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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, May 7, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple HDTV rumor roundup: Talk of an Apple TV set dates back to 2009, but recent months have provided an avalanche of rumors. CNET's gathered them all in one convenient location." CNET News 8:20 AM
  • "Apple wants iphone5.com domain handed over: Files claim with U.N. arbitration agency to take control of URL" Computerworld 8:21 AM
  • "Apple Goes After iPhone5.com Domain" PC Magazine 10:13 AM
  • "Angry Birds Maker Rovio Makes $106M for 2011, Considers IPO" The Mac Observer 5:38 PM
  • "Gesture Control System Uses Sound Alone: SoundWave lets an ordinary laptop function like a Kinect sensor." Technology Review 8:23 AM
  • "Nielsen: In the U.S., white men carry the dumbest phones/Among ethnic groups, Asian Americans are the most likely to pack a smartphone" ["Google's Android was the most popular smartphone operating system (48.5%), while Apple was the No. 1 manufacturer (32%)."] Fortune 10:16 AM
  • "Android reclaims 61 percent of all U.S. smartphone sales: Grabbing ground lost during the holiday quarter, Android now holds almost two-thirds of the U.S. market, says NPD Group." CNET News 1:53 PM
  • "Poll shows that over 50% of customers are interested in an iPad mini" UberGizmo 8:17 AM
  • "SickKids' iPhone app, Pain Squad, helps children with cancer report their pain" Toronto Star 8:25 AM
  • "App designed to help parents find missing children" ["When a 14-year-old boy from Atlanta, Georgia disappeared earlier this year, his mother turned to her smartphone for clues using an app called Family Tracker that helped track his location."] Reuters 10:11 AM
  • "AT&T announces home automation service with iPhone and iPad remote control apps" iMore 10:18 AM
  • "Apple Is Sued For Unauthorised iPhone Data Collection" ITProPortal 10:35 AM
  • "Warner Brothers Starts Selling 1080p Movies on iTunes" PadGadget 8:43 AM
  • "Apple Upgrades Warner Bros. iTunes Movies to 1080p" The Mac Observer 8:45 AM
  • "Apple to Update One to One Program Later This Month" PadGadget 8:43 AM
  • "Kiwibank app fights 'soulless' banking" ["Due to be released this week, the bank's iPhone app has the unique feature, when it comes to mobile banking, of assigning customers their own online relationship manager to help deal with any queries via text or email."] Fairfax NZ News 12:24 PM
  • "Amtrak to use Apple's iPhone as ticket scanner" CNET Reviews 4:13 PM
  • "Amtrak getting onboard with iPhone tickets" FairerPlatform 9:30 AM
  • "Amtrak conductors to 'punch your ticket' using iPhones" TUAW 2:17 PM
  • "Oracle-Google jury deliberations placed on temporary hold" ZDNet 12:47 PM
  • "In Oracle v. Google, Judge Holds Fate of Java APIs" Wired Magazine 12:43 PM
  • "Possible verdict looms in Oracle-Google trial: Jury returns to deliberations in trial on Oracle's copyright claims against Google's Android" Associated Press 10:00 AM
  • "Will the Oracle-Google Jury Decide Today? Maybe. Maybe Not." AllThingsD 1:03 PM
  • "Could an Oracle Win Against Google Blow Up the Cloud?" Wired Magazine 12:44 PM
  • "Microsoft Counters Motorola Mobility's $4 Billion Demand" Bloomberg 10:00 AM
  • "On piracy, it's Microsoft vs. Everyone" Fortune 9:59 AM
  • "Windows 8 contacts cache exposes personal data" InfoWorld 10:54 AM
  • "Official: Microsoft announces $99 Xbox 360 with two-year contract" ZDNet 12:47 PM
  • "Microsoft announces $99 Xbox 360" Forbes 1:12 PM
  • "Microsoft tries a new tack with $99 Xbox" ZDNet 12:47 PM
  • "Lenovo Reaches Beyond PCs: Chinese Firm to Invest $800 Million in New Facility Focused on Mobile Devices" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:37 AM
  • "Lenovo Spending $800 Million to Boost Smartphones, Tablets" PC Magazine 11:16 AM
  • "Lenovo building plants to make tablets, smartphones: Chinese PC maker is ramping up efforts to compete in the mobile devices market" IDG News Service 10:31 AM
  • "IBM Rounds Out Its Linux Offerings With Power Linux" ZDNet 12:48 PM
  • "Dell Delivers Desktop-as-a-Service: Dell partners with Desktone to become a direct supplier of virtual desktops. Here's how this twist on desktop virtualization differs from Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View." InformationWeek 10:13 AM
  • "Intel Boosts Dividend 7.1 Percent on Smartphone Growth" Bloomberg 9:57 AM
  • "Intel Boosts Its Quarterly Dividend by 7.1%" CNBC 9:56 AM
  • "Intel Ups Dividend a Third Time in 18 Months" Barron's 9:51 AM
  • "AMD to bump Radeon 7970 HD to 1 GHz" TG Daily 12:32 PM
  • "AMD rumored to be preparing Radeon HD 7970 'GHz Edition'" ZDNet 12:48 PM
  • "Cisco may post modest profit, sales gains: Networking business seen stabilizing; gains in data center market" MarketWatch 1:04 PM
  • "You Are Not an IP Address, Rules Judge" Techland 12:35 PM
  • "PHP working on new patch for critical vulnerability after initial one failed: Upcoming PHP updates will address two known remote code execution vulnerabilities" IDG News Service 10:55 AM
  • "Magnetic bacteria may be building future bio-computers" BBC 10:21 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Google+ gets a killer app" BetaNews 11:10 AM
  • "New Apps for the Bottom Billion: Low-tech phone technology allows images to be sent as bitmaps in text messages, opening up applications for the world's poorest." Technology Review 8:23 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Mac Geek Gab Podcast: MGG 396: Two Mac Geeks with Your Mac Fix(es)" The Mac Observer 4:07 PM
  • "Cloud Storage Options, Benefits and Compromises, and ProductsThat Don't Exist Yet" The MacJury 3:23 PM
  • "5 questions with the creator of the first iPad-made iOS game" GigaOM 8:30 AM