Linked List: October 8, 2012

Monday, 8 October 2012

HTC Sales Drop ★: Everyone talks about the Apple-Samsung rivalry, but on the sidelines, companies like HTC have been ravaged.
James Bond’s Film-by-Film Body Counts Illustrated in the Style of the ‘Dr. No’ Title Sequence ★: The name is Dawes. Brendan Dawes.
Told You It’s Nice ★: Farhad Manjoo:

I’ll go even further: When I pick up the iPhone 5 and examine it closely, I find it difficult to believe that this device actually exists. The iPhone 5 does not feel like a product that was mass produced. In a strange way, it doesn’t feel like it was built at all. This is a gadget that seems as if it fell into the box fully formed. If you run your hands around its face, you scarcely feel any seams or other points of connection; there’s little evidence that this thing is a highly complex device made from lots of smaller things. Instead it just feels like a single, solid, exquisitely crafted piece of machinery, and once you pick it up you never want to put it down.
iCloud: Extended Complimentary Storage for Former MobileMe Members ★: Apple:

As a thank you to our former MobileMe members who moved to iCloud, we have extended the complimentary storage upgrade they received until September 30, 2013. This extension applies to accounts moved to iCloud between October 12th, 2011 and August 1st, 2012.
Ex-TSA Agent: We Steal From Travelers All the Time ★: ABC News:

Pythias Brown, a former Transportation Security Administration officer at Newark Liberty International Airport, spent four years stealing everything he could from luggage and security checkpoints, including clothing, laptops, cameras, Nintendo Wiis, video games and cash. Speaking publicly for the first time after being released after three years in prison, Brown told ABC News that he used the X-ray scanners to locate the most valuable items to snatch.
The 13 Most Shameless Super Mario Rip-Offs on the App Store ★: “Ultra Dario” is my favorite.
Eric Schmidt: ‘By the Summer of 2012, the Majority of the Televisions You See in Stores Will Have Google TV Embedded’ ★: Maybe he meant some other 2012?