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MacSurfer's Archive: Thursday, August 16, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple Retail Leadership Tells Stores It 'Messed Up' Employee Working Hours, Refutes Layoffs"  Nasdaq 1:00 PM
  • "Apple Retail Chief Admits Staffing Mistake" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1:01 PM
  • "Browett: Apple Retail Layoffs Due to 'Mess Up,' Will Be Fixed" The Mac Observer 1:00 PM
  • "New Apple retail chief makes 'mistake' in firing staff, hires them back" Ars Technica 3:58 PM
  • "Store Personnel Cuts Linked to Profit Goal"  ifoAppleStore 8:28 AM
  • "Here's Why Apple Is Suddenly Laying Off Employees From Its Retail Stores" Business Insider 8:29 AM
  • "Apple: We Are Not Cutting Back On Our Retail Employees" Business Insider 10:25 AM
  • "Apple Employees Are Being Sacked Just In Time For The New iPhone Launch" App Advice 12:30 PM
  • "How The iPad Is Transforming The Classroom [Back To School]"  Cult of Mac 3:57 PM
  • "Apple files plans for Oregon data center" TUAW 9:19 PM
  • "Intel, Apple praised for clean mineral efforts: Group praises Intel, Apple for efforts on conflict minerals; Nintendo gets no points"  Associated Press 3:47 PM
  • "iOS and Android are stomping on Sony and Nintendo's portable game businesses" BGR 9:36 PM
  • "IPhones Become Mobile Casinos By Adding Real-Money Bets: IPhone users will soon be able to gamble with real money on virtual slot machines, trying their luck with the swipe of an index finger." Bloomberg 10:22 AM
  • "Blodget's Take on Wal-Mart & Apple" CNBC 8:02 AM
  • "Better Care Delivered by iPad, M.D.: In hospitals, tablets save serious time — and let patients see their health in high res" Healthland 10:24 AM
  • "How to Carry Your Doctor in Your Pocket" Techland 8:19 AM
  • "Steve Jobs' stolen iPad unwittingly used by local clown after burglary" Bay Area news Group [Free Registration Required] 9:36 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "Twitter dictates third-party app form and function in new API, gives six months to comply" The Verge 8:16 PM
  • "Kodak Auction Makes Odd Bedfellows" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:39 PM
  • "Google's 'Speak to Tweet' Patent Comes to Light" Patent Bolt 2:17 PM
  • "Cray to plug Kepler GPUs into future Cascade supers" The Register 11:18 AM
  • "Nokia EVP Chris Weber: Hey Samsung, Look Out For Our New Windows Phones" TechCrunch 11:12 AM
  • "TiVo Announces Four-Tuner TiVo Premiere 4" PC Magazine 10:53 AM
  • "Fujitsu's Android-Powered Stylistic M532 Tablet Is Ready for Abuse" PC Magazine 10:53 AM
  • "EA Exec Says He's Seen the Next Xbox and Playstation" Forbes 10:33 AM
  • "1 Million Public Transit Stops Now on Google Maps for Android" PC Magazine 10:53 AM
  • "Purported Google Play gift cards surface, good for music, movies" CNET News 11:39 AM
  • "Google's Dremel Makes Big Data Look Small" Wired Magazine 11:24 AM
  • "A Big-Think Talk With Eric Schmidt and Dick Costolo" TechCrunch 11:12 AM
  • "Google Boosts Bug Bounties as Fewer Chrome Flaws Found" eWeek 10:28 AM
  • "Dish reportedly readying nationwide satellite broadband: Satellite TV provider will utilize a satellite recently launched by sister company EchoStar for a service launching this fall, sources tell Bloomberg." CNET News 10:03 AM
  • "In the War Between Apps vs. HTML5, Goko Tries to Make Cross-Platform Gaming Work" AllThingsD 9:43 AM
  • "Out of nowhere, Sony debuts new Reader" TG Daily 11:15 AM
  • "New Sony Reader Gets Social" AllThingsD 9:43 AM
  • "Japan's Dimwitted Smartphones: Electronics Makers Sony and Sharp Play Catch-Up to Apple's iPhone; 'The Golden Age of TV is Over'" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:38 AM
  • "Creator Of BlindType, A Keyboard App For The Blind Acquired By Google, Reveals New Keyboard App Called Fleksy" TechCrunch 10:37 AM
  • "Spotify and Pandora to help digital music overtake physical in 2012" Ars Technica 8:24 AM
  • "Korean breakthrough points to quick-charge Li-ion batteries" Electronista 8:16 AM
  • "Verizon LTE Network Now Covers 75% of U.S., Ready for LTE iPhone" The Mac Observer 7:51 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Ted Landau Gives Up His MacBook Air, Doesn't Trade His TV, andLooks at Safari and RSS" MacNotables 11:51 AM
  • "iPad mini, fake rumors, Google security, online backups (Podcast)" Insanely Great Mac 10:32 AM