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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple to add iOS sync hubs to Genius Bars for iDevice replacements: Your local Apple Store Genius Bar is about to get a much needed upgrade -- a wireless data hub that will allow you to temporarily sync your data should you need an iDevice replacement." CNET Reviews 9:44 PM
  • "Survey of tablet users shows iPad on top, gives Microsoft hope: Tablets are no longer just for those Pavlovian types who have to have everything first, according to a new study. And yes, it found that iPad is almost everywhere, but Microsoft might just come out of nowhere." Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:26 AM
  • "Apple to Launch App Tools for Non-Geeks: If Apple lives up to its promise, you'll be able to build apps yourself--no coding required." Inc. 8:51 AM
  • "Greenpeace activists scale Apple offices in Ireland in protest over coal-powered datacenters" The Next Web 8:02 AM
  • "Secret Assembly Line Hidden in An Apartment in Shanghai For Refurbishing iPhones" M.I.C. Gadget 8:16 AM
  • "Google's Brin: 'I have much admiration' for Apple, Facebook/The Google co-founder said that his thoughts on Internet freedom were 'distorted' and a discussion on Facebook and Apple took away from his core beliefs." CNET News 8:15 AM
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook Makes Time's 100 Most Influential List" The Mac Observer 10:33 AM
  • "Al Gore on Tim Cook for TIME's '100 Most Influential' list" Fortune 10:32 AM
  • "Al Gore hearts Tim Cook in writeup for Time's '100 Most Influential' roster" CNET News 12:13 PM
  • "The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes: A treasure trove of unearthed interviews, conducted by the writer who knew him best, reveals how Jobs's ultimate success at Apple can be traced directly to his so-called wilderness years."  Fast Company 10:40 AM
  • "Steve Jobs' wilderness years: The Brent Schlender tapes/The reporter who knew Jobs best discovers a trove of forgotten interviews" Fortune 7:44 AM
  • "Steve Jobs talks Beatles, Pixar in lost tapes" CBS News 10:33 AM
  • "Did Ikea just beat Apple to the all-in-one television?" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:26 AM
  • "Apple's Jony Ive Nominated for British Visionary Innovator Award" The Mac Observer 7:52 AM
  • "Sharing the spotlight: Apple's long love affair with Hollywood" Digital Trends 8:12 AM
  • "Chart of the day: The Apple Store trounces Tiffany's" Fortune 8:07 AM
  • "New iPhone 4S Commercials Feature Samuel L Jackson and Zooey Deschanel" OS X Daily 8:22 AM
  • "An Apple fanboy's dream? New fragrance reproduces the smell of a MacBook Pro unboxing" Digital Trends 8:12 AM
  • "Artists bottle the scent of a freshly unwrapped Apple laptop" NewsCore 7:57 AM
  • "Where's a Yellowstone bear? Look on your phone" ["New smartphone apps enable people to pinpoint where they've recently seen critters in Yellowstone. ... One app called Where's a Bear promises 'up to the second' animal sightings in Yellowstone. Recently a website called Yellowstone Wildlife began offering a similar app."] Associated Press [Free Registration Required] 8:29 AM
  • "Woz-Advised yap.TV Chats About Its TV-Mobile Sync Strategy" Forbes 10:30 AM
  • "Steve Jobs Tribute Design Lands 20-Year-Old Deal With Coca-Cola" App Advice 10:38 AM
  • "With Help From Facebook Timeline, Viddy Becomes Top Free iPhone App" TechCrunch 9:58 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "Samsung debuts Galaxy Xcover rugged smartphone" TG Daily 12:03 PM
  • "Check Point offers ThreatCloud system for sharing security alerts" Techworld 11:58 AM
  • "Adobe Plans Monday Launch Event for CS6, Creative Cloud" PC Magazine 11:30 AM
  • "It's Official: AT&T To Launch $199 HTC One X On May 6" TechCrunch 11:57 AM
  • "New Julia language seeks to be the C for scientists: Developers seek to provide one dynamic language for high productivity, performance" InfoWorld 11:04 AM
  • "Tech Leaders See Smartphones Replacing Credit Cards, Cash" E-Commerce Times 10:38 AM
  • "Yahoo to axe 'non-core' products in turnaround plan: Yahoo's chief executive has confirmed plans to shut down dozens of products that are not seen as core to the firm." BBC 10:24 AM
  • "Google updates Chrome for Android: More languages, no flash, still in beta" The Register 12:08 PM
  • "Google shares lessons learned as early software-defined network adopter" Network World 11:38 AM
  • "Google Earth Adds Balloon, Kite Imagery" PCWorld 11:34 AM
  • "Gmail outage much broader than originally reported: Google initially underestimated the number of affected users, which likely topped 30 million" IDG News Service 11:04 AM
  • "Google boss clarifies open web remarks and praises Apple and Facebook" V3 12:12 PM
  • "Ice Cream Sandwich flavoring Acer A100, A500 next week" CNET News 10:13 AM
  • "AT&T Boosts Data Levels in Prepaid Service" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:46 AM
  • "ASML upbeat despite fall in profits" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:46 AM
  • "RIM seeking to shore up market share" MarketWatch 12:43 PM
  • "RIM Launches in India Low-cost Phone for Emerging Markets" IDG News Service 11:34 AM
  • "Homeland Security can now tap into your Xbox Live account" TG Daily 10:39 AM
  • "Spotify announces 1.5B Facebook shares, 50B people reached and 1500 years spent in apps" The Next Web 9:00 AM
  • "Rumor: Google to keep Motorola and try to copy Apple's forumla for success" IntoMobile 7:44 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "TUAW TV Live at 5 PM ET: The iOS photography episode" TUAW 12:14 PM
  • "Q&A With Bill Amend, Creator Of FoxTrot (And Certified Geek)" TechCrunch 10:36 AM