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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, December 10, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Your Money: The 'Apple Tax' - America's costly obsession"  Reuters 6:03 PM
  • "Apple Fixes Maps Snafu Dubbed 'Potentially Life-Threatening' by Police" Wired 3:11 PM
  • "Apple redraws maps after Australian drivers led astray in the bush: Mildura police issue warning after motorists lose way in scorching temperatures because town misplaced on Apple Maps" The Guardian 6:06 PM
  • "Apple Fixes 'Potentially Life Threatening' Australian Maps Problem" The Mac Observer 6:06 PM
  • "Apple Maps 'is life-threatening' to motorists lost in Australia heat" BBC 8:46 AM
  • "Australian travelers stranded in wilderness because of iOS 6 maps: Motorists were taken over 40 miles off course." Ars Technica 9:12 AM
  • "Police issue warning after Apple Maps leads drivers astray in Australian wilderness" The Verge 8:23 AM
  • "Australian Police Warn Against Apple Maps, Citing 'Potentially Life Threatening' Misdirection" TechCrunch 9:05 AM
  • "Apple Maps 'Life Threatening,' Say Australian Police" AllThingsD 12:14 PM
  • "Apple Maps guides Australian motorists into 'life threatening' situation" BetaNews 10:22 AM
  • "FTC's Second Kids' App Report Finds Little Progress in Addressing Privacy Concerns Surrounding Mobile Applications for Children: Kids' Data Still Collected, Shared without Parents' Knowledge, Consent" Federal Trade Commission 3:19 PM
  • "FTC Faults Makers, Retailers of Kids' Apps" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:32 PM
  • "FTC Urges Apple & Google to Get Serious About Kid Privacy" The Mac Observer 4:28 PM
  • "Worldwide Smart Connected Device Market, Led by Samsung and Apple, Grew 27.1% in the Third Quarter, According to IDC" Business Wire 4:02 PM
  • "IDC: 'smart connected device' shipments reach record 303.6m in Q3 2012, led by Apple and Samsung" The Next Web 9:00 AM
  • "IDC: Samsung and Apple are driving holiday sales" Fortune 10:13 AM
  • "Smart Device Shipments Broke Records In Q3 2012, Reaching 303.6 Million Devices; Expected To Grow To 362 Million In Holiday Quarter" TechCrunch 9:06 AM
  • "Millennial Media: iPad mini impressions grew 28% per day" Fortune 12:36 PM
  • "Chengdu's First Apple Store Opening This Saturday Together With Hong Kong's Third Store" M.I.C. Gadget 8:53 AM
  • "Apple's Massive New Hong Kong Store with 30-Foot Tall Glass Windows Leads Next Weekend's Grand Openings" MacRumors 8:49 AM
  • "Black Friday on the iPad: Revisiting some dubious data/The holiday shopping news for Amazon was not quite as awful as it seemed" Fortune 8:52 AM
  • "Sprint: T-Mobile USA's Recent iPhone Deal Won't Allow It To Overtake Sprint" Seeking Alpha 8:46 AM
  • "Apple still one of the Happiest Companies in America — but not as happy as before" AppleDailyReport 9:40 AM
  • "Apple Plummets To 42 On This Year's List Of 50 Happiest Companies To Work For" Cult of Mac 9:15 PM
  • "Woman photographs herself unlocking stolen iPhone: A woman unwittingly took a photograph of herself as she tried to unlock an iPhone that had been stolen from a nightclub." Telegraph 10:12 AM
  • "8 great free Mac gifts" [Slideshow] Macworld 8:56 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "No password is safe from this new 25-GPU computer cluster: The setup uses 25 AMD Radeon graphics cards and can make 350 billion guesses per second. All eight-character passwords fall in hours; some take only six minutes." CNET News 2:53 PM
  • "Valve chief confirms Steam-centric console-killing PC" The Register 2:15 PM
  • "Police-themed ransomware speaks to victims -- literally: New variant of Reveton ransomware uses localized voice messages to trick victims into paying rogue fines" IDG News Service 1:19 PM
  • "Amazon, Barnes & Noble slash Kindle, Nook prices" PCWorld 1:15 PM
  • "Stallman attacks are 'FUD,' argues Canonical community manager" Network World 1:19 PM
  • "Meet Ubuntu Linux 12.10 'Quantal Quetzal': Pictures" [Slideshow] PCWorld 1:15 PM
  • "With BlackBerry 10's Launch Fast Approaching, RIM Offers A First Glimpse At The Hardware" TechCrunch 2:05 PM
  • "RIM Releases BBM 7 With Free Wi-Fi Voice Calling" PC Magazine 1:13 PM
  • "Twitter may release its own Instagram-like photo filters this month" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 1:04 PM
  • "Spotify Founder Daniel Ek Wanted to Create Something 'Better than Piracy'" ABCNews 11:03 AM
  • "Antivirus guru John McAfee sells rights for movie about his life" CNET News 9:25 PM
  • "John McAfee: Let me go to the USA - or old Blighty" The Register 2:13 PM
  • "Google Now, Google's effort to automate your life, may be coming to Chrome" VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 2:22 PM
  • "Google Drive and Gmail services back online after outages" V3 2:20 PM
  • "Ada Lovelace: 'The Enchantress of Numbers'/Ada Lovelace was the visionary half of the team that helped create the modern computer. Lovelace is honored by Google as the 'first computer programmer.'" Christian Science Monitor 11:40 AM
  • "Google Stashed $2B in Taxes in the Bermuda Triangle in 2011" AllThingsD 9:59 AM
  • "Huawei to Open Research Center in Finland" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:44 AM
  • "Huawei Sets Up in Nokia's Back Yard" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:40 AM
  • "Google to sell off Motorola's set-top box business as Google TV flounders" AppleInsider 8:55 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Record Breaking Price Paid At Auction For First Apple Computer - But This Collector Owns Two Of Them!" The Classic Computing Blog 3:09 PM
  • "Holiday Gift Ideas from The MacJury" MacVoicesTV 11:45 AM
  • "Our Christmas gadget wish lists. It's kind of like Oprah's 'Favorite Things' except without the ad support." The MT Show 8:26 AM