commerce Times 10:55 AM
"Android surge shakes Apple: America's most watched company can no longer claim to be the only mobile option" Salon 12:13 PM
"2012: The year Android truly challenged iOS/Android 'Jelly Bean,' Samsung's Notes, and Google's Nexuses finally delivered compelling capabilities as Apple stalled" InfoWorld 11:35 AM
"Global semicon revenues to hit $319B in 2013" ZDNet 1:43 PM
"Stocks Stage Late Rally: The Dow industrials nearly escaped a fourth-straight daily loss, recouping most of a 151-point intraday slide on reports the House of Representatives will reconvene early to try to avert the fiscal cliff." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:25 PM
"Stocks becalmed on fiscal cliff standoff" CNNMoney 9:30 AM
"Asia Markets: Japan stocks hit post-earthquake high, lead Asia" MarketWatch 9:39 AM
"Nikkei Above March 2011 Quake Level" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:43 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks rise in post-Christmas trade/Miners and banks score gains; benchmarks up in Greece and Italy" MarketWatch 2:13 PM
"European stocks edge up in thin trading" Associated Press 12:07 PM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 2:24 PM
"Midday Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares down at 1 p.m." Associated Press 2:24 PM
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 10:04 PM
"AMD or Intel? Picking the Best Microprocessor Investment for 2013" The Motley Fool 2:23 PM
"The Top 4 Tech Stocks To Own In 2013" Seeking Alpha 2:24 PM
MacSurfer Headline News Staff
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: P. Pearson
Managing & Weekday Editor: D. Mahaffy
Evening Editors: S. Siegling and
D. Mahaffy
Weekend Editors: S. Siegling , A. Spaulding and
D. Mahaffy
CEO: T. Jefferson
CFO: K. Midas
Editor Emeritus: W. Shakespeare
Writers Emeritus: W. Lewis, R. Chandler, W. Morris, G. Simenon, C. Vallejo, F. Garcia Lorca,
P. White, R. Adams, P. Valery, C. Aiken, R. Bradbury, F. Pessoa, S. Bellow, F. O'Connor
Art Directors: V. Van Gogh, C. Monet
Advertising Managers: C. Chaplin, H. Marx
Public Relations Firm: Bits & Bytes
Bomb Squad: Type 11 Errors
Chief Scientists: I. Asimov, S. Hawking
Road Crew: R. Petty, J. Cooper
Mechanics: Tom and Ray
Fishing Crew: A. Lindner, D. Stange, K. VanDam
Head Chef: Mom
Head Travel Guru: D. Pearson
Mascots: Cyberdog, Clarus the Dogcow
General Counsel: #%@*$$$$!