|
December 31, 2012, 7:50 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Samsung reportedly set to sell its first Tizen-based smartphone in 2013 — The world will finally see the fruits of Tizen, the open sourced mobile operating system that has support from Samsung, DoCoMo, Vodafone and others, in 2013, according to a report from Japan's Daily Yomiuri … | Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme's biggest (i.e. tallest) stories of 2012 — Now that we've examined the year's trending terms, our final retrospectacular tour of 2012 examines the stories themselves. On Techmeme, the biggest stories usually become the tallest stories as different angles of reporting and analysis pile up … | Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: |
I'm Bored. What's Next? — It's just about 2013 and I gotta say, I'm a little bored. — At least, the blogger in me is. As an investor things are just peachy. All this panic about overpriced consumer startups has led to a nice softening of the market (periodic reports of Blubbles are great for that).
More:
TechCrunch, The Verge, TechCrunch, Business Insider and dylan tweney
Tweets: @eoghanmccabe, @alexismadrigal and @loyalelectron
| Ryan Block / NYT Bits: |
Why I'm Quitting Instagram — The flap over Instagram's changing its terms of service has not died down even weeks after its announcement and subsequent partial reversal. People are still arguing whether Instagram's photographers will stay loyal to the service.
Tweets: @buzzbishop, @ryan, @theromit, @mjasay and @timoreilly
| Keith Teare / TechCrunch: |
Unnatural Acts And The Rise Of Mobile — Editor's note: Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of recently funded just.me. He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. — As all predatory, or formerly predatory, men and women know, if you're at a party and still … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Game Over: Zynga Shuts Down PetVille And 10 Other Titles To Cut Costs — Executing the cost-reduction plan CEO Mark Pincus announced in November, Zynga has shut down, pulled from the app stores, or stopped accepting new players to 11 games, with some turning off today.
More:
The Technology Chronicles, Business Insider, digitaltrends.com, CNNMoney.com, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Reuters, Digits, TUAW, ValueWalk, PC Magazine, Geek.com, VentureBeat, Betabeat, SlashGear, GamesIndustry International, GamePolitics blogs and destructoid
Tweets: @carnage4life and @adamdempsey
Thanks:@ryanlawler| Associated Press: |
Obama Signs FISA Warrantless Wiretapping Program Extension Into Law — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed into law a five-year extension of the U.S. government's authority to monitor the overseas activity of suspected foreign spies and terrorists.
More:
Hit & Run, The Verge and Hillicon Valley
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
RunKeeper aims to keep its 14 million users running with new app UI and improved photo sharing — The end of the calendar year appears to be a good time for mobile health and fitness startups to launch and update smartphone apps to assist people with making good on their New Year's resolutions.
More:
RunKeeper, TechCrunch, everythingiCafe, TUAW, Apple Bitch, GigaOM, iClarified and SlashGear
| Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg: |
Amazon Apologizes for Christmas Eve Outage Affecting Netflix — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) apologized for a Dec. 24 disruption in its cloud-computing services that hindered Netflix Inc. (NFLX) customers from watching movies, and said it is taking steps to prevent a recurrence.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft releases temporary fix for vulnerability in IE6, IE7, and IE8; security patch coming soon — Microsoft on Monday released a temporary one-click “Fix it” tool for old versions of Internet Explorer. Running it will prevent the recently-discovered vulnerability in IE6, IE7 …
More:
Microsoft Support, TechNet Blogs, CNET, Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, Electronista, Naked Security, digitaltrends.com, ExtremeTech, The Hacker News, Security Intelligence, SecurityWeek, VentureBeat, TechNet Blogs, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Lifehacker, CNET, gHacks Technology News, The H Security, Softpedia News and WinBeta
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft offers up free month of Xbox Live following Cloud Saved Games outage — Microsoft says it will provide affected users with an automatic one-month extension to the company's Xbox Live gold service following an outage related to a Cloud Saved Games feature.| Sebastien Page / iDownloadBlog: |
Hackulous shuts down: piracy app Installous is gone — In what seems like a small victory against app piracy, the Hackulous team announced today on its site that it is shutting down, bringing down its most popular apps in the process: Installous and AppSync.
More:
TorrentFreak, The Verge, AppleInsider, ReadWrite, Techie Buzz, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Geek.com, PandoDaily, MacRumors, DailyTech, everythingiCafe, TUAW, Macgasm, MacDailyNews, MobileBurn.com, MacNN, Techie Buzz, App Advice and TechCrunch. Tweets: @idannyocean
Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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:
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 …
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 …
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 7:50 PM ET, December 31, 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
Alex Pareene / Salon:Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:
Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Justin Rubio / The Verge: |
More:
Instagram, The Next Web, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat and Mashable!
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
| Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time: |
More:
Bijan Sabet, ReadWrite and Business Insider
Tweets: @davemcclure, @elizakern and @joshconstine
Earlier Picks
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
| Susan Crawford / Bloomberg: |
| Steve Stecklow / Reuters: |
More:
DailyTech, The Register, CNET, SlashGear, ValueWalk, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Electronista, TechCrunch and AllThingsD
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
More:
CNET, The Verge, BGR India, BrowserFame, The Hacker News and Mashable!
Tweets: @twitpic, @twitpic, @declanm and @tomwarren
| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |