|
March 3, 2013, 4:01 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Evernote: |
Security Notice: Service-wide Password Reset — Evernote's Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service. As a precaution to protect your data …
More:
CNET, Engadget, MacStories, ABCNEWS, Naked Security, BBC, Forbes, nbcnews.com, VentureBeat, TECHGEEK.com.au, Newsome.Org, Krebs on Security, 9to5Mac, Wired, ITworld.com, Business Insider, Mashable!, Pocketables, Wall Street Journal, Liquidmatrix Security Digest, PC Magazine, Lifehacker, MacRumors, Techie Buzz, Neowin, AllThingsD and TechHive
Tweets: @1password, @bill_gross, @edbott and @gcluley
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Evernote Saw First Signs Of Hacking On Feb. 28: Emails, Passwords And Usernames Accessed But Not Your Data Or Payment Details — Evernote is requiring its nearly 50 million users to reset their passwords after the popular personal note-taking app became the latest high-profile victim of wide-scale hacking attempts.
More:
Reuters, Naked Security and Ars Technica
| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
Evernote resets all passwords after user information stolen in security breach — Popular note-taking service Evernote has reset all user passwords after information including usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords was stolen in a security breach.
More:
Marco.org, BetaNews, VatorNews, Examiner, SlashGear, The Next Web, Avinashtech, Gizmodo, InformationWeek and canada.com. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Goodbye Groupon: Andrew Mason's dance with the devil — An aspiring entrepreneur partners with an experienced operator with a checkered past — In the wake of Andrew Mason's firing as CEO of Groupon, there's been a lot of negativity towards the young entrepreneur.
More:
The New Yorker, NYT Bits, Chicago Business, TIME and Guardian
Tweets: @semil, @pkafka, @benpopper, @sarahcuda and @tcarmody
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Marc Andreessen And Ben Horowitz ‘Decode’ Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's Farewell Memo — On Rap Genius — When Andreessen Horowitz invested a whopping $15 million into Rap Genius this past fall, they were keen to point out that the platform can be used for decoding more than song lyrics …
Tweets: @semil
| Elizabeth Spiers / Fast Company: |
More:
Business Insider, The Verge and The Awl
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens — One week ago, Facebook Director of Product Blake Ross announced that he'd leave the company in a goodbye letter he posted on his profile page. Ross wrote: — “I'm leaving because a Forbes writer asked his son's best friend Todd … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google tests data compression proxy feature to speed up Chrome for Android, like Opera Turbo and Amazon Silk — Google's Chrome for Android team is experimenting with a new data compression proxy feature to speed up browsing similar to the methods used by Opera Turbo and Amazon Silk.
More:
google+, Google Operating System, PhoneArena, gHacks, Liliputing and Google Plus Daily
| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Firefox OS is repeating the mistakes of others and hoping for a different outcome — I feel bad for Mozilla, I really do. Competitors and the march of time are closing in quicker than it can raise its defenses. Her crown jewel, Firefox, is feeling the squeeze as Chrome encroaches …
More:
ParisLemon
| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Sprint Won't Be Offering BlackBerry's Flagship Z10 Model — Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) will be the only major U.S. carrier not to offer BlackBerry's new flagship Z10 touch-screen model when it debuts this month, opting instead to wait for the keyboard-equipped Q10.
More:
The Verge, CrackBerry.com, Pocket-lint and Softpedia News
| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Apple Stock Just Crashed To A New Low — It was an up day for the market and most technology stocks, but not for Apple. — Apple stock fell another 2.5% to close at $430—its lowest closing price since the stock's slide began last September. — Apple is now down almost 40% from its peak.
More:
Fortune, MarketWatch, 24/7 Wall St., Motley Fool, MarketWatch, MarketBeat, Fortune, TechnoBuffalo and Tech Trader Daily
Tweets: @danielpunkass and @penenberg
| Steve Mann / IEEE Spectrum: |
My “Augmediated” Life — What I've learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear — Back in 2004, I was awakened early one morning by a loud clatter. I ran outside, only to discover that a car had smashed into the corner of my house. As I went to speak with the driver …
More:
Gizmodo and The Register
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 4:01 AM ET, March 3, 2013.
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:Robert Picard / Guardian:
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
More:
Foreign Policy and Reuters
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
More:
Gizmodo, The Verge, Mashable!, ECPM BLOG, Forbes, AdAge, Fast Company, Hollywood Reporter and paidContent
Earlier Picks
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
More:
The Verge, Raspberry Pi and TechCrunch
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
| Ben Lovejoy / MacRumors: |
More:
AppleTell, BBC, CNET, Ars Technica, Examiner, TODAY.com, TUAW, Globe and Mail, iTech Post, digitaltrends.com, The Consumerist, Mac|Life, CNET, CBS News, iLounge, BBC, PadGadget, VentureBeat, Macgasm, App Advice and Ubergizmo