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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, July 8, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Patent 'Troll' Tactics Spread: Technology companies used to condemn what critics call 'patent trolls,' ventures that profit from innovations they themselves often had no hand in creating. Now, some of those companies are taking pages from the trolls' playbooks." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:04 PM
  • "Apple Cracking Down on Sites Selling Access to iOS 6 Developer Betas" MacRumors 9:35 PM
  • "iPhone, Android app steals users' contacts for text-messaging spam, report says" Contra Costa Times 8:23 AM
  • "iPhone 5, iPad Mini Release Date, And iPad '4': This Week In Apple Rumors" The Huffington Post 7:45 AM
  • "Impermanent Data Apps, The Newest Weapons In The War For Messaging" TechCrunch 6:57 PM
  • "Tablet + Comics = BAM! For new readers and old fans alike, there's never been a better way to get your graphic novel fix" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12:14 PM
  • "Samsung to smash iPhone 5 Aug launch with Galaxy Note 2: Report" Emirates 24|7 8:23 AM
  • "Steve Jobs on programming, craftsmanship, software, and the Web: We highlight some notable quotes from Steve Jobs in 'The Lost Interview.'" Ars Technica 7/7
  • "Get in line: one Apple store per 216 million Chinese" Reuters 7/7
  • "More Apple Stores Needed In China" redOrbit 7/7
  • "Apple is taking it slow on mobile payments but carriers are likely the biggest roadblock" 9 to 5 Mac 7/7
  • "nTelos starts selling iPhone without contract, Apple's prepaid sphere grows a little larger" Engadget 7/7
  • "Hotel replaces obsolete guestroom phones with the iPhone" Digital Trends 7/7
  • "Hotel replacing guest phones with iPhones: Vancouver hotel hopes guests will appreciate making calls with no roaming fees on hotel-proVided iPhones instead of those things called landlines." CNET News 7/6
  • "Marco Arment: The Hero of Apple's Appageddon/You'd think the company would thank the man who warned them of the problem" Fortune 7/6
  • "One on One: Ken Segall, the Man Who Put the 'i' in iMac" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/6
  • "Ting MVNO hopes to offer iPhone: Company warns of roadblocks to selling Apple's iconic smartphone" FierceWireless 7/6
  • "Apple Announces Live Online Q&A Seminars For 'iPad In Business" AppleBitch 7/6
  • "Apple popularity boosts Objective-C language ahead of C++: Objective-C language, used for building iPad and iPhone apps, takies third place in dev language charts" InfoWorld 7/6
  • "Apple popularity boosts Objective-C language past C++" Macworld UK 7/6
  • "Objective-C Overtakes C++ in Programming Language Popularity" eWeek 7/6
  • "Apple's Steve Jobs inspired by France Telecom's pre-Internet device: Apparently he bought the 1982 networked device and took it apart to see how it worked" Macworld UK 7/6
  • "Renovation happening at 'wrong' Steve Jobs house: The builders are at Jobs' Palo Alto home, but what of the Woodside Jackling house"  Macworld UK 7/6
  • "Apple's Language Lapse Irks Hong Kong iTunes Users" TechNewsWorld 7/6
  • "Why the iPhone matters: 8 questions for Horace Dediu" Network World 7/6
  • "NatWest seeks volunteers to bonk with their iPhones: Hurry, only 1,000 NFC payment cases up for grabs" The Register 7/6
  • "Apple Store Now Offering Vintage Flag iPhone Cases" AppleBitch 7/6
  • "Outrage as app teaches 12-year-old girls to pole dance" DNA 7/6
  • "Oldsmar City Council votes to go paperless with iPads" Tampa Bay Times 7/6
  • "Chinese iPad Game Depicts Slaughter of Stereotypical Japanese" Wired 7/6
  • "Rifle wielding men rob van carrying Apple gear in France - report" AppleInsider 7/6
  • "Men armed with assault rifles robs truck loaded with Apple products" UberGizmo 7/6
Non-Apple News
  • "Amazon Planning Smartphone to Rival Apple iPhone: Report" eWeek 7/7
  • "Technology Patent Nonsense: Amazon Seeks Patent Bundle To Release Phone/An interesting little example of how the whole field of technology patents has become entirely Fubar'd. Amazon is thinking of releasing a smartphone to compete with Apple, Google's Android, the new Windows phone and all the rest. Before it does so it is seeking to buy a bundle of patents." Forbes 7/7
  • "Amazon to launch at least three new Kindle Fire models this fall, Report says" AppleInsider 7/6
  • "UN Standards Body to Host Patent Litigation Round Table" The Mac Observer 7/6
  • "Bill Gates: Steve Jobs' work was 'phenomenal' but Apple may need Surface-like device" Macworld UK 7/6
  • "Amazon Said To Plan Smartphone To Vie With Apple IPhone" Bloomberg 7/6
  • "Amazon rumoured to be working with iPhone maker Foxconn on own smartphone" Pocket-lint 7/6
  • "Amazon may be building a smartphone to take on the iPhone" Tech2 7/6
  • "Amazon joins Apple, Google in maps war - report" Macworld UK 7/6
  • "Archos 97 Carbon Android tablet unveiled as Nexus 7 rival" T3 7/6
  • "Samsung Galaxy Note II rumored to get even bigger with 5.5' display" AppleInsider 7/6
  • "Samsung estimates record $5.9 billion profit for Q2 2012" BGR 7/6
  • "New AT&T system will allow users to block stolen devices from use" AppleInsider 7/6
  • "AT&T Unveiling New Blocking Service for Stolen Phones Next Week" MacRumors 7/6
  • "AT&T brings Toggle to iOS – outlines plan to serve the mobile enterprise" 451 Research 7/6
  • "Best Buy turning 60 of its locations into Apple Store copycats" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 7/6
  • "Best Buy Reveals a Slimmer Apple-like Store and More Staff Cuts" Forbes 7/6
  • "Facebook to Track App Usage to Target Ads" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7/6
  • "Time Warner Cable expands broadband data caps" TG Daily 7/6
  • "Now your car can report you for cellphone driving" TG Daily 7/6
  • "Best Buy laying off 600 from Geek Squad" Dow Jones Newswires [Free Registration Required] 7/6
  • "MIT researchers chart a new approach for mobile Internet protocols: Mosh replaces aging SSH with a mobile-friendly app and protocol" Network World 7/6
  • "From Tech to Toilet Paper, Berliner Tries to Live Completely Open Source for One Year" IDG News Service 7/6
  • "The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub/After five years, the open source community is revisiting compromises in GPLv3 -- and using a new medium for the discussion" InfoWorld 7/6
  • "Exclusive: Yahoo and Facebook Strike Patent Peace Deal, Significantly Expanding Ad and Content Partnership" AllThingsD 7/6
  • "Hulu CEO declines to be considered for Yahoo post" MarketWatch 7/6
  • "Inside Yahoo, word is that Levinsohn's the one" CNET News 7/6
  • "BlackBerry 10 Is 'Fantastic,' RIM to Emerge 'Stronger,' Says Executive" eWeek 7/6
  • "Chip executives' conference relocates to Bratislava" EE Times 7/6
  • "Flexible displays to be developed by Taiwan panel manufacturers" DigiTimes 7/6
  • "Amazon prepping a smartphone and four tablets" Computerworld 7/6
  • "Robot eye moves like the real thing" TG Daily 7/6
  • "New robotic legs accurately mimic human walking" CBS News 7/6
  • "Bumpy road as hi-tech in cars amazes, perplexes" CBS News 7/6
  • "Seagate Fourth-Quarter Sales, Gross Margin Miss Forecasts" Bloomberg 7/6
  • "LibreOffice for Android Is in the Works" PCWorld 7/6
  • "Google launches Android indoor maps application: Submit your floor plans now, says Google" Computerworld UK 7/6
  • "Google lashes out at Microsoft's Android botnet allegations" V3 7/6
  • "Google disputes Android botnet spam claim" BBC 7/6
  • "Twitter to unveil major 'search and discovery' update today" CNET News 7/6
  • "Samsung eyes success in other galaxies" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7/6
  • "HTC profit lags forecasts, faces challenges in third quarter" Reuters 7/6
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm ET: Heat wave edition!" TUAW 7:00 PM
  • "eXtensions Podcast #2012 4: The Bangkok-based eXtensions podcast based on the week's Cassandra columns and whatever else I throw in." eXtensions 7/7
  • "Gene Steinberg meets Bob 'Dr. Mac' LeVitus, Ted Landau, and Macworld Lab Director Jim Galbraith this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 7/6
  • "Facebook, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple: The Joke's On You/Consider these alternative viewpoints on the IT world's top news stories, straight from InformationWeek's Valley View Web show." InformationWeek 7/6