Techmeme: Pebble team posts UI preview, provides an early look at how you'll interact with the E-Paper Watch (Zach Honig/Engadget)

August 14, 2012, 4:15 PM

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A new modern SkyDrive.com, updated apps, and Outlook.com at 10 million users … Over the past months, we've shared our approach to building versatile personal cloud storage that can scale to a billion people. Today, we're excited to announce the next step towards that vision …

More: GigaOM, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Engadget, AllThingsD, The Verge, LiveSide.net, GeekWire, Gizmodo, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Business Insider, memeburn, IntoMobile, Liliputing, Pocketables, WinBeta, UnleashthePhones, The Tech Block, Lifehacker, bink.nu and WinBeta. Thanks:@omarshahine

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Flash for Android dies tomorrow, long live the ‘full web experience’ — In November of last year, Adobe made a surprising about-face on its popular Flash plugin, announcing that it would stop development of Flash for mobile devices. Tomorrow, Adobe will disable new installs of Flash on Android …

More: parislemon, The Register, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, Postnoon, Gotta Be Mobile, Android and Me, WebProNews and MacDailyNews

Wall Street Journal:

Verizon Deal Nears Regulatory Approval — WASHINGTON—Federal regulators are preparing to clear Verizon Wireless's $3.9 billion deal to acquire airwaves from several cable companies including Comcast Corp., according to people close to the negotiations, after the companies reached broad agreement to settle antitrust concerns.

More: GigaOM, CNET, DSLreports, Deadline.com, dailywireless.org, The Verge, FierceWireless, Hillicon Valley and Know Your Cell

Lance Whitney / CNET:

Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home robbed by clueless thief — The late Apple co-founder's home was burglarized by an alleged thief who didn't even seem to know whose home he was robbing. — The late Steve Jobs — The Palo Alto home of the late Steve Jobs was robbed on July 17 of more than $60,000 …

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook Says It Now Has 235M Monthly Gamers, App Center Hits 150M Monthly Visitors — Facebook's push for more engagement on its platform, to drive advertising and other monetization efforts (and to counterbalance that drooping stock price), is showing some gains, according to updated figures …

More: VentureBeat, The Verge, GigaOM, ZDNet, Mobile Marketing Watch, Tip Desk, GamePolitics blogs, WebProNews, fiercemobilecontent.com, VatorNews and CNET. Thanks:@mjburnsy

Zach Honig / Engadget:

Pebble team posts UI preview, provides an early look at how you'll interact with the E-Paper Watch — Sadly, Pebble won't be making its way to backers by its original September estimate, but the design team wants you to know that it's hard at work, traveling the world to source components …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge and Business Insider. Tweets: @eghosao

David Beren / TmoNews:

Is This T-mobile's First Windows Phone 8 Smartphone? With LTE? — Windows Phone fans, now would be a really great time to pay attention as believe we've discovered T-Mobile's first Windows Phone 8 device — with LTE. That's right, your eyes are not deceiving you as the user agent string indicates …

More: BGR, Know Your Cell, CNET, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, Phones Review, Neowin, MobileTechWorld and Life On My Mobile

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Bad News For Bieber? Klout Unveils Redesign And A Scoring System That Looks At Real World Influence — Klout, the site that aims to measure your online influence, has made some big changes to its scoring system, and it has a new look to match the new algorithm.

More: Business Insider, Techland, ABCNEWS, GigaOM, PandoDaily, Marketing Land, Digits, AllThingsD, Business Week, SocialTimes, NBC Bay Area, The Official Klout Blog, VentureBeat and Mashable!. Tweets: @danprimack

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Salesforce.com confirms it has completed the acquisition of Buddy Media — Salesforce.com has confirmed that it has completed the acquisition of Buddy Media more than two months after the enterprise software giant first revealed that a $689 million deal to buy the social media-focused site had been reached.

More: CNET, Company, PR Newswire, ZDNet and VentureBeat

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Salesforce builds upon Chatter for Communities collaboration platform

More: Forbes, InfoWorld, AllThingsD, SocialTimes, Business Insider and TechCrunch

Google Research Blog:

Improving Google Patents with European Patent Office patents and the Prior Art Finder — At Google, we're constantly trying to make important collections of information more useful to the world. Since 2006, we've let people discover, search, and read United States patents online.

More: Gametime IP, ZDNet, GigaOM, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET and Patent Law Blog

Klint Finley / TechCrunch:

Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet — It's long been said that “I agree to the terms of service” is the biggest lie on the internet. And even if you do read them, many TOS are so ridden with legalese that you practically need to be a lawyer to understand them.

More: Help Net Security, ANIMAL, TechSpot, ZDNet, The Verge, Betabeat, gHacks Technology News and Pulse2 Technology …

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Surfthechannel owner sentenced to four years over piracy — Anton Vickerman, whose surfthechannel.com had 400,000 users a day, sentenced on two counts of conspiracy to defraud — A 38-year-old Briton who made £35,000 a month through a website that linked to pirated copies of films …

More: Business Insider, paidContent, Techdirt, BBC, TorrentFreak, Softpedia News and ZeroPaid.com

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Gartner: Global Mobile Sales Down 2%, Smartphones Surge 43%, Apple Stalls As Fans Hold Out For New iPhone — Gartner is the latest of the big analyst houses to release its numbers for smartphone and overall mobile sales in Q2. The picture it paints is one of a market that has, effectively …

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Pixel Perfect — I've spent my whole life thinking about dots, largely in the form of on-screen pixels. I remember first seeing a Pac-Man coin-op arcade game, wondering how it worked, and deducing the basic gist: the screen was a matrix of dots, like animated graph paper. I loved graph paper.

Tweets: @wellsriley and @jonathanhoover

Michael Gorman / Engadget:

Telenav's Scout gives iOS users offline navigation in exchange for ten bucks — We know that iOS 6 will bless iPhone users with some in-house-made mapping, but that hasn't stopped Telenav from bettering its own Scout navigation offering for Apple's favorite handsets.

More: PC Magazine, CNET, Macgasm, IntoMobile, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and The Verge

Paul Sloan / CNET:

Building apps for Facebook: A dance with the devil — Facebook has created a booming app economy that's made plenty of developers rich. It's also forcing a lot of them to lose sleep. — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — Dalton Caldwell caused a stir recently when he posted an open letter …

More: memeburn. Thanks:@coopeydoop

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Yammer Gets HootSuite Integration, A New “Inbox” and Its Own Design Improvements Independent of Microsoft — Yammer's first new release under the Microsoft umbrella has nothing to do with Microsoft. It's not about integrating with Sharepoint or Microsoft Dynamics.

More: ZDNet, Wired, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Social Media Examiner, Business Insider, BetaNews and WebProNews

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

YouTube's new app for the PlayStation 3 rolling out, allows remote control from smartphones — While YouTube has always enjoyed support on Sony's PlayStation 3 thanks to the console's Flash-enabled browser and even offered a YouTube XL layout for connected devices, now it's rolling out a new app …

More: AllThingsD, 9to5Google, CNET, PC Magazine, everythingiCafe, PhoneArena, The Next Web, YouTube Blog, TechCrunch, GigaOM and SlashGear

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery Payload — A string pair from the Gauss malware. Image courtesy of Kaspersky Lab — Researchers at Kaspersky Lab in Russia are asking the public for help in cracking an encrypted warhead that gets delivered to infected machines by the Gauss malware toolkit.

More: Betabeat, Securelist, Computerworld, Securelist, NYT Bits, Ars Technica and threatpost

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Judge Refuses to Toss Most of Apple's Suit Against Samsung — With Apple having finished its primary case, the court took time on Monday to hear Samsung's arguments that the Cupertino-based company failed to meet its legal burden and that the case should be dropped.

More: The Verge, Mercury News, Gizmodo, Fortune, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, Phones Review, TechnoBuffalo, FierceWireless, TUAW, Ars Technica, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Edible Apple, Engadget and Digits

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple “rubber-banding,” “pinch-to-zoom” patents challenged by Samsung witnesses

More: CNET, BGR, Pulse2 Technology …, Reuters, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, TechEye and Bloomberg

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Report: 46% Of U.S. Bank Account Holders Will Use Mobile Banking By 2017 — According to a new Forrester Research report, mobile banking will reach 108 million users in the U.S. by 2017. That's about 46% of all U.S. bank account holders. Today, according to Forrester's latest survey …

Wall Street Journal:

Facebook Shares Unlocking — An avalanche of privately held Facebook shares could begin hitting the market this week—potentially putting further pressure on the company's stock—as rules expire that have kept some early investors from cashing out. — Angel investor Peter Thiel …

More: Venture Capital Dispatch and VentureBeat

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