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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, December 28, 2018
 

 

 
Apple/Macintosh
  • "Waze Tongue Sues Apple for Siri Voice Jacking: The longtime Hebrew female voice of navigation app Waze was surprised to learn her voice now doubles as Siri"  CTech 7:58 AM
  • "Siri's Hebrew voice is suing Apple" Cult of Mac 8:04 AM
  • "Apple's Buybacks Cost It More Than $9B in 2018: WSJ" Investopedia 8:42 AM
  • "Apple lost $9 billion buying back its own stock in 2018" Business Insider 9:48 AM
  • "No, Apple Didn't Lose $9 Billion by Repurchasing Shares" The Motley Fool 2:34 PM
  • "Citi cuts Q1 iPhone production estimates on weak demand"  Reuters 11:20 AM
  • "Apple Will Need to Target Developing Markets for iPhone Growth" Market Realist 8:28 AM
  • "Apple 2019 Look-Ahead: Glimpse Of Future MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Seen In 2018 Intel Roadmap"  Forbes 8:58 AM
  • "What to expect from Apple in 2019"  Macworld 8:11 AM
OS X
Reviews/How-To/Tips
  • "30 Best PDF Editor Software for 2019 (+Adobe Acrobat Alternatives)" Envato Tuts+ 8:36 AM
  • "Collaborating With Others Using Pages" MacMost 9:02 AM
Press Releases
General Interest/Potpourri
  • "The iPad Pro continues to sell well despite bent product complaints"  Thinknum 1:40 PM
  • "State papers: MacSharry objected to additional support for Apple in Cork/Then minister for finance said company's record in Ireland was 'very disappointing'" Irish Times 8:20 PM
  • "Siri Gets Much Smarter as Apple's Investments Pay Off: Apple's digital assistant just vaulted past Alexa and Cortana in an 800-question test." The Motley Fool 9:13 PM
  • "Newly-founded Texas firm sues over Apple Pay's virtual wallet" AppleInsider 8:31 AM
  • "Apple has been sued for Patent Infringement by a Company from Ireland using acquired patents from Sony" Patently Apple 12:31 PM
  • "Is Apple still considering RTP for a campus? Land sale stokes speculation" WRAL TechWire 6:25 PM
  • "Apple still considering North Carolina campus, report suggests: According to a report on Friday, a firm tied to a known Apple lobbyist recently purchase a large parcel of land in North Carolina's Research Triangle Foundation, suggesting the tech giant is still eyeing the area as the potential site of a new campus." AppleInsider 6:26 PM
  • "Carjacking victim uses iPhone to catch suspect" WTVF Nashville 8:31 AM
  • "Former Apple Marketing Boss Returns His Bent iPad Pro Amid 'Bendgate 2.0'" iDrop News 12:41 PM
  • "Fake Amazon Alexa app removed from Apple App Store after fooling users" Mashable 9:51 AM
  • "iPhone XR — Color Flood — Apple" YouTube 8:34 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "The Essential Phone is effectively discontinued: The company is turning its attention to its 'next mobile product.'" Engadget 5:29 PM
  • "Under current policies, residential batteries increase emissions in most cases: Optimizing battery use to minimize emissions is possible, but generally overly expensive." Ars Technica 4:35 PM
  • "Google opens Google Docs to people without accounts" [Video] ZDNet 3:44 PM
  • "Mom Busts Son Using Amazon Alexa to Solve His Math Homework" Gizmodo 9:52 AM
  • "Facebook's leaked rulebooks highlight struggles with content moderation" CNET 9:52 AM
  • "RIP: Farewell to tech that died in 2018" [Video] CNET 8:28 AM
  • "Is This Photo Real? AI Gets Better at Faking Images" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:48 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "The Pornification of Software and Grading Apple's 2018 Products with John Kheit -ACM 494" The Mac Observer 7:37 PM
  • "Do We Expect Too Much From Our Technology?" MacVoices 3:54 PM
  • "9to5Mac Happy Hour 205: Apple's 2018 Year-In-Review" 9to5Mac 11:28 AM
  • "Apple, Qualcomm, the iPhone XR, and the biggest stories of 2018 on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 8:28 AM
Hardware/Software
  • "Apple to Assemble Premium iPhones in India, Create Jobs" Zacks 9:51 AM
  • "Apple interested in Sony's next-gen 3D sensors for 2019 iPhone" Cult of Mac 8:00 AM
  • "Sony Boosts 3D Camera Chip Production after Customer Interest" The Mac Observer 1:13 PM
  • "Bloomberg says Apple's next-gen iPhones might feature new 3D rear cameras" BGR 8:43 AM
  • "Apple, Other Smartphone Makers Showing Interest In Sony's 3D Cameras" Redmond Pie 7:11 PM
Price Trackers/Deals
  • "T-Mobile offers Apple Watch and Galaxy Watch deals for the New Year" The Verge 9:09 AM
  • "15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:28 AM
  • "13" MacBook Pro Prices Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:28 AM

Reviews/How-To/Tutorials/Tips
Reviews
  • "Apple Watch Series 4 back on my wrist: Unnecessary, but indispensable" ZDNet 9:52 AM
  • "Hands-on: G-Drive Mobile Pro Thunderbolt 3 SSD – great for on-the-go editing [Video] 9to5Mac 8:43 AM
  • "Metropolis offers great protection for the iPad Pro — but doesn't accommodate the Smart Keyboard Folio" Apple World Today 7:39 AM
  • "Best smart plugs 2019: Google, Alexa and Apple HomeKit control" Pocket-lint 8:07 PM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
  • "With Google Maps on Apple CarPlay, iPhone owners can finally ditch clunky mounts" Mashable 11:20 AM
How-To/Tutorial
  • "How to use Files app to replace your lame notes app" Cult of Mac 1:41 PM
  • "How to modify Notifications on your iPhone: Notifications are a helpful and important part of the iPhone and iOS, but it's easy to be bombarded by them. Here's how to get them under control." Macworld 8:11 AM
Tips
  • "Organize Your Digital Life With a Universal File Naming Scheme" The Mac Observer 12:36 PM
  • "Using an iPhone with Google Fi: Top things you need to know" iMore 11:23 AM
  • "12 Safari tips iOS users need to know" Apple Must 8:46 AM
Analysis/Commentary/Editorial/Opinion
  • "Apple reveals macOS Mojave, iOS 12, and watchOS 5 at WWDC -- Apple's June 2018 in review" AppleInsider 3:25 PM
  • "2018's Biggest Apple Leaks: iPhone XS and XR, iPad Pro, Macs, and More" MacRumors 3:24 PM
  • "How I have used my iPhone whilst travelling throughout the holiday season." PalmAddicts 12:40 PM
  • "The 18 biggest tech products that bombed, died, or disappeared in 2018" Business Insider 9:51 AM
  • "Opinion: My end-of-year report card for Apple's 2018 hardware" 9to5Mac 9:05 AM
  • "Analysts blow iPhone X sales guesses, Apple Watch saving lives — Apple's May 2018 in review" AppleInsider 8:00 AM
Non-Apple
  • "How Facebook deals with the fact AI is a mess on smartphones: Facebook has a whole set of internal tools to try and optimize its neural networks to run on mobile devices. Still, the company finds it difficult to navigate a smartphone market that is byzantine in its complexity, with thousands of different chipsets, most of poor performance, and software stacks that aren't quite up to the job." ZDNet 9:12 PM
  • "Samsung's Galaxy S10 Lite Shows Its Face In This Speculative Render" HotHardware 3:51 PM
  • "Facebook's worst self-inflicted wounds of 2018" VentureBeat 12:31 PM
  • "Put down your phone if you want to innovate" TechCrunch 7:57 AM
  • "We're all Just Starting to Realize the Power of Personal Data" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:48 AM
Humor/Cartoons
  • "If your computer really cared about you...." The Joy of Tech [cartoon] 7:26 AM
Press Releases/Products/Public Relations
  • "Netflix permanently pulls iTunes billing for new users"  VentureBeat 2:34 PM
  • "Netflix No Longer Offering In-App Subscription Options on iOS Devices" MacRumors 2:34 PM
  • "Capsicum is a new app that merges notes, to-do lists, and reminders on iPhone and iPad" 9to5Mac 12:31 PM
  • "Look back at your listening trends of 2018 with the free Music Year in Review app" iDownload Blog 8:11 AM
  • "Best iPhone screen protectors: Keep your screen flawless" Macworld 7:44 AM
Computer Industry
  • "Microsoft will end 2018 as America's most valuable company: Barring any further stock market shocks, Microsoft will finish the year ahead of Apple and Amazon as America's most valuable publicly-quoted company, despite never making it to $1 trillion." ZDNet 9:27 AM
  • "Google Has the All-Important AI Edge Over Microsoft: Both Microsoft and Alphabet have prominent roles in the cutting edge of software, machine learning. But Google's control of the most popular framework, TensorFlow, gives it a leg up on Microsoft." TheStreet 8:30 AM
  • "Microsoft's 2018, part 2: Azure data centres heat up and Windows 10? It burns! It burns!" The Register 7:59 AM
  • "Microsoft's Pending DaaS Launch Poised to Impact Citrix Ecosystem" Channel Partners 9:27 AM
  • "Microsoft, Taiwan AI Labs unveil TaiGenomics" DigiTimes 8:12 AM
  • "Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality PC Check app will now try and sell you a new PC" MSPoweruser 8:05 PM
  • "Dell debuts at $46 in return to market" Reuters 9:10 AM
  • "Dell returns to stock market with $34bn valuation" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 12:24 PM
  • "Dell returns to market with NYSE listing" Reuters 12:31 PM
  • "Dell returns to public stock market after years as private company: Dell debuted on the NYSE Friday" The Verge 2:06 PM
  • "Dell Technologies Closes Class V Transaction" RTTNews 9:02 AM
  • "IBM's Harriet Green tells how India became disruption centre of universe" Business Standard 9:26 AM
  • "What Are HPE's Plans as the Server Market Gets Tough?" Market Realist 8:10 AM
  • "Intel to receive $185 million grant for Israel expansion" Financial World 8:55 AM
  • "Intel Stock Got Hammered This Year. Is It Finally Cheap Enough?" Barron's 8:54 AM
  • "AMD Claim Navi Will Compete With Nvidia's High-End" eTeknix 8:57 AM
  • "Nvidia, AMD Gaming-Card Prices Are Tanking, Says Analyst" Barron's 9:00 AM
  • "Oracle's Larry Ellison, Walgreens Executive Join Tesla Board To Fulfill SEC Settlement Over Musk Tweets" Forbes 8:40 AM
  • "Tesla names Oracle founder Larry Ellison to board as part of SEC settlement" Business Insider 7:59 AM
  • "Tesla adds Larry Ellison to its board" BBC 11:23 AM
Finances (Click heading for current Apple Stock price.)
Apple News
  • "Trip Chowdhry: Apple is doomed" Apple 3.0 8:37 AM
  • "Techlash: the fall of the Faangs" [Video Report] Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7:30 AM
Industry News
  • "Stocks edge lower as Wall Street prepares to wrap up week of wild swings: S&P 500 on track for first December weekly gain" MarketWatch 3:58 PM
  • "Nasdaq Scores 4% Weekly Gain As Stock Market Snaps Losing Streak: Stocks settled for a mixed finish after searching for direction throughout the session. Rising chips helped boost the Nasdaq to a gain; small caps outperformed in the stock market today." Investor's Business Daily 3:58 PM
  • "US stocks end wild week with a relative whimper" FOXBusiness 3:58 PM
  • "More volatility: US stocks wobble on another turbulent day" Associated Press 3:58 PM
  • "Dow Industrials Fall to End Volatile Week: All three major U.S. indexes snapped a three-week losing streak" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:58 PM
  • "Nikkei retreats while other Asian markets eke out cautious gains: Bank of Japan warns of rising risks; Hang Seng gives up early sharper gains" MarketWatch 8:45 AM
  • "European stocks end the week higher; DAX logs worst annual decline in 10 years" MarketWatch 3:45 PM

 
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