Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:40 AM ET, September 26, 2011

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
New York Times:
Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks  —  LOS ANGELES — DreamWorks Animation, the company behind successful movie franchises like “Madagascar” and “Shrek,” said it had completed a deal to pump its films and television specials through Netflix, replacing a less lucrative pact with HBO.
RELATED:
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Netflix steals Dreamworks from HBO  —  Updated.  Netflix has signed an exclusive deal with Dreamworks Animation to stream the studio's box office hits to its customers, the New York Times reported today.  Dreamworks previously supplied the movies to HBO, but Netflix outbid the TV network …
Discussion: GigaOM
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
October iPhone Event to Be Held On Apple Campus  —  Historically, Apple has held its big product demonstrations in San Francisco.  The iPad and iPad 2 where unveiled there, as were all iterations of the iPhone to date.  —  This year things are going to be different.
Nik Cubrilovic:
Logging out of Facebook is not enough  —  Dave Winer wrote a timely piece this morning about how Facebook is scaring him since the new API allows applications to post status items to your Facebook timeline without a users intervention.  It is an extension of Facebook Instant and they call it frictionless sharing.
RELATED:
Laura June / This is my next:
Facebook's new sharing is anything but ‘frictionless’  —  Just a few days ago, Facebook announced a number of significant changes, most importantly of which is the morphing of personal profiles into “timelines,” where each update, tagging, event, and photo is now a “story” of one's life.
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
What Exactly Am I Doing Here At Uncrunched?  —  William Shatner once asked me what exactly I was doing at TechCrunch, the blog I started in June 2005.  Let's put aside the fact that I was testing out a new service that got celebrity autographs and a video in exchange for cash.
Bryce Roberts / BRYCE DOT VC:
Love or hate Sean Parker, the guy has been at the center of a few storms that have had Katrina-like effects on the industries they've touched.This is a clip of Shawn discussing the early days and impact of the first company he co-founded: Napster.  —  I remember the first time I used Napster.
Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Workers' Own Cellphones and iPads Find a Role at the Office  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Throughout the information age, the corporate I.T. department has stood at the chokepoint of office technology with a firm hand on what equipment and software employees use in the workplace.  —  They are now in retreat.
Discussion: TUAW and PadGadget
Jean-Louis Gasse / Monday Note:
How Bad Boards Kill Companies: HP  —  Edited by Frédéric Filloux  —  'A good Board can't make a company, but a bad one will inevitably kill it.' Thus spake Barry Weinman, the Gentleman Capitalist, when I joined the VC brotherhood.  He meant to tell me to watch out for co-investors …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google And Monopoly Theater  —  As I watched the Google antitrust hearings last Wednesday, with its gotcha moments and Senators pontificating about the dangers Google poses to society, it struck me that what I was watching was theater.  And not just any theater, but monopoly theater.
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:
Samsung announces 10 million Galaxy SII devices sold into the channel  —  With the US launch of the Galaxy SII phone underway, Samsung today announced that they have sold 10 million Galaxy SII devices into sales channels.  That follows hints earlier that the 10 million number was expected by the end of the year.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Feds close huge chip counterfeiting case (exclusive)  —  VisionTech Components sold a large amount of semiconductor chips to more than 1,100 customers from its office in Clearwater, Fla. Unfortunately, federal prosecutors allege, the chips were counterfeits.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 12:40 AM ET, September 26, 2011.

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:
All new Zoho Workerly 2024  —  Staffing businesses around the world face a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing their temporary workforce.  With a constantly shifting job market and changing staffing needs …
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: 
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Mexico Turns to Twitter and Facebook for Information and Survival
Discussion: Computerworld
Unaiz Kabani / Yipit Blog:
Google Offers Having Banner Month in September
Discussion: Business Insider, Thanks:vacanti
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Federal Law Blocks Netflix, Facebook Integration — But Should It?
Cade Metz / The Register:
How the Yahoo! homepage predicts your clicks
Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters:
Not so simple: U.S. spy agency trying to go mobile
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
$10 Music Piracy Fine: A Fair Deal Or Just Another Cheap Trick?
Discussion: paidContent
 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
Social media to curb ‘rumors’ in China
Thanks:cltom
Mark Clayton / Christian Science Monitor:
From the man who discovered Stuxnet, dire warnings one year later
Christopher Trout / Engadget:
Motorola Xoom 2 evidence mounts — new photos, rumored specs and a Media Edition?