MacSurfer's Headline News
 
Home | Apple Stock | Tracked Sites | TechNN | | E-Mail | Sherlock Plugin
Login | Subscribe to MacSurfer's Headline News
Poll | Most Popular | Talking Heads | A Year Ago Today |

MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, August 5, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Woz: The cloud is a nightmare/Speaking after a performance of Mike Daisey's one-man Steve Jobs show, Steve Wozniak says he foresees nightmares caused by data stored in remote servers." CNET News 12:33 PM
  • "Apple co-founder Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud" The Straits Times [Free Registration Required] 7:57 AM
  • "Apple co-founder's grim warning about cloud" Melbourne Age 8:13 PM
  • "Apple co-founder Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud" AFP 8:18 PM
  • "Apple reportedly looking to acquire The Fancy social commerce site" iDownload Blog 7:52 AM
  • "Chip Makers Focus on Cheaper Phones: the low-end smartphone market in developing countries." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:19 PM
  • "Getting to the bottom of great tech rip-off: First world problem it may be, but Australians are being ripped off blind on their purchases of digital music, videos ebooks, computer games and IT hardware. And it's perfectly legal." Sydney Morning Herald 7:49 AM
  • "BBC's Olympics website breaks records of its own with 29 million video requests" The Verge 8:05 AM
  • "BBC Olympics app downloaded 1.5m times as mobile use booms" Crave @ CNET 7:49 AM
  • "Two Cats, Mice and an iPad Result in Digital Magic [Video] Yahoo! News 7:27 PM
  • "Apple Reportedly Interested in Acquiring 'The Fancy', a Pinterest Rival" MacRumors 8/4
  • "Shot from the air: A photo of the new face of Apple's iCloud" Fortune 8/4
  • "Sprint heavily discounts the iPhone 4S ahead of iPhone 5 launch" iDownload Blog 8/4
  • "Al Franken says AT&T shouldn't charge for FaceTime" The Verge 8/4
  • "eBay Smartphone Trade-Ins Spike After iPhone 5 Rumors" PC Magazine 8/4
  • "Apple's 'dirty' energy company Duke faces with a Greenpeace Blimp: Greenpeace flew a blimp over Apple's energy supplier Duke Energy's power plant in North Carolina" Macworld UK 8/4
Non-Apple News
  • "Asus Invents a Tablet Powered by the Brains of a Smartphone" Patent Bolt 12:22 PM
  • "Samsung Invents the Perfect Eyeball System for Hollywood" Patent Bolt 8/3
  • "Techies Break A Fashion Taboo" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8/3
  • "Adobe debuts its first open source type family" ZDNet 8/3
  • "Refugee from Facebook questions the social media life" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 8/3
  • "AT&T to shut down 2G network by 2017" MarketWatch 8/3
  • "Massive phishing scam hits AT&T customers" V3 8/3
  • "Mike Lynch claims cloud security fears unfounded" V3 8/3
  • "Meet Stompy, the 4,000-Pound Rideable Robotic Insect" Techland 8/3
  • "Researchers reveal radical RAID rethink" The Register 8/3
  • "ARM ramps up Mali T604 with OpenCL" TG Daily 8/3
  • "Archos teases G10 XS tablet" TG Daily 8/3
  • "Google Updates PageSpeed Service, Promises To 'Turbocharge Your Website'" TechCrunch 8/3
  • "Big-Budget Consoles Beware, the Ouya Is Coming in Strong" PCWorld 8/3
  • "New Logitech Webcam Puts Skype on TVs Without Need for a PC" IDG News Service 8/3
  • "Facebook looking at editing function for status updates" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 8/3
  • "Writing, drawing with eyes" EE Times 8/3
  • "Samsung Debuts Embedded Multimedia Memory for Smartphones, Tablets" eWeek 8/3
  • "HTC looks to China to drive growth" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 8/3
  • "Anti-Patent Troll bill to 'save high-tech innovators' hits House" BetaNews 8/3
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Gene Steinberg meets Paul Wagenseil, of Security News Daily, Jim Dalrymple of The Loop, and Adam Engst of TidBITS and Take Control Books, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 8/3
  • "Engadget Podcast 304 - 08.03.2012" ["15:05 - MacBook Pro review (13-inch, mid-2012); 46:13 - Apple reports 3 million Mountain Lion downloads in four days, 'most successful OS X release' 49:53 - Apple designer takes the witness stand in Samsung case, brings more iPhone / iPad prototypes along"] Engadget 8/3
  • "New iPhone in September? Mountain Lion after week 1, Hulu+ on Apple TV Plus More! (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 8/3