Techmeme: Apple's secret garden: the struggle over leaks and security (Jacqui Cheng/Ars Technica)

October 22, 2012, 7:15 PM

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Dan Lyons / ReadWrite:

Editor's Note: Welcome To The New ReadWrite — Welcome to the new ReadWrite. Today we are relaunching this legendary tech site with a new name, a new design and a new approach. I'm thrilled to be joining ReadWrite as the site's new editor-in-chief, and to be teaming up with Fredric Paul …

Tweets: @marshallk, @thefreditor and @iammattthomas

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

SAY Media Rebrands ReadWriteWeb As “ReadWrite”, Redesigns, Hires Dan “Fake Steve Jobs” Lyons As Editor In Chief — I'm a fan of ReadWriteWeb, always have been, but other than not being able to pronounce the blog's name, I've always appreciated the technical and detailed analysis coming out of the brand.

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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

Apple's secret garden: the struggle over leaks and security — Apple engineers love the “big reveal.” When a surprising new product they have been toiling over in secrecy finally bursts into public view during an Apple keynote, they enjoy seeing the public reaction.

More: MacRumors, TechSpot, Betabeat, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com and The Verge

The Korea Times:

Samsung Display to terminate Apple deal — Samsung Display said Monday that it will terminate its contract with Apple and no longer supply liquid crystal display (LCD) panels to its long time partner. — The news comes as speculation is mounting over a rift between the two firms …

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

The Debut of Yahoo CEO Mayer: “Tailor-Made” for Marissa — Yahoo turned in a meh third quarter, which came as no surprise to anyone. But none of it matters, since all eyes were on what new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer would say on the investor call today. — Here we go! It is Mayer's first outing as a public company CEO.

More: TechCrunch and Business Insider

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Q3 Beats Expectations In Mayer's First Full Quarter As CEO: $1.2B Revenue, Non-GAAP EPS $0.35 — Yahoo today reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2012, its first full quarter with new CEO Marissa Mayer at the helm. Mayer is back at work full-time after taking …

Reuters:

Federal agency to switch to iPhone, drop BlackBerry — (Reuters) - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said will end its contract with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion in favor of Apple's iPhone, dealing a fresh blow to RIM just months ahead of its launch of a vital new device.

More: AllThingsD, Examiner, Hillicon Valley, Ars Technica, The Verge, TechCrunch, Pocketables, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET and Macgasm

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

A New Version Of Google Wallet Is ‘Coming Soon’ — Google has quietly updated the website for Google Wallet, its mobile-payments service, to advertise “the next version of Google Wallet, coming soon.” — Visitors can request an invite. We did, and Google asked us what kind of device we used …

More: CNET, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, The Verge, Droid Life, Macgasm, AndroidGuys, Gotta Be Mobile, GigaOM, Pocketnow and MobileBurn.com. Thanks:@owenthomas

Steve Clayton / TechNet Blogs:

Exclusive video: Bill Gates on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Surface — I often tell people I've got one of the best jobs at Microsoft; I get the opportunity to meet and talk with the people here who brew the special sauce that is Microsoft. Last week I got to meet and talk with the guy who first created the sauce.

More: LockerGnome, MSDN Blogs, GeekWire, CNET, Business Insider, Engadget, Softpedia News and SlashGear. Thanks:@stevecla

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

Amazon's EC2 sees partial outage, taking Reddit, Minecraft, Coursera, Flipboard and others down in tow — It's another bad day for customers of Amazon's AWS and EC2 hosting. The company is presently reporting an outage in its Service Health dashboard which seems to be affecting a number of Internet favorites.

More: VentureBeat, Wired, CNET, BGR, The Register, ZDNet, Business Insider, Data Center Knowledge, GigaOM, The Verge, Computerworld, GeekWire, NYT Bits, Betabeat and TechCrunch. Tweets: @redditstatus

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

Apple starts testing iOS 6.0.1 for release in coming weeks, iOS 6.1 to come after holidays — One of our reliable Apple (AAPL) sources has let us know Apple has begun testing iOS 6..1 with different carrier partners in the U.S. and we have a general list of what the first iOS 6 update …

More: Ars Technica, CNET, iMore.com, PhoneArena, Mobile Marketing Watch, Apple Bitch, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com and 9to5Mac

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Android apps used by millions vulnerable to password, e-mail theft — By exploiting inadequate SSL protections in an anti-virus app, researchers were able to force it to download a malicious virus signature. — Fahl et al. — Android applications downloaded by as many as 185 million users …

More: BBC, InfoWorld, TechSpot, Computerworld, Fast Company, Softpedia News, CNET and AndroidOS.in

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Skype for Windows 8 launches on October 26th (hands-on preview) — Backend changes prepare Microsoft's communications service for the future — After months of teasing a Windows 8 style version of Skype, Microsoft is finally delivering it on October 26th.

More: VoIP & Gadgets Blog, CNET, ZDNet, PhoneArena, The Big Blog, BGR, The Next Web, Ars Technica, TechSpot, Engadget, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Seattle Times, GeekWire, Geeky-Gadgets, BetaNews, Inquirer, LiveSide.net and Neowin

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Square Signs Lease For New Office In San Francisco to Accommodate 1000+ Employees, Will Move In Mid-2013 — Square has just announced plans for a new office in San Francisco. The mobile payments company, which is currently located in the Chronicle Building in downtown San Francisco …

More: VentureBeat, Business Insider, Square, AllThingsD, GigaOM and Mashable!. Tweets: @jack

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple Sees Schools Buoying Tablet Lead With IPad in Class — Julie Garcia handed Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPads to students in her seventh-grade pre-algebra class on a recent morning before showing the pupils how to use the tablet to graph data, hunt for correlations and record how-to videos.

More: 9to5Mac, Mashable!, CNET, SlashGear, PadGadget, Redmond Pie, Ars Technica, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena and MacRumors

Justin Rubio / The Verge:

New Samsung Chromebook now available through Google Play for $249 — Samsung's latest Chromebook can now be purchased through the Google Play Store for $249. Announced last week, the new 11.6-inch Chromebook is equipped with an Exynos 5 Dual processor, a pair of USB ports, an HDMI-out port, and 2GB of RAM.

More: BetaNews and Engadget

Jonathan Tirone / Bloomberg:

Facebook Gains for Terrorists Seeking Friends, UN Reports — Facebook Inc. (FB), the world's biggest online social network, is increasingly being used by terrorists to recruit sympathizers, spread propaganda and plan potential attacks, according to the United Nations.

More: CNET, VatorNews and AllThingsD. Tweets: @joshconstine

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

LG exec claims Nexus due at October 29th event, ships to India one month later — It's either a premature confirmation or one of the larger executive gaffes we've seen in recent memory, but it's hard to ignore. LG's Mobile Product Planning lead for India, Amit Gujral …

More: PhoneArena, Android and Me, ibnlive.in.com, MobileBurn.com, MobileSyrup.com, Droid Life, Android News, Rumours …, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile and The Verge

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Twitter Hires Agency Relations Chief From Google — Matt Derella Formerly Oversaw the Relationship Between Publicis and Google — Twitter is signaling to agencies that it's all grown up and ready to service them the way the likes of Google and AOL do. — The company has hired a new director …

More: VatorNews and TechCrunch

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

End of Resale Deal With Hewlett-Packard Stings IPO-Bound Violin Memory — So, has Hewlett-Packard cut its ties with Violin Memory, or not? It depends on whom you ask, and what exactly you mean by “end.” — Violin, you may remember, is the memory array company that uses flash memory chips …

More: Reuters, The Register and Bloomberg

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Mosaic for iPhone lets you build beautiful printed photo books in minutes for the life in-between — Digitally ordered photo books are a notoriously hard nut to crack. Too many options or not enough options, layout hassles and concerns about finish end up confusing potential customers and turning them off to the process.

More: CNET, ReadWrite, The Verge and MacRumors

Erica Ogg / GigaOM:

1 month later, iOS 6 adoption hits 61 percent in U.S., Canada — A month after Apple's official release of iOS 6, it's been installed on roughly 61 percent of possible devices in the U.S. and Canada according to new data collected by Chitika Insights. That is only slightly better …

More: Chitika Insights, ZDNet, Global Nerdy, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, SlashGear, Network World and Macgasm

Mark King / Guardian:

Amazon wipes customer's Kindle and deletes account with no explanation — Kindle user had her account deleted because it had ties to ‘previous abuses of company policy’, but the online retailer blanked all follow-up enquiries — An Amazon Kindle user has had her account wiped and all her paid …

More: GigaOM, Forbes, Daring Fireball, LAPTOP Magazine, Martin Bekkelund, Gizmodo, digitaltrends.com, Techdirt, Boing Boing, Techdirt, Geekosystem, Forbes and Joe Wikert's Publishing …

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