Techmeme: NYPD Will Be At Apple Stores On iPhone 5 Launch Day, To Register Your Gadgets (Jen Chung/Gothamist)

September 21, 2012, 4:35 PM

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Jen Chung / Gothamist:

NYPD Will Be At Apple Stores On iPhone 5 Launch Day, To Register Your Gadgets — Updated with photo of police at the launch!: If we're not writing stories about iPhone releases or the new iOS' map functionality sucking, we're writing stories about someone's iPhone being stolen—most likely while on the subway.

More: Guardian, Mobile Marketing Watch, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, Ars Technica, TUAW and Betabeat

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

iPhone 5 Now on Sale in the U.S. — The iPhone 5 just launched in the U.S. along the east coast. Fortune's Philip Elmer-Dewitt is at the 5th Avenue Store and notes that the line is longer than last year's iPhone 4S line: … The first day pre-orders for the iPhone 5 doubled last year's iPhone 4S launch.

More: comScore Voices, Gizmodo Australia, Fortune, Washington Post, Pulse2 Technology …, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone BlogiPhone Blog, TechCrunch, Redmond Pie and Fortune

Tweets: @richdemuro and @jyarow

Yoree Koh / Japan Real Time:

Burglars in Japan First to Get Hands on iPhone 5 … A group of thieves in Japan got a jump start on nabbing Apple Inc .'s iPhone 5 before anyone else in the world Friday morning. — At a time when thousands of eager Apple fans were already lined up outside outlets around the world …

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

Black iPhone 5 Anodized Aluminum Susceptible to Scratching? — After the original announcement of the iPhone 5, one early concern amongst readers was how well the anodized aluminum back and edges of the black iPhone 5 would hold up over time. — One lengthy thread on our forums …

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

iPhone 5 (vs Samsung Galaxy S3) Drop Tests Show Very Durable Device and Screen — With the launch of the iPhone 5, several companies are performing tests and benchmarks on the new device. One common effort is to put any new iPhone in a series of drop tests to see how well it survives common falls.

More: Android Authority, Jailbreak | iOS, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Words of iFixYouri, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, App Advice, Sammy Hub, Redmond Pie, The Tech Block and everythingiCafe

Jeff Benjamin / iDownloadBlog.com:

The Verizon iPhone 5 is GSM unlocked, tested with AT&T — I can confirm that the Verizon iPhone 5 is indeed GSM unlocked. Even though I bought an iPhone 5 from Verizon under contract, I was able to cut down my AT&T Micro SIM, and use it in my Verizon iPhone 5 to pick up an AT&T signal.

More: The Verge, Engadget, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, iClarified, iLounge and App Advice. Thanks:@idownloadblog

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Apple A6 Die Revealed: 3-core GPU, — Our good friends at UBM TechInsights sent over the first diffusion images of Apple's new A6 SoC. It's still too early to tell a lot but we have confirmation of a lot of things. The image above shows two 32-bit LPDDR2 memory channels and three GPU cores.

iFixit:

iPhone 5 Teardown — Behold, the sixth generation of iPhone!

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook Turns Off Facial Recognition In The EU, Gets The All-Clear On Several Points From Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner On Its Review — The ongoing investigation into Facebook's transparency on user data and privacy by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner has come to a positive conclusion for the social network.

More: digitaltrends.com, Ars Technica, Reuters, The Verge, Guardian, Computerworld, CNET, ValueWalk, Pulse2 Technology …, The Register, Silicon Republic, Engadget, Softpedia News, GigaOM and Slashdot

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Verizon finally rolling out Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean for the Galaxy Nexus — Google announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean back in June and released it for the unlocked GSM Galaxy Nexus a few weeks later, but Verizon's version has remained stuck on Ice Cream Sandwich.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, Verizon Wireless, IntoMobile, WebProNews, Engadget, 9to5Google, Droid Life, Gotta Be Mobile, GadgeTell and Android and Me

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

OpenStreetMap Gets First Major Funding From Knight News Challenge — OpenStreetMap, the increasingly popular Wikipedia-like project to create a map of the world — it's now used by Apple, Foursquare and others — has gotten its first major funding grant. — Knight News Challenge …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, dailywireless.org, TechCrunch and Spatially Adjusted

Reuters:

China's Alibaba to spin off team developing mobile operating system — (Reuters) - Alibaba Group, China's biggest e-commerce firm, will spin off the team developing its Aliyun mobile operating system, which Google Inc claims uses aspects of its own mobile operating system Android.

More: TechCrunch and Tech in Asia

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Good Karma! Facebook to launch social gifting app in the US in a matter of weeks — Around the same time it started listing its shares on NASDAQ, Facebook announced that it had acquired social gifting app maker Karma for a reported $80 million+, making it one of the company's largest purchases to date.

More: AllFacebook, Inside Facebook and WebProNews. Thanks:@bradmccarty

Bloomberg:

Apple Loses German Court Ruling Against Samsung in Patent Suit — The 4G Price War Brewing Over the IPhone 5 — Apple Inc. (AAPL) lost a court ruling against Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) in Germany regarding claims the South Korean company's Galaxy devices infringed patents on the iPhone maker's touch-screen technology.

More: Los Angeles Times, FOSS Patents and The Tech Block

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Google Welcomes Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's “The Internship” on Campus — You wouldn't know that relations between Google and Hollywood are testy by the week they've had together. — Google has taken in movie stars Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn with open arms, lending its campus as the set for their upcoming film “The Internship.”

More: Los Angeles Times, Pulse2 Technology … and Betabeat. Tweets: @eacohn

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Facebook Pulling Back On Frictionless Sharing Apps — On Thursday, Facebook's Manager of Media Partnerships, Andy Mitchell, told a panel of journalists and fellow Facebookers that the site was moving away from “passive sharing,” referring to apps released by the Washington Post …

More: Digital Media Wire, Wired, Facebook Developer Blog and Pulse2 Technology …

Brad Linder / Liliputing:

Asus to unveil the Padfone 2 in October — The Asus Padfone hasn't exactly taken the world by storm since Asus first introduced the smartphone that can transform into a tablet, notebook, or desktop with liberal use of docking stations. In fact, the Padfone has yet to officially go on sale in the US.

More: Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena, The Verge, Engadget, The Tech Report and Pocket-lint

Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry — Google's “billions of clicks” are only half of the story. — In April of 2010, Eric Schmidt delivered the keynote address at the conference of the American Society of News Editors in Washington, D.C. During the talk …

More: memeburn and Pulse2 Technology …. Tweets: @venkatananth, @kvox and @brad_pw

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

W3C announces plan to deliver HTML 5 by 2014, HTML 5.1 in 2016 — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group that manages development of the main specifications used by the Web, has proposed a new plan that would see the HTML 5 spec positioned as a Recommendation—which in W3C's lingo represents …

More: The Register, Softpedia News, The H Open Source and Slashdot

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

YouTube Testing Feature To Quiz You While You're Watching A Video — YouTube videos may soon be getting a little more interactive. There's now a page on the YouTube website describing a feature called “Video Questions Editor Beta,” which was spotted by the Dutch tech site WebSonic.nl.

More: 9to5Google, Pulse2 Technology …, SocialTimes, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo UK, Softpedia News and bizjournals

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook adds searches to the Activity Log, allows you to view and remove your search activity — Facebook today announced it has added searches to the Activity Log. As with most Facebook updates, the new addition will be rolling out over the next few weeks.

More: Facebook Newsroom and The Verge

Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:

Apple's Maps satellite and hybrid views only show China and Taiwan while in China — So we were just checking out Apple's new widely dissed Maps app, and found something extremely interesting: if you are in China on a domestic network (i.e. not on a VPN) and you look at the satellite or hybrid view, you only see China.

More: Macgasm, Betabeat, The Verge and The Next Web

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