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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, June 17, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Emulator hack brings classic Macintosh OS to Nook Simple Touch" The Verge 9:29 AM
  • "Apple I fetches $374.5K at Sotheby's auction, Steve Jobs Atari note goes for $27.5k" Engadget 8:59 AM
  • "Australian Olympian's Mac fixed, secret sex pics leaked" FairerPlatform 6/16
  • "Cupertino officials release new details of Apple's ring-shaped campus" Silicon Valley 6/15
  • "IBM Overcomes Apple Secrecy to Stream US Open" Wired Magazine 6/15
  • "Update on Android growth" asymco 6/15
  • "Apple's iOS 6 works with national alerting program: Apple's recently unveiled mobile operating system will get government alerts during an emergency." CNET News 6/15
  • "Time Catches Up With Apple's Newsstand" MacNewsWorld 6/15
  • "Apple's iAd Diaspora: Former Senior Mgr Mike Owen Now CRO At AdColony" TechCrunch 6/15
  • "Learning From iAd: Ex-Apple Exec Follows Video Growth To AdColony Gig" MobileMarketingDaily 6/15
  • "Siri 'could allow' phishing scams and security breaches: F-Secure says Siri is unsuitable for business use as it is to big a security risk" Macworld UK 6/15
  • "iPhone denies existence of Gibraltar, other bits of British empire" The Register 6/15
  • "Yelp Joins Bing Search Engine And Apple Maps - Ignore At Your Own Risk" Forbes 6/15
  • "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak with an Apple II GS - In pictures: A history of Apple computers" Telegraph 6/15
  • "Steve Jobs memo and Apple I motherboard sold for $400,000 at auction" The Verge 6/15
  • "Steve Jobs' Atari memo sells for $27,500" CNET News 6/15
  • "Apple 1 computer and Steve Jobs Atari memo sold at auction: A rare functioning Apple 1 computer - the company's first product - has been sold at an auction for $374,500 (£240,929)." BBC 6/15
  • "Original Apple 1 computer motherboard sells for $374,500 at Sotheby's" CBS News 6/15
  • "Rare Apple 1 computer to be auctioned for $180k" Telegraph 6/15
  • "Apple Requiring Censorship Of Personals Section In All Craigslist Apps" App Advice 6/15
  • "What Steve Jobs told Barack Obama's campaign manager" Fortune 6/15
  • "Steve Jobs helped hatch Obama's mobile campaign for reelection" AppleInsider 6/15
  • "Jobs not shy with advice for Obama campaign" Tapscape 6/15
  • "Apple's Siri Has Lost A Few Brain Cells: Woz" Forbes 6/15
  • "Siri fell short as soon as Apple bought it, says Wozniak" Crave @ CNET 6/15
  • "Sick Of Marimba? This Remix Is So Good It Could Be Used In An Apple Commercial" Cult of Mac 6/15
Non-Apple News
  • "API glitch may explain fast-draining phone batteries" TG Daily 6/15
  • "Canonical announces Ubuntu Apps Showdown for Linux developers: Developers will have from 18 June until 9 July 2012 to create an app using Canonical's Quickly development tool" Network World 6/15
  • "Dropbox Will Soon Be Done With Public Folders, But Existing Users Get To Keep Them" TechCrunch 6/15
  • "InfoSpace's search business benefits from smartphone boom: InfoSpace changes name to Blucora, adds online tax-prep business." Seattle Times 6/15
  • "Verizon's new Share Everything plan has some customers worried, others excited" St. Paul Pioneer Press [Free Registration Required] 6/15
  • "Google Play with over 500,000 apps rolls out on the Kobo Vox" ZDNet 6/15
  • "PopCap, Wooga Drop Games From Google+" PC Magazine 6/15
  • "Sage names Brydon as non-exec chairman" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 6/15
  • "Amazon To Cut $50 Off The Fire, Release A 10.1-inch Model And New $199 7-inch, Says Report" TechCrunch 6/15
  • "Amazon reportedly may drop 7-inch Kindle Fire price to welcome new models" DigiTimes 6/15
  • "Vizio officially launches first desktops, laptops, starting at $899.99" ZDNet 6/15
  • "Vizio shows off new laptops, desktops" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 6/15
  • "Facebook boosts security efforts, ask users to confirm cell numbers" CBS News 6/15
  • "RIM shares drop after minor board shuffle" Reuters 6/15
  • "Gadget screen as speaker, too? Motorola wants to make it so: The company is trying to secure a patent that would basically allow a mobile device's screen to double as a speaker or 'acoustic apparatus.'" CNET News 6/15
  • "This Russian mogul wants to be the Elon Musk of robots" GigaOM 6/15
  • "Parts of Amazon Web Services suffer an outage" GigaOM 6/15
  • "Wireless contracts decline: Prepaid services rise" BGR 6/15
  • "FCC planning to review cell phone radiation emissions for the first time since 1996" The Verge 6/15
  • "Another iPad killer? Microsoft set to launch tablet next week, report says" Digital Trends 6/15
  • "Microsoft Is Doing Its Own Tablet. How Do You Like Them Apples?" AllThingsD 6/15
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm ET: Wrap up edition!" TUAW 8:40 PM
  • "eXtensions Podcast #2012 1" eXtensions 7:06 AM
  • "The TouchArcade Show - 56 - WWDC Exhausted Edition" Touch Arcade 6/15
  • "WWDC: FadingRed Finds Opportunity in Bad Backup Habits" The Mac Observer 6/15
  • "Gene Steinberg meets Kirk McElhearn, the 'iTunes Guy,' Avram Piltch of Laptop magazine, and John Martellaro of The Mac Observer this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 6/15
  • "Iterate 23: WWDC 2012 round table" iMore 6/15
  • "CNET UK Podcast 292: iOS 6 vs Android ICS" Crave @ CNET 6/15