Techmeme: Audio Comes to Flipboard on Android (Inside Flipboard)

October 25, 2012, 11:50 AM

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Live: Windows 8′s Big Day — It's a big day for Microsoft as the company gets set to launch Windows 8, the biggest change in years for its flagship operating system. — Windows 8 moves Windows into new directions. It can run on traditional PC processors as well as those traditionally used in phones and tablets.

More: GigaOM, VentureBeat, Digits, Guardian, BetaNews, Wired, PhoneArena and CNET

Tweets: @reuterstech and @betanews

Microsoft News Center:

Webcast: Windows 8 Launch — Return at 8:15 a.m. PDT/11:15 a.m. EDT to watch the live webcast of the Windows 8 launch from New York City. If you have any trouble viewing the webcast, please try using an alternate feed.

More: The Verge, GeekWire, Engadget and CNET

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Launches Windows 8 After 1.24B Hours Of Testing, Available On Over 1,000 Certified Devices — During Microsoft's official launch event for Windows 8 in New York City today, Steven Sinofsky, the president of the company's Windows and Windows Live division, said that the company's …

More: internetnews.com, The Next Web, CNN, SlashGear, SlashGear, Neowin, Wired and Datamation.com

BBC:

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has plans for more hardware — Steve Ballmer: 'This is one of two or three big moments in Microsoft's history' — Microsoft's chief boss has confirmed he plans to release more devices. — Steve Ballmer told the BBC: “Is it fair to say we're going to do more hardware?

More: ZDNet, PC Magazine, Seattle Times, Inquirer, The Register, CNET, BGR, SlashGear, Geek.com, Neowin, TechEye, PhoneArena and Slashdot

Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS:

Windows 8: An Inside Look at Microsoft's Risky Leap — With Windows 8, Microsoft is finally entering the tablet race with Apple and others. ABC News went to Redmond to get the details on how the company got here.

More: The Verge, NYT Bits, Reuters and GeekWire

iFixit:

MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display Late 2012 Teardown — Apple just expanded their Retina family. The newest bundle of joy: a 13" MacBook Pro with Retina display. It's small, it's sleek, and all those pixels are pretty darn snazzy. What goes best with a new gadget? Yep, you guessed it: kittens.

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Engadget, BuzzFeed, MacRumors, The Tech Block, Softpedia News and SlashGear

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

UK retailer Carphone Warehouse pushes Nexus 4 preorders early, promises delivery by October 30 — Getting a little ahead of itself, UK mobile retailer Carphone Warehouse has pushed live preorders for LG's Nexus 4, confirming specifications and a delivery date of October 30.

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Pinterest pierces Top 50 most-visited sites list — Though Google still reigns as No. 1, a ComScore study shows that Pinterest joined other social networks for the most frequently visited sites in the U.S. for September. — ComScore released its list of Top 50 most-visited Web sites …

More: Forbes, comScore, Inc., Marketing Pilgrim, digitaltrends.com and Marketing Land

Inside Flipboard:

Audio Comes to Flipboard on Android — Starting today, Flipboard fans on Android smartphones can add a soundtrack to their flipping. That's right—Flipboard on Android now has audio. — This means that you can now enjoy everything featured in our Audio category in the Content Guide …

More: Engadget, GadgeTell, WebProNews and The Next Web

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

From Typing To Gliding And Back Again: SwiftKey Touchscreen Keyboard Maker Adds Swype-Style Input, Calls It SwiftKey Flow — It's a tale of two increasingly similar touchscreen keyboards: SwiftKey's latest move to counter Nuance-owned rival Swype is to adopt a Swype-style input method …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Next Web, AllThingsD, SlashGear and Pocket-lint

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

View later service Pocket gets a crisp and capable Mac app at last — Today, view later service Pocket gets a beautiful Mac app to compliment its apps for Android, iOS and the web. It offers a capable translation of the Pocket paradigm from its other incarnations to the Mac design language without giving up its own unique flavor.

More: TechCrunch, GigaOM, The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Pocket Blog, SlashGear and Lifehacker

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

New Kindles start shipping today in Europe, Lovefilm launches on Kindle Fire — As promised, Amazon has started shipping its latest Kindles on the other side of the Atlantic, with the Kindle Paperwhite as well as the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD making the trip.

More: ZDNet, The Next Web, Inquirer, TechCrunch, Phones Review, paidContent, Mashable! and Softpedia News

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Sprint sells 1.5 million iPhones, 1 million other smartphones, but makes a net loss of $767 million — Sprint's latest financials show that the network is stemming its losses, but is still taking a hit on a $767 million net loss and an operating loss of $231 million.

More: AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, MacRumors, DSLreports, Associated Press, AppleInsider, CNET, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, Sprint Newsroom, BGR, TechCrunch, The Verge, Bloomberg, iDownloadBlog.com, Reuters, IntoMobile and WebProNews

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Torrent Site Webhost Ordered to Pay “Piracy” Damages — For years Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has tried to find out who is behind the SumoTorrent website. — After being initially hosted in the Netherlands, the site moved to Canada to escape BREIN's jurisdiction, but it later returned as a client of hosting provider XS Networks.

More: CNET and Softpedia News

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Facebook's final Instagram purchase price: $715 million in cash and stock — Today Facebook detailed the final Instagram purchase information in its 10-Q. The company stated that the final purchase of Instagram will sit in its accounting as $521 million. — That figure was arrived …

More: AllFacebook, Betabeat, CNET, WebProNews, The Verge, Mashable!, Inside Facebook and VentureBeat. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@harrisonweber. See also Mediagazer

Moritz Jaeger / ZDNet:

Google, Microsoft and Nokia launch one-stop ‘hide from maps’ service in Germany — Summary: Google, Microsoft and other companies have come together to help Germans to blur pictures of their properties in mapping services like Google Street View. The service has been made necessary …

More: SlashGear, All Points Blog, Inquirer, BetaNews and 9to5Google

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Judge steps down in patent lawsuit filed over Apple's Siri — In a new lawsuit that claims Apple's virtual personal assistant is infringing on already developed patent technology, the judge recuses himself because of “interest” in the tech company. — A recently filed lawsuit over Apple's Siri …

More: ZDNet

Joel Zand / Justia Law, Technology & …:

Apple Faces Patent Infringement Suit Over Siri

More: Patently Apple and The Register

Steve Dent / Engadget:

Verizon, AT&T put Samsung's Galaxy Note II on pre-sale for $300 with a two-year contract — Samsung's Galaxy Note II played coy at first by only hanging out with the European crowd, but now that it's here, it's the life of the US carrier party. The two biggest, AT&T and Verizon …

More: BetaNews, LAPTOP Magazine, BGR, 9to5Google, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Droid Life, IntoMobile, GadgeTell, The Verge, Softpedia News and Sammy Hub

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple confirms that 12W adapter will charge iPads quicker than older 10W adapters — The morning of Apple's iPad mini event earlier this week, we told you there was a handful of new accessories coming including four new Lightning adapters and a 12W USB power adapter.

More: Inquirer, PhoneArena, CNET, Gizmodo, PadGadget, iDownloadBlog.com and Softpedia News

Reuters:

iPad mini won't upset low-end market: analysts — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's “iPad mini” will attract new customers but the higher-than-expected price is unlikely to make it a threat to low-cost tablets such as Amazon.com Inc's Kindle, analysts said, in a muted reaction to the new tablet.

More: CNET, AppleInsider, Fortune, PC World, MarketWatch, bizjournals, Bloomberg, SiliconBeat and SiliconValley.com

Richard Shim / DisplaySearch Blog:

Supply Issues to Initially Limit iPad Mini

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Audrey Watters / Hack Education:

Education, Technology “Journalism,” and the Apple PR Machine — I wasn't planning to write anything about Apple's media event yesterday. I tuned in to the livestream, but when all the announcements were made, it seemed clear to me that nothing that was revealed on stage in San Jose was that significant to education.

More: DVICE, Inside Higher Ed, TechPinions and ReadWrite

Steve Stecklow / Reuters:

Exclusive: Huawei partner offered U.S. tech to Iran — (Reuters) - An Iranian partner of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a Chinese company that has denied breaking U.S. sanctions, last year tried to sell embargoed American antenna equipment to an Iranian firm, according to documents and interviews.

More: ZDNet, Tech Daily Dose, Naked Security, The Next Web and BBC

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Telefonica Digital Buys Video Chat Platform TokBox, An Airtime For The Rest Of Us — Telefonica Digital, the new media arm of the giant Spanish carrier Telefonica, has made another big investment in its bid to become an international communications platform extending beyond basic voice and data services.

More: VatorNews, GigaOM, BetaKit, AllThingsD and The Next Web

Mihoko Matsubara / ISN:

A Stuxnet Future? Yes, Offensive Cyber-Warfare is Already Here — According to Mihoko Matsubara, the Stuxnet attack on Iran's nuclear facilities demonstrates that well-resourced actors now have the capacity to use offensive cyber capabilities to fragment command and control structures …

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Samsung 2012 Smart TVs get Amazon Instant Video streaming app, synchronicity with your Kindle Fire — Samsung just sweetened the streaming video pot for current and would-be owners of its modern Smart TVs. Viewers who've been craving Amazon Instant Video can download an app today to watch movies …

More: Samsung, Sammy Hub, The Verge and The Next Web

Eva Dou / Digits:

Asustek Partners Up with AT&T in U.S. Push — Taiwanese PC maker Asustek Computer Inc. , known as Asus, is partnering up with a major U.S. telecom carrier for the first time, in a renewed push into the U.S. consumer electronics market. — Asus this week launched its US$599 Vivo Tab RT as part of its Windows 8 product line.

More: Wall Street Journal

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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …

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Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.

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Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.

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