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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, August 1, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Huawei beats Apple in smartphone sales for the first time"  CNNMoney 7:26 AM
  • "Huawei overtakes Apple in smartphone shipments" TechCrunch 7:31 AM
  • "By Outselling the iPhone, Huawei Shows It Doesn't Need the U.S. to Succeed" Gizmodo 3:44 PM
  • "Apple just explained why it's going to make original TV shows"  CNBC 9:51 AM
  • "Apple head tax dies in Cupertino. Did the hyperloop kill it? Cupertino's brief second flirtation with putting an Apple-targeted business tax on the November ballot to pay for transportation improvements died a quick and unanimous death Tuesday night. It may have been killed by Elon Musk's hyperloop idea as much as the four City Council members who voted it down."  Silicon Valley Business Journal 8:50 AM
  • "Cupertino City Council Balks at New Tax After Apple Objects: Officials had intended the tax to raise as much as $10 million for transportation projects to help ease crippling commuter traffic" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:50 AM
  • "The city of Cupertino is in talks to build a Hyperloop in Apple's backyard — and its mayor hopes Apple might help pay for it" Business Insider 11:59 AM
  • "Apple users 'most appealing' online scam targets — Report" Computerworld 8:20 AM
  • "Apple Watch keeps spotting cardiac issues and saving lives, this time in Australia" AppleInsider 2:37 PM
  • "Apple, Qualcomm may make peace over 5G, supply chain speculates" DigiTimes 7:57 AM
  • "'I Have A Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs': Lisa Brennan-Jobs Recalls Memories Of Her Famous Father/In an excerpt from her memoir, Small Fry, the author reflects on Jobs's privacy, his temper, and watching a legend grow before her eyes."  Vanity Fair 4:05 PM
  • "Lisa Brennan-Jobs shares memories of her father in memoir: In 'Small Fry,' set for publication in September, the eldest daughter of Steve Jobs tells stories about the late Apple cofounder, and her life."  AppleInsider 6:08 PM
  • "Lisa Brennan-Jobs Shares Memories of Steve Jobs in New 'Small Fry' Memoir Excerpt" MacRumors 6:46 PM
  • "Steve Jobs lied to his daughter about name of the Apple Lisa: It took a direct question from U2 frontman Bono in the South of France for the computer mogul to reveal the truth." CNET 8:09 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "T-Mobile leads all US carriers in smartphone subscriber growth again: The Un-carrier engine keeps humming with 1.6 million net new customers." CNET 3:43 PM
  • "Reddit says user data between 2005 and 2007 breached" Reuters 3:37 PM
  • "Reddit says hackers breached its systems, some user data compromised" ZDNet 3:37 PM
  • "Samsung's new Galaxy Tab S4 tries to beat the iPad at productivity" The Verge 10:10 AM
  • "Samsung thinks the Galaxy Tab S4 can replace your laptop" TechCrunch 10:08 AM
  • "Spear phishing attack hits more than 400 industrial companies" BetaNews 10:01 AM
  • "Spam is getting smarter and we're still falling for it: As security gets tighter, the easiest way to get malware onto a PC is to trick the person at the keyboard." ZDNet 9:53 AM
  • "France bans smartphones in schools: Students will be forced to switch off devices from September." Engadget 8:00 AM
  • "Turing probably can't build its crazy new smartphone, but I'd love to see it try" The Next Web 7:50 AM
  • "Whistleblower reveals Google's plans for censored search in China: The search engine would filter sites like Wikipedia and information about topics like freedom of speech" The Verge 7:30 AM
  • "Why learn to use gadgets when they can just learn to help us? Exactly, says LG" Digital Trends 7:52 AM
  • "LG to open next AI research lab in Canada: The company will also kick off a new research partnership with the University of Toronto." CNET 7:26 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Macstock -Kelly Guimont On The Importance of the Macstock Audience" MacVoices 9:34 PM
  • "AAPL Q3 2018 Earnings, R&D and Robots -TMO Daily Observations 2018-08-01" The Mac Observer 2:14 PM
  • "Podcast: The Future of Overwatch League and eSports" Axios 11:58 AM
  • "Ars on your lunch break: Tim O'Reilly discusses the birth of 'open source'/We flash back to a time in the '90s when it seemed like Microsoft would eat everything." Ars Technica 11:15 AM