Top Items:
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Why Heather Matters — TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde announced her departure today. — I'm so angry. — Drift back to the end of 2006. TechCrunch was a year and a half old. My hobby had turned into a business. Federated Media was selling our standard ads and sent a small check every month.
Discussion:
@fredericl, Business Insider, @karaswisher, @sarahcuda and @paulcarr, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:mattlynley
RELATED:
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Goodbye, Heather — Heather Harde, the business brains behind TechCrunch, will be stepping down at the end of the year as general manager of AOL's technology properties (including TechCrunch, Engadget, Joystiq, and TUAW). AOL GM Jay Kirsch, who oversees Autos, Finance, and Industry on the business side …
Discussion:
VentureBeat, parislemon, MediaPost and WebProNews, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
IT'S OFFICIAL: TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde Has Left AOL
Discussion:
@vaughnbrown, Pulse2, @arrington, @nero and @taylorbuley
Joshua Kopstein / MOTHERBOARD:
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works — I remember fondly the days when we were all tickled pink by our elected officials' struggle to understand how the internet works. Whether it was George W. Bush referring to “the internets” or Senator Ted Stevens describing …
RELATED:
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Stop Online Piracy Act Vote Delayed — The House Judiciary Committee is considering whether to send the Stop Online Piracy Act to the House floor abruptly adjourned Friday with no new vote date set — a surprise given that the bill looked certain to pass out of committee today.
Discussion:
CBS News, Techdirt, The Verge, GigaOM, VentureBeat, @mmasnick, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Electronista, Gizmodo, The Domains, The Hill, WebProNews, The Firewall, Pulse2, That's Debatable, PC Magazine and Felix Salmon, more at Mediagazer »
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Android 4.0.3 announced, bringing ‘variety of optimizations and bug fixes’ to phones and tablets — Merely a day after Verizon's version of the Galaxy Nexus was gifted with v4.0.2, Google itself is announcing Android 4.0.3, a so-called “ incremental release of the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) platform.”
Discussion:
Android Central, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Verge, BGR, PhoneArena, GottaBeMobile, netbooknews.com, MobileBurn.com, CNET News, xda-developers, Electronista and GottaBeMobile
RELATED:
Daniel Ionescu / PC World:
Flash Player 11.1 Arrives for Android Ice Cream Sandwich — The first owners of the Galaxy Nexus smartphone can finally enjoy Flash-based websites and videos across the Web. Adobe updated the Flash Player in the Android Market to version 11.1, which supports Google's latest mobile OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).
Discussion:
9to5Google, netbooknews.com, Computerworld, BGR and WebProNews
Jamie Lendino / PC Magazine:
Google's Android Update Alliance Is Already Dead — At the Google I/O conference in May, many Android phone vendors and U.S. wireless carriers made a long-awaited promise: From then on, any new Android phone would receive timely OS updates for at least 18 months following launch …
Discussion:
Business Insider, parislemon and Slashdot
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Exclusive: Google CEO's inner circle: Meet the L Team — (Reuters) - The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as “The OC,” short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: “L Team,” short for Larry's Team. — The change is more than a mere rebranding …
Discussion:
Business Insider and @karaswisher
Brian Heater / Engadget:
Apple co-founder Ron Wayne's stash of early documents (eyes-on) — About a week ago, we traveled to the desert to spend two days with Ron Wayne. The 77-year-old Pahrump, Nevada resident has had a number of careers in his long life, working for Atari, a few slot machine companies …
Discussion:
NBC Bay Area, Computerworld, MacNN and 9to5Mac
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Signing in with a picture password … The experience of signing in to your PC with touch has traditionally been a cumbersome one. In a world with increasingly strict password requirements—with numbers, symbols, and capitalization—it can take upwards of 30 seconds to enter a long, complex password on a touch keyboard.
Discussion:
GeekWire, WebProNews, Mashable!, SlashGear, Neowin.net, Microsoft News, WinRumors, WinBeta and Electronista
Dan Seifert / MobileBurn.com:
Sprint: Carrier IQ has been disabled on our devices — A recent rumor has hit the internet stating that Sprint has asked its manufacturer partners to remove Carrier IQ's software from all of the devices that it carries. We reached out to Sprint for a comment on the matter …
Discussion:
Threat Level, Geek.com, BGR, Washington Post, CNET News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC Magazine, Android Life, VatorNews, Hardware 2.0 Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch, Android Phone Fans, Al Franken, Engadget, GigaOM and Gizmodo
RELATED:
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:
Franken Still ‘Troubled’ by Carrier IQ Despite Company Responses
Discussion:
Bloomberg, Examiner, AllThingsD, xda-developers, Slashdot, Consumer Reports News and DSLreports
Lee Chyen Yee / Reuters:
Analysis: Apple struggles to take bigger bite out of China — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's share of China's booming smartphone market has risen sharply in the past two years, but for now the company that sells the iconic iPhone is being outpaced by nimble rivals.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Bing, Yahoo Now Neck & Neck In US Search Market Share — Bing's slow growth in US search market share continues, and Microsoft's two-and-a-half-year-old search engine is now practically neck-and-neck with Yahoo. Both, however, remain far behind Google. — The latest comScore numbers …
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Amazon Paid You $5 to Leave a Store; Now eBay Is Giving You $10 to Return — EBay is partnering with three major retailers to get online shoppers to also buy at brick-and-mortar stores. — The partnership is an obvious comeback to last weekend's promotion by Amazon, which motivated consumers …
Discussion:
Examiner, VentureBeat and The PayPal Blog
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
An Explanation For Why UMG May Be Right That It Can Pull Down MegaUpload's Video [Updated] — The legal fight between Megaupload and Universal Music Group keeps getting more and more... odd. After the court gave UMG basically a day to respond, the company filed its response …
Discussion:
The Verge, Geekosystem, Plagiarism Today, Techland, Electronista, Policy Blog and Dice Blog Network, more at Mediagazer »
Leslie Horn / PC Magazine:
Tour the Louvre With a Nintendo 3DS — The next time you visit the Louvre, a Nintendo 3DS console could guide you through the halls of the world-renowned museum. — According to the AFP, the Louvre on Thursday announced that it is partnering with Nintendo to replace traditional audio guides with Nintendo's glassesless 3D handheld.
Discussion:
The Verge, I4U News, PhoneArena, Mashable!, SlashGear, Joystiq and Agence France Presse
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Samsung hits Apple with four new patents in Germany but backtracks on the iPhone 4S — Today the Mannheim Regional Court held two hearings involving Apple and Samsung. In the first one, Apple was the defendant; in the second one, Samsung faced a lawsuit from Apple over a rather famous (slide-to-unlock) patent.
Discussion:
PC Magazine, CNET News, 9to5Mac, MobileBurn.com, WebProNews, SlashGear and iClarified
Laura Bly / USA Today:
In-flight dating? Using social media to find a seatmate — In what could be fodder for a flight from hell - or potential membership in the Mile High Club - KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is launching a “meet and seat” service early next year that will let passengers tap their social media accounts …
Discussion:
@qthrul, Friending Facebook Blog, Gizmodo, Silicon Republic, Engadget, PSFK, PC Magazine and TechCrunch
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPhone 4S Debuts in Over 20 New Countries, Pricing Starts as High as $1400 — In line with our report from earlier this month, Apple has launched the iPhone 4S in a number of new countries today. Based on an examination of Apple's site and those of its carrier partners …
Discussion:
The Next Web, BGR, Forbes, Fortune, BGR, PC Magazine, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie and iClarified
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Amazon Kindle Fire redirects all Android Market requests to Amazon App Store — The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet runs on a version of Android so heavily customized that it might be considered a stretch to call it an Android tablet as far as the average user is concerned.
Discussion:
IntoMobile
