|
November 28, 2012, 7:10 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple Said to Fire Maps Manager After Flaws Hurt IPhone 5 Debut — Apple Inc. (AAPL) has fired the manager responsible for its troubled mapping software, seeking to win back the trust of users disappointed after the program debuted in September, according to people familiar with the move.
More:
NYT Bits, TechEye, Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, IntoMobile, Techie Buzz, Wired, KPLU News for Seattle …, Mercury News, digitaltrends.com, Network World, iphoneincanada.ca, Neowin, InformationWeek, Examiner, The Register, DailyTech, PadGadget, Know Your Cell, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, Los Angeles Times, iPhone Savior, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, Mobile Marketing Watch, TechnoBuffalo, Redmond Pie and Search Engine Land
| Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog: |
Windows 8 - 40 Million Licenses Sold — As we pass the one month anniversary of the general availability of Windows 8, we are pleased to announce that to-date Microsoft has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses. Tami Reller shared this news with industry and financial analysts …
More:
Wired, Telegraph, Ars Technica, Ed Bott, Winsyde, Guardian, Softpedia News, Windows 8 Beta, The Register, Pocketables, PhoneArena, GeekWire, The Age, gHacks Technology News, Gear Live, Redmond Pie, Neowin, GamesIndustry International, AllThingsD, WebProNews, SlashGear, TechCrunch, WinBeta and Engadget
Tweets: @stevesi and @carnage4life
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
More:
TechEye, Pocket-lint, PC World, Reuters, TechnoBuffalo, TIME, digitaltrends.com, Digits, The Next Web, Guardian, CNET, Neowin, Business Insider, TechNet Blogs, GeekWire, InfoWorld and BGR
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft Says It Has Identified Windows Phone Rebooting Issue, Plans Fix for December — Microsoft said it believes it has identified a problem that was causing some Windows Phone 8 devices to reboot without warning. — The company said it hopes to deliver an over-the-air software fix next month.| Gary Marcus / The New Yorker: |
Moral Machines — Google's driver-less cars are already street-legal in three states, California, Florida, and Nevada, and some day similar devices may not just be possible but mandatory. Eventually (though not yet) automated vehicles will be able to drive better, and more safely than you can …
More:
Rough Type and Boing Boing
| Jack Shafer / Reuters: |
Fake press releases are a public service — Yesterday, an enterprising clown used PRWeb to publish a fake press release about the purported purchasing of WiFi provider ICOA by Google for $400 million. The Associated Press, Business Insider, Forbes, Techcrunch and other websites ran stories …
More:
InfoWorld
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Marissa Mayer's First Live Interview (Which ATD Had to Virtually Sneak Into): God. Family. Yahoo. — Tonight, new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gave her first public interview since becoming the leader of the troubled Silicon Valley Internet giant. — Not to cranky me, of course … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Is Andrew Mason on the Bubble as CEO of Groupon? — According to sources close to the situation, several Groupon board members have been seriously discussing making major leadership changes at the Chicago-based daily deals company, including bringing in a more experienced CEO to take over for co-founder Andrew Mason.| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
On Cyber Monday, Mobile — Not Social — Takes All the Glory — On Cyber Monday, Etsy said it completed more sales than at any time in its seven-year history, driven by a number of factors. — One standout measurement was the number of visitors coming to the crafts marketplace from mobile devices … | Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
More:
IBM, The PayPal Blog, The Next Web and CNET
| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Nokia Lumia 920 Review - High Quality But It's Heavy — Both Nokia and Microsoft were once titans in the smartphone world, but the pair have struggled to find favor with consumers, carriers and developers in the iPhone-Android era. Now, the two companies, which have become close partners … | Sarah McBride / Reuters: |
Special Report: Silicon Valley's dirty secret - age bias — (Reuters) - When Randy Adams, 60, was looking for a chief-executive officer job in Silicon Valley last year, he got turned down from position after position that he thought he was going to nail — only to see much younger, less-experienced men win out.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Rdio Revamps Its iOS And Android Apps Bringing Improved Looks, Navigation, New Playback Controls & More — Streaming music startup Rdio continues its battle with Spotify, today updating its two flagship mobile applications for iOS and Android. The new apps have been redesigned with a cleaner layout …
More:
GigaOM, The Industry, VentureBeat, GadgeTell, PC Magazine, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com, Cult of Mac, TUAW, AndroidGuys, The Verge, Lifehacker, Computerworld, MacStories, Engadget and 9to5Mac
| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
How Google Plans to Find the UnGoogleable — The company wants to improve its mobile search services by automatically delivering information you wouldn't think to search for online. — Why It Matters — Google could extend its reach by finding ways to deliver information that people don't currently use a search engine to find.Thanks:@tsimonite
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Serious Google security glitch restores Webmaster Tools, possibly Analytics access to revoked accounts — Earlier tonight, reports began rolling in of a serious breach in Google accounts security. Some sort of glitch has granted access to Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics and perhaps …
More:
SEO Blog by Dave Naylor, VentureBeat, State of Search, CNET, ITProPortal, Search Engine Land, SlashGear and Search Engine Watch. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| BBC: |
Richard O'Dwyer strikes deal to avoid US extradition — Mr O'Dwyer faced a maximum sentence of five years in prison if found guilty in the US — A student facing trial and possible imprisonment in the United States has struck a deal to avoid extradition, the High Court has been told.| Reuters: |
HP rebuffs ex-Autonomy CEO, warns of legal action — (Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Co rebuffed a request by former Autonomy Chief Executive Mike Lynch to detail accusations of accounting fraud leveled against the British software company and its former executives, and challenged Lynch to submit to questions under penalty of perjury.
More:
Bloomberg, Tech Trader Daily, AllThingsD and Wall Street Journal
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
After cashing out to Google and Twitter, Ori Allon is going all in with Urban Compass — Can a programming prodigy disrupt the offline world as well? — When I meet up with Ori Allon for coffee on New York's Lower East Side, he paid special attention to the stools.| Bill Hilf / MSDN Blogs: |
Windows Azure Active Directory Processes 200 Billion Authentications - Connecting People, Data and Devices Around The Globe — At Microsoft, we have been on a transformative journey to cloud computing and we have been working with customers every step of the way.
More:
The Next Web, VentureBeat, Web Host Industry Review and TechNet Blogs
| Bloomberg: |
Google Chief Page Said to Meet FTC Over Antitrust Probe — Google Inc. (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page met with U.S. Federal Trade Commission officials today in Washington as the agency moves to wrap up its 19-month investigation of the company's business practices, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
More:
CNET, Softpedia News, Forbes, 9to5Google, Reuters, Hillicon Valley and Tech Trader Daily
| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Setting aside the smartphone: two weeks with Samsung's Galaxy Camera — Exploring the world with the hottest cameras and smartphones, I've grown accustomed to drawing discrete glances from curious gadget enthusiasts. In Tokyo, it was Canon's EOS M camera that netted polite peeks.
More:
Mashable! and WebProNews
| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
IDC: iPhone, Android to overtake BlackBerry in enterprise market for first time — Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone and smartphones running Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android will outgun Research In Motion's (NASDAQ:RIMM) BlackBerry for the first time in 2012 in the enterprise device market, according to research firm IDC.
More:
AppleInsider, digitaltrends.com, BGR, ZDNet and iPhone Hacks
| Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar: |
U.S. Senate to consider long overdue reforms on electronic privacy — In 2010, electronic privacy needed digital due process. In 2012, it's worth defending your vanishing rights online. — This week, there's an important issue before Washington that affects everyone who sends email …
More:
Patrick Leahy, Center for Democracy …, Hillicon Valley and CNET
| Stefan Tanase / Securelist: |
Google.ro and other RO domains, victims of a DNS hijacking attack — Earlier today, Softpedia reported that an Algerian hacker using the nickname MCA-CRB has managed to deface the Romanian sites of Google (google.ro) and Yahoo! (yahoo.ro). — Screenshot of the defaced Google.ro domain| Martyn Williams / Computerworld: |
Exclusive: Nokia seeks to block sale of some RIM products — Nokia wants a US court to enforce an arbitration agreement that could affect most of RIM's smartphones — Nokia has asked a California court to enforce an arbitration award that would prevent Research In Motion from selling products …
More:
Reuters, The Next Web, ZDNet, Inquirer, The Register, TechCrunch, FOSS Patents, PhoneArena, Reuters and ITworld.com
Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“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).
“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).Who's Hiring In Tech?
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 7:10 AM ET, November 28, 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
Andrew Romano / The Daily Beast:Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
More:
Engadget, SlashGear, Sky News and Pocket-lint
| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
More:
The Next Web, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint and SlashGear
| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
More:
The Next Web and Engadget
| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
More:
Pew Internet, Mashable!, CNET and TechnoBuffalo
Earlier Picks
| Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times: |
| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
More:
Gmail Blog, ReadWrite, BGR, Geek.com, The Verge, Macgasm, GadgeTell, Softpedia News, 9to5Google and Mashable