|
November 15, 2012, 6:00 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Wall Street Journal: |
Google Preps Maps App for Apple Devices — The head-to-head battle between Apple Inc. and Google Inc. in mobile maps is drawing nearer. — Google has distributed a test version of its new mapping app that will work on Apple's iPhones and iPads to some individuals outside the company …
More:
BGR, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, CNET, MacRumors, Business Insider, GigaOM, Gizmodo, bizjournals, iDownloadBlog.com and ReadWrite
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Spotify to begin rolling out browser-based music app in beta today (update: now live for some) — Spotify today plans to begin the roll out of its first ever browser-based music player, The Verge has learned from sources close to the company. From the looks of it, the web player looks a lot … | Mike Torres / The Windows Blog: |
SkyDrive usage has doubled in the last 6 months, now you can select what to sync — About 6 months ago, we released the first sync apps for SkyDrive making it easy to view and manage your personal SkyDrive from the File Explorer in Windows and Finder in OS X. We're excited to announce that since then …
More:
PC Magazine, BetaNews, GigaOM, TechNet Blogs, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, Forbes, Engadget, LiveSide.net, Ed Bott, The Next Web, TechCrunch, gHacks Technology News, SlashGear, SuperSite for Windows, WindowsObserver.com and WinBeta. Tweets: @theromit. Thanks:@omarshahine
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game — What's the wackiest thing you can imagine Google launching? How about a game to fight for control of the minds of everyone on earth? — Or maybe that's not so wacky. — Meet Ingress, a new free mobile app …
More:
digitaltrends.com, Digital Media Wire, BuzzFeed, The Verge, Mashable!, Know Your Cell, Geek.com, TechCrunch, IGN, Engadget, T3 News and IntoMobile. Tweets: @mattcutts
| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Microsoft CEO Ballmer suggests more hardware coming — Microsoft Corp's chief executive said his company would look at more opportunities to build its own devices, after the launch of its Surface tablet last month, potentially bringing the software giant into competition with its hardware partners …
More:
GigaOM, WindowsWave, Mashable!, PadGadget, Winsyde and AppleInsider
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
More:
VentureBeat, CNET, TechEye, TechCrunch, BGR, CNET, Redmond Pie, FierceWireless, Macgasm, Neowin, Computerworld, iPhone, iPhone Hacks, SiliconANGLE, WinBeta, ZDNet and LAPTOP Magazine
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
| New York Post: |
Crooks steal $1.5M in iPads from JFK — Like ‘GoodFellas’ job — It beats waiting in line at an Apple Store. — A pair of brazen crooks punched another hole in the lax JFK security when they stole a trove of new Apple iPad minis — worth $1.5 million — from the same cargo building …
More:
AllThingsD, The Register, MacRumors, PC Magazine, Mobile Marketing Watch, The Consumerist, TechSpot, everythingiCafe, TechCrunch, Business Insider, iFans, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Forbes, Fortune, The Verge, Geek.com, CNET, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, InvestorPlace, The Next Web, BGR and TUAW
Tweets: @chumworth and @levie
| Matt Rosoff / CITEworld: |
HP's Todd Bradley: Surface is no competition to us — Todd Bradley, the head of HP's PC business, does not view Microsoft's Surface tablet as a challenge. — “I'd hardly call Surface competition,” Bradley said in an interview with IDG Enterprise. He listed several reasons, “One, very limited distribution.
More:
VentureBeat, Business Insider, InfoWorld, Engadget, Pocket-lint, ReadWrite, Neowin, LAPTOP Magazine, SlashGear, Computerworld, CNET, Winsyde, BGR and BetaNews
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sinofsky speaks, denies he tried to take over Windows Phone division at Microsoft — Former chief of Windows, Steven Sinofsky, departed Microsoft earlier this week in a shock announcement following the release of Windows 8 and Surface RT. While sources have claimed his departure was related … | Stefan Filip / Twitter Blog: |
Sharing Tweets just got easier — If you're like me, you probably come across Tweets every day that you'd like to share. They might be funny or include a striking photo. They might be breaking news or feature old news. Of course, you can retweet any of these to your Twitter followers … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Dell Results Fall Short of Expectations, but Shares Rally Anyway — Dell's quarterly results just crossed the wires, and, as was expected, sales were light. — The results compare with a consensus view of analysts, which called for a per-share profit of 40 cents on sales of $13.9 billion.| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Android crushes the competition in China as it passes 90% smartphone market share: Report — Android has established a clear monopoly in China after achieving more than 90 percent market share there, up from 58.2 percent a year ago, according to a new report from Analysys International (via Tech in Asia).
More:
Examiner, Tech in Asia, CNET, PhoneArena, GigaOM and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
YouTube Blocks Israeli Hamas Assassination Video - And Puts It Back Up Again — Israel has gone to war with Hamas in Gaza, and it is using the Internet as weapon, employing services like Twitter, Facebook and Flickr on its behalf. — The idea is familiar to anyone who has a message to push in 2012 … | Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
New WiFi protocol boosts congested wireless network throughput by 700% — Engineers at NC State University (NCSU) have discovered a way of boosting the throughput of busy WiFi networks by up to 700%. Perhaps most importantly, the breakthrough is purely software-based …
More:
Engadget, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, WebProNews, PC World, nbcnews.com, HotHardware.com News, dailywireless.org, Geek.com and TechSpot
| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Google's lawyers under siege — Predatory pricing and using its listings to advance its own products are two of the legal issues dogging the search giant — Google is threatened by a “perfect storm” of litigation with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the European Commission …
More:
WMPoweruser
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
U.S. Cable Companies Reportedly Assessing Potential Infrastructure Impact of ‘Imminent’ Apple TV Product — Barron's reports on a new research note from Jefferies & Co. analyst James Kisner noting that he believes the launch of an unspecified Apple television product (presumably either …
More:
ZDNet, CNET, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, 9to5Mac and Tech Trader Daily
| David Talbot / MIT Technology Review: |
4G Wireless Networks Are Extremely Vulnerable to Jamming, According to Researchers at Virginia Tech — High-speed LTE networks could be felled by a $650 piece of gear, says a new study. — Why It Matters — LTE networks can have 10 times the bandwidth of 3G, and are eyed as the basis …
More:
TechSpot, SlashGear, ExtremeTech, Gizmodo, BGR, TechNewsDaily.com, FierceBroadbandWireless News and Engadget
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Sorkin: Steve Jobs biopic to be 3 real-time scenes from backstage at Mac, NeXT, iPod launches — Today at the Hero Summit, an invitation-only “theatrical-journalism event' being covered by The Daily Beast, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin made some comments about the upcoming Steve Jobs movie based …
More:
Fortune, iMore.com, BGR, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Gizmodo, CNET, MacRumors, The Daily Beast, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge and Cult of Mac. See also Mediagazer
| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
Fab goes to free shipping. Permanently. — We can't bear to say it, but the holidays are sort of upon us, and design-centric flash sales site Fab.com is getting into the swing of things early with free shipping. — There's no special code, and this isn't a limited-time offer just for December.
More:
PandoDaily and WebProNews
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
First Pre-Orders of LTE iPad Mini and Fourth-Generation iPad Models Arriving in U.S. — In line with tracking information, a number of U.S. customers who pre-ordered LTE models of the iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad have either already received their shipments this morning or are seeing their packages out for delivery.
More:
iMore.com, TUAW, BGR and iClarified
| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Flipboard teams up with Apple to launch new iBookstore-powered “Books” section in its iOS apps — Expanding upon what is now surely one of the most important roles of Flipboard, commerce, the magazine-like app has partnered with Apple (yes, Apple) to launch a slightly surprising new section: “Books.”| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google's YouTube app now on Nintendo Wii in ‘biggest deployment’ of WebM video codec — You can now get your YouTube fix on your Nintendo Wii, as Google has launched the official app on the console. The app has been heavily customized for the Wii controller and display, with a clean …
More:
CNET, GigaOM, 9to5Google, YouTube Blog, TechCrunch, The Verge, YouTube API Blog and Engadget
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Built to win: Deep inside Obama's campaign tech — The tech unit's sign, autographed by its members. — The reelection of Barack Obama was won by people, not by software. But in a contest as close as last week's election, software may have given the Obama for America organization's people a tiny edge …
More:
The Verge, BuzzFeed, TechPresident and Gizmodo
| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Kindle Fire HD 8.9 ships today, 4G version to follow next week — Did you skip the iPad mini and Nexus 10? Were you looking for something a little more content focused with a form factor in between the standard sizes? Well folks, it your lucky day, because the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is here!| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Daily deal site Zulily raises $85M from Andreessen Horowitz, tops 10M members — Fast-growing daily deal site Zulily has pulled in an additional $85 million in venture capital financing, cash that the Seattle company plans to use to bolster its position in selling books, clothes, toys and other items for babies and kids.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
What's New With Windows Azure Virtual Networking — Learn about the latest developments in the Windows Azure Virtual Networking technology.
What's New With Windows Azure Virtual Networking — Learn about the latest developments in the Windows Azure Virtual Networking technology.
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Hortonworks » Blog:
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.
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.
Unison's blog:
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.
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.Who's Hiring In Tech?
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 6:00 PM ET, November 15, 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.
From Mediagazer
New York Times:Kevin Davis / NetNewsCheck Latest:
Adam Rifkin / AllThingsD:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
More:
Engadget, TechCrunch and Inside Facebook
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
More:
CNET
| Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM: |
More:
Associated Press, TechCrunch and Mashable!
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
More:
CNET, TechCrunch, All Points Blog and Engadget
Earlier Picks
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More:
Computerworld, Mitchell's Blog, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, internetnews.com, AllThingsD and The Mozilla Blog
Tweets: @eldon and @carlesdijous
Thanks:@fredericl| Cade Metz / Wired: |
| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
More:
TUAW and NBC Bay Area