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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, March 2, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Air Force Gives $9 Million Award for as Many as 18,000 IPads" Bloomberg 2:42 PM
  • "U.S. Air Force to spend $9M on iPads for flight manual reboot" CNET News 4:13 PM
  • "Air Force Buys 18,000 iPads for Air Mobility Command" The Mac Observer 4:01 PM
  • "Apple again tops Fortune's list of most admired companies" CNET News 9:03 AM
  • "City beginning to go paperless: If you attend a Vancouver City Council or a City manager meeting, you are likely to see iPads at the desk in lieu of stacks of papers" City of Vancouver: Washington, USA 8:19 AM
  • "Switching to iPads saves Vancouver $336 per device per year on data, decreases printing by 40 percent" The Verge 2:26 PM
  • "Switching to iPads saves Vancouver City Council 50K pages a year" AppleInsider 8:19 AM
  • "Virgin prepares to leave: the Champs Elysees" ["This is simply one of the best commercial brands of Paris. Apple would be in the running, but other signs, without declaring themselves, dream of settling there."] Google French-to-English: Le Figaro 11:49 AM
  • "Apple could move into Champs-élysées Virgin Megastore" MacNN 11:49 AM
  • "Apple: We never said Siri would actually work in the UK/Ad watchdog says punter's expectations too high" The Register 8:36 AM
  • "Apple complaint quashed over 'misleading' Siri advert" ZDNet 12:25 PM
  • "Nearly one-third of mobile users expected to buy iPad 3: Report" ZDNet 12:25 PM
  • "For Robot Maker, the Future Is Getting Closer" ["Now Mr. Angle's company is trying to do Rosey one better — with Ava, a 5-foot-4 assistant with an iPad or an Android tablet for a brain and Xbox motion sensors to help her get around. But no apron, so far."] New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:12 PM
  • "Smartphone text autocorrect locks down school" Tech.Blorge 4:15 PM
  • "When will tablets outsell traditional PCs?" asymco 8:17 AM
  • "Apple speeding toward 25 billion app downloads: Guesses vary but milestone could be met as soon as tonight" Network World 11:45 AM
  • "Snubbed by Apple, China's Renren becomes the first social network app for Windows 8" The Next Web 8:36 AM
  • "Charges pare back Apple supplier Laird: More than £130m of exceptional charges have widened the full-year pre-tax loss at Laird, in spite of strong demand for tablets and smartphones driving up revenues at the British electrical components provider." Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:57 AM
  • "AT&T Clarifies 'Unlimited' Data Plans in New Policy" The Mac Observer 9:34 PM
  • "AT&T Throttles Unlimited Plan Users at 3 GB" TidBITS 4:15 PM
  • "Customers Howl Over AT&T Data-Use Curbs" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:53 PM
  • "AT&T: Use Of Tablets On The Rise Among Small Businesses" MacNews 8:57 AM
  • "Soluto Saucily Sunders Apple's Seriousness With Salacious Squib" TechCrunch 8:48 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Panasonic powers back to mobile with Elugas" [Slideshow] CNET News 12:27 PM
  • "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 'Precise Pangolin' gets beta release" ZDNet UK 12:28 PM
  • "Ubuntu 12.04 hits beta, brings smooth Unity for marching masses: But bugs still need a-snaffling for biz penguins" The Register 12:09 PM
  • "Samsung worker confirms April launch for Galaxy S III" Register Hardware 12:07 PM
  • "'Pied piper' robot could lead fish away from harm" TG Daily 12:02 PM
  • "Zynga launches own gaming platform" TG Daily 12:02 PM
  • "Raspberry Pi's $25 PC will be back on sale in a month" Techworld 12:01 PM
  • "NSA Creates Super Secure, Android-Based Smartphone" PC Magazine 11:18 AM
  • "Archos Unveils a $130 Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet for Kids" PC Magazine 11:17 AM
  • "Google patent application reveals broadband dreams" CNET News 12:45 PM
  • "Google TV hasn't even hit a million users" TG Daily 12:03 PM
  • "Disabled Google Apps Account Deletion Mechanism Affecting Admins, Users" IDG News Service 11:20 AM
  • "Google responds to reader questions about privacy changes" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 11:09 AM
  • "Nokia To Issue Lumia 800 Battery Fix: Patch also addresses problems with backlighting, diagnostics, and camera." InformationWeek 11:00 AM
  • "Brogrammers Bring Frat-House Ethos to Engineers' Geeky Coding World" Bloomberg 10:39 AM
  • "New potato-spotting AI built with off-the-shelf tech" BBC 10:37 AM
  • "Magnificent Men Of Mobile World Congress: Booth babe pictures are so 2011. So we give you the men of Mobile World Congress, in all their geeked-out glory." InformationWeek 10:20 AM
  • "Mobile-Phone Leaders Boost Battered Barcelona" Bloomberg 10:06 AM
  • "AT&T Adds Speed Caps for Heavy Data Users" Bloomberg 10:38 AM
  • "Retailers Join Payment Chase/Two Words: Digital Wallet—Wal-Mart and Target Join Project Aiming to Make Plastic Obsolete" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:39 AM
  • "Google Introduces New Camera Motion & Timing Gesturing for Android" Patently Apple 7:51 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "ATPM 18.03 / March 2012: Volume 18, Number 3" ATPM 8:12 PM
  • "Gene Steinberg meets Neil Ticktin of MacTech magazine, Greg Bell of 'Radio Classics,' and Macworld's Dan Frakes this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 11:45 AM
  • "iPad 3, Apple TV, Mastered for iTunes and high quality music (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 8:55 AM