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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, February 28, 2016
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple's Media Event To Be Held On March 21st Instead Of March 15th [Report] Redmond Pie 7:53 AM
  • "Apple to introduce new iPhone and iPad at March 21 media event" BGR 11:29 AM
  • "Tim Cook made fun of his own lousy Super Bowl photo" Business Insider 8:44 AM
  • "Mr. Popular: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Apple's Tim Cook Top List of Tech's Most Likeable CEOs" Re/code 7:36 PM
  • "Mother's Murder Among Cases Hampered By Locked iPhones" NBC News 7:50 AM
  • "This is the exclusive Apple merchandise you can only get at its Silicon Valley campus" Business Insider 8:11 AM
  • "San Francisco still owes Steve Jobs $174 after he overpaid his parking tickets" Business Insider 7:36 PM
  • "Tokyo Thrift: that time Marc Newson designed a phone/KDDI's Talby is a design classic from 2004" The Verge 10:30 AM
  • "(Re)Mark Your Calendars: Apple's Product Event Will Be Held Week of March 21" Re/code 2/27
  • "Apple press event coming week of March 21 with new iPad & new 4-inch 'iPhone SE,' said to lack 3D Touch - reports" AppleInsider 2/27
  • "Apple's March media event pushed back one week: Report" ZDNet 2/27
  • "Apple Pay Is Crushing Samsung Pay" FOXBusiness 2/27
  • "Apple is the Most Preferred Smartphone Brand in the U.S." Digital Trends 2/27
  • "Apple Shareholders Show Support for Tim Cook" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2/26
  • "Apple's Tim Cook to shareholders: Taking on the FBI is the right thing to do"  Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 2/26
  • "Shareholders Back Apple CEO Tim Cook in Fight against FBI Overreach" The Mac Observer 2/26
  • "Apple had incredible year in 2015: Cook" CNBC Videos 2/26
  • "Tim Cook hinted that Apple is gearing up for a buying spree of smaller technology companies"  Business Insider 2/26
  • "Apple talks tough, says 'being hard doesn't scare us'" Mashable 2/26
  • "From Apple's S2016 hareholder Meeting: Diversity, Encryption and FBI" Re/code 2/26
  • "Apple directors reelected, outside proposals rejected at annual shareholder meeting" AppleInsider 2/26
  • "Tim Cook on Apple Car: 'It's going to be Christmas Eve for a while'" Business Insider 2/26
  • "Photos show Apple preparing to build store inside new World Trade Center hub" 9to5Mac 2/26
  • "This company hacked an iPhone with Play-Doh" MarketWatch 2/26
  • "In Republican Debate, Candidates Back FBI Over Apple" Wired 2/26
  • "Rubio to Apple: Your brand is not superior to national security" Mashable 2/26
  • "Most Americans still think Apple should comply with FBI orders, new poll shows: But 54 percent think requiring backdoor access to all tech companies would make their data less secure" The Verge 2/26
  • "Apple hires key dev behind Snowden's Signal pet secure messaging app: Well-regarded privacy advocate and coder Frederic Jacobs will be joining Apple to work on a critical security component of Apple's desktop and mobile operating systems." ZDNet 2/26
  • "Apple hires developer of Edward Snowden's favorite encrypted chat app Signal" Business Insider 2/26
  • "Apple Hires Developer Behind Signal, Edward Snowden's Favorite Secure Chat App" TechCrunch 2/26
  • "Apple makes interesting security hire as it compares FBI request to forcing pharma firm to make lethal drugs" 9to5Mac 2/26
  • "Report: Apple Pay arriving in France this year, but with a slow-burn roll-out over 3-5 months" 9to5Mac 2/26
  • "Mark Zuckerberg beats Tim Cook as tech's most popular CEO despite distrust for Facebook" The Verge 2/26
  • "Original Macintosh founder died 11 years ago today" Cult of Mac 2/26
Non-Apple News
  • "Samsung's Oscars ad puts William H. Macy in a Gear VR" The Verge 8:36 PM
  • "FCC Probes Cable Firms' Influence on Web TV: Some contractual clauses prevent media firms from sending content to online providers" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:21 PM
  • "Are Your Kids Addicted To Their Phones? 'Screenagers' Wants to Help" Forbes 8:14 PM
  • "Google screening missed hundreds of malicious Android apps, researchers say" The Register 7:58 PM
  • "See That Billboard? It May See You, Too" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:13 PM
  • "This is the true story of how Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook, and it wasn't to find girls" Business Insider 12:18 PM
  • "Emojis can ruin your life and make you a criminal" BetaNews 11:29 AM
  • "YouTube Creates Team to Minimize Copyright Claim Mistakes" PC Magazine 11:09 AM
  • "AI learns to predict human reactions by reading our fiction" Engadget 7:56 AM
  • "Design fetish: Behold Eero, the most beautiful Wi-Fi router, ever" VentureBeat 7:56 AM
  • "Google's PlaNet Can Now Determine Location Sans Geotags" Digital Trends 2/27
  • "WhatsApp is dropping support for the BlackBerry platform" Engadget 2/27
  • "Raspberry Pi 3 Breaks Cover In FCC Filing" HotHardware 2/27
  • "The Amazing Transformation of Mark Zuckerberg: Beyond #BlackLivesMatter, Zuck has taken bold stances on a bevy of social causes that few other CEOs would touch." PC Magazine 2/27
  • "Zuckerberg says learned from Germany about defending migrants" Reuters 2/27
  • "For These Guys, Mark Zuckerberg Is a Lifestyle Guru" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2/27
  • "Nintendo's 3DS sales are plummeting — the NX console can't come fast enough" ExtremeTech 2/26
  • "Sprint does a 180, brings back two-year contract options for smartphones" iMore 2/26
  • "Happy 125th Birthday, David Sarnoff (David Who?)" Re/code 2/26
  • "Samsung may take on Apple Music by acquiring Tidal" Cult of Android 2/26
  • "Want world peace? Share much more on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg says: Keep sharing 'all those good things we value'" MarketWatch 2/26
  • "Mark Zuckerberg Is 'Obsessed' With Livestreaming, Making Live a Top Priority at Facebook" Re/code 2/26
  • "IBM's new Watson ad has Carrie Fisher leading a support group for robots" The Verge 2/26
  • "Here's how much the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge cost in the U.S." Mashable 2/26
  • "Foxconn's Sharp Buyout on Hold over Surprise Liabilities" The Mac Observer 2/26
  • "Foxconn, Sharp extend takeover talks deadline: source" Reuters 2/26
  • "Foxconn acquisition team 'went berserk' when they learned of potential Sharp liabilities, deal in doubt" 9to5Mac 2/26
  • "The Hon Hai Acquisition Of Sharp: Hard To See How Japan Wins" Forbes 2/26
  • "The proof is in the fingerprint: how biometrics are proving security doubters wrong" Memeburn 2/26
  • "Defense Department launches cyberwar against ISIS" New York Post 2/26
  • "Google wants new class of taller 'cloud disk' with more platters and I/O" The Register 2/26
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Nest CEO Tony Fadell on the iPod, iPhone, and the importance of shipping products" VentureBeat 6:29 PM
  • "iPhone-banning Maricopa attorney flounders in interview" iMore 2/27
  • "Apple flips FBI the bird, seeds new betas, and iPod shuffle is reborn" Cult of Mac 2/27
  • "Podcast: Mobile World Congress, iPhone Encryption" Tech.pinions 2/27
  • "iFixit Talks Scrap" iFixit 2/26
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2016-02-26: Apple's Motion to Vacate iPhone Unlocking Order" The Mac Observer 2/26
  • "ACM 348: Ewen Rankin Dives Deep into FBI v. Apple with Jeff and Bryan" The Mac Observer 2/26
  • "AppleInsider podcast talks iPad Pro as Mac replacement, iPhone capacities, Apple v. the FBI & more" AppleInsider 2/26
  • "John Skipper: The Code/Media Interview" ["ESPN's John Skipper Calls the Plays on Digital Content, eSports and Diversity"] Re/code 2/26
  • "Final Cut Pro Radio Show #7 featuring Nuno Bernardo." FCPRadio 2/26
  • "Apple's iPhone 5SE will look just like the iPhone 5S (Apple Byte Extra Crunchy, Ep. 27)" CNET 2/26