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MacSurfer's Archive: Thursday, March 15, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple Hits Pause as Austin Digs Deeper to Net Texas Plant: Apple Inc. (AAPL) may spurn Austin and go to the Phoenix area to build an operations center that Texas Governor Rick Perry said last week would bring 3,600 jobs to his state's capital, according to an Austin official." Bloomberg Businessweek 9:17 PM
  • "For Apple, Pressure Builds Over App Store Fraud/In a little over an hour, Ryan Matthew Pierson racked up $437.71 in iTunes charges for virtual currency that he could use to buy guns, nightclubs and cars in iMobster, a popular iPhone game. One problem: Mr. Pierson, a technology writer in Texas, has never played iMobster."  New York Times [Free Registration Required] 9:11 PM
  • "Apple joins iPad trade-in bandwagon, offers competitive deals: As third-gen tablet debut nears, Apple outsources offers for used iPads and iPad 2s" Computerworld 8:08 AM
  • "Apple Will Give You Credit for Your Old iPad" Mashable 8:54 AM
  • "Apple Seeks to Lure First-Time Customers With New Ipad" [Video Report] Bloomberg 9:18 PM
  • "First new iPad finds Australia buyer: The buyer of the very first 'new iPad' is one David Tarasenko, who bought the white 64GB iPad Wi-Fi + 4G model at a midnight launch in Sydney" CNET News 9:57 AM
  • "iPad Lines Around the World" MacStories 12:06 PM
  • "The New iPad Launch Preparation at Hong Kong Apple Store" M.I.C. Gadget 6:49 PM
  • "Dozens queue to greet Apple's new iPad in Australia" Reuters 8:55 AM
  • "First in line: Apple fans begin queuing for the new iPad in Japan" The Next Web 8:23 AM
  • "Hong Kong Apple store repels fanbois, scalpers" The Register 8:22 AM
  • "Want that new iPad sooner? Buy it at Wal-Mart at 12:01 a.m.: Wal-Mart is getting a jump on Apple's retail store sales of the third-generation iPad by almost eight hours." CNET News 3:25 PM
  • "Wal-Mart to Sell New IPads at Midnight, Before Apple Stores" Bloomberg 5:22 PM
  • "Tablet Shipments Outpace Fourth Quarter Targets; Strong Demand for New iPad and Other Forthcoming Products Boosts 2012 Forecast – IDC" MacPrices 2:21 PM
  • "Buying a new iPad: Subsidised deals from Orange/Mobile operator outlines subsidised deals for the new iPad" Macworld UK 2:41 PM
  • "BBC Confirms It's Working on an iTunes Competitor" Mashable 11:09 AM
  • "MLB players, staff eager for new iPad release" USA Today 8:45 AM
  • "Tim Cook College Photos Show Apple CEO At Auburn University (Photo)" The Huffington Post 2:33 PM
  • "Will Obama dump his BlackBerry for the iPhone?" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 8:31 AM
  • "Russell Brand's iThrown tribute to Jobs: Comedian Russell Brand has claimed he grabbed a photographer's iPhone and threw it through a window as 'a tribute' to Apple boss Steve Jobs who died last year." The Scotsman 7:49 AM
  • "Arrest warrant issued for Russell Brand over iPhone rage in New Orleans" FOXNews 8:08 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "BlackBerry 10 OS may be coming to the PlayBook... someday: RIM says it plans to make its first BlackBerry 10-based handset available towards the end of the year, with the PlayBook to get the software update after that." CNET News 12:52 PM
  • "UK researchers develop 'un-printing' laser tech: University of Cambridge researchers have developed a way to strip ink from paper that leaves the paper ready to be re-used, raising the possibility of 'un-printers' being developed." ZDNet UK 12:37 PM
  • "Pinterest addresses copyright concerns" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 12:00 PM
  • "Researchers Pit Robosquirrel Against Live Rattlesnake" Techland 11:56 AM
  • "$900 Nokia Lumia 800 Bundle Available Now At Amazon" TechCrunch 11:46 AM
  • "Diablo III Launching May 15, Blizzard Confirms" PC Magazine 11:27 AM
  • "Ultimatum issued for Yahoo boardroom shakeup" Associated Press [Free Registration Required] 10:49 AM
  • "Asustek, Inventec push into cloud computing business" DigiTimes 10:37 AM
  • "Anonymous distances itself from operating system bearing its name" V3 11:58 AM
  • "'Anonymous-OS' branded a hoax by suspicious hacktivists" Techworld 11:49 AM
  • "Judea Pearl, a big brain behind artificial intelligence, wins Turing Award: 'Nobel Prize in Computing' goes to UCLA professor whose AI work made quantum leap from Turing's own breakthrough" Network World 11:30 AM
  • "Exclusive: Kevin Rose Will Join Google" AllThingsD 12:43 PM
  • "Google touts improvements in removing 'bad ads' from platforms" V3 11:58 AM
  • "Google Adds Google Docs Integration to Google+ Hangouts" PCWorld 11:28 AM
  • "Google Talks Up Big Search Changes" Techland 11:56 AM
  • "Logitech Picks Whirlpool's Darrell as Chief Executive" Bloomberg 10:21 AM
  • "Nokia 'working on' tablet; expect Windows 8 support" ZDNet 12:05 PM
  • "The Strangest Things You Can Buy Online" TheStreet 9:37 AM
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