Newsletter Archive: 2012

Apple Has Approved 1 Million Apps for the App Store
As of Monday, Apple has now approved more than 1 million apps for the App Store, according to data from Appsfire, a mobile app discovery platform. Appsfire announced the news in a tweet early Monday: Breaking: today will mark the day the App store has [...]
Date: 11-19-2012

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Does HTC pact signal patent-fight shift for Apple?
Nomura analyst Aaron Jeng said Apple's late founder and chief executive, Steve Jobs, had strong feelings about "destroying his copycats," while current CEO Tim Cook thinks differently. "He appears to be less interested in spending so many resources on lawsuits."
Date: 11-12-2012

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Gas Prices Keep Falling, Survey Shows
A combination of the effects of a fall in California pump prices, the reduced demand caused by the fuel shortages seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, and lower crude prices have led to the most substantial drop in gas prices seen in the United States.
Date: 11-05-2012

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Verizon becomes sole home to Nokia Lumia 822
Nokia and Verizon have teamed up on an upcoming product launch.

The companies announced today that Verizon will carry the Nokia Lumia 822. The Windows Phone 8-based handset comes with a 4.3-inch display and the Snapdragon S4 processor. According to Nokia, users will have 11.7 hours of talk time and 62.1 hours of music playback time.
Date: 10-29-2012

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Samsung Chromebook: Hands-On Review
Google's latest Chrome OS device, the third-generation Samsung Chromebook, isn't quite disposable, but it's so affordably priced--$249, or $330 with 3G--that you could drop it and live with yourself. All your valuable data would be safe in some distant data.
Date: 10-22-2012

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LG's Nexus 4, tech's worst-kept secret, gets outed again
Jason Parks, a Texas-based software engineer who works for Google, published photos on his Google+ page over the weekend of his son sleeping. Although that might seem innocuous enough, after users clicked the "Photo details" link to the side of the images, EXIF data contained in that pane revealed it was taken with the Nexus 4.
Date: 10-15-2012

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Coders Behind the Flame Malware Left Digital Clues on Control Servers
The attackers behind the nation-state espionage tool known as Flame accidentally left behind tantalizing clues that provide information about their identity and that suggest the attack began earlier and was more widespread than previously...
Date: 09-17-2012

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Stores report zero BlackBerry sales in last month
Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette told All Things Digital in an interview published today that his retail checks indicate "BlackBerry sales were largely unchanged in August versus July; however, we detected meaningfully lower inventory levels versus a month ago." Translation? Carriers are content with fewer BlackBerrys, since they might not sell many of them.
Date: 09-11-2012

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Droid Razr HD videos leak: Is this Motorola's new flagship smartphone?
Five leaked tutorial videos surfaced on YouTube over the weekend allegedly revealing Motorola's new flagship Android handset, the Motorola Razr HD. Motorola and Verizon are due to host an event on September 5 and we're beginning to think that the [...]
Date: 08-20-2012

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Web security flaws revealed by hackers
By Byron Acohido SEATTLE — The security community is on alert for hackers who might try to emulate the simple trickery used to breach a prominent technology journalist's Amazon, Apple, Google and Twitter accounts. That hacking caper has rekindled [...]
Date: 08-13-2012

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Samsung Shows Courtroom to Witnesses, Breaks Court Rules
Is The iPhone's Design Inevitable? Apple-Samsung Patent Trial Continues (Live [...]
Date: 08-06-2012

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