|
March 19, 2013, 3:00 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple for Sales — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is developing a wristwatch as Asia's biggest technology company races against Apple Inc. (AAPL) to create a new industry of wearable devices that perform similar tasks as smartphones.
More:
NYT Bits, Examiner, VatorNews, GeekWire, Digits, SiliconANGLE, Tech Trader Daily, PandoDaily, The Verge, CNN, Unwired View, Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, TechHive, ReadWrite, Network World, Investor's Business Daily, TechSpot, SlashGear, InvestorPlace, iPhone Hacks, Droid Life, dailywireless.org, PhoneArena, Yahoo! News, Forbes, Geek.com, FierceWireless, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, DailyTech, Android and Me, ZDNet, MacRumors, I4U News, Phones Review, Technology Personalized, MacDailyNews, iMore, everythingiCafe, Redmond Pie, Macgasm, Gotta Be Mobile, Neowin, Fortune, Quartz, digitaltrends.com, Cult of Mac and Marketing Pilgrim. Tweets: @jyarow
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Samsung Confirms It Will Build A Smart Watch As Speculation About Apple's iWatch Continues — Samsung is indeed working on a smart watch, the company's Executive Vice President of Mobile told Bloomberg in an interview today. “We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them …
More:
PandoDaily, TechNode, Digits and Gearburn
| Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble … - Home - Apple - Gadgets - Mobile - Games - Chips - - Forums - Shop
More:
CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Ars Technica, PadGadget, Business Insider, The Full Signal, Geekosystem, Gizmodo, ValueWalk, Softpedia News, Phones Review, Gotta Be Mobile and Androsym. Thanks:@salcan
| Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Probes Microsoft, Partners Over Bribery Claims — Federal regulators are investigating Microsoft Corp.'s relationship with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign government officials in return for software contracts, according to people familiar with the matter.
| John Frank / TechNet Blogs: |
Our Commitment to Compliance — Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. government is reviewing allegations that Microsoft business partners in three countries may have engaged in illegal activity, and if they did, whether Microsoft played any role in these alleged incidents.
More:
ZDNet, BGR, Gizmodo, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Next Web, GeekWire, The Verge, Bloomberg and Macgasm
| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
HTC's Rollout of Flagship Smartphone Delayed — TAIPEI—The rollout of HTC Corp.'s new flagship smartphone is being pushed back due in part to some component shortages, executives said, a setback for the Taiwanese smartphone maker attempting to turn around its sales.
More:
CNET, Los Angeles Times, PC Magazine, The Verge, ZDNet, Inquirer, Engadget, Androsym, VentureBeat, Geek.com, Gizmodo, FierceWireless, Softpedia News, SlashGear, PhoneArena and Droid Life
| Brian Stelter / New York Times: |
ABC Works on an App for Live Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices — THE WALT DISNEY Company, while sorting out the future of the online video Web site Hulu, has an app in the works that may render Hulu passé for some people. — The app will live stream ABC programming to the phones … | Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Tensions Rise Between Facebook, Developers — The Social Network Steps Up Efforts to Curb Spam, But Developers Say It Is Blocking Competing Apps — Last month in Paris, developer Antoine Morcos received an unexpected email: Facebook Inc. said it was cutting ties with his photo-sharing application, Vintage Camera.
More:
ValueWalk
| Brian Cairns / Google Developers Blog: |
Build collaborative apps with Google Drive Realtime API — Google Drive lets users create Docs, Sheets, and Slides, collaborate on them in real time, and have their changes saved automatically. With the new Google Drive Realtime API, you can now easily add some of the same real-time collaboration …
More:
Engadget, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Verge and 9to5Google
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 with Lock screen security flaw fix, Maps improvements for Japan — Apple has released iOS 6.1.3 to end users today. It is currently available over-the-air via Software Update in the Settings app. — The update includes a security flaw fix involving the iOS device Lock screen.
More:
The Verge, MacRumors, Engadget, The Next Web, Inquirer, Mobile Marketing Watch, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, CNET, BGR, ZDNet, iMore, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Macworld, Gizmodo, MobilesPie, TUAW, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow and Softpedia News
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Nvidia CEO unveils next two gens of Tegra, dubbed Logan, Parker — Jen-Hsun Huang says the company's mobile chip will show 100-times improvement from the first generation to the fifth. — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang today talked up the chipmaker's next two generations of mobile chip …
More:
VentureBeat, Engadget, Inquirer, Inquirer, AnandTech, IntoMobile and Droid Life
| John Poole / Primate Labs Blog: |
Samsung Galaxy S 4 Benchmarks — Android Authority ran Geekbench 2 on the new Samsung Galaxy S 4 last week and posted the results on YouTube. I thought it would be interesting to see how the Samsung Galaxy S 4 compares to other popular smartphones. — I've charted the Geekbench 2 scores …
More:
BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, MobilesPie and The Full Signal
| David Kravets / Wired: |
Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With a GPS Device — The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move. — The administration maintains that position despite … | Alexander Limi / Alex Limi: |
Checkboxes that kill your product — (To read this article with its formatting and typography intact, click here) — If I told you that a company is shipping a product to hundreds of millions of users right now, and included in the product are several prominent buttons that will break …
More:
Daring Fireball
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Hulu redesigns app for Apple TV with new content categories, ‘Shows You Watch’ tray, and easier playback — Hulu on Tuesday announced a brand new Apple TV app that it says features a new Hulu Plus experience designed “from the ground up.” You can get the new app now on your Apple TV … | Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
MIT to release redacted Aaron Swartz documents — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will release documents related to the case against activist Aaron Swartz but it will edit out names and other information, according to a letter from MIT president Rafael Reif to the MIT community.
More:
MIT, The Atlantic Wire, Associated Press and Boston Globe
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
To Compete With Amazon, eBay Debuts Free Listings And Simpler Fee Structures For Sellers — Ebay is debuting a new fee structure and incentives for sellers today in an effort to remain the most competitive commerce platform next to e-commerce marketplace Amazon.
More:
Reuters and internetretailer.com
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google undeletes RSS extension for Chrome browser — TheIt's not dead after all. Google has resurrected an extension that lets Chrome handle RSS and Atom feeds, even though it's not resurrecting the related Google Reader service. — The 868,163 people who've installed Google's RSS-handling extension …
More:
TechCrunch and WebProNews
| Kyle Wiens / Wired: |
Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own — While Congress is working on legislation to re-legalize cellphone unlocking, let's acknowledge the real issue: The copyright laws that made unlocking illegal in the first place. Who owns our stuff?
More:
DSLreports
| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
LG calls out Samsung for possible eye-tracking patent infringement in Galaxy S4 — Yonhap News reports that the Korean cousins Samsung and LG are in a row over the eye-tracking technology in their respective flagship phones, the Galaxy S4 and Optimus G Pro.
More:
Yonhap News Agency, VentureBeat, CNET, BGR, Inquirer, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, Inquirer, SlashGear, Ubergizmo and Sammy Hub
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Lytro Names Former Ning Head Rosenthal as CEO — Light field camera maker Lytro is naming former Ning chief Jason Rosenthal as its new CEO. — Rosenthal, who also worked at HP/Opsware, Netscape and AOL, takes over a company with a unique technology but lots of work ahead of it.
More:
CNET and LYTRO BLOG
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Justice Dept. to Congress: We want greater email, Facebook, Twitter snooping powers — Summary: As a US House committee prepares to meet to discuss changing outdated email privacy laws, the US government will today tell lawmakers that it wants greater powers to access email data … | Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Nokia wins German patent injunction against HTC over power-saving technology — This morning Nokia won a German patent injunction against HTC that may give the Finnish handset maker enough leverage to sell a patent license to its Taiwanese rival unless Qualcomm, which provides baseband chipsets to HTC …
More:
Computerworld, Engadget, CNET, ValueWalk, WMPoweruser and SlashGear
Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Cultivating creativity and innovation in the modern workspace — In the realm of modern business, success depends on more than just delivering products or services—it requires an environment where creativity thrives and new ideas are welcomed.
Cultivating creativity and innovation in the modern workspace — In the realm of modern business, success depends on more than just delivering products or services—it requires an environment where creativity thrives and new ideas are welcomed.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
How to Cultivate Everyday Dharma, Suneel Gupta (#54)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Tue. 04/23 - Microsoft's Own LLMs and Perplexity's Big Raise
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 3:00 PM ET, March 19, 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
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:Rolling Stone:
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
More:
TechCrunch, Evernote Blog, MacRumors, The Next Web and SlashGear
| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
More:
NASDAQ.com, AllThingsD, GigaOM, MacRumors, AppleInsider, InfoWorld, Engadget, The Verge and 9to5Mac
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
More:
SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, IDC, InfoWorld and TechCrunch
Earlier Picks
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
More:
Krebs on Security, Softpedia News and The Verge