| Apple: |
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Tim Cook: ‘we would not make’ 7-inch tablet, iPad mini in ‘a whole different league’ — Apple CEO addresses Steve Jobs' criticism of 7-inch tablets — Those who have been paying attention to Apple over the years remembered one thing when the company revealed the iPad mini earlier this week … | Alex Heath / Cult of Mac: |
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Microsoft: |
Windows 8 Arrives — Easy-to-download upgrades and the best range of PCs ever welcome Windows 8 to worldwide availability. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the global availability of its popular Windows operating system, Windows 8. Beginning Friday, Oct. 26, consumers and businesses worldwide … | AnandTech: |
The Windows RT Review — Meet Windows RT — Microsoft's first serious foray into tablets came just after the turn of the new millenium, with Bill Gates demonstrating the first tablet PC prototype onstage at Comdex in the autumn of 2000. From there, OEMs started releasing tablets based … | Brad Sams / Neowin: |
| Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times: |
Microsoft offers $100 giveaway to line up for Surface — There's plenty of interest in Microsoft's new Surface tablets and Windows 8 so it's a little surprising that the company is making a lucrative offer to get people to line up at stores on their big launch day.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Bloomberg: |
Apple's Online Radio Service to Challenge Pandora in 2013 — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and major music labels have intensified negotiations to start an advertising-supported Internet radio service by early next year, according to people with knowledge of the talks.| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets — The Digital Millennium Copyright makes it illegal to “circumvent” digital rights management schemes. But when Congress passed the DMCA in 1998, it gave the Librarian of Congress the power to grant exemptions.| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Samsung shipped a stunning 57M smartphones in Q3 — twice as many as Apple — Samsung shipped 56.9 million of the 162 million smartphones sold globally in the third quarter of 2012, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. That adds up to a massive 35 percent global share … | Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung posts $7.4 billion profit as handsets mask weak chip sales — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top technology firm by revenue, reported record quarterly profit of $7.4 billion on Friday, with strong sales of its Galaxy range of phones masking sharply lower memory chip sales.| Lauren Indvik / Mashable!: |
Amazon Reports $169 Million Loss on LivingSocial — Groupon's stock price isn't the only sign that the daily deals bubble has burst: In its third-quarter earnings report, Amazon took a writedown of $169 million, or $0.37 per share, for its stake in daily deals site LivingSocial.| Donna Tam / CNET: |
Facebook execs: Zynga is down, but it will snap back — Shortly after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company's gaming revenue isn't where he'd like it to be, his game team talks about where Facebook's gaming platform is headed. — Although payments for a majority of Facebook games grew … | Eliza Kern / GigaOM: |
| Lauren Indvik / Mashable!: |
Marissa Mayer Makes First Yahoo Acquisition: Stamped — Yahoo has acquired the company behind 1-year-old mobile recommendations app Stamped, its first since ex-Google exec Marissa Mayer became CEO of the company in July, Mashable has learned. — The acquisition was purely for talent … | Tania Branigan / Guardian: |
New York Times blocked in China over Wen Jiabao wealth revelations — Unwelcome revelations about wealth of family of Chinese premier, known for his humble background and populist appeal — Chinese authorities have blocked the Chinese website of the New York Times and most access … | Jessica Livingston / Founders at Work: |
What Goes Wrong — This is my talk from 2012 Startup School, pretty much exactly as delivered. — It's been more than 7 years since we started YC. In that time, we've funded 467 startups so I've seen a lot of patterns. There's a talk I always want to give at the beginning of each batch … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iPad Mini, 4th Gen iPad Now Available For Pre-Order - Wi-Fi Only Versions Deliver November 2 — If you're looking to get your hands on an iPad mini after the big reveal this past Tuesday, now's the time to pre-order, as Apple has launched pre-orders via its mobile app and online retail store …
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26 — Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control — Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:20 AM ET, October 26, 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.
| Curtis C. Chen / ProgrammableWeb: |
| April Underwood / Twitter Advertising: |
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
| James Ball / Washington Post: |
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |