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MacSurfer's Archive: Thursday, February 28, 2013
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "iTunes U Content Tops One Billion Downloads" Apple 8:05 AM
  • "iTunes U Content Tops One Billion Downloads" Business Wire 8:10 AM
  • "iTunes U hits 1 billion downloads: More than 60 percent of app downloads from iTunes U come from outside the United States, and the educational content can be accessed in 155 countries." CNET News 8:30 AM
  • "Apple's iTunes U Hits One Billion Downloads" ["Apple tells AllThingsD that, to date, more than 4.5 million iPads have been sold into U.S. education institutions."] AllThingsD 1:50 PM
  • "Apple Has Sold Over 8M iPads Direct To Education Worldwide, With More Than 1B iTunes U Downloads" TechCrunch 1:52 PM
  • "Apple iTunes U Downloads Surpass 1 Billion" PC Magazine 11:15 AM
  • "Apple announces iTunes U content has now passed 1 billion downloads" The Next Web 8:21 AM
  • "iTunes U sees one billion content downloads, 60 percent from outside US" The Verge 8:27 AM
  • "Apple & Google top Fortune's list of most admired companies" VentureBeat 10:50 AM
  • "Apple Named Most Admired Company by Business Execs" The Mac Observer 4:45 PM
  • "Without Big Subsidies, iPhone Is a Tough Sell/Denver wireless retailer Van Yip received exciting news last year: He would get to sell the iPhone. It turned out that his customers weren't all that thrilled." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:22 PM
  • "Planning Documents Confirm Future Edinburgh Store" ifoAppleStore 8:47 AM
  • "UK judge who issued extreme ruling for Samsung against Apple hired by... Samsung!"  Foss Patents 8:27 AM
  • "Samsung hires British judge who said Apple lacked integrity: Sir Robin Jacob issued harsh sanctions after Apple's half-hearted 'not as cool' apology" Fortune 8:26 AM
  • "UK judge who questioned Apple's integrity gets a job with Samsung" Computerworld 9:39 AM
  • "Judge Critical of Apple Invites Controversy to Work for Samsung" The Mac Observer 1:45 PM
  • "Note from Barcelona: 'Apple is losing the screen-size war'" Fortune 1:49 PM
  • "iOS Apps Pose Larger Privacy Risk Than Android Apps, Study Reveals" Redmond Pie 10:33 AM
  • "Some Apple Factories in China Still Treat Workers 'Like Slaves'" M.I.C. Gadget 8:47 AM
  • "Apple assimilates France, Sweden and pals into iCloud" The Register 8:10 AM
  • "iPhone sales at Leap Wireless are half of what was forecast: The prepaid mobile carrier is having a tough time getting Apple's smartphones off its hands." CNET News 8:16 AM
  • "Leap Wireless struggling to sell off-contract iPhones" TUAW 8:41 AM
  • "Leap Wireless Stuck With iPhone Stockpile" WirelessWeek 10:20 AM
  • "Former Apple retail chief presides over JC Penney's lowest sales in 20 years" AppleInsider 10:20 AM
  • "Apple Asked To Pay $330k/Day Because Of Facetime Patents" UberGizmo 2:55 PM
  • "Tapbots Uses Unique Approach to Expose Tweetbot App Pirates" PadGadget 8:47 AM
  • "Temecula Apple Store Burglarized Again: Monday's burglary marks the fifth crime incident Patch has reported on at the Apple Store over the last two years." Temecula Patch 9:10 PM
  • "MWC 2013: Samsung takes a bite out of Apple" ZDNet 9:15 PM
  • "Counterfeit Maker Prepares to Release iPad Mini Knockoff with Telephony Features" M.I.C. Gadget 8:47 AM
  • "iPhone knuckle duster case owned by Rihanna, Alicia Keys and Nicky Hilton is banned by ebay amid fears it could be used as a weapon" Daily Mail (UK) 8:52 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Time Warner Cable Executive Claims Consumers Don't Want Gigabit Internet" BGR 3:28 PM
  • "Can graphene supercapacitors replace traditional batteries?" TG Daily 10:38 AM
  • "Samsung denies charges of underage labor in China following complaint in France: Three non-governmental organizations have filed a complaint in France against a Samsung subsidiary" IDG News Service 8:15 AM
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