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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, December 29, 2013
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple signage says new flagship Brisbane, Australia store opening soon" 9to5Mac 8:11 PM
  • "iPad takes top spot in 2013 tablet market, but MacBooks lose out to Google-powered Chromebooks" 9to5Mac 12/28
  • "Two iPods at two different Target stores (both full of erasers?): A San Diego man says he picked out two different iPods at two different Target stores: and both had been sabotaged the same way." CNET News 12/28
  • "Apple's 2013 in review – July: iWatch trademark, iOS 7 betas, court cases and Logic Pro X"  Macworld UK 12/27
  • "Best Computing Product Of 2013: 13-Inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display"  Digital Trends 12/27
  • "Top vendors like Google, Apple hope to take smartwatches mainstream in 2014: Smartwatch developers must focus on cutting prices, adding more apps, and improving the look to attract broad consumer interest"  Computerworld 12/27
  • "U.S. Christmas Shoppers Bought More on iOS Than Android" AllThingsD 12/27
  • "iOS five times as popular as Android for Christmas shopping on mobile" iDownload Blog 12/27
  • "Christmas Online Stats are in: Apple's iOS Obliterated Android" Patently Apple 12/27
  • "Apple Is No Longer The English-Speaking World's Most Talked About Company" Business Insider 12/27
  • "Glass Door Is Unhinged At Store, Injures Man" ifoAppleStore 12/27
  • "San Diego Target Stores Sold iPod Boxes Filled with Erasers and Index Cards" The Mac Observer 12/27
  • "Nokia yanks Here Maps from the App Store, iOS 7 'harms the user experience'" iMore 12/27
  • "Nokia purges Here Maps from App Store over iOS 7 issues: The navigation app is no longer available for iOS users, a move that Nokia blamed on recent changes to iOS 7 that 'harm the user experience.'" CNET News 12/27
  • "Nokia Removes Here Maps from App Store, Cites iOS 7 Issues" LAPTOP Magazine 12/27
  • "Nokia Yanks HERE Maps From App Store, Cites iOS 7 Issues" PC Magazine 12/27
  • "Get lost, fanbois: Nokia pulls Here Maps from Apple's App Store" The Register 12/27
  • "AppleCare employees get windbreakers, (paper) notebooks, and pens for the holidays" 9to5Mac 12/27
Non-Apple News
  • "Netflix reportedly plans streaming purge for January 1: 'War Games' and the original 'Dark Shadows' among the dozens of movie and TV shows set to expire, according to a list posted to Reddit." CNET News 5:12 PM
  • "NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware" The Verge 12:46 PM
  • "Reading Your Palm for Security's Sake" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12/28
  • "Korean Press Shocked at Samsung's Galaxy S4 Sales Disaster" Patently Apple 12/28
  • "Rdio shutters Vdio service, as it should" Macworld 12/27
  • "Flagship failures haunt struggling smartphone vendors" BGR 12/27
  • "Snapchat API and exploits published by hacker group, could allow users' names and phone numbers to be connected" iMore 12/27
  • "NSA mass collection of phone data is legal, federal judge rules" The Guardian 12/27
  • "Target Says PIN Numbers Among Data Stolen in Breach" AllThingsD 12/27
  • "Target confirms debit card PIN info stolen in massive breach, but says data is 'safe and secure'" The Next Web 12/27
  • "Target confirms encrypted debit PIN data was stolen during hack" The Verge 12/27
  • "Facebook's 2013 shows how it will take over the rest of the world in 2014" VentureBeat 12/27
  • "Facebook? What's that, granddad? Teenagers fall out of love with Zuckerberg's social network" BetaNews 12/27
  • "Young users see Facebook as 'dead and buried'"  Telegraph 12/27
  • "Play vintage console games in your browser courtesy of the Internet Archive" BetaNews 12/27
  • "These Glitches From Google Maps Are Worthy of an Art Gallery" Wired 12/27
  • "Revealed! The best, and worst, 802.11ac Wi-Fi routers of 2013" PCWorld 12/27
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Author of 'Steve Jobs' using online crowdsourcing to edit his new book" The Verge 6:48 PM
  • "Talkcast tonight, 10 pm ET: 2013"s best iOS apps + year in review" TUAW 5:40 PM
  • "MGG 481: One Last One and The Year is... Finished!" The Mac Observer 11:17 AM
  • "December 28, 2013 — Dann Berg and Daniel Eran Dilger - The Tech Night Owl Live" The Tech Night Owl 9:11 AM