Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:45 AM ET, February 26, 2009

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Engineering Windows 7:
Some Changes Since Beta for the RC  —  We've been quite busy for the past two months or so working through all the feedback we've received on Windows 7.  It should be no surprise but the Release Candidate for Windows 7 will have quite a few changes, many under the hood so to speak but also many visible.
RELATED:
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Microsoft publishes list of changes in Windows 7 RC
Discussion: SuperSite Blog and GeekTonic, Thanks:leemathews
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia considering entering laptop industry  —  HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia is eyeing entering the laptop business, its Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday.
RELATED:
Bill Ray / The Register:
Nokia plotting Symbian laptops
Discussion: IntoMobile, Gizmodo and jkOnTheRun
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Twitter = YouTube.  —  What?  Is Battelle crazy?  Hear me out.  Think back when YouTube was growing like a weed, and Google snapped it up.  Most folks (including me) saw this as Google “getting into the video business,” and sure, that in fact was one part of the equation.
RELATED:
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Enters the Twitter Game : Google + Twitter = Twoogling?  —  Google is now on Twitter.  As insane as it may seem, it has taken Google years to start using their Google account, which is located at Twitter.com/Google  —  Google + Twitter = Twoogling?
RELATED:
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Google says hello to Twitter with a stream of 1s and 0s
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
New York Times to the Web: Hands Off Our “T”!  —  The New York Times is justifiably proud of the work its staff publishes on the its flagship Web site every day.  It's also very proud of the first letter of its name.  —  That seems to be the lesson in a flap between the paper and Newser …
RELATED:
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:   It's NYTCo's Turn To Complain About Aggregators
Frederik Schaffalitzky / Google LatLong:
Explore more with User Photos in Street View  —  Starting today, a new feature lets you browse popular user-contributed photos from Panoramio at major landmarks around the world.  The many people who virtually visit Paris to see the famous Eiffel Tower or the Notre Dame cathedral in Street View …
RELATED:
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:   User Photos Enhance Google Street View
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Better Interface for Uploading Gmail Attachments  —  Gmail improved substantially the interface for uploading attachments: now you can select multiple attachments at once and there's a progress bar that displays the status of your uploads.  It's much easier to upload multiple files from a folder …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft lawyer 'won't speculate' on Linux suits  —  REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft's top intellectual property lawyer said that the company's legal action against TomTom over Linux was specific to that company, but he declined to say whether other suits over the open source operating system might follow.
RELATED:
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux and other patent claims
Sydney Morning Herald:
Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end  —  The Government's plan to introduce mandatory internet censorship has effectively been scuttled, following an independent senator's decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to get the scheme started.
Tracey John / MTV Multiplayer:
Id Software Hopes ‘Quake Live’ Lasts At Least A Decade  —  The makers of “Quake Live,” a new browser-based online multiplayer game based on “Quake III: Arena,” talk about how hard it was getting it to work with different browsers and how they plan to make “Quake” appeal to a much broader audience …
RELATED:
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Trial Day 9: BitTorrent Is Not Evil  —  First up today was Kristoffer Schollin who spoke via telephone from Gothenburg University.  He explained he is a lecturer in IT law with a particular interest in file-sharing and has written a paper on Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Discussion: p2pnet
Josh Cohen / Google News Blog:
Ads in Google News search results  —  If you're in the US, starting today you may notice something a bit different when you search Google News.  —  Last November, we announced plans to begin experimenting with ads on a number of Google properties, including news query refinements within Google search.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL International Head Out: Rejiggering Commences!  —  Yahoo's not the only place BoomTown gets internal corporate memos from!  —  Here are two about big changes in AOL's international-such that it is-unit, as the head of it-Maneesh Dhir (pictured here)-moves on.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Salesforce.com: High maintenance costs are pushing customers to us  —  Salesforce.com delivered strong fourth quarter results that put CEO Marc Benioff in a more chatty mood than usual.  The big takeaway: Salesforce.com is using high maintenance costs from big vendors like Oracle and SAP to its advantage.
Discussion: eWeek, PR Newswire and Seeking Alpha
Jaimee Steele / comScore:
comScore: Light PC Internet Users Are 30 Percent More Likely than Heavy PC Internet Users to Access Mobile Internet Content  —  Results from first PC/Mobile Internet overlap panel suggest  —  Mobile can enhance a PC digital advertising campaign  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) …
Discussion: GigaOM, GPS Obsessed and ResourceShelf
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Hacking contest offers $10,000 for iPhone exploit  —  Pwn2Own your smartphone  —  Free whitepaper - Trend Micro marries security with Cloud Computing  —  An annual hacker competition planned for next month has setting its sights on Apple's iPhone and four other smart phones in a contest …
Discussion: DVLabs and AppScout
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
The Troubling Implications Of Recognizing ‘Hot News’ As Property  —  from the you-can-copyright-facts?  dept  —  A bunch of sites have been discussing the Associated Press's lawsuit against All Headline News, but I wanted to spend some time reading up on the case before commenting — and the more I read, the more troubling it became.
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
New phishing scam targets MobileMe users  —  In another attempt to con MobileMe users into providing their credit card information, a scammer has sent out spam spoofed to appear to come from Apple, which directs users to a fake site designed to look like Apple's.
Discussion: The iPhone Blog
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Why Are iPhone Users Willing to Pay for Content?  —  It may be no surprise that the bestselling computer book so far this year is “iPhone: The Missing Manual,” by my colleague David Pogue (O'Reilly, 2007).  —  But here is something that did surprise me: The most popular edition of this book isn't on paper …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 11:45 AM ET, February 26, 2009.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Tribe AI:
Is AI just hype?  —  Find out how top enterprises use Tribe to get real business results.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Zoho:
Authy killed their desktop apps.  Time to switch to a reliable authenticator.  Time to switch to Zoho OneAuth.  —  Twilio's Authy recently announced end of life (EOL) for their desktop apps on March 19, 2024—five months ahead of schedule.
Comprehensive.io:
Browse salary data from 3,000 startups for free  —  Click for FREE, immediate access to real-time compensation benchmarking data.  Paid version helps HR automate comp reviews and communicate total compensation to employees.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple to further polish Leopard with 10.5.7 update
Discussion: Softpedia News and I4U News
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Happy birthday, Yahoo Buzz. Who are you again?
Discussion: Yodel Anecdotal
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Music Labels Reach A New Low, Sue Developer For Using Seeqpod API
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft renews Vista anticrack campaign
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Google's EU Gambit Is Stupid
 Earlier Items: 
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Palm Energizes Developers for the Pre Phone
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and CrunchGear
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Would You Pay Comcast $10 a Month for Online TV?
Discussion: ParisLemon
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
10 reasons to buy a Kindle 2... and 10 reasons not to
Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Flexible Touchscreen E-paper Signals the Rise of Touchscreens Everywhere
Discussion: Incremental Blogger
Paul Boutin / Gadgetwise:
President Obama Abandons Twitter
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Sam Wolfson / The Guardian:
A look at the rise of celebrity-hosted interview podcasts, whose long running times mean guests delve into deep and personal topics, resembling therapy sessions

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page