Techmeme: Seriously, Apple Is Doomed (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

November 10, 2012, 5:05 PM

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Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown — Orca, the Romney campaign's “killer” app, skips beta and pays the price. — Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock — It was supposed to be a “killer app,” but a system deployed to volunteers by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign may have done …

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Natalie Jennings / Washington Post:

Romney digital director: Orca wasn't a loss — The digital director for the Romney campaign responded to criticism in the blogosphere of the campaign's Election-Day “Orca” vote monitoring platform, saying the program had issues but for the most part performed its mission.

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Killer fail: how Romney's broken Orca app cost him thousands of votes — An attempt to harness big data turns into a nightmare of crashes and confusion — A few days before the presidential election, Mitt Romney's campaign announced what it hoped would be its secret weapon at the polls.

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Seriously, Apple Is Doomed — Dan Crow, another former Apple employee from the 1990s, also says Apple has shown itself to be doomed without Steve Jobs, in a piece for The Guardian headlined “We've Passed Peak Apple”: … On the contrary, for better or for worse, iOS 6 Maps is exactly …

More: Guardian, ReadWrite, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance and Forbes. Tweets: @mattbuchanan

Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

David Petraeus Was Brought Down by ... Gmail — The CIA director's path to resignation began with some email messages. — Reuters/Joshua Roberts — While David Petraeus was serving as a four-star general in the U.S. Army, he began exchanging emails with the woman who would eventually write his biography.

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Agence France Presse:

Apple pays Swiss rail $21mn over clock dispute: report — GENEVA — US tech giant Apple has dished out 20 million Swiss francs ($21 million, 17 million euros) to compensate Swiss national rail operator SBB for using its famous clock without permission, a Swiss daily reported Saturday.

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Matt Brian / The Next Web:

HootSuite privacy fail sees hundreds of emails sent to users, complete with other people's details [updated] — There appears to be something wrong with the internal systems over at social management company HootSuite, after it started sending out email reminders to users warning …

More: The Verge and Mashable!

Michael Kan / Computerworld:

Google access returns to China after brief blocking — Access was cut off for about 12 hours — Access to Google services in China appeared to return Saturday morning after they were blocked briefly as the country prepares to appoint new leadership. — The blocking appeared …

More: CNET, NYT Bits, Mercury News, BGR and Softpedia News

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Shellacked: Groupon fell 30% today in regular trading as investors unloaded the firm following its weak Q3 — Yesterday after the bell, Groupon reported its quarterly earnings. The company, losing a mere $3 million during the quarter, had earnings per share of $0.00, and revenue of $568.6 million.

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David Kravets / Wired:

U.S. WikiLeaks Criminal Probe ‘Ongoing,’ Judge Reveals — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures in August after his statement to the media and supporters on a balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London. Photo: AP — A 2-year-old federal grand jury probe …

Samantha Murphy / Mashable!:

Facebook Experiments With ‘Reply’ Button on Comments — Facebook isn't just testing a sound-alert function on the site — it's also experimenting with a reply option for comments posted to Timeline, a Facebook spokesperson has confirmed. — “We are testing a new way to add comments to a post on Facebook …

More: VatorNews, digitaltrends.com, Kairay Media, Tech Shout!, VentureBeat, Softpedia News and Gizmodo

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Facebook testing new notification sounds — we hate it already

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Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

After $368.2m award in patent lawsuit, VirnetX files another complaint against Apple — VirnetX, the Internet security software company that was awarded $368.2 million after a jury decided that Apple had infringed several of its patents, has filed another complaint against the Cupertino, CA-based consumer electronics giant.

More: iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, The Verge, VirnetX, MacRumors, SlashGear and Guardian

Chris Taylor / Mashable!:

NASA Builds Interplanetary Internet, Controls LEGO Robot From Space … In the annals of geeky space experiments, it's going to be hard to top this one. — NASA and the European Space Agency announced Thursday that it had successfully tested a new kind of communications protocol — the backbone of a future interplanetary Internet.

More: Examiner, ExtremeTech, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, BBC, Engadget, dailywireless.org, The Register, The Verge, ZDNet and NASA

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