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MacSurfer's Archive: Thursday, March 17, 2016
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "IDC Forecasts Worldwide Shipments of Wearables to Surpass 200 Million in 2019, Driven by Strong Smartwatch Growth and the Emergence of Smarter Watches" Business Wire 1:42 PM
  • "Apple Watch Predicted to Capture 50% Market Share in 2016 on 14 Million Sales" MacRumors 11:24 AM
  • "Join us Monday for Apple's iPhone SE event (live blog)" CNET 7:52 AM
  • "Apple appoints Cookie Monster as its spokesman/Technically incorrect: To make you still pay attention to the iPhone 6S, Apple releases an ad featuring some people's favorite muppet performing his muppetry." CNET 8:03 AM
  • "In a roadblock for Apple Pay, only 1 in 5 US retailers are using their chip card readers" AppleInsider 2:30 PM
  • "New Study Seeks to Use Deep Learning to Detect Heart Disease: The developers of Cardiogram, a consumer heart rate-tracking app, have launched a study aiming to use deep learning to detect atrial fibrillation." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:08 PM
  • "Steve Jobs attempted to make email 'a walled garden' in the 1980s" The Inquirer 7:43 AM
  • "Steve Wozniak summed up the central weakness of the Apple Watch: '20 watches from $500 to $1100. The band's the only difference?'"  Business Insider 8:27 AM
  • "Steve Wozniak slams Apple Watch for taking Apple into 'jewelry market'" Mashable 8:04 AM
  • "Woz: World-changers to Apple Watches, why pay for an overpriced band? Apple co-founder questions vanity price tags, says he won't snoop in your undie drawer." The Register 7:43 AM
  • "Steve Wozniak Believes That Amazon.com Inc. Owns the Next Big Platform: The legendary Steve Wozniak just gave Amazon's Echo a huge endorsement." The Motley Fool 8:15 AM
  • "Steve Wozniak reddit AMA Touches On iPhone Encryption, How He 'Worries A Little Bit' About Apple" HotHardware 4:20 PM
  • "5 things we learned about Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak from his Reddit AMA: Three emerging technologies Wozniak loves, and what he thinks of Tim Cook" MarketWatch 11:25 AM
  • "TeslaCrypt ransomware now impossible to crack, researchers say: Victims can either either restore files from a backup or if that's not possible, pay up" IDG News Service 7:47 AM
  • "Orange CEO fuels hope that Apple may grant 3rd-party apps & services access to iPhone NFC chip" AppleInsider 1:25 PM
  • "Nintendo's first smartphone app is a social surprise" CNNMoney 7:53 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was The Target In The Lavabit Case" Wired 9:19 PM
  • "Adobe sees 'record' $1.38B revenue in Q1, adds 798K paying Creative Cloud subscribers" VentureBeat 7:42 PM
  • "HBO plans to add 600 hours of original programming, taking direct aim at Netflix" GeekWire 5:36 PM
  • "Samsung's locked Galaxy S7 bootloader has buyers raging" ExtremeTech 5:36 PM
  • "Young people prefer an Internet connection to daylight/Technically Incorrect: A UK survey suggests that daylight isn't all that: at least in young people's enlightened minds. Neither is hot water. But they do love the idea of more followers on social media." CNET 3:34 PM
  • "Spotify to pay $21 million in unpaid royalties" The Next Web 3:34 PM
  • "Casio's rugged Android Wear Smart Outdoor Watch to be available March 25 for $500" 9to5Google 1:26 PM
  • "The spectacular life of Google founder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page" Business Insider 11:09 AM
  • "YouTube and Google Play agree to join T-Mobile's Binge On Program, following criticism of video throttling" TechCrunch 10:49 AM
  • "Fitbit taps Amazon Echo to let users check their fitness progress via voice" TechCrunch 8:11 AM
  • "Most Top Websites Still Don't Use a Basic Security Feature" Wired 8:05 AM
  • "How Google's AI Auto-Magically Answers Your Emails" Wired 8:05 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2016-03-17: Listener Comments on Siri, 2-factor Authentication" The Mac Observer 12:51 PM
  • "Rebound 77: Usually Schmusally" Six Colors 11:25 AM