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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, December 6, 2015
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "iPhone 6 Fire: Man Left Pantless After Smartphone Catches Fire" The Inquisitr 8:54 PM
  • "X Marks the Spot That Makes Online Ads So Maddening" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 6:37 PM
  • "Steve Wozniak Is Bringing Comic Con To Tokyo" Forbes 8:06 AM
  • "How an iPad is changing education at Susquenita High School" Penn Live 12/5
  • "iPhone 6S Price Slashed As Carriers Fight" Forbes 12/5
  • "TAG Heuer's Android smartwatch is (relatively) popular: The watchmaker is stepping up Connected production, although it's not about to make Apple or Samsung nervous." Engadget 12/5
  • "Verizon's Wi-Fi Calling Coming to Galaxy S6 on Monday, iPhone 'Early Next Year'" MacRumors 12/5
  • "TaskRabbit: How an app can relieve you of all your chores/If you need an errand run or some DIY sorted, TaskRabbit can find someone local to do it instantly. But what could its rise mean for the jobs market?" Telegraph 12/5
  • "Apple Makes A Beeline For Carrier Billing In Emerging Markets, Starting With Russia" TechCrunch 12/4
  • "Apple Watch In Focus: Holiday Sales, A User Survey, And Market Share" Forbes 12/4
  • "The wearables market has now come down to three players/Research firm IDC has unofficially crowned the Big Three in wearables: Fitbit, Apple, and Xiaomi." Quartz 12/4
  • "Apple Watch sales enjoying modest growth, says IDC, as Samsung gets knocked out of the top five" 9to5Mac 12/4
  • "Fitbit, Apple And Xiaomi Are The World's Top Wearables Vendors, Says IDC" TechCrunch 12/4
  • "Apple Watch Pushes Wearable Sales To New High" TechWeekEurope 12/4
  • "Apple's US Smartphone Subscriber Share Trimmed" 24/7 Wall St. 12/4
  • "Worldwide Smartphone Market Will See the First Single-Digit Growth Year on Record – IDC" MacPrices 12/4
  • "Apple Campus 2 Underground Auditorium Shown Off in New Aerial Video" MacRumors 12/4
  • "Beats Music subscribers have until Jan. 19 to make the switch to Apple Music" Macworld 12/4
  • "Wozilla? Tokyo Prepares for Apple Founder's Comic Con." Re/code 12/4
  • "Apple Watch comes through in an emergency" AppAdvice 12/4
  • "iPhone may have saved San Bernardino shooting victim's life" New York Post 12/4
  • "Hackers Target Hello Barbie's iPhone... But It's Good News" Forbes 12/4
Non-Apple News
  • "Fitbit's Game: Survival of the Fittest/Fitbit will need a strong holiday showing to keep its premium" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:48 PM
  • "Court says violating your work's computer policy isn't a crime" Engadget 8:48 PM
  • "Mozilla kills off Suggested Tiles ads after three months" ZDNet 8:16 PM
  • "Cloud, social, and mobile drive double digital growth in APAC: Symantec" ZDNet 7:05 PM
  • "Social media companies step up battle against militant propaganda" VentureBeat 5:02 PM
  • "France mulls tighter noose around crypto" The Register 4:31 PM
  • "Google Patents Needle-Free Blood-Drawing Device" Digital Trends 11:29 AM
  • "Tag Heuer Is Ramping Up Smartwatch Production From 1,200 To 2,000 Pieces Per Week" TechCrunch 8:00 AM
  • "Social media companies step up battle against militant propaganda" Reuters 12/5
  • "Security News This Week: Facebooking at Work Can No Longer Be Charged as 'Hacking'" Wired 12/5
  • "Is Google Beginning to Lose Its Dominance in Search?" Investopedia 12/5
  • "Can't Put Down Your Device? That's by Design" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12/5
  • "Android mastermind Andy Rubin may be starting his own smartphone company" BGR 12/5
  • "People are in denial about using devices while walking and being bad at it: Distracted pedestrian injuries rising, but walkers blame others, not themselves" Ars Technica 12/5
  • "Gmail Ending? Google Starts Migrating Users" Forbes 12/5
  • "Mozilla scraps in-Firefox ads: Not the 'right business for us at this time,' says top ad exec as Mozilla pulls plug on two-year project" Computerworld 12/5
  • "Marissa Mayer's Next Headache May Be a Nasty Proxy Fight" Bloomberg 12/4
  • "Samsung execs are being investigated for possible insider trading" BGR 12/4
  • "VTech's Android tablet for kids 'hopelessly insecure'" The Register 12/4
  • "US might roll back its anti-ISIS propaganda after questions from the tech industry" The Verge 12/4
  • "Judges Challenges Both Sides in Net Neutrality Case: Three-judge panel could uphold part of regulation and overturn part of it, experts say" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12/4
  • "Net neutrality on trial: judges hear lawsuits against FCC" BetaNews 12/4
  • "You can take a bath with Android's first soap-proof smartphone" BGR 12/4
  • "One country wants to spy on all its encrypted Internet traffic" BGR 12/4
  • "Mozilla Is Flailing When the Internet Needs It the Most" Wired 12/4
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Incomparable #275: Comprehensive Tapestry Policy" Six Colors 2:02 PM
  • "iMore show 486: U mad Intel?" iMore 12/5
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2015-12-04: Samsung's Patent Judgement, YouTube's TV Series Plans" The Mac Observer 12/4
  • "How Apple out-innovates the competition, this week on The CultCast" Cult of Mac 12/4
  • "Ctrl-Walt-Delete: Walt and Nilay talk in code" The Verge 12/4
  • "AppleInsider podcast talks 2016 iPhone & MacBook rumors, Apple Watch gripes, open source Swift, more" AppleInsider 12/4