Techmeme: Canonical adds a ‘kill switch’ for Ubuntu's Amazon search (Katherine Noyes/PC World)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News

September 28, 2012, 4:15 AM

Top News

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Say Hello to Gifts, Facebook's New Mobile Revenue Stream — Facebook on Thursday unveiled Gifts, the company's major initiative into the world of social gift giving and e-commerce. — It's exactly what it sounds like. Users can choose, mail and pay for real-world, physical gifts …

More: Facebook Newsroom, Reuters, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, AllFacebook, internetretailer.com, TPM IdeaLab, Forbes, Engadget, Wired, PC Magazine, IntoMobile, ABCNEWS, LAPTOP Magazine, Forbes, PandoDaily, WebProNews, Inside Facebook, Mashable!, Digits, The Verge, SeekingAlpha.com and BuzzFeed. Tweets: @launchticker

Somini Sengupta / NYT Bits:

Facebook Lets Users Buy Real Things for Friends

More: Betabeat, Gizmodo, Pulse2 Technology …, VentureBeat, Los Angeles Times and CNET

Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Google's “iLost” Motorola ad faked an address to “lose” iOS 6 Maps — Google's Motorola Mobility subsidiary went looking for an address that didn't actually exist in an effort to artificially portray Apple's new iOS 6 Maps as deficient. — In a marketing ploy not unlike Nokia's faked camera shots …

More: CNET, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Edible Apple, Search Engine Land and Gizmodo. Thanks:@max8378

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Sorry, Apple fans: the Google/Motorola fake address “scandal” is no scandal at all

Roger Cheng / CNET:

RIM won't show off BlackBerry 10 phones this year — Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben tells CNET that Research In Motion will show off more of BlackBerry 10's capabilities, but there will be no big reveal until closer to the launch date. — BlackBerry fans hoping to get a peek …

More: Pocketables and Pulse2 Technology …

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

RIM's Fiscal Q2 2013 Results: Net Loss Of $235 Million On $2.9 Billion In Revenue, 7.4 Million BlackBerrys Shipped — After a roller coaster of a week, RIM has just released its fiscal Q2 2013 financials and — shocker — they're not as bad as some thought.

More: Market Wire, iTnews.com.au, Guardian, CNET, Wall Street Journal, FierceWireless, The Verge, Tech Trader Daily, The Next Web, Neowin, VentureBeat, GigaOM and Ars Technica

Tweets: @rogerwcheng and @jonerlichman

Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits:

A New Google App Gives You Local Information — Before You Ask for It — Google has created a new mobile app that gives people facts about the places around them — unprompted, without the need to even ask for the information. — The app, Field Trip, offers historical trivia about a park …

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

No, Facebook does not have 63.5 million active users in China. — A new report published this week has suggested that China is Twitter's largest global market and Facebook has 63.5 million users there — despite both being blocked by the country's Internet censorship system …

Thanks:@jonrussell

Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:

Facebook Tops 63 Million Users in China Despite Ban, Report Says

More: GlobalWebIndex and CNET

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Here's Yahoo's 2011 3-Year Strategy Plan That Could Be New Roadmap — As most readers know, I love a good internal memo from Yahoo — and now I have landed a really meaty one. — It's the “Yahoo! Three-Year Product Strategy” plan, a 21-page report that was completed in mid-2011 by a team headed by former product head Blake Irving.

More: PandoDaily and SiliconANGLE

Bloomberg:

Dish Said to Be in Talks With Viacom About Internet TV — Dish Network Corp. (DISH) is talking to networks such as Viacom (VIAB) Inc.'s MTV about offering their channels over the Internet, a service that could shift the economics of the pay-TV industry, five people familiar with the plan said.

More: GigaOM, Mashable!, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Business Week, PC Magazine, CNET, The Verge, Deadline.com and SocialTimes. See also Mediagazer

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Dish Network launches nationwide satellite broadband service with ViaSat, Hughes, calls it dishNET

More: MarketWatch, SlashGear and Bloomberg

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

Microsoft: Lack of tech workers approaching ‘genuine crisis’ — Microsoft unveiled a lobbying push on Thursday to produce more applicants with the skills to fill technology and engineering jobs. — The proposal would boost visas for high-skilled foreign workers and invest millions of dollars in federal funding for education.

More: Computerworld, Mercury News, GeekWire, Neowin, TechNet Blogs and The Next Web

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 officially priced in Europe, available in November — Nokia unveiled its Lumia 920 and 820 Windows Phone 8 devices earlier this month, but the company refused to mention pricing, pre-orders, and availability dates. Despite this, Nokia's Russian subsidiary has started …

More: IntoMobile, BGR, Bloomberg, Redmond Pie, Wired, ZDNet, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, Tech Shout!, Mashable!, Engadget, WMPoweruser, Neowin, Reuters, Ubergizmo, The Next Web and SeekingAlpha.com

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Growing Its Influence, Klout Gets Strategic Investment From Microsoft — And Serious Bing Integration — Klout hasn't just defied influential tech pundits, its social reputation scorecard has won them over. Now the sometimes-controversial startup is aiming at search.

More: The Official Klout Blog, Bing, Digits, AllThingsD, Uncrunched, VentureBeat, Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land, LiveSide.net, Betabeat, WebProNews and TechNet Blogs

Tweets: @eric_andersen and @louisgray

Tim Peterson / Adweek:

Yahoo Resurrects Its AdSense, With a Partner — Yahoo is back in the contextual ad business. — Two years after shutting down a fledgling text-based ad product that Yahoo called the Publisher Network—essentially Yahoo's answer to AdSense, the company is giving it another go with the launch …

More: WebProNews, STATESMAN SENTINEL, MediaPost, San Francisco Chronicle, The Next Web, Adotas and Computerworld. See also Mediagazer

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter may not be displaying all of your @mentions in clients — Update below that shows both first and third party apps are affected. — If you use Twitter's app for iPhone, you may be missing some of the times your username is being referenced, and sometimes they are being ‘replaced’ by older retweeted mentions.

More: Favstar.fm and MacNN. Tweets: @applespotlight. Thanks:@steve_karaoke

Katherine Noyes / PC World:

Canonical adds a ‘kill switch’ for Ubuntu's Amazon search — The new integration of Amazon search results in Ubuntu Linux 12.10 has stirred up quite a hornet's nest of controversy over the past week or so among observers unimpressed by Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth's calm assurances that users' privacy would be maintained.

More: The Register and Softpedia News

Dan Farber / CNET:

Pew study: News consumption increasing via mobile, social media — Social-networking sites grew from 9 percent to 19 percent as a source for news in the last two years, but only 3 percent of respondents say they regularly get news from Twitter. — The Internet is continuing to erode TV …

More: Pew Research Center …, Mashable!, San Francisco Chronicle, GigaOM and The Technology Chronicles. See also Mediagazer

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Instagram Beats Twitter in Daily Mobile Users for the First Time, Data Says — Pictures beat words: In August, U.S. smartphone owners visited Instagram from their smartphones more frequently and for longer periods of time than they visited Twitter. — That data comes from comScore …

More: Wired, CNET, BuzzFeed, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, digitaltrends.com, Digits, Venture Capital Dispatch, Inside Mobile Apps, SiliconANGLE and Mashable!. Tweets: @levie

Dalton Caldwell / App.net:

Announcing the App.net Developer Incentive Program — Two important properties of a successful software platform are: — A financially sustainable business model that can support both the platform and 3rd-party developers. — Aligned financial incentives between the platform, users and developers.

More: CNET, ReadWriteWeb, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, GigaOM, TechCrunch and The Next Web

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Bad Piggies Is A Hit, Taking Just 3 Hours To Hit The Top Spot In The U.S. App Store — And just like that, Rovio is back to number 1. The Finnish gaming company today launched Bad Piggies, an entirely new game that features some of the same characters from the smash hit, Angry Birds.

More: GigaOM, Examiner, Macgasm, iMore.com, SlashGear, BGR, memeburn, AllThingsD, Mashable!, PC Magazine, BGR and WebProNews. Tweets: @drizzled

AppleInsider:

Apple iPhone 5 to launch on regional U.S. carriers on Friday, some offering discounts — One week after the iPhone 5 released on Sept. 21, regional wireless operators in the U.S. will begin selling Apple's latest smartphone, with some carriers offering special incentives like $50 price cuts to lure customers.

More: The Next Web, Nsight, CNET, PC Magazine, The Verge and Electronista

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Mozilla's Persona Login System Is Now In Beta, Takes On OpenID And OAuth — Mozilla's Persona, the organization's experimental distributed login system that's an alternative to OpenID and OAuth, is now officially in public beta. Mozilla bills Persona as a “login system that completely eliminates passwords …

More: PC World, Identity at Mozilla, The Next Web, Engadget, Ars Technica and gHacks Technology News

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Calif. law passed to halt employer snooping on social media — Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown signs a privacy bill making it illegal for employers to demand employee usernames and passwords for social media accounts. — Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown took to social media today to announce that he signed …

More: Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, PolitiCal and TechCrunch

AppleInsider:

Apple iPad dominates tablet-based web browsing with 98% share, report says — A study released on Thursday claims the iPad accounts for nearly of all web traffic originating from tablets, and 54.5 percent of all traffic from mobile devices, to sites running the touch-centric Onswipe platform.

Thanks:@mcalderone

Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:

Cloud security company Qualys to IPO at $12 a share tomorrow — You can expect to see another security company on the market tomorrow. Cloud security company Qualys will debut on the NASDAQ Friday under the ticket symbol QLYS. … The company plans to sell 7,575,000 common stock shares …

More: Reuters, Forbes, bizjournals, NASDAQ Community and SecurityWeek

Sponsor Posts

Soxton:

Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!

F5:

Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.

Zoho:

Website traffic analytics: How to read your data and take action — Traffic is up. Sessions look healthy. The dashboard is full of green arrows and yet — conversions are flat, revenue targets are slipping, and the leads coming through aren't closing.

IDrive:

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Lenny's Podcast:

Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.

Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.

Big Technology Podcast:

Will Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic's Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI

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.

Hard Fork:

Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT

The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.

Subscribe to Hard Fork.

The Upstarts Podcast:

Vanta's Christina Cacioppo: The Underdog Turning 'Nonsense' Compliance Into A $4.2B Security Standout

Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.

Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.

Great Chat:

Who are the billboards for?

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.

Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:

AI's Mythos Moment: Rishi Sunak on preparing governments for AI

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.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:15 AM ET, September 28, 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.