| Experian: |
Thanksgiving Day retail traffic increased 71% in 2012 — Thanksgiving Day online traffic increased 71% in 2012 versus 2011 as the top 500 retail sites received more than 181 million total US visits. So far this Holiday week of online traffic to the top retail sites is up 8% on average.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Black Friday Online Sales Surged 21 Percent Thanks To Mobile Shopping, More Retailer Promotions And Personalized Deals — After a particularly strong Thanksgiving for online sales, shoppers continued to look for e-commerce deals on Black Friday. IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark is reporting … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Droidfooding: After Years Of Giving Employees iPhones, Posters At Facebook HQ Beg Them To Test Android — “In the early days we gave employees iPhones primarily”, a Facebook spokesperson tells me. That decision and the rise of Android has left Facebook scrambling to get employees dogfooding its apps for Google's OS.| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
| Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal: |
Can Police Locate Wireless Internet Moochers Without a Warrant? — Beware, wireless Internet moochers. A federal court in Pittsburgh has ruled that the government can track you to your location, sans search warrant, using free anti-moocher software. — The courts have ruled … | Rafat Ali / Skift: |
What happens when your pivot goes horribly wrong? — Travel is among the most pivot-friendly categories in the startupland. What happens when a well-liked-but-limited app, focused on a nice but commodity niche, attempts to pivot into a larger company, attempting to “reinvent travel”?| Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
Windows Phone Team: This is No Way to Treat Early Adopters — Once seen as a nice gesture, Windows Phone 7.8 is now seen for what it is — When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7.8 in June, I knew it was too good to be true. At the time, it seemed like Microsoft was throwing a bone … | Gareth Beavis / TechRadar.com: |
LG admits reason behind dropping 4G in Nexus 4 — Because it's secretly another phone … The redundant 4G chip in the Nexus 4 caused confusion, but now LG has told TechRadar why it's there. — The presence of the LTE connectivity hardware in the Nexus 4 caused some to believe that it could be next-gen speed-enabled in the future.| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs — Using an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes patterns, technology companies are reporting startling gains in fields as diverse as computer vision, speech recognition and the identification … | Julian Pecquet / Hillicon Valley: |
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Former Nokia exec Damian Dinning announces he's headed to Jaguar Land Rover — The sudden departure of Nokia imaging head Damian Dinning caught many by surprise earlier today, but now he's announced where his next post will be: Jaguar Land Rover. In an explanation posted at PureView Club … | Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
284 Pakistani domain names reportedly hijacked, affecting Google, Apple, and Microsoft — More than 280 popular “.pk” domain names, including that of the Pakistani Google homepage, have reportedly been hijacked by a Turkish hacking crew known as “eboz.” Addresses including Apple.pk …
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:25 AM ET, November 25, 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.