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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, January 8, 2013
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple Takes First and Fourth Place in Buying Intentions" Forbes 8:15 AM
  • "Google Play Will Beat Apple App Store To 1,000,000 Apps" ReadWrite 8:02 AM
  • "Apple's App Store hits 40 billion app downloads" Digital Trends 7:46 AM
  • "Apple's I/O Technology Evangelist spotted at CES 2013" 9 to 5 Mac 4:00 PM
  • "AT&T Announces Record Smartphone Sales in Fourth Quarter" ["During the quarter, we averaged more than 110,000 smartphone sales a day as customers flocked to our leading portfolio of the latest Android, Apple and Windows devices."] Business Wire 8:34 AM
  • "AT&T sold a record 10m smartphones in Q4 2012, helped by best-ever sales of Android and Apple devices" The Next Web 8:33 AM
  • "AT&T sells record 10M smartphones in 4th quarter: The carrier says that in the final quarter of 2012, it sold a record number of smartphones: more than 10 million: with highs for both Android and iPhone." CNET News 8:37 AM
  • "AT&T sets new record, sells over 10 million smartphones in Christmas quarter: Of which roughly 7.7 million were Apple iPhones, with recent history as our guide." MacDailyNews 8:23 AM
  • "AT&T sold 110K smartphones a day last quarter, including 7.2M iPhones and 2.2M Android phones" VentureBeat 10:23 AM
  • "AT&T announces 'best ever' sales of Apple and Android smartphones during Q4 2012" 9 to 5 Mac 8:39 AM
  • "AT&T: We Just Sold A Record-Breaking Number Of Smartphones" Business Insider 8:26 AM
  • "AT&T announces best ever quarterly sales of iPhones" Edible Apple 2:01 PM
  • "Unofficial U.S. carrier T-Mobile has 2M iPhones on network, over 100K new activations a month" AppleInsider 5:59 PM
  • "iPads for all: The UK school which has replaced pens and paper with Apple's tablet" Digital Trends 8:04 AM
  • "Apple rejects iOS game about the civil war in Syria" The Verge 7:51 AM
  • "Apple Rejects Syrian Conflict-Based Game Because it is Too Real" PadGadget 2:08 PM
  • "Mapping Apple's International iPhone & iPad Rollouts" MacStories 2:14 PM
  • "CES: Samsung Touts TVs, Takes Shot at Apple" TheStreet 10:19 AM
  • "Samsung Continues to Profit from Apple" 24/7 Wall St. 7:55 AM
  • "Tablets to out-sell notebooks this year, reckons tech prophet" The Register 8:18 AM
  • "iPhone goes on a thousand pound spending spree" The Inquirer 8:18 AM
  • "UK Apple cart Square punched in the wallet as sales, profit fall" Channel Register 8:18 AM
  • "Steve Jobs movie starring Ashton Kutcher coming to cinemas this April: jOBS' creators have secured a distribution deal with Open Road Films, it has been announced" Macworld UK 9:06 AM
  • "Faulty iPhone reportedly generated £19,000 bill" TUAW 2:07 PM
  • "Igor Cheban's iPhone Paintings" MacStories 9:49 AM
  • "Using an iPhone to Get Knocked Up Faster" Wired 8:59 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Aereo's assault on old school 'Pay TV' continues with 22 new cities & $38M round" VentureBeat 3:08 PM
  • "Simulated trip to Mars left crew with sleep, exercise problems: Some napped, one shifted to a 25-hour day; all but one remained alert." Ars Technica 3:07 PM
  • "Textbooks at CES highlight the changing education industry: McGraw-Hill is introducing a new 'adaptive textbook' called the Smartbook for computers and tablets." The Verge 2:11 PM
  • "Google Opens Up Registration For 'Advanced Power Searching' Program" TechCrunch 2:10 PM
  • "Hulu Debuts Previews Of Its 2013 Original Programming And Exclusive Series" TechCrunch 12:00 PM
  • "Steam 'game console' hardware debuted at CES: A modular PC designed to let users to play Steam games on their TV has been unveiled at CES." BBC 3:22 PM
  • "First Look: Eye-Catching Tech at 'Digital Experience'" Wired 12:42 PM
  • "Verizon Prepared Follow T-Mobile's Lead If Ending Phone Subsidies Proves Profitable" BGR 11:34 AM
  • "Valve-funded Steam-optimized PC coming from Xi3" GamesIndustry 11:03 AM
  • "Firefox OS Makes An Appearance At CES On 'Mystery' Hardware [Video] Redmond Pie 10:07 AM
  • "Target Makes The Bold Move To Match Amazon's Prices Year-Round" Business Insider 10:00 AM
  • "Samsung's Video search tool for TVs will be coming to tablets too: TJ Kang, senior vice president of Samsung's media solution center, tells CNET that certain tablets will be able to use the new feature that allows users to search live TV and various streaming services through one app." CNET 9:46 AM
  • "CES keynote: Young people today are 'born mobile'" CNN 8:41 AM
  • "Ballmer, Big Bird and Desmond Tutu enliven Qualcomm's big night at CES: The chip maker put on quite a show but found time to announce a new family of Snapdragon chips, the 800 series" Network World 8:41 AM
  • "Amazon Prime arrives in Canada: Free two-day shipping, no Instant Video" Engadget 9:18 AM
  • "Manufacturers Need You to Buy an Ultra-High-Def 4K TV. Save Your Money" Wired 9:00 AM
  • "Google offers free Wi-Fi in Chelsea neighborhood: The company's free public Wi-Fi in the Chelsea neighborhood is available to folks between Gansevoort Street and 19th Street from 8th Avenue to West Side Highway." CNET News 9:46 AM
  • "U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, Google CIO To Unveil Free WiFi In NYC's Chelsea Neighborhood" TechCrunch 8:24 AM
  • "Is NYC Getting Super Fast, Free Internet? Google Is Holding A Mysterious Press Conference This Morning (GOOG)" San Francisco Chronicle 8:23 AM
  • "Google exec gets look at NKoreans using Internet: From Silicon Valley to Kim Il Sung University, Google exec visits NKorean students using web" Associated Press 8:04 AM
  • "New Sony Android handsets to arrive with 1080p displays: Both handsets will utilize Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 mobile processor" Ars Technica 8:59 AM
  • "For Sony at C.E.S., the More Pixels the Better" New York Times 8:06 AM
  • "Holy moly: Samsung sold 500 handsets per minute and made $8.3 billion last quarter" GeekWire 8:03 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "New Media Expo – Guy Kawasaki Talks APE, His Keynote, and Social Media" MacVoicesTV 1:59 PM