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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, June 29, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Minneapolis street test: Google gets a B+, Apple's Siri gets a D/1,600 questions: 800 in a quiet room, 800 in a noisy street"  Fortune 7:58 AM
  • "Apple's Siri Gets Below-Average Grade From Piper Jaffray" Bloomberg 10:46 AM
  • "Siri Shows Increasing Promise, But Accuracy Falls Short of Google Text Searches" MacRumors 10:50 AM
  • "Report: Tablets now drive more ecommerce traffic than smartphones" GigaOM 12:48 PM
  • "On the Big Screen: Surface Beats Retina" AllThingsD 2:18 PM
  • "21% of iOS users say they wouldn't leave Apple at any price" AppleInsider 3:15 PM
  • "Happy Birthday, iPhone! What's It Feel Like Being 5?" Wired 9:22 AM
  • "Apple's iPhone Marks 5 Years as Iconic Smartphone" ABCNews 9:25 AM
  • "The Apple iPhone, Five Years Later (Infographic)" AllThingsD 8:48 PM
  • "iPhone: The 5-Year-Old That Changed the World [Infographic] Mashable 8:36 AM
  • "Will Apple say 'uncle' in Madrid? Nearly 28,000 people have signed a petition asking Apple Inc. to return a much-loved but unofficial Madrid landmark, a massive Tio Pepe sherry advertisement, to its perch atop a historic hotel in the bustling central square Puerta del Sol upon completion of the edifice's renovation." MarketWatch 9:48 AM
  • "New Apple Stores Opening in US, Australia on Saturday" The Mac Observer 9:42 AM
  • "Virgin Mobile to carry iPhone from today, Sir Richard does his best Fonz impression" Engadget 9:07 AM
  • "Virgin Mobile starts selling Apple's iPhone 4, iPhone 4S" CNET News 1:32 PM
  • "The Phoenix Rises: Modbook Pro – Worlds Most Powerful and Largest-Screen Tablet Computer" MacPrices 12:47 PM
  • "Modbook, the Mac Tablet of Yore, Marches Back Into Action" MacNewsWorld 8:33 AM
  • "The Mac Modbook is back, watch out iPad: A pro version of the Modbook, a modified MacBook-Wacom tablet combo will hit the shops this autumn" Macworld UK 8:09 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Woman behind 'Centipede' recalls game icon's birth" Associated Press 7:18 PM
  • "Microsoft Bringing Fingerprint Detection to 'Surface' Tablets" Patent Bolt 12:47 PM
  • "Facebook Insider Tells All In 'The Boy Kings'" Daily Ticker 1:26 PM
  • "Gateway refreshes budget-priced SX, DX desktops for back-to-school shopping" ZDNet 1:11 PM
  • "How One Hacker Quit the Programming Life for Bluer Skies" Wired Magazine 1:07 PM
  • "Red Hat details next Linux and storage platforms for cloud, big data era" ZDNet 1:10 PM
  • "Nintendo hires digital content expert" TG Daily 12:51 PM
  • "Scientists develop spray-on battery" Reuters 12:12 PM
  • "French bid 'adieu' to Minitel, the France-Wide Web" Reuters 11:40 AM
  • "So what will you do with your extra second tomorrow night? Rare leap second to be added to atomic clocks on Saturday night" The Independent 11:26 AM
  • "Adobe says no Flash Player for Android 4.1, plans to withdraw app on Aug. 15" IDG News Service 10:46 AM
  • "AOL Reorganizes Into Membership, Brand And Ad Units [Incl Armstrong's Memo] TechCrunch 12:22 PM
  • "AOL reorganizes, creates three new groups" CNET News 10:00 AM
  • "AOL Promotes CFO Minson To COO To Reorganize Company" Bloomberg 10:30 AM
  • "RIM Explores Microsoft Alliance, Other Radical Moves" InformationWeek 1:35 PM
  • "RIM Apparently Not Interested In Switching To Windows Phone" Forbes 9:52 AM
  • "No shortage of requests from Android devs at Google team's 'fireside chat" Network World 11:53 AM
  • "Google Glasses Link Virtual, Real Worlds" Computerworld 11:49 AM
  • "GameStop pre-selling Nexus 7, offers discounts with trade-ins" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:36 AM
  • "Google makes small changes to Google+ but shows social skills elsewhere: The company rolled out incremental improvements to its social network platform while adding social elements to its other offerings" IDG News Service 11:51 AM
  • "Google+ minus Linus Torvalds: New Google+ Events feature sends the father of Linux packing" InfoWorld 11:23 AM
  • "Google Is Rolling Out Changes To Crack Down On Google+ Event Spam" TechCrunch 12:22 PM
  • "Google scrambles to fix Events after celebs yelp" GigaOM 9:32 AM
  • "Adobe Flash Is Dead -- on mobile!" BetaNews 10:15 AM
  • "Most Americans doubt safety of cloud storage" MacNews 9:42 AM
  • "Google's new Nexus 7 tablet apparently infringes Nokia's patents and faces other IP risks" Foss Patents 8:51 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Gene Steinberg meets Kirk McElhearn, the 'iTunes Guy,' Ross Rubin of the NPD Group, and Avram Piltch of Laptop magazine this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 7:16 PM
  • "TUAW and MacTech interview: VMware" TUAW 6:03 PM
  • "In-Depth: Graphisoft talks to Architosh about ArchiCAD 16" Architosh 12:47 PM
  • "Interview: Artist Growth for iOS helps manage your musical career" TUAW 8:45 AM