|
September 11, 2012, 12:40 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Red Tape: |
EXCLUSIVE: The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week — BlueToad.com's CEO, Paul DeHart talks with NBC's Kerry Sanders about a security breach at the company. — NBC's Kerry Sanders — A small Florida publishing company says the million-record database …
More:
eWeek, Joel Housman, Forbes, New York Times, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, Techdirt, Gawker, IntoMobile, PadGadget, Network World, InfoWorld, DailyTech, Guardian, GeekWire, App Advice, Examiner, Washington Post, Wired, The Tech Block, Macgasm, TechSpot, VentureBeat, Mashable, Help Net Security, Daily Dot, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, GigaOM, Ars Technica, Neowin, TPM IdeaLab, AllThingsD, WebProNews, Betabeat, The Next Web, DSLreports, The Register and TUAW
| Klint Finley / TechCrunch: |
GoDaddy Outage Takes Down Millions Of Sites, Anonymous Member Claims Responsibility — According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it.
More:
PC Magazine, Betabeat, Mashable, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, The Verge, BetaNews, Examiner, GigaOM, SlashGear, BBC, Computerworld, Geek.com, Ars Technica, DaniWeb IT Discussion …, Daily Dot, reddit.com, Hillicon Valley, Ubergizmo, DailyFinance.com, The Tech Block, ZDNet, Domain Name News, Wired, Guardian, SC Magazine, Technolog, DSLreports, Communications …, VentureBeat, Technology Review and GeekWire
Tweets: @godaddy, @godaddy and @anonopslegion
| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Amid Outage, GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign — Following a day-long Domain Name Service server outage, web hosting provider GoDaddy is letting its competitor, VeriSign, host its DNS servers. — On Monday afternoon — about four hours after it was knocked offline …
More:
TechCrunch and Naked Security
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Got Better When Twitter Shut Us Off, Move Was “Partial Bulls**t” — LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman discussed the removal of Twitter's feeds from its product, even though it was not their decision. — Hoffman says at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco that its product … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
More:
blogs.ft.com and TechCrunch
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Zynga Marketing Chief Jeff Karp Is the Latest to Exit — Jeff Karp, Zynga's chief marketing and revenue officer, is resigning from the social games company. — Karp is the latest in a string of executives who have left the company in what is becoming a widespread restructuring.
More:
VG247, VentureBeat, DailyFinance.com and Gamasutra
| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
The Misstep of Quora and The Importance of Trust Amongst Your Community — You know the old saying about trust ... “It takes years to build and seconds to destroy.” — And once destroyed it is very difficult if not impossible to repair. You need to be the guardian of your own reputation.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Adds Pirate Bay Domains to Censorship List — There are certain words Google doesn't want you to see without explicitly searching for them. — Type in ‘peni...’ or ‘vagin...’ and the search giant leaves out the most obvious suggestions. This, despite the fact that these dictionary words …
More:
BGR, The Next Web, CNET, WebProNews, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, VentureBeat and Search Engine Land
| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Valve Is Bringing Steam To Your TV Today. Watch Out, Consoles. — Today, Valve will launch the beta of Big Picture mode, a version of Steam designed for your television. That's right. The de facto central hub of PC gaming is now designed to run while you're lounging in your living room—and with a controller, no less.
More:
The Next Web, The Verge, CNET, PC World, Technolog, digitaltrends.com, ForeverGeek, VG247, GamesIndustry International, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, WebProNews and Forbes. Tweets: @gamespot
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
HP introduces new Apple iMac — Hewlett Packard has a long and rich history of innovation in Silicon Valley. As one of the first major computer companies to set down roots there, it has ties with nearly every maker to come after it, even Apple. Founder Steve Jobs famously contacted Bill Hewlett directly …
More:
MacDailyNews, Marco.org, Curious Rat, 9to5Mac, joshuatopolsky.com, PC Magazine, CNET, The Register, GeekWire and parislemon. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Instagram is coming to Windows Phone, spotted in Nokia video — Instagram, a popular photo sharing app for iOS and Android, is heading to Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. We're hearing from sources familiar with Microsoft's Windows Phone plans that an Instagram app will be made available … | Cade Metz / Wired: |
Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa — Photos of the mystery computing device appeared on the web in late February. Taken with a smartphone, they were a bit washed out and a little blurry in places, but you could easily read the name printed on the long, thin piece of hardware.| Bloomberg: |
Apple's Krall Leads Samsung Win in Jobs' Global Smartphone War — If Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s patent litigation is the “thermonuclear war” over smartphone technology and design that co-founder Steve Jobs pledged to his biographer, Noreen Krall is its field marshal.| Jessi Hempel / Fortune: |
Facebook's China problem — CEO Mark Zuckerberg would like to reach the country's 513 million Internet users. Too bad local entrepreneurs have beaten him to the punch. — FORTUNE — Last May when Mark Zuckerberg wed his Chinese-American girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, a joke began … | David Axe / Wired: |
Careful Who You Friend: Taliban Posing as ‘Attractive Women’ Online — U.S. and Australian troops during a 2010 computer training exercise. Photo: Australian Ministry of Defense — Tech-savvy Talibs have posed as pretty girls on Facebook to lure Australian troops into giving away military secrets.
More:
Forbes, ZDNet, WebProNews, Gizmodo and Softpedia News
| Sudeep Reddy / Real Time Economics: |
IPhone 5 Sales Could Offer Big Boost to GDP — The iPhone 5, which Apple Inc. plans to release this week, could get credit for something Congress, the White House and Federal Reserve have struggled to do: boost the U.S. economy in a measurable way. — Sales of the new iPhone could add between … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Production of 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro and Updated iMacs Reportedly Ramping Up — Late last month, NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim reported that suppliers had begun production on 2560x1600 display panels destined for a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. The machine has been rumored to be launching in October.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nielsen: Majority Of Mobile U.S. Teens Now Own Smartphones — Nielsen announced in May that more than half of U.S. mobile owners now owned smartphones, and today that metric has grown again, going from 50.4% to 55.5%. But the more interesting figure in the firm's release of July 2012 data …
More:
CNET, Nielsen Wire, 9to5Google, Engadget, AllThingsD, BetaNews, Mashable, Washington Post, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac and AndroidGuys
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
HP revises restructuring figures; now cutting 29,000 jobs — Summary: Computer maker HP will cut 29,000 jobs — an increase on its first estimate — as the firm continues to cut back on costs as it falls down the PC building market share rankings. — Zack Whittaker
More:
Electronista, eWeek, TechSpot, BGR, Forbes, SiliconBeat, AllThingsD, Associated Press and Mashable!
| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
That was fast: Amazon is already discounting settling publishers' ebooks — Just four days after a federal judge approved the Department of Justice's settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster for allegedly colluding with Apple to fix ebook prices, Amazon has already begun discounting HarperCollins ebooks.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Dave Morin Says China Is Path's Second Biggest Country — Path CEO Dave Morin offered some updates on the company's growth while on-stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt. Version 2.0 of the journaling/personal networking app launched back in November, and Morin said the momentum from that launch has continued in recent months.
More:
VatorNews, TechCrunch, GigaOM and VentureBeat
| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
Y-Combinator Alum 42Floors Announces $5 Million Series A...Sorta — Y-Combinator Winter 2012 Alumni 42Floors set out to “hack commercial real estate...because searching for office space really, really sucks.” — Earlier today, the company posted a job listing to Y-Combinator news network … Thanks:@jasonfreedman
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Following controversies, Apple retail chief John Browett rallies troops ahead of ‘brilliant stuff’ in Q1 — Browett at an Apple Store opening (IFO Apple Store on Flickr) — John Browett, Apple's new Senior Vice President of Retail, has been the source of controversy in the Apple retail space as of late.
More:
Business Insider and CNET
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Zoho:
Enhancements to Zoho Writer's automation flow designer: New PDF operations, password protection, and more — Once we rolled out the automation flow designer in Zoho Writer's merge templates …
Enhancements to Zoho Writer's automation flow designer: New PDF operations, password protection, and more — Once we rolled out the automation flow designer in Zoho Writer's merge templates …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions — With Reed Albergotti
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Podcast Pioneer PJ Vogt's Second Act: Less Budget, More Control
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
BG2 Pod:
AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
Great Chat:
The stories we told ourselves in 2025
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Grit:
How Brands Stay Visible When AI Decides | Profound CEO James Cadwallader
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:40 AM ET, September 11, 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
Sara Fischer / Axios:Todd Spangler / Variety:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
More:
ZDNet, Droid Life, BGR, The Verge, Pocketnow, 9to5Google, GadgeTell, Engadget and PhoneArena. Thanks:@romaindillet
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
More:
The Mac Observer, MacNN, Macgasm and AppleInsider
| Zack Whittaker / CNET: |
More:
Ars Technica, ZDNet and Out-Law News
Earlier Picks
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
More:
VentureBeat, TechCrunch, GigaOM, TechCrunch, CNET, CNET, Inc.com, Business Insider, Forbes, The Technology Chronicles and TechCrunch
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
More:
The Verge, The Register, VentureBeat, Pocketables, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo, GeekWire and AllThingsD