|
December 13, 2012, 10:15 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Why Google Maps Is Better Than Apple Maps — There's a simple answer: people. — For all of Google's reputation as a data-data-data company, the company's famed mapping product, which arrived on iOS early this morning, is good for a different reason: people.
More:
PandoDaily and Ars Technica
| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
Why Google Just Made iPhone King: Ads — By releasing new versions of Google Maps and Gmail for iOS this month, Google helped make the iPhone the best mobile phone on the planet. Why is Google, the owner of Android and Motorola, helping its ostensible rival? — The answer boils down to advertising.
Tweets: @ryantate
| Allen Huang / Google Mobile Ads Blog: |
Combating accidental clicks in mobile ads — Ads on smartphones are effective, but many of us have at some point clicked on an ad by accident, which ultimately is a bad experience for the user, the publisher, and the advertiser who pays for clicks that may not be valuable.| Anil Dash: |
The Web We Lost — The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we've lost along the way in this transition …
More:
Giles Bowkett. Tweets: @dannysullivan, @anildash, @anildash, @cdixon, @gaberivera, @mathewi and @faris. Thanks:@ross
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Speeds Up Android App By Ditching HTML5 And Rebuilding It Natively Just Like The iOS Version — Facebook's HTML5 app nightmare is over. Later today it's releasing Facebook for Android 2., which replaces the hybrid native/webview code with an all-native infrastructure to answer years … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Samsung Exec Admits To Using Apple Products, Calls iDevice Ecosystem “Sticky” — The MIT Technology Review sat down with Samsung's Chief Strategy Officer Young Sohn, who admitted that Apple devices are hard to beat when it comes to a connected ecosystem. In fact, the man in charge …
More:
DailyTech
| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
Seattle is the latest city to go around ISPs to get a gigabit network — Seattle has teamed up with Gigabit Squared, a startup that wants to invest $200 million in building gigabit broadband networks in six college towns around the country, to build a gigabit network.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iTunes 11.0.1, adds duplicate item finding, includes iCloud, AirPlay fixes — Approximately two weeks following the launch of the revamped iTunes 11 application, Apple has released iTunes 11.0.1 via the Mac App Store Software Update tab to users. … The update is generally a bug fix release.
More:
Ars Technica, The Next Web, MacRumors, Engadget, CNET and TUAW
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple rolls out new, far more detailed, status page for general Services, Stores and iCloud systems — Apple has today launched a new status page for its iCloud, store and general services that provides far more detail about status and uptimes of its various cloud and backend components.
More:
TechCrunch, The Register, GigaOM, Macgasm, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, Engadget and MacStories. Thanks:@bradmccarty
| Cornelius Rahn / Bloomberg: |
Sprint Seeks to Buy Rest of Clearwire for About $2.1 Billion — Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) proposed to acquire shares in wireless partner Clearwire Corp. it doesn't already own in a deal that the third-largest U.S. carrier says would cost about $2.1 billion. — Sprint, which owns …
More:
Wall Street Journal, FierceWireless and Electronista
| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
More:
SiliconANGLE and FierceWireless
| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Did Google pay Belgian newspapers a $6M copyright fee? Sure looks like it — Europeans have been trying for years to force Google to prop up the continent's' struggling news publishers. A new deal in Belgium suggests they have finally succeeded. — In a blog post on Wednesday … | Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Mailbox for iPhone: a next-generation email app inspired by Sparrow and Clear — Cloud to-do list company Orchestra today announced Mailbox, an email client for the iPhone it's been building for the last year. I've been testing Mailbox for the last few weeks and it's nothing short of spectactular.
More:
TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, parislemon, everythingiCafe, SocialTimes, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, creativebits™ and iClarified
Tweets: @qthrul and @arrington
| David Goldman / CNNMoney: |
Massive bank cyberattack planned — Security firm McAfee on Thursday released a report warning that a massive cyberattack on 30 U.S. banks has been planned, with the goal of stealing millions of dollars from consumers' bank accounts. — McAfee's research upheld an October report from RSA … | Bill Callahan / Bloomberg: |
Apple, LG Electronics Defeat Alcatel-Lucent Patent Claims — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and LG Electronics Inc. (066570) didn't infringe an Alcatel-Lucent SA (ALU) unit's patents for electronic devices including phones and computers, a jury said. — The verdict today came after a trial that began Nov. 27 …
More:
AppleInsider, Engadget and CNET
| Reuters: |
China party chief stresses reform, censors relax grasp on internet — (Reuters) - China must deepen reforms to perfect its market economy and strengthen rule of law, Communist Party chief Xi Jinping said in southern Guangdong, echoing groundbreaking comments by reformist senior leader Deng Xiaoping in the same province 20 years ago.| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Apple kicks off iPhone 5 sales in China — Apple has begun sales of the iPhone 5 in China, its second-largest market. Doors opened at official retail stores at 8am, though the company's reserve-and-pick-up system dampened launch crowds. — A rare Beijing snowstorm didn't help matters …
More:
TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com and PhoneArena
| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Legend Max Levchin Joins Yahoo Board, Intuit's Smith And Weather Channels's Kenny Leave — Max Levchin has been many things in his long run in Silicon Valley — PayPal cofounder, Slide founder, angel investor, etc. etc. — but now he's trying on something more traditional.
More:
Yahoo! Inc., DealBook, Digital Media Wire, CNET, Forbes, DailyFinance.com, VentureBeat, Reuters, AllThingsD, Betabeat, GigaOM, Business Insider and PandoDaily. Tweets: @marissamayer. Thanks:@anwoodgate
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Quickly Updates Malware Definitions to Detect New SMS Scam Trojan — Earlier this week, Russian security firm Dr. Web published a blog post announcing the discovery of a new OS X trojan horse known as “Trojan.SMSSend.3666”. The malware masquerades as an installer for various software titles …
More:
Digital Media Wire, MacNN, The Verge and The Next Web
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
MobileMobileMobile: Yahoo Eyes Hipster Teen-Founded Summly News App — When she's not board-swapping, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been scouring the landscape for trendy mobile “acqhires” to give the sleepy Silicon Valley Internet giant some sizzle. — And you can't get more hot than Summly …
More:
CNET
| BBC: |
US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN internet treaty — The UN's communication treaty will not be ratified by the US, UK or Canada — The US, UK and Canada say they will not sign an international communications treaty under discussion in Dubai. — The three countries had objected to calls …
More:
CNET, CNET, The Hill, PC Magazine, Computerworld, Washington Post, Associated Press, The Next Web, Reuters, Ars Technica, AllThingsD and Techdirt
| Jean-Baptiste Su / Forbes: |
Dell Quits Smartphone Business Globally, Drops Android — Dell is definitely pulling the plug on the smartphone business, globally. A tough decision, leaving a market that is expected to reach $150.3 billion in 2014, according to MarketsandMarkets. However, Jeff Clarke … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Starts Reporting False DMCA Takedown Requests — Ever since Google started publishing a transparency report for the DMCA requests it receives, the number of notices being sent have shot through the roof. — During the past month copyright holders asked Google to remove 12,045,130 webpages from its search.
More:
WebProNews, Search Engine Land and Softpedia News
| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
T-Mobile completes iPhone-friendly upgrade in 23 cities — T-Mobile on Thursday officially activated its overhauled HSPA+ systems in five more regions of the country, including the greater Chicago area, bringing it that much closer to fielding a nationwide network that can fully support Apple's iPhone.
More:
Issues & Insights Blog, BGR, Electronista and Gotta Be Mobile
| Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
Aereo Adds First Cable Channel: Bloomberg TV — Online television service Aereo has added its first cable channel to its lineup, Bloomberg TV. — Aereo, backed by media mogul Barry Diller, launched an online video service earlier this year that streams broadcast TV signals of New York stations to New York residents.
| Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times: |
Samsung to reduce investment in LCD — Samsung Electronics is moving to reduce investment in its liquid crystal display (LCD) unit as the firm has shifted the focus of its screen business to organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and plastic-based flexible displays.
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Puts Instant Video On iPhone And iPod Touch, Cloud Player Music On Roku And Samsung Smart TVs — Amazon has announced a number of new platform expansions for its streaming media services today, including Cloud Player apps for Samsung Smart TVs and Roku set top boxes … | Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Verizon pushing Android 4.1 update to Samsung Galaxy S III tomorrow — Verizon seems to be late to the update party, but Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will be pushed out to its version of the Samsung Galaxy S III “in phases” as an OTA update beginning December 14th.
More:
Verizon Wireless, community.sprint.com, Ars Technica, CNET, WebProNews, Gizmodo and Electronista
Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:15 PM ET, December 13, 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
James Poniewozik / TIME:Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:
Thomas Beller / Page-Turner:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: |
More:
Ars Technica
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
More:
9to5Mac, TUAW and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Steven E.F. Brown / San Francisco Business Times: |
More:
PR Newswire, Wall Street Journal and RTTNews
| Tracey Lien / Polygon: |
More:
PhoneArena, PC Gamer and SlashGear
Earlier Picks
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
More:
Nokia, WMPoweruser, Neowin and MobileBurn.com
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |