Techmeme: Instagram Just Gave You One Less Reason To Use Camera+ (Alexia Tsotsis/TechCrunch)

February 11, 2012, 12:10 PM

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Update on Android Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades — HTC has been working hard to get its Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades ready, and we're excited to announce that our first round of ICS upgrades will roll out by the end of March for the HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation 4G and HTC Sensation XE, followed soon there after by the HTC Sensation XL.

More: GigaOM, Techie Buzz, Android and Me, Inquirer and Digital Trends

Andy Baio / Wired:

The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox — The other day, I tried out Unroll.me, a clever new service that reads your inbox to let you unsubscribe from mailing lists and other unwanted e-mail flotsam with a single click. — As I was about to connect my Gmail account, my finger hovered over the “Grant access” button.

More: Boing Boing. Tweets: @dragonflyeye, @waxpancake and @tcarmody

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Instagram Just Gave You One Less Reason To Use Camera+ — Photosharing app Instagram went through a subtle redesign this afternoon. In addition to the brand new “Sierra” filter, Notifications improvements and a UI/UX refresh where the feed, popular, share and news buttons have all been divorced …

More: A VC, Instagram, Mashable!, GadgeTell, 9to5Mac, parislemon, MacStories and GeekSugar

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Instagram updates with a much simplified UI, ‘Lux’ fill-light adjustment and new filter — Uber-popular photo sharing app Instagram has been updated with several nice new features and a greatly simplified UI. The new interface in version 2.1 is a good sight cleaner and more modern than the last version of the app.

More: Gizmodo, UnleashthePhonesUnle …, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com and Electronista

Tweets: @tim_oneil, @mrgan and @mikeyk

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

VEVO CEO Tries To Explain Their Hypocritical Act Of Piracy At Sundance — Yesterday I reported on a bizarre incident I witnessed at Sundance last month: VEVO, the music portal owned by some of the biggest record labels in the US, had a pirated NFL playoff game playing on screens throughout its ‘PowerStation’ venue.

More: Neowin.net, ReelSEO Online Video …, Gizmodo, PC Magazine and parislemon. See also Mediagazer

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:

Kleiner Perkins Considering New Fund for Cloud-Computing Services Startups — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture firm that backed Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) and Groupon Inc., is considering starting a new fund focused on startups selling cloud services to corporations.

More: Business Insider, GigaOM and ITworld.com

Joanna Stern:

Five years later, I'm off to ABC News... Funny enough, it was exactly five years ago this week that I decided I wanted to be a technology reporter. — I was working at a New York PR agency — my first job out of college — and knowing that I loved new technology, my friend Becca asked …

More: The Verge, bub.blicio.us and Business Insider

Tweets: @backlon, @abcandrea, @zpower and @laura_june

CNN:

Hackers target CIA, Mexican, Alabama websites — (CNN) — Websites affiliated with the CIA, Mexico's mining ministry and the state of Alabama were down Friday, allegedly done in by hackers, government officials and a well-known hacking group reported. — A message Friday on a Twitter page …

More: BBC, rt.com, Gizmodo, msnbc.com, Mashable!, CBS News, PC Magazine, Bits, USA Today and TPM Idea Lab. Tweets: @anonyops

Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:

Apple to disrupt notebook space with radically redesigned MacBook Pros — While most of its rivals are struggling to match innovations Apple pioneered with its first MacBook Airs over three years ago, the Mac maker this year is hoping to further distance itself from the competition with a pair …

More: Apple Bitch, Laptops and Desktops Blog, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, WebProNews, Macgasm, Geek.com, Pulse2, TUAW, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, CNET, VentureBeat, MacRumors, iPhone, Business Insider, Electronista and iClarified

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:

Amazon hiring creative execs for original programming — Add Amazon to the list of online video providers that could soon release some new original programming. The company is looking to hire creative executives to develop and produce original comedies and kids shows for online and traditional distribution.

More: AllThingsD, SlashGear, WebProNews and Electronista

Brendan McGarry / Bloomberg:

U.S. Air Force May Buy 18,000 Apple IPad 2s for Flight Crews — Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Air Force may buy as many as 18,000 iPad 2s in what would be one of the military's biggest orders of computer tablets, accelerating Apple Inc.'s inroads into the federal government.

More: Los Angeles Times, Reuters, TheStreet.com and TechCrunch. Tweets: @tcarmody

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:

New Microsoft Office University product comes with tougher verification rules — Summary: Microsoft is replacing its Office Academic SKU with a new Office University one that it hopes will help curtail fraudulent use. — Whenever folks complain about how expensive Microsoft's Office suite is …

More: Neowin.net and WinBeta

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:

As Iran Cracks Down Online, Tor Tests Undetectable Encrypted Connections — Keeping secrets on the web in a country as digitally repressive as Iran isn't easy. But as Iran tightens the screws on its Web censorship, the hackers at the anti-censorship Tor project are working on something harder …

More: blog.torproject.org, CNET, Techie Buzz, lists.torproject.org …, Pulse2, Neowin.net, TechSpot, DSLreports and Slashdot

Thomas Erdbrink / Washington Post:

Iran increasingly controls its Internet

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