Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:15 PM ET, January 9, 2012

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Ian Delaney / Nokia Conversations:
Nokia Lumia 900 - Born for the USA  —  LAS VEGAS, NV, United States - Nokia announces its biggest yet thinnest Windows Phone to date with the Nokia Lumia 900, its first phone to support high-speed LTE data transfers.  —  As our exclusive video shows, this powerhouse was built exclusively …
RELATED:
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nokia Lumia 900 LTE Windows Phone announced on AT&T  —  Nokia's Lumia 900 LTE Windows Phone is official.  We've witnessed speculation and leaks over the past few weeks, but Nokia CEO Stephen Elop unveiled the device on stage at CES 2012 today.  Nokia's latest and greatest handset includes a 1.4GHz CPU …
Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Nokia Lumia 900 official: 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED, 4G LTE, exclusive to AT&T  —  We're here at Nokia's CES 2012 press announcement and we've got the confirmation that everyone's been waiting for: the Nokia Lumia 900 is real.  It looks like the rumors were true: the AT&T exclusive phone …
Thanks:dantecesa
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
AT&T unveils own APIs for carrier agnostic HTML5 web apps aimed at smartphones and tablets  —  Carrier AT&T is holding its sixth annual Developer Summit at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, and President and CEO Ralph De La Vega addressed some 2,500 attendees from 33 different countries.
RELATED:
Nancy Gohring / PC World:
AT&T Joins OpenStack  —  AT&T became the first U.S. telecom …
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Boycott SOPA: An Android app that terrifies publishers and politicians  —  Armchair activists now have a tool that can transport their SOPA protestations into the real world: Boycott SOPA, an Android app that scans barcodes and tells you whether an object's manufacturer/publisher is a supporter …
RELATED:
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:   Reddit Founder, DNS Hacker And Other SOPA Critics Will Address Congress In Hearing
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Fusion Garage Disintegrates: Founder Creating New Company For Lots More Fraud?  —  Last month Fusion Garage, a Singapore startup that has defrauded just about everyone and everything it has come in contact with, had a huge flameout when they were publicly fired by both their law firm and PR firm.
Discussion: @jyarow and @arrington
RELATED:
Antonio Rodriguez / The Grain:
Android as we know it will die in the next two years and what it means for you  —  I used to think that, as with Linux and web services in the early part of last decade, Android was going to be the mortar for the Internet of post PC devices— an essential ingredient to put stuff together.
Discussion: Tom Foremski and BetaNews, Thanks:semil
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Samsung Galaxy Note announced for AT&T (hands-on pictures and video)  —  AT&T has just announced that it'll be bringing the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note to the United States, a beastly half-phone, half-tablet that spans the divide between two white-hot product segments.
RELATED:
Dan Graziano / BGR:
Verizon announces the Motorola DROID 4, RAZR MAXX, and Jetpack 4G LTE mobile hotspots
NDH / The Official Netflix Blog:
Netflix Launches in UK, Ireland Today  —  Today we're bringing Netflix to the UK and Ireland.  I am Neil Hunt, chief product officer at Netflix.  I'm proud to have led the product team that brings Netflix to the country where I grew up, after spending most of my career in California.
RELATED:
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Lovefilm undercuts Netflix in the UK with new £4.99 streaming-only pricing
Discussion: ITbriefing.net and PadGadget
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Seeds iOS 5.1 Beta 3 to Developers, Restores ‘Enable 3G’ Toggle  —  Returning from a holiday break, Apple today seeded iOS 5.1 Beta 3 to developers to allow for further testing of the next update to the company's mobile operating system.  The new version arrives as Build 9B5141a …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Myspace Plans “Over The Top” Web TV Service  —  Lots of folks are waiting for Google, or Apple, or Verizon or someone to offer a Web video subscription service that would rival cable TV.  —  None of those guys have announced their plans for that, yet.  But Myspace has: It says it will offer an …
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
IPhone breathing down neck of Android in U.S.  —  The iPhone 4S, along with cheaper older models, has helped Apple close the distance on Google's Android, drawing within a few percentage points in recent smartphone sales market share in the U.S., according to the NPD Group.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Buy A 1-Year Nook NYT Subscription, Get The Nook Free  —  In Barnes & Noble's largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times.
Dong Ngo / CNET:
Netgear Media Storage router makes Apple Time Capule so last year  —  The one of a kind Media Storage Router (WNDR4700) from Netgear.  —  (Credit: Netgear)  —  LAS VEGAS - Apple Time Capsule, Netgear is about to open a can of “so yester-year” on you!  —  The networking vendor announced today …
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
OnLive Goes Beyond Gaming: Announces Cloud-Based Windows 7 Desktop for the iPad  —  Here is some unexpected news from CES: OnLive, the company best known for streaming video games over the Internet, just announced that it will release a new iPad app later this week that will give users access …
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Asus Transformer Prime TF700T hands-on  —  Asus' new Transformer Prime TF700T Android 4.0 tablet was just introduced, and we've got hands-on photos.  It's a variant of the Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet, and the most significant upgrade here is a move to a 1920 x 1200 resolution, which looks quite sharp and bright.
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Sony Xperia S has PlayStation certification and 720p display, available this quarter  —  One of Sony's inaugural batch of Sony-branded phones, the Xperia S is the device that had been rumored over the last few weeks as the Nozomi with a 4.3-inch 720p display.
Discussion: The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Google and Kotaku
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Samsung's Smart TV evolves with motion, voice controls and upgrade slots  —  Samsung is quickly beginning to generating Apple-levels of hype at the Consumer Electronics Show.  —  Last year, Samsung's CES press conference was a complete madhouse — and this year was no different.
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Tim Cook's Total Compensation For 2011 Is Almost $400 Million  —  2011 was a very good year for Apple CEO Tim Cook.  According to the company's proxy statement, he got $378 million in total compensation.  As you can see in this table from the proxy statement, Apple's other executives we well taken care of, too.
Discussion: 9to5Mac, Apple and @emilychangtv
Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Tebow-Mania Hits Twitter: More Tweets-Per-Second Than Bin Laden, Steve Jobs & Beyoncé's Pregnancy  —  Among the many miraculous things Tim Tebow has done, we can now add this: a record for the most sports-related tweets per second.  —  It happened yesterday during …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Enterprise Will Spend $19 Billion on Apple Hardware in 2012  —  The “Bring Your Own Device” philosophy spreading through enterprise these days is proving a real boon to Apple.  —  The company is expected to sell $10 billion worth of iPads and $9 billion of Macs to business customers in 2012 …
Amar Toor / Engadget:
Dish Network announces Hopper DVR system, Joey set-top box, launches broadband, Test Drive services  —  Dish Network just made a slew of big announcements at its CES press conference today, introducing the Hopper HD DVR system, the corollary Joey set-top box, and a new, TV Everywhere-based Test Drive service.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 8:15 PM ET, January 9, 2012.

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: 
Lee Mathews / Geek.com:
Opera TV Store opens, brings HTML5 web apps to devices everywhere
Discussion: TechRadar.com and .net
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Twitter Photo-Sharing Went Through the Roof After Twitter Started Hosting Images
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
The Year in Kickstarter: $100 million in pledges in 2011
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahapocalypse Now?  Q4 Results, Proxy Fight, Board Hijinks and Asia Solution Combine for Busy Month for Yahoo.
JournalGazette.net:
Indiana, Amazon.com, reach sales tax agreement
Discussion: PR Newswire and Reuters
Arne Hess / the::unwired:
UNVEILED: Huawei announces world's slimmest Android smartphone - the Huawei Ascend P1 S
Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Brocade gets first-round bids for sale: sources
Discussion: AllThingsD
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
ChangeWave survey finds ‘explosive momentum’ for Apple and Samsung
 Earlier Items: 
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Ubuntu TV making its debut at CES, gets short demo clip
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How People Watch TV Online And Off
 

 
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”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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