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MacSurfer's Archive: Thursday, March 22, 2012
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Half of Apple fanbois would bank with the iPad titan: One in 10 punters polled in the US and UK admitted they would bank with Apple if the iPad maker decided to move into the money sector. Among Apple product owners, 43 per cent of those quizzed would consider dumping their current banks for the iPhone biz." The Register 10:00 AM
  • "Apple and Samsung 'rule the roost' with 90% of mobile industry's profits" AppleInsider 10:22 AM
  • "UBS: Half of new iPads sold will tap into 4G" GigaOM 4:47 PM
  • "BlackBerry crushed: Apple iPhone beats RIM in Canada" Computerworld 7:53 AM
  • "BlackBerry Loses Top Spot to Apple at Home: Corporate Canada" Bloomberg 8:39 AM
  • "Ouch. iPhone Outsells BlackBerry in Canada." AllThingsD 11:10 AM
  • "Why Is RIM Hiring iOS App Developers?" AllThingsD 4:26 PM
  • "RIM hiring iOS developers for enterprise apps" AppleInsider 6:41 PM
  • "Warehouse boss throws down gauntlet to Apple: On Wednesday, The Warehouse sold 100 units of the new iPad, throwing a spanner in Apple's carefully staged-managed plans for Friday's official release." National Business Review, New Zealand 8:38 AM
  • "iPhoto for iOS hits one million users" TUAW 8:38 AM
  • "iPhoto for iOS has over one million users in less than 10 days" The Verge 9:32 AM
  • "Portland Commission Offers Feedback on Store Design" ifoAppleStore 4:54 PM
  • "First look at huge Portland 'glass box' Apple Store" 9 to 5 Mac 5:34 PM
  • "An aerial view of Apple's North Carolina solar array site" FairerPlatform 9:50 AM
  • "Foxconn International swings to 2011 net profit" Reuters 10:55 AM
  • "Report: Nokia, Apple battle over ultra-tiny nano-SIMs" The Register 2:14 PM
  • "None of us can ever complain that a piece of software is too hard to learn again" Macenstein 9:39 AM
  • "New iPad Proves to be Tougher than Predecessors" PadGadget 4:49 PM
  • "Android store spotted in China ... selling iPhones" The Register 2:15 PM
  • "Linux creator Linus Torvalds declined job offer from Steve Jobs" SlashGear 10:02 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Sprint to offer lower prepaid service plans" MarketWatch 2:18 PM
  • "Android 5.0, aka Jelly Bean, rumored for Q3 release" CNET News 2:28 PM
  • "AT&T Says Ice Cream Sandwich Update Available, at Least for One of Its Android Phones" AllThingsD 2:17 PM
  • "Designer creating new versions of Raspberry Pi" ZDNet 2:06 PM
  • "Facebook Adding High-Resolution Photos and Fullscreen Viewing Today" Techland 1:55 PM
  • "Facebook's new privacy policy to come into effect on Friday evening: Facebook's comment period on the updated privacy policy ends Friday" Techworld 1:43 PM
  • "Photoshop CS6 Beta Unveiled With Video, Content-Aware Tools" PC Magazine 11:58 AM
  • "Clojure inventor Hickey now aims for Android: In an interview, Clojure founder Rich Hickey discusses future of the functional JVM language, including his mobile aspirations" InfoWorld 11:37 AM
  • "Nvidia Unveils Ultra-Efficient Kepler GPU: With performance per watt as its new rallying cry, Nvidia puts a fresh spin on its eternal rivalry with AMD for desktop—and especially laptop—graphics supremacy." PC Magazine 11:56 AM
  • "Google dumps keys, passwords; secures services with standards, certs" ZDNet 2:05 PM
  • "Google mulls bribing operators to stuff its Wallet into pockets" The Register 1:48 PM
  • "Google Wave Still Shutting Down April 30" eWeek 11:23 AM
  • "Google patents tech to serve ads based on background noise: In theory Google could listen in on phone conversations and serve ads based on background noise" IDG News Service 10:54 AM
  • "Google imagines environment-aware mobile adverts" BBC 10:35 AM
  • "Acer Releases Iconia Tab A510 Android Tablet, Plans for a Windows 8 Tablet" ABCNews 10:34 AM
  • "Sony colorfully reveals Android 4.0 schedule for tablets" CNET News 10:21 AM
  • "Will Megaupload's 28 petabytes of data be deleted? Megaupload's hosting provider, Carpathia, wants to get rid of it, saying it costs US$9,000 a day to maintain" IDG News Service 10:54 AM
  • "Mass Effect 3: Creators address ending backlash" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 9:59 AM
  • "Nokia Agrees With Unions on 1,000 Job Cuts at Finnish Plant" Bloomberg 10:17 AM
  • "Tech firms clamor for space in bubbly S.F. market" MarketWatch 9:50 AM
  • "Windows 8 ready for HiDPI displays" Electronista 11:04 AM
  • "Dude, where's your phone? Lookout knows... and tells" CNET News 8:37 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Mac Geek Gab Premium Podcast: MGG 387: iOS Calendar Alerts, Network Bridging, 4G & More" The Mac Observer 4:16 PM