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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, June 27, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Dr. Dre & Jimmy Iovine Ordered to Pay $25M Over Beats Headphone Royalties"  Billboard 3:53 PM
  • "Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine slapped with $25 million verdict in Beats royalty suit" AppleInsider 6:56 PM
  • "Apple once again rumored to transform LA landmark into retail store: A report on Wednesday revived rumors of Apple's interest in turning the Tower Theater, a designated historic-cultural monument in downtown Los Angeles, into a retail outlet, though hard evidence of the company's plans remains elusive." AppleInsider 7:25 PM
  • "Apple Pay Accounts For 1 In 2 Oem Pay Users Globally, Reaching 200 Million By 2020" Juniper Research 8:44 AM
  • "Juniper Research: Apple Pay has the pole position, but..." Apple 3.0 8:56 AM
  • "Apple CarPlay, Android Auto winning UI, distracted driving battle over automaker systems, says AAA"  ZDNet 10:03 AM
  • "Chinese smartphone market suffers a hard-landing, shipments decline by 21% in Q1 2018" ["Xiaomi was the only company to buck the trend, growing shipments by 37% to 12 million units, and overtaking Apple to take fourth place."] Canalys 7:55 AM
  • "Four Tech Giants Are Eating Up China's Smartphone Market: Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi's increasing shares of a contracting Chinese smartphone market are pushing outside and smaller vendors including Apple, Gionee, Meizu, and Samsung into an ever-shrinking piece of the pie." PC Magazine 7:56 AM
  • "Vivo's face ID tech has 10 times as many sensor points as the iPhone X" The Verge 8:30 AM
  • "Apple Books Is Replacing iBooks" Forbes 7:52 AM
  • "As Foxconn Breaks Ground in Wisconsin, the Costs to Taxpayers Go Up: State, municipalities have pledged nearly $1 billion in sweeteners on top of initial $3 billion incentive package to lure manufacturer" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:29 AM
  • "As Foxconn breaks ground on Wisconsin plant, incentives hit $4 billion" VentureBeat 9:57 AM
  • "A book about Steve Jobs put Xiaomi founder Lei Jun on the road to a $6 billion IPO" Quartz 8:45 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "DOJ Approves Disney Acquisition of Fox, Requires Regional Sports Channel Sale" The Mac Observer 7:57 PM
  • "T-Mobile and Sprint CEOs testify before the Senate" [Video Report] FOXBusiness 3:59 PM
  • "Is technology ruining your relationship? Nicole Kidman has a remedy" ZDNet 1:09 PM
  • "WPA3 Arrives to Shore Up WiFi Security" TechNewsWorld 11:27 AM
  • "This could be the last year you'll want to buy headphones — a new audio technology is coming in 2019 that could make them obsolete" Business Insider 11:27 AM
  • "SingularityNET CEO says we need to democratize AI to survive it" VentureBeat 11:02 AM
  • "Slack hit with widespread service outage" ZDNet 10:03 AM
  • "HTC to rekindle smartphone business with new technologies" DigiTimes 8:31 AM
  • "Samsung officially announces 'Unpacked' event on August 9th for Galaxy Note 9" 9to5Google 10:32 AM
  • "Samsung's new ISOCELL Plus camera tech to offer better, brighter photos" Android Authority 8:24 AM
  • "BBC releases computer history archive" BBC 8:19 AM
  • "Qualcomm Has Big Plans For Kids 4G Smartwatches" Forbes 8:05 AM
  • "Google Sets Rules to Curtail Employee Debates: Internet giant bans 'trolling' on internal message boards and ad hominem attacks against co-workers" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2:26 PM
  • "Google Rolls Out New Internal Rules in an Effort to Fix Its Culture" Gizmodo 2:25 PM
  • "Google Maps Makes it Easier to Explore Your Surroundings" PC Magazine 11:40 AM
  • "'Hey, Google, what's your deal?' Bugs are plaguing Google Home users worldwide" Digital Trends 11:02 AM
  • "Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL 360-degree render videos appear online" Android Authority 8:24 AM
  • "Google opens its human-sounding Duplex AI to public testing" CNET 8:12 AM
  • "Google Added A Measurement Tool To Google Earth And It's Great" Forbes 8:05 AM
  • "Thanatos ransomware: Free decryption tool released for destructive file-locking malware" ZDNet 7:57 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Road to Macstock -David Ginsburg On An iOS-Oriented Workflow" MacVoices 2:19 PM
  • "Abusive Relationships and Smart Home Devices -TMO Daily Observations 2018-06-27" The Mac Observer 12:56 PM