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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, May 28, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Live Coverage of Tim Cook's Interview Session at D10" MacRumors 8:27 PM
  • "3,000 people want to attend UK Apple show: The organizers of a UK based expo for Apple creative professionals claim that 3,000 people have already requested tickets for the event." Macworld UK 7:51 AM
  • "Amazon's iPhone: The most ill-fated idea since the Palm Pre? The last time someone tried to copy Apple by hiring its engineers didn't go so well" Fortune 8:02 AM
  • "Facebook ninjas scale wall, pluck iPhone techies from Apple's garden: Social network boosts hardware skills as Zuck mulls Facebook phone" The Register 11:11 AM
  • "Apple Beats Android in Europe Not in U.S." WSJ Blogs 8:01 AM
  • "Company Is Not-So-Secret About Apple Connection" ifoAppleStore 4:08 PM
  • "'Father of the iPod' Tony Fadell's Nest Thermostat to hit Apple Store soon: It's hot and sunny right now, but when the cold returns you might want to think about your heating" Macworld UK 7:49 AM
  • "Apple's Foxconn To Double Wages Again" Forbes 8:27 AM
  • "Foxconn to create workers' paradise? Report suggests 144 per cent pay rise on the way" The Register 11:17 AM
  • "Technicolor Dissects IPhones in Hunt for Patent Payoff" Bloomberg 7:06 PM
  • "Pixar's tribute to Steve Jobs: Disney's Pixar Animation Studios pays tribute to 'a mentor and a friend' in new movie, 'Brave'" Macworld UK 7:51 AM
  • "Sotheby's to auction rare working Apple-1 computer: Estimates that 36-year-old motherboard will fetch between $120,000 and $180,000 next month" Computerworld 10:39 AM
  • "Steve Jobs' Atari memo, Apple I to go under the hammer" The Register 10:42 AM
  • "Ahna O'Reilly to play the female lead opposite Ashton Kutcher in Jobs flick" TG Daily 11:07 AM
  • "How ESPN reporter covers NASCAR with an iPad" TUAW 10:42 AM
  • "These gadgets score with dads and grads" Boston Herald 8:06 AM
  • "Who Is This Fake iPhone Mini Air Conditioner Going To Fool?" Gizmodo 9:26 AM
  • "Facebook Tries, Tries Again on a Smartphone" ["The company has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad, the employees and those briefed on the plans said."] New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/27
  • "Facebook reportedly building phone with ex-Apple engineers" CNET News 5/27
  • "Report: Facebook bolsters efforts to build smartphone/Facebook has hired former Apple engineers, the New York Times says" IDG News Service 5/27
  • "Watch it, Apple: Facebook poaching iPad, iPhone engineers to build own phone" iDownload Blog 5/27
  • "A glimpse inside Foxconn's iPhone plant: A Chinese news site gets a rare tour of Foxconn's plant in Zhengshou, China, where iPhones are made: a treat for all factory nerds, let alone Apple fans." CNET News 5/27
Non-Apple News
  • "Facebook needs Opera - to rescue it from dependence on Apple: Fat lady barely starting a preliminary gargle, though" The Register 12:11 PM
  • "MIT researchers teach computers to recognize your smile, frustration" Engadget 10:42 AM
  • "What Fearmongers Get Wrong About Cyberwarfare: Cyberweapons aren't easy or cheap to procure—and they could even promote peace." Slate 8:06 AM