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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, November 8, 2015
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple TV buyers are overwhelmingly male" Tech Insider 11:05 AM
  • "Hackers broke into the new iPhone remotely – and won $1m from a spy agency" Metro UK 8:52 AM
  • "comScore Reports September 2015 U.S. Smartphone Subscriber Market Share" ["Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 43.6 percent OEM market share, while Google Android led as the #1 smartphone platform with 52.3 percent platform market share. Facebook ranked as the top individual smartphone app."] comScore 11/7
  • "Here's Apple's Latest Amazon Put-down: The petty feuding continues, just in time for the holidays." Fortune 11/7
  • "JP supports elderly with iPads: Japan Post Co. has started lending Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computers to 1,000 elderly people in Yamanashi and Nagasaki prefectures on an experimental basis to support their health management and shopping." The Japan News 11/7
  • "HTC mocks Apple's '1984' ad (really)" CNET 11/7
  • "Report: Apple TV ousts Amazon and Roku to become the leading set-top box" Macworld 11/6
  • "Apple hires engineer who used to work on digital license plates" Engadget 11/6
  • "Apple hired a 'secret agent' who is an expert in digital license plates for cars" Business Insider 11/6
  • "Apple Watch now available in India as the country considers letting Apple open its own stores" 9to5Mac 11/6
  • "Apple Watch lands in India: But some wonder whether a premium-priced watch will attract buyers in a price-conscious market." CNET 11/6
  • "Apple is number 32 on the 'Top 50 Most Useful Brands' list (what?!)" Apple World Today 11/6
  • "Apple Drops Support for PayPal Credit Payment Plans in U.S. Online Store" MacRumors 11/6
  • "Android Wear is even less popular than the Apple Watch" Business Insider 11/6
  • "Cult of Android - Google to follow Apple into building its own mobile chips" Cult of Android 11/6
  • "The inside story on Jobs and Woz's illegal phone phreaking" Cult of Mac 11/6
Non-Apple News
  • "Google Acquires Photo, Video Editing Specialist Fly Labs" InformationWeek 9:03 PM
  • "Snapchat's daily video views triple to 6 billion: report" Reuters 7:57 PM
  • "Digitizing The World's Libraries Using Smartphones" Forbes 6:45 PM
  • "Nastiness threatens online reader comments" AFP 7:44 AM
  • "TAG Heuer to launch $15,000 smartwatch next week" AFP 7:21 AM
  • "Dongle 'fixes' your PC's security by killing your USB port" Engadget 6:53 AM
  • "Trojanized Adware Floods Third-Party Android App Stores" InformationWeek 11/7
  • "Don't look down: Tech unicorns face reckoning as valuations detach from reality/Silicon Valley's startups are being asked to justify investments that have valued them in the billions of dollars. Is this the next dotcom bubble?" Telegraph 11/7
  • "Verizon Shutters Affordable, Unlimited OmniLynx Wi-Fi Program For Alabama School District" HotHardware 11/7
  • "Comcast's Data Caps Aren't Meant To Relieve Congestion, It's All About The Benjamins" HotHardware 11/7
  • "Leaked Comcast memo reportedly admits data caps aren't about improving network performance: Public relations would also prefer that you stop calling it a data cap" The Verge 11/7
  • "Google Acquires Fly Labs, Video Editing Apps Maker, for Google Photos" Re/code 11/6
  • "Google adds iPhone video app developer Fly Labs to its Photos team" iMore 11/6
  • "The FCC won't force websites to honor 'Do Not Track' requests" The Verge 11/6
  • "Nvidia doesn't want to just dominate the graphics card market, it wants to own it" PCWorld 11/6
  • "A prominent ad-blocker-blocker served malware to Economist readers" The Verge 11/6
  • "14 strange but true facts from the history of high tech" [Slideshow] PCWorld 11/6
Publications/Podcasts
  • "MGG 578: Like Darth Vader, He's Altering The Deal" The Mac Observer 12:11 PM
  • "Incomparable #271: Nostalgia Bomb" Six Colors 11/7
  • "Apple sends 'Shot on iPhone 6' photographers special edition art books containing their work" AppleInsider 11/6
  • "The Vergecast 178: The state of Android, smartwatches and Twitter hearts" The Verge 11/6
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2015-11-06: Amazon Book Store, Apple Car's Digital License Plates" The Mac Observer 11/6
  • "AppleInsider podcast reviews the new Apple TV, talks 'iPhone 7' & answers your questions" AppleInsider 11/6