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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, August 28, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Gartner Says Huawei Secured No. 2 Worldwide Smartphone Vendor Spot, Surpassing Apple in Second Quarter 2018" Gartner 7:50 AM
  • "Huawei elbows aside Apple to claim number-two phone maker spot" The Register 7:28 AM
  • "And then there were three: Huawei shatters the duopoly" Mobile News 8:20 AM
  • "Huawei notch comparison with iPhone X notch backfires in ad" Cult of Mac 12:07 PM
  • "Steve Jobs' widow blasts stepdaughter's memoir"  CNNMoney 9:44 AM
  • "Madonna and Metallica PR veteran joins Apple" Cult of Mac 8:00 AM
  • "Big Canadian IT services firm: '75% employees want Apple" Apple Must 10:52 AM
  • "Apple is giving away 200GB of iCloud storage for free" TechShout 8:26 AM
  • "San Jose family billed $13,470 for half-hour of iPhone internet" KGO 8:22 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Report: Amazon is going to launch a free streaming TV channel for Fire TV owners" BGR 8:59 PM
  • "Bose launches the first real HomePod competitor, a $400 Alexa-powered monstrosity" BGR 8:27 PM
  • "Google's Play Store crypto-mining ban is not going well" BGR 8:25 PM
  • "Huawei again estimated to have overtaken Apple as world's No. 2 smartphone vendor" AppleInsider 9:00 PM
  • "Huawei Slides Past Apple To Take Second Place In Global Smartphone Market Share" HotHardware 4:55 PM
  • "Spyware Company That Marketed To Domestic Abusers Gets Hacked" Motherboard 1:27 PM
  • "Net neutrality fight gets ugly with robocalls spreading false claims: The robocalls reportedly target senior citizens in California." CNET 4:04 PM
  • "Ajit Pai killed net neutrality but still wants you to love the FCC" The Verge 10:52 AM
  • "Email security systems miss thousands of malicious links" BetaNews 10:22 AM
  • "Mark Zuckerberg figured out a powerful rule about smartphone apps before everyone else — now we're seeing how important it is to Facebook's business" Business Insider 9:31 AM
  • "Tumblr to crack down on hate speech and violence" CNET 8:54 AM
  • "T-Mobile merger with Sprint would cost 28,000 jobs: Union" ZDNet 8:03 AM
  • "Google responds to Trump, says no political motive in search results" Reuters 12:33 PM
  • "Google and several other tech companies pushing for a new federal privacy law" Android Police 8:44 AM
  • "Trump Attacks Google With Claim It is Burying Conservative News" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 11:58 AM
  • "President Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results Against Him, Calls It 'Very Dangerous'" ["Update, 10:20am: Google just sent Gizmodo the following statement: When users type queries into the Google Search bar, our goal is to make sure they receive the most relevant answers in a matter of seconds. Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don't bias our results toward any political ideology. Every year, we issue hundreds of improvements to our algorithms to ensure they surface high-quality content in response to users' queries. We continually work to improve Google Search and we never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment."] Gizmodo 9:35 AM
  • "Trump claims Google is suppressing positive news about him and 'will be addressed'" The Verge 7:50 AM
  • "Trump pledges to address Google's 'leftwing media bias'" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7:34 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Let's Talk iOS 254: Let's redesign the line" iDownload Blog 7:59 AM
  • "AppStories, Episode 76 – Our Favorite Share Sheet Extensions" MacStories 7:43 AM