|
September 20, 2012, 11:35 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| BBC: |
New Apple maps app under fire from users — Apple's map app renames the town of Hagley as Dudley - which is more than seven miles away — Inaccuracies and misplaced towns and cities in Apple's new map software have provoked anger from users. — In June Apple announced it would stop using Google Maps …
More:
The Irish Times, CNET, MacRumors, SiliconANGLE, Tech in Asia, InformationWeek, Computerworld, ZDNet, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, BGR, WMPoweruser, Marketing Pilgrim, SlashGear, Simon's Technology Blog, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch, Japan Mobile Tech, BreakingNews.ie, The Australian, SlashGear, ReadWriteWeb and Josh Centers
Tweets: @dangillmor, @petersvensson, @nikcub, @fromedome, @penllawen, @nebev, @penllawen and @penllawen
| Piers Dillon Scott / The Sociable: |
That's not an airport, it's a farm - Irish Minister for Justice considers Apple's iOS 6 Maps dangerous — Ireland's Minister for Justice has a few concerns with Apple's new iOS6 map application. The main one being that iOS6′s new mapping app identifies Airfield Garden, a working farm in a residential area, as an actual airport.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
More:
Better Broadband Blog, The Verge, Mashable!, 9to5Google, Fortune, DailyFinance.com, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, About Foursquare, Pulse2 Technology …, Wired.co.uk, memeburn, The H Security, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Macworld, The Next Web, the understatement, Marketing Land, Daring Fireball, The Next Web, The Tech Block and Anil Dash
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
HP marches out an army of Windows 8 consumer and business PCs — Hewlett-Packard is introducing a dozen new computers and accessories today that represent the core of its line-up for Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system coming on Oct. 26. — This new pack of computers isn't even HP's whole line-up.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
More:
Inquirer, Windows 8 Beta and The Next Web
| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Facebook to charge merchants to run Offers — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it will start charging businesses to run Offers on its social network, turning a previously free service into a potential revenue generator at a time when Wall Street is demanding new sources of growth and profit from the company.| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook tests automatic ‘Photo Sync’ uploads on Android — Facebook has begun testing a new feature for Android owners that syncs photos you shoot on your phone straight to your Facebook account. It's a hybrid of Google+'s instant photo-upload feature and Apple's Photostream … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Major League Baseball Hopes iPhone Tickets Will Be a Hit — While riding to San Francisco's AT&T Park on Thursday, an alert popped up on my phone letting me know that the Giants game was nearby, even though I was still on the train nearing the ballpark. — As I neared the gate …
More:
Inquirer, Macgasm, SlashGear, The Next Web and PhoneArena
| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Apple and publishers subpoena Amazon in ebook pricing case — Apple wants the Department of Justice to turn over the interviews it conducted with Amazon employees as part of the ebook pricing lawsuit. In an August filing, Apple wrote, “Amazon was the driving force behind the Government's investigation … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Business Card Upstart Moo.com Buys Flavors.me To Expand Its Digital Profile — Moo.com, the online-to-print business card company that was one of the UK's earlier startup successes, is branching out: it is buying all of the assets of Flavors.me, the site where people can create online personal profiles …
More:
GigaOM, PandoDaily, Wired.co.uk, Betabeat, Forbes, Pulse2 Technology … and The Next Web
| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
US government and Stack Exchange launch crowdsourced patent process — A new partnership between the US government and a popular Q&A site may help rid the country of the low quality patents that have produced an endless series of lawsuits that threaten to stunt parts of the technology sector.
More:
The Verge, StackExchange Blog and Techdirt
| Matthew Humphries / Geek.com: |
Raspberry Pi gets a 1GHz turbo mode — The Raspberry Pi is a fantastic bit of kit out the box, offering a complete PC for just $35. But of course, as soon as you start using it you would like it to go a bit faster than the stock 700MHz clock frequency, and then you start editing the config.txt …
More:
The H Open Source, Inquirer, Raspberry Pi, Gizmodo UK, TechEye, bit-tech.net, Softpedia News, Liliputing, Engadget and SlashGear
| Matthew Moskovciak / CNET: |
Roku Streaming Stick coming in October for $99, Roku 2 boxes get Vudu app, plus mobile app adds AirPlay-esque streaming — Roku's Streaming Stick will be out in time for the holidays, but it only works with a handful of TVs. — Roku's Streaming Stick was one of the most interesting home theater products … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
How To Undo Facebook Hiding Your Email Address Before Your Friends Use iOS 6 Contact Sync — Millions of people are downloading iOS 6 right now, and many will use the Facebook contact sync feature to pull in photos and current phone numbers of friends. But rather than your real email address … | Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
| David Talbot / San Francisco magazine: |
How Much Tech Can One City Take? — Shaken by the latest digital gold rush, San Francisco struggles for its soul. — Last year, when Mayor Ed Lee heard that Twitter was planning to move its headquarters out of San Francisco and down to the peninsula, he quickly consulted with his digital experts …
More:
Seedcamp and VentureBeat. Tweets: @nickbilton, @clairecm, @dylan20, @eldon, @chrismegerian, @jtemple and @gerryshih
| Technology Review: |
History, As Recorded on Twitter, Is Vanishing From The Web, Say Computer Scientists — Almost 30 per cent of recorded history, shared over social media such as Twitter, has disapeared, according to a new study of the Egyptian uprising and other significant events
More:
Pulse2 Technology … and GigaOM
| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Financier Files For Bankruptcy, Focus Shifts To Peter Sunde — Following their earlier convictions for copyright infringement, Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, former site spokesman Peter Sunde, and financier Carl Lundström all owe a considerable amount in damages.| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry Creator Lazaridis Puts $100M Into Nano Labs — Mike Lazaridis, whose invention of the BlackBerry smartphone more than a decade ago redefined the way people send e-mail, is drawing inspiration from the early days of computing for his next act. — Backed by his $100 million donation … | Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung to add iPhone 5 to U.S. lawsuits vs Apple — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co plans to add Apple Inc's iPhone 5 to existing patent lawsuits against its U.S. rival, stepping up its legal challenge to Apple as the two smartphone leaders seek to assert rights to key technologies.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iCloud for Windows 2.0: An improvement, but not much has changed — iCloud gets a lot of attention in reviews of iOS and OS X, and with good reason—it's one of Apple's biggest services, and with every new version of its desktop and mobile operating systems, iCloud expands to store just a bit more of your stuff.
More:
Softpedia News
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Microsoft wins third German injunction against Google's Motorola over high-power patent — Google just suffered a strategically very important defeat at the Munich I Regional Court, where Presiding Judge Dr. Peter Guntz just announced a ruling in Microsoft's favor against wholly-owned Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility.
More:
PandoDaily, ZDNet, Associated Press, Engadget and GeekWire
| Eric Savitz / Forbes: |
Unwired Planet Sues Apple, Google With Infringing 10 Patents Each — Unwired Panet, the wireless Internet technology company formerly called Openwave, this morning said it has filed patent infringement complaints against both Apple and Google in federal court in Nevada.
More:
AllThingsD, Business Wire, bizjournals and The Next Web
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft issues a rebootless ‘Fix’ to the Internet Explorer security weakness — Yesterday we brought you the news that Microsoft was preparing a one-click solution for Internet Explorer, protecting users from a security flaw that was discovered. — The company adamantly states that few users …
More:
Reuters, Microsoft Support, ZDNet, InfoWorld, The Register, Softpedia News, Krebs on Security, CNET and eWeek
| Ryan Naraine / ZDNet: |
Mobile Pwn2Own: iPhone 4S hacked by Dutch team — Summary: How long would it take a determined attacker to hack into Apple's iPhone 4S from scratch? A Dutch research team uses the Pwn2Own contest to provide the answer. — Ryan Naraine — AMSTERDAM — How long would it take a determined attacker … | Want China Times: |
Google, Chunghwa Telecom sign deal on YouTube broadcasting — Google's video website YouTube will soon be available on a digital television service offered by Chunghwa Telecom Co, the Taiwanese carrier said Tuesday. — The content will be introduced under an agreement signed last month … | Carey Kolaja / AllThingsD: |
The iPhone 5 Doesn't Have NFC — So What? — With last Wednesday's Apple iPhone 5 unveiling, and the recent Nokia Lumia launch, mobile is on top of the media agenda. But as the screen size and connector stories die down, the question of “when will my mobile phone become my wallet?” rises up once again.
More:
Apple Outsider and The Loop
Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
Magatte Wade, Unlocking Prosperity in Africa (#53)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 04/19 - All The News About Llama 3
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:35 AM ET, September 20, 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
Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:New York Times:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story: |
More:
BBC, Ars Technica, The Verge, Wired.co.uk, Sun.Star, Manila Standard Today and Pocket-lint
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
More:
AllThingsD, VatorNews, TechCrunch and PandoDaily
| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
More:
VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat and silicontap.com
| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
More:
Hillicon Valley
Earlier Picks
| Edward Wyatt / NYT Bits: |
More:
Search Engine Land, ZDNet, Softpedia News, The Next Web, CNET and Inquirer
| Elinor Mills / CNET: |
More:
virtualization.info and TechCrunch
| Sophie Curtis / Computerworld: |
More:
Business Insider and Betabeat
| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
More:
VentureBeat, Wired, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
| Mihir / Groublogpon: |
More:
Computerworld, SocialTimes, Macgasm, VatorNews, WebProNews, Screenwerk, Payments News, Engadget, AllThingsD and GigaOM