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MacSurfer's Archive: Thursday, November 8, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "AT&T Expands FaceTime over Cellular Availability: Video Calling Feature To Be Made Available To LTE Customers on Tiered Data Plans & Deaf and Hard of Hearing Customers With Qualifying Plans"  PRNewswire 2:08 PM
  • "AT&T to allow all LTE iPhone 5 customers to use FaceTime on any tiered data plan, 3G devices still out of luck"  The Next Web 2:08 PM
  • "AT&T Drops FaceTime Shared Data Plan Requirement for iPhone 5" PC Magazine 7:09 PM
  • "AT&T Reverses: You Can Use iPhone 5 FaceTime Without Wi-Fi" Gizmodo 2:08 PM
  • "The Latest Long Apple Line: Developers Waiting for App Approval" AllThingsD 5:13 PM
  • "iPad is king of mobile web traffic, plus more intriguing data from OnSwipe" VentureBeat 8:29 AM
  • "Survey: iPhone owners more likely to have degrees and higher incomes than Android users" Macworld UK 8:36 AM
  • "Apple iPhone turns table top into full-sized invisible keyboard: A student has developed software that allows the iPhone to turn any table into an impromptu, invisible full-sized keyboard by analysing the vibrations caused by fingers tapping the surface." Telegraph 10:09 AM
  • "Samsung Galaxy S3 beats iPhone as Apple preps component fight back" Computerworld 7:44 AM
  • "Samsung's Galaxy S III overtakes Apple's iPhone 4S as world's best-selling phone" VentureBeat 7:44 AM
  • "The iPhone Cedes World Dominance to the Samsung Galaxy S3 for Now" The Atlantic Wire 8:45 AM
  • "Samsung Galaxy SIII Beats iPhone 4S To Be Top-Selling Smartphone Globally In Q3; iPhone 5 To Be Top In Q4: Analyst" TechCrunch 7:59 AM
  • "Samsung Unseats Apple" [Video Report] CNBC 2:06 PM
  • "Apple drops out of China top 5 smartphone list" ZDNet 8:12 AM
  • "Apple kicked out of China smartphone top 5 by, er, Yulong and pals" The Register 7:53 AM
  • "Is Samsung Moving Away from Apple or Moving Closer?" WSJ Blogs 7:41 AM
  • "Apple's Software Boss Takes a Seat at Ferrari's Table" Wired 8:32 AM
  • "Apple executive and Ferrari fanatic Eddy Cue joins board of Italian luxury-car maker" Digital Trends 8:28 AM
  • "Eddy Cue joins Ferrari board of directors" TUAW 10:15 AM
  • "David Cameron tests iPad 'government dashboard' app: The Prime Minister has tested a specially-developed app that acts as a government 'dashboard', allowing him to keep track of live statistics on key areas such as jobs and housing." Telegraph 8:23 AM
  • "Revealed! Prime Minister's iPad 'dashboard' for controlling Britain: Undoubtedly the biggest IT story of the day - if not the year - is the news that David Cameron's custom 'iPad app' is now in testing." The Register 7:53 AM
  • "David Cameron web app: Fresh details emerge" ZDNet 8:13 AM
  • "iOS 6 iPhones and iPads get security thumbs-up from UK government" ZDNet 8:13 AM
  • "Unlocked iPhones arrive at Dick Smith -but should you buy unlocked?" iTWire 7:45 AM
  • "Houston T-Mobile customers with unlocked iPhones get a speed boost" Houston Chronicle 11:17 AM
  • "Apple Store shoppers can send Passbook-compatible gift cards: Shoppers can also use Siri to help them find prices." Ars Technica 11:08 AM
  • "Video: Steve Jobs -- the lost interview with the late Apple co-founder" Silicon Valley 2:36 PM
  • "The Island of Lost Apple Products" Wired 7:41 AM
  • "Chicago man shot 5 times over iPhone" Chicago Tribune [Free Registration Required] 8:11 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Microsoft Brings Star Trek's Voice Translator to Life: Software turns English into synthesized Chinese almost instantly." Technology Review 7:26 PM
  • "Slax is bare bones modular Linux" TG Daily 12:00 PM
  • "PlayStation: The Official Magazine goes under" TG Daily 12:00 PM
  • "Butterfly wings may inspire cleaner high-tech surfaces" EE Times 11:47 AM
  • "Amazon, Microsoft and Google targeted by cloud provider Joyent: Joyent today released Joyent7, the latest upgrade to its cloud OS" Network World 11:39 AM
  • "Chinese ex-hacker says working for the government would be too boring" IDG News Service 11:38 AM
  • "Pinterest Secret Boards Keep Your Pinning Under Wraps" PC Magazine 11:35 AM
  • "Sony network strategy chief quits" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 11:10 AM
  • "Zero-day PDF exploit reportedly defeats Adobe Reader sandbox protection: The exploit targets a previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe Reader, Group-IB researchers say" IDG News Service 10:31 AM
  • "Hitachi Announces All Solid-State Storage Array" InformationWeek 11:16 AM
  • "BlackBerry 10 Security Certified For U.S. Government Use Ahead Of Launch — But Still No BB10 Devices Til Q1 2013" TechCrunch 11:57 AM
  • "Qualcomm Value Surpasses Intel's on Robust Smartphone Demand" Bloomberg 10:22 AM
  • "New Mastercard has LCD screen and keyboard: A credit card with an LCD display and built-in keyboard has been launched in Singapore by Mastercard." BBC 10:19 AM
  • "World of Warcraft pandas help boost Activision profits" BBC 10:19 AM
  • "Verizon won't charge Sandy victims for voice and text usage" CNET News 10:03 AM
  • "Gaping hole in Google service exposes thousands to ID theft: A security flaw accessible via Google's UK motor insurance aggregator Google Compare has potentially exposed vast numbers of drivers to identity theft." The Register 12:08 PM
  • "Google reaches out to the 'next billion': Google launched a service on Thursday it hopes will push millions of people in the developing world to access the Internet - and Google's ads - via basic mobile phones." Reuters 10:06 AM
  • "Bram Stoker Books Get Google Doodle Treatment" PC Magazine 11:35 AM
  • "Twitter mistakenly resets passwords of large number of users" Reuters 12:43 PM
  • "Kim Dotcom already having problems with new site Me.ga" VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 9:42 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Ted Landau Plays Letterpress, Doesn't Buy an iPad Mini, and Picks Star Wars" MacNotables 11:24 AM
  • "5by5 | The Critical Path #62: The New Chess Game" asymco 8:37 AM