Techmeme: One of Apple's Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse (David Pogue/Pogue's Posts)

July 31, 2012, 9:50 AM

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Stocks Up on Components for September iPhone Launch — Apple hasn't yet officially announced the fall event at which it is expected to debut the next iteration of the iPhone, but it's definitely planning one. — IMore was first to report that the company has scheduled a special event …

Amy Willis / Telegraph:

London Olympics 2012: Twitter 'alerted NBC to British journalist's critical tweets' — Twitter employees alerted NBC staff to a British journalist's tweets and showed them how to file a complaint against him, the television network has revealed. — Gary Zenkel and Matt Lauer …

More: The Verge, Business Insider, The Independent, The Next Web, BuzzMachine, Poynter, Guardian, Journalism.co.uk and Guardian. Tweets: @mathewi. See also Mediagazer

John Koblin / Deadspin:

NBC's No. 1 Tweeting Critic Has Been Suspended From Twitter

More: Betabeat, Telegraph, Media Decoder, The Independent, Mashable!, Guardian, The Verge, ValueWalk, Bloomberg, The Daily Fix, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Forbes, Betabeat, Mashable!, Business Insider, GigaOM, BetaNews, PC Magazine and memeburn

Tweets: @producermatthew, @timwindsor and @hblodget

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Ross Levinsohn Departs Yahoo — As I previously reported he likely would, top Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn — who lost the CEO race to former Google exec Marissa Mayer — is leaving the company, according to several sources. — Mayer also just sent a note to the company about the departure …

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Meanwhile, Yahoo's VP Of North American Sales Just Quit

More: AllThingsD

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Samsung readying 11.8-inch tablet with ‘retina’ display, say court documents — Court documents made public in the epic Apple v. Samsung trial that kicked off in California today reveal that Samsung is working on a tablet codenamed “P10” that would include LTE connectivity and an 11.8-inch display at 2560 x 1600 (WQXGA) resolution.

More: BGR, Business Insider, Android News, Rumours …, Redmond Pie, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Mashable!, PC Advisor, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, Sammy Hub, digitaltrends.com, Pocket-lint, Engadget and 9to5Google

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

Hulu Plus Now Available on Apple TV — Apple has quietly launched a Hulu Plus channel on Apple TV this morning. We've first received a report from one Apple TV owner who first found the channel to appear this morning and have since been able to confirm it ourselves.

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Business Insider, Macgasm and Lifehacker

Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wired:

Samsung Product Chief: 'It's Unreasonable That We're Fighting Over Rectangles' — Kevin Packingham, Samsung's Chief Product Officer, at Wired's San Francisco office. — Photo: Peter McCollough/Wired — The Apple v. Samsung trial that begins in a San Jose federal courtroom on Monday …

More: Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Android News, Rumours …, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, Fortune, 9to5Google and The Verge. Tweets: @gracerodriguez. Thanks:@strngwys

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Day One of Apple vs. Samsung: Jury Selection and Another Debate Over Apple's “Sony Style”

More: ZDNet, Macworld, Fortune, 9to5Mac, The Verge, FOSS Patents, VR-Zone, ABCNEWS and Digits

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Box Raises $125 Million Growth Round Led by General Atlantic — The reports that Box, the cloud-based enterprise file-sharing and collaboration service that's been growing like the mythical beanstalk in Jack's back yard has been raising capital again are true.

More: Venture Capital Dispatch, VentureBeat, GigaOM, NYT Bits, The Next Web, TechCrunch, PandoDaily and PE Hub Blog

Howard Lindzon:

The Twitter Hijacking of Stocktwits $ ...The Cashtag — It's interesting that Twitter has hijacked our creation of $TICKER ie. $AAPL. It only took four years to ‘fill’ this hole, though a few months back they told me in a detailed email it was not a hole they wanted to fill.

More: Betabeat, Mashable!, Colin Walker, ZDNet, memeburn and AllThingsD

Tweets: @cocoy and @carnage4life

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Twitter rolls out clickable stock symbols, or “Cashtags”, so you can keep up with your investments

More: TechCrunch, Marketing Land, Engadget, CNET and The Verge

Tweets: @twitter, @ericjackson and @howardlindzon

Thanks:@jfalconer

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Facebook introducing ‘save for later’ feature — Facebook is reportedly rolling out an update to its mobile platform that allows users to save friends' posts for reading later. According to iMore, users will soon see a notification letting them know that they can 'press and hold anywhere …

More: Business Insider, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Fast Company, memeburn, iPhone, SlashGear, The Next Web, iMore and App Advice. Thanks:@marvinvista

Kristen Nicole / SiliconANGLE:

Siri Meets Foursquare with Saga Roll Out — Saga is not another Siri clone, per se. It's more similar to Google Now and the recently launched Friday app, offering a utility that intelligently pins down data based on any number of metrics, most prominently your location, and displays it to the user with actionized intent.

More: Scobleizer, The Verge, VentureBeat, Electronista, Fast Company, GigaOM, SlashGear and digitaltrends.com. Thanks:@johnrobertreed

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Spotify launches unlimited free radio for Android users in the US — About a month after Spotify launched its unlimited free radio feature for iOS users in the US, the company today announced the same deal for Android users. This is the first time Spotify has allowed Android users to listen …

More: Inquirer, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Next Web, BGR, Mashable!, WebProNews, VentureBeat and PhoneArena

David Meyer / GigaOM:

App Store infested with zombie software, claims analytics startup Adeven — Zombies may provide a perennial source of material for mobile games, but no developer actually wants their app to be the walking dead. Nonetheless, according to new mobile analytics and ad verification firm Adeven …

More: TechCrunch and BetaKit

David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:

One of Apple's Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse — I think the MagSafe connector is one of Apple's best ideas ever. It's on the end of every Mac laptop's power cord. It attaches to the laptop with a powerful magnet—but if anybody trips on it, it detaches and falls harmlessly to the floor.

More: Computerworld. Tweets: @gruber

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Republic Wireless reopens its unlimited $19 per month beta, starts offering Motorola Defy XT — Republic Wireless is finally ready for more customers on its low price cellphone service, announcing today that it's reopening signups for its beta and offering customers a new phone.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Republic Wireless and PhoneArena

DealBook:

Alibaba Is Said to Be Close to Raising $8 Billion — Some American Internet companies may be unpopular with investors these days, but a Chinese one is finding plenty of takers. — The Alibaba Group, a Chinese e-commerce giant, is close to completing a more than $8 billion round of financing …

More: PandoDaily

John Callaham / Neowin:

SkyDrive features for Office 2013 detailed — Office 2013 is now available to download in a preview version, so its users already know that the next version of Microsoft's productivity software suite also has SkyDrive features. Today, Microsoft offered up more details on how its SkyDrive …

More: LiveSide.net, The Microsoft Office Blog and WinBeta

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

IPhone's Russian Carrier Blames ‘Dictatorship’ For $1,000 Price — OAO Mobile TeleSystems (MTSS), the iPhone's biggest wireless carrier in Russia, criticized Apple Inc. (AAPL) for not cutting the device's $1,000-plus price in the country and being too strict about how it's sold.

More: TechCrunch

Christopher Soghoian / slight paranoia:

Tech journalists: Stop hyping unproven security tools — Preface: Although this essay compares the media's similar hyping of Haystack and Cryptocat, the tools are, at a technical level, in no way similar. Haystack was at best, snake oil, peddled by a charlatan.

Tweets: @lorenzofb, @jschauma, @ioerror and @digiphile

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Mark Zuckerberg Reveals He Is Open To A Radical Change In Facebook Strategy — It's not often that a public company CEO suggests that he might be open to an entirely new product strategy, but that's exactly what Mark Zuckerberg did on Facebook's earnings call last week. — Allow us to explain.

More: BusinessCloud9

Roger Parloff / Fortune:

Google and Facebook's new tactic in the tech wars — Google and Facebook are using a controversial legal doctrine to channel money to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and other groups that share their hostility to online copyright enforcement.

Tweets: @robertblevine_, @warren_allen, @helienne, @zarawesome, @valleyhack and @jsto

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Mobile Ad Network InMobi Continues Buying Spree, Picks Up Metaflow Solutions For App Distribution — The shopping spree for InMobi continues apace: today the mobile advertising network has announced the acquisition of UK-based Metaflow Solutions, a mobile app management and distribution company.

More: MediaNama, The Drum, Pluggd.in and Mobile Entertainment

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

YouTube to Double Down on Its ‘Channel’ Experiment — YouTube has launched nearly 100 new online video “channels” so far this year, attracting talent such as actor Amy Poehler to create or star in original episodes that can draw new audiences-and blue-chip advertisers-to the Google website.

More: Deadline.com and Wall Street Journal

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