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MacSurfer's Archive: Saturday, February 9, 2013
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple IPads Neutered for U.S. Government in CACI Mobile Push: CACI International Inc. has altered 'thousands' of Apple Inc. iPads so they can be used securely by the U.S. government, according to Dan Allen, CACI's chief executive officer." Bloomberg 2/8
  • "Home Depot abandoning BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple's iPhone and iOS" AppleInsider 2/8
  • "iPhone 5 fails to boost Apple's market share in China: Lenovo became one of the world's top five smartphone vendors because of high shipments in China" Macworld UK 2/8
  • "Apple and Samsung devices displace Nokia worldwide for first time in terms of Internet usage, says StatCounter" DigiTimes 2/8
  • "Digitimes Research: Global tablet shipments to suffer 20% drop in 1Q13" DigiTimes 2/8
  • "Foxconn January revenues down over 8% on year" DigiTimes 2/8
  • "Apple To Fight US Alone Over Alleged E-Book Price Fixing As Final Publisher Settles" App Advice 2/8
  • "Apple's the Last Defendant After Last Publisher Settles E-Book Antitrust Suit" The Atlantic Wire 2/8
  • "Apple Alone Fighting DOJ E-Book Suit After Macmillan Settlement" AllThingsD 2/8
  • "Macmillan, sole e-book publishing holdout, settles with Justice" Ars Technica 2/8
  • "Ebook price-fixing: Macmillan settles with DoJ, Apple fights on" The Register 2/8
  • "iPhone is 'behind' in smart phone race, Apple co-founder says" Crave @ CNET 2/8
  • "Woz says Apple is falling behind, iPhone 5S and 6 at Chinese suppliers says source, Skype app updated" iPhone Buzz 2/8
  • "Your smartphone knows which side of the brain you're using: The iDichotic iPhone app appears to be as reliable as traditional lab tests in determining which side of the brain is most involved in language processing." CNET News 2/8
  • "Wrapping up Macworld/iWorld 2013, and looking ahead to 2014" AppleTell 2/8
  • "Which apps will drain your battery and data plan? Verizon's got a list" GigaOM 2/8
  • "Why Some AT&T Customers Aren't Getting Those Wireless Alerts About Nemo" AllThingsD 2/8
  • "How Apple looked before it was fashionable" ZDNet 2/8
Non-Apple News
  • "Is this 12-year-old the next Mark Zuckerberg?" [Video Report] CBS News 2/8
  • "BlackBerry sees red in Japan, ends sales" ZDNet 2/8
  • "Facebook Hires Chef to Juggle 150,000 Machines" Wired Magazine 2/8
  • "Damaged Delivery? DropTag Tattles When Your Package Tumbles" Techland 2/8
  • "LibreOffice 4.0 ships with new features, better looks" The Register 2/8
  • "AVG finds 11 year-old creating malware to steal game passwords: Kid Canadian pwned gamers" Techworld 2/8
  • "Report: Brett Ratner to Produce Farmville Animated Series" PC Magazine 2/8
  • "Blast from the past: Twitter search now finds old tweets" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 2/8
  • "Activision Blizzard warns over consoles" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 2/8
  • "Toshiba ships first NAND flash chips with faster transfer standard" IDG News Service 2/8
  • "Adobe Issues Emergency Patch For Flash Player Zero-Day Flaws" CRN 2/8
  • "Renesas Widens Loss Forecast on Job Cuts, Chip-Demand Slump" Bloomberg 2/8
  • "Intel-based phablet on the way from Asus" CNET News 2/8
  • "Google Drives into web hosting: Google Drive has turned on a feature that lets the cloud storage service become a limited web host." The Register 2/8
  • "Google Pushes Marketing Talk-Back Button" Forbes 2/8
  • "Google faces demand to spread cash-for-links deals across Europe" Reuters [Free Registration Required] 2/8
  • "Google touts benefits of WebP image format" CNET News 2/8
  • "Sony's Hirai Sells Property Instead of TVs as Revival Stalls" Bloomberg 2/8
  • "Sony sprinkles Android 4.1 onto Xperia smartphones" CNET News 2/8
  • "YouTube Faces Return of Pirated-Content" [Video Report] WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2/8
  • "AOL's Hyperlocal Effort Patch Misses $40M-50M Sales Target, Partly Because Of Sandy, Still Aiming For Profitability In 2013" TechCrunch 2/8
  • "Android powers a third of all mobile phones shipped in 4Q12, says Canalys" DigiTimes 2/8
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Macworld/iWorld Video: Mac gaming" Macworld 7:25 AM
  • "Gene Steinberg meets veteran Mac developer Lloyd L. Chambers, The Loop's Jim Dalrymple, and Laptop magazine's Avram Piltch, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 2/8
  • "Ditch Your Mac And Roll iPad Only—We'll Tell You How On Our All-New CultCast" Cult of Mac 2/8
  • "Moshi shows off Versacover for iPad mini at Macworld|iWorld 2013" iMore 2/8
  • "Macworld 2013 – Other World Computing's Super-Protective iPhone Case and Newest SSD" MacVoicesTV 2/8