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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, October 30, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple Accepting High-Resolution Music for iTunes, Says Sound Engineer" Cult of Mac 8:31 PM
  • "Mark Cuban: Apple TV Is a Pipe Dream And why the HDNet founder thinks that may be a good thing" AdWeek 2:50 PM
  • "Mark Cuban: An Apple box designed for TV would be game-changer/The famed investor cautions that Apple won't even consider going after cable companies by making deals with programmers." CNET News 8:30 AM
  • "Mark Cuban: Apple Is Not Out To Kill Cable Companies" Business Insider 10:59 AM
  • "Media Tycoon Mark Cuban Thinks Apple TV Deal With Cable Companies Would Be 'Game Over' Move" Cult of Mac 5:26 PM
  • "Kantar: Apple iPhone 5 Slows Android's Growth In U.S., U.K. — But Android Continues To Expand Marketshare Across Europe, To 67.1%" TechCrunch 8:33 AM
  • "iOS growth outpaces Android in U.S., but not elsewhere" CNET News 10:17 AM
  • "Apple forecast to sell 102m iPads, 194m iPhones in 2013: analyst" ZDNet 7:49 AM
  • "How The Top 100 Brands Perform In The Apple App Store" TechCrunch 11:19 AM
  • "Strategy Analytics: Apple iPhone Owner Loyalty Declines/iPhone Repeat Purchase Intention Drops 13 points in Western Europe" Business Wire 9:46 AM
  • "iPhone users get less loyal" CNET News 4:07 PM
  • "Palo Alto Apple Store opens, Shenzhen store nearly ready" TUAW 9:27 AM
  • "iPad Mini 'banned' ad zooms to YouTube popularity: With tongue in cheek, the spoof video borrows Apple's visual style and tone, and reminds us why the 'iPad Mini is the future...until May, at least.'" CNET News 8:07 AM
  • "Apple Alumni: Where Are They Now?" [Slideshow] Forbes 2:18 PM
  • "'Apple U-turn' on Siri prostitute advice in China" BBC 12:04 PM
  • "Apple turns off Siri's potty mouth" The Register 7:58 AM
  • "New Windows Phone ad: It's not for everybody (like Apple)/Microsoft's relentless push behind, well, everything, continues with a new ad for Windows Phone. The idea is that it's built exclusively just for you. There's even a version with Steve Ballmer." CNET News 8:01 AM
  • "Leap Motion nabs second Apple alum in Michael Zagorsek for marketing, dev relations and app store" The Next Web 8:14 AM
  • "Family sues Foxconn in brain-damaged worker compensation case" The Register 11:00 AM
  • "Philips Hue smart LED bulbs now available exclusively on the US Apple Store for $199.95" The Next Web 8:14 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Microsoft Says Apps Coming to Windows, Consumers Upgrade" Bloomberg 4:23 PM
  • "ARM unveils 64-bit designs for future smartphones, servers" Reuters 11:42 AM
  • "Livescribe touts Sky WiFi smartpen: The device is aptly dubbed the Sky Wi-Fi smartpen and claims to be the first to integrate WiFi technology and cloud services." TG Daily 11:23 AM
  • "Founding Father featured in popular new video game" Associated Press 11:05 AM
  • "B&N Nook HD Tablets Shipping This Week" PC Magazine 10:53 AM
  • "Google's Gmail Launches New Compose Email View And Reply Experience That Will Save You Time" TechCrunch 11:16 AM
  • "Google Adds Power Outage Info to Hurricane Sandy Map" PC Magazine 10:53 AM
  • "UK's First 4G Network, 4GEE, Goes Lives In 11 Cities; 700 Orange, T-Mobile Stores Rebranded; 10,000 Staff Trained To Sell 4G" TechCrunch 11:18 AM
  • "Amazon upgrades Storage Gateway, moves out of beta" IDG News Service 10:37 AM
  • "Zend CEO: PHP is fit for the enterprise/In a Q&A, the prominent developer Andi Gutmans also defends language against criticisms over security" InfoWorld 10:37 AM
  • "Former Cisco exec Charlie Giancarlo takes startup ItsOn out of stealth mode" Silicon Valley 10:23 AM
  • "Chinese factory giant employed underage interns on assembly line: A Chinese vocational school sends five 15-year-old boys to assemble Sony PlayStations at a Foxconn manufacturing plant. The legal age to do such work is 16." Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:14 AM
  • "'Badass' bug kills off Borderlands 2 characters: A bug that works like a disease in humans is permanently killing off characters in the Borderlands 2 video game." BBC 10:06 AM
  • "Google Unveils Universal Analytics: Looking beyond the Web, Universal Analytics offers companies a way to measure data from marketing campaigns, sales calls and other sources." InformationWeek 10:01 AM
  • "Tablet makers obsess over every last pixel" CNET News 9:56 AM
  • "SAP Loses Sybase's Chen After Gaining Blueprint for Deals" Bloomberg 9:51 AM
  • "Nokia says shipping new Lumia smartphones this week" Reuters 9:50 AM
  • "Sandy knocks out HuffPo, BuzzFeed and Gawker" CNNMoney 9:30 AM
  • "Gotcha! Google Play Catches Up With The App Store As It Reaches 700,000 Apps" Cult of Android 10:35 AM
  • "Google Unveils Mobile Devices to Step Up Apple Challenge" Bloomberg 10:18 AM
  • "YouTube is down for some as users report unreliable service for several hours" The Next Web 9:44 AM
  • "Websites knocked offline by super-storm Sandy" BBC 9:05 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Iterate 32: The future of Apple design" iMore 8:54 AM
  • "What is skeuomorphic and why will you be hearing more about it since Scott Forstall has departed from Apple." The MT Show 7:39 AM