|
June 6, 2012, 10:45 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Bad day for LinkedIn: 6.5 million hashed passwords reportedly leaked - change yours now — Already in the spotlight over concerns that its iOS app collects full meeting notes and details from a device's calendar and sends them back to the company in plain text, LinkedIn user accounts …
More:
Telegraph, The Verge, TUAW, Guardian, InfoWorld, CNET, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Naked Security, ZDNet, Global Nerdy, BBC, iPhone, Mashable!, Lifehacker, Gawker and Slashdot
Tweets: @linkedin, @qthrul and @adrianchen
| Joff Redfern / Linkedin Blog: |
More about our mobile calendar feature — You may have seen a few press stories highlighting concerns about how your data is used in the opt-in calendar feature of our mobile phone apps. We deeply care about our members trust so I want to provide clarity around what we do, don't do …
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
LinkedIn's iOS app collects and transmits names, emails and notes from your calendar, in plain text — The LinkedIn mobile app for iOS devices collects full meeting notes and details from your device's calendar and sends them back to the company, The Next Web has been informed.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman Has a Lot to Say (Interview) — Today I had my first in-person sit-down interview with Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman. Over the course of 30 minutes we talked about a lot of things, and quite frankly she had a lot to say. — For one thing … | Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Tennis Pals Ellison and Hurd Explored HP-Oracle Merger — Ellison and Hurd caught a little tennis in Indian Wells, California, just four days before Oracle dumped Itanium. Photo: EPA/Paul Buck — When Mark Hurd was still CEO of Hewlett-Packard, he and Oracle Larry CEO discussed a possible merger of the two companies.| Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld: |
More:
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Bits, BetaNews, Bloomberg and eWeek
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
After nearly two years without an update, Apple to finally revamp Mac Pro next week — Yesterday, we reported that Apple has an incredible WWDC surprise: major updates to four of its Mac lines. We were able to affirm that three of these updates would cover the redesigned MacBook Pro with a Retina Display …
More:
Los Angeles Times, AllThingsD, Apple Bitch, Gizmodo, WebProNews, MacGazette, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, I4U News, eWeek, The Verge, Softpedia News, Engadget, CNET, InvestorPlaceGadgets … and Bits. Tweets: @marcoarment
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft has now sold over 600 million licenses of Windows 7 — Microsoft announced today that the company has now sold over 600 million licenses of Windows 7 since its introduction in October 2009. Speaking at Computex 2012, Microsoft's Steve Guggenheimer revealed the number while demonstrating some of the latest Windows 7 devices.
More:
CNET, InfoWorld, ZDNet, PR Newswire, Computerworld, Engadget, Everything Microsoft, Redmond Pie, Neowin, WinBeta and The Next Web
| Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Microsoft Keynote: Embedded Windows, Cloud Computing, Windows in Your Car — With the launch of Windows 8 just months away, Computex has been all about Microsoft's upcoming OS. In a keynote address today, Microsoft's Stephen Guggenheimer highlighted the company's progress in advancing Windows 8 and the rest of its Windows ecosystem.| Matt Peckham / Techland: |
IPv6 Day: Only the Biggest Change to the Internet Since Its Inception — It's only the most significant architectural development in the history of the Internet, and presto, it transpired last night at 00:01 GMT. Did you notice? — I'm betting not, and that you probably …
More:
Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, ZDNet, BBC, O'Reilly Radar, Inquirer, InfoQ, SlashGear, gHacks Technology News and Pluggd.in
| Darrell Etherington / BetaKit: |
Ebook Community Wattpad Raises $17.3M, Claims Higher Engagement Than Pinterest — Toronto-based Wattpad, an online community revolving around the creation and sharing of free ebooks,today announced a new Series B round of funding that weighs in at $17.3 million.| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Lenovo demos ThinkPad tablet running Windows 8, we go hands-on — Yes, another Windows 8 tablet. After getting hands-on with some new devices from Acer, ASUS and Samsung, you might already having trouble telling one device from the other. You might even say the same about Lenovo …
More:
LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, CNET, Windows 8 Beta, WinBeta, VR-Zone and Liliputing
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
After Selling A Startup To Google For $81 Million, 26-Year-Old Nat Turner Now Wants To Solve Healthcare — 26-year-old Nat Turner and his business partner, Zach Weinberg, sold ad tech company Invite Media to Google in 2010 for $81 million. — This Friday, the pair are quitting Google to begin a new startup in health care.| Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts: |
Are You Okay With Airtime Secretly Taking Photos Of You While You're Video Chatting? — Airtime: You watch it. It watches you. — Facebook is boring, according to a third of its users. Yikes! Luckily, tech entrepreneur Sean Parker plans to save the day, launching a new video chat service called Airtime.
More:
The Register, blog.chron.com, Computerworld, Fast Company, Business Insider, AllThingsD, CNNMoney.com, Guardian, BuzzFeed, CNN, Gizmodo, Social Media and Money Talks. Thanks:@kashhill
| Michael Hogan / The Huffington Post: |
More:
Betabeat, Daily Mail, Soshable, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Business Insider, CNET, Mashable!, PandoDaily, GigaOM, TechCrunch and BuzzFeed
Tweets: @moot, @spencerchen, @gaberivera, @cliffdailey and @mhelft
| Nick Wingfield / Bits: |
As Google Bets on Mobile Office, Microsoft Waits — If Microsoft couldn't find compelling enough reasons to release its Office applications for the iPad, Google just gave it one. — On Tuesday, Google acquired Quickoffice, a start-up that makes a set of applications for iPads and Android tablets …
More:
TechEye, The Next Web, Inquirer, VoIP Watch, Ubergizmo, Engadget and The Official Google Blog
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
AMD shows off 11-inch Compal Windows 8 hybrid tablet — We've seen Intel's vision for Windows 8 already, but don't count out AMD. The company is showing off a Windows 8 tablet from Compal here at Computex Taipei, and it's in the hot form factor of the moment — the detachable keyboard dock.
More:
eWeek, Engadget, Mashable!, Gotta Be Mobile, Neowin and Softpedia News
| Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time: |
The Death of Social Proof — Social proof is dying as a startup differentiation heuristic during fundraising. Why? — A) Blame Angellist for an Advisor Bubble — Every company I see has some roster of advisors and/or soft-circled seed investors already committed.
More:
A VC
| Agam Shah / Computerworld: |
Google TV box gets movie streams from Android 4.0 smartphones, tablets — An upcoming Google TV box based on Android 4.0 OS and an ARM processor will come closer to smartphones and tablets with the capability to play direct movie streams from Android 4.0 mobile devices …
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS — Thirty-one. That's the number of months it took Palm, Inc. to go from the darling of International CES 2009 to a mere shadow of itself, a nearly anonymous division inside the HP machine without a hardware program and without the confidence of its owners.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Ellen Pao Breaks Her Silence: I'm Still At Kleiner Perkins, And I Don't Plan On Leaving — Ellen Pao, the partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who is suing the legendary venture capital firm for alleged gender discrimination and acts of retaliation she claims to have experienced during …
More:
GigaOM, Betabeat, Quora, CNET and Business Insider
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Stuxnet expert calls US the “good guys” in cyber-warfare — Ralph Langner also says there's little novel in the new “Flame” malware. — Ralph Langner is one of the world's foremost experts on Stuxnet — Ralph Langner — TALLINN, ESTONIA—Sitting in the front row for the first full …
More:
New York Times
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Acer shows off next-gen Iconia Tab A210 and A110 at Computex, we go hands-on (video) — No press release, no media alert, not even a splashy press conference with Adele blasting in the background. The only reason we know these two tablets exist is because we happened to catch them on display here at Computex.
More:
digitaltrends.com, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, Liliputing, PhoneArena and Softpedia News
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Another Big Money Bet on AdTech: PubMatic Raises $45 Million From August Capital — After a few years of infatuation, many investors have grown out of love with ad technology companies. But a handful of ad tech businesses continue to garner very big bets and are making noises about going public.| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Asus releasing world's first 802.11ac laptop, says Broadcom — In the past few weeks we've seen announcements for 802.11ac chips and routers, but computers that can actually take advantage of the new networking standard have been eluding us. Today at Computex, though …
More:
Softpedia News
| Cory Doctorow / Technology Review: |
The Curious Case of Internet Privacy — Free services in exchange for personal information. That's the “privacy bargain” we all strike on the Web. It could be the worst deal ever. — Here's a story you've heard about the Internet: we trade our privacy for services.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Mozilla shows off web apps accessing phone sensors with WebAPI — We've been pretty impressed by Mozilla's powerful HTML5-based phone OS, Boot to Gecko, which can do anything from send messages to play Cut the Rope with the equivalent of web apps and bookmarks.
More:
Webmonkey
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Carriers' Next Move: One Choice for Voice — The largest U.S. wireless carriers are working on ways to keep their customers paying up for something they do less and less—making phone calls. — In a sea change for consumer behavior, the amount of time spent making old-fashioned voice calls … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Big data analytics have gained in popularity over the last few years …
Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Big data analytics have gained in popularity over the last few years … Who's Hiring In Tech?
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:45 AM ET, June 6, 2012.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Isaac Chotiner / New Republic:Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
More:
TechCrunch, GigaOM and Phones Review
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
More:
AdExchanger.com and Noah Brier dot Com
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
More:
CNET, VatorNews, FinSMEs, Venture Capital Dispatch and Forbes
| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
More:
Pocketnow, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine and GigaOM
Earlier Picks
| Stephen Lawson / PC World: |
More:
InfoWorld, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch and eWeek
| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
| Roi Carthy / TechCrunch: |
| Rafe Blandford / All About Windows Phone: |